SF News Disgruntled Lyft Drivers Plot Possible Strike SFist received a tip this week that a gang of Lyft drivers were might peeved about a lucrative promotion that was dangled by the company and then, apparently, rescinded rather quickly. The deal
Arts & Entertainment And Now Meet The New Baby Penguins At The Academy Of Sciences As ABC 7's Dan Ashley dutifully shows us, three adorable African penguin chicks are making their debut in the Academy of Sciences peguin exhibit next week, on March 11. The three little guys
Arts & Entertainment The 14 Best San Francisco-Set Novels We live in a relentlessly beautiful place that has inspired many over the years. This has always been a city brimming with artists, writers, and musicians and SF's bohemian streak will hopefully not
SF News El Niño Finally Arrives; Will Not Save California, Rain-Wise Remember that "weak" El Niño that was supposed to develop this winter? Well, it's March, and it just got here. As predicted back in October, this season's ocean warming was not on track
Arts & Entertainment Video: Parallel Parking Fail On Polk Leads To Mass Mockery By Drunk People This is pretty funny. A tipster sent us this video from last weekend in which a hapless guy in what might be a rental car got himself stuck, diagonally, in a parking spot
Arts & Entertainment Huge Music Fest To Rival Outside Lands Possibly Headed To Sonoma Raceway The owners of the Sonoma Raceway (the NASCAR venue up north formerly known as Sears Point and Infineon) have submitted a proposal to play host to a massive music festival on the scale
Arts & Entertainment Video: Funny Or Die Mocks Uber Evilness An Apology From Uber from Funny Or Die In one of those inevitabilities of internet comedy, Funny or Die has just satirized the various Uber scandals and controversies of the last year, including
SF News [Update] Shooting On 580 In Oakland Shuts Down Two Eastbound Lanes, One Wounded Oakland: Shooting EB 580. 5 bullet holes in one car. Man wounded. 1 man in custody.#mapit pic.twitter.com/axXlejAEDQ— alan wang (@AlanWangABC7) March 5, 2015 A shooting this afternoon on eastbound
SF News Yolo County Woman Charged In Death Of Her 3-Week-Old Infant A woman whose baby was found to have meth in its system when it was born three weeks ago just outside Sacramento has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of the
Arts & Entertainment Mike Judge Threw A Bachelor Party For Lars Ulrich At Lucky Strike And Bradley Cooper Was There Well, this is kind of random. Silicon Valley/Beavis & Butthead creator Mike Judge threw a bachelor party for Metallica drummer and Bay Area resident Lars Ulrich on Saturday night at Lucky Strike
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New American Restaurant Lark Coming To 18th Street In The Castro We finally have news on what's moving into the former Brandy Ho's space on 18th Street in the Castro, which has been empty since Halloween. It's called Lark, and as Hoodline is reporting,
SF News Here's What $5 Million Buys You On South Park Two new expensive luxury condos just hit the market and given what I've been hearing about the market will probably not stay there long on the ever-desirable South Park in SoMa, listed for
SF News Infamous Golden Gate Bridge Jumper Allegedly Saved By Sea Lion Becomes Global Campaigner For Mental Health Kevin Hines, whose story of surviving a suicide attempt off the Golden Gate Bridge in 2000 has been well publicized over the last decade, is back in the news after retelling his story
SF News Smash-and-Grab Is Officially The Crime To Commit Of Early 2015 Yet another smash-and-grab robbery at a high-end audio equipment store happened early this morning, this time at Music Lovers Audio and Video on Bush Street a store which was also hit by a
SF News Day Around The Bay: Prop 8 Backers Lose Appeal To Protect Anonymity Prop 8 backers lose appeal to avoid campaign disclosures (that is, to hide who donated to block marriage equality). But it's all been public information for a while now anyway. [Chron] This bumper
SF News Tale of 'Trail Rage' Riles Marin County Folk, Leaves 65-Year-Old Woman Injured A 65-year-old woman was reportedly bruised and had to visit the hospital after a somewhat unclear run-in with a seemingly aggressive cyclist on a Marin County hiking trail. In what the Chronicle is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Legend Jeremiah Tower Fails To Impress NYT Critic, Or Michael Bauer, At NY's Tavern On The Green For those who felt a pang of jealousy that local chef legend Jeremiah Tower had decided to make a comeback in the kitchen at age 72 in New York, at the also legendary
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Union Street's Cafe Des Amis Will Go Belgian, With a New Name "Belgian brasserie" is the newly announced concept for the Cafe Des Amis space (2000 Union Street at Buchanan), which we learned in January was coming under the ownership of Adriano Paganini. Paganini is
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Star Russell Tovey Apologizes For Homophobic Remarks There was much hubbub on the internet yesterday over some comments that Looking star Russell Tovey (who plays Kevin on the show) made in an interview with the UK Observer. Tovey, who stars
SF News Sixth Street Gentrification? Affordable Housing Advocates Fear New 5M Development Will Push Out SROs The enormous new proposed development on property partly owned by The San Francisco Chronicle, dubbed 5M (short for 5th and Mission) has the potential to be transformational for the section of SoMa around
SF News SFPD And Federal Agents May Be Violating Local Civil Liberties Law In Terrorism 'Interviews' A 2012 law passed in San Francisco to protect the civil liberties of residents prohibits participation by San Francisco police in federal investigations as part of the Joint Terrorism Task Force. However, as
SF News A Quick Update On The Hot Felon's Modeling Aspirtations Just in case you were worried about the fate of hot convict/hot felon Jeremy Meeks, who remains behind bars serving a 27-month sentence on a weapons charge, we have an update via
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Off The Grid Unveils New Cocktails, New Vendor Lineups For Fort Mason And The Presidio Picnic Sunday marked the kickoff of the 2015 season for Off the Grid's Picnic at the Presidio, which brought loads of eager eaters to the Main Post Lawn, and long lines for Wing Wings's
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: It's Finally All About Doris I think we can all agree by now that despite a premise that is supposed to revolve around three gay male characters, many of Looking's finest moments involve Doris (Lauren Weedman), and she
SF News Report: Droughts Likely To Continue In California, Maybe Forever A new report by some Stanford climatologists paints a dismal picture for California's future, suggesting that our current drought is absolutely tied to human-caused climate warming, and that the frequency of these droughts
