While the country is spending the morning with their eyes on Boston, here a couple lighter items from closer to home: Kale: not just for salads anymore. [GrubSF] Vacuum advertisement gets a little

A $70,000 "bicycle barometer" will go up on Market Street to keep a running tally of eastbound cyclists. ($20k of the funds were donated, by the way.) [BCN/Appeal] Delfina changed the

When is a little cocaine too much cocaine? Michelle Tea dives in nose-first. [BoldItalic] Meet the first digital generation. (Spoiler alert: they're all 20 years old.) [Wired] Poor grades for art school student

Chronicle freelancer sleeps over in a shoebox apartment. Spends his time watching a Charlton Heston epic and eating a sandwich. [Chron] Muni bus swipes building at 20th and Illinois. [MuniDiaries] Man threatens to

Eight-year-old boy suffers cardiac arrest after being hit by a baseball in a little league game in Rohnert Park. [Chron] Where has SFMTA been spending all their Prop. A money? [SFEx] An update

Historic burrito summit underscores genius of Chipotle, deliciousness of La Taqueria. [Slate] Schmendricks bagels gone for good? [InsideScoop] Twitter has a music app launching Friday and Ryan Seacrest loves it. [TechCrunch] Sorry Napa

Meet Corner Store George, he of Rhea's Deli in the Mission. (One time he competed in the Mr. Mission Competition, but we're still trying to forget that. [Chron] 35 years ago, the Lower

SFPD hosting Town Hall meeting tonight to address officer-involved shooting on Sunday morning. [BCN/Appeal] [Previously] Construction watch: work begins on new 15-story Hampton Inn in SoMa, on a site formerly owned by

iPad-swiping "Cubicle Con" busted. Saison's new drink menu includes whiskey-infused coal-fired popcorn. [GrubStreet] Is Hi-Lo BBQ the best restaurant to open in San Francisco this year? Patty Unterman thinks so. [Unterman] Eating your

Oakland police searching for a suspect who shot an off-duty EMT in his car in broad daylight. [KTVU] Coming Soon: a supermarket in West Oakland. [KQED] Your illustrated fashion guide for Spring 2013

Man arrested for vandalizing City Hall on Easter Sunday. [SFAppeal] Reborn Red Vic/Alembic now shooting to open in August. [EaterSF] More people in San Francisco are overdosing on painkillers than heroin. [Chron]

Want to buy the Harding Theater on white-hot Divisadero for a cool $4.2 million? How about a deli instead? (Sidenote: Seeing the Alamo Square Deli is especially sad for this SFist editor,

After five days reporting from behind the Chronicle paywall, SFist alum Rita Hao concludes "this experiment is a bust." [SFAppeal] A Q&A with Empress of China bartender Pearl Tom. [SFEx] David

Is AT&T Park the best ballpark for social media? Sure, why the hell not. [SFEx] Charles Phan's Wo Hing General Store calls it quits on Valencia. Now you can go up

Bikram Yoga guru faces sex accusations. (And you can read about it on SFChronicle.com) [Chron] Here is a map of San Francisco's most iconic sandwiches. [EaterSF] The best drinking fountain in the

Day two behind the SFChronicle.Com paywall. [SF Appeal] Hundreds of thousands Californians have been shut out of community colleges. [Oakland Tribune] Piping-hot Bernal Heights crime report! [Bernalwood] Suicide Girls signing books at

S.F. Symphony musicians are still on strike. [WSJ] The new Exploratorium's new restaurant will be called Seaglass and helmed by Loretta Keller of Coco500. Also: a new café spot and a coffee

Welcome to the new American housing bubble (in coastal elite cities). [TheAwl] Behold: The city's upcoming developments waiting to break ground. [CurbedSF] Boulder tumbles down the side of Highway 101, smashes into an

The Bacon-Wrapped Economy is the best tech-worker migration story you'll read this year. [EBX] Carnaval will go on! [SFEx] Bummed that the S.F. symphony is on strike? Now you can catch them

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company gets a new taproom in Berkeley's suddenly bustling beer scene. [GrubSF] Changes to the Transbay Transit Center design reflect budget realities. [CurbedSF] Eerie shots of the Presidio Pet Cemetery.

Dilapidated oceanside mansions in the Richmond are breeding dangerous homeless camps. The owner has since been cited by the city. [SFEx] The Mission's yearly Carnaval celebration is in danger of not happening this

Mid-Market: maybe not so tough these days. [Chron] San Francisco-specific dance moves, illustrated in gloriously animated gifs. [TheBoldItalic] Here is this week's story about how tech workers are changing San Francisco. [Marketplace]

New Taste Market returns to Potrero Hill this weekend. Now with 100% more beer garden. [EaterSF] San Jose has the fastest public WiFi in the nation. San Francisco remains chained to our coffee