SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Crab Strike Cracked! Dungeness Return To Tables By Friday Good news, crustacean fans, the frustrating mid-season crab fishermen's strike that caused a run on dungeness crab last week has been smashed open and practically dipped in butter already. Skippers and fishmongers cut
Arts & Entertainment Photo: San Francisco Graced With Another Double Rainbow. Because We're Magical, Obviously Former SFist contributor Jerry James Stone sends in this delightful shot of of a double rainbow, spotted right outside his window this morning. This marks our second double rainbow sighting in four months.
SF News SFPD Sgt. Joyrides Through Broadway Tunnel at 100 MPH, Posts Video On Facebook: 'Plus We Were All Drunk' [Updates] SFPD Sergeant Carl T, formerly known as Sgt. Carl Tennenbaum, has posted a Facebook video of himself apparently blasting through the Broadway Tunnel in a Lamborghini at speeds he claims were up to
SF News Day Around The Bay: Fell & Oak Bike Lanes Appealed Bike Safety vs. Parking Spots: Fell & Oak bike lanes appealed. [Curbed] By the year 2015, you could have your burrito delivered to you via unmanned drone. [UptownAlmanac] Man drives 300 feet down
Arts & Entertainment Ten Brief Excerpts From December's 'Nob Hill Gazette' Has anyone seen our copy of the Nob Hill Gazette? It hasn't shown up on our doorstep yet and we're at a loss on how to decorate for our holiday party. Thankfully, we
SF News S.F.'s War On Smoking Continues, Street Fair Cigarettes In Danger San Francisco's put-upon smoking class might get one less place to light up starting next year. Although it is basically illegal to even think about smoking within 15 feet of a business, the
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Deliver Us From Newsom Please save us from another four years of Lite Gov. Gavin Newsom. [Griffin/SFEx] SF's most expensive home sells for $28.25 million. [CurbedSF] Board committee approves new laws for apartment-dwelling smokers. [BCN/
SF News Day Around The Bay: Twitter Filtered One lucky Outer Richmond woman is now $1 million dollars richer. [BCN/Appeal] 18 joyful declarations of love from newlyweds in Seattle. [Buzzfeed] Supreme Court's review of Prop 8 inspires hopes, fears. [SFEx]
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Important Fried Chicken Updates: Pollo Campero Opened Today In The Mission In chicken-fried news today: beloved Guatemalan chicken chain Pollo Campero opened their first full-service location in the U.S. on Mission Street. Although the chain currently has a few dozen fast food style
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Basset Hound Dressed As Sherlock Holmes Running In Slow Motion Apropos of nothing, here is a criminally under-viewed video of a Basset Hound dressed as Sherlock Holmes running in slow motion. The title says it all, really. Delightful. For more Sherlock Holmes, try
SF News Pedestrian Killed At Market And Beale Streets Earlier this afternoon around 2:30 p.m. a truck struck and killed a man on Market street downtown. Paramedics reportedly attempted CPR, but the man apparently died on the scene. Local photographer
SF News U.C. System Introduces New 'User-Friendly' Logo That Nobody Likes After nearly a century and a half of presenting themselves with a perfectly academic-looking Victorian seal, the University of California School system has supplanted the open book and shining star motif with a
Arts & Entertainment Daisy Does the Niners: S.F. Looks Flat in 27-13 Win Against Miami (By Daisy Barringer) The biggest question I received after the 49ers beat the Dolphins 27-13 yesterday? “What’s your opinion on Kaepernick now?” For some reason, people have it in their heads that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Dramatic Reading Of A Shuttered Restaurant's Letter To Lousy Yelpers Last week, we reported the sad news that 10-month-old restaurant Jake's on Market was shutting its doors and bidding adieu to both the neighborhood and the amateur critics that the owners felt contributed
SF News Man Found Bound & Gagged In Visitacion Valley Dies Monday Morning Yesterday evening, a man and a woman were found bound and gagged on a street in Visitacion Valley on the southern side of the City. Both victims were alive, but suffering from life-threatening
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: The Beautiful Junkers Of Bernal Heights Beautiful photos of crappy cars parked around Bernal Heights. [Bernalwood] San Francisco wants to combat the plague of metal thieves by setting up a permit process for scrap buyers. [SFEx] Napa Chef Michael
SF News Gmail Is Down, Office Productivity Expected To Remain Mediocre [Update] Just before Noon EST/9 a.m. PST Monday, Gmail's mostly reliable email service and that tab you keep open in your browser at work all day was unaccessible, returning "Error 502 (Server
SF News Day Around The Bay: Driving The Panhandle Instead of bikes, the Panhandle used to allow cars. [CurbedSF] The Village Voice does not like San Francisco's expensive approximation of "New York Bagels." Local bagel fan reacts. [Voice] [UptownAlmanac] Noted local butcher
SF News Assault Suspect Climbs Scaffolding, Threatens Suicide On Embarcadero [Updated] The northeast part of the Embarcadero around Pier 29 was shut down around 3:15 p.m. this afternoon when a jumper climbed a scaffolding and threatened to commit suicide. According to police,
Arts & Entertainment 49ers Preview: Dolphins In Town (By: Daisy Barringer) Considering Coach Harbaugh claims Kaepernick is starting on Sunday against the Miami Dolphins it appears he either didn’t read my letter or well, clearly that’s the only option
SF News Gentrification Report: Audi Showroom Coming To The Mission Curbed reports the Planning Commission has approved plans to put a glassy Audi Dealership in the Mission's gasoline alley at 14th Street and South Van Ness. This is, of course, right next door
Arts & Entertainment Is This Music Video The Most Earnest Thing In San Francisco? A lot of Internet ink has been spilled over Irony lately. The New York Times, as the nation's paper of record and the last unironic newspaper in the world, even had an assistant
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: The Long Gone Valencia Street Swing Local photographer Marta Franco remembers a more whimsical time on Valencia street. Previously: Return Of Valencia Swing Sparks Outcry For More City Sidewalk Swings
SF News San Francisco Still Not Cool With Police Tasers SFPD Chief Greg Suhr wants to equip his department with 100 or so electric stun guns as part of a new pilot program that would specifically train officers to handle mentally ill people.