SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Say Arrivederci To The illy Caffe In The Castro Another one bites the dust, my friends. It's been widely acknowledged that too many cafés and coffee venues had opened in the Castro in the last few years, and the great shakeout continues
SF News Facebook Now Officially Used Monthly By More Than One Quarter Of Earth's Population As of Tuesday, according to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook has hit the two billion mark for monthly active users i.e. more than a quarter, and nearly a third, of all of humankind uses
Arts & Entertainment Video: Every Tiny Tech-World In-Joke Hidden Within The Title Sequence Of 'Silicon Valley' Part of the reason that HBO's Silicon Valley which just had its fourth season finale on Sunday has such a short, rapid-fire opening title sequence is that creator Mike Judge didn't really want
Arts & Entertainment Video: Steph & Ayesha Curry Joined By Lin-Manuel Miranda In 'Hamilton' Cover, For Charity @ayeshacurry and I are collaborating with Lin-Manuel Miranda to raise money for a coalition of immigration organizations. We all feel strongly about supporting these important organizations fighting to protect immigrants, refugees, and asylum
Arts & Entertainment Serena Williams Didn't Plan To Get Pregnant, Took Six Pregnancy Tests To Be Sure V.F. cover star @SerenaWilliams—world’s best athlete (plus, mom and wife-to-be)—still has her eyes on the prize https://t.co/kvYTrrcPdW pic.twitter.com/zTq6ZGYb4k— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) June 27,
SF News [Update] Owner Move-In Evictions To Get A Few Degrees More Difficult In an effort to crack down on fraudulent owner move-in evictions which are estimated to occur in about one in four of these types of evictions as greedy landlords citywide have sought to
SF News Day Around The Bay: East Bay Motorcyclist Arrested For Random Freeway Attacks On Cars More Uber bads: A Los Angeles Uber driver has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a female passenger who fell asleep on Friday night. [CBS 5] Cannabis Buyers Club, a Berkeley dispensary, was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: All The Dips At Duna As discussed last month, former Bar Tartine kitchen wizards Cortney Burns and Nick Balla spent the last six months nurturing a pop-up Japanese-inspired concept called Motze, utilizing the 983 Valencia Street space formerly
Arts & Entertainment Video: Drone Flies Off Top Of Salesforce Tower It's not everyday you get invited to fly a drone from the top of the tallest building in SF, but today was that day. @SalesforceTower pic.twitter.com/PSyq0rnfP9— Eddie Codel (@ekai) June
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From SF Pride Weekend, Trans March, Dyke March, And The Parade While tension and violence have marred a lot of demonstrations and celebrations around the world in the last year most notably the Bastille Day massacre in Nice last year, and this past weekend's
Arts & Entertainment SF-Set 'Girlboss' Is Latest Casualty In Netflix Cancellation Spree #Bye #Girlboss. The Netflix series Girlboss, shot in San Francisco last year in and around the Haight and elsewhere, has been canceled after just a single season, the latest in a wave of
SF News Human Remains Discovered In Hayward Warehouse May Belong To Missing Uber Driver Piseth Chhay A grim discovery was made over the weekend in Hayward casting greater suspicion on a man named Bob Tang, the person of interest in the May disappearance of 48-year-old Uber driver and married
Arts & Entertainment Video: Dykes On Bikes Rings In 41 Years Of Pride Loosely established in 1976, the quintessential opening act of all SF Pride parades, Dykes on Bikes, rolled through SF for the 42nd time on Sunday. As KTVU reports, there were just two dozen
Arts & Entertainment Stray Kitten Rescued From Middle Of Golden Gate Bridge Marin-based CHP officers rescued a small orange cat on Saturday who somehow managed to get inside the movable median barrier near the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge. They relayed the tale
SF News Debris Fire In Transbay Tube Ruins Friday BART Commute I'm very sorry if you were trying to get into the city Friday evening via BART to kick of Pride weekend, or if you were just trying to get home to the East
Arts & Entertainment Two Bay Area Families Say Netflix's '13 Reasons Why' Triggered Their Teens' Suicides The parents of two 15-year-old girls, one in Livermore and one in San Mateo, say that their children each took their own lives just days after watching the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sexual Harassment Allegations Emerge Against Prominent Silicon Valley VC Some Trump protesters projected the words "Trumpcare Kills," among other things, on side of the white plastic sheathing the former Sears building in downtown Oakland last night. [Curbed] A San Francisco judge has
SF News Guns Used In UPS Shooting Were Stolen; Police Release Image Of Suspect Jimmy Lam The sole suspect in the triple homicide at a UPS facility in San Francisco last week, 38-year-old Jimmy Lam, remains a bit of a mystery to investigators, and at a press conference Friday
SF News BART To Add 50-Cent Surcharge On Paper Ticket Fares Following in the footsteps of Muni, which already penalizes passengers for using cash to pay for the bus, BART's board voted this week to add a 50-cent surcharge to fares on paper tickets,
SF News Stonestown Macy's To Likely Become Movie Theater, Restaurants, And Grocery Store Under new ownership as of earlier this year, the 280,000-square-foot Macy's store at Stonestown Galleria is set to get redeveloped into a multi-plex cinema, a grocery store, and multiple shops and restaurants.
Arts & Entertainment Local Queer Filmmaker Leo Herrera Imagines A World In Which AIDS Never Killed Our 'Fathers' San Francisco-based filmmaker Leo Herrera has been at work over the last year on a film that explores a vision of a contemporary world in which AIDS never happened, a 59-year-old Keith Haring
Arts & Entertainment Video: Monkeys, Bears, Otters Play With Ice To Cool Down At Oakland Zoo During this week's heat, over at the Oakland Zoo, some of the animals got treated to some ice to frolic in and play with (and eat), including a mother black bear and her
SF News California State Employees Now Have Eight States They're Not Allowed To Travel To With Tax Dollars Back in January, in the wake of a series of new laws in mostly Southern states that promote or condone discrimination against the LGBT community, a California law took effect banning the use
SF News [Update] Uber Maybe Knew Self-Driving Exec Had Waymo's Stolen Files The latest court filing by Uber in the self-driving technology case brought by Waymo has them thoroughly throwing former self-driving vehicle division head Anthony Levandowski under the bus. The filing suggests that Uber,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Grass Fire In Vallejo Car fire spreads up #Vallejo hillside, threatens homes, shuts part of I-80:https://t.co/nBKVJT7aWG pic.twitter.com/r37y0qYpS4— SFGate (@SFGate) June 22, 2017 Here's some new drone footage of cut-off Big