Arts & Entertainment Video: Grey Whale Spotted Near Lands End Nature photog David Cruz spotted this grey whale on Sunday while kicking it at Lands End. "The gray whale breached and stayed for a bit near Seal Rocks," notes Richmond Blog. "Maybe he
Arts & Entertainment Video: Starling Murmuration In Downtown S.F. Our dear friends at Barbary Coast Consulting captured this mesmerizing video of a starling murmuration. What makes this video so special, compared to other murmuration videos, is that this one occurs in downtown
SF News Yosemite Officials Warn 1700 Recent Visitors May Be at Risk for Rare Rodent-Borne Disease Officials from Yosemite National Park are reaching out to an estimated 1,700 past visitors for fear they have been exposed to a rare rodent-borne disease. In the wake of the recent diagnosis
Arts & Entertainment Check Out This Gorgeous Cluster Of Monarch Butterflies Shot at Ardenwood Farms in Fremont, Flickr user sunmallia captured this group of monarch butterflies. "It took me a long while to really see them as they look like a clump of dead
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Wild Turkeys Of Berkeley Mentioned in Morning Links, but too good not to award its own post: Berkeleyside gives us yet another reason to visit Berkeley—our goal in 2012 is to head over there at least
SF News Reservoir Algae Bloom Causes Foul Tasting, Smelling Tap Water Break out a new Brita filter, folks. San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has received several complaints about the taste and odor of their tap water. It seems, according to SFPUC, an algae bloom
Arts & Entertainment Academy of Sciences Debuts Shark Lagoon Cam The California Academy of Sciences launched its new Shark Lagoon Cam on Thursday, which features a lovely mix of Blacktip Reef sharks and Bamboo sharks, Cownose rays, Honeycomb rays, and Blue-spot stingrays, along
Arts & Entertainment Locals Fight to Keep China Camp State Park Open By Julie Wolfson Along the shore of San Pablo Bay in San Rafael, the beautiful views from China Camp have attracted visitors for decades. With an historic Chinese fishing village museum that tells
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 6/21: Summer Solstice Celebration, 'Unhappy Birthday', Dr Sketchy's Star Wars CELEBRATION: It's a great day for being the longest one of the year. Head to the lovely Muir Beach, "the continent's edge," for the Summer Solstice Celebration. Enjoy some storytelling and songs around
SF News Watch The Baby Falcon Cam, Squee With Delight The UC Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group has set up a falcon cam that live streams little baby falcons perched in downtown San Francisco. These babies and their mother are located on
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Record Store Day, Cherry Blossom Festival, DogFest, Art-A-Thon, and Wood Faire Record Store Day: Saturday is the annual day in which music nerds can score extra sweet deals and exclusive, limited-edition releases at record stores nationwide. Here's a list of all the participating San
SF News Video: Small Funnel Cloud Touches Down at Ocean Beach At around 9:30 a.m. this morning, a developing funnel cloud touched down at Ocean Beach. There's mildly jarring footage of it, too! NBC Bay Area explains: "The tornado on the water
SF News Shifting Sands Cause Week-Long Closure of Great Highway This Week Due to shifting sands, Great Highway, between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard, will be closed to vehicle traffic this week during the hours of 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. starting Monday
SF News Great White Shark Spotted Eating Sea Lion In Pacifica Several onlookers in Pacifica's Linda Mar Beach spotted what they described to be a great white shark attack and devour a sea lion about 200 yards from the beach on Monday afternoon. The
SF News Eastshore State Park Wins 'Best Urban Retreat' Ocean Oscar The Nature Conservancy, "the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people," picked their top favorite coastal lands in which to "soak in
misc When a Tree [Branch] Falls in the City... ...It gets cleaned up in 30 minutes flat. This morning we heard what sounded like our crazy upstairs neighbor throwing trash off the fire escape, but then later glimpsed outside the window to
SF News Scene from Last Night's Sand Dune Carnage On Great Highway This is what shutdown Great Highway last night? Really? That's, like, a handful of medium-sized small sandcastles. At best. (We really have turned into a too tender bunch here in SF, haven't we?
SF News Six-Alarm Grass Fire Off I-80 Near Vacaville One hundred and fifty firefighters from around Solano County and CalFire are on the scene battling a six-alarm fire west of Vacaville near the Lagoon Valley Regional Park this morning. Flames were first
SF News What's Going On Here, Bernal Snake? Oh, holy hell. A snake! Eeps! Somebody KILL IT! KILL IT NOW! SLICE ITS HEAD OFF and BURN THE THING!! Oh, look, nature found its way to the parking lot near Bernal Hill
SF News 25 State Parks In Danger of Closing Come July 1 As SFist reported back in January, a proposal to prune the California park system's $150 million general fund budget, money that goes to staff salaries and maintenance, might result in the closure of
SF News Swarm of Bees Attacks the Mission Holy smokes, this is the most harrowing thing we've ever reported. Allan Hough over at Mission Mission reports (via Inhabitat's Mike Chino) that bees have descended upon the Mission district. And they're out
misc Behold the Google Office Toilet Made by Toto (no, not this Toto, but a swank Japanese company) , Google employees at their California offices can release their urine and evacuate their bowels like space-age kings using this ultra-modern and
