SF News Self-Driving Car And Bicyclist Were Involved In Collision Last Month The incident sounds relatively minor, but we have reports today, via mandatory DMV reporting, of a collision between a self-driving car and a bicyclist on the streets of San Francisco in May which
Arts & Entertainment Vintage Apple-Branded Sneakers Being Auctioned Off For $20K (Or More) A pair of apparently unworn, custom-emblazoned, Apple-branded sneakers from the early 1990s have gone up for auction via a company called Heritage Auctions. They have simultaneously gone up on eBay, where the opening
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pican Closing In Oakland, May Reopen As Smaller Restaurant A pair of large restaurant spaces that helped transform the Uptown neighborhood in Oakland in the last decade are about to get split into four smaller spaces, with the latest closure being Southern
SF News Facebook Reportedly In Talks To Take Over All, Or Just A Piece, Of New Downtown SF Tower The sleek new Heller Manus-designed glass tower going up downtown next door to Salesforce Tower, known until now as 181 Fremont, could end up becoming Facebook Tower if one real estate rumor proves
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Coolest, Least Touristy Landmarks In San Francisco Tourists new to wandering San Francisco, and new residents who need places to wander, should know that there is more to this fine city than Coit Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, and Fisherman's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tacolicious Launching Delivery-Only Rotisserie Chicken Tacolicious is expanding once again this month, only this time it's not with a new location but with a new delivery-only business through Caviar that they're calling MF Chicken. Beginning June 19, during
SF News Travis Kalanick Sent Uber Employees A Memo About Having Sex With Each Other, Twice The latest tidbit to trickle out from Uber's sexual harassment/culture-of-inappropriateness probe is an email, known internally as "the Miami letter," obtained by Recode, that CEO Travis Kalanick sent out to all Uber
SF News Day Around The Bay: Authorities Seek Bicycling Arsonist In Emeryville Fire The ATF gave a press conference today talking about the hoodie-wearing, bicycling arson suspect they're seeking in the May 13 Emeryville construction fire which was the second to hit the same site in
Arts & Entertainment 'Roman Holiday' Is A Cheery Throwback Musical Of Which Cole Porter Would Approve Capitalizing on the recent Broadway success of throwback revivals and adaptations from 1950s and 60s like The King & I, The Light In The Piazza, and An American In Paris, a pre-Broadway tryout
Arts & Entertainment Watch Apple's New Ad In Response To The Paris Climate Decision Airing during the NBA Finals is this pretty Apple ad, "shot on iPhone" by regular iPhone users, and written and narrated by Carl Sagan. "The Earth is the only world known so far
SF News Video: Drone Footage Shows Massive Oroville Spillway Repair Project Underway The work is proceeding apace at the Oroville Dam, where the winter of 2017 tested a 50-year-old piece of water infrastructure, and it failed the test. As we learned in April, the very
SF News Ghost Ship Master Tenant Derick Almena Appears In Oakland Court, Arraignment Delayed Until June 15 Cameras ready to capture reaction at the Derick Almena arraignment. Families of Ghostship fire victims are in court as well. #GhostShip pic.twitter.com/IQjcY5bsz4— Jodi Hernandez (@JodiHernandezTV) June 8, 2017 Following Monday's
SF News 29-Year-Old Stabbed In The Back At 25th And Mission A 29-year-old man was apparently walking near the intersection of Mission Street and 25th Street early Thursday morning when an assailant stabbed him in the back, causing critical injuries. The Chronicle reports that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Get A Negroni (Or Negroni-Inspired Treat) This Negroni Week It's Negroni Week, everyone. And while I've been remiss in alerting you to the early-week Negroni events going on around the Bay, I was only doing it to save your livers. There's still
SF News What It's Like To Walk Around Big Sur These Days, With Almost No Cars Into the Big Surreal: 36 Hours in California’s Isolated, Lonely Island https://t.co/Kggyi9xAQL— KQED (@KQED) June 5, 2017 California Report reporter John Sepulvado, along with a friend, decided to spend
SF News Idiot Thieves Nabbed After Stealing GPS Tracking Devices From Santa Clara Startup A trio of thieves is feeling pretty stupid this week after they allegedly broke into the offices of Santa Clara "smart logistics" startup Roambee and stole some office equipment. In addition to stealing
SF News Dianne Feinstein Rocks Seersucker At Comey Hearing, Is Cheered The nationally televised congressional hearing Thursday morning, with former FBI Director James Comey answering questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee, has one particular fashion highlight that's been widely noted on Twitter: Sen. Dianne
SF News Day Around The Bay: Yes, Tech Workers Are Still Moving Here Despite some evidence that the Tech Gold Rush of 2011-2016 has slowed down, a new LinkedIn report shows that while we are losing tech workers to places like Seattle and Portland, we're still
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink At Least Three SF Bars Will Be Showing Comey's Testimony At 7 AM Thursday Former FBI Director James Comey has already handed over his prepared remarks for Thursday morning's hearing with the Senate Intelligence Committee, which subsequently made them public BuzzFeed has pulled out the 18 main
Arts & Entertainment Video: First Footage From Alex Honnold's Historic Free Climb Up Yosemite's El Capitan You likely heard this week about 31-year-old rock climber Alex Honnold's astonishing free-soloing feat up the 3,000-foot sheer wall of Yosemite's El Capitan. We know the whole thing was filmed, and now
SF News City Of Hayward Apologizes For Wildly Inappropriate 'Taco' Tweet About Sanctuary City Issue The City of Hayward and its mayor are being extremely contrite after a crazily inappropriate tweet went out on the city's official Twitter account Tuesday morning trying to get residents to attend a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cops Blame Bottle Service For North Beach Club's Ongoing Problem With Street Fights Hue, the nightclub on Broadway in North Beach that was formerly known as Atmosphere, continues to be a headache for neighbors and the SFPD, with the sidewalk outside the club being the scene
SF News Uber Exec Fired Over His Handling Of Rape Victim's Case In India Following Tuesday's bloodletting at Uber in the wake of a company-wide probe into hundreds of claims of sexual harassment in which at least 20 employees were terminated Recode has learned that a high-level
SF News California Cuts Its Own Climate Deals With China We mentioned this in brief yesterday, but in some pretty big news, California Governor Jerry Brown has just signed a pact with China's Ministry of Science and Technology to cooperate on climate research
SF News Family Of Fremont Wedding Brawl Victim Says Police Should Have More Suspects One man remains in a coma with a traumatic brain injury following a brawl outside a Fremont wedding reception hall last month, and now his family, as well as the bride whose wedding
