SF News Weekend BART Closure Not The Disaster It Was Expected To Be The weekend-long interruption of transbay BART service, which allowed BART crews to do some needed track work in and outside of the Transbay Tube, turned out not to create the traffic nightmare that
SF News There Are Now 21 Wildfires Burning In California; Rocky Fire Grows To 60,000 Acres What's turned out to be the most massive wildfire of the season so far, the Rocky Fire that began last Wednesday in Lake County has now spread across two other county lines, Colusa
Arts & Entertainment Trailer Drops For Unauthorized Steve Jobs Documentary By The Guy Who Made 'Going Clear' Alex Gibney, the director who made the provocative HBO documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, has just made a new doc about the man who made Apple, Steve Jobs, titled
SF News Day Around The Bay: Muni's E Line Rolls Up The Embarcadero Reminder! Muni is shutting down the underground Metro at 9:30 or 10 p.m. starting tonight. Also there is no BART service Saturday or Sunday between West Oakland and Embarcadero Stations. [BART]
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Doesn't Anyone Want This $6800 One-Bedroom? I must be getting jaded, ladies and gentlemen, because when this ad for a $6800/mo "custom" one-bedroom first was shown to me a week or so ago, my first instinct was "yeah
SF News Yellow Cab Offers $35 Flat Fare To SFO This is decently big news in the taxi/rideshare wars: SF's Yellow Cab is doing what New York City taxis have been doing for a couple decades and finally offering a flat-rate fare
SF News The First Blue Moon In Three Years Arrives Tonight Point of information: The phrase "once in a blue moon" should convey something that happens not that often, but also often enough that it's not ultra-rare, like a blue moon, which is most
SF News The Zuckerbergs Are Pregnant Brace yourselves for the Zuckerbaby! Mark Zuckerberg took to Facebook this morning to announce that his wife Priscilla is pregnant with a baby girl. Also, did you know they had one of those
SF News Beloved Teacher Missing For Two Weeks In El Dorado National Forest 44-year-old Ed Cavanaugh, a teacher in SF's Downtown High School, went missing on July 17 near a cabin where he often retreated in the deep woods of El Dorado National Forest. An avid
SF News 24-Year-Old Man Suing SFPD Over Excessive Force During Post-Dyke March Protest There were various reports about some chaos, and police intervention, outside the old Lexington Club on Pink Saturday, after an offshoot of the planned Dyke March went rogue and decided to follow the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Chef Daniel Patterson Hires New Exec Chef At Coi, Will Be Stepping Back Next Year Highly decorated local chef Daniel Patterson, who's one of only two Bay Area chefs (the other is David Kinch) to be cited for his innovations in the Modernist Cuisine tome, is making the
SF News Classmates Of Suspected Murderer Adrian Gonzalez Speak Out, Say He Seemed 'Sweet' The case of the assault and murder of 8-year-old Madyson Middleton is frustrating for a new reason as more friends and classmates speak out about the only suspect in the case, 15-year-old Adrian
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SF News Fire Updates: Rocky Fire Grows To 8,000 Acres; Big Creek Fire Grows Near Yosemite A wildfire to our north in Lake County that broke out Wednesday afternoon quickly spread to burn 8,000 acres of trees and brush. It's called the Rocky Fire, and the Chron reports
Arts & Entertainment Morrissey Says Security Officer At SFO Groped His Junk Britain's greatest dour crooner Morrissey was in the Bay Area last weekend performing a Saturday show at the Event Center at San Jose State, and once again he departed here with a major
SF News City Settles For $20K With Cyclist Beaten By Police At Valencia Gardens Though it seems like a fairly paltry sum of money, the City Attorney's office has settled with a man who lives at the Valencia Gardens housing complex who claims he was brutalized and
SF News Day Around The Bay: Both Twitter And Yelp Are In Trouble Twitter has stopped growing its monthly active user base, and execs admit that they don't anticipate new growth until reaching a "mass market" which could take a "significant amount of town." Also, they're
SF News Car Chase Out Of The City Ends In Murder In South San Francisco A bizarre chase involving multiple people and two vehicles ended near a 30-foot cliff in South San Francisco where the Chron reports a body was discovered Tuesday afternoon, at the base of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 16 Best Tacos In San Francisco A person could spend a couple months eating at a different taco establishment every day and still not exhaust San Francisco's supply. Naturally they're not all good, but many are, and we're likely
SF News 15-Year-Old Suspect Named, Charged As An Adult In Rape And Murder Of Maddy Middleton Earlier today, KRON 4 reported on new details in the case of the murder of eight-year-old Madyson "Maddy" Middleton in Santa Cruz on Sunday namely that she had been raped and strangled to
Arts & Entertainment Dolores Park Neighbor Is Sick And Tired Of All The 'Events' In The Park Watch out #dolorespark Carmen wants her parking spot back! #LessLitterMoreFliers pic.twitter.com/PX53B4UlrS— Justin Bigelow (@jdbig) July 28, 2015 This is funny: A woman named Carmen who lives near Dolores Park has
SF News The Case Of The Western Addition Housing Complex Sale Is One Of A Nonprofit Gone Rogue So, the story I brought you the outlines of yesterday about Frederick Douglas Haynes Gardens turns out to be just as odd as it seemed, and involves a church, a nonprofit it created,
Arts & Entertainment Regulator Rules Facebook Has To Allow Pseudonyms... In Germany A data protection authority in Hamburg, Germany has ordered Facebook to allow its German users to employ names of their choosing, because to do otherwise would violate their right to privacy, as Reuters
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chino Temporarily Closed, New Chef Moving In 16th Street dumpling spot Chino, which has been fairly popular since its 2014 opening but failed to fully impress the foodinistas when it came to their signature dumplings, is undergoing a revamp of
SF News [Updated] Hayes Valley-Adjacent Section 8 Project Being Sold To Speculator, Flipped As Market-Rate With $7,000 Rents? We're getting word of a crazy story, without complete details, about a possible pending sale of a Section 8 housing project at 1049 Golden Gate Avenue, near Laguna, that was built with help
