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Luxury Shops Slowly Reopening After Union Square Water Main Break

Luxury Shops Slowly Reopening After Union Square Water Main Break

Several days after a water main burst at San Francisco’s Union Square many high-end shops have reopened and made repairs to flooded basements. On Saturday…

Smoke Shops Hit With Fines, Unannounced Inspections In Fight Against Crack Pipe Sales

As previously reported, earlier this year City Attorney and mayoral candidate Dennis Herrera launched a crusade against the sale of crack and meth pipes, a…

Ask the Appeal: Why Is The City Attorney Suing Smoke Shops Over Alleged Crack Pipes, Instead Of Letting SFPD Handle It?

Ask the Appeal: Why Is The City Attorney Suing Smoke Shops Over Alleged Crack Pipes, Instead Of Letting SFPD Handle It?

Commenter salsaman asks: What is the legal basis for [SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s lawsuit against six local stores selling crack pipes and other drug…

City Attorney Going After Crack-Pipe Selling Smoke Shops With $2500 Fines

City Attorney Going After Crack-Pipe Selling Smoke Shops With $2500 Fines

San Francisco’s city attorney is cracking down on six local stores selling crack pipes and other drug paraphernalia, the attorney said Thursday. Shops in the…

Things San Franciscans Like: Doing Work In Coffee Shops

I think I’m gonna go do some work in a coffee shop. Nothing big, just somewhere local. You know, the place with the extra-hot coffee….

BART Directors Approve Plan To Bring Shops To Stations

BART Directors Approve Plan To Bring Shops To Stations

BART directors have voted 7-1 to approve a new station retail policy that aims to bring more retail vendors within the free areas of stations…

Supes Give Final Budget Approval, Introduce Legislation To Ban New Polk Street Head Shops

San Francisco supervisors today gave final approval to the city’s $6.6 billion budget, on a 9-2 vote. Mayor Gavin Newsom’s office said following the vote…

Fire Department Celebrates 150th Anniversary With Union Square Event

Fire Department Celebrates 150th Anniversary With Union Square Event

The San Francisco Fire Department celebrated its 150th anniversary today on the 110th anniversary of the great 1906 earthquake and fires and just days after…

El Nino Bringing Even More Rain To Bay Area

El Nino Bringing Even More Rain To Bay Area

El Nino weather has hit the Bay Area and the worst is yet to come, according to the National Weather Service. A storm that hit…

Two SF Hotels Among Many Affected by Virus That Breached Customer Payment Data

Two SF Hotels Among Many Affected by Virus That Breached Customer Payment Data

An international hotel company announced today that it experienced malware intrusions that may jeopardize customer payment card data at more than 50 of its U.S….

Dreamforce Conference Draws Crowds with Big Name Lineup, Shuts Down City Street

Dreamforce Conference Draws Crowds with Big Name Lineup, Shuts Down City Street

The Dreamforce conference, a major tech event featuring top-name speakers and performers, has taken over San Francisco this week. The conference, an annual event hosted…

SF General Hospital Announces Removal of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages From Campus

SF General Hospital Announces Removal of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages From Campus

All sugar-sweetened beverages will be removed from San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, health officials announced today, just days after the San Francisco Board…

BART Staff Violated Code of Conduct in Senate Race, Early Findings Show

BART Staff Violated Code of Conduct in Senate Race, Early Findings Show

A preliminary investigation by BART lawyers and managers into campaign activities surrounding a state Senate race found that employees violated BART’s conduct code, according to…

SF Giants Seek Voter Approval to Develop Mission Rock Neighborhood

SF Giants Seek Voter Approval to Develop Mission Rock Neighborhood

The San Francisco Giants announced a plan today to place an initiative on the November ballot that would transform 28 acres of parking lots in…

Waste-Sorting System Unveiled to Help Dolores Park Picnickers Stop Littering

Waste-Sorting System Unveiled to Help Dolores Park Picnickers Stop Littering

A pop-up recycling and composting system was unveiled today in response to an abundance of litter left behind by picnickers at San Francisco’s Dolores Park….

Man Earns Pardon from Governor Following Lengthy Prison Sentence

Man Earns Pardon from Governor Following Lengthy Prison Sentence

Gov. Jerry Brown pardoned a man Sunday who has done extensive community work in San Francisco after a prison term for burglary, robbery, false imprisonment…

Jury Acquits Former Muni Bus Driver Who Struck Woman in Crosswalk in 2011

Jury Acquits Former Muni Bus Driver Who Struck Woman in Crosswalk in 2011

A former San Francisco Municipal Railway bus driver who was facing charges of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter for fatally striking a pedestrian in the city’s Castro…

Three Stores Robbed at Gunpoint Monday Evening, One Suspect Arrested

Three Stores Robbed at Gunpoint Monday Evening, One Suspect Arrested

Police are investigating three armed robberies that took place at different stores across San Francisco on Monday evening, a police spokesman said today. Police arrested…

Archbishop “Elated” at Pope’s Decision to Canonize Junipero Serra

Archbishop “Elated” at Pope’s Decision to Canonize Junipero Serra

Pope Francis today declared Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra, the founder of a number of California missions including San Francisco’s Mission Dolores, a Catholic saint, according…

New Owner of Flower Mart Property Expresses Intent to Redesign Market

New Owner of Flower Mart Property Expresses Intent to Redesign Market

Tensions ran high today over the fate of the San Francisco Flower Mart after a major developer announced that it would redesign the flower market,…

