By cutting ties with G.M. Scot McCloughan only five weeks before the draft, the San Francisco 49ers could be thrusting into the hands of another team a guy who has spent nearly a year assessing the latest crop of incoming...

Michihw and her fiance dance in the shadows overlooking San Francisco Bay. Keep on loading your inspirational wedding pics to the gallery to see them featured here on the blog! Remember, your images must be under 1MB in size, or th...

One would think that the collective wisdom of the thousands of drug fiends inhabiting the San Francisco Bay Area would somehow inform the reporters and editors who produce the region's dominant daily, the San Francisco Chronicle, ab...

We’ve previously mentioned the fascinating battle taking place in San Francisco between the city’s two weekly newspapers: The San Francisco Bay Guardian (who won a $21 million dollar judgment against Village Voice Media for monopoli...

The Stranger Bay Guardian owner Bruce Brugmann (left) and Village Voice Media co-owner Michael Lacey "have hated each other for decades, but with increasing venom since 1995, when Lacey showed up in San Francisco in cow...

Zombie writes that in sleepy San Francisco, there's just no place for a Street Fighting Vegan. ...

San Francisco or East Bay residents who have had that ‘one too many’ can get home free and safely by calling for a taxi. The Safe and Sober program will run from 3 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Wednesday, March 17. Remember, rides will be given...

Christine Smith is a San Francisco Bay Area cartoonist, freelance illustrator, and activist. Her webcomics Eve's Apple and The Princess tell the stories of a trans woman and a young trans girl. I think the comics are funny and...

According to TechCrunch AT&T has been emailing its San Francisco customers, telling them that Ma Bell will be stepping up their game in the Bay Area. The email says: “We wanted you to be among the first to know! We recently enhanced...

Our newest bee is a city-loving and budget-savvy bride planning her August nuptials in the City by the Bay! Please join me in welcoming Miss Taco to the hive! Miss Taco, San Francisco Age & Occupation: 28, writer/editor Fiance’s Ag...

The latest development in the increasingly high-stakes war between the independent San Francisco Bay Guardian and the Village Voice Media-owned SF Weekly? According to court filings just shared with The Stranger, today VVM told a Sa...

As I do not currently work for SF Weekly or the San Francisco Bay Guardian, two weekly, advertiser-supported newspapers here in the Bay Area, I feel it's time to weigh in with my feelings about the increasingly nasty relationship be...

Shortly before 6:30 am this morning, a nine-car BART train headed from San Francisco to the East Bay through the tube "separated into two pieces." BCN (via CBS 5) reports: "A five-car section of the train was removed first with ...

Concerts and Tours San Francisco Bay area indie/psychedelic rockers The Mother Hips were signed to American Recordings by legendary producer Rick Rubin in the early 90's, enjoying big label status for three records whil...

credit: Wikicommons Nearly 22K California teachers pink slipped. [CBS 5, Calitics] San Francisco State University is 21st in Peace Corps volunteers. [Examiner] Twitter still doesn't know how it will make money. [Valleywag] ...

This essay appears in the March 2010 issue of Lapham's Quarterly and is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine. Art as a medium of exchange is the gift in the hand of its creator, alive in the mind of it...

I’m pleased to announce that peHUB will return to San Francisco on April 14, for our first Bay Area Shindig in more than a year. It will take place at Mighty, which doubles at a music hall on the weekend (and which also should affor...

San Jose is the third largest city in California, and the largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, trumping even the region’s more famous namesake city in population. San Jose, however, is a much different kind of city than San F...

["digger," via Curbed SF Flickr photog brad terrell] · Guggenheim reimaginings get auctioned off [Metropolis POV] · Laying some ground rules for food carts [SF Examiner] · Urban gardens aren't making up for dwindling Bay Area farmla...

Should Americans be looking west to San Francisco and cities ringing the San Francisco Bay as the new ecotopia?