SF News Cole Hardware Building, Not SRO, Named As Source For Last Weekend's Fire On Monday we heard rumors that the major, five-alarm fire last Saturday on the 3300 block of Mission Street at the edge of Bernal Heights may have begun in Graywood hotel, the low-income
SF News When Realtors Say 'Eureka Valley' Instead Of 'Castro,' Is That Just Homophobic? Remember when the Nema building on Market published that neighborhood map that didn't include the Castro but in its place was "Eureka Valley/Dolores Heights." Well, it's long been common custom for SF
SF News Day Around The Bay: Kim Actually Beat Wiener In Primary By 370 Votes Despite Apple’s decision to boycott the GOP convention, the company’s CEO Tim Cook plans to host a fundraiser for Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. And it's common for Apple
Arts & Entertainment Video: Dozens Of Broadway And TV Celebrities Join To Sing 'What The World Needs Now Is Love' For Orlando On June 15, 2016, three days after the deadly hate-motivated massacre in Orlando and three days after the Tony Awards, dozens of recording artists, Broadway stars, and other celebrities gathered in a New
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tony's Pizza Offers Up Two Giants-Themed Pies At Ballpark-Adjacent Slice House Local star pizzaiolo Tony Gemignani, who's won like a hundred world pizza championships at this point, is partnering with the San Francisco Giants this season to create two signature pizzas inspired by two
SF News State Says It's OK For Oakland To Put Civilian In Charge Of Police; Sergeant On Leave Was Fired Before The mess in Oakland's law enforcement community only deepens with each day, and Monday there was a brief dustup between Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and the California state commission on peace officer standards
SF News In Triumph For Environmentalists, PG&E Says It Will Close Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant In 2025 Saying that it was an American Fukushima waiting to happen, environmentalists throughout California and elsewhere have long been putting pressure on Pacific Gas & Electric to fully shut down the Diablo Canyon Power
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Warriors Lost But They Won You A Free Taco At Taco Bell Today Thanks, Warriors. The Finals are over, and The New York Times has a sad piece about what a disappointment the Warriors turned out to be in the end, flagging and clumsy pretty much
Arts & Entertainment The 'Looking' Finale Film Trailer Drops Ahead Of Pride Weekend Premiere Somebody is getting married possibly Doris and we find out from the Looking finale movie trailer that we're jumping ahead a couple of years in time with Patrick, Dom, Augustin and the gang
Arts & Entertainment Beloved Mission Record Store Aquarius Records To Close And Reopen Under New Name, Management It's kinda sorta the end of the line for Aquarius Records, the independent Valencia Street shop that's been in continuous operation in various locales since at least 1970 as they say on their
SF News This Map Shows You Where All SF Commuters Call Home On the average weekday, San Francisco gains about 160,000 more bodies in the form of workers who commute in from various Bay Area counties, and counties even further to our north, south,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mid-Market Restaurant Cadence To Close After Only Six Months Ambitious new restaurant Cadence (1446 Market Street), with chef Joey Elenterio at the helm, is already closing after just six months in business. Eater brings word that co-owner Jay Bordeleau (Maven) issued a
SF News 'Family' Support Page For Convicted Rapist Brock Turner Argues That Victim Should Show Her Face A bizarre Facebook support group has popped up purporting to be from the voice of convicted sexual assailant Brock Turner's family though it may have been created by a misogynistic troll simply looking
SF News Latest Mission Fire May Have Started Inside Code-Violating SRO Early reports from residents of the Graywood, a single-room-occupancy (SRO) residence hotel at 29th and Mission, suggest that Saturday's five-alarm fire that displaced 58 people may have begun somewhere inside the hotel. The
SF News 58 People Displaced By Intense Mission Street Fire Devastating #MissionFire - several bldgs gone, many families displaced - more: https://t.co/VGAgk6htKJ Thx @sffdpio pic.twitter.com/tsaOOVk6kC— Ted Weinstein Lit. (@twliterary) June 19, 2016 The fire that broke out
Arts & Entertainment Louis C.K. Spotted On Haight Street After Surprise Shows In SF Even though comedian Louis C.K. wasn't due to be performing in the Bay Area for a couple of weeks he's doing two sets at Bill Graham on July 8 followed by a
SF News Two Men Charged With Murder In June 5 Shooting At The EndUp Nightclub A fatal shooting that occurred in the early morning hours of June 5 that killed 19-year-old Sean Ford was apparently a gang-related hit that happened inside the famed EndUp nightclub at 6th and
SF News Oakland Loses Third Police Chief In A Week Amid Brand New Racist Texting Scandal For an idea about the rank and file's opinion on Paul Figueroa: this was making the rounds in #OPS social circles pic.twitter.com/qyWyF446eR— Ali Winston (@awinston) June 18, 2016 Wow, Oakland.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Jane Coming To Fillmore, Camino Expands With Kebabs, and More This week on the food scene we heard about Single Thread, the high-profile new fine dining spot coming to Healdsburg from chef Kyle Connaughton; we told you about the crowd-funding campaign to revive
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open: Pacific Cocktail Haven, The Replacement Bar For Cantina Back in December many lamented the news that Latin-inflected cocktail spot Cantina, which has been going strong for most of the last decade just off Union Square, had been sold and would likely
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Rainbow Slip-n-Slide Planned For Dyke March Day In Dolores Park; Dyke March Organizers Object Some folks have launched a crowd-funding campaign, the proceeds of which they are pledging to the Orlando Pulse victims' fund and the SF LGBT Center, and it's all a benefit centered around The
Arts & Entertainment Even Ayesha Curry Says The NBA Finals Are Rigged Last night's Finals Game 6 between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors was largely an embarrassment for the Dubs more on in The Dub Sack but for the second game in
SF News Day Around The Bay: NRA Uses Local Trans Woman To Tell LGBT-ers To Arm Themselves Now the NRA is using an area trans woman, Nicki Stallard, to argue for LGBT people to arm themselves and fight against gun control in California. [SF Weekly] An all-star band, including former
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Mayor Declares This 'Tupac Shakur Day' As Teaser For Biopic Drops June 16, 2016 would have been Bay Area rapper Tupac Shakur's 45th birthday, but the New York-born, Marin City-reared star was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas on September 7,
SF News California Parent Of Paris Attack Victim Suing Twitter And Facebook For Providing 'Material Support' To ISIS Reynaldo Gonzalez, the father of Cal State Long Beach student Nohemi Gonzalez who was killed in November's terrorist attacks in Paris, is now suing Facebook, Twitter, and Google for the roles they played
