SF News Daisy Does The Niners: Total Meltdown in Seattle by Daisy Barringer Remember how, at the start of the season, I promised I would work on my football-watching behavior? Fewer F-bombs, less anger, an overall less dramatic disposition? All I can say
SF News Instagram Hit With First Class Action Lawsuit In the wake of Instagram's TOS policy change — which prompted loads of arguably unnecessary and affected handwringing — the photo filter/sharing social media company has been hit with its first civil lawsuit. San
Arts & Entertainment Behold The Palace Hotel's Holiday Tribute To The Giants Presented without (much) commentary, the Palace Hotel's holiday fondant tribute to the San Francisco Giants. (We can't get Sandoval's glare out of our head!) The Palace Hotel has loads of other gingerbread scenarios
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's A List Of Some Good Restaurants Open On Christmas Eve Sure, a bevy of tourist traps will remain open for Christmas Eve (e.g., Benihana, Cioppino's on the Wharf, Stinking Rose, et al.), but other places that won't offend your tissue-tender gastronomical sensibilities
SF News Two Killed In Oakland Over Holiday Weekend Over on the 700 block of Market Street in Oakland on Sunday night, 26-year-old Brittan Sneed was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Acorn housing complex. Meanwhile, Oakland police identified
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing Tonight: Just Go To A Bar The rain should clear up by 9pm. So, if you're still in the city this evening (challah!), head over to a bar. Any bar. And drink in Christmas Eve. Because, you see, the
SF News Photo: Gas Station Overhang Collapses During Storm The overhang at the 76 gas station at 17th Street and Potrero Avenue succumbed to Saturday's storm. Luckily, no one was inured and, as Mission Local points out, nothing exploded even though that
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Saturday's Double Rainbow The skies above the Bay Area got a little gayer on Saturday afternoon after the sun broke through the pregnant clouds of a particularly punishing storm. Soon after, a rainbow -- nay, a
SF News Day Around The Bay: Berkeley Grows Up First high-rise in 40 years proposed for downtown Berkeley. [Berkeleyside] SF Examiner owner announces plans for yet another local media acquisition. [SF Appeal] Safeway conquers NIMBYism. [Curbed] The NRA can go to hell.
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At The California Academy Of Sciences... Santa, AKA diver George Bell, swims in the 100,000 gallon Amazon Flooded Forest tank as part of the 'Tis the Season for Science holiday exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences.
Arts & Entertainment 49ers Preview: Niners In Seattle By Daisy Barringer There is nothing more annoying than the part of my drive home from Tahoe when Sacramento’s NPR goes out and San Francisco’s NPR is on a different schedule.
Arts & Entertainment Casting Call: Verizon Seeks 'Endearing' S.F. Cyclist With 'Natural Charm' Sorry about the late notice here, guys. But Verizon is looking for SF cyclists for a $1,500 gig. Do you fit the bill? You should be an "endearing" male cyclist between the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink End Of The World Cocktail Offerings by Summer Sewell By virtue of you reading this, the Mayans were wrong. They predicted, way back before they could check their logic against the Internet, that the whole world would succumb to
Arts & Entertainment Breaking: Tim Lincecum Cut His Hair! [PICS] In what could be the love-it or hate-it item of 2012 (we fall into the former category), two-time Cy Young Award-winner Tim Lincecum cut his love locks of hair earlier this month. Jake
SF News Reduced Muni Service For The Rest Of December Because Muni can go to hell, the city's public transit snafu will run reduced service during the last week of the year. This is the first time ever that Muni has done such
SF News Day Around The Bay: Style, Stupid. Some style makes you stupid. [SF Appeal] Report links poppers to CA gonorrhea cases. [BAR] Storm's a brewing. [SFGate] Good gift for the gastronome in your life. [Cooking With Amy] Castlewood Country Club
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In The Castro... This house, located on Castro between Duboce and 14th Street, lights up the night each year during the holiday season with this beautifully bombastic display.
SF News Chase Bank Buys Bloomspot Chase Bank, a subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase & Co., acquired local offering site Bloomspot this week. The terms and amount are undisclosed, sadly, but Chase will nab both the technology and team. Bloomspot,
SF News Twitter Death Threats: 49er David Akers Back in the day, one would have to cut out letters from numerous magazines, get out the glue, pull out a sheet of paper, piece together an acceptably terrifying missive threatening grave harm,
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Underground "In the Parking Garage of the Fairmount Hotel" by andertho.
SF News Grandmother Shot, Killed While Walking Into Oakland Store Ramona Rochelle Foreman, 49. was walking into a store on the 9100 block of International Boulevard in East Oakland on Wednesday when a stray bullet hit her. She died instantly. The bullet, according
SF News Horrible Human Tries To Rob Lady Pushing Stroller A man, described as being in his late teens or early 20s, robbed a woman pushing a stroller on Monday night in the Inner Richmond. God, people sometimes suck. According to SF Examiner,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Duboce Park Neighborhood Has The Sads A driving dog! [SF Weekly] Polk Street is officially ruined. And we're totally going here once it opens. [Inside Scoop] Get over yourself, Duboce Park neighbors. You're precious, not historic. [Curbed] Photojojo has
Arts & Entertainment Last-Minute Gift Guide: Wrapping & Delivery From TaskRabbit Tis the week leading up to Christmas. But don't panic. For the remainder of the week, we will post last-minute gift ideas ripe for the plucking, wrapping, and giving. Up next? TaskRabbit. Did
