Arts & Entertainment Union Square Bar To Become Pop-Up Ball Pit In March It's often been said that SF is a place for perpetual Peter Pan Syndrome, what with our goofy costumed foot races and annual adult pillow fights. And though that adult Slip-N-Slide thing got
SF News Google Glass 2.0 Is On Its Way, And It Won't Be Marketed To Consumers Alphabet is not giving up on Google Glass. As the company said earlier this year, the road has not gone off a cliff for the much reviled facecomputer, and now 9 to 5
SF News As Witness Testimony Wraps, Shrimp Boy's Lawyers Allege Judicial Misconduct The final defense witnesses are expected today in the trial of Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow, in which he's charged with racketeering, money laundering, murder, and dozens of other offenses related to the organized
SF News Body Found In U-Haul In Hayward ID'd As 40-Year-Old Bay Point Man The odd case of Charles Goetting, the 27-year-old man suspected of shooting a BART police officer on Christmas morning, driving a stolen U-Haul van, and murdering another man whose body was found in
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mayor Lee And Aaron Peskin Are Pals Now? Lee, Peskin put bitter election behind them. via @matierandross https://t.co/vLc01gP3kh pic.twitter.com/K9MgayQML0— The Chronicle (@sfchronicle) December 27, 2015 Ed Lee and newly reelected Supervisor Aaron Peskin are hanging
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Guy Fieri Tries To Dump Remaining Johnny Garlic's Restaurants, But The Restaurants Are Fighting To Stay Open Noted Warriors fan, former Lamborghini owner, Food Network punchline, and annoyer of his Santa Rosa neighbors Guy Fieri has also been, in the last two decades, a restaurateur. But he's looking to rid
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What The San Jose Marriott Will Be Serving Whichever Super Bowl Team Is Staying There The kitchen at the San Jose Marriott, which will be hosting one of the two teams heading here for the Super Bowl, is already well schooled in feeding hungry NFL teams since they
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Dive, Mission Bar, Actually Gets New Lease It's a sad state of affairs when it's newsworthy that a divey, no-frills bar in the Mission with no special history but plenty of loyal fans is actually not closing. But that is
SF News $30K/Month Penthouse Still On Market, And Here's A Better Look Inside New York has for a long time had monthly rental rates that crossed into five figures for some well located, higher-end apartments in Manhattan, but such things are still pretty new to San
Arts & Entertainment Daisy Does The Niners: SF Loses To Detroit 32-17, No One Cares by Daisy Barringer Someone last week suggested that instead of writing a column about the 49ers this week, I instead create a list of 49 things you’d be better off doing than
SF News San Francisco Drivers Only Getting Worse; Intersection-Blocking Citations Tripled In 2015 Everyone who's been behind a wheel recently or been stuck in downtown traffic in a Lyft knows what Dianne Feinstein knows: Traffic in San Francisco is worse than it's ever been. Or at
SF News Suspicious Man At Hayward BART Allegedly Shoots Cop, Then A Body Is Found In His Van Two BART cops went to question a suspicious and nervous-seeming man outside a parking structure at the Hayward BART station on Christmas morning after seeing him walking away from a U-Haul with a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Get Some Christmas Eve Tamales In case you missed that tamale party earlier in the week and have not thought ahead about the all-important, must-have food item for a San Francisco Christmas, here are some good bets for
Arts & Entertainment Put On This New Wave Christmas Mixtape While You Bake Those Final Cookies In honor of Christmas after this odd and violent year we've had, an outfit that calls themselves Generic Male DJs has put out a mixtape of almost two dozen rare examples of Christmas
Arts & Entertainment Mike Monteiro Offers To Insult SF-Hating VC Guy In Exchange For Charitable Donations You know that withering, book- and fine carpet-loving Englishman who's woefully stuck in dreary San Francisco and wishes he could see some culture and trees again someday? Well, Benedict Evans, known previously to
Arts & Entertainment Old Mint Will Not Be Theater Space After All, Will Continue As Some Kind Of Event Venue We'd heard back in March that local theater outfit SHN had possibly leased the Old Mint at 5th and Mission, leading me to speculate that the space could get used for some sort
SF News Salinas Couple Tami Joy Huntsman And Gonzalo Curiel Charged With Children's Murder The pair suspected in the deaths of two small children found in a Northern California storage locker earlier this month have been charged with murder, child abuse, torture, and conspiracy with special circumstances.
SF News Parts Of SFO Could Be Under Water For Christmas Eve Travel Due To King Tides, El Niño A "perfect storm" of El Niño season rain and unusually high King Tides on Christmas Eve could cause some serious snags in holiday travel, especially out of SFO. As the Business Times is
SF News CHP Releases Its Report On City Sightseeing Buses, Finds Multiple Mechanical Problems As expected and hinted at yesterday, the CHP has just released its report following a surprise audit of City Sightseeing, the local tour bus operator whose double-decker bus seriously injured multiple people when
SF News Bay Area Woman Becomes First Openly Gay Servicewoman Killed In Combat, In Afghanistan News broke late Tuesday that Air Force Major Adrianna Vorderbruggen, 36, a recent transplant to the San Francisco Bay Area, had become the first openly gay US military servicewoman to be killed in
SF News Shrimp Boy Takes The Stand, Speaks Publicly For The First Time Since 2014 Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow took the witness stand Monday in his racketeering trial that has also turned into an ersatz murder trial, serving as the first witness in his defense after five weeks
Arts & Entertainment Video: <i>Downton Abbey</i>'s Lady Mary Gets Filthy At Cards Against Humanity Last year, three ladies from the cast of Downton Abbey Laura Carmichael (Lady Edith), Lesley Nicol (Mrs. Patmore), and Phyllis Logan (Mrs. Hughes) sat down for a spirited round of Cards Against Humanity
SF News Google Partners With Ford For Self-Driving Car Manufacture Google well, technically Alphabet has struck a non-exclusive partnership deal with Ford to build its first production run of autonomous vehicles, as Yahoo Autos is reporting. This marks a shift for Ford, which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Mainstay Harvey's Closed For Holiday Week Remodel, Menu Update Longtime Castro nachos-and-burger spot Harvey's named, of course, for Harvey Milk is closed this week for a remodel, but don't be alarmed. Even though "remodel" is sometimes code for "closed indefinitely," they are
SF News Cyclist Struck By Tour Bus Is Tourist From Brazil, And He's Doing Just Fine I was wondering when the first story first broke about the out-of-control double-decker tour bus that struck multiple cars, pedestrians, and a cyclist before crashing into the new Apple store construction site at
