SF News Richmond District Mummy's Tomb A Steal At Under $1 Million Though some expected this notable 1904 Queen Anne Victorian at 152 Fourth Avenue in the desirable Lake District to fetch as much as $2.5 million despite its disturbing past, that now seems
SF News [Update] Fire South Of Tahoe Caused By Lightning Strike Blazes Through Nearly 15,000 Acres, Heads Toward Sierra Town As The Chronicle and NBC Bay Area report, firefighters today are battling a wild blaze being called the Washington Fire. As of this afternoon, the fire had consumed 9,500 acres of bone-dry
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Funniest Reviews Of The Dolores Park Truffle Man On Yelp Do you know the Truffle Man? The guy who sells edibles in Dolores Park? With the southern half of the park now closed, the verdant new northern hemi-park saw plenty of action this
SF News Techies Buy The Defunct Bold Italic News arrives today that well-liked San Francisco online publication The Bold Italic is returning from the dead thanks to a just-announced deal by two local tech professionals to purchase the site's assets. Though
SF News Nevada Will Now Tax Burning Man Despite Non-Profit Status Setting aside Nevada's general aversion to taxation and Burning Man's newly minted non-profit status, a 9 percent tax on admissions to large-scale live entertainment events has now been approved by state lawmakers. As
SF News Day Around The Bay: SFPD’s Racist Texting Scandal Disciplinary Process 'On Hold' Here's a sneak peek of what's to come tonight in celebration of City Hall's 100th birthday http://t.co/SgQTHp6Svu pic.twitter.com/xG7S0ujBXO— Only in SF (@onlyinsf) June 19, 2015 Remember that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Smitten Ice Cream Opens On California Street, KitTea's Cat Cafe Purrs To Life Next Week Though the San Francisco Chronicle's Restaurant Critic and Executive Food and Wine Editor Michael Bauer insists that he takes great pains to maintain his anonymity and hide his face, could it be possible
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For Robin Williams' Final Film, <em>Boulevard</em> The first trailer for Boulevard, Robin Williams’ final onscreen performance, is here to brighten and darken your day all at once. Directed by Dito Montiel (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints), Boulevard stars
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's Kouign Amann Day At B. Patisserie Saturday! The kouign amann (pronounced queen ah-mon) is finally getting the national day of recognition it so strongly deserves. These crispy croissant cupcake pastries were invented in Brittany during a flour shortage and a
SF News Being An Uber Driver Is Hard. Being An 'Uber Of Pot' Driver Is Harder. A photo posted by Eaze (@eaze_team) on May 11, 2015 at 2:50pm PDT Working as a contractor, for example as a driver-partner with Uber, carries its share of risks. Need a
SF News Housing Startup 'Campus' To Close Its Nearly 30 Co-living Houses Campus CEO Tom Currier has just announced that his fast-growing housing startup will be dissolving, putting in jeopardy its upwards of 150 San Francisco and New York City residents from roughly 30 co-living
Arts & Entertainment Photos: The New Dolores Park, Revealed [Updated With People Having Fun After Work] Already host to a full smattering of people with at least an afternoon (and probably way more than that) to spare, Dolores Park is basking in all its newfound glory. The sun is
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Adds Cold War Kids, Amon Tobin To Lineup Outside Lands Musical Festival just announced the icing on their lineup cake. In addition to acts like Sam Smith, Kendrick Lamar, and Wilco, attendees of the three-day Golden Gate Park bacchanal (August 7-9)
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mission Gay Mural Defaced Uber’s having an, er, bumpy ride as it enters the delivery space. [Comsumerist] In surprise move, religious people whine about that lesbian Wells Fargo ad. [Business Times] A woman stabbed a man
SF News With This SF Delivery Service Flowchart, You'll Never Go Anywhere To Get Anything Again Click to enlarge. Stephanie Pakrul lives with 45 roommates in what she calls "one of those startup/hacker/artist co-ops in the Mission everyone loves to hate." As the keen observer of local
SF News A Streetcar Named The E-Embarcadero To Begin Service From Wharf To Caltrain Next Month Step right up and meet the E-Embarcadero, the new addition to Muni's service that's simultaneously quite vintage and historic. As Hoodline and Market Street Railway report, the long-awaited return of the E begins
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starbucks Will Shutter All 23 La Boulange Locations Au revoir, La Boulange. Starbucks, which purchased the San Francisco coffee and baked goods chain for $100 million in 2012, has announced that it will shutter all of that chain's 23 locations, 15
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, JUNE 16 NBA: Just a few hints for
SF News Close Your Eyes And Imagine If This Fantasy Muni Map Were Real Dreams of more northerly BART routes, forever doomed when Marin County backed out of the regional system plan in the 1970s, not to mention more westerly underground routes to the avenues, are still
SF News Startup-Sponsored Dolores Park Bubble Party Becomes Obvious Metaphor To Everyone But The Startup What appeared to the untrained eye to be an innocent gathering in Dolores this past weekend was, in fact, anything but. Bubbles floating aimlessly over the park were instead part of a promotional
SF News Warriors President Rick Welts Named Pride Grand Marshal If all goes according to plan, Golden State Warriors President and COO Rick Welts may have a number of parade engagements in the next twelve days. As his team continues its contest for
SF News Day Around The Bay: The Ancient Ruins Of Candlestick Park A photographer for Deadspin maybe went trespassing and got some amazing photos of what was once known to a local civilization as Candlestick Park. [Deadspin] Misters Matier and Ross of The San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Kim Kardashian Coming To Oakland To Speak On Objectification Of Women In Media Selfie photographer and noted famous person Kim Kardashian, whose recent visits to the San Francisco Bay Area include the occasion of her engagement to the musician and thinker Kanye West, returns to Northern
SF News Will Square Go Public, Kaput, Or To The Highest Bidder? As somewhat-prodigal Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey prepares to fully return to that company, moving from chairman to CEO, the ramifications for Square, the mobile payments company Dorsey also founded and where he currently
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Recap: Coding In A Burning Room "This guy falling off a cliff is the first piece of good luck we've had," says Dinesh of the booming Pied Piper live-stream that's following a museum employee who was injured while removing
