Arts & Entertainment Behold: Portland's 'Hipster Santa' Yes, Virginia, in Portlandia, even Santa has a man bun. Portland, Oregon's KOIN dubbed the guy the Hipster Santa when they put him on TV last week, and this particular unidentified Kris Kringle
SF News El Niño Rainfall Totals So Far Disappointing, Way Lower Than '97 Another storm is headed for the Bay Area this week, but according to rainfall totals for the second half of the year so far, this El Nino will not be the drought-buster many
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Keurig Now Part Of The Peet's Coffee Family Vermont-based Keurig Green Mountain, a pioneer in the coffee-pod business, will now become part of the same conglomerate that owns Peet's Coffee & Tea and, as of recently, Stumptown Coffee Roasters and Intelligentsia
SF News Uber Launches In Tahoe, Says It's Getting More Female Drivers Every Month Solving a slightly complicated issue involving the state line, Uber has announced it will officially be launching in the Lake Tahoe area, north and south, before the new year. The news comes as
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: An SRO In An Actual Retirement Home In The 'Loin The trend of trying to fill SRO units that would previously have only been marketable to people on fixed incomes or the relatively indigent/substance dependent with well off newcomers to town has
SF News SFPD Still Trying To Justify Killing Knife-Wielding Mario Woods As Community Outrage Grows Gwendolyn Woods said SFPD executed her son, the youngest of three boys. Here's a picture of mom and #MarioWoods pic.twitter.com/vyniRQsgGn— Michael Barba (@mdbarba) December 4, 2015 Tensions are rising and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Surprise!: Blue Bottle And Tartine Aren't Merging After All It may have made a certain kind of San Francisco sense when you heard the announcement in April that two of the city's most successful food brands of the last decade, Tartine Bakery
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder</i> New this week via the Broadway tour producers SHNSF is the 2014 Tony Award winner for Best New Musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. It's a thoroughly English, darkly comic, and
Arts & Entertainment Hunter Pence Got Engaged, Everybody In a video direct from Disneyland, where he popped the question, popular and enigmatic San Francisco Giant Hunter Pence just proposed to girlfriend Alexis Cozombolidis, and it's real cute. In the video posted
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jedi Chef Jonathan Waxman Will Open Brezza Emporio And Pizzeria In Ghirardelli Square Next Year We heard earlier this year about star chef Jonathan Waxman's plans to open his first San Francisco venture, originally slated for the fall, in Ghirardelli Square. As it goes with these things, it's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 22 Best Cheap Eats In SF For $10 Or Less (That Aren't Burgers, Pizza, Tacos, Or Burritos) All together now: San Francisco is really goddamn expensive. But, like any decent culinary capital, we are still home to plenty of cheap food options that still put other cities' food to shame.
SF News Oikos University Shooter May Be Too Insane For Trial, But Wants Death Penalty Anyway As we learned in October, three and a half years on since the mass shooing at Oakland's Oikos University that claimed seven lives, confessed shooter One Goh might finally be ready to face
SF News Day Around The Bay: Hot Cop Pleads Not Guilty The SF Police Commission is set to vote tonight on rules governing body cameras, which officers will be issued next year. [SF Weekly, Chronicle] Yesterday the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an ordinance
SF News Batsh*t 'Witch Killer' From 1980s Suzan Carson Denied Parole As briefly noted last week, a notorious local serial killer from the 1980s, one of a husband-and-wife pair known as the San Francisco Witch Killers, was up for parole this week, and as
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Is The 10th Most Instagrammed Place In The World Gloomy sunrise over the city this morning 📷 by @tberolz #sanfrancisco #sunrise #ggbridge #mysf #willjourney A photo posted by Julia Engel (Gal Meets Glam) (@juliahengel) on Dec 2, 2015 at 11:26am PST This
Arts & Entertainment Morrissey Still Griping About Groping At SFO, Says TSA Is Worse Than ISIS British misery-dweller Morrissey is still complaining loudly and publicly about a pat-down by a TSA agent at San Francisco International Airport in July that he characterized as a sexual assault. And now he
Arts & Entertainment Adele Meets The Weeknd Meets Bieber In DJ Earworm's 'United State of Pop 2015' As we do every year, we bring you the massive, intricately spliced, annual 50-song mashup that DJ Earworm makes to commemorate the past year in pop music. It is a mash of the
SF News Hot Cop Of The Castro Officially Charged With Two Felonies, Had Two Passengers As expected, the District Attorney's Office officially charged Officer Chris Kohrs with two felony counts of hit-and-run late Tuesday, per the Chronicle and ABC 7, and one new detail has emerged in the
Arts & Entertainment Anonymously Written Tech-Skewering Art Book Gets Actual Publisher My favorite page from "Iterating Grace" See more here: https://t.co/QMGEJRqFvL pic.twitter.com/zlfa7ZY81i— John Susoeff (@jsusoeff) June 9, 2015 Remember this odd book of letter-pressed, handwritten-like reproductions of epigrammatic
SF News More Than You Likely Ever Wanted To Know About The Bike Coalition's Contested Board Election When we learned two weeks ago that newly hired SF Bicycle Coalition executive director Noah Budnick was stepping down after just eight months, we also learned that this came after several months of
Arts & Entertainment Former SF Bay Guardian Publisher Marke Bieschke Talks Fundraising, Progressive Media, And Bringing Back The 'Best Of The Bay' It's been a little over a year since local progressive media standard-bearer the San Francisco Bay Guardian ceased print operations in a cost-cutting measure by their relatively new owners, Canada-based Black Press and
SF News Surveillance Video From North Beach Crash Scene May Show 'Hot Cop' Running Away A brief, blurry, far-away snippet of surveillance video from a parking lot beside which Sunday's pedestrian hit-and-run occurred may show the Hot Cop of Castro Christopher Kohrs fleeing the scene on foot. Meanwhile,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink ABV's Beloved Pimento Cheeseburger Under Threat From New Chef A vital new addition to SF's Best Burgers list this year, the delicious pimento cheeseburger at Mission bar ABV, is reportedly under threat of removal from the menu as recently promoted sous chef
SF News 'Hot Cop Of The Castro' Reportedly On Leave For Medical Condition The SFPD sent out an update statement Monday regarding the status of Officer Chris Kohrs, who stands accused of two counts of felony hit-and-run after his car plowed into two pedestrians in North
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: Mrs. Wilsey Defiant, Says She Didn't Need Board Approval For Gift In a new memo to the board of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, chair and CEO Dede Wilsey says she did absolutely nothing wrong and there is absolutely nothing to worry
