Arts & Entertainment Hi/Lo This Weekend: Local Bands & Microbrews vs. New Taste Marketplace Two events vie for your attention this Saturday afternoon: one selling a taste of indie music and microbrews, the other a free foodie marketplace. First up: The Bay Brewed is the second annual
SF News Hey, Remember Greyhound? They Have $1 Trips To LA Too After people collectively flipped out over the prospect of paying $1 to ride a discount Google shuttle to Los Angeles, the folks from the oft-maligned national bus carrier (or their PR firm, rather)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trader Joe's Opens Today In Nob Hill [Updated] San Francisco's fourth fifth Trader Joe's outpost opens today in the lovely former Cala Foods space at California and Hyde Streets in Nob Hill. We expect traffic waiting to get in to the
Arts & Entertainment Major Gifts, Including Diane Arbus, Expand SFMOMA's Photo Collection The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announced yesterday promised gifts of 473 photographs from several private collections including a celebrated series from Diane Arbus, a two huge donations of works by renowned
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Rainy Day Dining Eleven Bay Area restaurants where you can dine in cozy, wintry comfort. Preferably by a fire. [GrubSF] How to spend a rainy day in Hayes Valley. (Hint: in a coffee shop.) [Hayeswire] S.
SF News GOP Should Get Hip To Geeks, Says Nate Silver Statistical it-boy Nate Silver has done what he does best and turned his always on-point analysis on the Bay Area's tech industry. Over on his FiveThirtyEight blog today, Silver debriefs the Republican party
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Important Bocce News: Indoor Court Coming To Former La Barca Space Stock In Trade, the forthcoming girl-friendly Marina bar taking over where La Barca left off after a 50 year run on Lombard Street, has announced a feature we much prefer to the usual
SF News Prop 8, DOMA Cases Go Before Supreme Court On Friday In the ongoing legal battle between people who just want to marry each other and people who have an antiquated definition of marriage, the Supreme Court is expected to decide this week whether
SF News Megabus Brings Back $1 Bus Rides to Los Angeles Megabus, the popular and dirt-cheap bus service that has been shuttling East Coasters and Midwesterners around the country in WiFi-enabled buses for years now, has just announced they have returned to the West
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: More Sunday Streets Harvey Milk, George Moscone remembered. [KTVU] Smaller, one- or two-block versions of Sunday Streets will soon be a thing. [Streetsblog] People are still arguing about turf fields out at the Beach Chalet [SFEx]
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Sinkhole Threatens To Swallow Lower Haight Sinkhole on Waller Street nearly swallows a sewage vacuuming truck. [Haighteration] Stop sharing that fake Facebook copyright thing, please. [Gawker] The historically close race for District 7 Supervisor could be up for a
Arts & Entertainment This S.F. Skeeball Map Will Improve Your Life By At Least 10 Points Because we are nothing if not nostalgic for a time before Chuck E. Cheese started kicking us out for being old and creepy (and drunk), here's a handy map of where to play
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Apple Maps Blows Up Dolores Park Truffle Guy's Spot While the list of geographical mistakes in Apple's iOS 6 Maps app is so long it forced the usually stoic company to issue an apology, they appear to have gotten at least one
Arts & Entertainment Sergio Gnome-O, Bobblehead Posey: 2013 Giants Promotional Items Announced Ta-da: Your World Champion San Francisco Giants have announced their promotional tchotchkes for the 2013 season. In the grand tradition of the Brian Wilson garden gnome and fingerless texting gloves, this year's free
SF News Bay Area Transit Mapped In Trippy Time-Lapse Video Using the same publicly available data that feeds into Google's General Transit Feed Specification, transit-obsessed YouTube user STLTransit has created a trippy time-lapse video showing the movement of every Muni bus, BART train
SF News Cyber Monday Morning Roundup: Get Off The Couch Hey dudes, babes can ride Mavericks too. [Chron] Tiny apartments only a nudist could love. [Griffin] Want to make $88,000 - $110,000 a year? Become a San Francisco cop. [SFAppeal] Rich
SF News Video: Black Friday Brawl Erupts At Suburban Sacramento Shopping Mall It didn't take long for things to go south when the Roseville Galleria outside of Sacramento opened the floodgates to throngs of punchy Black Friday shoppers last week. After the doors opened at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Willie Brown Tries Dim Sum, Wanted To Go To Subway Instead San Francisco's most cultured food eater, former Mayor Willie Brown went outside his comfort zone recently. Meaning his girlfriend took him out for dim sum at the city's decorated house of dumplings, Yank
SF News Overflowing Manholes Shut Down Ocean Beach Gross: overnight rains caused several leaky manholes to overflow along the Great Highway at Ocean Beach last night, prompting the SF Public Utilities Commission to temporarily shut down parts of the pedestrian path
SF News NSFW: More Scenes From San Francisco's Nudity Ban Protest In reaction to yesterday's 6-5 vote to ban public nudity, protestors once again gathered on the steps of San Francisco City Hall to hang out with their wangs out in a good, old-fashioned
SF News Video: Fox News Host Says S.F. Nudists Were 'Probably Gang Banged' During Childhood During yesterday's live broadcast of The Five, political commentator, USA Today columnist and Fox News co-host Bob Beckel suggested San Francisco's nudists and nude activists prefer their au naturale lifestyle due to childhood
SF News Man Searching For Lost Cat Dies In Piedmont Quarry A man who went out in the rain to search for his lost cat died last night after apparently slipping and falling into a quarry on the edge of the Rockridge and Piedmont
SF News Pre-Holiday Morning Link Dump: Go Bake Something Shorty Goldstein's, a new Jewish Deli coming soon to the FiDi, is the next addition to the lox-starved San Francisco. [Tablehopper] Staying in town this weekend? Here are the five best concerts this
SF News Yet Another S.F. Sheriff's Deputy Facing Criminal Charges Less than a week after Sheriff's deputy Phil Tong was arrested for robbing a Richmond District Bank of America, the Chronicle has found yet another deputy facing criminal charges. 36-year-old deputy Manconia Tamika
Arts & Entertainment Daisy Does The Niners: SF Dominates the Bears; Quarterback Controversy Brewing (By Daisy Barringer) I know it’s not really about me, but I have to say the 49ers dominating 32-7 win against the Bears left me wondering if I actually know anything about
