SF News Woman Found Imprisoned In Closet In Richmond For A Year By Facebook Mail-Order Husband A 35-year-old man and a male relative were arrested Tuesday in Richmond's Iron Triangle neighborhood on suspicion of human trafficking and a host of other offenses after a woman was rescued from the
SF News Day Around The Bay: MTV's <em>Real World</em> Casting Comes To SF Again Apple's financials didn't turn out so bad, with profit up 38 percent, but their stock price still slipped in after-hours trading. [NYT] The Real World, which apparently will never end on MTV, is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley's Pyramid Alehouse Shuts Down After 18 Years Fans of the big, indoor-outdoor Pyramid Alehouse brewpub in deepest Berkeley will be sad this week to learn that the place has abruptly shut down. As the East Bay Express reports, the brewery
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luna Park Officially Closed; Notices On Door Suggest Foreclosure As of last month we knew that Valencia Street mainstay Luna Park had been sold to the owner of Mission Beach Cafe and a closure was probably imminent and this followed on an
SF News Twitter Just Killed Off Background Images, Twitterers Revolt Over 'Blinding' Whiteness Gone is the default pastel blue, and gone are all your custom wallpapers on public timelines as Twitter makes the bold decision to make everyone's web feed pages the same, uniform, plain white.
Arts & Entertainment Tenderloin Museum Opens In Former Sizzler Steakhouse Space Did you know that multiple cities in the U.S., including New York, once had sketchy neighborhoods nicknamed "Tenderloin" all because policemen could always expect bribes and/or hazard pay for working there,
SF News Does San Francisco Need A New Jail? The Board of Supervisors will vote today on whether to go after $80 million in state funding for the construction of a new county jail facility to replace the seismically unsound one we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Cold Beer Cold Water' Guy Moving To Hawaii!! Important news from the world of Dolores Park vendors: Infamous 'Cold beer cold water' dude, known only otherwise as James, has announced he's moving to Hawaii in a matter of weeks. As Uptown
SF News Video: Crazy Numbers Of Whales Showing Up Around The Bay It's not just that family of humpbacks spotted in the Bay in May, or these whales frollicking near Seal Rock two weeks ago there's actually hundreds more whales showing up, particularly between the
SF News [Updated] Case Study In Affordable Housing Proves That BMR Buyers Can Get Shafted Remember the viral story about the "poor door" that a New York developer was fighting to construct so that wealthy residents in the new building would not have to rub elbows with, or
SF News Rachel Dolezal Says She's Doing Black Hair To Pay The Bills, Remains Defiantly Transracial (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=
SF News Alleged Vallejo Kidnapper Says His Mental Illness Is 'Extreme' And He's 'Relieved To Be In Jail' Over the weekend KPIX/CBS 5 snagged the first jailhouse interview with suspected kidnapper and all around freaky dude Matthew Muller. While they weren't allowed to bring a camera into the jail, reporter
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Sunday Night's Brilliant Sunset Sunday brought one of those rare, actually warm SF nights, with temperatures all over town over 70 degrees well past sunset. And the sunset itself aided by the outer-ring cloud remnants of Hurricane
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Matilda, The Musical' At The Orpheum Theater Local fans of Roald Dahl's 1988 children's novel Matilda have likely been eager to see the Royal Shakespeare Company's five-year-old musical based on it, which is a dark and boisterous adaptation by director
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Petit Crenn Aims For Early August Debut In Former Bar Jules Digs Ever since we learned in April that the replacement for longtime Hayes Valley neighborhood favorite Bar Jules would be a new casual spot from chef Dominique Crenn, called Petit Crenn, I've been eager
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Live In A Sad Sunset Garage For $1300 In a bid to provide affordable housing for area students, one Sunset family is generously offering the use of their converted garage for a mere $1300 a month. A few years ago, a
SF News Cleaning Service Startup Homejoy Shuts Down Over Worker Classification Lawsuits In what could be the first of several shakeups in the "on-demand" / "gig economy," San Francisco-based startup Homejoy is calling it quits on July 31. The primary reason: It's fighting four lawsuits over
SF News Over A Year After Fire At Dolores And 14th, Residents Still Displaced An anonymous tipster wrote in to report that despite initial reports that only a few people in the six-story building that is 87 Dolores would need to be displaced following an April 2014
Arts & Entertainment Outdoor Cinema In Hayes Valley Becomes Non-Profit After Kickstarter Fails The expanded outdoor cinema project at Hayes Valley's Proxy that we told you about last month did not succeed in raising the $150,000 it was looking to raise via Kickstarter. But, as
SF News Google Self-Driving Car Involved In Its First Minor Injury Accident One of Google's 23 self-driving Lexus SUVs was rear-ended in recent weeks at an intersection in Mountain View, and three employees who were in the car at the time suffered minor whiplash. The
SF News Day Around The Bay: Missing Snake Found! SF was just ranked the 4th worst city in which to drive. [HuffPo] That poisonous snake that apparently went missing at the SF Zoo over the weekend and was presumed dead? It wasn't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Sketchiest Safeways, Ranked A couple years back SFist did you the solid of listing the city's five worst Walgreens. Now, as a new report arrives via Hoodline about one downtown Safeway in particular (145 Jackson Street)
Arts & Entertainment Video: Peek Inside The Renovated Herbst Theater, Reopening In September The Herbst Theater, a.k.a. the San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building, which was originally built as a more utilitarian twin to the War Memorial Opera House next door, has been undergoing
SF News Real Estate Sadness: Crumbling Noe Valley Shack Lists For $1.6M I don't know. Do we really need to get into this? It's another tale of crazy real estate prices, a total tear-down, and the desperation of some with money to own a little
SF News Judge Recommends $7M Fine, Suspension For Uber Over Skirting California Regulations In a ruling by an administrative law judge over claims by the California Public Utilities Commission that Uber had refused to provide necessary information to regulators, Uber is being fined $7.3 million
