SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Exclusive: SoMa's Heyday Expands With Second Location All-organic breakfast and lunch spot Heyday, which opened its original location at 180 Spear Street in 2013, is set to branch out with a new, second location at 555 Mission Street (between First
Arts & Entertainment That Outdoor Cinema At Hayes Valley's PROXY May Finally Happen This Fall It turned out to be a lie when we were promised outdoor movies at Hayes Valley's semi-permanent PROXY complex last fall, and it looks as though the concept for the space has morphed
Arts & Entertainment Watch 'The Rejected,' A Recently Rediscovered 1961 Documentary Thought To Be The First Ever Made About Gay People Two local archivists recently triumphed after a six-year treasure hunt, trying to locate an existing copy of a 54-year-old documentary that aired on PBS stations called "The Rejected." Made in 1961 and produced
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Why Is Apple So Obsessed With Tartine Bakery? We've all become pretty accustomed to seeing Bay Area references and shoutouts popping up in the demos and advertising for Apple products West Coast time is always listed as Cupertino time, the doomed
Arts & Entertainment Burner Air Will Airlift The Burner Bourgeoisie To The Playa For Just $2200 If Burning Man were not already a pretty expensive endeavor for the common folk, a new airline that is actually named Burner Air is offering quick flights for all those who can afford
SF News [Updated] Supes Approve Soda Ad Warnings; Will Iconic SoMa Coca-Cola Billboard Get One? The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve warning labels on all print and billboard ads for sodas and sugary drinks in the city, akin to the warnings seen on tobacco
Arts & Entertainment Not A Joke: Local Bank Introduces Robot Greeters That Dance To 'Gangnam Style' In a highly questionable move aimed at carving a niche for themselves as a local brick-and-mortar bank, and at marketing themselves to tech people (?), Sterling Bank & Trust has "hired" two robots to
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Day In The Life Of A Warriors Cheerleader In honor of tonight's Game 3 of the NBA Finals, here's an amusing behind-the-scenes look at a day in the life of Amira, a dance captain on the Warriors' Dance Team. "As an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Chronicle Food Columnist GraceAnn Walden Dies A notoriously feisty monger of local restaurant gossip, GraceAnn Walden, has passed away suddenly of unknown causes. Walden was the founding columnist writing The Inside Scoop in the Chronicle, beginning in 1991, dealing
Arts & Entertainment Rec & Parks Begs You To '#LoveDolores' And Not Destroy The New North Side Of The Park You know how we told you that the freshly sodded north half of Dolores Park would be reopening June 18? And remember how Rec & Parks came up with that loony public-service campaign
SF News The 2016 Presidential Race Has Its Own Emperor Norton Have you heard about His Royal Majesty Caesar Saint Augustine de Buonaparte Emperor of the United States of Turtle Island? Well he's a Malibu resident who's been officially running for President in every
SF News 19-Year-Old Struck During High-Speed Pursuit At 8th And Market Is Summer Intern At Square The pedestrian who was struck by a speeding BMW last Tuesday night while crossing the street at 8th and Market remains hospitalized at SF General but is now recovering and has spoken to
SF News Day Around The Bay: Plane Makes Emergency Landing On 101 The FBI will be helping Oakland police solve some the city's unsolved homicides, and this bothers some privacy activists. [Chron] A small plane with four people inside made an emergency landing on Highway
Arts & Entertainment How To Take A 7x7x7x7-Mile Walking Tour Of San Francisco Via a group of friends who just completed one of these urban hikes/treks, I bring you a quick how-to guide for walking completely around the city in one great big circle. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NYT Food Writer Mark Bittman Launches Video Series About California For the last couple of years, New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman has been having an extended love affair with California, and with the Bay Area in particular. It seems like he
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Name For Bar Replacing Truck: The Wooden Nickel Following our report last week that Mission gay bar Truck is set to close fairly soon, a tipster sent in the public notice of the liquor license transfer which has the DBA for
SF News Just How Many Apartments In SF Are Being Used As Full-Time Airbnb Rentals? A few weeks back the city's Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office, at the behest of Supervisor David Campos, put out a report in which they attempted to estimate how many "commercial users"
SF News People Lined Up Overnight To Get Good Seats At Apple Conference Keynote Today Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference descends on SF this week, just two weeks after Google's developer conference, and ticket-holders still line up overnight for these things even when there isn't a big product announcement
SF News BART Shutting Down All East Bay-SF Service During Two Late-Summer Weekends You know all the urgent track maintenance BART has been talking about that has to get done? Well, now the transit agency is announcing that it will be shutting down all service between
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Sufjan Stevens at the Fox There are moments during shows at the Fox Theater when the majesty of the space lends its cathedral-like weight to the performer on stage, elevating their music to the eternal plane of hymns.
SF News Campos Called To Task For Saying He's 'Proud' Of 100-Percent Non-Affordable Vida Development Supervisor David Campos was on a KQED radio program recently discussing the proposed moratorium on market-rate housing development in the Mission Scott Wiener was on the program too, arguing the con side. And
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Another Illegal, Kitchen-Less Cell You know you have a right to a kitchen, right? Yeah, even if it's just a sink and a hotplate and a mini-fridge, that's what's required to exist in a legally rentable unit.
Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho To Host Pre-Pride Benefit Called 'Cirque' At Dirty Habit SF-born comedian Margaret Cho, whom we've been seeing a whole lot more of since her recent divorce, will be back in town hosting a pre-Pride affair on Thursday, June 25, at Dirty Habit
SF News Deplorable Teens Rob Elderly Ice Cream Vendor At Gunpoint Two teenagers, described as a 17-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, robbed a 68-year-old man selling ice cream and frozen treats on a Mission sidewalk Wednesday, as the Examiner reports. The robbery occurred
SF News City Attorney Now Suing Evil Landlord Who's Been Forcing Out Rent-Controlled Tenants A real estate investor who for the last two years has been hellbent on kicking out tenants paying below-market rents in order to re-rent units for more money is now facing a lawsuit
