Until now, SoMa-based startup Elysium Space has been reaching for the stars. For $1,900, the company will arrange to have your loved one's cremated remains blasted into orbit as
Tony Huerta, the owner of the well worn and well loved SoMa gay bar The Lone Star Saloon (1354 Harrison Street), wants to get out the vote this November for a local ballot
That 4.0 magnitude earthquake rattled us out of bed at 6:49 this morning might have been the biggest bang of the day (we hope!), but that doesn't mean the
Last week was a whirlwind one for San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi: on Monday he learned via reporter inquiry that his driver's license had been suspended, on Tuesday we learned that
A recent statement by the U.S. Department of Justice regarding a little-known local ordinance in Boise, Idaho could have broad-ranging impacts on ordinances elsewhere pertaining to homeless people's
Yes, it's true. People bring children to Burning Man. Lots of people. And lest you assume as I did when I wrote this diatribe against parents who subject their children to
Thank god for conservative commentator Glenn Beck! He might have just solved San Francisco's housing shortage, by stopping those who would move here in their tracks. Beck, who left Fox News
At around 12:45 p.m. on a hazy Saturday in Dolores Park, a man (loudly selling psychedelics and in all likelihood ingesting them himself) began riding his longboard down the grass hill.
An incident occurred on mid-Market two weeks ago in which a one-legged man with crutches was reported, possibly by a nearby business owner, for waving some "sticks" around in
* Your weekend ICYMI: Three CHP officers arrested in a NorCal murder, remembering the Castro's Anastasia, wildfires make for a smoky SF, an SF judge denied the right to die, Cal gets
Good morning, Bay Area! That's what the Hayward Fault appeared to be saying, as it rocked those of us who were lingering in bed out of it with a 4.0
Two weeks ago: Saving for 10 percent down, not 20. One week ago: Putting paperwork out to pasture. This week: How to compete in a hot real estate market. GRIPE #3: You can&
A report shows that Apple is probably working on a self-driving car, with an interest to test it out at the old Concord naval base. On Friday, The Guardian published a report
A former football player for U.C. Berkeley is now suing the school for multiple concussions he suffered while playing for the team. Bernard Hicks, who played defensive back for the Calfiornia Golden
* Are you Sparing the Air today? [KRON4] * Tech's move into mid-Market makes for a massive income gap there and in the Tenderloin. [New York Times] * The family of a woman
Terminal cancer patient Christy O'Donnell breaks down after judge refuses right to die. Story at 6 @nbcbayarea pic.twitter.com/b2HlVvOQvH — Mark Matthews (@MarkMatthewsNBC) August 15, 2015 A judge's
@SFGate pic.twitter.com/aL8sDFURvs — Robert Padbury (@padbury) August 15, 2015 Smoke blowing in from wildfires burning up north have created the hazy conditions you're seeing throughout the Bay Area today.
No one knew much about the mentally ill, homeless person who called herself Anastasia when she died on a bench outside Peet's Coffee in the Castro on New Year's
Nine people have been arrested, including a prominent lawyer and three CHP officers, in the 2012 murder of a drifter. Frank Carson, a Modesto-based defense attorney, is the alleged ringleader of a
* UberX can legitimately pick up, drop off Oakland Airport passengers now. [Bay City News] * Two of SF's 32 new cops have almost everything in common. [KRON4] * Let the world know you&
* Comcast, one of the most hatable companies in the world, is about to "launch a major video platform called Watchable to rival Facebook and Google." Good luck with that. [Business Insider]
San Francisco's first deaf-owned restaurant, and the only deaf-owned-and-operated restaurant anywhere in the country, Mozzeria, will celebrate four years in business this December. As of last year,
This week in Bon Appetit's best food city in the country (no big deal), we had word of a new opening in the Twitter building, Cadillac Bar & Grill (where you
Not only was BART's first (of two) weekend shutdown of the Transbay Tube not as bad as expected, but the transit agency claims that work done during that period has been
San Francisco’s large community of “medical” marijuana users now has its own 5K footrace — except it’s not a 5K race, it’s a 4.20-mile race. The buzz is building
