• California chefs, in particular several in San Francisco like Octavia/Frances chef Melissa Perello, are doing their part to conserve water during the drought, doing things like watering plants with leftover cooking water, and air-blowing food off dishes before putting them in dishwashers. [NYT]
  • Over at SF Mag, Joe Eskanazi takes on the blame game surrounding the murder of Kate Steinle, saying that SF should hardly be blamed for doing something 51 out of 58 California counties do in dealing with undocumented immigrants. And he blames the ease with which alleged shooter Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez got his gun. [SF Mag]
  • A moth that can ruin grape crops appears in Calistoga. [KRON 4]
  • No surprise: San Francisco missed its regional affordable housing target goal for 2014, set in 2007, by a whole lot. [SocketSite]
  • If you want to pay by credit card at parking meters in the city that allow you to, you'll be charged a 27-cent fee, starting sometime soon. [KQED]
  • A low-income Mission family that did everything right, landed in an affordable rental unit, and was offered the opportunity to buy the unit for $150,000, has now lost that opportunity due to bank problems, being immigrants, and intra-agency delays. [Mission Local]
  • NY Mag just did a good profile of Lyft’s co-founder John Zimmer. [NY Mag]
  • It looks like, once again, California's assisted suicide bill isn’t going to make it through the legislature despite a high-profile national campaign supporting such bills, including those videos by Brittany Maynard, who took her own life in November. [Chron]