SF News Port Of Oakland Installing Bigger, Badder Cranes For Largest Ships Docking In US One prominent symbol of the power of Oakland, a pioneering city from the first days of the container-shipping era in the early '70s, will reach new heights and greater capacity next spring: Four
SF News Kink.com Cuts Ties To Porn Star James Deen After Rape Accusations After his ex-girlfriends and porn co-stars Stoya and Joanna Angel publicly accused the well-known and previously well-regarded James Deen of sexual assault and rape this weekend, prompting others to come forward with chillingly
SF News Beach Chalet Turf Fields To Open For Play December 12 Despite Constant Opposition Though some still adamantly protest the artificial turf fields at Golden Gate Park's Beach Chalet, the 30 opponents staging a sit-in in February are either dead or gone on to the next cause,
SF News 49ers Fans Pay $1K To Fly Polite Banner Telling Jed York To Get Lost As Daisy noted among the doings of her bedraggled 49ers who this week suffered a somewhat less than grim defeat to Arizona, the writing was on the wall — or rather, in the sky
SF News Report Cites Fewer Needles On Sidwalks, But Complaints About Them Rise Anyway A report evaluating 184 routes through San Francisco between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015 shared with the Examiner shows more streets free from debris and detritus "which pose the greatest risk
SF News Drought Hates Christmas, Shrinks Christmas Trees Natalie Sare met her husband in 1972 while working on his Christmas Tree farm in Half Moon Bay during college. "He said he was going to fire me because I talked too much,
SF News 'Hot Cop Of The Castro' Arrested In North Beach Hit-And-Run Two men in their 40s were crossing Broadway at the intersection of Montgomery at 2:20 a.m. this morning when they were struck by a car and transported to the hospital with
SF News Thankless Grinch-Types Steal Turkey Trot Supply Truck The Golden Gate Park Polo Fields were aflutter yesterday with exercise enthusiasts attending the annual "Turkey Trot" run, a sporting event for those with designs to binge-eat their way through the fall holiday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Original U.S. Restaurant Returns, Homage Comes To The FiDi, and More In this shortened week at our food desk, we learned that Sinbad's was finally a goner, ending their drawn-out fight with the Port of San Francisco. We also heard about the fast closure
SF News Woman Sells Mission Apartment For 2005 Price — With One Catch In 1993, when Catherine Lee purchased one of the two Mission apartments she owned until recently, the monthly mortgage was $570 on the $90,000 2-bedroom condo. “It was a different era,” Lee
SF News Gun Used To Kill Oakland Muralist Was Stolen From Federal Officer's Car When 27-year-old Antonio Ramos was shot and killed in late September while painting a community anti-violence mural under an Interstate 580 overpass in West Oakland, the motive was totally, woefully unclear. Following the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Hard Times Ahead At Modern Times Bookstore? Rihanna will play San Jose as part of her world domination tour. [Chron] Modern Times bookstore seeks a new partner/investor as one founder retires. [Capp Street Crap] This crowdsourced map shows thousands
SF News [Update] Facebook Shuts Down Berkeley 'White Student Union' Page, Hoax Introduced By Outsiders A Facebook group that listed itself as a "safe space for white students," as if Berkeley itself were not that space, has been the talk of campus at Cal since this weekend. Update:
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week This one's for everybody staying put in San Francisco this Thanksgiving. You won't lack for things to do, including celebrate the holiday itself. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24 YOGA ON THE LABYRINTH: If you, like
SF News In Expanded Relief Effort, Mission Episcopal Church Will Let Homeless People Rest Inside During The Day "Well, it looks like the work, and the Spirit, have made it happen," wrote Laura Slattery, Executive Director of the Gubbio Project, which has provided shelter to homeless San Franciscans during the day
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sinbad's Closes After 40 Years And 1,001 Attempts To Stay Open, Will Be Torn Down The latest — and apparently last — last-ditch effort to remain open from Sinbad's, who surprise-filed for bankruptcy last month while sheriff's deputies knocked on their door, has been foiled according to the Chronicle (note
SF News Racist Demagogue Cites Non-Existent SF Crime Stats Actually Provided By Neo-Nazi As Fast Company is not the first to observe, Donald Trump is a fascist. No new evidence need be exhibited, but here's some anyway. "@SeanSean252: @WayneDupreeShow @Rockprincess818 @CheriJacobus pic.twitter.com/5GUwhhtvyN"— Donald
SF News Nihilist Gay Group Adds Threatening Anti-Tech Fliers To Divis, Was Behind Last Crop In Mission Gay Shame, a group that describes itself on Facebook as "a Virus in the System.... committed to a queer extravaganza that brings direct action to astounding levels of theatricality," has now peppered the
SF News Toll Report: Commutes Getting Bad Even At Earliest Hours “The number of people on the move between 4 and 5 o’clock is up, and up strongly,” Metropolitan Transit Commission spokesman John Goodwin told KRON 4 last month. Echoing that statement — traffic
SF News Warriors Battle For NBA Record, Fans For Tickets Lebron James has to hand it to the Warriors. They're "the most healthy team I've ever seen in NBA history," he recently said per Cleveland.com. Indeed, yesterday the defending NBA champions tied
SF News Pharmaceutical Bad Guy Martin Shkreli Arrives In SF To Buy Up Biotech Company Loathed CEO Martin Shkreli has apparently survived a high-profile Internet shaming and is seeking refuge in the Bay Area. You may recall that Gawker and others called the finance bro turned pharma bro
SF News Day Around The Bay: Facebook Introducing Breakup Tools A dive into Uber’s labor issues and the counterculture "driver-partners" are creating in response. [The Awl] This Tenderloin non-profit uses an anti-loitering noise machine to ward off homeless persons. [Weekly] Facebook knows
Arts & Entertainment Tapes Of The Velvet Underground's 1969 SF Residency Finally Released Today This week the Chronicle remembers that, after a negative review in that paper from 1966, Lou Reed once called the city of San Francisco "tedious, a lie, and untalented." But in the liner
SF News Oakland Speakeasy Raided After Months-Long Undercover Op After receiving many complaints from Oakland neighbors about illegal alcohol sales, drug use, and loud music played well beyond the mandated 2 a.m. last call, an unlicensed basement club at 36112th Street
SF News After Five-Day Sit-In, Stanford Students Protesting School's Fossil Fuel Investments Leave Quad Today is the fifth and seemingly final day of a sit- (and sleep-) in protest of Stanford students advocating that the University (endowment: $21 billion) fully divest from all fossil fuel companies, as
