* Your weekend ICYMI: An exploding transformer and a raccoon took out power to San Francisco, man attacks Muni, and a fire in SoMa. * Your Saturday and Sunday links. * BART's keeping mum
Huge swaths of San Francisco found themselves without power Saturday, after two separate incidents — one caused by a transformer that exploded, the other caused by a raccoon — took out lines across the city.
* Hiro Takahashi of San Mateo celebrated his 100th birthday by taking his first-ever [BART] ride. * Australian shocked by Twitter's "dodgy" neighborhood. [News.com.au] * Lincoln High School turns
Without context, this video posted to YouTube on Friday remains a curious non sequitur: an enraged man repeatedly bashes a 30 Stockton Muni bus while yelling such threats as "I'll
It took the San Francisco Fire Department about half-an-hour to control a dramatic-looking SoMa fire Friday night, after flames broke out between two buildings. According to tweets from the SFFD
* SFPD says that the pick-up truck used by a driver to strike and seriously injure a pedestrian two weeks ago was a "sonic blue" 2001-2005 model year Ford Ranger.
* Here's where and how to watch the supermoon lunar eclipse Sunday night, which is a special one, and will be visible early. Like around 7. [KQED] * A coyote killed a small
This week the SFist food bureau was abuzz with plenty of news. There was word of the highly anticipated Cala's soft opening, Betelnut's closing, LA fast-casual chain Lemonade
The 80-year-old woman who plowed a Mercedes SUV through a Livermore gym Tuesday, killing one person, had a very similar accident in front of the very same gym 18 months ago,
CityLab, a web arm of The Atlantic, apparently is a fan of Apartment Sadness, because staff writer Kriston Capps just wrote this piece on all the terrible bunk beds you can find to
In the fifth such incident since April, a "badly decomposed" whale turned up on a Bay Area beach late Wednesday, this one at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife
"My fingertips danced with delight as I frantically typed away at my computer,' Mark S. Luckie begins his new Medium essay What it’s actually like to be a Black employee
The partial, perhaps soon-to-be-former owner of two Richmond district restaurants, Hong Kong Lounge I and Hong Kong Lounge 2 (the latter of which has a place on Bauer's
The McDonalds at 600 Van Ness Avenue closed abruptly this January after 36 years, as Hoodline reported at the time, and now plans are being entertained for a 9-story mixed use residential
Some patrons of Palo Alto's public library are scratching themselves silly, after reports of bedbug sightings at a local branch have them worried they got a side dish of "parasite&
No doubt a consistent and stubborn bunch, SF's local coalition of nudist activists will be having another nude-in at Jane Warner Plaza in the Castro Saturday afternoon. To protest the
You don’t need to be a Star Trek fan or a drag show fan to love the new Star Trek Live! show at The Oasis — but you probably do need to be
Though legislation from Supervisor Mark Farrell proposing that all gun sales in San Francisco be videotaped has yet to pass, San Francisco's last remaining gun shop isn't waiting to
In what's become a highly co-dependent relationship with the remaining members of the beloved band, Grateful Dead fans have now drafted a change.org petition, flagged by CBS SF, to
Lane Partners - Uptown Station from steelblue on Vimeo. Surge pricing was seemingly not applied to Uber's purchase of the 380,000-square-foot Oakland Sears Building — or, as it's
Goodnight Mommy - Embarcadero Twin boys enjoying summer explore the corn fields, lake, and caves that surround their remote house. Then they hear a car in their driveway. Mother's home. Or is
* An unbecoming ruckus at the D3 Supe candidates' debate. [SF Weekly] * Apple fans are excited about the progress made on the company's new Union Square location. [Apple Insider] * How Airbnb
* Grubhub and Doordash join the ranks of those sued over worker classification. [Business Times] * Fixing the Bay Bridge’s cracked and/or corroded rods could cost $15 million in toll money. [Chron] The
In a slightly different tactic, the coalition of UCSF-connected enemies of the proposed Warriors Arena have just presented a letter to the mayor signed by 20 of the university's leading
"We're asked all the time if we have some kind of inside scoop as to what openers work best," said Karen Fein, VP of Marketing for the dating app
