Arts & Entertainment Checking Back In On The Transbay Transit Center, And Its Shiny Metal 'Skin' The Transbay Transit Center, which will transform the landscape of downtown SF when it opens for business in late 2017, continues to take shape out of the ground along four blocks of Natoma
SF News Day Around The Bay: Don't Pass Cable Cars! Two cable car operators were hit earlier this year. And now @sfmta_muni is working to make the iconic job safer. http://t.co/p77rsOaDHW— KQED News (@KQEDnews) August 12, 2015 Following on
SF News Jerusalem Fire Now At 16,500 Acres, Spreads To Napa County Winds have whipped the still growing Jerusalem Fire since yesterday, spreading it across the county line so it's now burning in both Lake and Napa Counties. It also grew from 14,000 acres
SF News If You've Got $3,000 A Month To Spend On A Studio, There Are Now Hundreds To Choose From All those construction cranes you've seen across the city the past couple of years are finally resulting in a ton of new housing, however it's still not enough to satisfy demand and it's
SF News Chevron Gets Fined Over Toxic 'Flaring' In Richmond Remember when there were those huge scary flames over the Richmond Chevron refinery just before Christmas that got explained as some emergency "flaring" to avoid a potential disaster? Well, incidents like that, and
SF News Will The Sunset Finally Get Housing Density? The Board of Supervisors is set to debate and potentially pass some new legislation this fall that would allow for so-called "density bonuses" in neighborhoods where not a lot of housing density currently
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Check Out The New Menu At Chino, Which Is Back Open As reported a couple weeks back, Chino at 16th and Guerrero just got a whole food makeover at the hands of one-time Laiola chef Ron Pei. The restaurant, while pretty consistently crowded since
SF News Ex-Convict With Obvious Anger Issues Gets 12 Years, No Third Strike, For February Mayhem A 32-year-old man with a long rap-sheet and clear problems with authority, and following the law, got a reprieve from a liberal Superior Court judge who could have given him a 40-year "three
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's About Time: <i>Bon Appétit</i> Declares SF The Best Food City In The Country We saw last week that Bon Appétit restaurant critic Andrew Knowlton had named a full half-dozen new SF restaurants to his Top 50 list of new spots around the country tying us with
SF News Dead Bodies Keep Turning Up In Tenderloin SRO No One Should Have To Live In The Crosby Hotel at 516 O'Farrell Street may be a case study in poorly managed, essentially neglected Tenderloin SROs. Not only was a 48-year-old man found dead in his room last week of
SF News Jerusalem Fire Grows To 12,000 Acres A quick update on that second Lake County wildfire that broke out Sunday, the footprint of which is likely to overlap with the now almost fully contained Rocky Fire. The Jerusalem Fire, which
SF News Day Around The Bay: Outside Lands Wristband Scalper Robbed At Gunpoint Mid-Market, around Van Ness, is going to get awfully crowded with tall buildings. [Socketsite] A kid who was (illegally) selling Outside Lands wristbands on Craigslist got briefly kidnapped and robbed at gunpoint of
SF News Mirkarimi Had His License Suspended For Failing To Report Crash Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has apparently been driving on a suspended license since February, as the Chronicle is reporting, all because he failed to submit an accident report to the DMV relating to an
SF News Prominent Castro And Market Property To Go Back On The Market After Judge's Ruling A multi-year legal drama that's unfolded between the majority owners of the ARCO gas station site at Castro and Market and a developer who entered into a purchase agreement with them 11 years
SF News Another Lake County Wildfire, The Jerusalem Fire, Breaks Out Right Next To The Rocky Fire To our north in Lake County, just to the south of the Rocky Fire which has ultimately burned 70,000 acres over 12 days and is now 85 percent contained there's now a
Arts & Entertainment Photos From Sunday At Outside Lands 2015: Elton John, Sam Smith, And Sky Ferreira True to tradition, apart from Friday's unseasonable sun, things stayed pretty overcast but temperate for Outside Lands weekend, and Day Three was just as packed and dusty as Days One and Two. The
SF News Stanley Roberts Visits Outside Lands Just To Shame Uber Drivers Stopping In Bus Zones Yay! It wouldn't be a big festival/event day in San Francisco without KRON 4's Stanley Roberts finding some attendees "behaving badly." But rather than go after wristband scalpers or drug dealers this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Advocate Debuts In Berkeley, Coco Frio Arrives In The Mission This week brought us our first peek at Petit Crenn in Hayes Valley, which makes its debut next week, and some new details about Volta, the new French-ish brasserie on its way to
SF News Robin Williams's Son Zak Now Teaching Finance To San Quentin Inmates CNN Money just caught up with 32-year-old Zak Williams, son of the late Robin Williams, who has an MBA from Columbia and who lately has been co-teaching a class Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll,
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Four-Bedroom, Eight-Bed House Perfect For Your Cult Somebody in the Inner Richmond has this fairly large house that they wanted to lease for top dollar. The strategy: stuff enough beds in its four bedrooms so that it sleeps 13, and
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Rainbow Through Pretty Storm Clouds Last night's sunset combined with the storm clouds around the Bay Area and the moisture in the air produced some stunning scenes, including a rainbow over AT&T Park. Above a shot
SF News Three Of The Rainbow Girls ID'd Via Surveillance Video After Brazen Theft At Target The Rainbow Girls, now named the Rainbow Crew because two males have joined their ranks, have been terrorizing retail establishments around the city for five years now, and none have yet been arrested.
SF News Video: Lightning Show Around South Bay And Stockton Last Night The thunderstorms that Roberta Gonzalez promised us earlier this week did arrive last night, at least to our east, and not with much rain. CBS Sacramento caught the footage above from their cameras,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Nordstrom Rack Attacker Gets Jail Time 27-year-old Terrie Vaiasaga Elzie who pleaded no contest to felony assault in that Nordstrom Rack beatdown of that hipster girl who told her to quiet her child is getting four months in jail.
SF News Below-Market Units At Massive Trinity Place Complex Allegedly Being Rented Airbnb-Style The massive Trinity Place development was pushed through the city's bureaucracy over many years, through many fights, by 90-year-old local powerhouse developer Angelo Sangiacomo. When complete it will ultimately contain 1900 units of
