Arts & Entertainment Go Hear This: Metallica's Lars Ulrich Reading 'The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas' Part goofily scatological holiday children's book and part parable of Christmas-related greed, The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas is a 2012 work of literature by Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter of pop-punk band McFly.
SF News 13,000 Sign Petition Asking For Fire Inspections That Lead To Artist Evictions To Stop An online petition, which as of Wednesday had garnered 10,000 signatures and is now up to 13,000, was delivered to San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection on Wednesday by 25-year-old SF
SF News Uber Finally Convinced By DMV To Yank Self-Driving Cars Off SF Streets A week after boldly defying California officials and arguing that they had every right to test their self-driving vehicles with paying customers inside, Uber has relented and pulled its self-driving cars off the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Uber Sits Down With The AG, DMV Over Self-Driving Fracas Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. We already knew that Peter Thiel stood to possibly
SF News Epileptic Reporter Comes After Twitter Over Troll Who Sent Him Tweet Designed To Induce A Seizure A new wrinkle in the battle for internet civility has arrived in the form of a legal petition filed this week by reporter and avid Twitterer Kurt Eichenwald asking that Twitter disclose the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 15 Best New SF Restaurants Of 2016 The last couple of years have been heady ones for San Francisco's dining scene, with 2010 kicking off a wave of new ingenuity, talent, and luxury that had yet to crash through the
Arts & Entertainment Pre-Travel Palate Cleanser: What Not To Do On A Plane Most of these words of advice should be no-brainers, but since you may very well be getting on a plane today or tomorrow, or even next week, please let the puppets from Glove
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bacteria Common In Undercooked Meat Identified As Culprit In Antioch Thanksgiving Food Poisonings The mass food poisoning incident at a free Thanksgiving dinner in Antioch that ended in the deaths of three people now has a clinical conclusion. As KRON 4 reports, Contra Costa County health
Arts & Entertainment 'The Speakeasy' Remains An Unpredictable, Immersive Delight In Its New North Beach Digs The first entry point for The Speakeasy is Jack Kerouac Alley, the narrow walking street between Vesuvio and City Lights Books named for an American writer who was himself born too late to
SF News Families Of Three Orlando Shooting Victims File Suit Against Twitter, Google, And Facebook The families of three of the people killed in the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June Tevin Eugene Crosby, Juan Guerrero, and Javier Jorge-Reyes filed suit this week in federal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Divas Still On The Market In The Tenderloin, Starts Outreach For Trans Homeless In The 'Hood Luckily for the trans employees and performers at Tenderloin nightclub Divas (1081 Post Street), nearly two years after going on the market owner Steve Berkey has maintained his pledge not to sell to
SF News Leaked Facebook Moderation Doc Says Photo Of Fergie Peeing Is OK, Mocking The French Not OK A weird and possibly old set of guideline slides for third-party moderators of Facebook posts was leaked to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung that shows a bunch of confusing distinctions between what constitutes hate
SF News Attorneys For Ghost Ship's Derick Almena: 'He Should Not Be Made A Scapegoat' The legal team that will be representing Derick Ion Almena, the founder of Oakland's Ghost Ship collective and the man many say is responsible for the unsafe construction, wiring, and lack of proper
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Heavy Rainstorms Caused By Climate Change Could Kill Off SF Bay's Wild Oysters For Good Its populations originally decimated in San Francisco Bay during the Gold Rush and the consequent pillaging of every local source of food (more about that here), the Olympia oyster the West Coast's only
SF News Downed Tree Blocks 19th Avenue Tunnel, Avoid Area For The Afternoon ALERT: SR-1/19th Ave blocked by fallen tree n/o MacArthur Tunnell. One lane open s/b, no lanes n/b. Expect delays. pic.twitter.com/9I2al43tEk— CHP Marin (@CHPMarin) December 19, 2016
SF News Metallica Frontman James Hetfield Found Bay Area Too 'Elitist,' So He Moved His Family To Vail, Colorado The two founding members of Metallica, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, have long been presences around the Bay Area and have owned property here, but that may be changing. Last year Ulrich put
Arts & Entertainment Approaching Christmas Anniversary Of Tiger Attack, SF Zoo Releases Video Of Tiger Taking Dip #Caturday calls for bath time for JT🐅💦 #SiberianTiger #SavingSpecies pic.twitter.com/5F2Tg5kmg6— San Francisco Zoo (@sfzoo) December 17, 2016 December 25th this year will mark nine years since the infamous 2007 tiger
SF News Dolores Park's North Field, AKA Fixie Flats, Closed Until February Starting today, the big flat "multi-use" field on the north side of Dolores Park, a.k.a. the park's main party space, a.k.a. Fixie Flats will be closed for what Rec
SF News Rose Pak's Sisters Settle Dispute Over Estate, Will Finally Cremate Her Body We learned last month that despite a high-profile funeral that drew many local dignitaries and media coverage, the late Rose Pak's remains still had not been interred despite her body being "paraded through
SF News Powerful LSD Leading To Really Bad Trips, Arrests In Santa Cruz County The acid in Santa Cruz is really bad right now, man. Either that or it's really, really good and it's making people so out of their minds that they're committing crimes and getting
SF News Federal Judge Rejects Attempt By California Elector To Vote Against State's Majoritry At least in the case of California's electors, it won't be so simple to upend custom and cast votes for anyone but Hillary Clinton, who won the statewide majority in November's election. A
SF News Video: Surveillance Footage Shows Car Plow Into Chinatown Bus Stop The crash in Chinatown yesterday in which a sedan drove onto a curb and plowed into a bus stop can be seen in the surveillance video above, obtained by KTSF. The video is
SF News Day Around The Bay: Artists In Bernal Heights Warehouse Get Eviction Notice Soylent has just released a reformulated powder. The selling point? It tastes blander. [Soylent Blog] Tenants in a live-work artists' collective at 968 Peralta Avenue who were already being targeted for a city
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Chicken And Egg Rice Porridge At Motze One of my favorite restaurants in the city over the last five years, Bar Tartine, is calling it quits at least in its current incarnation on New Year's Eve. That would be a
SF News Former Mrs. Newsom, Kimberly Guilfoyle, In Line To Be Trump's Press Secretary A former first lady of San Francisco in talks to be part of the Trump Administration? This is a topsy-turvy, upside-down world we are in, folks, and indeed the Chronicle has it that
