SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best SF Cookies To Leave For "Santa" Santa comes but once a year, and when he does arrive at your humble abode, he demands to be fed like Cookie Monster. Saint Nick has also grown dissatisfied with Chips Ahoy and
SF News Sony Threatens To Sue Twitter Over Users Tweeting Leaks Sony isn't about to limit its "cease and desist" rhetoric to journalists and networks who are publicizing information revealed in the wake of its giant disaster hack. Now, they're threatening Twitter itself with
SF News 3,2,1 Freakout: 415 Numbers Running Low As 628 Area Code Arrives Public service announcement: Especially if you live in Marin County, 415 numbers are quickly running out. Remain calm and get yours while supplies last. As CBS 5 reports, when February 1 rolls around,
SF News Day Around The Bay: SFPD Short On Toys The SFPD toy drive came up short, and here's why. [Examiner] Payne Mansion opens as hotel and events space, but it's still for sale. [Business Times] The SOMA Leadership council opposes the Commonwealth
Arts & Entertainment SFJAZZ To Honor Joni Mitchell With Lifetime Achievement Award Joni Mitchell's folk, pop, and jazz have made her a music icon, and now she'll be recognized as such in San Francisco as part of a gala on May 8th at SFJAZZ. "The
Arts & Entertainment Video: Daniel Franzese Wants You (And Weed) For Christmas Happy holidays from Daniel Franzese, who will be on the next season of HBO's best show about San Francisco that isn't Silicon Valley. I'm talking about Looking, whose trailer you can check out
Arts & Entertainment Photos: 5th Annual Drag Queens On Ice Skating into their fifth year, local drag queens took to the ice at Union Square last week. Missed it? That's what this gallery is for. "Donning their most gay apparel," Mutha Chuka, Kylie-Pop,
SF News The Safest And Most Dangerous BART Stations Of the Bay Area's 44 BART stations, the Chronicle is calling out two as the safest and two as the most dangerous based on crime. Their analysis studied 10 months of crime statistics,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Tree-Hugging Prius Leland Yee’s trial is set to begin in June. [KTVU] Areas in San Francisco with most pedestrian deaths are, wait for it, also ones with fewest tickets for offending drivers. [Streetsblog SF]
SF News NYE BART To Run Until 3 AM, Tradition Of Skip-Stop Continues As in years past, BART will extend its New Year's Eve service until 3 a.m. If you're not done celebrating the arrival of 2015 by then, have a great Uber. BART NYE
SF News Here's Where The 2024 Summer Olympics Would Happen In SF, If They Happen San Francisco has submitted its bid for the "Games of the XXXIII Olympiad," and the estimated price tag, according to the Chronicle, is $4.5 billion. It's a privately financed plan relying in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learning To Drink Vol. 2: Punch Drunk Good drinks tell a story... and this is the story of those drinks. Each week, we'll be serving up a remedial cocktail lesson for bartending beginners to help you get the most out
SF News $35 Billion Instagram Valuation Overtakes Twitter, Approaches Uber $35 billion. That's how much Citigroup says the photo-sharing network Instagram is now worth, according to the New York Times. Facebook owns the company, which it purchased two years ago for $1 billion
SF News Travis Kalanick Has (At Least One) Stalker, Uber Files Civil Harassment Claim Robert Scott Dervaes, Jr. is allegedly stalking and threatening Travis Kalanick, and Uber Technolgies has filed a Civil Harassment claim against him. Dervaes is a 45-year-old disbarred San Francisco lawyer whose Twitter feed
SF News CHP Was Using 'Plainclothes' Officers Since Protests Began, Oakland Police Claim Ignorance Undercover police ARE violent protesters. In Oakland, cop pulls gun (not badge) on crowd after being exposed. pic.twitter.com/nBYc8MurZq— The Dreamkiller (@Eyeslam) December 11, 2014 The CHP drew intense criticism last
SF News Happy Holidays From The SFFD: Terrifying Burning Xmas Tree Demo To celebrate the holiday and give you warm fuzzies, the San Francisco Fire Department lit a christmas tree on fire in the middle of the sidewalk, incinerating it in under 30 seconds. We're
SF News Uber To Improve Background Checks With Biometric Verification Uber Technologies wants to improve its foolproof, "industry leading" background checks on its drivers... implicitly admitting that in different locations the company's checks "vary significantly." Yes, CEO Travis Kalanick's road to riches (remember
SF News Developer Will Spend $80 Million To Redevelop Flower Mart As anticipated, Kilroy Realty Corp. made known its plans for the embattled Flower Mart today. It's now promising a new underground market for vendors who won't, in all likelihood, be forced to seek
SF News Your Daily Reminder Not To Double Park Haight Street was clogged by a double parked taxi cab when along came the 71 (?). Anyway, this was the result. Remember to flag down your ride (taxi, rideshare, friend, whatever) in a safe
SF News Video: Noe Street Vandal Rips Apart Sapling In a video passed on to Supervisor Scott Wiener, a vandal tears down a young tree on Noe Street. It's senseless and kind of awful, but here it is on the chance the
Arts & Entertainment Swedish American Hall To Be Noise Pop's New HQ Noise Pop, the group that books shows at venues all over town including Rickshaw Stop, Bottom of the Hill, and The Fillmore, is taking over programming at the historic Swedish American Hall venue
SF News Allergy Sufferer Sean Parker Gives Stanford $24 Million To Cure What Ails Him Sean Parker is a lot of things. Napster co-founder. First president of Facebook. Guy played by Justin Timberlake. Next, reports the SF Business Times, he'd like to be the man behind the cure
SF News Day Around The Bay: How To Get A Reservation At The Progress How to get a reservation at the Progress, the beautiful new restaurant we showed you last week from State Bird Provisions. [Eater] A San Jose police officer is on leave after threatening protesters
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Grab A Ticket To SF Beer Week's Always Sold-Out Opening Night On February 6th, 2015, the Bay Area beer world will convene in the most cohesive SF Beer Week event. It's the Opening Gala, and tickets are out now for $75 and will sell
SF News The SF Bay Guardian Reaches Fundraising Goal, Will Publish Final Issue When the San Francisco Bay Guardian announced its closure after 48 years this October, much was unclear besides the suddenness of it all, and the tragedy of this loss to local media. The
