SF News Oakland Mother Of Three Killed While Trying To Protect Children From Flying Bullets Oakland had its 19th homicide of the year on Monday afternoon, and the circumstances were especially dramatic and terrible. A 30-year-old West Oakland mother of three, Chyemil Pierce, was struck and killed by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Best Burritos In San Francisco: A Definitive List If you want to start a fight in this town, try bringing up the burrito thing. Everyone's got a favorite, and Mission boozehounds will go to the mat over the relative superiority of
SF News Notorious Landlord Accuses 70-Year-Old Grandmother Of Dealing Drugs In Mission Eviction Fight A 70-year-old woman who has enjoyed the same rent-controlled Mission apartment for four decades is now facing some newly aggressive tactics from a landlord who wants her out. As CBS 5 is reporting,
SF News Here's What $10.5 Million Buys You On Russian Hill You thought that $5 million South Park pad last week was expensive? Allow me to show you a condo of similar size that is currently commanding the highest per-square-foot price in the city.
SF News There Is Definitely An Earthquake Coming, At Some Point Your monthly reminder to finally pull that earthquake kit together has arrived. I believe it was just October when the last study came out informing us that there were four fault lines around
SF News W. Kamau Bell Will Discuss Incident of 'Implicit Bias' With Berkeley Cafe Owner This Friday Back in January, local comedian W. Kamau Bell wrote a lengthy tale of a frustrating, unfortunate incident that happened to him outside the Elmwood Cafe, a place he and his wife like to
SF News The CIA Has Been Trying To Crack iPhone's Security Encryption For Years A new piece on The Intercept, following on a secret, annual, CIA-sponsored hacker "Jamboree" devoted to "exploiting security flaws in household and commercial electronics," suggests that U.S. spies have been intent on
SF News Here's Why Everyone Needs To Stop Bemoaning A Vanishing San Francisco And Move On When you first fall in love with someone, during that first dizzying, marvelous honeymoon phase, however long it lasts, you and your new love feel like you're always on the same page. You
SF News SFPD Chases Suspect Through BART Tunnels Monday Night Causing Major Delays What Embarcadero #BART station looks like when there is a delay. Happy to be off the train. pic.twitter.com/4ObYTmpml7— Sally K (@Sally_K) March 10, 2015 Were you stuck on an
SF News Day Around The Bay: Will All The Bridges Go For Automated Tolls? The Bay Area Toll Authority, which operates the Bay, San Mateo, Dumbarton, Richmond-San Rafael, Carquinez, Benicia-Martinez, and Antioch bridges, is hiring a consultant to look into the question of whether all the bridges
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queen Wins Mr. SF Leather Title In a definite first, and a sign of the ongoing changing nature of the leather scene both here and elsewhere, the 2015 title of Mr. SF Leather was awarded on Saturday to Trevor
Arts & Entertainment Aretha Franklin To Play Oracle Arena In August In her first Bay Area concert date in over 30 years, great diva Aretha Franklin has just booked a show for August 10 at Oakland's Oracle Arena. Goldenvoice just announced the show with
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: Patrick And Kevin Go To A Gaymer Prom It is genuinely nice to see Patrick happy, and not being neurotic about it, and finally able to enjoy his newly cemented relationship with Kevin and last night's episode, kind of like last
SF News HIV-Positive Fireman Sues City Over Harassment A San Francisco firefighter who thinks he may have contracted HIV while in the line of duty says that the subsequent harassment by fellow firefighters and mistreatment by the SFFD amounted to discrimination.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Experience Some Serious Cocktail Geekery At Benjamin Cooper, A New Bar From Two Former Big Barmen Among local drinkers, the short-lived, ultra-tiny, always delicious Tenderloin bar Big remains a minorly mythic thing in our memories ephemeral as a pop-up, gushed over, and gone before its time. Well, it's seen
SF News FBI Uses Facebook Messages To Nab Alleged Meth-Smuggling TSA Agents At SFO Two TSA screeners working at SFO were allegedly involved in a plot involving a third individual to smuggle multiple pounds of methamphetamine through security checkpoints in carry-on luggage. As the Examiner reports, all
SF News With Chronicle's Help, Assault Victim Reunited With Leg Last week brought us not one but two tales of prosthetic legs stolen from their owners, the first of which was found leaning up against a tree at Eighth and Market on Friday,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Millennium Heads To Rockridge, Game Flips Into All Spice, And More This week we learned that Cafe Des Amis in Cow Hollow will be becoming a Belgian-style brasserie, and we learned that Lark, a New American bistro is headed for the former Brandy Ho's
SF News Bomb Scare At Blue Bottle Shuts Down Mint Plaza SF Bomb Squad, cops, hook and ladder now outside #SFMint and tech-fave @BlueBottle coffee, closing Mint Plaza pic.twitter.com/viLy9tx6el— Carla Marinucci (@cmarinucci) March 6, 2015 The bomb squad and a bunch
SF News Giants Join Legal Brief Urging SCOTUS To Legalize Gay Marriage Well this is fun. The Giants have joined in legal brief along with the New England Patriots and the Tampa Bay Rays urging the Supreme Court to overturn all remaining state gay marriage
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A 'Conveniently Located' 170-Square-Foot Illegal In-Law Are you just about done with this life, unable to afford much more than $1000 in rent, and wholly unconcerned with the attractiveness of your surroundings? Allow me to point you to the
Arts & Entertainment Once Again, Pink Saturday Not Cancelled, Will End Early And Be Paid For By City Though the story that Pink Saturday was cancelled was widely, incorrectly reported a couple weeks back, the fact is that with or without the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence manning the gates, 10,000
SF News Out With The Old: Apple Will Replace AT&T In Dow Index Despite it remaining a telecommunications giant, AT&T will be losing its long-held place on the Dow Jones industrial average to Apple as of March 19, as the New York Times is
Arts & Entertainment Hunter Pence Broke His Forearm, Will Be Out For Beginning Of Giants' Season Giants outfielder and overall wild-eyed star Hunter Pence suffered a broken left forearm yesterday from a pitch thrown during a spring training game. As ESPN is reporting, it looks like he'll be out
SF News Day Around The Bay: Wilt Chamberlain's Secret Son In SF? Local man claims he’s Wilt Chamberlain’s secret son. [UK Daily Mail] Oakland police are offering a $15,000 reward for any information about yesterday's I-580 shooting. The victim is now stable,
