Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Tent Near Google For $965/Month This week's Apartment Sadness came in via the tip line a couple days ago, and subsequently blew up in the local media for reasons that should be obvious. Some opportunistic 22-year-old dude who
SF News The Bay Area Reacts To Historic Same-Sex Marriage Ruling; Street Party Planned In Castro Troy Brunet is here standing at 17th and Castro in San Francisco waiving this flag -- "it's like a sigh of relief" pic.twitter.com/4KsaspMWQc— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) June 26, 2015 Cars
SF News Day Around The Bay: This Weekend Will Be Very Trafficky A new proposal would slash stolen car towing fees for auto theft victims in SF. (Under current law, victims have 20 minutes to come claim their car wherever police find it, or pay
SF News SF Houses Go For $1 Million Over Asking Because Realtors Are Under-Pricing Everything There's a weird psychology happening now around SF's over-heated and wildly expensive housing market. Basically, if realtors put things on the market for what they actually should be priced at, given all the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anthony Bourdain Spotted Filming At Sinbad's Well this is interesting. Food world bad boy turned world-traveling culinary explorer Anthony Bourdain was spotted in the Bay Area this week, on Monday, at the much talked about and clearly endangered Sinbad's,
Arts & Entertainment The 17 Best Gay and Lesbian Clubs And Parties In San Francisco It's Pride Week, and with that comes a whole bevy of once-a-year parties to fill the dance cards of every LGBT party kid in town. But San Francisco is, after all, one of
Arts & Entertainment Trailer: 'Advantageous', Showing This Weekend At The Roxie Bay Area-raised director Jennifer Phang's Sundance Jury Prize-winning film Advantageous tells the story of a futuristic corporation called The Center for Advanced Health and Living, which offers an alternative to invasive plastic surgery
SF News BART May Finally Reopen Public Restrooms Shut Since 9/11 Fourteen years on, the BART board is mulling a proposal to remodel and reopen 10 underground BART station restrooms, all of which have remained closed to the public since the week of September
SF News Gorgeous Residential High-Rise Project Designed By Jeanne Gang Threatened By Art Agnos, Waterfront NIMBYs This fantastic high-rise development proposed for one of the last remaining Transbay District sites at Folsom and Spear is facing some major opposition from former mayor and frequent anti-waterfront-development activist Art Agnos, and
SF News Ridiculous Ballot Measure Calling For Killing Of Gay People Tossed Out By California Judge In case there was any doubt, and needless to report, a California judge has summarily dismissed the proposed Sodomite Suppression Act, a ballot measure written by a bigoted Orange County lawyer that advocated
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sean Parker Plans To Give Away All His Money The Board of Supervisors narrowly voted to approve an advisory resolution (that is, it’s not enforceable) to hire more police officers after a lengthy argument, [Chron, Examiner] That unruly jerk of a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley Restaurant Removes Signature Portobello Fritters From Menu, Diners Revolt At Rivoli in Berkeley, there have been some portobello mushroom fritters on the menu that were introduced by chef-owner Wendy Brucker back in the '90s that became a signature of the restaurant. They're
SF News Bay Bridge Bolts Show More 'Ominous' Cracks, May Not Even Be Safe To Drive On The saga of the cracked bolts on the Bay Bridge's two-year-old eastern span continues as experts testified Tuesday at a bridge oversight panel meeting. Even though there was a minor bit of good
Arts & Entertainment Perez Hilton To Play Bob Saget In <i>Full House: The Musical!</i> An off-Broadway musical set to premiere in New York this fall will lampoon the sitcom Full House, and will give celebrity barnacle Perez Hilton a new opportunity to show off his talents as
SF News Dry Rot Confirmed As Cause Of Fatal Balcony Collapse In Berkeley Berkeley building inspectors have determined that water seepage and dry rot were to blame for the balcony collapse that took the lives of six young people last week, five of them on J1
Arts & Entertainment How To Do SF Pride: An LGBT Pride Week Guide Of course you must know by now, at least via all the rainbow flags on Market Street or via your one gay friend, that it's LGBT Pride Week. As SFist has discussed in
SF News Gmail Now Lets You Take Back Email You Just Sent Though the feature has been available to those in the know as a public beta option for a while now in Gmail Labs, Gmail has now made their Undo Send feature fully legitimized
Arts & Entertainment Alamo Square Was Once 'A Primeval Forest Of Rocks' Fought Over By Land-Grabbers The history of certain pockets of real estate in San Francisco is fascinating, and young historian Griffin Estes has pulled together a pretty thorough timeline of tidbits for Hoodline about how Alamo Square
Arts & Entertainment You Can Own Whoopi Goldberg's Long-Ago Berkeley Home For $1.275M Actor and comedian Whoopi Goldberg, n&233;e Caryn Johnson, did some of her first work as a performer in Berkeley in the 1970s, and it was there after she had her
Arts & Entertainment Oaklanders Break Longest Soul Train Record With 337 Dancers KTVU - Over the weekend and I'm shocked that I somehow didn't hear about this earlier a group of 337 Oaklanders broke the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous soul train. This
SF News Now Uber Wants To Track Your Location Even When App Is Not Running Rapidly expanding, IPO-hinting "technology platform" Uber makes way too many headlines these days. But in the case of their new privacy policy, due to take effect July 15, it feels like they may
SF News Day Around The Bay: Instacart Converts A Bunch Of Its Contractors Into Employees Apparently seeing the direction in which the wind is blowing, Instacart’s converting some independent contractors into part-time employees. CEO Apoorva Mehta acknowledges that the company's best "shoppers" are the ones who are
Arts & Entertainment Proposals For Renovated Palace Of Fine Arts Include Two Gym Complexes, And An Arts Center An initial RFP (request for proposals) went out last fall to gauge interest a revamped and reimagined Palace of Fine Arts complex. The Marina-adjacent complex, which along with the outdoor promenades and landmark
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lucky Charms And Trix To Lose Artificial Colors, May 'Look Different' Says General Mills Two of the most iconic brands of the great American cereal kaleidoscope, Lucky Charms and Trix, are both getting reformulated in the coming year by cereal-maker General Mills. As the company announced via
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Temple Takes Shape Again, Gets Its 37-Foot Spire Today In Hayes Valley New temple being constructed in Patricia's Green #BurningMan #HayesValley pic.twitter.com/HOnxuRTLmX— Dave Lester (@davelester) June 22, 2015 As we mentioned the other week, artist David Best is building a brand new
