Boom San Francisco police's bomb squad responded to reports of an explosion involving a FedEx truck near Sixth and Tehama streets around 2 p.m. this afternoon. SFPD Officer Gordon Shyy says the bomb squad determined the thunderous boom was a lar...
We always take great pleasure in PR stunts that come from our local sex shops . Today, a San Francisco porn store decided to get involved in international politics by asking all you vibrator-happy patrons to help them supply Russian President Vladim...
Who wins? A labor fight is somewhat like a divorce. Your dirty laundry and finances are aired in public over months -- or years -- of ugly strife and even uglier squabbling, after which you end up with less than you had hoped. But at least with ...
San Francisco police have made an arrest in the violent robbery and assault that took place in the Castro district during the very early morning hours of June 30, just hours after Pink Saturday festivities. Christopher Porter-Bailey , 23 of Oaklan...
Update: Lt. Tyrone Forte tells us that someone called BART police at about 8:23 a.m. reporting there was a person armed with a weapon at the Embarcadero station. The cops halted all the trains while they searched the entire station as well as the tr...
If you come across a crew of cops on motorcycles this weekend, don't freak out like they're coming for you. Relax. On Saturday, a bunch of San Francisco police will be getting a necessary refresher on their bike skills capped off with a little cop-...
Crime scene Update 10 a.m.: Officer Gordon Shyy says the 26-year-old male victim has been discharged, and the female victim, who is 23, will be discharged from the hospital later today. Original Story 7:19 a.m. Two people are clinging to life...
taxi drivers protesting rideshare apps outside SF City Hall ended with a rideshare victory that devalued the whole demonstration. Yesterday afternoon, the California Public Utilities Commission issued its proposed rules on ridesharing effectively ...
Bike Brigade Continues Cyclists still turn out for ride: I assure writer Joe Eskenazi that Critical Mass remains very relevant to me and my many friends who ride in it whenever we get the chance ["Critical Mass Goes Round and Round," feature,...
Shoulders hunched, John Sears leans forward into the hill he's climbing. His eyes are slits in his lined, sun-browned face as he glances ahead at the police car making its way toward him and the three pack mules walking in single file behind him. ...
"My traveler name's Will Share. Because I will share. You need a cigarette? I'll give you a cigarette. I'll fucking help you out, unlike most of the individualists in this country." Billy Rosario -- Will Share is just his "traveler's name" -- sit...
Seattle entrepreneur Dan Newman says he and a few friends conceived the idea for LeftoverSwap a few years ago, on a night they ordered way too much pizza and couldn't fit the rest in the fridge. "We were like, 'We don't want to throw this out, and i...
Crime of Convenience Perhaps aware how inconvenient Muni is, 25-year-old Ariana Bolmer opted to take a cab to hold up a San Francisco 7-Eleven in Visitacion Valley last week, police said. The ballsy woman had her taxi wait while she "shopped"...
Nate Tan may give you a lift. But not if there are 367,000 of you every weekday. That's a job for BART, and BART and Tan are not the sort of entities you'd mistake for one another. The former is a 41-year-old transit agency with a $1.5 billion ye...
KTVU is now just as bad as any other inane local newscast. Which is how something like the station's Asiana pilot names fiasco can happen. Professional news organizations make mistakes, but they don't allow dumb racist jokes to make it onto the air....
At a deli in Bridgeport, I met a man named Mike who was selling meat and beef jerky for $15 a pound. I told him I was on my way to Bodie, the windswept ghost town 15 miles away in the Sierra foothills. I couldn't tell if he was smiling as I said thi...
The irrigator leans on his shovel in a Salinas field, his shoulders squared and his hand on his hip, as though he's taking a moment to assess his labor. The farmer crouches next to him, clad in a cowboy hat and work boots, holding a handful of soil ...
Deep in Amador County, two-and-a-half hours from the Bay Area, there aren't any cities -- just tiny old Gold Rush towns. In Plymouth there's a 24-hour mini-mart and gas station, two banks, and, at least on the main road, one restaurant: Marlene and ...
Sporting crowds cheer. Sporting crowds boo. On rarer occasions, thousands of spectators simultaneously gasp in disbelief. On rarer occasions still, screams of terror follow. And then there's the sound of everyone hustling to get out of the way of...
Photograph of backroads between Los Banos and Gustine, Calif. by Alexia Aubault. We could have called this "The Travel Issue," but mere travel is not what we were after. We wanted to go beyond the two-dimensional, picture-postcard experien...
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 >>