Multiple UFO Sightings May or May Not Predict the Coming Apocalypse
Two alleged spottings on opposite coasts this week captured the attention of semi-local news sources and now people are actually talking about them.
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Just when the NFL was starting to shed its homophobic reputation and look like an accepting place for gay athletes, one San Francisco 49ers player had to come along and ruin all of that — and all under the Super Bowl spotlight.
Two alleged spottings on opposite coasts this week captured the attention of semi-local news sources and now people are actually talking about them.
San Francisco's ban on fully-naked people may be on, but the half-monty photos will always endure.
It's official, guys: San Francisco has banned public nudity. No more hanging out pantsless at bus stops in the Castro or nude sunbathing on Fisherman's Wharf or naked mud wrestling in Golden Gate Park. To put it rather bluntly, no more fun.
It's San Francisco's turn to take the meaning of freedom in America to new levels this week as it votes this week on whether or not to uphold citizens' right to be naked in public.
Los Angeles Times on San Francisco's green identity, Grist on the dirty details of clean coal, Slate on Denmark's bikers, Time on caring for trees, and Reuters on a huge elephant tusk seizure.
The San Francisco Giants completed a four-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers last night, winning their second World Series in three years and giving troublemakers a perfect excuse to burn down their city.
Until this month, the San Francisco Police Department only had four categories for identifying the race of someone arrested: White, black, other, and Chinese.
The grossest news of the day comes out of San Francisco, where officials say that a prime reason escalators in their BART public transit stations break down is the voluminous amounts of human excrement that "gum up" their gears.
A San Francisco mother mobilized police and the Internet at large to help find her missing 22-year-old son this week, but it turns out, his phone had just died. Sure, it makes for easy jokes about helicoptering moms, but in this case, the son did give her good cause to worry.
This is why people get angry with their public officials: The best advice from a Bay Area Rapid Transit spokesman to commuters stranded by a fire that stopped train service was "take a nice day off and enjoy the sunshine."
Once upon a time, the airport was where you waited to take a plane to go somewhere. Now it's a place where you can make yourself at home, and live for years, if you're so inclined.
Images trickled out of Bay Area social media accounts on Thursday afternoon, showing shocking images of a horrific house fire in what appears to be the San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood.
Just after 1 a.m. on Wednesday, San Francisco police stormed a downtown Occupy Wall Street encampment, using tactics that have begun to sound commonplace after New York police used them on occupiers in Zuccotti Park.
As city hall tries to regulate nudity, the city itself curbs most would-be naturists
A guy says Apple folks, posing as cops, raided his house
The hacktivist collective is urging people to crowd a San Francisco station at rush hour
Life imitates art in the city's war on graffiti
A judge rules that the measure can't be put on the November ballot
If signed into law, it would require teaching about gay historical figures in state schools
The proposed pet sales ban is the latest in an alternately noble and ridiculous tradition
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors debates tax incentives based on location
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