The San Francisco Police Department's new chief, Bill Scott, will face his first use-of-force town hall meeting Wednesday morning, as the SFPD has announced the meeting to provide updates
The first precursor to a lawsuit, which could be one of several or many to be filed in the high-profile swarm robbery two weeks ago that left multiple BART passengers injured and
Two people who were waiting for Muni were hurt this morning, when a driver struck them as they stood. Police say that the collision occurred at 3:30 a.m. on the 5700
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Road trips, music festivals, beach days - Summer’s almost here. Summer: The season that makes Winter worth it. From good times on the back porch to long road trips with friends, these warm
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Sunday marked the 18th annual How Weird Street Faire in SoMa, one of SF's kookier annual street parties (on Howard Street) that grew out of the early days of Burning Man
"I’m from Tennessee, where I’m called a commie. At Berkeley I’m a right-wing reactionary." https://t.co/71bOF7wwXL pic.twitter.com/NCxtyRrn5n — The New York Times (@nytimes)
A month after it capsized and sank in a storm, a 112-foot construction barge named Vengeance remains in the muck at the bottom of San Francisco Bay, resting "very near"
32-year-old Facebook CEO and Mission District resident Mark Zuckerberg recently announced plans to travel to the 30 American states he's never visited and like, connect with the flyover people.
Until a run this week-end, the SF Symphony had not performed Berlioz' Requiem in almost thirty years. Part of the reason is logistics: it requires an expanded orchestra and three choirs,
Bay Area Game of Thrones fans can rightfully take a measure of local pride from the obscure fact that a UC Berkeley alum invented both the Dothraki and High Valyrian languages spoken on
An errant driver is facing allegations of assault with a deadly weapon, police say, after she tried to flee a San Francisco traffic stop. Police say that the woman, whose age was described
A new bakery has set up shop on 20th Street and we'd like one of everything. Baker Judy Kahn ventured out on her own with the adorably-named Kahnfections after leaving
As we learned the other week, former state senator, assemblyman, and SF supervisor Mark Leno has announced he's running for mayor in 2019, i.e. almost two and a half years
* [Business Insider] does an SF burrito ranking that I'm sure you all have thoughts about. * [Ad Week] wonders "Are ‘Social Media’ Companies Dead?" * Uber brings an AI expert aboard,
There’s been significant gnashing of teeth and grinding of gears in San Francisco over the controversial, so-called “Idaho stop” — the practice of bicycles yielding instead of hard stopping at intersections with
Juicero, the $400 (née $700) wi-fi enabled juicer that makes you drinks from a foil container you could just squeeze by hand for free, has come to resemble everything that's
A new California state law that just took effect in January prohibits BART police from citing juvenile offenders for jumping the fare gates this despite the fact that BART spends millions of dollars
Updated location Quint & Silver. 44 line and MUNI on Newhall rerouted. T LINE clear now. 1 male shot. https://t.co/o3HIV0oGmN — Captain Vaswani (@sfvas) May 6, 2017 An investigation into a
A local non-profit called the Tipping Point Community announced Sunday that it is pledging $100 million to the city of San Francisco to help address the problem of homelessness over the next
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This month is your last chance to catch Matisse/Diebenkorn, the gorgeous special exhibition at SFMOMA that closes on May 29. The show’s striking beauty and unexpected connections make it a must-
Mother's Day is almost here! Give mom the gift of a beautiful bouquet. Remember last Mother's Day, when you were running frantically through the mall sifting through picked over
An off-duty Uber driver was allegedly abducted at gunpoint Saturday night and forced to drive to Richmond, where his car was then stolen. As ABC 7 reports, the driver says that a
