SF News Arrest Made In Panhandle Attacks On Bicyclists, More Suspects Identified In at least six separate instances this fall, cyclists making their way through the Panhandle at night were attacked by men who knocked them off their bikes, then stole those bikes and rode
SF News Video: Eviction Protesters Chase 'Google Grinch' Jack Halprin "Hit the road Jack," was the sung refrain this morning as protesters once again targeted, and chased, Google lawyer and local landlord Jack Halprin. At 6:30 a.m. according to reports from
SF News Dutch Scientists' Escape From Alcatraz Simulator Shows How Escapees May Have Survived As dramatized in Escape From Alcatraz with Clint Eastwood, three prisoners famously fled the "inescapable" island prison by raft in 1962, never to be seen again. The film draws on evidence of debris
SF News Day Around The Bay: Santa Robs A Bank In what sounds like the plot to a heist film, a bank robber in a Santa suit used Santacon as the perfect cover. [Chronicle] Why do companies think we want our wallets disrupted?
Arts & Entertainment All Time High For Sold-Out Sonoma Marijuana Fair Despite dank weather, about 10,000 folks were stoked to toke even danker pot at the 11th annual Emerald Cup in Santa Rosa this past weekend, reports Smell The Truth. The event was
SF News Disrupt The Halls: Pics From 2014's Excessive Tech Holiday Parties It's not just about who has the bigger tree and the better eggnog. Tech companies in SF are, once again, competing to delight their workers in a holiday party proxy war. Yahoo recently
Arts & Entertainment Richard Loren, Manager Of The Doors And The Grateful Dead, Talks Egypt, Bailing Out Jim Morrison, And His New Memoir Richard Loren has just arrived back in the Bay Area where he resided from 1970 to 1986. In fact, it was none other than Jerry Garcia, whom Loren would come to manage, that
SF News Zuck Attack: Why Is Brazil Trolling Facebook Founder's Facebook Page? Brazilians, for some reason which I'll say at the outset no one seems to know, have been sending an astounding number of likes, stickers, and comments to Mark Zuckerberg's timeline, TechCrunch reports. Is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Manresa Returns To Ring In New Year With our list of The 12 Best New Bars Of 2014 out and a respite from rain, who knows what could happen this weekend. The big news is that Manresa, which suffered a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learning To Drink Vol. 1: Shaken Or Stirred? 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 Threat-Happy Uber Exec Also Threatened His Landlord With Police Action When you hilariously joke about digging/threaten to dig up dirt on journalists who are critical of your company, as Uber Executive Emil Michael did to intense backlash last month, what do you
Arts & Entertainment 'Tis The Night Before The Santacon Nightmare This storm? It's actually the calm before the storm of drunken, fratstar revelry taking place tomorrow. If you're excited for Santacon, then why are you reading this post, read this community-sourced Buzzfeed hype
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now You Can Make A 'Reservation(?)' At Mission Chinese Food Mission Chinese Food has managed to keep a healthy horde of hip patrons waiting outside its slightly hidden doors (the awning still reads Lung Shan Restaurant) for several years. In fact, with frequent
SF News Undercover CHP Officer Draws Gun During Oakland Protest Confrontation [Updated] Also, major props to @MikeShortPhoto, who had a gun pointed at him in Oakland, kept working #berkeleyprotests pic.twitter.com/rMImnkxCdn— Vivian Ho (@VivianHo) December 11, 2014 Update here: CHP Officer Who Drew
SF News Montgomery Station Reopens, Get Ready To Climb Some Stairs [Updated] #Hellastorm, #rainpocalypse, #biblicalrain: take your pick of media nickname for this real big rainstorm you're seeing right now. But whatever you want to call this thing, it claimed two BART stations, at both
SF News Day Around The Bay: Singing Frogs San Francisco has a love-hate relationship with the Pacific chorus frog. [BayNature] This video takes you on a tour of opening night at Chris Cosentino's Cockscomb. [Eater] The Street Sheet got a redesign
SF News First Ever Sonar Renderings Of 113-Year-Old Shipwreck Under GG Bridge Amid a two-year study of shipwrecks in Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and their partners have released three-dimensional sonar maps
SF News 'Lonely Planet' Puts Oakland At #8 On Its Best U.S. Travel List Wedged between Greenville, South Carolina and Duluth, Minnesota on Lonely Planet's list of "Best in the U.S." list for 2015 is Oakland, California, clocking in at number 8. For the record and
SF News Ed Lee Scolds Ron Conway For Supporting CIA Torture In tweets that were more annoying than they were shocking, Ron Conway implied he wholly approved of the CIA despite revelations of atrocious torture of detainees following 9/11 that included sodomizing them.
SF News Fourth Night Of Protests Includes Trash Fires, BART Disruptions, Five-Hour March From Berkeley To Downtown Oakland In the fourth consecutive such rally in a row for Berkeley, protesters took to the streets Tuesday night for a lengthy, mostly peaceful march that extended many miles from Berkeley to downtown Oakland
SF News SF, LA District Attorneys Suing Uber Uber, recently embroiled in a scandal involving not-so-veiled threats against unfriendly journalists, accused of operating illegally by the city of Portland, banned in Delhi, and ordered to halt operations in Spain and Thailand,
Arts & Entertainment 'San Andreas' Trailer Destroys California, Your Afternoon "Where will you be... when everything falls apart?" That's the ominous question at the center of the adrenaline-injected trailer for San Andreas, the mega-disastrous disaster-porn flick that promises to make all Californians want
SF News Nevius Takes Up Cause Of Outer Mission Becoming 'Pot Dispensary Row' "If I didn’t know better, I’d think it was a case of short-term memory loss," jests the Chronicle's resident grump C.W. Nevius in an explainer on the locations of San
SF News During Prostitution Safety Walk, Mayor Jean Quan Hops In Stranger's Car Who hasn't jumped in a stranger's car thinking it was their ride home? These days everyone is an UberX driver, right? Well, proving she's just like us but with a larger peanut gallery,
SF News High Line Architect Chosen For Presidio Park Design We now have a winner in the contest to design a park connecting Crissy Field to the Main Post of the Presidio over 13 acres and a pair of tunnels replacing Doyle Drive.
