SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Best Soup Dumplings (Xiao Long Bao) In The Bay Area There is some mad competition among dim sum parlors on both coasts for the claim of "best soup dumpling," because these multifaceted Shanghainese delicacies known as xiao long bao (or XLB) are far
SF News No Death Penalty Sought In Case Of Alleged Drug-Addled Drifter Murderers The Marin County DA's office announced in a statement late Wednesday that the death penalty would not be sought in the case of the suspected murderous trio of drifters apprehended in October, Morrison
SF News BART Delay This Morning Caused By Police Chase And Car Crash Near Tracks In Pleasant Hill UPDATE: A car was reported on the #BART tracks, causing major delays https://t.co/ewPpdMRKh0 pic.twitter.com/YuafM31lnq— KRON 4 News (@kron4news) March 31, 2016 Yet again BART riders faced a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Hunted And The Arsenal, Two New Restaurants Focused On Game And Seafood, Headed To SoMa Back in November, Hoodline caught the news that "hunter-gatherer chef" Erik Sun, who's both a partner and occasionally a chef at popular downtown Los Angeles restaurant Bestia was heading to San Francisco to
Arts & Entertainment Rare Desert Plant Blooms For First Time In 50 Years In East Bay Botanical Garden A rare giant nolina, a desert plant native to California's eastern Mojave Desert, has just bloomed for the first time since it was planted in Berkeley's Tilden Park, at the Regional Parks Botanic
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Chef Nancy Oakes Pens Ode To Duarte's Tavern In Pescadero In-the-know locals and those bent on exploring likely all know of Duarte's Tavern down the Peninsula in Pescadero, one of the oldest and most beloved restaurants in the Bay Area clocking in at
SF News Pharma Company Hikes Price Of Aid-In-Dying Drug After California Passes Right-To-Die Law Following the passage of California's right-to-die/death with dignity legislation last fall, a pharmaceutical company that acquired the most popular drug of choice for the process doubled the price of it for patients
Arts & Entertainment Brace: Goatchella Returns To The Ferry Building April 16 Families with children and hipsters alike have turned CUESA's perfectly innocent, annual Baby Goat Festival into a thing of viral intensity and long lines, and now in its eighth year, the event last
SF News Uber Sends Private Investigator To Question Former Employee Suspected Of Leaking 'Rape' Searches The extraordinarily broad reach of Uber across the nation (and world) and their questionable process for screening and hiring drivers has a lot of people worried about what the next shoe to drop
SF News Apple Wants Answers About How The FBI Hacked That iPhone Apple remains in the dark about how a federally contracted "outside party" believed to be Israeli mobile forensics specialists Cellebrite succeeded in circumventing the security protections in the iPhone 5C in order to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold The Food Vendor Lineup For Off The Grid's Presidio Picnic, Restarting April 3 Off the Grid's second most popular Marina-adjacent food truck party, their weekly Sunday Presidio Picnic series, restarts its season on Sunday April 3, and the vendor lineup has just been announced. As always,
SF News Board Of Supes Reprimands UCSF For Firing Of Chinese-Speaking Janitors There's been a recent dustup between the Board of Supervisors and the city's second largest employer, UCSF, over what the supervisors see as unjust labor practices on the part of the university. The
Arts & Entertainment Now Someone Is Just Trolling Apartment Sadness Look, you guys. Things remain bad with the housing! We know all the ugliness that's out there! But must people really get on Craigslist and post things like this, which are clearly fake,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burma Superstar Apparently Expanding Again, To SoMa Though the restaurant isn't confirming the news just yet, Hoodline catches word that Burma Superstar appears to be expanding once again, this time to a space in SoMa on Mission between Fifth and
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 'Eager Beaver' Tickets On Sale Thursday — But Where Is The Lineup? I'd really love to be able to tell you that the Outside Lands lineup was finally getting announced this week, but judging from a release today about early-bird sorry, "eager beaver" tickets arriving
SF News CA Lawmakers Gripe About Change In High-Speed Rail Construction Plans A change announced in February in the construction schedule of California's controversial, gargantuan high-speed rail project one that would connect San Jose to the Central Valley ahead of building the SoCal segment that
SF News Three Hikers Get Stranded On Point Reyes Cliff, Require 50-Person Rescue Effort Four Sonoma men set out on a hike from an unknown starting point Monday and ended up in a remote area near Alamere Falls on the Point Reyes National Seashore, with two trapped
SF News Day Around The Bay: Suspects Nabbed In Fillmore Shooting Two suspects have been arrested in connection with that fatal shooting outside the Fillmore Street McDonald's last month. [KRON 4] Castro merchants are hoping a bike-share docking station will help discourage the loitering
SF News SF-Based Virgin America Mulls Takeover Offers From JetBlue, Alaska Airlines While this could spell sad news for fans of Virgin America and their guaranteed-to-be-pretty-comfortable and wi-fi-equipped planes, the company has reportedly put itself up for sale and now Bloomberg reports that they've received
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All About Tip-Pooling, Why It's Questionably Legal, And Why SF Restaurateurs Are Doing It Over the weekend the Chronicle's Jonathan Kauffman took a deep dive into the topic of tip-pooling, explaining how California is now one of seven states that have a universal minimum wage that applies
SF News California Becomes First State To Pledge Minimum Wage Hike To $15/Hour (By 2022) Leading a charge that is expected to ripple across the country, California governor Jerry Brown and the state legislature struck a deal Monday to raise the statewide minimum wage to $15 per hour
Arts & Entertainment Ani DiFranco Announces October Shows In Berkeley And SF Though she tours at a somewhat less brisk pace than she used to and has been raising two kids in recent years, 90s-famous singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco is back on the road again this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Chicken Soup At Little Gem We're hitting a springtime pattern of warm, sunny days and cool, windy nights this week (though there might be a spot of rain this afternoon), and whether you're getting a bout of seasonal
Arts & Entertainment YouTube Star Jesse Wellens Dresses Up As Aladdin, Takes 'Magic Carpet' Ride Through San Francisco "All I have to say is San Francisco is like a huge movie set. For Aladdin." That is Philadelphia-based YouTube celebrity Jesse Wellens's assessment as he was shooting the viral video above, here
SF News Alaska's Mount Pavlof Erupts For Third Time In Three Years On Sunday afternoon, one of the most active volcanos in Alaska's Aleutian arc, Mount Pavlof, began erupting and, in the process, sent an ash cloud 20,000 feet into the air. As the
