We've seen photos and videos plenty of times, but it'll never cease to amaze us how bad the drought in California is. The California Department of Water Resources released
Twitter is finally stepping up and taking down tweets of stolen jokes. Hopefully this means an end to those "parody" accounts of Chris Rock and Will Ferrell. The account @PlagiarismBad, who
Giants fans kayaking in McCovey Cove have to be on their best behavior now. On Saturday, the SFPD made what's seemingly the public debut of a $50,000 toy in the
Watch raw video of SFPD Chief Greg Suhr's press conference via KPIX SFPD officers shot and wounded a carjacking suspect at SFO earlier this morning after he allegedly wrecked a stolen
* Another take, this one highly critical, on that SPUR guy's op-ed on SF's woes. [Calitics] * A head-on crash on Highway 1 near Pacifica is being investigated as
Two Oakland "animal rights extremists" have been hit with charges of terrorism for an cross-country animal liberation spree. Joseph Buddenberg, 31, and Nicole Kissane, 28 of Oakland were arrested on
Beverage companies are suing the city of San Francisco, claiming the soda warning label laws violate the Constitution. On Friday, American Beverage Association sued the city for two ordinances passed in June, which
* Here's "A Complete Guide To Eating In Palo Alto And The Rest Of The Peninsula." So now you know. [The Infatuation] * That robot that's hitchhiking to SF
* Apple is throwing its weight behind The Equality Act of 2015, a sweeping piece of legislation introduced Thursday to outlaw discrimination against LGBT people under federal law. [Wired] * After 35 years in business
This week's food news was pretty rich, between the closing announcement from Urchin Bistrot, the important update on Wise Sons Bagel, the taker for the Abbot's Cellar space, and
San Francisco may not be the stronghold of public nudity it once was thanks to the bowdlerization efforts of a certain Supervisor. But try telling that to the cyclists signed up on Facebook
Yes, there has been an increase in shark sightings along the California coast of late, possibly due to the coming El Niño, as the Chron recently reported marine wildlife anomalies tend to happen,
Due to “considerable structural damage,” the city of Berkeley has announced the indefinite closure of its 89-year-old historic municipal fishing pier. Berkeleyside, the Chronicle, and others report that the pier has
San Francisco Examiner photo editor Mike Koozmin joined a club that no one wants to be a member of Thursday morning: the fraternity of reporters robbed of their equipment while on the job.
Ah, greed. Rather than pick a price based on comparable local units, one landlord in the Inner Richmond has decided to auction his crappy studio unit and only take applications from the highest
In a town where ice cream flavors tend toward the simple and seasonal, "Pennsyl-tucky," an offering from relative newcomers ShakeDown Ice Cream, skews more toward wacky Ben & Jerry'
Testing out a new pee repellent that "pees back" to prevent public urination. pic.twitter.com/6eDJ4w9MWH — SF Public Works (@sfpublicworks) July 23, 2015 It was a lightning-fast move, given
As SFist noted in this roundup of gay parties last month, one of the most noticeable trends in SF gay nightlife the last year or so has been the infiltration of Burning Man
Affordable housing advocates in the Mission District have something to celebrate: The development rights for what's currently the temporary Homeless Navigation Center at the former Phoenix Continuation High School site have
Because you are here, you know all about the Richmond District Mummy House, I assume. The hoard-filled home that contained the corpse of its former owner was cleared out in April, went
If you live in San Francisco, or if you've lived here in the last few years, you've participated in this debate 100 times already. Why do we have an
Irrational Man - Kabuki and Embarcadero At the end of high school and the beginning of college, when I was beginning to study film, I was really into movies by the likes of Eric
* A study confirmed what we all suspected: the San Francisco-Oakland area has a greater proportion of roads in poor condition than any other major urban area in the U.S. [Bay City
* Remember that old Oakland bowling alley we told you about a couple weeks ago that was on the market and a sale was pending? It fell through. [SF Mag] * There's a
Arguably anonymous Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer took another step toward non-anonymity with an on-camera interview recently. This interview with The New West's Will Hearst appears to have been
