SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sushi Ran Spinoff In The Castro Will Be Called Nomica Though details are still few, the Sushi Ran team has picked a name for the new restaurant they're plotting for the former Pesce space at 2223 Market Street: Nomica. As Sushi Ran vice
Arts & Entertainment What Should Go Into The Huge Space At Pier 29? An arts use now seems like a likely tenant for a huge empty space along the Embarcadero at Pier 29 that has sat mostly vacant for years the same space that suffered a
Arts & Entertainment Raiders Linebacker Ray-Ray Armstrong Accused Of Barking At A Police Dog (Which Is a Felony) Oh boy. A story is emerging out of Pennsylvania where one of the Oakland Raiders, linebacker Ray-Ray Armstrong, is under investigation for taunting a police dog shortly before Sunday’s game against the
SF News A Scholarly Take On Why People Are Losing Love For Twitter Enough has been said about the supposed imminent demise of Twitter which likely isn't imminent at all but regardless of Twitter the company's slowing growth and questionable financial future, Twitter the communication tool
SF News Former SF Police Chief Heather Fong Shortlisted For Border Control Job; Texas Governor Promises 'Revolt' If She Gets It Onetime San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong, who's lately been serving as Assistant Secretary for State and Local Law Enforcement in the Department of Homeland Security, is apparently on a short list of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Chronicle Tells You How To Hunt And Kill Your Own Thanksgiving Turkey I didn't realize that one could hunt and kill a wild turkey in California and that said turkey would actually be worth eating, but according to the Chronicle, this is totally a thing!
SF News SF's Soon-To-Be Tallest Building Pours Foundation, Will Now Rise Quickly While you were all out day-drinking, the Salesforce Tower construction site was a nexus of major activity on Sunday as an army of cement mixers rolled through to deliver a truly massive amount
SF News Shrimp Boy's Defense Attorney Tony Serra Wants To Get Mayor Lee On Witness Stand What's sure to be the colorful trial of Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow kicked off Monday with opening arguments, and already there is talk of mafia-style hits and steak dinners with an FBI agent
SF News Day Around The Bay: Lightning Struck The Golden Gate Bridge Lightning struck the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on Monday https://t.co/SWwlqKT99L pic.twitter.com/OJUlTU8o5D— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 10, 2015 Lightning struck the Golden Gate Bridge
SF News Huge 5M Development In SoMa Gets Jane Kim's Blessing After Adding 40 Percent Affordability The massive mixed-use development slated for the block surrounding the Chronicle building at 5th and Mission, dubbed 5M, appears to be moving forward despite some controversy, and today we get word that Jane
Arts & Entertainment Juanita More Talks About The End Of The Eight-Year Run Of Castro Club Booty Call Wednesdays Thanksgiving week will mark the end of an era for Castro nightlife as drag queen DJ and promoter Juanita More is ending her weekly party at Q Bar, Booty Call Wednesdays. Eight years
SF News Planning Commissioner Being Compared To Donald Trump For Calling Prop I 'Reverse Racism' A petition campaign has been launched to remove sole Republican Planning Commissioner Michael Antonini following some statements he made in a voting guide for friends and family about Proposition I, the Mission moratorium.
SF News At High End, SF's Housing Market Finally Cooling Off While doomsayers have believed there was no end in sight to the white-hot home sale market in San Francisco, at least at the luxury end of the spectrum, the market appears to finally
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zazie Owner 'Not Sorry' About Her Anti-Toddler Comments; Business Booming At Restaurant Nonetheless Just a quick update on what Hoodline has now dubbed "Toddlergate" the dustup this past week over some off-the-cuff comments by the owner of Zazie, posted to a Cole Valley neighborhood Facebook group,
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Jerk In San Mateo Will Rent You Studio For $1400 If You Work For Him This week's listing really made me angry for a few reasons. First of all, it's basically a job listing tucked in under the apartment listings. Second of all, the person listing it, who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sneaky's BBQ Moves In With Southpaw On Mission Ongoing pop-up Sneaky's BBQ, which for a time had a home at Rebel on Market Street, has a new permanent home in the kitchen of Southpaw BBQ (2170 Mission Street between 17th and
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Neighborhoods Portrayed As Dog Breeds, In Costumes This brief video by Videopixie's Libby Cooper shows some animated dog breeds representing each of eleven neighborhoods. It should be noted that pitbulls make it on here twice (for The Mission and the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink No Local Dungeness Crab Likely Until January, If Then As was suggested earlier this week, the local Dungeness season may not even happen at all this year because of a toxic red algae bloom along the Pacific Coast. The recreational crab season,
SF News Day Around The Bay: When Will The Warriors Arena Opponents Give Up? What will it take for the Mission Bay Alliance, the foes of the Warriors Arena, to give up the fight now that the arena's EIR was approved? It's unclear. But the lawyers are
SF News The Mission And Bernal Voted For Props F And I, But Not So Much Elsewhere It turns out that the majority of Yes on F and Yes on I votes in Tuesday's election came, perhaps not surprisingly, from District 9, which includes most of the Mission and all
SF News SF's First Female Sheriff Says She Won't Be An Activist Like Mirkarimi Perhaps we should have made more of a big deal about this yesterday, but San Francisco just elected its first ever female sheriff, Vicki Hennessy which is more of a big deal to
Arts & Entertainment Video: James Franco Talks About Growing Up And Stealing Stuff In Palo Alto Palo Alto native James Franco just told the story of his California upbringing for an animated piece from Google Play. He reveals that his dad, like him, kind of had attention deficit disorder
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Zazie Owner Vents Frustration About Small Children In Restaurants The controversy over children in restaurants is not new and in a city with so few children as San Francisco, tension over the topic is pretty inevitable. But a kerfuffle has erupted via
Arts & Entertainment Famed Cat Painting (From San Francisco) Sells For $826,000 A 19th Century painting of 42 cats, well known to art-loving cat lovers, has been sold at auction at Sotheby's to a new cat lover for $826,000. As the San Francisco Chronicle
SF News [Update] UC Merced Attacker Identified; Victim Who Was Construction Worker Hailed As Hero The 18-year-old freshman responsible for yesterday's stabbing spree at UC Merced has been identified as Faisal Mohammad of Santa Clara. Mohammad was a Computer Science and Engineering major at the school, and he's
