SF News BART And Workers' Unions Reach Tentative Labor Deal Ahead Of 2017 Contract Anyone who was here in 2013 and relied on BART to commute to and from the East Bay knows how painful a BART strike can be. That strike only lasted four days, but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Halal Guys Arrive In SF, Begin Lunch Delivery Via Caviar April 12 The wait is over, all ye hungry New York expats. The Halal Guys' promised arrival in San Francisco is happening, and starting this week they're offering a sneak preview of their food via
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yet Another Arcade Bar Heading For Former Orson/Drake Space On Fourth Once an elegant, buzzed-about restaurant with an industrial-chic aesthetic and headed by a celebrity chef, the space at 508 4th Street that was formerly Elizabeth Falkner's Orson will soon become Coin-Op Game Room,
SF News Guess What! The Transbay Terminal Project Has Run Out Of Money Again Budget shortfalls and funding drama have been the name of the game in the construction of the $2.25 billion Transbay Transit Center project going back several years. And now, the six-story, four-block-long
SF News Following Shooting By Police, Mayor Lee Announces Plan To Clear All Homeless Camps Citywide In a move that is certain to anger homeless advocates even further in a year when conspicuous homelessness has become a primary topic of debate in SF Mayor Ed Lee announced this weekend
SF News Father Of Fremont Terror Suspect Regrets Turning Him In To The FBI Sal Shafi, the father of 22-year-old Adam Shafi who was detained by federal authorities last year for attempting to fly to Turkey out of SFO with the alleged intention of joining a terrorist
SF News [Update] SFPD Seeking Missing Two-Year-Old Girl Whose Mother Was Murdered On Friday, April 8, the body of a missing woman was found in San Francisco. Details about the victim, Nicole Fitts, are slim, and the SFPD, citing the sensitivity of its ongoing investigation,
SF News Wayne Huntsman, Culprit In The 2014 King Fire, Admits Guilt As Selfie Video Emerges Wayne Allen Huntsman, the 37-year-old accused of starting the devastating King Fire in September 2014 that ultimately burned over 100,000 acres in the Sierra Nevada mountains and caused untold economic and environmental
SF News President Obama Uses SF Fundraiser To Hammer Back At Republicans Ignoring His SCOTUS Nominee Security is tight in Pac Heights for @POTUS visit. Obama on way to Getty house for a dinner. #abc7now #SanFrancisco pic.twitter.com/smOk5C41WT— ElissaABC7 (@ElissaABC7) April 9, 2016 If you were anywhere
SF News Apartment Sadness: Small Bedroom, With A Big Catch I share this week's piece of shared-apartment schadenfreude not because it's especially expensive (it's not!), but because to get cheap rent in these crazy times, there's always a catch. And this one kind
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Rediscovers The LA Dining Scene, Checks In On Some Former SF Chefs In lieu of a Sunday review, Michael Bauer has written a larger piece about dining in Los Angeles for this Sunday's paper, which you can read online now. He writes generally about the
SF News Video: Hear The New BART Horn, And Get An Up-Close Look At The New Car's Interior Following that big press event on Wednesday, we now have video footage inside the first of the new Fleet of the Future BART car, currently undergoing testing at BART's Hayward facility. The video
Arts & Entertainment Transbay District Likely To Get A Renzo Piano-Designed Highrise In some more excellent news for architecture and tall buildings in SF, we learned this week that starchitect Renzo Piano, the man behind one of the best-loved new buildings of the last decade
Arts & Entertainment Video: SFMOMA's Rad New Living Wall One of the most stunning aspects of the new SFMOMA is a living wall comprising some 19,440 plants, all California native species, that lines a second-story courtyard along the eastern side of
SF News One More Truss Of Old Bay Bridge To Be Removed Saturday The long, extremely slow process of demolishing the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge continues this weekend with one more 504-foot truss section getting detached, lowered down to the water, and removed.
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Arts & Entertainment Mirkarimi's Wife And Gascon's Wife To Star In SF Production Of 'The Vagina Monologues' What's this? It appears that the wives of two sworn enemies in SF politics, District Attorney George Gascon and former Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, are going to share a stage this weekend in a
SF News UC Berkeley Basketball Coach Accused Of Harassment Ends Appeal, Submits Resignation Just a day after we learned that some 19 UC Berkeley employees have been accused of sexual harassment in recent years, with seven of them losing their jobs in the process, embattled assistant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Check Out The Menu At The Lodge, Now Open In The Lower Haight A few weeks back I alerted you to the coming arrival of The Lodge, and Wednesday night marked night one for the new Lower Haight spot, in the space formerly occupied by Rickybobby.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: The SF LGBT Center's Benefit Soiree This Saturday, April 9, the SF LGBT Center will be hosting its 14th annual Soiree fundraiser, this year with the theme The Imaginarium, and organized by drag queen hostess Juanita More. The event
SF News Dog Owners Get Serious, File Lawsuit Against National Park Service Over New Restrictions In the ongoing drama over new proposed dog rules in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, several local dog-owner groups filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking data from the National Park Service on
SF News Two Dangerous, Mentally Ill Inmates Escape Washington State Hospital Californians are being told to be on the lookout for two potentially dangerous men who escaped custody at a Washington State mental hospital where both were being treated. As KRON 4 reports via
SF News SFPD Text Scandal May Lead To State Or Federal Investigation Public Defender Jeff Adachi has sent out a release Tuesday calling on California Attorney General Kamala Harris to investigate the racist texting scandal in SFPD essentially saying that the department, in this case,
SF News Deplorable Teens Knock Man Unconscious On 15th Street A 54-year-old man was knocked to the ground and is now suffering life-threatening injuries after he was attacked Monday afternoon by a group of ne'er-do-well youths. This all happened, as KRON 4 reports,
Arts & Entertainment Janet Jackson Cancels May 19 Bay Area Tour Stop, Might Be Pregnant? Despite being nearly 50 years old, Janet Jackson apparently wants to have a baby immediately, and this means she will be canceling a scheduled return stop to the Bay Area at Concord Pavilion
