Not a shabby commute Earlier this week, we gave you a simple guide on how to get around by BART while the Bay Bridge is closed . But if you were hoping to continue disengaging from all that public transit drama -- naked acrobats, seat sex, shooti...
When the 85,000 students at San Francisco City College got wind that the college could close, they immediately took to the streets , forming a Save CCSF coalition and staging mass demonstrations. If the Accrediting Commission for Community and Jun...
Sad news today. We got word that former San Francisco Assistant Police Chief Morris Tabak killed himself last night outside a Sonoma County sheriff's substation. Lt. Bret Sackett told news reporters that the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department was...
If you really gave two nipples about women's equality, then you'd take off your shirt already. In conjunction with Women's Equality Day, women and fans of women will descend on Dolores park sans shirts on Sunday at noon for Go Topless Day , becaus...
It's been a while, but President Barack Obama has gone on record condoning medical marijuana use . As candidate and as president, he's said, sick people should be able to access the drug. They just need to do keep on doing so illegally, the White ...
Police didn't have any details at this time, except to say that the shooting happened at the intersection of Turk and Taylor streets. The victim's condition is unknown at this time. Traffic has been rerouted for now as some streets have been closed, ...
A brand new car! For years, driving a Ford Taurus signified one of several things: You really wish you'd bought a Camry; Grandma recently gave up driving; It's a rental. Now, however, it can mean something wholly other: You're a c...
video of "geezers" having a pillow fight in the park. We're pretty damn sure this might be the only time we're gonna see a bunch of old(er) people plunking pillows in to one another in a public setting, but perhaps it's a well-attended activity at...
Update, 4:02 p.m.: Phil Bronstein responds, see bottom. Daniel Rubio This morning a Bloomberg TV interview with former San Francisco Chronicle editor Phil Bronstein made the rounds, causing mild, renewed blogosphere hysteria abou...
One hundred and sixty-two years ago tomorrow, one of the great quotes entered the cultural lexicon. When the schooner America trounced its English competition on Aug. 22, 1851, Queen Victoria turned to an underling and asked who came second. "Your ...
Yes, the Lusty Lady is run-down, shabby, and has a sticky floor that we don't need to discuss here. But the San Francisco institution also happens to be very capitalist in nature: it is competition. Without the Lusty, San Francisco becomes a company...
Just when you had given up on the violent, broken, angry world, a good Samaritan comes along and makes you think "This place really isn't so bad." Yesterday, an honest person picked up a wad of cash that was left behind near a Bernal Heights playgr...
The other night as Joaquin Arias was chasing after a pop-up , the ball girl inserted herself into the play, attempting to catch the ball as it was still in play. Luckily, he was able to catch the ball, despite the interference. As for the girl, sh...
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was sentenced this morning to 35 years in prison for giving U.S. secrets to WikiLeaks. Prosecutors had portrayed 25-year-old Manning as "the determined insider," an anarchist hacker and traitor who started working within we...
Picking Fruit Online Reading way into what the grocery store has come to represent: The grocery store is now only for the rich or those with food stamps, everyone else has to find another way: churches, hunting, growing your own, barter, rob ...
When six frustrated pot entrepreneurs got together to launch TheNug.com , an Oakland-based site dedicated to "weed, women, and other important stuff," they thought they'd stumbled on an Internet gold mine. Who knew that weed sells better when it's ...
A Muni operator's job entails driving the vehicle from Point A to Point B -- but it's still a decent thing to thank him or her when you disembark. The Muni system's job entails not needlessly idling its buses for hours on end, which wastes fuel, ...
Evidently, rideshare start-ups -- or "Transportation Network Companies" per the new patois -- aren't the only businesses to benefit from an impending BART strike. A Santa Monica parking directory service picked this moment in commuter hell to laun...
The Bridge is Out, Then In The great news is that the new Bay Bridge will open on time. The bad news is that the Bay Bridge will be closed for five days over Labor Day weekend while crews finish the new span, including paving and striping. BART...
Photograph and direction by Mike Koozmin. Design by Audrey Fukuman. Billy Sell was not, by any means, a sympathetic character. He'd earned a double life sentence for attempted first-degree murder. He'd been deemed too dangerous to intera...
Photograph and direction by Mike Koozmin. Design by Audrey Fukuman. Billy Sell was not, by any means, a sympathetic character. He'd earned a double life sentence for attempted first-degree… More >>
When six frustrated pot entrepreneurs got together to launch TheNug.com, an Oakland-based site dedicated to "weed, women, and other important stuff," they thought they'd stumbled on an Internet gold mine.… More >>
Not quite a year ago, a crippled 60-foot Muni articulated bus was hauled to Smith & Tobey 24-hour Towing. Muni buses break down all the time — but this was… More >>
A Muni operator's job entails driving the vehicle from Point A to Point B — but it's still a decent thing to thank him or her when you disembark. The Muni… More >>
Evidently, rideshare start-ups — or "Transportation Network Companies" per the new patois — aren't the only businesses to benefit from an impending BART strike. A Santa Monica parking directory service… More >>
The Bridge is Out, Then In The great news is that the new Bay Bridge will open on time. The bad news is that the Bay Bridge will be closed for… More >>
Picking Fruit Online Reading way into what the grocery store has come to represent: The grocery store is now only for the rich or those with food stamps, everyone else has… More >>
Illustration by Audrey Fukuman. Only a few hours ago, the strawberry was sitting on a vine at a family-owned farm in Watsonville, about 90 miles south of San Francisco. But,… More >>
At the corner of Townsend and The Embarcadero, outside AT&T; Park, an unusual sort of panhandler has appeared. They don't seek handouts; they seek autographs. Dylan Courier, 18, is on the… More >>
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" is a simple enough concept. And yet, applying it to on-the-ground situations often leads to profoundly unintended consequences — there's a reason… More >>