SF News Local Musician Dies In Oakland After Chasing Laptop Thief, Getting Dragged By Car #DEVELOPING Local musician Dave Deporis may have died trying to save his music...killed after chasing thief who stole laptop. #Abc7now pic.twitter.com/znby3bymco— Laura Anthony (@LauraAnthony7) August 10, 2017 Well known
Arts & Entertainment I Watched The 'Life Of Kylie' Prom Episode Shot In Sacramento And I Have Some Thoughts Kylie Jenner has her own TV show now, it premiered over the weekend, and I'll cut to the chase and just say it's the most cynical, vapid, depressing piece of reality television garbage
SF News Bay Area Man Seeks Woman With Whom To Conceive A Child During Upcoming Eclipse We won't get to see the total solar eclipse here in the Bay Area, but it will be visible through a swath of northern Oregon, and at least one local man wants to
SF News Key Uber Investor Sues Travis Kalanick To Get Him Off The Company's Board Fasten your seatbelts, Uber watchers. The company's ride is about to get a good bit rougher. Benchmark Capital, an early investor in Uber which maintains a seat on Uber's board of directors, is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Robot Barista At Metreon Charges For Healthcare So this is funny: There's a robot-manned coffee bar thing at the Metreon called Cafe X, and even it wants you to chip for its healthcare. Local blogger Mr. Eric Sir alerts us
SF News Study: Uber Drivers Game The System To Force Surge Pricing Just when you thought we might get through the week without another irritating tidbit about Uber, we have news of a study of Uber drivers in New York and London that suggests there
SF News Day Around The Bay: Fired Google Engineer Fudged His Resume The fired Google software engineer who wrote that lengthy diatribe about how women aren't biologically suited for tech stuff, James Damore, apparently had a PhD in Systems Biology on his LinkedIn page that
SF News Presidio Terrace Homeowners Have Lost Track Of A Common Property Tax Bill Before The tale of the Presidio Terrace homeowners' street and sidewalks being bought out from under them and held hostage by a couple of savvy, arguably opportunistic real estate investors who bought the cul
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open In Noe: Ardiana, From Gialina/Ragazza Chef New neighborhood restaurant @ardiana_sf brought to us by #gialinapizzeria and #regazzasf A post shared by Michael Kelly (@moykiek) on Aug 8, 2017 at 6:30pm PDT Sharon Ardiana, the chef-restaurateur behind successful
Arts & Entertainment Employment Sadness: SF Couple Seeks Assistant To Do Absolutely Everything From Manicures To Instagram Occasionally, Craigslist offers us a naked glimpse into the world we live in now and the insufferable private lives of its inhabitants, much as it offers us a window into the horrors of
SF News Shelter In Place Order For Turk And Leavenworth Linked To Suspicious Device Avoid the area of Turk St and Leavenworth due to Police Activity. Individuals in the area of https://t.co/I1sIkYPYoT pic.twitter.com/fWsqoD5yHY— San Francisco DEM (@SF_emergency) August 9, 2017
SF News As Jury Selection Is About To Begin In Kate Steinle Murder Trial, Suspect Changes His Name The accused man in the Kate Steinle shooting trial, which will begin jury selection on August 21, has until now been going by the name Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez. This, it turns out, is
SF News Airbnb Deactivates Accounts Of Attendees Headed To Alt-Right Rally In Virginia #YouWillNotReplaceUs pic.twitter.com/u1YRGlq6rj— Cecilia🙋🏼Davenport (@CWDaven) May 14, 2017 As PayPal and GoFundMe have recently done with alt-right figures doing fundraising, Airbnb has taken a stand against users who appear to
SF News Day Around The Bay: Fired Sexist Google Engineer Gets Job Offer From Julian Assange This week, a literary magazine is putting out stories using Google AdWords, so you may see short stories that are not trying to sell you anything popping up in Google searches. [AdWeek] There
Arts & Entertainment Never Been To Outside Lands? 10 Important Tips For Getting The Most Out Of SF's Big Music Fest It's the 10th annual outing for Outside Lands this weekend, the sprawling SF music festival in Golden Gate Park that draws around 200,000 people over the course of three days, many of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] SF's Oldest Gay Bar The Gangway Is Once Again Set To Close, May Become 'Kung Fu' Laundromat (Or A Straight Bar) We knew as of January 2016 that the owner of The Gangway, the oldest continually operating gay bar in the city, at 841 Larkin Street in the 'Loin, was looking to sell the
SF News Anita Hill Says Women Should Sue If They Want Silicon Valley To Get Less Sexist In a pointed op-ed in the New York Times today, Anita Hill, who these days is working as a plaintiffs' attorney at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, suggests that "It’s time women
Arts & Entertainment Noted Sensational 'Rape Rock' Band The Mentors Coming To Oakland's Stork Club Next Month Attention-getting, sensationally (and perhaps actually) chauvinist heavy-metal/punk band The Mentors, who are now men in their 50s and still shilling what they dubbed "rape rock" going back to the 1980s, are scheduled
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink FDA: Your Moscow Mule Mug Might Be Giving You Copper Poisoning The #thirst is real! 👅 #sundayswag A post shared by Moscow Mule (@the.moscow.mule) on May 21, 2017 at 10:06am PDT It's a trend widely noted in the last half-decade at craft
SF News Houston Family's Dog Dies In United Flight Cargo Hold En Route To SFO A five-year-old King Charles spaniel named Lulu died aboard a United Airlines flight from Houston to San Francisco recently, and the family is pointing blame at the airline. The Houston family told their
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lucky 13 Site Hits Market For $9.75M With Development Approvals It looks as though the owners of the Upper Market Street dive bar Lucky 13, which we've long known is endangered, did not intend to do any development work themselves, but now that
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mission Residents Cheer Bike-Share Vandalism Four dummy heads used in a famous Alcatraz escape are "deteriorating," and they're getting recreated via 3D printing. [Chronicle] Apparently a fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution let Monsanto ghost-write an editorial with his
SF News Travis Kalanick May Be Angling For A Shareholder Battle To Return As Uber CEO It sounds like ousted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was not speaking lightly when, as we heard last week, he was talking about "Steve Jobs-ing it" and returning to head the company just two
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Top Round Roast Beef Heads Into Former Discolandia Space; Residents Freak When Iconic Sign Gets Repainted Some 24th Street denizens were freaking out last week when they saw that the new tenants of the former Pig & Pie / Discolandia space at 2964 24th Street were painting over the beloved
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Still Good: AL's Place Today we're kicking off a new feature called "Still Good," focusing on Bay Area restaurants that have been open a few years, or a few decades, and therefore may not have been garnering
