Arts & Entertainment Video: Taylor Mac Discusses His SF Inspiration For 'A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music' Tonight is the opening of Taylor Mac's A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music, being performed at the Curran from start to finish (in four parts on four separate days, separated across two weekends)
SF News Accused Attempted Baby Murderer From Redwood City Had Secret Pregnancy And Bathroom Delivery Once Before OH MY GOD. This story out of Redwood City has just taken a turn for the very bizarre as we learn that 25-year-old Sarah Lockner, who was caught by a coworker allegedly trying
SF News Harvard Rescinds 'Visiting Fellow' Honor For Chelsea Manning After CIA Protest Earlier this week, the Harvard Institute of Politics announced a list of Visiting Fellows who had been invited to the campus to speak during the 2017-2018 academic year, and among them were ousted
SF News Ben Shapiro Backlash Protests Mostly Contained At Berkeley, Nine Arrests Made 9 arrested as protesters gather at UC Berkeley for talk by conservative speaker Ben Shapiro https://t.co/YyPvgZCXLJ pic.twitter.com/IKlalt970r— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) September 15, 2017 Despite a ton
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: Here's Your Sneak Peek At The SF Museum Of Ice Cream, Which Opens To Ticketholders Sunday It's almost time for local Millennials' Instagram feeds to be flooded with very similar photos taken in a sprinkle pool, in a swing under some pink bananas, and hugging a unicorn statue with
SF News Day Around The Bay: Anger After Ghost Ship Tribute Painted Over By City Worker CNet employee posts photo of a doppelganger in a painting from the Legion of Honor, ends up in crazy swirl of Internet fame via Reddit. [CNet] Glass containers will likely be banned from
SF News Yet Again, Burners Leave Behind Thousands Of Bikes Remember in 2014 how it was a scandalous headline that upwards of 2,000 people abandoned their bikes on the playa and, in total disregard of the "leave no trace" ethos, went on
SF News Two Detained After Shots Fired On Market Street There were reports of shots fired on Market Street between Sixth and Seventh Streets around 3 p.m. Thursday, and the subsequent police activity caused a traffic jam as the entire block was
SF News Berkeley City Council Tables Vote On Topless Ban, Gypsy Taub Loses It, Gets Naked, Yells True to form, Berkeley's City Council meeting on Tuesday night included some lengthy public debate about an issue that's not exactly vital city governance at the moment, and ultimately devolved into some yelling
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Civic Center Plaza Yarn-Bombed With Giraffes People voted for an animal theme for phase 2 of #knittingthecommons so the first 3 trees got a family of giraffes. These cuties have quickly become one our favorite yarn bombs! A post
SF News Redwood City McDonald's Worker Charged With Trying To Flush Newborn Baby Down Toilet A worker at a Redwood City McDonald's who claims she didn't know she was pregnant was allegedly seen by a coworker trying to flush her newborn infant down the toilet, and she's now
Arts & Entertainment 'South Park' Opens 21st Season By Screwing With Everyone's Alexa South Park had its 21st season premiere Wednesday night, and amid jokes skewering white nationalists and home improvement shows, Trey Parker and Matt Stone brilliantly did something no satire show has yet succeeded
SF News Waterspout Touches Down On Lake Tahoe, Prompts Tornado Warning Funnel cloud over Lake Tahoe 🙀#tahoe A post shared by Cathy E (@flyinshoez) on Sep 13, 2017 at 4:50pm PDT A waterspout, which is a tornado that touches down on water, hit
SF News Did You Feel It?: 3.3M Earthquake Rattles San Jose Area A small earthquake shook part of the South and East Bays this morning at 10:32 a.m., and the USGS is saying it had a magnitude of 3.3 and was centered
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Blue Bottle Coffee Sells Majority Stake To Nestle The cycle from homegrown, artisanal coffee bar on an alley to selling out to an international food conglomerate is complete, as it's announced today that Swiss food giant Nestle has purchased a 68-percent
SF News Day Around The Bay: Apple Mocked For Calling New Stores 'Town Halls' Everyone on social media is mocking Apple for saying their stores will now be called “town halls.” They are still stores. [Chronicle] NTSB agrees that Tesla’s autopilot played significant role in a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Casey's Pizza Opening First Brick-and-Mortar Location In Mission Bay Thursday It's been almost exactly six years since pizza man Casey Crynes launched the city's first mobile pizza operation out of a food truck, Casey's Pizza, having grown out of a sidewalk pizza oven
SF News Chelsea Manning Appears In SF, Speaks Out On Privacy In New York Times "It was always unclear to me whether we were helping or perpetuating violence in a particular part of the country." https://t.co/9zcmP7YLlH— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) September 13, 2017 Just as we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Supervisor Calls For Excelsior Bar La Oficina To Be Closed After Murder Of Patron Around 12:30 a.m. on the morning of May 28, police officers arrived at La Oficina, a bar at 4234 Mission Street in the Outer Mission/Excelsior, to find bar patron Alvaro
Arts & Entertainment See A Few Branches From The Tree of Ténéré, Off Playa For This Weekend One of the highlights, art-wise, of this year's Burning Man was the three-story, LED-filled, climbable man-made tree called the Tree of Ténéré, which provided shade during the dust-filled days and glowing, colorful light
SF News SF Air Regulators Issue Russian Consulate Citation Over Smoke; Kremlin Calls It A 'Russophobic Stunt' Bay Area Air District cites now-closed #SF #Russian consulate for smoke violation on Spare the Air day https://t.co/GFekKSMqP8 pic.twitter.com/bfjv7LM9AF— KRON4 News (@kron4news) September 12, 2017 Remember how
SF News Experts (And The Farmer's Almanac) Already Predicting Another Wet Winter For California Will California be slipping back into a drought come January 2018, or will we see deluge after deluge again, causing dams to burst at the seams, sending trees, roads, and bridges into ravines
SF News iPhone X's Facial Recognition May Be Terrible For Multiple Reasons One of the big revelations though a widely anticipated one from yesterday's Apple launch event was the Home-button-free iPhone X and its facial-recognition technology. The internet has been abuzz ever since with concerns
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2017 Lineup Features Cheap Trick, Big Freedia, Conor Oberst, & Many More Following some teasers, we now have the full lineup for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2017, and it features a bunch of festival regulars as well as some surprises. In the former column we have
SF News Video: Hail In Santa Rosa This Morning Drive safely, #SantaRosa! Make sure to turn your headlights on, your wipers on, and reduce your speed when driving in the rain. pic.twitter.com/98ADrv53Rc— Santa Rosa Police (@Santa_Rosa_PD) September