SFPD Chief Totals 79 Arrests in Black Friday Protests Prompted by Ferguson Decision

SFPD Chief Totals 79 Arrests in Black Friday Protests Prompted by Ferguson Decision

Seventy-nine people were arrested and five police officers were injured in San Francisco on Friday night during a demonstration held in reaction to the grand…

Maritime Historical Park Proposes Doubling Entrance Fees

Maritime Historical Park Proposes Doubling Entrance Fees

The San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park is proposing to double its entrance fees for adults and annual park passes, representatives from the park said…

Citizens’ Initiative Announced Today to Preserve Flower Mart

Citizens’ Initiative Announced Today to Preserve Flower Mart

Amid concerns that the San Francisco Flower Mart in the city’s South of Market neighborhood could be dismantled or relocated by a new property owner…

Napa Valley Vintners Still Assessing Damage From Earthquake

Napa Valley Vintners Still Assessing Damage From Earthquake

The Napa Valley Vintners trade association said it is still assessing the effects that Sunday’s earthquake had on Napa County’s wine industry. Napa Valley Vintners…

Completely Believable Barbra: Buyer & Cellar

Completely Believable Barbra: Buyer & Cellar

Barbra Streisand has a basement full of crap she’s collected over the years. Really, who doesn’t, in some form or another? But Barbra’s basement is…

Infamous SF Eviction Lawyers Use DMCA Claim to Silence Protest Video

Infamous SF Eviction Lawyers Use DMCA Claim to Silence Protest Video

Please scroll down for an update to this story. Not content to help landlords evict tenants from their homes and businesses, Daniel Bornstein at the…

San Francisco Coffee Shop Says They Will Stop Scanning And Tracking Wireless Devices Of Patrons And Passers-By

San Francisco Coffee Shop Says They Will Stop Scanning And Tracking Wireless Devices Of Patrons And Passers-By

Looks like the honeymoon between Philz Coffee and retail analytics company Euclid Elements is over. The breakup was aired in public yesterday when the popular…

Bay Area Superbowl Set For February 7, 2016

The National Football League said today that the date of 50th anniversary Super Bowl at the planned Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara is Feb. 7,…

I’m Sick Of Standing In Lines, And You Should Be, Too

I’m Sick Of Standing In Lines, And You Should Be, Too

his weekend I stood in the cashier line at Victoria’s Secret for a good 20 minutes. I was waiting with my visiting sister, who was…

Appealing TV: State of the Super Union Bowl, American Horror Story: Coven, and The Man Who Would Be Bond

Appealing TV: State of the Super Union Bowl, American Horror Story: Coven, and The Man Who Would Be Bond

The Super Bowl is the Super Bowl of people proudly announcing that they’re not watching the Super Bowl. By all means, enjoy what you want…

BART To Develop Sisterhood With China’s Shanghai Metro

BART To Develop Sisterhood With China’s Shanghai Metro

BART directors voted unanimously today to develop a sister transit agency affiliation with the Shanghai Metro in China. BART Director James Fang of San Francisco,…

Chinatown And North Beach Residents Want To Put Central Subway Construction On Pause For Holidays

Chinatown And North Beach Residents Want To Put Central Subway Construction On Pause For Holidays

Residents and business owners in San Francisco’s Chinatown and North Beach neighborhoods are calling for a holiday moratorium on construction related to the Central Subway…

Retired SF Cops Band With NRA To Fight Ban On High-Capacity Ammunition Magazines

Retired SF Cops Band With NRA To Fight Ban On High-Capacity Ammunition Magazines

A group of retired police officers and four San Francisco residents sued the city in federal court today to challenge a new law banning high-capacity…

New Employment Center For Veterans Opens On Howard Street

New Employment Center For Veterans Opens On Howard Street

A new employment center will help San Francisco veterans gain access to career counseling and other job search assistance, city officials said today. The Veterans…

Blue Angels Returning To SF For Fleet Week 2014

Blue Angels Returning To SF For Fleet Week 2014

12:22 PM: The Blue Angels air show is set to return to San Francisco next year as part of the city’s annual Fleet Week celebration,…

No Air Show, No Parade Of Ships: Scaled Back Fleet Week Begins Monday

No Air Show, No Parade Of Ships: Scaled Back Fleet Week Begins Monday

Fleet Week is still happening in San Francisco next week, but it will be a much quieter affair and there will be no air show…

Ghirardelli Square Sold To Out-Of-Town Investors

Ghirardelli Square Sold To Out-Of-Town Investors

The Ghirardelli Square retail complex, which houses the flagship store of the famed San Francisco chocolate company, has been sold to an Atlanta-based real estate…

Tenant Troubles: My Neighborhood’s Too Dangerous, Can I Break My Lease?

Tenant Troubles: My Neighborhood’s Too Dangerous, Can I Break My Lease?

In July, my wife and I moved out of a great roommate situation in San Francisco into our first apartment as a couple in Oakland’s…

Opening Doors With The Common Language Of Fashion

Opening Doors With The Common Language Of Fashion

I’m in Seoul, Korea. I only found out I was coming here two weeks ago. I knew nothing about Korea except for the horrible war…

Appealing TV: Finale? Finally! Get Out Alive With Bear Grylis, Pretty Little Liars, Law and Order: UK, and Rock My RV

Appealing TV: Finale? Finally! Get Out Alive With Bear Grylis, Pretty Little Liars, Law and Order: UK, and Rock My RV

As you may have heard by now, dear Appealing TV reader, the 29th season of the formerly groundbreaking docu-reality series, The Real World will be…