SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Chuck E. Cheese's Allowed Children To Take Out Trash, Make Pizza Dough Just when you thought the animatronic nightmares at Chuck E. Cheese's could not possibly torture children any more than they already do, the LA Times has to go and bow the lid off
SF News South Bay Cancer Patient Finds $10,000 In Bag Of Avocados [Christmas Miracles] Ta-da! A real Christmas miracle has occurred in San Jose, where the Vargas family has been coping with out of pocket costs related to 51-year-old Maria Vargas' cancer treatments after a misdiagnosis at
SF News Bay Bridge West Span Bike Lane: 'Extremely Costly' And 'Extremely Difficult' Fans of overwater cycling or rollerblading to Treasure Island or otherwise take note: the Bay Area Toll Authority will reveal possible plans for a pedestrian lane connecting the city's sidewalks and bike lanes
SF News Steve Jobs To Become Large Bronze Statue A Hungarian businessman who met departed Apple CEO Steve Jobs back in the early 80s wants to immortalize his idol in a larger-than-life bronze statue. The seven-foot-tall statue, which we have to wonder
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Gary Scott Holland Gets 50 To Life Gary Scott Holland, the murderer who posed as a utility worker before killing a San Francisco publicist, gets the 50 years to life that he pled in to. [KTVU] Was CBS5 TV personality
SF News 72-Year-Old Bernal Heights Woman Allegedly Murdered By Knife-Wielding Suspect San Francisco's 48th homicide of the year occurred late Friday evening. Bay City News reports that SFFD crews found an elderly woman lying unconscious on the floor of her home near St. Mary's
Arts & Entertainment Adidas Stages Quirky Fun Run For Commercial Shoot Neighbors around Divisadero, the Panhandle and Alamo Square got front row seats to a much tamer version of Bay to Breakers today. What looked the city's marquee running/drinking event come six months
Arts & Entertainment Whimsical Wooden Swings Appear In Lower Haight Sometime last week, spontaneous pieces of outdated playground equipment started appearing in the Lower Haight, spreading some holiday mirth and merriment through the neighborhood. According to neighborhood watchers, the rope-and-wood swings were first
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From Santacon 2011 [Gallery] The world wide yearly gathering of drunk Santas took to the city streets on Saturday, and the fine photographers of the SFist Flickr pool where there to capture of the mischief, occasionally nudity
SF News 19-Year-Old Murdered In Bayview Saturday Saturday evening, around 4:50 p.m., SFPD officers responding to a shooting call on Carr street in the Bayview District arrived to find 19-year-old victim Treyvon Butler suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: A Punk Rock Christmas Miracle In a Christmas miracle for fans of music from the 90's Green Day stepped in to save Live 105's Not So Silent Night concert after Jane's Addiction had to pull out. [Live105] People
SF News This Week In Willie Brown: Where In The World Is Da Mayor? Willie Brown didn't write his usual food column this week, as he is currently on a world tour of communist countries. Instead of dining around town, Willie was being swept around Beijing on
Arts & Entertainment The Moon Will Look Different Early Tomorrow Morning According to the rocket scientists at NASA, tomorrow December 10th includes the second lunar eclipse of 2011. Meaning the Moon will look bloody and reddish-brown and generally radder than usual at some odd
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: Santacon Jingles, Jiggles And Tipples Through SF Tomorrow Handy reminder: the yearly gathering of drunk people in Santa Claus costumes returns to grace the city's streets with its annual displays of costumed public drunkenness tomorrow. Which means the day drinkers will
SF News Accused BART Copper Thief Busted In the ongoing Depression Era-esque epidemic of stolen metal, at least one copper thief has been brought down. After nearly running over a suspect with a train last week, BART announced yesterday that
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Tony Hawk's Skate Park Donation Tony Hawk throws in 10 grand for the Mission and Duboce skate park. [SFAppeal] Schoolchildren snicker as Ed Lee makes a gaffe. [Twitter] Burning Man types throw art party, that guy with the
Arts & Entertainment Tonight In Holiday Lights: Strung Out on Polk Street With all the sparkly, twinkly things lining the streets and plazas during the holiday season, we occasionally forget to stop and smell the pine trees and mulled wine, as it were. So, in
SF News Facebook's Swelling HQ Could Clog Highway 101 Traffic Here's another way Facebook will keep you from getting work done on a daily basis: according to a report released yesterday, Facebook's growing campus at 1 Hacker Way could pose a major traffic
SF News Man Knifed At Mission Muni Stop The Muni stops around the 16th and Mission BART plaza have been a hotbed for random acts of violence lately. Late last night, or early this morning if you prefer, a 40-year-old man
Arts & Entertainment The Abandoned Couches of San Francisco: Volume 2 It's been over a year since we first took a look at San Francisco's abandoned living room furniture. After local photographer Erik Wilson introduced us to the Sofa Free Flickr Pool, he and
SF News Lucky Supermarket Scam Swipes Data From 500 Customers Earlier this week, news broke that someone had been tampering with the credit card readers in those ever-so-handy self-checkout kiosks at various Bay Area Lucky Supermarket locations. Save Mart Supermarkets, parent company to
Arts & Entertainment Look At 'Em Go! Baby Bison Caught On Video Ta-da! Golden Gate Park's new herd of bison young was caught on video as the gentle creatures staged a tiny, adorable stampede out of their trailer and in to their new home in
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Visualizing BART To Marin Here's what the BART map would (should?) look like if the system went to Marin (and Napa, and Sonoma, and Los Gatos) [MuniDiaries] Leopico, Cranberry Sauce and Teahupoo — three rehabbed sea lions — flopped
Arts & Entertainment Gov. Jerry Brown's Amazingly Passive-Aggressive State Senate Memo Well, now this is just delightful: Jerry Brown's passive aggressive note to the California State Senate back in September of this year, in which the Governor explains his support for SB 769 but
SF News Second Spare The Air Day Declared As Bay Area Continues to Suffocate On Wood Smoke Tomorrow, December 8th is another winter Spare the Air day, according to the folks in charge of that sort of thing. Which means day two of not burning old furniture and duraflame logs
