SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tsk/Tsk, A Temporary, 'Low-Brow' Watering Hole, Opens Friday On Divis Earlier we mentioned that former Bourbon & Branch guys Justin Lew and Ian Scalzo were going to be doing something they've done in the past take over a bar, and while taking some
Arts & Entertainment Siri Wants Everyone To Know That Caitlyn Jenner Only Goes By Caitlyn Jenner Ever the friends of the LGBT community, Apple has made sure that Siri delivers some proper sass when asked questions about Bruce Jenner. In fact, if you ask anything about Caitlyn Jenner's former
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The Tasting Menus At AL's Place After three years off the scene and presumably out of practice, it might have been tempting to assume that chef Aaron London was going to need some time to reacclimate to having his
SF News Weather Report: Heat Now, Maybe Rain Later This is a weird goddamn summer, right? All that rain and mist last week, combined with more possible rain from Hurricane Dolores coming up our way by the weekend, is turning this into
SF News Former Colleagues Of Suspected Kidnapper Matthew Muller Describe Him As 'Really Sweet' But Strange In the latest update on the case against suspected home invader and kidnapper-for-ransom Matthew Muller, former employers and colleagues have come forward to describe some of his behavior during the short six-month stint
SF News Uber Reaches Wrongful Death Settlement With Family of Sofia Liu A precedent-setting case against rideshare behemoth Uber has been settled, and the family of Sofia Liu, who was killed in a crosswalk by an UberX driver on New Year's Eve 2013 has won
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marijuana Edibles 'Get Baked Sale' Canceled After City Crackdown A bake sale for medical marijuana-laced edibles scheduled for August 1 has been quashed by the SF Department of Public Health after a new supervisor there ruled that such events aren't legal, as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Restaurants Protest Crazy High Fees For Composting, Will Throw Stuff In Trash Instead The City of Oakland has a contract for their waste removal and recycling that is being passed along to consumers at a far higher rate than other Bay Area cities. As the Chronicle
Arts & Entertainment Kevin Spacey Comes To Sonoma To Sing Standards This Weekend, Do A Little Comedy In an odd turn of events for Bay Area summer entertainment, Oscar winner Kevin Spacey is coming to the Green Music Center at Sonoma State University this Saturday for a one-time performance of
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Buster Posey Deliver A Baby In New Esurance Commercial The always adorable Buster Posey is the latest celebrity to appear in Esurance's new series of ads about imposters who are "sort of" like the real thing in this case Buster is sort
SF News Suspect In Vallejo Kidnapping Possibly Tied To Three More Home Invasions Since the big news yesterday that the FBI was arresting 38-year-old Matthew Muller on suspicion of kidnapping 29-year-old Denise Huskins of Vallejo back in March, Huskins and boyfriend Aaron Quinn appeared at a
SF News LGBT Seniors To Get Passed Over In Senior Housing Complex Built For Them? The affordable housing development currently under construction at 55 Laguna Street, on the former UC Berkeley Extension campus between Market Street and Haight, is being co-developed by a non-profit that helps find housing
SF News Day Around The Bay: Oakland A's Fan Sues MLB For Foul Ball Safety Nets The Chron did lengthy “special report” on Airbnb and its impact on SF in the Sunday paper, and comes up with the lower-end-of-the-spectrum number, 350, for an estimate of how many rental units
SF News More Frightening Talk About The Devastating Earthquake Likely Coming To The Pacific Northwest Those who live in Seattle and Portland may have heard inklings of this for many years, but increasingly the geological and seismic science community are sounding alarm bells about a potentially massive and
Arts & Entertainment Scenes And Sounds From The First Weekend Of 'Flower Piano' In Golden Gate Park Duke Ellington's "Take the A-Train." Pianist David Owen. A bit of Burning Man-style delight and randomness came to the SF Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park this past weekend via the first few
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Brewcade Reopens After Small Fire Caused By Next Door Hecho Castro beer-and-arcade-game spot Brewcade, now just seven and a half months old, is closed for two or three days because, according to a statement from the bar, they've got some damages to repair
SF News [Updated] Vallejo Kidnapping Of Denise Huskins Not A Hoax After All, Says FBI Prepare to have your minds blown: Remember the case of the bizarre, totally fake-sounding home-invasion kidnapping that happened in March in Vallejo that was quickly called a hoax by Vallejo police after the
SF News In Small Victory For Artificial Turf Foes, State Will Study Health Effects While our own Rec & Parks Department and plenty of turf industry folks believe they've put the matter to rest over whether artificial turf made largely from recycled rubber tires causes adverse environmental
SF News 600-Unit Residential Building Slated For Van Ness And Market The third "under-developed" corner of Van Ness and Market, a city-owned office building at 30 Van Ness that's currently home to a Walgreen's and the Department of Public Works, is now slated to
Arts & Entertainment Video: Giants Fan Splashes Into McCovey Cove Chasing Home Run Ball Your browser does not support iframes. During Friday night's Giants game against the Phillies, a home run ball hit by Joe Panik bounced out of the stands, and a young man who was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Hilton Reopens Its Top-Story Restaurant, Crafty Fox Debuts, and More Over the last few days we've had news of Black Bark BBQ coming to the Fillmore, more Sonic Drive-Ins on the way to the East Bay, Hapa Ramen doing a late-night pop-up, and
Arts & Entertainment Someone Needs To Turn This Former Oakland Bowling Alley Into Something Awesome The former Dimond Bowl, a long-ago eight-lane bowling alley that hasn't been in use for bowling since the 1970s or 80s, is up for sale, and it's kind of an amazing space. For
Arts & Entertainment Here's The View From The Embarcadero Once Six Proposed New Towers Go Up Near Howard Via Socketsite today, and a "plugged in tipster" over there, we get a rendering (likely from architects Skidmore Owings & Merrill) of their proposed 75 Howard condo building in the context of five
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Mission SRO For Just $1300 A Month This week's featured housing option it can't exactly be called an apartment is a single-room occupancy residential hotel smack in the heart of the Mission which has been advertising its rooms on Craigslist
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Goes Super Classy With Greece Promo In their weekly newsletter for San Francisco this week (and possibly other cities), Yelp decided to make light of the Greek financial crisis which the New York Times today explains is far worse
