SF News Green Cab Nears Breakdown A founder of the worker-owned, 16-vehicle Green Cab company, Mark Gruberg is in a tight spot. Mission Local reports that his business has been unable to find a new insurance policy from an
Arts & Entertainment Regarding The 'Fairy Door' Phenomenon, And The New One That Just Appeared in Bernal Heights Delighting pretty much anyone with an imagination or sense of humor, "fairy doors" are miniature, whimsical fixtures that some anonymous creative folk have tucked around the human world. These would-be portals to another
Arts & Entertainment Video: Keira Knightley Visits Silicon Valley, Chills With Zuck "They had a lot of hoodies," said a slightly boggled Keira Knightley of the tech élite who mounted a private screening of her new movie The Imitation Game. The self-described "technophobe" appeared on
SF News Google Leases NASA Airfield In Mountain View The perennial question, "What will Google do with X," gets juicier when X is a NASA airfield of 1,000 acres, several hangars, two runways, a flight operations building, and a private golf
SF News Giants Pitcher Jake Peavy To Buy Cable Car For His Alabama Estate Casualties of this year's World Series win included 28 trashed Muni vehicles, and now Giants pitcher Jake Peavy and his brother Luke might be picking off one more member of the fleet. As
SF News Coming To A Skate Park Near You: Real-Life Hoverboards If Back to the Future Part II is right, it's in 2015 that we can expect the appearance of the hoverboard.* And what better ground to hover over than San Francisco's: turf that
SF News New 'Judgmental' Map of the South Bay Will Amuse, Offend Conflating judgment with casual racism, here's the latest installment of "Judgmental Maps" in the Bay Area. The humor series has included this take on San Francisco, which flagged the Castro, simply, as "Rainbow
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Elbo Room to Become Retirement Room? The Elbo Room is entering what could be its twilight year(s) with current owner Matt Shapiro's lease expiring in November 2015. Now, 647 Valencia Street property owners (and Elbo Room founders) Dennis
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Goodbye to Chenery Park, Hello to Truffles, Rotisserie, and Ramen This week we had the word on Game, which debuted in the former Masa's space on Nob Hill on Thursday, and we also told you about S.F. legend Jeremiah Tower's surprise turn
Arts & Entertainment Video: GoldieBlox Debuts Thin, Blonde, And White 'Anti-Barbie' In Not That Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham recalls some maternal advice: “Barbie’s disfigured. It’s OK to play with her just as long as you keep that in mind.” In that
SF News Lyft Driver Thwarts Robbery Hammering home Lyft's reputation for friendliness, a driver for the rideshare company sprang from his Lyftmobile to thwart the robbery of a 67-year-old woman by four teenage girls, as CBS 5 is reporting.
SF News Anonymous Letter Alleges Third Sexual Assault at Berkeley Frat After two reports of sexual assault at UC Berkeley fraternities in as many months, a third attack has allegedly occurred, reports ABC 7. Campus police received an anonymous letter describing the alleged incident,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie Okay, this dog knows how to play dead. In fact, he's a method actor. *hits snooze* **hits snooze again**
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Mapped Through The Eyes Of J.R.R. Tolkien Call it Left-of-Middle-Earth: The Bay Area has been given the Tolkien treatment by Lord of The Rings enthusiast Stentor Danielson. In a large collection, the Pittsburgh-based cartographer and geographer created several maps of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mozzeria Pizza Trolley Enters Local Mobile Pizza Truck Race As of today, there are enough mobile pizzerias in San Francisco to field a food truck race. Since this moving-vehicles-with-blazing-hot-ovens event is unlikely to occur, let's imagine it anyway. Here are the contenders:
SF News Rec & Parks Dig In Early On Soccer Field Renovations As votes for opposing Propositions H an I were still being counted Wednesday, construction workers lost no time breaking ground on renovations to Golden Gate Parks’ Beach Chalet soccer fields, as SFGate reports.
SF News Suspected Silk Road 2.0 Operator Arrested in San Francisco [Updated] It's looking like the San Francisco leg of The Silk Road has not been fully shut down, according to federal prosecutors. They've just announced the arrest of one Blake Benthall in connection to
