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
Arts & Entertainment First (Computer-Generated) Tour Of The New Warriors Arena Since Salesforce still owns the property, Golden State Warriors COO Rick Welts took the opportunity at the Dreamforce conference this week to unveil the above rendering video of the exterior and interior of
SF News Valley Fire May Have Claimed Up To Five Lives; Second And Third Victims Confirmed We were told on Monday and Tuesday that there was one confirmed death from the swift-moving Valley Fire last week, and that was 72-year-old Barbara McWilliams. Yesterday we learned that a missing 69-year-old
SF News Day Around The Bay: Zito Is Finally Back In The A's Bullpen Berkeley moves forward on raising the legal age to purchase tobacco to 21. [KRON 4] Bankrupt high-end private commuter bus startup Leap is auctioning off its buses again in October, since that eBay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dat Spot Opens Monday In Former Chez Maman Space In Potrero Back in December we learned of the closure of 12-year-old Chez Papa Bistrot, only to have the space become the larger home of the original Chez Maman in March. Now, as the Scoop
SF News John King On New Luxury Downtown Apartments: 'This Isn’t The San Francisco That Most Of Us Know' Architecture and urban design critic John King has penned his official thoughts on The Jasper, that 40-story tower on Rincon Hill that's just opening up for renters, and he sounds sort of disturbed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Napa Valley Wine Train Sold To Seattle Company Two weeks after we learned of a possible $5 million civil suit against the Napa Valley Wine Train related to that PR nightmare last month involving a group of black woman who were
Arts & Entertainment Apple CEO Tim Cook Talks About Coming Out On Colbert Continuing to stuff his interview schedule with business and technology titans in week two of the new Late Show, Stephen Colbert last night chatted with Apple CEO Tim Cook, both on serious topics
SF News Valley Fire Update: 30 Percent Contained, Man Missing, Badly Burned Cat Survives The devastation via wildfire to our north is now in its fifth day, and the Valley Fire is now growing more slowly, reaching 70,000 acres (over 100 square miles) and 30 percent
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cruffin-Maker Mr. Holmes Bakehouse Announces New Chef, New Menu Items Though it appears they will continue making cruffins and doughnuts unabated, there were some not-so-hushed whispers about the demise of Instagram-famous local bakery Mr. Holmes after founding pastry chef Ry Stephen departed the
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SF News Facebook Will Get A Dislike Button As Zuckerberg Admits The World Is Not All Like-able For years, as the popularity of Facebook has exploded as not only a space for sharing enviable photos of your beach vacation but also as a place to vent about current events, mourn
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SF News Harbin Hot Springs Vows To Rebuild As we learn about the current, as-yet-uncontained progress of the Valley Fire to our north, many Bay Area fans of Harbin Hot Springs continue to mourn its apparent loss on social media. But
SF News More About The Only Fatality In The Valley Fire As It Grows To 67,000 Acres The devastating Valley Fire, which touches three counties Lake, Napa, and Sonoma grew to 67,000 acress from 61,000 since yesterday, and Cal Fire now says it is 15 percent contained. As
SF News Day Around The Bay: Goodbye, Cartoon Art Museum Twitter went down for about 30 minutes in various parts of the country today, temporarily freaking out Twitter addicts from New York to Chicago. [CBS 5] Some tech version of Shark Tank premieres
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Amélie, A New Musical</i> at Berkeley Rep I knew going into the new musical version of one of my favorite films, Amélie, that I was going to struggle with the adaptation. Could it work? Was it necessary? Would I miss
SF News Facebook Rolling Out Temporary Profile Pics You know how half your friends made their profile pics rainbow in support of gay marriage 26 million Facebook users did, anyway and at least half of those still haven't changed them back
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oaklanders Gather To Celebrate The Life Of Bar Owner Peter Van Kleef Back in the days before the Fox was renovated, and before Uptown was anything more than an archaic Oakland neighborhood designation that no one really used anymore, Cafe Van Kleef opened on a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro's Sliderbar Rebrands, Reopens As Ovok The troubled last year for Sliderbar (2295 Market Street) which included several run-ins with the Health Department has led owner Ashwani Dhawan to rebrand the business after a brief closure last week, something
SF News Valley Fire Grows To 61,000 Acres, Harbin Hot Springs and 400+ Homes Destroyed, One Death Reported Experts are saying that the Valley Fire is precedent-setting for the ferocity with which it spread over the weekend, creating its own internal wind conditions and taking many residents by surprise including the
SF News Video: Dramatic Escape Through Flames Of Valley Fire Saturday Night The Valley Fire in Lake Napa Counties, which by all accounts moved at record-setting speed into and through the community of Middletown between Saturday and Sunday, grew from 40,000 acres Sunday to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Between Riverside and Crazy</i> at A.C.T. The season opener at ACT's Geary Theater is an angry play, and an urban play, and it's also an entirely sophisticated, provoking, and redemptive profile of one angry, aging, urban black man. The
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Bunk Bed Room, Sleeps Six, Real Cheap Remember this little of corner of hell from a few weeks back? Well I'll do you one better: This sorry piece of housing for the desperate is upstairs from a Thai massage parlor
