SF News Gun-Wielding Man Kidnaps Cabbie Near Embarcadero Center A San Francisco taxi driver had his Monday night take a pretty crazy turn, after a fare pulled a gun on him and commandeered the cab. It was 9:20 p.m. Monday
SF News Hoverboards Blamed For Two Bay Area House Fires In Past Week Santa Rosa Fire says board was charging in her front bedroom. House went up very fast. $250,000 damage pic.twitter.com/QKlmOkG3QL — Wayne Freedman (@WayneFreedman) January 20, 2016 Less than a week
Arts & Entertainment 'Hamilton' Comes To SF For Five Months Starting In March 2017, LA After We heard a couple weeks ago that the first national tour of the wildly popular Broadway musical Hamilton would be kicking off this fall in Chicago, with definite stops in San Francisco and
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Yahoo's Alleged Ties To Elephant Poaching * Will Shegetz end SF's bagel nightmare? [SFist] * I don't read Japanese, but if Bloomberg reporter [Yuji Nakamura/Twitter] isn't pulling our legs, maybe Jay needs to take
Arts & Entertainment Where Should You Travel This Year? This post is a sponsored collaboration between Gothamist and the Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express. Know you want to plan a big trip, but you're still not sure
SF News Day Around The Bay: Get Even More Paranoid About Super Bowl Terrorism! * [BuzzFeed] is still trying to make 'Frisco' happen. [Earlier] * As discussed last week, the FBI is gearing up for various kinds of potential terrorist threats during Super Bowl Week. And while
SF News Video: Uber Drivers Stage 'Honk-In' Protest Over Wages In Front Of Uber HQ Uber drivers protesting #Uber #UberProtest #iloveSF #sanfrancisco #beepbeep #honkhonk #stfu A video posted by @pawshbb on Jan 25, 2016 at 3:55pm PST Uber drivers, upset over an announcement by the company earlier
Arts & Entertainment Tucked Away Diego Rivera Mural Finally Gets Its Digital Closeup The sprawling and gorgeous Diego Rivera mural “Unión de la Expresión Artistica del Norte y Sur de este Continente” (The Marriage of the Artistic Expression of the North and of the South on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink (Semi-)New Bagel Alert: Shegetz Bagel Pops Up Occasional Weekends In La Lengua On the Mission/Bernal border, within PizzaHacker's space at 3299 Mission Street, there is now a new bagel pop-up making occasional weekend appearances: Shegetz Bagel. Eater noted them briefly back
SF News BART Rushing To Replace Fake Surveillance Cameras Ahead Of Planned Transit Bond When it was revealed earlier this month that a majority of BART train surveillance cameras are decoys, we all did a bit of a collective face-palm. BART officials, for their part, seemed
Arts & Entertainment Ballers Encouraged To Rent Lamborghinis, Maseratis For The Purpose Of Super Bowl Frontin' If you're tired of Super Bowl 50 news, too bad! Today we got a notice from Enterprise and their Exotic Car Collection informing us that we should let baller travelers to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beer Week Sausage Fest In Marina Tonight Belga, a Marina/Cow Hollow Belgian bistro that scored a spot among our 17 best new restaurants of 2015, is laying the symbolism on thick tonight from 5 to 8 p.m. The
SF News [Update] Public Utilities Commission Told SF General It's OK To Flush Tons Of Pills Down Toilets At least one veteran nurse at SF General is sounding the alarm bell about a recent policy change at the hospital pushed by the Drug Enforcement Administration that has all leftover pills and
SF News Prolific Tagger Fined Over $200K By City A tagger taken to civil court this past summer by the city of San Francisco learned her fate last week, and it is an expensive one. The City Attorney's office announced
SF News App Promises Faster Oakland 911 Service, For A Price According to the FCC, 70 percent of 911 calls are now placed from wireless phones. Understandably, that percentage is only growing. But whereas landlines can provide emergency services dispatchers with quick location details,
SF News [Update] [NSFW] Video: Topless Activists Disrupt Saturday's Anti-Abortion Rally, Get Arrested This past Saturday a group of anti-choice protesters marched on San Francisco City Hall to call attention to Friday's 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The event, called Walk For
Arts & Entertainment Radiohead Rumored To Be Outside Lands 2016 Headliner Following Thursday's BIG NEWS that everyone's favorite genre-blending geniuses Radiohead have a new album set for release and the band is heading out on tour this spring and
SF News Supervisor Wiener Asks For Hold On Duboce Sex Offender Clinic Duboce Triangle residents have been granted more time to sharpen their pitchforks and light their torches: Sharper Future, the sex offender rehabilitation center expected to "quietly" open on 100 Church Street
SF News SF's Super Bowl Bill Just Went Up Another $500K Stop me if you've heard this one before: Due to unaccounted expenses that weren't properly budgeted, the estimated bill to San Francisco taxpayers for the upcoming Super Bowl 50
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: More Seats (Maybe?) On Muni * Your weekend ICYMI: Sheriff bans Uber's helicopter service but Uber doesn't care, recently unearthed photos show SF in 1952, how to use an umbrella, and Pacifica's sliding
SF News Battered By Massive El Niño Storms, Pacifica Declares State Of Emergency A state of emergency has been issued in Pacifica due to pounding waves that pose a threat private and public property. A high-surf advisory is also in effect until 10 p.m.
SF News Sunday Morning Coming Down: Super Bowl Gridlock Begins * Local bans are causing problems for California pot growers. [Associated Press] * Now you can walk right through the front door of the Pacific Film Archive. [SF Chronicle] * Renter protections that may include rent
SF News Uber Will Continue To Land Helicopters At Sundance Against Sheriff's Orders Despite being issued a cease-and-desist from a Utah Sheriff's Department, Uber will continue to use their helicopter service at the Sundance Film Festival. As reported earlier this week, Uber
Arts & Entertainment Take In The Views Of SF From Telegraph Hill, Chinatown, And Ocean Beach In 1952 Last week I brought you the first in a series of posts on the treasure trove of San Francisco images of the last century from the archive of Indiana University, and the collection
Arts & Entertainment Let Stanley Roberts Teach You How To Use An Umbrella Have you forgotten how to use an umbrella? It's pretty hard! TIL I don't know what umbrella etiquette involves. Rained all day in #SanFrancisco. I might have inadvertently bonked
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