SF News 'Upscale, Classy, Clean' People Wanted For Mid-Market Apartment Building Commercial Nema, the luxury high rise building currently leasing $2,500 studios, the same one with its very own parody Twitter account and grating neighborhood name, has put out a casting call for "lifestyle
SF News Burning Man Agrees To Pay Up For Johnny Law Black Rock City LLC, the San Francisco company that puts on Nevada's most popular summer retreat every year, has just agreed to shell out at least $605,000 a year over the next
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Eviction Assistance The S.F. Sheriff's Department has a one-of-a-kind Eviction Assistance Unit. [SFEx] The last movie ever rented from a Blockbuster was, appropriately enough, This Is The End. [AVClub] Local bread pudding maker wants
SF News Alameda County Asks Obama To Quit Harshing On Marijuana Dispensaries, Man Last week in Alameda, the county's board of supervisors approved a resolution supporting legal weed for both medical and recreational use. In addition to lighting up the legalize it debate again, the county
SF News That Burning Plastic Smell? Blame It On Redwood City If you awoke this morning, rubbed the sleep from your eyes and wondered to yourself why your usual Muni stop smells weird — but, like, in a different way than usual — then you can
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Sandcastles The way we live now: This young couple broadcasts all of their fights over Twitter. [Atlantic] Michael Bauer gives La Urbana 2.5 stars, along with a disclaimer about the price. [Inside Scoop]
SF News Day Around The Bay: Stolen Puppy Four SF General staffers removed after Sheriff's department investigation into missing patient Lynne Spaulding. [SFAppeal] This time lapse photo of Venus and a crescent Moon over Bernal Hill is Space-tacular. [Bernalwood] Supervisor Scott
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sugary Mexican Coke Spared In International War On Soda Updates from the front lines in the International War on Soda this week: although there was some concern that recent taxes levied on bottlers of sugary sodas in Mexico would lead to an
SF News Twitter Owes Me $131 Dollars For All My Hard Work Tweeting Time Magazine, the same one that named you Person of the Year in 2006, has a new empowering interactive tool that shows you exactly how much Twitter owes you based on the value
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Sunday: Catch Your Own Fish At Batch Made Market After a successful season of monthly marketplace events, Batch Made Market will throw one last locally sourced hurrah for 2013 this Sunday afternoon with park games, beer, plenty of food and workshops — including
Arts & Entertainment Niners Preview: Carolina at S.F. By: Daisy Barringer Ugh, is there anything worse than a Bye week? I didn’t feel like going to a bar last Sunday and the only games on were KC/Buffalo and then
SF News The Mysterious Google Barge Is Now The Fancy Google Sailboat In the latest news surrounding the mysterious Google Barge floating on the bay near Treasure Island, the Chronicle's mustachioed duo have finally cracked the story wide open. (We always knew you had it
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Stroll SoMa The SFMTA unveiled safer new sidewalk extensions in a treacherous stretch of SoMa yesterday. [SFEx] San Francisco's current smallest apartment for rent is $1,800 a month for 300 square feet. It comes
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mid-Market's Public Offering Kenneth "Bryan" Goodwin, the man killed while crossing Octavia Boulevard in his wheelchair was a safer streets advocate. [Chron] Here's another look behind the scenes of HBO's "Looking." [Accidental Bear] Lawyer denies Ross
SF News Twitter Stock Closes With 73% Gain, Rest Of Market Had A 'Twitter Hangover' After hitting the New York Stock Exchange this morning, Twitter's newly public stock shot right up to about $50 before leveling off to close just a hair dime short of $45 — a 73%
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What Does Your Toast Say About You As A San Franciscan? Recently in San Francisco, a debate popped up surrounding the cost of toast, which is just slightly burnt bread smeared with a paste made from nuts or fruit or milk. Specifically, people are
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: S.F. Hoodlums This man has eaten and reviewed nearly 1,000 burritos and we're all very proud. [EaterSF] "The Hoodlum is a distinctive San Francisco product," says an 1875 issue of Scribner's Monthly magazine. [NPR]
SF News City Parks Are Now Closed After Midnight Supervisor Scott Wiener's controversial legislation to close San Francisco's public parks between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m. was approved by the Board of Supervisors yesterday. The legislation, which was meant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink I Drank Every Drink On The Tonga Room's Cocktail Menu (For Journalism) A couple months back, San Francisco's legendary Tiki bar the Tonga Room announced it would be ditching their syrupy mixers that made Anthony Bourdain so sticky in favor of fresher goods and a
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Tweeting Granny Is Jack Dorsey the worst Tweeter ever? Or is the S.F. Business Journal just trolling on the verge of IPO? [SFBiz] This 75-year-old grandmother is a trusted advisor to Square. [WSJ] "Hopeful"
SF News Alleged Silk Road Proprietor Was A Dirty Hippie Who Looked Good In A Dress About a month after his arrest for allegedly running an international drug trafficking ring on a dark corner of the Internet and reporters are still digging up new information on Ross Ulbricht, a.
SF News Woman Sliced In The Neck While Looking For The Bus Stop A 55-year-old woman was slashed in the throat near the intersection of 19th and Valencia streets on Saturday evening after she asked a man on the street where she could find the nearest
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Bad Blackout Local authorities used the old span of the Bay Bridge for a simulated terrorist attack. [Reuters] Speaking of which, here are all the Silk Road movies coming out of the woodwork. [Defamer] Take
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink International War On Soda Could Ruin Mexican Cokes Too As San Franciscans brace for the very real possibility of paying about a quarter more for the privilege of enjoying a can of soda, new regulations bubbling up from south of the border
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Andalu To Become Dumpling Spot 'Chino' Noted Mission eatery Andalu will close out a 12-year run on the corner of 16th and Guerrero at the end of the year, Inside Scoop reports. Taking its place will be a new