Finding wisdom in a Tom Cruise film about men specializing in the art of synchronized drink-pouring is a bit like spotting a $20 bill underneath a dumpster. But, lo, there it is: "Everything ends badly, otherwise it wouldn't end." So, the relation...
Former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Pfc. Bradley Manning was acquitted of aiding the enemy, yet found guilty of espionage and theft, which could land him 100-plus years behind bars. If you feel the need to celebrate all this in a public way, then h...
Bay Area denizens are well aware that toll collection at the Golden Gate Bridge has become solely electronic , with FasTrak and online payments as our only way to cross into the city by car. But what about those enthusiastic yet ignorant tourists w...
Theorists like Clay Shirky, -- whose 2008 book Here Comes Everybody extolled the crowd as it manifested itself on the likes of Wikipedia, Flickr, Second Life (!) and MySpace (!!) -- tend to ignore or gloss over the many downsides of new communicat...
The Catholic Church is full of contradictions. Jesus is both fully human and fully divine. Women and gays are both God's creations, worthy of love, but neither are fit to be priests, and the latter are practitioners of "a strong tendency ordered tow...
A 40-something-year-old man is in clinging to life this morning after he was beaten with a bottle last night while reportedly sticking up for his sister who had been a victim of a crime. Officer Gordon Shyy says all the details came from a witness ...
That's one way to enforce it You know who else is tired of your double parking around town? Supervisor Scott Wiener. That's right the man who banned naked penises is now turning his efforts toward irreverent drivers who think they can park any ...
In what seems to be the new "bread-and-butter" work for fire crews in San Francisco, firefighters stumbled across another illegal marijuana grow this morning while battling a blaze in the city's Visitacion Valley neighborhood. The two-alarm fire wa...
If your taxi driver seems a little cranky on the road these days, just know it's not you, it's Lyft . Tomorrow, a crew of cabbies is planning a lunchtime protest to show their utter disdain with San Francisco's ridesharing companies, including Lyf...
BART and its unions at the bargaining table Update 1:17 p.m.: BART says union's proposal would mean a double-digit fare increase. Read full update at the bottom. If you're currently frustrated by the 10-15-minute delays on BART this morning ...
San Francisco tourists are best known for creating congestion along the Golden Gate Bridge, stepping out into intersections to get that "one great shot of Coit Tower" and turning Fisherman's Wharf into a local's worst nightmare. But amid the keycha...
San Francisco police were busy Sunday when at least six people were wounded -- some critically -- in separate incidents across the city . According to police, the first incident happened at Mission and Cesar Chavez streets at about 12:45 a.m., whe...
Today is Day 22 of the largest mass hunger strike in California state prison history , called in protest of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's notorious solitary confinement practices. While 32,000 prisoners were refusing ...
And here you thought your commute to work was slow . The Bay Bridge was closed down in both directions for about an hour this afternoon after a suspicious device was reported on the Treasure Island freeway ramp. According to the CHP , the cal...
Remember when you were 5 years old and your parents said that Snowball, your adorable, fluffy cat isn't home anymore because she went to "live on a farm" with many other Snowball's? Well, we are here to tell you the truth: Snowball died. We don't...
SF skies We were delighted when we came across this video created by Ken Murphy, a San Francisco artist, who took nonstop snapshots of the city's sometimes heavenly and sometimes foggy sky from atop the Exploratorium museum. The end result was ...
Dustin expresses regret that this wake-up call was necessary It's not every day a homeless man gets to sleep on a cushy white mattress atop a firm box spring. And, when he does, there's a catch: It's sitting out of doors on Mission and Bosworth, ...
Practically everyone I know who rides bikes often has had some kind of car vs. bike collision, and they've all had close calls. I've had my share of bump-and-grind with fenders and rear view mirrors, but I've never been t-boned, or rolled over a hood...
Well we know she had money for the fare Perhaps seeing how inconvenient Muni is, a local woman opted to take a cab to holdup a San Francisco 7-Eleven in Visitacion Valley last week. The Examiner regales us this morning with the news of 25-ye...
Sold! As we reported earlier this week , Leftover Swap -- the smartphone app that allows users to photograph their food and sell it to neighbors -- is still in beta, and probably won't launch until fall. But it's already generated a public outc...
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 >>