SF News Angry Crowd Unleashes On Chevron Refinery Officials Community members lined up to berate and shout at Chevron and government officials at Tuesday's town hall meeting following the refinery fire that sent a mushroom cloud of putrid smoke over the East
SF News Chevron To Pay Residents Affected By Toxic Refinery Fire And finally, in crisis communications news: After Monday's fire at the Chrevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. sent a plume of black, toxic smoke into the air blanketing much of Richmond, North Richmond, and
SF News Day Around The Bay: Amazon Security, Or Lack Thereof Amazon quietly closes security hole after journalist's devastating hack. [Wired] Mission Rock Resort opening this Friday! [Tablehopper] Activists win legal victory just as the circus comes to town. [SFBG] AM Ocean Avenue blaze
Arts & Entertainment 7 Reasons To Love San Francisco There are countless stories to tell in San Francisco, but sometimes a picture says so much more that mere words. Each Tuesday we present to you 7 Reasons. (Our sister site LAist does
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tips For Throwing A Way Better Barbecue Is your barbecue grill making you ill? Could be. Who knows. This handy chart by the FDA, CDC, Mayo Clinic, and International Food Council will tell you at what temperatures one should prepare
Arts & Entertainment 'Still Living The Dream,' Says NASA Dreamboat Bobak Ferdowsi On Monday, Mars rover Curiosity landed with aplomb... as did the mohawk-sporting rover lead, Bobak Ferdowsi, who crash-landed into the hearts of countless geekphiles. Ferdowsi recently spoke with Shira Lazar of What's Trending,
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Chevron's Smoke Scene from Indian Rock Park in Berkeley during the Chevron refinery fire, shot by Justin Casey.
SF News Chevron To Host Town Hall Meeting In Wake Of Toxic Refinery Fire Last night's fire at the Chevron refinery sent a gargantuan cloud of black smoke into the air, forcing shelter-in-place for Richmond, North Richmond, and San Pablo. Now that the blaze is out, people
SF News 4-Alarm Fire Roars Through Ocean Avenue A massive (though not this massive) blaze on the 1500 block of Ocean Avenue snarled traffic in the Ingleside District Tuesday morning. Firefighters responded to a call at around 5:50 a.m.
SF News Toxic Chevron Refinery Fire in Richmond Prompts Shelter-in-Place [Updated] A fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. has prompted shelter-in-place for Richmond, N. Richmond, and San Pablo. No word yet as to what caused the fire. ABC 7 News has live
SF News Day Around The Bay: Horses Beloved, but not brave: War Horse at the Curran. [SF Appeal] Breaking: Jon Carroll reviews Tina Fey's hot new effort, Bossypants. [Chronicle] Coi and SPQR land on Newsweek’s "Best in the World
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Winning Chalices (And More) From Jasper's Annual 'Pimp-Cup Challenge' After this weekend's SF Chefs festivities finished on Sunday, a bevy of service industry folks, salt-of-the-earth bartenders, and PR ilk headed to Jasper's Corner Tap & Kitchen for the second annual "pimp cup"
SF News Richmond High School Athlete Fatally Shot, Probably Over School Colors Bay Area gang members are infamously dim. Not the sharpest tools in the organized-crime shed. Take, for example, what happened over the weekend to a Richmond high school football player, who was shot
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo Du Jour: Molinari Delicatessen "Molinari Delicatessen" by Demetrios Lyras.
Arts & Entertainment Bobak Ferdowsi, Mars Rover Guide, Lands Into Our Hearts Early Monday morning, the NASA rover Curiosity landed on Mars after "seven minutes of terror." During that time, Curiosity's activity lead, Bobak Ferdowsi, also plummeted into the hearts of many with his kicky
SF News Breaking: Suspicious Package Found On Central Avenue Though these things rarely turn out to be anything, last week's suspicious-package near AT&T Park story turned out to be a dummy shell. Still, we're getting closer. This morning's suspicious package
SF News Man Killed While Robbing Legal Marijuana Grow House One man is dead this morning after attempting to rob a legal Oakland medical marijuana house. According to KTVU, police responded the a call around 4:45 this morning to a location near
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Psycho Donuts Creates Fruit Loop-Topped Chick-Fil-A Protest Donut In response to the Chick-fil-A brouhaha (maybe you heard about it?), the harbingers of decency and sweets, Psycho Donuts, have concocted their own protest food. Behold, the Gay Bar. Look at it. No,
SF News Meanwhile, In Between A Muni Bus And A Streetcar... Twitter user @bekaroni84 (via Dan McMenamin) snapped this shot of a serious car accident that happened this afternoon near Market and First between a Muni bus and a streetcar. According to SF Appeal,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learn How To Cultivate Gourmet, Medicinal Mushrooms This Sunday Want to grow mushrooms to get sparkly high? Then go someplace else, Timothy Leary. This class isn't for you. Those of you who want to know more about real mushroom cultivation, listen up:
SF News Construction Equipment Crashes Down In The Tenderloin Egads! This heavy piece of machinery came tumbling down at Ellis and Leavenworth this morning in San Francisco. The area will be closed down for most of the day, so please avoid it
SF News Nationwide Same-Sex Kiss-In Protest Today At Chick-Fil-A Today at Chick-Fil-A stores throughout the country, same-sex couples are expected to turn out heavily to protest company president and COO Dan Cathy's comments supporting "the biblical definition of the family unit" — as
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On The Lean Legs Of Olympic Fans.... Nick Miller, left, and his sister Kendall Miller, center, from San Francisco, wear leotards in the patriotic colors of the U.S. flag as they walked through Olympic Park at the 2012 Summer
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tango & Stache Pop-up To Bring Soul Food Flair To Dalva Two of our new favorite things to hit up in the city, soul food and speakeasies, will join forces Tuesday as Tango & Stache comes to Dalva for an affordable southern-themed pop-up dinner.
