SF News SF-Based Virgin America Mulls Takeover Offers From JetBlue, Alaska Airlines While this could spell sad news for fans of Virgin America and their guaranteed-to-be-pretty-comfortable and wi-fi-equipped planes, the company has reportedly put itself up for sale and
SF News Will More Security Cameras In The Tenderloin Reduce Crime? You may automatically associate the Tenderloin with crime and drug use and you would not be wrong to do so. But the Tenderloin Community Benefit District hopes that its pilot program to install
SF News Tomorrow's Tech Campuses, Built On Yesterday's Hippie Commune Space Dreams Technology giants Apple and Google have strange, new corporate campuses on the horizon, the New York Times Style Magazine, T, has noticed: Google's a slightly downsized tent-like structure and Apple&
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All About Tip-Pooling, Why It's Questionably Legal, And Why SF Restaurateurs Are Doing It Over the weekend the Chronicle's Jonathan Kauffman took a deep dive into the topic of tip-pooling, explaining how California is now one of seven states that have a universal minimum
SF News Feds Successfully Hack San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone, Drop Court Case Against Apple The federal government announced today that it has successfully accessed the data on San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's work iPhone 5C, and as such will drop its case demanding Apple build
SF News California Becomes First State To Pledge Minimum Wage Hike To $15/Hour (By 2022) Leading a charge that is expected to ripple across the country, California governor Jerry Brown and the state legislature struck a deal Monday to raise the statewide minimum wage to $15 per hour
SF News Super Bowl 50 Statue For Sale, Seller Suggests Someone Buy It And Burn It Ah, the Super Bowl 50 statues. Those huge metal 50's placed around San Francisco earlier this year marking the forthcoming Super Bowl 50 were enjoyed by many a San Franciscan, although
SF News Got Dirt? To Fight Sea Level Rise, Bay Area Marshland Projects Seeking Lots Of Mud Landing at SFO can be a pretty, if sometimes harrowing experience (short runway). A nice distraction: The salt marshes that form a quilt of various umbers around the southern part of SF Bay.
Arts & Entertainment Ani DiFranco Announces October Shows In Berkeley And SF Though she tours at a somewhat less brisk pace than she used to and has been raising two kids in recent years, 90s-famous singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco is back on the road
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Tickets On Sale Wednesday For May 14th Opening On May 14, after a three-year expansion project, SFMOMA will have its big moment in one of the SF art world openings that led the Wall Street Journal to declare a general
SF News Instagram Celebs Panic As Algorithmic Feed Reordering Looms Instagram feeds are usually very personal things — a mixture of friends, celebrities, and brands that, for whatever reason, you have decided to follow on the social media giant and consequently pop their pics
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Chicken Soup At Little Gem We're hitting a springtime pattern of warm, sunny days and cool, windy nights this week (though there might be a spot of rain this afternoon), and whether you're getting
SF News Toll Plaza Gridlocked As Golden Gate Bridge Parking Lot Closures Backfire A plan to thwart backups on the Golden Gate Bridge backfired this weekend, as a closure of the bridge's two parking lots ended up reportedly causing even more gridlock than before.
Arts & Entertainment Bring Your Own Big Wheel Race Once Again Brings Thrills, Chills, and Spills To Potrero Hill Big Wheelers turned out big time Sunday for the 16th annual Bring Your Own Big Wheel rally on Vermont Street, where roughly 2,000 bunny-eared, onesie-clad, super hero costume-wearing San
SF News Parking Over Pedestrians: Commitment To Vision Zero Questioned As Traffic Deaths Spike San Francisco's commitment to eliminating traffic fatalities by 2024, known as Vision Zero, is this year off to a tragic start. Adopted in 2014, the two-year-old initiative seeks to
SF News Elderly Man's 'Medical Emergency' Causes Multi-Car Mission Crash A man injured in a multi-vehicle Mission District crash has died, but police still aren't sure if it was the collision, or something else, that killed him. It was 5:
Arts & Entertainment Photos From Hunky Jesus 2016, The Sinfully Funny Jesus Look-Alike Pageant Jesus may have died for our sins, but that didn't stop the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, our local order of queer activist anti-nuns founded on Easter in 1979, from keeping
Arts & Entertainment YouTube Star Jesse Wellens Dresses Up As Aladdin, Takes 'Magic Carpet' Ride Through San Francisco "All I have to say is San Francisco is like a huge movie set. For Aladdin." That is Philadelphia-based YouTube celebrity Jesse Wellens's assessment as he was shooting
SF News SFPD Holding Community Meeting On Duboce Triangle Crime Issues Tonight Between the recent violent assault of a couple, a wave of armed robberies, and at least two apparently random (and still unsolved) homicides in Duboce Triangle, residents are worried that crime in their
SF News Alaska's Mount Pavlof Erupts For Third Time In Three Years On Sunday afternoon, one of the most active volcanos in Alaska's Aleutian arc, Mount Pavlof, began erupting and, in the process, sent an ash cloud 20,000 feet into the air.
SF News Underwear-Clad Pedestrian Killed While Crawling On San Francisco Freeway Delays I280 SB at Alemany. @CHP_GoldenGate says person in underwear crawling in roadway struck by at least 1 vehicle pic.twitter.com/q2tGC94CWi — Christien Kafton (@CKaftonKTVU) March 28, 2016 A pedestrian is
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Microsoft Might Buy Yahoo * Your weekend ICYMI: Tony Robbins bought some Tenderloin nuns a place to live, cheesemongers pun, doubts cast on BART's self-descriptions, a British visitor stabbed in SF during a mugging has
SF News Frank Chu Has A New Sponsor: Expensify Frank Chu has a new sponsor. I have a lot of mixed feelings about this. pic.twitter.com/kSXxKwT5pH — Audrey Cooper (@audreycoopersf) March 26, 2016 Famed local kook/perennial protester Frank Chu got
Arts & Entertainment Video: Man Attempts To Break Peep-Eating Record, For Easter This guy, who does not introduce himself, recently stuffed 200 marshmallow Peeps in his mouth in 14 minutes and 12 seconds, which he believes is a world record. Via a quick internet search,
SF News Rogue Wave Causes SFFD Training Boat To Capsize, Four Hospitalized LIVE: @sffdpio interview regarding today’s capsize of Rescue Boat 1. https://t.co/UamdF0BE2m pic.twitter.com/IGj9VrBJoY — Craig (@cwb) March 26, 2016 A San Francisco Fire Department training vessel, Rescue Boat
