Arts & Entertainment Video: San Francisco As Seen From A Weather Balloon Launched In The Presidio Drones be damned: This weather balloon footage from Night Crew Labs is where it's really at. Launching a complicated set of cameras held aloft by balloon from the Presidio and then tracking their
SF News Bill Murray Angrily Tosses Fans' Phones Off Roof At Carmel Restaurant As a modern day Johnny Appleseed or Davey Crocket, folk hero Bill Murray is entitled to move about the world with puck-like impunity, his shrugs, winks, and grimaces accepted as apologies wherever he
SF News Uber Offers To Pay $28.5 Million To Customers, Rename 'Safe Ride Fee' To Settle Lawsuits A photo posted by Uber (@uber) on Nov 19, 2015 at 9:56am PST In order to settle two class-action lawsuits that allege misleading advertising regarding safety, Uber has offered to pay $28.
SF News Famed Saint John Coltrane Church Fights To Stay Put In The Fillmore Since 1971, Archbishop Franzo King and his wife Reverend Mother Marina King have held services and provided food and clothes to those in need. Considering jazz musician John Coltrane, who emerged from drug
SF News Confirmed: Ed Lee's 'Best Friend' From College Is Now A Homeless San Franciscan Two college chums are now on opposite sides of a divided city. A 64-year-old man named Jim Hammond Harding who had the pleasure of meeting the Chronicle's curmudgeon-in-chief Chuck Nevius says that “ Mayor
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink I Tried That $15 Cup Of Coffee And I'm Just Going To Say It Might Be Worth It In order to prepare myself to drink a $15 cup of coffee — 8 ounces of fair-trade pour-over from Equator on Market Street — I brushed my teeth, bathed in oil, confessed my sins, and
SF News 71% Of SF Homeless Once Had Homes In SF There's a lot to learn form the Homeless Point-In-Time Count & Survey Comprehensive Report of 2015, which is online in its entirety, but one detail to which Socketsite draws attention is the percent
SF News Rapper Equipto, Others Arrested After Heckling Ed Lee At The Fairmont Rapper Equipto, a name in the West Coast hip-hop scene, has been taking on a new role in the last six months: bête noire to Mayor Ed Lee. He's heckled the public official
Arts & Entertainment How To Spend Valentine's Day Depending On How Alone You Are Right Now Has cupid struck this year? Or has he struck out? Well, depending on your particular level of commitment or lonesome despair, here are a few things you might enjoy doing this Valentine's Day.
SF News Have You Seen This Missing Person? Police are searching for John Beck, a 73-year-old man who was last seen near 12 Street/City Center in Oakland, perhaps getting on BART, at around 9 a.m. yesterday morning. Beck is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink $15 Cup Of Coffee Will Make You Spit Out Your Coffee Spit out that Four Barrel/Blue Bottle/Ritual garbage juice you're drinking right now, because you could be sipping $15 pour-over on a once blighted strip of Market Street where the only thing
SF News Mostly Fake BART Surveillance Cameras Will Cost $1.4 Million To Replace The cat has been out of the bag for some time that the "majority" or even the "vast majority" of surveillance cameras onboard BART trains are decoys or otherwise inoperable. In the past
SF News Day Around The Bay: Crab Fishermen Catch A Break The percent occupancy of Airbnbs in the Bay Area was actually lower over the Super Bowl than it was at the same time last year. That's likely due to market glut, with everyone
SF News Identity Theft: Furry Furious Until Stolen Suit Recovered Everyone! @Zarafagiraffe fursuit was sadly robbed :( please retweet!Please contact him if found!Contact info- pic.twitter.com/bHI3kAos0c— President Woofiss (@Woofiss) February 2, 2016 Though this may not be your typical "lost"
Arts & Entertainment Video: Chelsea Peretti Hosts, Wins, And Maybe Ends The Crunchies Tech Awards "My buddy TJ Miller told me that you bitches couldn't take the heat last year," Brooklyn 99's Chelsea Peretti, an Oakland native and last night's host of TechCrunch's annual Crunchies awards show said
SF News Scott Wiener Halts Angry Meeting About Sex Offender Clinic Over Incivility .@Scott_Wiener has to stop mtg regarding sex offender rehab facility to keep it cordial. @SF4SafeDuboce #abc7now pic.twitter.com/2Jb3dW06ub— Katie Utehs (@KatieUtehs) February 9, 2016 First he temporarily halted sex offender
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Fuller House' Complete Trailer Is Here And It's Like The '90s Never Ended "Whatever happened to predictability? / The milkman, the paperboy, evening TV?" To answer that question, here's the new, full trailer for the Full House reboot Fuller House. Wherever it went, nostalgia for bygone television
SF News In Black Panther Garb, Beyonce's Super Bowl Dancers Hold 'Justice For Mario Woods' Sign (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=
Arts & Entertainment Super Bowl 50: Watch Coldplay Refuse To Leave The Stage During Beyoncé's Halftime Show Like a friend who insists on reminding you of the good times you've shared — "Clocks!" remember "Clocks?" — but of whom you've grown somewhat ashamed, Brit-pop "global citizens" Coldplay refused to leave the stage
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Alexander's Steakhouse Plots Multi-Story Food Temple, Bauer Loves Little Gem, And More This week, SFist's food vertical called attention to new Oakland popup Journeyman, said goodbye to burger and tater tot hotspot RickyBobby, and poured one out for Amsterdam Café, a Tenderloin beer bar hit
SF News Man Allegedly Stabbed By Mario Woods Speaks: 'Ms. Woods, My Heart Goes Out To You' The man who says he was stabbed by Mario Woods on December 2nd just hours before Woods' death in a hail of police gunfire tells ABC 7 he'd never seen his attacker before
SF News From Tokyo To The Tenderloin: Mensho Ramen Opens First US Location This Weekend What an era to be alive! San Francisco's Ramenaissance continues this weekend with the grand opening of Mensho Ramen, the seventh location of the mini-chain from chef-owner Tomoharu Shono and the first shop
SF News Fat Cat Fight: Elon Musk Cancels 'Rude' Venture Capitalist's Tesla Order All Stewart Alsop wanted was a Tesla Model X, and is that so much for a venture capitalist to ask? No, he didn't want to wait for it, and now he'd better not
SF News 23-Year-Old Killed At Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Was Tied Up, On Meth An autopsy revealed this week that Canadian backpacker Audrey Carey, killed in Golden Gate Park at the beginning of last year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, had marijuana and methamphetamine in her system when
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ruin Your Super Bowl Party With The Chronicle's Perverse 1948 Guacamole Recipe We're at the one-yard line of completely eff-ing up the Super Bowl, becoming the worst and least grateful host city in 50 years, and frankly everybody seems pretty excited about it. With the
