A McFlurry of crime and sketchiness has always surrounded the Haight and Stanyan McDonald's location, even before a daytime shooting there last Thursday afternoon. The unhealthy scene has long been a
It turns out that billionaire Trump backer Peter Thiel's public support for the president is not all that it seems. According to a piece by BuzzFeed News that relies on statements
The nearly 82,000-acre Detwiler Fire in Mariposa County, which was still smoldering as of the weekend and 98 percent contained, was sparked by a gunshots on public lands, investigators now believe.
A pair of package thieves was caught on tape robbing the porch of a Richmond District home last week, accompanied by two presumably innocent dogs. The Richmond District Blog has the tale, writing
Around 8:45 p.m. Thursday night, just as one of the last ferries was leaving Alcratraz with 438 passengers on board, a distress call went out about a 31-foot recreational boat
@SFPDMission station's night watch investigating a stabbing on @sfmta_muni bus in the 2000 block of Market. #sfpd pic.twitter.com/j3lj45w9XE — SFPD Night Captains (@SFPDnightWatch) August 6, 2017 Details have
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A memo from a senior software engineer that went "internally viral" at Google last week titled "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber" reportedly laid out a manifesto for why
Two middle-aged men, one a university professor from Chicago and the other a university employee from England, appear to have taken a long road trip to the Bay Area after they were
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Say "ahh" with this soothing mindfulness and meditation app. We could all use a little help re-centering ourselves when life gets hectic, and that's where Welzen comes in
Despite appearing to intend to hire a female chief executive as a means of reshaping Uber's corporate image as a fratty boys' club, it looks like Uber is going to
The big food-and-drink news in town this week was the purchase of SF's signature brewery Anchor Brewing by Japan's Sapporo Holdings, which follows a trend of such
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Just like in the Cinderella story, through the Merola Opera Program, some young and deserving singers are plucked from obscurity by a kind fairy, they get 10 weeks to come to San Francisco
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* [Wired] spends the night with Yelp’s robot security guard. * As he did for codefendant Max Harris, an Alameda County judge lowered the bail for Ghost Ship defendant Derick Almena to $750,000,
Yes, that's a tech shuttle bus, on an unapproved route, stopping so the driver can get coffee, blocking a Muni train... #SanFrancisco #NoeValley #TheWayWeLiveNow #grrrrrr A post shared by Ted (@eyeofted)
Next weekend, on August 12, craft beer mecca Toronado will be ringing in 30 years in the Lower Haight, and as Eater explains, they'll be doing so with a "insane&
#SF Supervisor Hillary Ronen pushes to untangle freeway Hairball: “It’s a mess.” https://t.co/mX30fHDVHu via @rachelswan pic.twitter.com/FGaWs1McyM — SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) August 4, 2017 What's it going
A mentally ill man who was put on a 5150 involuntary psychiatric hold two months previously is now in custody after allegedly murdering his mother, engaging in a 15-hour standoff with police
It's a question many newcomers have when July and August arrive in San Francisco and they're wondering where to find the sun. Newscasts tell you that it's
A bit of previously unreleased tape has just surfaced, seemingly from an archive of Allen Ginsberg recordings, that features Ginsberg and Bob Dylan talking backstage on December 11, 1965 in San Francisco, and
The July 2015 killing of Kate Steinle with a federal agent's stolen gun grabbed national headlines, as is often the case when the victim is an attractive white woman. Far less
Adults know well enough how depressing it can be to see your friends cavorting about some beautiful international locale on Facebook while you're stuck at work too poor to travel. And
