SF News After 'Getting The Word Out' On Dangers Of Vaccines, Jon Stewart Blames 'California Liberals' For Measles Outbreak In a segment titled "Les Measlesrables," The Daily Show's Jon Stewart wagged a finger at "science-denying California liberals" in regard to new cases of the measles that have have some California lawmakers rethinking
SF News Day Around The Bay: Call The Fashion Police Thousands of dollars in fancy-pants shoes have been stolen from a Union Square DSW. [SF Racked] Supervisor Yee says tour bus drivers shouldn't be tour guiding and driving. [CBS 5] Will Ocean Beach
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Playland On Polk Suspended For Sale Of Cocaine, Marijuana According to the website for Playland, the Polk Street bar will be closed for a "remodel" until March 3rd. But the Chronicle is implying that's some coded language, and maybe not the first
SF News Guilty On All Counts, Ross Ulbricht Faces Life In Prison For Operating The Silk Road Following a guilty verdict in Manhattan federal court earlier this afternoon, 30-year-old San Francisco web developer Ross Ulbricht faces life in prison. As Bloomberg reports, prosecutors successfully argued that Ulbricht ran the $1.
SF News New State Legislation Could Kill 'Opt-Out' Provision Of Vaccination Law, Save Lives As California suffers through the worst outbreak of the measles in 20 years, San Jose Mercury News reports that two state lawmakers plan to introduce legislation to close what many see as a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gracias Madre, Salumeria Both Tagged With Anti-Hipster Graffiti Two upsacale Mission district businesses, Gracias Madre and Salumeria, have been tagged with graffiti in as many days. The writing on the former reads "White People Trying to Be Mexican, Fuck You." Over
SF News Day Around The Bay: Super Bowl Sex Sting A prostitution sting nabs 23 johns in the East Bay during the Super Bowl. [Chron] Emeryville police have fatally shot a woman on the border of Oakland. [Chron] A Lyft marketing campaign chalks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink KitTea Cat Cafe Coming In April! Construction has begun at KitTea in Hayes Valley, with the delayed but now back-on-track cat cafe hoping to open in April according Eater. Though it won't be the first of it's kind in
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week See and be seen at these select San Francisco shows, parties, and events. You know, because you can't read the Internet all the time. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3 READING: Joyce Carol Oates, the acclaimed
SF News Survey Says BART Is Filthier, More Crowded Than Ever BART knows you don't love BART. You said so in their biannual Customer Satisfaction Survey, wherein approval for the service sank to a 16 year low. That said, satisfaction was still at 74
SF News Rapper 'The Jacka' Shot Dead In East Oakland R.I.P. Bay Area legend @theJacka. http://t.co/WwBOwpNA7I pic.twitter.com/sHNwCa5eIo— The FADER (@thefader) February 3, 2015 37-year-old East Bay rapper Dominic Newton, more commonly known as "The Jacka,
Arts & Entertainment Everybody Who's Anybody In The Bay Area Is In This Weird Super Bowl Fundraising Ad Now you can catch all the Bay Area's brightest stars in one place: a trailer for a 60-second radio spot slated to air on station KNBR. The goal, write the Chron's Matier and
SF News Google Is Developing Its Own Uber For Driverless Cars Former allies Uber and Google look to be at odds as each plans for a future driven by autonomous taxis. It's going to be a race for several years, but it looks like
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 12 Beers You Better Try During SF Beer Week Ahoy, whale hunters! SF Beer Week is just about to kick off (February 6-15), and beer lovers should stay on the lookout for the following specialty, limited release, and generally hard-to-find beers. The
SF News Most San Franciscans Don't Hate Tech At All In a recent poll of 501 likely voters commissioned by Ed Lee's re-election campaign and conducted by Oakland's EMC Research, 65% of respondents expressed a favorable opinion of "the local technology industry." By
SF News The Mission's Borderlands Books Will Close Borderlands Books "will be closing very soon... no later than March 31st," according to a statement from the Valencia Street bookseller. For 18 years, the Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, and Horror Fiction-focused store
SF News Four-Alarm Fire Near Alamo Square Now Contained #BREAKING: 3-alarm fire at Mcallister and Scott street in #SF @SFGate pic.twitter.com/oWSLiXs8Py— Jessica Christian (@jachristian) January 31, 2015 A four-alarm fire that spread across four buildings on the 1500 block
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bernal Dads Racing Blows Engine On Cool Dad Volvo As chronicled by Bernalwood, the race car driving fathers of Bernal Dads Racing are looking for a new Volvo 240 engine for their beloved whip named "The Whale." If you're curious, you can
SF News Day Around The Bay: The SF Bachelorette, Season 2? The show goes on for the bachelorette who took one lucky applicant on a dream date to Noma in Japan (he had to pay his way, of course). Still convinced she's on television,
Arts & Entertainment Here Are Some Ideas For Where To Watch The Super Bowl If you're planning to venture off the couch and into the fray at a bar for the Super Bowl, and you still care about this game despite the fact that Seahawks are involved
SF News Check Out These New Renderings Of The 16th And Mission Development Per Socketsite, the formal environmental review of the 331-unit condo development from Maximus Real Estate Partners and architects Skidmore Owings & Merrill is complete, and plans for the 10-story building at the corner
Arts & Entertainment New 'Vine Kids' Isn't Just For Kids Vine was already pretty kid friendly, with the Twitter-owned 6 second video app appropriate to the attention span of the young. So it was no surprise when Vine launched a kid-friendly version of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wise Sons Bagel Launch Hampered By Mission Fire A photo posted by Wise Sons Jewish Delicatessen (@wisesons) on Jan 27, 2015 at 9:19pm PST The Mission fire that killed one, injured several, and displaced many including several local businesses, has
SF News Day Around The Bay: W. Kamau Bell And Berkeley Racism In what he calls "textbook racism," comedian W. Kamau Bell was asked to leave a Berkeley Restaurant. [W. Kamau Bell] Four local chefs reminisce about the shuttered restaurants they miss most. [SF Eater]
SF News Palantir Co-Founder Sued By Former Intern Girlfriend For Sexual Abuse Joe Lonsdale — a partner in the venture capital firm Formation 8 and co-founder of Palo Alto software company Palantir along with Peter Thiel and others — stands accused by a former girlfriend and onetime
