Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: IKEA Turns Into The Overlook For Halloween Typically, I am deeply meh about presenting commercials as enjoyable pieces of video. But sometimes, dammit, they just are, like this IKEA commercial that creepily, enjoyably captures the spirit of Danny's Big Wheel
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco vs. Kansas City's World Series Bets, Ranked Every World Series, folks who claim the opposing team's towns make trash-talky bets over which team will emerge victorious. Here's a ranked list of the bets we're aware of so far, with additions
SF News Report: Palo Alto Has The Highest Rents In The US, SF Is #2 According to "rental marketplace" Lovely, though we here in San Francisco feel that we have dreadfully high rents, it could be worse: we could live in Palo Alto. The company's Q3 Rental Market
SF News Video: Brutally Beaten SF Giants Fan Bryan Stow Gives First Interview It's been a rough road back for Bryan Stow, the SF Giants fan who suffered serious brain trauma when he was was brutally beaten outside Dodgers Stadium in 2011. Stow spoke publicly in
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Muni Found Wanting Van Ness is gorgeously orange. [Civic Center] A plan to replace the beleaguered Alice Griffith public housing projects with 248 new units is in the final planning stages. [SF Business Times] SF teachers
SF News Day Around The Bay: Now You Can Preorder One Of Those Infernal Suitsys The number of homeless kids attending the SFUSD has almost tripled in the last decade. [SF Examiner] SFPD have nabbed two brothers for a fatal Mission stabbing. [CBS5] [SF Examiner] Water main bursts
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Cal Academy's Amazing, Color-Changing Pigmy Seahorses Seahorses are cool, and these pigmy seahorses, which spend their lives camouflaged in masses of brightly-colored coral, might be even cooler. Successfully bred in captivity for the first time at SF's own California
Arts & Entertainment Modern Family Star Expresses Public Contempt At SF Giants Fan The strongest proof that Kansas City Royals fans are scared shitless over the prospect of facing the SF Giants in Game 1 of the World Series tonight: now they've sent their (solitary?) celebrity
SF News Financially Struggling Golden Gate Bridge Might Charge Pedestrians, Cyclists To Cross Span It's been nearly 44 years since pedestrians were charged a toll to cross the Golden Gate Bridge. But if one point in a Golden Gate Bridge fundraising plan gets approved, that toll would
SF News Poll: Do You Bother To Read All Those Campaign Mailings? According to the Chron, 27 different fliers urging San Francisco voters to vote this way or that have been sent off in the last two days, a typical bounty in the weeks leading
SF News UberX Driver Denies Woman's Allegations That He Dragged Her From Car, Smashed Her Phone [Updated] Uber is under fire yet again, after a San Francisco woman says that a driver with the company's UberX service dragged her from his car and threw her phone when she wasn't immediately
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: WhatsApp's Shameful Secret The guy who sold WhatsApp to Facebook for all the moneys reportedly has a documented history of physical and emotional abuse. [Valleywag] Lefty O'Doul's wants Royals fans to feel at home, makes special
SF News Day Around The Bay: Soda Is Apparently Killing You The man who was struck and killed by a driver this morning was a former [SF Chronicle] printer who had just finished decorating his home for Halloween. The beloved Sam's Grill (374 Bush
SF News SFPD Already Planning How They're Going To Keep You From Rioting If The Giants Win The World Series We here at SFist have no interest in writing yet another Stupidest SF Giants Celebration 'Incidents' post if the Giants win the World Series, so we were pleased to see that the San
SF News Dead Body Appears In Bay, Then Floats Away A decomposing body briefly floated to the surface just off San Francisco's shore Saturday, but evaded all efforts to fish it from the water. Port officials were towing Drydock #1, a historic, 4200
Arts & Entertainment Was It Ethical To Tell Koko The Gorilla That Robin Williams Died? As you might recall, after Robin Williams died in August of this year, the Woodside, California-based Gorilla Foundation announced that Koko, their famous gorilla, was in mourning, having met the actor several years
SF News Drivers Strike Four Pedestrians In About 12 Hours, One Fatally Four people were injured, one fatally, after a spate of car collisions with pedestrians in San Francisco. On Sunday night at 6:30 p.m. at Mason and Turk Streets, a 50-year-old woman
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Golden Gate Park's Rooster Population George Lucas said it was his wife's idea to put his museum in Chicago. [CBS5] The man who caught the home run ball that sent the Giants to the World Series gave it
SF News Day Around The Bay: More UC Berkeley Frat House Sexual Assaults The [New Yorker] mulls the demise of the SF Bay Guardian, and says it's unlikely that it will be purchased or revived. If you're not doing anything Saturday night, come see me, Beth
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Saturday: City At Large Photos Of SF What are you up to Saturday afternoon? If you're not sure yet, we've got the answer: the opening of City At Large: Photographs of San Francisco. Twelve photographers, many of whom you've probably
SF News Man Who Allegedly Pulled U-Turn To Shoot Pedestrian He Almost Hit Arrested, Is Named 'Easy' According to the San Francisco Police department, the driver they believed pulled a u-turn to shoot a pedestrian he'd almost hit has been arrested, six weeks after the crime took place. You remember
SF News Thursday Night's Stupidest SF Giants Celebration 'Incidents,' Listed We're so proud of most of you, Giants fans! After the Giants took the pennant last night, a lot of you took to the streets in celebration, but the vast majority of you
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Sneak Preview' Of Christian Bale As Steve Jobs Though it's long been rumored that actor Christian "Good For You" Bale was being eyed to play Steve Jobs in an upcoming bio-pic, industry publication Variety seems so sure that those rumors are
SF News Watch The SF Giants' Madison Bumgarner Chug Six Cans Of Beer, Bottle Of Champagne You saw the man chug four cans. You saw him chug five. And now the SF Giants newly-annointed NCLS VP Madison Bumgarner took on six beers (and a bottle of champagne) following the
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Call 911 In SF, Get Ebola Questions Scammers target [SF Chronicle] subscribers. (Oddly, the link to the Gate and Chron versions of this story no longer works! We're trying to get you the new, correct link, will update when they
