SF News Uber Plops Down In Oakland, Buys Huge Former Sears Building Uber has just announced that it's buying a huge amount of office space 350,000 square feet purchasing the former Sears building on Broadway in downtown Oakland. When rumors of the deal circulated
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Churro Doughnut Holes At Hecho As of June, there's been a new executive chef in charge of the kitchen at one-year-old Hecho in the Castro, and that's Cory Armenta, who had previously worked in the kitchens at Rose
SF News Crazed Suspect In Oakland Drive-By Shot And Killed By Police In San Leandro E. 14th on & off to Hwy 238 in San Leandro shut after Al. Co. Sheriff's kill suspect of crime spree. ETO 9:30am pic.twitter.com/zsWcgNqUsz— Kim McCallister (@McCallisterKim) September 22,
SF News One Killed And Five Injured After 80-Year-Old Woman Drives Her SUV Through A Livermore Gym An elderly woman, possibly experiencing "pedal confusion," plowed her Mercedes SUV through a gym where a number of people were in the middle of a group exercise class in Livermore early this morning.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe/Park Tavern Team Opening Oyster Bar In Former Wexler's Space The growing Big Night Restaurant Group (Marlowe, Park Tavern, The Cavalier) led by Anna Weinberg and husband James Nicholas is growing once more with Leo's Luxury Oyster Bar, named for their young son.
SF News Do More Tech Shuttle Stops Lead Directly To Higher Rents And More Evictions? Tensions over tech shuttles live on, surprisingly or unsurprisingly depending on where you stand on the "San Francisco has been destroyed" vs. "all change is good change" spectrum. And now anti-shuttle and anti-eviction
Arts & Entertainment 'No Tech Zone' Sign Appears At Alamo Square, Gets Promptly Removed Someone, possibly a local artist, printed up a rather professional looking street sign that was very professionally bracketed to a lamppost under some parking signs on the eastern edge of Alamo Square Sunday
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cala Softly Opens In Hayes Valley Tonight, From Mexico City Chef Gabriela Camara The much-anticipated Cala opens its doors tonight, plus a bunch of openings, including a new Hayes Valley sushi spot: http://t.co/hxTXcaGWnw— Eater SF (@eatersf) September 21, 2015 Mexico City chef and
SF News Not Guilty Plea Entered In Maddy Middleton Murder Case The 15-year-old boy who stands accused in the shockingly brutal rape and murder of an 8-year-old neighbor in Santa Cruz appeared in court today for his arraignment and entered a plea of not
Arts & Entertainment Daisy Does The Niners: SF Defense Can’t Stop Steelers in 43-18 Loss When one of my best friends told me she was getting married in Vermont in September, I really wanted to be happy for her. And I was because she’s great and so
SF News Kayakers Almost Crushed By Breaching Whale Think Whale Saved Their Lives It turns out that one of the people in that kayak from the crazy video of the breaching humpback whale in Monterey Bay last week is a British documentary filmmaker named Tom Mustill
Arts & Entertainment Video: Behold, The Full-Size Emoji Keyboard For no reason other than making good YouTube fodder, the world now has a full-scale emoji keyboard, featuring every emoji currently in existence, plus a few that aren't even compatible with most devices
SF News The Chronicle Discovers That Coffee Costs Four Dollars In a print package that was a cover piece of the Sunday paper titled "San Francisco's Strange Detour From Paradise to Parody," the Chronicle comes way late to the game (surprise) in lamenting
SF News Tassajara Fire Near Carmel Burns Over 1,000 Acres; Valley Fire Now 70 Percent Contained Firefighters working over the weekend brought the Valley Fire further under control, to 70 percent containment, after it has now burned an area of 75,881 acres (119 square miles) in Lake, Sonoma,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Expanded Alembic Unveiled, Chefs Leave Keystone and Hog & Rocks, And More This week was full of food development, from the upcoming opening of Dat Spot on Potrero Hill, the rebranding of SliderBar as Ovok, and news about the new pastry chef at cruffin-famous Mr.
SF News Woman Survived Wildfire At Home With Dogs, Says She's Blessed To Still Have House As the Valley Fire reaches 40 percent containment today, residents of the towns of Middletown and Cobb still aren't being allowed back into the burn area to assess the damage. However, ABC 7
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: North Beach Flophouse With Bedbugs, $1450/Mo Wow. So, a tipster turned me on to this site, a "housing services" outfit from a real estate group called Latitude 38, and in addition to offering furnished corporate housing they also offer
SF News Accused Vallejo Kidnapper Matthew Muller Faints In Court, Pleads No Contest In Dublin Home Invasion Case Mentally ill kidnapping suspect Matthew Muller appeared in an Alameda County court in Hayward this morning and promptly fainted, necessitating his having to be revived. As the Contra Costa Times reports, Muller subsequently
SF News Video Of Stockton Police Roughing Up Jaywalking Teen Incites Outrage On Social Media Yet another example, caught on video, of police overreach and arguable brutality has been making the rounds on social media, this time out of Stockton, California. The two-and-a-half-minute video shows a 16-year-old black
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pac Heights Is Having A Food Fest Too Sometime Monday night, burglars broke into St. Anthony's Church at Folsom and Cesar Chavez and stole a bunch of relics. [Mission Local] Along with pushing its new, mandatory News app, Apple is suddenly
SF News Kidnapped Woman Denise Huskins Suing Vallejo Over 'Hoax' Situation Denise Huskins the Vallejo woman who, it turns out, was legitimately kidnapped back in March, apparently by a mentally ill individual who's already confessed is now said to be filing a claim against
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Pizza In San Francisco: A Definitive List Last year we skirted the issue of naming the "best" pizza in town by creating a list that was more about the best pizza you can find in a given neighborhood or for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: <i>East Side Sushi</i>, A Movie Shot In Oakland, Opens Friday Indie film and festival darling East Side Sushi, written and directed by SF State film program grad Anthony Lucero, is a story about Juana (Diana Elizabeth Torres), who gives up running her dad's
SF News SF Couple Leaves For Burning Man And Their Hired Housesitter Airbnb's Their Apartment A San Francisco couple may be pursuing a civil lawsuit after their hired, professional housesitter put their home on Airbnb without their knowledge, while they were away at Burning Man. As the UK
SF News Start Of Valley Fire Appears To Be In Small Shed In Town Of Cobb Though the actual cause of the devastating Valley Fire in Lake County remains under investigation, authorities appear to have located its origination point, and it's in the community of Cobb where some of
