Arts & Entertainment Video Palate Cleanser: 'Heatwave' It's the first real one of spring, so excuse me for being excitable. And it's already 92 in the Mission you guys!! (As of 1:40 p.m.) Previously: Record Heat Is Bringing
Arts & Entertainment New App Wants To Be The Airbnb For Hot Tubs, Backyards Have we reached peak app in this our pretty clearly bubbly tech economy of 2016? Some people are still going to tell you no, but I'm here to tell you, and them, about
SF News Record Heat Is Bringing Out Snakes (Watch Out!) Today's potentially record-breaking heat is causing snakes, both the venomous and non-venomous varieties, to slither and creep into yards and homes, alternately seeking both sun and shade. And as Sonoma County Reptile Rescue
SF News Oakland City Council Approves 90-Day Pause On Rent Hikes In a move that sounds even more progressive and renter-friendly than San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, Oakland's City Council last night approved a 90-day moratorium on all rent hikes citywide. The vote came
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Do This Week Sure, the middle of this week (Wednesday) will be hot and gorgeous, but by the weekend you'll be back in your layers and possibly even looking to cower indoors. With all that in
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2016 Lineup Does Indeed Include Radiohead & LCD Soundsystem, Also Lionel Richie And The Muppets! Finally, two weeks after we thought they'd announce it and after that fake-out lineup, we get the real-deal Outside Lands 2016 lineup. And yes, a number of acts from the "projected" lineup are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Sets Opening Date In Chinatown: April 12 Though it once appeared on our list of the most anticipated new restaurants of 2015, Brandon Jew's modern-Chinese passion project Mister Jiu's is finally ready to open in Chinatown next week, April 12,
SF News SF To Become First US City To Require 100-Percent Paid Parental Leave It's all but a done deal that the Board of Supervisors Tuesday will vote to approve a pioneering ordinance that will allow parents of both genders to receive full pay for six weeks
SF News Paypal Kills Plan To Open North Carolina Office Over Anti-LGBT Law Plans by San Jose-based Paypal to open a new global operations center in Charlotte, North Carolina appear to be off the table following the March 23 signing into law of House Bill 2,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Fentanyl Kills Nine More People In Sacramento Experts say the Bay Area is not even close to filling its housing hole, except at the high end of the market, where much of the new construction has taken place. [Chron] Another
Arts & Entertainment Views Of Twin Peaks, Diamond Heights, Cole Valley, And More Of San Francisco Circa 1955 Today I continue reaching into the trove of color photographs taken by hobbyist Charles W. Cushman to bring you some more cityscapes that were on sunny spring days like we're having now, only
SF News Hunter Pence's Scooter Stolen For Second Time In Two Years, This Time From Make-A-Wish Foundation Giants outfielder Hunter Pence has been known to ride a motorized scooter between AT&T Park and his home SoMa home. He had parked the Goped scooter in a secluded spot by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Food Network Is Letting Yelpers Have A TV Show At this late date, Yelpers are finally going to get a nationally televised stage from which to deliver their amateur snark about restaurants they do not like or, to use a phrase popular
SF News The DC Metro, At Almost The Same Age As BART, Is Also Having Major Problems At Middle Age The Bay Area is not alone in having a mass transit system built in the mid-1970's that is showing some major signs of age this past year that are in part the result
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two SF Chefs, Ravi Kapur And David Barzelay, Named <em>Food & Wine</em> Best New Chefs The prestigious annual honor of being named to Food & Wine's Best New Chefs issue will be going to not one but two local chefs this year, once again proving San Francisco is
SF News Car Collides With Fire Hydrant, Creates Seven-Story Geyser At Polk And Hayes (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=
SF News [Update] Virgin America Sold To Alaska Airlines As reported last week, Virgin America put itself up for sale, and the boutique airline owned in part by Virgin Atlantic founder Richard Branson has reached a deal to be acquired by Alaska
Arts & Entertainment 'An Act Of God' Starring Sean Hayes Is A Smart, Mostly Light-Hearted Take On The Maker Sean Hayes the performer is not to be confused with the character of Jack McFarland on Will & Grace that he's blessed (or doomed) to be branded with as his career-defining role. And
SF News Airbnb Reveals 20% Of SF Listings Are By Hosts Listing Multiple Homes, Vows Crackdown Airbnb has issued a mea culpa of sorts today, and a reversal of some of its previous rhetoric surrounding the issue of hosts who illegally use the platform to turn themselves into small-scale
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Actual Shipping Container In The Bayview, $600/Mo Last summer, the local media caught wind of a 31-year-old business school grad who'd built an ersatz apartment complex out of 11 shipping containers that were all in an Oakland warehouse somewhere, for
Arts & Entertainment Guns N' Roses Reuniting For Tour, Playing AT&T Park August 9 Late '80's rock gods Guns N' Roses, most of them anyway, are reuniting for a full tour this year, dubbed the Not In This Lifetime Tour, as they announced today. And it's not
SF News Six Months Later, Valley Fire Victim Reunited With Lost Cat Last September's Valley Fire devastated the community of Middletown, California and destroyed over 1200 homes, becoming the third most destructive wildfire in state history. It also killed four people and an unknown number
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink When Did We Start Calling It 'Brunch,' And When Did It Become A Thing? Brunch. It's the meal that many of you love to get tanked at after a long weekend of getting tanked, before settling in for a long Sunday's nap. And it's the meal that
SF News Day Around The Bay: Roommate In Dreadlock Dispute Speaks The roommate of the woman involved in that dreadlock dispute at SF State speaks out about her roommate's obsession with social justice and black power. [ABC 7] Have you seen this adorable dog?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Names Six Rising Star Chefs, Including Aatxe's Ryan Pollnow and Californios' Val Cantu See how The Chronicle’s 2016 Rising Star Chefs shape the Bay Area’s dining scene.https://t.co/SqGOBx13G2 pic.twitter.com/VyMPaojLdG— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) March 31, 2016 It's time again for
