Arts & Entertainment War Brewing In Castro Between Party Promoters, Merchants, And City Workers Over Ripping Down Posters Lampposts and street poles in the Castro have long been plastered with images of half-naked men and drag queens on posters promoting gay events in and around the neighborhood. There's good reason for
SF News Weather Report: This Is Not July Sure we've had our share of gray days this month, and the Fourth was predictably socked in. But July in San Francisco in 2015 hasn't been half bad! The weather was lovely and
SF News Missing 8-Year-Old Found Dead In Santa Cruz Dumpster; Teen Neighbor Arrested Nationwide media attention and a statewide Amber alert ensued after reports of the disappearance of Madyson "Maddy" Middleton in Santa Cruz on Sunday just after 5 p.m. But after police canvassed the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Updates On Three Wildfires Still Raging The Wragg Fire near Lake Berryessa, which we talked about last week, remains at 6,591 acres as of early Monday and is 70 percent contained. Further north and east, the Lowell Fire
Arts & Entertainment Stinking 'Corpse Flower' Blooms For One Day In Berkeley, People Flock To Sniff Stench Over at the UC Botanical Garden in Berkeley, a rare Indonesian "corpse flower" specimen that's been blooming every three to four years began spreading its ghastly bloom on Saturday night, and was available
SF News 93-Year-Old Foster City Man Charged In Stabbing Death Of 90-Year-Old Wife In a sad case of what appears to have been a botched murder-suicide, a 93-year-old man has been charged with the murder of his 90-year-old wife after he failed to adequately inflict a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Amazon To Launch First Drive-Thru Grocery Pick-Up Concept In Sunnyvale It looks as though Amazon is going to be experimenting with a new drive-up grocery concept tied to their online grocery ordering system, Amazon Fresh. So, rather than relying on a fleet of
SF News Spike In Car Break-Ins Has Many Blaming Prop 47 Since last summer we've been talking about the recent spike in petty crime, in particular car burglaries and car thefts, and new numbers out of the SFPD suggest that car break-ins in particular
SF News [Updated] More Bad News For Warriors Arena As City Report Predicts Traffic Nightmares While that shadowy coalition of wealthy UCSF donors opposing the Warriors Arena plan is expected to unveil their own traffic impact report today, a city-commissioned environmental impact report on the arena also paints
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: David Kinch's The Bywater Arrives In Los Gatos, Alamo Drafthouse Gets A Bar Guy, And More This week's food news was pretty rich, between the closing announcement from Urchin Bistrot, the important update on Wise Sons Bagel, the taker for the Abbot's Cellar space, and our discovery of ShakeDown
SF News Here's A Map Of Every Shark Attack Ever In The Bay Area Yes, there has been an increase in shark sightings along the California coast of late, possibly due to the coming El Niño, as the Chron recently reported marine wildlife anomalies tend to happen,
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: How Much Would You Bid For This Awful Cave? Ah, greed. Rather than pick a price based on comparable local units, one landlord in the Inner Richmond has decided to auction his crappy studio unit and only take applications from the highest
Arts & Entertainment One Of The GlamCocks Talks About Bringing Burning Man Energy (And Costumes) To Gay Nightlife As SFist noted in this roundup of gay parties last month, one of the most noticeable trends in SF gay nightlife the last year or so has been the infiltration of Burning Man
SF News Once Again, Someone Blames Progressives For The Housing Crisis If you live in San Francisco, or if you've lived here in the last few years, you've participated in this debate 100 times already. Why do we have an affordability crisis? Because we
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bowling Alley Still Up For Grabs! Remember that old Oakland bowling alley we told you about a couple weeks ago that was on the market and a sale was pending? It fell through. [SF Mag] There's a battle being
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo Du Jour: Michael Bauer, Incognito Arguably anonymous Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer took another step toward non-anonymity with an on-camera interview recently. This interview with The New West's Will Hearst appears to have been posted last month, but
SF News 'Godzilla El Niño' Now Being Called 'Strongest In Recorded History' Um, guys? This winter could be a disaster! But the skiing is probably going to be insane. A new piece in the Washington Post, and the new thermographic image above, are here to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wise Sons Bagel Will Finally Become A Reality At Fillmore And Geary This Fall Today we get both an in-depth look at the state of the Bay Area bagel in the New York Times Magazine, which features Wise Sons Bagel, and a feature story in the Chronicle
SF News Your UberX Driver Is Also Probably Your Postmates And Washio Delivery Person A new survey by a dubiously named outfit called SherpaShare which itself is a service portal for workers in the gig/sharing economy confirms that many drivers for services like Uber and Lyft
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Valencia Restaurant Shakeout Continues As Urchin Bistrot Calls It Quits After just under a year in business, Urchin Bistrot is closing on July 31, having never quite drawn the crowds it hoped to on the busy restaurant corridor of Valencia. As Inside Scoop
SF News You Won't Be Able To Get Home On The Muni Underground After 10 PM Starting July 31 Muni will once more try to ruin your life starting next month as a planned and not well publicized six-month late-night shutdown of the entire underground system begins to make upgrades to its
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Nine Best Veggie Burgers In SF (And Oakland) Not all veggie burgers are created equal, just as not all meat burgers are created equal, and many a vegetarian and vegan will tell you this. "Compressed patties of yuck" is how SFist's
SF News SF Woman And Boyfriend Assaulted By Fellow Lyft Line Passenger Everyone who loves the cheapness of Uber Pool and Lyft Line, take heed: You never know who you're sharing a car with. A cautionary tale came in via the tip line regarding a
SF News Reminder: We Are Still Due For A Big Earthquake On The Hayward Fault Scientists and KRON 4 are using Tuesday morning's tiny quake on the Hayward Fault as an excuse to remind us all that a big and potentially deadly earthquake is due "any day now,
SF News Gavin Newsom And Marijuana Task Force Want To Regulate Legal Pot-Grows Like Breweries A Blue Ribbon Commission with a mission to create a policy framework for the eventual (inevitable) legalization of marijuana in California has just released a new "Pathways Report." The report gets specific for
