SF News Day Around The Bay: Cholo Speaks Out Against LGBT Mural The aunt of the two-year-old girl who was killed in a crosswalk near the Metreon last August has been acquitted of child endangerment charges. [Examiner] Portlandia moment: this Tyrannosaurus Rex art bike is
Arts & Entertainment Watch 'Dog Days,' A New Hal Hartley-Esque Web Series Set In SF "Five years ago I never thought we'd even see the day that you were marrying a man... you've come a long way, I mean, from being in a long-term relationship with an abusive
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hapa Ramen Roars Back To Life At A Late-Night Pop-Up This Sunday At Alta CA Returning to his pop-up roots, chef Richie Nakano, now with his Hapa Ramen name back, will be back to making broth this weekend at a late supper on Sunday at Daniel Patterson's Alta
SF News Good News: Bay Lights 10-Year Maintenance Deal Approved We knew that most of the funding was in place to re-install the Bay Lights in a more permanent fashion, in order to have a lifespan of at least 10 years, but today
SF News 'Godzilla El Niño' Now Predicted This Winter Back in April, meteorologists were hesitantly optimistic. But now as ocean temperatures in the Pacific are heading record highs with no signs of stopping, some weather people are getting downright bullish that this
Arts & Entertainment Frances McDormand Coming To Berkeley Rep Next Season In <em>Macbeth</em> Oscar winner and all around terrific actress and person Frances McDormand will be starring as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's dark and murderous Macbeth, next season at Berkeley Rep. The addition to the 2015-2016
SF News Video: What It Will Be Like To Drive To The Golden Gate Bridge, On Doyle Drive, As Of Monday The second set of tunnels and the viaduct leading from Doyle Drive up to the Golden Gate Bridge approach are set to open on Monday after a major road closure this weekend, and
SF News New 'Feminist' Facebook Icons Put Women Up Front A couple of subtle changes are coming to the graphic icons for Friend Requests and Groups on Facebook at the hands of in-house designer Caitlin Winner. As Winner discussed on Medium, she got
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Seven Best Frozen Cocktails In SF We almost had some summer there, right? Assuming it will be warm again in SF, someday, we bring you this concise list of some of the best in frozen cocktails, both out of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Castro Is Teeming With Vermin It may just be the fourth Castro restaurant to be shut down by the health department in recent months, but Slider's Diner (449 Castro, not to be confused with Slider Bar) has been
Arts & Entertainment Is It Possible To Truly Go On Vacation Anymore Unless You're Off The Grid? A lot of us just got back from long weekends or extended vacations and have reached Hump Day in our first week back to our media-saturated, screen-addicted reality. I myself had a three-and-a-half-day
Arts & Entertainment Video: What Apple Thought The Future Would Look Like Back In 1987 This awkward but vaguely funny joke video possibly made for inter-company joke purposes? depicts the technological advances that Apple imagined they would have made by 1997. The video gets some things right, though
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sonic Drive-Ins Coming To Oakland, Pleasanton, And Elsewhere The Oklahoma-based Sonic Drive-In, which you probably have seen many commercials for but have not necessarily sampled yourself if you've only lived in the inner Bay Area most of your life (or Manhattan
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Chipotle Burrito Bowl Just Got More Expensive Because Of The Minimum Wage Hike Chipotle fans in San Francisco are going to notice that prices across the menu have risen about 10 percent in an unannounced move that one equity research report attributes to the recent minimum
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Day Around The Bay: Local Chefs Save Water While Cooking Too California chefs, in particular several in San Francisco like Octavia/Frances chef Melissa Perello, are doing their part to conserve water during the drought, doing things like watering plants with leftover cooking water,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed New York Chef Matthew Lightner Taking Over Iconic Fagiani's In Napa Big news for downtown Napa's food scene today: The Thomas, the restaurant concept that New York design and hospitality firm AvroKO opened three years ago in the iconic Fagiani's bar space, will be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Black Bark BBQ Headed To Fillmore In September A new barbecue spinoff of the upscale 1300 on Fillmore, dubbed Black Bark BBQ, is set to open across the street this fall, possibly as early as September, as Eater is reporting. The
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Some Whales Frolicking Near Seal Rock Last Night Richmond SF posted this video from a reader that was shot around 7:30 p.m. Monday evening, as the sun was setting near Seal Rock at Ocean Beach. It was "shot from
SF News It Looks Like We Will Be Voting On Changing The 'Airbnb Law' In November Opponents of SF's short-term rental ordinance, dubbed the 'Airbnb Law,' that was passed by the Board of Supervisors last October, have succeeded in gathering almost 16,000 signatures to get a proposition
SF News Multiple Marine Mammals Found Dead Along Ocean Beach Monday At least two dead sea lions, including one large adult, and one large dolphin, washed ashore today along Ocean Beach and there may be more to come. A tipster sent in these photos
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thieves Who Stole $300K In Wine From The French Laundry Still At Large A quick update in the wine theft case that rocked the food world back in December: As mustache twins Matier & Ross report, the thieves responsible, and the wealthy wine collector in North
SF News Pleasanton Construction Firm Denied Access To Evidence In Berkeley Balcony Case; Erin Brockovich Joins Fight Against Them The story of the tragic collapse of that balcony on June 16 in Berkeley proceeds on, and as it turns out, the Pleasanton-based company Segue Construction that built the arguably faulty balconies on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved SoMa Bistro Le Charm Closing, Will Reopen As Something Very Similar Called Mathilde 20-plus-year-old French bistro Le Charm, which was serving fish quenelles in lobster sauce and onion soup to the tech geeks of the dot-com boom back when SoMa was still scrappy, is changing hands
Arts & Entertainment Videos: Illegal Fireworks Blowing Up All Over The Mission As is traditional, Saturday night (and Sunday) was ablaze with illegal rooftop and middle-of-the-street fireworks displays, particularly in the Mission and dangerous though it might be it was, as usual, the only fireworks
SF News Dolores Park Predictably Littered With Trash On July 4th Though the message may have made it out to some like most of the people who partied in Dolores Park during the day on Saturday, July 4th the people who lingered on in
