SF News Oakland Braces For Major May Day Mayhem As we mentioned the other day, some dueling protests are going to converge on Oakland this May Day, tomorrow, possibly reviving some Occupy-level chaos in the city's streets. As ABC 7 reports in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Man Accused Of Attempting To Set Castro Bar On Fire Is Former Gay Web Cam Model A 27-year-old man named Troy Collin McCormick has pleaded not guilty to arson charges in connection with an incident that occurred a week ago Tuesday at Hi Tops in the Castro. As bar
SF News Day Around The Bay: Those Water Usage Fines Might Hit $10,000 The SFPD cites eight times as many black people as they do white people for resisting arrest. [Chron] An iPad app used by pilots in all American Airlines cockpits malfunctioned Tuesday causing widespread
Arts & Entertainment Peeking Inside The Historic, Almost-Open Strand Theater, A.C.T.'s New Second Home On Market Street Now after three years of fundraising and construction, SF's American Conservatory Theater is getting set to show the public its brand new performance space on mid-Market, The Strand Theater (1117 Market at 7th)
Arts & Entertainment This Is Just A Video Of Hunter Pence Shaking His Ass It's all in the hips #InternationalDanceDay A video posted by Hunter Pence (@hunterpence) on Apr 29, 2015 at 12:46pm PDT Everybody's favorite injured outfielder (he's supposed to be back on the field
SF News Yep, Uber Is Getting In The Delivery Game, Big Time As predicted a year and a half ago, Uber has much bigger plans than being just "everyone's private driver." As Tech Crunch is reporting via some leaked training docs, Uber's in the process
SF News Fire Breaks Out In Apartment Building at Guerrero And 18th Huge fire right behind my apartment on Gurrero... @SFist pic.twitter.com/J0g67hrXVG— Jessica Kennedy (@artjcake) April 29, 2015 Welp, I guess we have a fire day on our hands. An apartment fire
Arts & Entertainment Get Vodka-Drunk At The Miss Russian SF Beauty Pageant This Sunday Did you know San Francisco had its own beauty/talent competition only for Russian expats? Well, we do. And it's actually a semi-finalist race in preparation for the Miss Russian California pageant that
Arts & Entertainment Apple Watch Shatters Pretty Easily, Doesn't Work With Wrist Tattoos, Might Irritate Sensitive Skin It's been five days since the Apple Watch came out, and the internet has rushed to put the device through a litany of non-professional impact and torture tests, because who needs Consumer Reports
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Liverpool Lil's Damaged By Morning Fire Popular Marina pub Liverpool Lil's (2942 Lyon at Lombard) was hit with a two-alarm fire this morning which as far as we know is still ongoing. A tipster sent in the above and
Arts & Entertainment Video: Apple Watch Destroyed By Blender The people at Blendtec, the blender manufacturer, have been doing this "Will it blend?" thing for a while now, via YouTube, to market their blenders. Now, overly smarmy "scientist" Tom Dickson (he's actually
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Summer Fog Rolls In Early This photo posted this morning by Redditor blueski shows the fog rolling in/burning off from the vantage of 20th and Noe. This may or may not be attributable to the approach of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bernal Heights Restaurant Little Nepal Hosts Earthquake Fundraiser One of San Francisco's two Himalayan/Nepalese restaurants, Little Nepal (925 Cortland) in Bernal Heights, is hosting a fundraiser Thursday, April 30, to benefit victims of the devastating earthquake that occurred there Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment Video: If Facebook Actually Filtered Everything That Annoyed You The joke, of course, is that if there were a Dislike button, or if the algorithm could actually read all the disdain, judgement, and jealousy you feel as you scan your Facebook feed,
SF News Model Whose Face Was Slammed To The Ground During Arrest Now Suing BART, Oakland Police An extra-drunken St. Patrick's Day led to one San Francisco woman getting slammed to the ground by BART police, her face severely bloodied, four bones in her face broken, and two teeth damaged.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cole Valley's Ice Cream Bar Getting A Spinoff In The Castro Excellent news for Castro residents with sweet tooths: The Ice Cream Bar, the old-timey soda fountain and ice cream parlor in Cole Valley, is moving in on the former L'Occitane space at 554
SF News Separate Tech Shuttle And Black Lives Matter Protests Planned For Oakland On May Day The Google bus blockades are not over! Separate protest events will be happening on Friday May 1 in two different parts of Oakland, in recognition of International Workers' Day, a.k.a. May
SF News Day Around The Bay: Which Supes Agreed To Ride Muni? You know how the Transit Riders Union issued that challenge to the Supervisors and the Mayor to ride Muni to work at least 22 days in June? Well, seven of them signed on,
SF News SF's Wealthy Can Now Rent Audi R8 Spyders For $1285 Per Day Do you have a pile of cash just sitting around that you were considering using for kindling in your barbecue? Perhaps you enjoy driving fancy cars, but despite having plenty of money to
SF News Facebook, Other Tech Companies Step Up To Help Nepal, Matching Donations For Relief Effort A number of tech companies stepped up in the wake of the disastrous earthquake in Nepal over the weekend, but so far Facebook seems to have emerged with a surfeit of generosity, as
SF News 160-Year-Old SF Jeweler Shreve & Co. Getting Pushed Out Of Union Square Building That Bears Its Name The latest victim of rising rents and opportunistic landlords is a heritage retailer of the Union Square area, Shreve & Co., a Bay Area jewelry business that dates back to the Gold Rush
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Stuff: It's Super Duper Day, Everyone For everyone who didn't just get their first VC round or some exorbitant signing bonus and who toils, with the rest of us, among the moderately paid non-elite, free lunch is still a
SF News Stop Flying Your Drones Around The Golden Gate Bridge! Multiple times a month, remote controlled drones have been seen buzzing the iconic Golden Gate Bridge shooting videos like the one above, but there are a couple of major problems with this according
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: The Tenderloin Basement Of Your Dreams Try to imagine the kind of apartment where, in fiction or in a tabloid murder, the school custodian who is also a pedophile would live, and you might come close to this little
SF News Airbnb Violations Now Being Used More Often Than The Ellis Act In Evicting SF Tenants Many San Francisco renters, especially those living in rent-controlled units, have likely had to sign leases, or revised leases, with their landlords in recent years that specifically prohibit short-term rental of the unit
