Arts & Entertainment The 11 Best Hikes: East & North Bay Edition Hiking weather is here, and hikes to our east and north where the weather can be way more summer-like in the summertime are a very good idea on weekends to escape the gloom
Arts & Entertainment Video: Insane Faux Japanese Ad For Donald Trump This is the work of Mike Diva, a Los Angeles-based video artist and director who's been having some fun posting some ironic day-glo graphics of Donald Trump on Instagram recently. It's not actually
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All About Single Thread, A New Fine Dining Spot From A Euro- and Japan-Trained Chef Headed To Healdsburg Chef Kyle Connaughton, who contributed to the tome Modernist Cuisine and has trained and worked with two of the food world's biggest names, Michel Bras and Heston Blumenthal, is along with his wife
Arts & Entertainment Virgin America To Remain Its Own Separate Brand For Now, Maybe Forever In a talk in front of an aviation professionals' group in New York, Alaska Airlines CEO Brad Tilden said "the thing I’m losing the most sleep over with our merger" with Virgin
SF News Why Was The Interim Oakland Police Chief Canned So Quickly? There is a lot of instability right now in our community which is bringing us together on the issue of gun... https://t.co/T9EzHvpiOW— D Mendoza Consulting (@Champ4Justice) June 16, 2016 Yesterday's
Arts & Entertainment Video: Pod of Humpback Whales Hanging Out By Surf Spot In Pacifica Another close encounter with whales this week as we get video of what appears to be a trio of humpbacks feeding very near the shoreline at Linda Mar Beach. Skyler Thomas shared video
SF News OMG: Winter-Like Storm To Arrive In Mid-June, On Thursday I'm sorry, everyone. El Niño may be technically over, but the rain isn't yet giving up for the summer. As SFGate reports, via the National Weather Service, there is a wet morning ahead,
SF News Supervisors Approve Six New Homeless Navigation Centers (Without Booze Or Drugs) Supervisor David Campos's previously announced legislation that mandates the creation of six new homeless navigation centers like the one already in the Mission, all within two years, received unanimous support from the Board
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bob Dylan Obliges Heckling Fan And Plays 'Free Bird' At Berkeley Greek At his show at the Berkeley Greek Theater last week, the great Bob Dylan, just as he and his band were about to close out his set, decided to give in to a
SF News Oakland Police Sex Scandal Deepens With More East Bay Officers Implicated, Interim Oakland Chief Fired News of a sex scandal that already cost Oakland's chief of police his job broke over the weekend though hints of it were first reported last month by KRON 4 when an internal
SF News Big Gay Kiss-In Planned In Castro Tonight Following Orlando Mass Hate Crime While there is no appropriate or satisfying response to what happened in Orlando on Sunday, LGBT communities around the world have responded with huge vigils and outpourings of love, horror, and support. A
SF News Local Programmer Claims He Didn't Do Any Work For The Last Six Years, Just Got Fired A story that's been making the rounds, first via Reddit, involves a well-paid engineer at "a well-known tech company in the Bay Area" who says he did virtually nothing for the last six
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing: StarChefs' 2016 Rising Stars Gala Not to be confused with the annual Meals on Wheels benefit that's also called the Star Chefs & Vintners Gala, the restaurant industry trade publication StarChefs.com also swings through San Francisco every
Arts & Entertainment Behold The Catacomb Of Veils, A Huge, Pyramid-Like Monument Coming To Burning Man 2016 One experienced Burning Man temple construction crew, led by artist Dan Sullivan, is working on a monumental project for the playa this year called Catacomb of Veils. Currently under construction on Pier 70
SF News Teen Accused In Santa Cruz Murder Of Maddy Middleton Won't Be Tried Until 2017 The 16-year-old boy accused in the assault and murder last July of 8-year-old Madyson "Maddy" Middleton made a brief appearance in court Tuesday morning to enter a not-guilty plea. As KRON 4 reports,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Street Food Park Arrives In Mission Bay Next Week The team behind the bustling, three-year-old SoMa StrEat Food Park are getting set to open a second food-truck gathering spot: SPARK. News arrives via their press team today that SPARK, right in the
SF News Juror In Brock Turner Case Pens Letter To Judge, Says 'Shame On You' None of the names of the predominantly male jury in the sexual assault trial of Brock Turner have been revealed, however we are now hearing from the first of those jurors to speak
SF News Remembering The Gay San Francisco Church That Was Torched Out Of Hate In 1973 Following the attack on Pulse nightclub in Orlando Sunday that took the lives of 49 victims, most of them Latino gay men, the New York Times reminds us of earlier attacks on the
SF News Yet Another Aging Affordable Housing Complex Senses Threat From Outside Development Today we hear of another case involving a subsidized housing complex in the Western Addition that's over 30 years old and that suddenly finds itself in an awkward, legally tricky predicament regarding its
Arts & Entertainment Video: Hear Oakland's Own Daveed Diggs Talk About Winning His First Tony Award For 'Hamilton' Oakland-born hip-hop artist turned Broadway star Daveed Diggs took home the Tony Award Sunday night for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance in the dual roles of the Marquis de
SF News Pride Organizers, Castro Businesses Reassess Security Measures In Wake Of Orlando Shooting Following the deadly mass shooting in Orlando on Sunday, Supervisor Scott Wiener is convening safety meetings with the SFPD and members of the LGBT nightlife community to discuss security preparations for the upcoming
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Apple's WWDC Keynote: 'OS X' Finally Gets Retired, Apple Music Gets Redesigned There are no bad views in this place. Very excited. #wwdc2016 pic.twitter.com/jul60pUYmX— Brian Capps (@bcapps) June 13, 2016 Starting at 10 a.m., Tim, Jony, Phil and the gang will
SF News SFPD Vows Increased Police Presence In Castro For Pride Month Following Orlando Shooting Though there have been no credible threats against Bay Area targets, it stands to reason that the minds of LGBT people here have likely already leapt to the possibility of further, copycat attacks
SF News Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, SF Mayor Ed Lee Respond To Orlando Mass Shooting As follow-up stories and reactions spread across the country early Sunday in the wake of the horrific mass murder at an Orlando gay nightclub, the Bay Area woke up to the news just
SF News Female Construction Worker Fatally Stabbed In SoMa A female construction worker who has yet to be publicly identified was stabbed Friday while escorting a couple away from a job site on Shipley Street, an alley between Folsom and Harrison, near
