Arts & Entertainment Photo: Daytona 500 Winner Matt Kenseth Visits Fisherman's Wharf The majority of San Francisco doesn't care much for car racing, we can safely assume. It's more geared toward a different type of audience. More or less. But that didn't stop Daytona 500
Arts & Entertainment Breaking: Tim Lincecum Now On Twitter! @clint_dempsey @ussoccer just want to say congrats to you and the team on a great job and making the US proud, so pumped for you guys— Tim Lincecum (@timlincecum) March 1, 2012
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Read Wolfgang Puck's Letter To California Restaurants Serving Foie Gras Although his gastronomic reputation has, let's fact it, been marred due to his frozen food and canned soup lines, Spago founder and chef Wolfgang Puck still has some pull. So, he penned an
SF News Frenchman, Caught Peeing In Garden By Street View, Sues Google A perturbed frenchman, caught peeing in his garden by Google's popular Street View feature, is suing the company for humiliation and invasion of privacy. The photo, posted online, has reportedly made him the
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Pointy Building In A Puddle "Pointy building in a puddle" by Brandon Doran.
SF News Car Plows Through Occupy Demonstrators At UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz students and professors are taking part today in a massive protest to state education cuts. It's all part of peaceful Occupy Education rallies occurring at numerous UC and CSU schools,
SF News SFO-Bound Plane Evacuated In Denver Due To Bomb Threat An United Airlines plane headed for San Francisco Airport was evacuated in Denver after authorities got wind of a bomb threat. Yikes! "Carrie Harmon of the Transportation Security Administration, according to Associated Press,
SF News East Bay Motorcyclist Plunges Off Overpass Wall, Dies A motorcyclist, 22, driving along I-80 at around 3 a.m. crashed into an overpass wall, fell over "dozens of feet," and died. "The motorcyclist was transitioning from northbound Interstate 880 to westbound
SF News Day Around The Bay: 62 Parties You Need To Know About! Salsa, rocksteady, gay goth, electro-cumbia, hypercrunk, bhangra, zouk... the 62 parties you should be going to right now. [Bay Guardian] Supervisor Sean Elsbernd hosted his 5th crab dinner. Check out who was invited.
Arts & Entertainment Local Singing Treasure Veronica Klaus' Kickstarter Needs Your Eyes, Wallets Not to get all NPR pledge drive on you, but... listen up: It's safe to say that Veronica Klaus' stints at The Rrazz Room have proved to be some of the most searing,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: Babies In Restaurants Aren't A Problem By D. Hanousek The other night, while my husband and I were enjoying a long overdue romantic dinner at Delfina (to which my husband dutifully and accurately remarked that we have done on
Arts & Entertainment Gavin Newsom And Kamala Harris Claim And Enjoy Extravagant Gifts When Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom isn't returning our phone calls or emails, he's claiming $400 Louis Vuitton pens and $300 Bulgari ties on file forms for California's Fair Political Practices Commission. Why? Well,
SF News Evening Rainstorm Cleanses, Exfoliates City Streets That was nice, wasn't it? An nighttime spat of rain gave the Bay Area a much-needed soaking. After days and weekends filled with sunlight, ice cream cones, and bare legs, this storm is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Thomas Keller's American Express Ad Makes Us Want To Visit Yountville, Plant Trees Inside Scoop's Paolo Lucchesi brings our attention to a new ad for American Express featuring French Laundry founder and Reese's Peanut Butter Cup lover, Thomas Keller. The commercial, drenched in music written by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shut Up, Little Man! Tenderloin Dweller Attacks Roommate With Boiling Oil A spat over a kitchen light turned into a harrowing boiling-oil attack Tuesday morning between two San Francisco roommates living in the Tenderloin. "The victim told police he was in the kitchen reading
Arts & Entertainment 14 Reasons To Love Arthur Tress' San Francisco 1964 In the summer of 1964, just before San Francisco turned into the epicenter of groovy vibes and summer luvin', a 23-year-old Arthur Tress traveled by bus from Mexico to San Francisco to visit
SF News Rocklin Resident Wants To Ban Outdoor Smoking, Even In Your Own Backyard NIMBYs inch closer toward literalism after Rocklin resident James Baker asked the City Council to ban outdoor smoking altogether, even for residents who wish to puff relaxing, cancer-causing cigarettes on their own property.
Arts & Entertainment Did You Get Invited To Apple's iPad 3 Event? (It's March 7, FWIW) Apple sent out invites this morning to an iPad 3 (or 2S) coming out party taking place on March 7th at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts where they unleashed the iPhone 4S
SF News East Bay BART Train Kills Man A little before 7 p.m. on Monday, a man died after walking on the BART tracks at the MacArthur station. A Richmond-bound train plowed into the unidentified man, killing him instantly. According
SF News Day Around The Bay: Marry Me? Aww. Marriage proposal spelled out in newspaper racks. Very nice. [SFGate] In NBA news, Sacramento reaches arena deal with Kings. [Sacramento Bee] Next in haute restaurant innovation: Reservation experiences. [Inside Scoop] Monthly live
SF News Oakland School On Lockdown After Gunman Opens Fire Roosevelt Middle School (1926 East 19th Street) is on lockdown after somebody nearby carrying several guns fired shots at around 10:30 today. "The incident began about 10:30 a.m. in the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Future With No Robots Created by San Jose State University students Kimberly Knoll and Yunghan Chang, animated short No Robots tells a tale about a future in which robots are banned. And more. (Thanks, Laughing Squid!) No
