SF News Famed Skateboarder and Thrasher Magazine Editor Jake Phelps Has Died at 56 Young and old skate punks alike have heavy hearts today. The legendary skateboarding activist and editor-in-chief of Thrasher ran the magazine for 26 years.
SF News Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter Scramble to Remove New Zealand Terrorist Video A terrorist attack conceived and designed to go viral in Christchurch New Zealand on Friday was captured in part in a horrifying 17-minute helmet cam video that was broadcast live on Facebook, and continues to proliferate online.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Area Mosques On Alert SFPD steps up patrols on local mosques after shooting in New Zealand, local racetrack makes changes after CA horse deaths, and Joe Montana paid for college consulting services from Rick Singer.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Nudists To Parade Again This Sunday The nudists are protesting the nudity ban for the umpteenth time this Sunday, SFO passengers react to Boeing 737 groundings, and there's an update about the Transbay Transit Center.
Arts & Entertainment The 11 Best St. Patrick’s Day Parties in San Francisco Éirinn go do these things, as St. Patrick’s Day is Sunday, the parade is Saturday, and the block parties kick off on Friday.
SF News Infamous SoMa Gay Sex Club Blow Buddies May Be Endangered As Building Goes Up For Sale Blow Buddies, which has operated for decades in semi-secret with no street signage at 933 Harrison Street, could be in danger if the building it's housed in sells to owners who don't want a sex club there.
SF News Stanford Students Sue Over Admissions Fraud Scandal; Atherton Teen's Georgetown Diploma In Jeopardy A pair of Stanford students have filed a class action lawsuit against the university — and multiple others — in connection with the wide-ranging admissions fraud scandal revealed this week by the FBI.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Sign Chargers First-Round Draft Pick Jason Verrett, DL Dee Ford, and LB Kwon Alexander Going into the 2019 season, the San Francisco 49ers and their fans finally have a lot to look forward to. The team just signed former Chargers first-round draft pick Jason Verrett, defensive lineman Dee Ford, and linebacker Kwon Alexander.
SF News Congrats, San Francisco! You Win At Getting Syphilis A new report finds that San Francisco leads the nation in syphilis infections, and we come in third for gonorrhea. Yay.
SF News Report: Facebook Facing Criminal Investigation Into Massive Data-Sharing Deals Oops, something went wrong — and this criminal probe might be the mother of all Facebook scandals.
SF News Butterfly Swarm Heading For NorCal Within Days An unusually large population of migrating painted lady butterflies has been swarming over the Los Angeles area in recent days, and they're headed our direction.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Beto's Running The window for the Mavericks surf competition is closing, Kamala supports Newsom's death penalty moratorium, and Facebook still hasn't said what caused Wednesday's outage.
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Gets Its First Lesbian Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson, a 25-year veteran of the SFFD, will step into Joanne Hayes-White's shoes as chief in May, and that Facebook/Instagram outage lasted pretty much all day.
Arts & Entertainment Bill Graham To Light Up With New Conceptual Art Piece Tonight A new public art piece by renowned conceptual art master Joseph Kosuth is getting flicked on officially for the first time tonight, on the previously unsightly Polk Street facade of Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Baby's First Word Is 'Google' It's 2019. We've sent men space, possibly cured AIDS, and we regularly tell bodiless robots to do things for us in our homes like turn on lamps and play songs we like. Why shouldn't babies imitate us?
Arts & Entertainment Raise Your Hand If You Still Have A Collection Of Old Colorful Muni Passes Long gone are the days when the SFMTA printed boldly color-blocked monthly Muni passes that riders would treasure for their clean and attractive graphic design.
SF News Wife Of Maine Man Arrested For Threats Against YouTube Actually Deleted His Channel, Lied To Him About It The story about the jilted YouTuber who took a cross-country trip just to have a word with Google about his deleted channel has taken a darkly funny new twist.
Bay Area Sports Raiders GM Mike Mayock Makes a Splash, Bolsters Roster via Trade, Free Agency The Oakland Raiders made quite the pre-draft off-season splash this past weekend, with the acquisition of former Steelers All-Pro wideout Antonio Brown. However, the team's trading and spending-spree didn't end there.
Business & Tech Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Experience Simultaneous Server Issues It ain't so great having three major social platforms served from the same place when the servers go down!
SF News California Sanctuary Policy To Be Ridiculed Again in Wake of San Jose Murder Immigration and Customs Enforcement claims they attempted to detain the alleged killer, Carlos Eduardo Arevalo Carranza, ten times, and have been denied each time.
SF News Newsom Calls For (Largely Symbolic) Halt To Death Penalty In CA Due to legal challenges, no one has been executed in California since 2006. But after two ballot initiatives to end the death penalty failed to garner enough votes, Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking it upon himself to end it.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Google Tells Hardware Division Staff To Find New Jobs Google has some non-layoff layoffs, Mission teenager temporarily avoids eviction from grandmother's apartment, and why California figures prominently in the college fraud scandal.
SF News Day Around The Bay: 12,000 Units Proposed For Redwood City Salt Ponds The suspect in the Feb. 28 murder of Bambi Larson in San Jose was undocumented and has a rap sheet, and a 122-unit condo development is proposed for the Candlestick parking lot.
Arts & Entertainment Dodgeball Meets 'Exploding Kittens' In New Game 'Throw Throw Burrito' A new game in development from the creators of popular card game Exploding Kittens involves cards and trying to accrue like cards, and then also throwing plushy burritos at other players.
SF News AOC Piles On With Elizabeth Warren In Saying Our Democracy Has 'A Facebook Problem' Facebook was squarely in the sights of liberal politicians this week after the presidential campaign of Sen. Elizabeth Warren decried the company's decision to remove three of her ads that talked about breaking up Facebook.
