SF News Patty Hearst's Shih Tzu Just Won The Toy Group At The Westminster Dog Show San Francisco heiress turned bank robber turned John Waters bit player turned cultural icon Patty Hearst can add one more line to her incredible resume this week: prize-winning dog owner. In a scene
SF News Now Uber Drivers Want You To Tip We all knew it was too good to last, right? Well, Uber drivers, now envious that Lyft and regular taxi drivers get nice gratuities from passengers, are pushing to get a gratuity function
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: Richie Is Definitely Maybe Back In The Picture We're at the midpoint of Season 2, and like I said back here, this is about where we should have been, plot-wise, by the end of Season 1. Patrick has completed a journey,
SF News Uh Oh: Unwitting Driver Trapped By Tide Near Bay Bridge CBS 5 shows us this minivan, whose unfortunate driver decided to "take in the views" next to the Bay Bridge toll plaza, only to get trapped for a while today by an extra-high
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hopscotch Expands With New Ramen Spot In Oakland The popular Uptown Oakland restaurant Hopscotch (1915 San Pablo Avenue), and its chef Kyle Itani, are getting a spinoff in the form of Itani Ramen (1738 Telegraph Avenue). As Inside Scoop reports, Itani
SF News Local Official Indicted For Embezzling $1.3 Million From Bay Bridge Fund A finance director for the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) who appears to have used $1.3 million of public funds to buy himself a home in Oregon, has now been indicted
SF News Map: Where You're Most Likely To Get Hit By A Car On A Bike, Or On Foot As we all well know, being a cyclist or a pedestrian in SF is dangerous business sometimes. Well now two new maps created by Vision Zero a policy campaign/task force comprised of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink President Obama Dined At Spruce With Elon Musk, A Dozen Other Tech Big Shots As I'm sure you heard, even if you weren't stuck in any traffic as a result, President Obama was just in town for his 20th visit to the Bay Area. He stayed at
SF News Castro Braces For Big Pink Saturday/Pride Weekend As Sisters Bow Out As Organizers This year's Pride Weekend in June is set to be one of the biggest ever as the Supreme Court is more than likely going to decide in favor of federal gay marriage once
SF News Day Around The Bay: Happy Sylvester Day! Today has been declared Sylvester Day in San Francisco. And you know about the Sylvester musical right? [EurWeb] Powell Street BART station filled with smoke today due to a "sparking track insulator." [AP]
SF News This Week Marks The 11th Anniversary Of Gay Marriage In SF While the Supreme Court is hinting that the time has finally come this year for nationwide, federally sanctioned same-sex marriage, the whole idea is yesterday's news for the Bay Area. Literally. Yesterday, February
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All About Octavia, The Frances Spinoff Coming To The Old Baker And Banker Spot How do you follow up a five-year-old, critically beloved neighborhood restaurant that remains one of the hottest tickets in town, and just as fresh and well loved as it was the month after
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Beef Tongue Steam Buns At Liholiho Yacht Club At chef Ravi Kapur's new restaurant, Liholiho Yacht Club, you are going to impressed by how effortlessly different Asian dishes and ingredients mix and mingle. Much like the pop-up of the same name
SF News How The Police Union Intimidated Supervisors Into Voting Against Police Brutality Resolution Remember the non-binding resolution, introduced by Supervisor John Avalos, that caused a stir among the SFPD and its union back in December? Well, the Examiner has now unearthed the strong-arming emails in which
SF News Transbay Transit Center To Become The Google Transit Center? Ugh. Alongside Salesforce Tower, the big new transit center taking shape downtown could be getting a corporate moniker, thanks to the sale of naming rights for the center, its rooftop park, or any
Arts & Entertainment New Public Art/Plaza Thing Unveiled Outside Nema Building On Market The long-covered public art piece and plaza at the corner of the NEMA building at 10th and Market can finally be enjoyed by the public. The piece by artist Topher Delaney, titled Promised
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Radius On Folsom To Close, Transform Five-year-old Radius (1123 Folsom Street) is giving up the ghost, as Inside Scoop reports, and will be morphing into two new concepts over the coming months. The restaurant will serve its last dinner
Arts & Entertainment SoMa To Get Leather-Themed Public Park? Apparently a plan has been taking shape for several months to install a parklet/plaza on the block of 12th Street outside the Eagle Tavern in SoMa that would recognize the neighborhood's history
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Survey Says SF Bartenders And Servers Make More Money Than Anywhere Else According to a new survey conducted by a Seattle-based firm, San Francisco restaurant and bar workers are doing a fair bit better than their New York City counterparts, unless the people in New
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurant Discouraging Valentine's Day Baby-Making With Free Branded Condoms Locanda, in SF's Mission district, will be doing their part for parenthood planning and STD-avoidance this Valentine's Day by doling out free "Locondoms" with every meal on Saturday. As Thrillist notes, this is
SF News Yet Another Local TV News Crew Robbed Of Their Equipment In The East Bay A female KTVU reporter and her cameraman were robbed of their equipment early Wednesday morning outside a doughnut shop in Hayward, marking the umpteenth time an incident like this has happened in the
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Not Safe For LGBT People? First it was drag queens, and now Native Americans have been the target of a Facebook crackdown over "fake" names, which actually are not fake. And it looks like this dates to around
SF News Measles Exposure On BART And At Union Square Restaurant Last Week; LinkedIn Employee Blamed Unvaccinated BART riders commuting to and from the city from Contra Costa County between February 4 and February 6 are at risk of measles exposure as the county's first measles case has been
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Seven Things To Do This Valentine's Day In SF If You Are Single, Loving It And/Or Bitter About It Let's keep this simple. You've heard it all a million times before, and Buzzfeed has surely made 10 GIF listicles to cheer you already. This made-up holiday for couples that's happening on Saturday
SF News Suitcase Body ID'd As Mark Andrus's Friend Omar Shahwan The SF Medical Examiner has positively identified the headless torso found stuffed in a suitcase on January 28. It is, as was suspected and reported as early as nine days ago, 58-year-old Omar
