SF News [Update] Plague Of Biting Green Bugs To Ruin Burning Man Are dead bugs MOOP? Burning questions for @BurningMan 2015 pic.twitter.com/4oSpG7fQAo— Champagne Lounge (@CLoungebrc) August 18, 2015 File under great schadenfreude material for all Burning Man haters: Some kind of as-yet-unidentified
SF News <i>Forbes</i> Comes After Academy Of Art, Their Low Graduation Rate, And Their Shady Land Use Dealings Whoa. Forbes has not one but two pieces out today coming after the for-profit Academy of Art University and the multimillionaire Stephens family who have been running it for several generations. It's only
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Niche Stores In San Francisco Sometimes you just need a part for your electric train set, or a skein of a specific brand of alpaca yarn, and you don't want to wait three days for Amazon. In this
SF News Video Of One-Legged Man Restrained By Police On Mid-Market Prompts Review The cellphone video above that we showed you on Monday via reporter Chaédria LaBouvier has now prompted a wave of media coverage and an incident review by the SFPD and SFFD. Both departments
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Slow Club Closing To Make Room For The Morris, From Frances Wine Guy Paul Einbund After 24 years at what was once an under-populated, pre-Web 1.0, media-saturated corner of the Mission/Potrero border, The Slow Club is calling it quits this fall to make way for a
SF News Day Around The Bay: Regarding The Housing Bubble, And How It Is Really A Bubble Is California having an earthquake "swarm"? (Probably not.) [Wired] Yesterday’s quake damaged water mains across the East Bay. [SF Appeal] San Jose police have issued a message to the third suspect in
SF News Why We May Never Have Wi-Fi On Muni Or BART You'll recall how last year BART canceled that contract they had with a wi-fi service provider after five spotty years of service that drew thousands of complaints. Well, commuters and the Chronicle's Michael
SF News Police Still Seeking Suspects In January Drive-By In Bayview, Release Video Of Vehicle Two people were killed and one injured in a January 27 drive-by shooting, and seven months later that double-homicide has yet to be solved. One of the victims in the shooting, 32-year-old Maria
SF News [Updated] Fire In Outer Sunset Closes Riptide Bar, Disrupts Muni Service Photo via SF Firefighters 798/Twitter A fire that broke out on Taraval between 46th and 47th Avenues this morning at 10:15 a.m. has grown to two alarms, and firefighters are
Arts & Entertainment Video: BDSM Meets Broadway In Snappy New Folsom Street Fair Promo Folsom Street Events enlisted the talents of Aron Kantor the same filmmaker who made this awesome, Almodovar-inspired promo film for the Hard French Winter Ball a couple years back to make a new
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AL's Place Named Best New Restaurant In The U.S. By <i>Bon Appetit</i>; Rintaro Also Makes Top 10 No sooner had I sang the praises of Aaron London's first solo restaurant AL's Place in the Mission, Bon Appétit's Andrew Knowlton has just bestowed the big honor of naming it the best
SF News Wildfire Updates: Jerusalem Fire 90 Percent Contained; Rough Fire Grows To 21,000 Acres The national news has, per usual, been making it sound to most of the country like all of California is on fire, and between the 4,000 convicted felons now fighting the fires
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kitchit Ends Private Chef Service, Will Focus On Kitchit Tonight Instead In the realm of laziness that brought us on-demand dinner businesses like Munchery and Sprig, SF-based Kitchit has occupied a more expensive realm that allowed people to bring private chefs to their homes
SF News Should Airbnb Have Responded Differently To Madrid Sexual Assault Report? Another week, another horror story about the sharing economy making a victim out of someone somewhere in the world. This time it's the story of 19-year-old Jacob Lopez who traveled to Madrid and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owner Of SoMa's 30-Year-Old Lone Star Saloon Says Bar Could Be Endangered Tony Huerta, the owner of the well worn and well loved SoMa gay bar The Lone Star Saloon (1354 Harrison Street), wants to get out the vote this November for a local ballot
SF News Justice Department Says Homeless Shouldn't Be Cited, Sit/Lie Laws Unconstitutional A recent statement by the U.S. Department of Justice regarding a little-known local ordinance in Boise, Idaho could have broad-ranging impacts on ordinances elsewhere pertaining to homeless people's right to exist in
Arts & Entertainment Burner Dad Writes First Burning Man Children's Book Yes, it's true. People bring children to Burning Man. Lots of people. And lest you assume as I did when I wrote this diatribe against parents who subject their children to the annual
SF News Video: Homeless Amputee Taken Down By 14 Cops At Seventh And Market An incident occurred on mid-Market two weeks ago in which a one-legged man with crutches was reported, possibly by a nearby business owner, for waving some "sticks" around in the vicinity. Though we
SF News Remembering Anastasia, The Homeless Trans Woman Who Died In The Castro (Who May Not Have Been Trans) No one knew much about the mentally ill, homeless person who called herself Anastasia when she died on a bench outside Peet's Coffee in the Castro on New Year's Eve. Various people in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Checking In On Mozzeria, The Deaf-Owned Pizzeria On 16th San Francisco's first deaf-owned restaurant, and the only deaf-owned-and-operated restaurant anywhere in the country, Mozzeria, will celebrate four years in business this December. As of last year, they just added a food truck
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Prison-Cell-Like SRO They're Calling An 'Efficiency' I considered highlighting another expensive atrocity this week - a $6500 one-bedroom that comes with some nice countertops, proximity to Duboce Park, free SF maid service, and constant noise from the Muni light
SF News Video: How El Niño Works The will-we-or-won't-we game has begun with regard to the "Godzilla El Niño" taking shape off our coast, and this week we got the U.S. Climate Prediction Center’s monthly update which only
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cadillac Bar & Grill Debuts At Twitter Building Another one of several new food spots to debut in the Market Square complex opened this week, and that's the revamp of long-ago SF margarita and Tex-Mex destination, The Cadillac Bar & Grill.
SF News One Year On, No Apparent Progress In Feather Lynn Murder It's been a full year since the "suspicious death" of 31-year-old Bryan Higgins a.k.a. Feather Lynn on Church Street, and six months since police said they had identified a person of
SF News Ron Conway Donations In District 3 Fight Questioned The only two local-official elections that will be at all interesting this November are the Sheriff's race in which incumbent Ross Mirkarimi will have to fend of bad press and a back-room campaign
