SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Bagdad Cafe/SliderBar Space Becoming The Castro Republic, Under New Ownership Welp, the story we all knew would end this way has reached its end as Health-Department-closure-afflicted SliderBar (2295 Market Street), which was rechristened OVOK in September with basically the same menu, to not
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Teens React To Windows 95 Here's a fun little video to get you over that mid-afternoon slump and simultaneously make (most of) you feel really, really old. Fine Brothers Entertainment got a bunch of teenagers and sat them
Arts & Entertainment Courtney Love Dispels Lie About Rich SF Grandparents, Says She's Absolutely Not Ready To Be A Grandmother Herself An evening with Courtney Love and musical collaborator Todd Almond, announced last month, happened last night at The Curran, and it was a conversation both about Kansas City Choir Boy the two-person narrative
SF News Landlord Now Attempting Mass Ellis Act Eviction At 84-Unit Mid-Market Building The two-and-a-half-year-old saga of 1049 Market Street continues this week as the landlord, at this point desperate to convert his half-empty residential property into office space, is invoking the Ellis Act after all
SF News How Many San Franciscans Are Rooting For The Tech Economy To Tank? As they sometimes do with towns they consider their curious backwater cousins, the New York Times has taken up the current state of San Francisco, macro-psychologically, today in yet another piece about the
SF News Commuter Train Out Of San Jose Derails In Mudslide In Niles Canyon, Injuring Nine Sunol: Train derailment. Rescue in progress. @AlamedaCoFire, @FremontFire, @CAL_FIRE, @CHPDublin on scene pic.twitter.com/TszJpQJ1G8— Alameda County Fire (@AlamedaCoFire) March 8, 2016 An Altamont Corridor Express train traveling from San Jose
Arts & Entertainment Regarding The Short-Lived, Now Defunct Secret Society Known As The Latitude You've likely read multiple accounts of the Jejune Institute-adjacent secret society in the Mission created by the company Nonchalance, dubbed The Latitude, which folded in September 2015 after a brief attempt to become
SF News Key Witness And Medical Examiner Cross-Examined In Nieto Trial In testimony Friday in the wrongful death case against the city and the SFPD regarding the 2014 shooting death of Alejandro "Alex" Nieto, key prosecution witness Antonio Theodore was cross-examined by Deputy City
SF News Redding Police Pursue Suspect In Scooby Doo Mystery Van Lookalike This "Mystery Machine" #ScoobyDoo lookalike van apparently led #Redding police on a pursuit today @KRCR7 #KRCR pic.twitter.com/vjhvMsof5B— Madison Wade (@madisonwadeKRCR) March 6, 2016 A story making the rounds from the
SF News Video: SFPD Officer Caught On Camera Hitting Suspect Says He Needs To Seize Camera A plainclothes SFPD officer seen in the video above apparently punching a suspect as he's being arrested can then be heard saying he has to "seize" the camera that was recording the incident
SF News Sunday Storm Topples More Trees, Causes Floods, Shuts Down Highways Bay Area: El Niño to deliver another potent storm system later this week https://t.co/70TGZTU345 @sbaxter_sc pic.twitter.com/8jn8IqfNVc— Mercury News (@mercnews) March 7, 2016 Following all that stormy
SF News Serial Stowaway Marilyn Hartman Sentenced To Six Months In Mental Health Facility Poor Marilyn Hartman. The 64-year-old serial airplane stowaway, who has succeeded in criss-crossing the country a couple times in recent years and been arrested or detained by police for it multiple times in
Arts & Entertainment St. Lucia's Jean-Philip Grobler Talks 'Trop-Pop,' And Why The 80's Are Still Inspiring St. Lucia is the name of the band and musical enterprise started by South African-born singer-songwriter Jean-Philip Grobler. Along with wife Patti Beranek and live band members Ross Clark, Nick Paul, and Dustin
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Off The Grid Fort Mason Restarts (In The Rain) Tonight The season for Off The Grid's weekly food truck party at Fort Mason begins again tonight, March 4, and it promises to be a wet one. Typically drawing 8,000 to 10,000
SF News Large Tree Topples Onto Car In Presidio Heights BREAKING: Large tree falls on cars, #Muni bus in Presidio Heights https://t.co/sker1lwjPK via @jonahowenlamb pic.twitter.com/6HaLYRq5A6— SF Examiner (@sfexaminer) March 4, 2016 A pretty sizable, 30-foot tree fell
SF News 97-Year-Old Woman Fighting Eviction In Burlingame Dies A story that broke two weeks ago about a 97-year-old woman in Burlingame who was getting evicted from her home of 66 years has come to a sad and sudden end. Marie Hatch
SF News Day Around The Bay: PG&E Finally Going On Trial For The 2010 San Bruno Blast [Fortune Magazine] (once again) says Google is the best place to work in the US. Here's some video of yet another sinkhole in Pacifica, this one on Beach Boulevard. [KRON 4] The giant,
Arts & Entertainment 'Macbeth' At Berkeley Rep Is A Quiet Triumph For Frances McDormand I'm never fully on board with productions of Shakespeare that offer little in the way of visual or conceptual updates to The Bard's 400-year-old dialogue and poetry much like I have no patience
Arts & Entertainment Hugh Laurie TV Series For Hulu, Based On Noir-Ish SF-Set Novel <i>Chance</i>, Scouts Locations In Mission Hugh Laurie is set to star in a new drama series for Hulu called Chance, that is about to begin filming in San Francisco. As the Chronicle reports, a flier recently appeared in
SF News Rookie Cop Fired 23 Shots At Alex Nieto, Thought Niners Jacket Was Gang-Related Rookie SFPD officer thought Alex Nieto may have been gang member because of red Niners jacket. #ABC7Now pic.twitter.com/StO0pHRxpi— Dan Noyes (@dannoyes) March 2, 2016 In the first witness testimony in
SF News How Cow Hollow And Dogpatch Got Their Names, And More Fun Neighborhood Facts Yes, there were once cows in Cow Hollow, and back in 1880 the name for the area between Pacific Heights, the Marina, the Presidio, and Russian Hill would have made a lot more
SF News Why Are There So Many Uber Drivers Sleeping In The Safeway Parking Lot? The other night I had an UberX driver tell me, in detail, how he was attempting to crank out 25 rides that evening, no matter how long it took him, and that I
SF News Google Searches For 'Move To Canada' Hit Highest Point Since 2004 Election Not surprisingly, everyone is searching for how to move to Canada again, and Donald Trump hasn't even been elected yet! According to Google Trends, searches for "move to Canada" are on the rise
Arts & Entertainment Sunday Streets Announces 2016 Street Closure Schedule It's time once again, as spring swiftly approaches, to start thinking about those special Sundays when one thoroughfare in the city gets shut down and turned into a pedestrian- and bike- and rollerskate-only
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 9 Best Late-Night Happy Hours In San Francisco Who has time for traditional happy-hour hours anymore, amirite? The hours between 4 and 8 p.m. are, for many of us, filled with work, commuting, and gym-going, except on those occasions when
