SF News Extra Warm Weather And Extra High Tides Arriving This Week Does everyone remember last January when it didn't rain at all and half the month was sunny and 70 degrees? Yeah, well, we're having a repeat of that pattern which is terrible news
SF News Rental Car Used In Hayes Valley Drive-By Traced To Walnut Creek The SFPD tracked the car that was used in the quadruple homicide on Page Street ten days ago, which witnesses had suggested was a rental car, to a Hertz rental dealership in Walnut
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Episode Two: Doris Gets A Boyfriend And Kevin Does A Boy Band Dance The second episode of the new season of Looking, "Looking for Results," opens with Patrick (Jonathan Groff) and Kevin (Russell Tovey) finally waking up together in a real bed. Or does it? It
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Savages New Embarcadero Chinese Spot Crystal Jade Following on a fairly terrible review by SF Weekly critic Anna Roth, the massive new multi-million-dollar Crystal Jade at Embarcadero Center gets an even worse and snarkier review from the Chron's Michael Bauer,
SF News A 5 A.M. Protest At Oakland Mayor's Doorstep And Monday March Cap Off Weekend Of Protests Newly inaugurated Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and her family were not permitted to sleep in this morning since a group of about 50 protesters gathered at her home to scream at her to
SF News Rep. Barbara Lee Is Angling To Be Ambassador To Cuba Alameda County Congresswoman and hero to Bay Area liberals Barbara Lee is said to have a "gentlewoman's agreement" with President Obama to become our new ambassador to Cuba, should that actually become an
SF News Local Kook Rides High-Wheeler Cycle Down Market Street And Local Paper Calls The Cops On Him This guy has been seen riding a penny-farthing, also known as a high-wheeler bicycle, in the bike lane down Market Street, and SF Weekly immediately called the SFPD on him to see if
SF News Day Around The Bay: Cosby Is Coming Bill Cosby, despite everything, is on tour doing a standup show, and he's performing to a soldout house at the 1,000-seat Turlock Community Theatre in Stanislaus County on Sunday night. [Chron] London
SF News Young San Francisco Is Better Educated, Richer, And More Likely To Be Single Than They Were In 1980 The US Census has released a bunch of cool charts comparing data about 18- to 34-year-old San Franciscans in 1980, 1990, 2000, and now (2013). What's revealed are some fascinating figures about how
Arts & Entertainment What I've Learned From Sober January (So Far) Sober January / Dry January (as they call it in England) has been catching on in various U.S. cities in recent years as one way to balance out the decadent, functionally alcoholic lives
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Psychedelic Haight Light Sculpture Dubbed 'The Hippie Trap' A guy in the Haight hung this piece of LED-based artwork outside his building in December, just before Christmas, and one of his neighbors jokingly told him they had nicknamed it The Hippie
SF News A Drone Thief, A Tech CEO, and a Tech COO Walk Into A Radio Shack... This hilarious bit has come across the crime blotter this morning: A thief tried to pilfer a small drone and a remote-control helicopter from a Radio Shack on Polk Street Thursday morning, only
SF News Truck Driver Who Killed Cyclist Amelie Le Moullac Found Negligent The SoMa collision that took the life of 24-year-old bicyclist Amelie LeMoullac in August of 2013 has officially been found to be the fault of the driver of the truck that hit her,
Arts & Entertainment Niners Make Extremely Boring Choice For New Head Coach: Jim Tomsula You'll recall that the NFL was abuzz just over a week ago with rumors about all the coaching talent that the 49ers were interviewing to replace Jim Harbaugh. Well, it turns out that
SF News Here's How Mayor Lee Promises To Ease The Housing Crisis In His 2015 State Of The City Address This morning Mayor Lee delivered his State of the City address at the newly completed Phase 1 of the San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market in the Bayview chosen because it's the first new
Arts & Entertainment Once Again <i>The Advocate</i> Crowns Random American City That Is Not SF As 'Queerest' Just To Be Different Every damn year The Advocate has to pump out another list of America's gayest/queerest cities, and every year they try their hardest to be edgy, or something, by switching up the criteria
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Berkeley Tiki Hut Edition For this week's edition of Apartment Sadness, I take you across the Bay where someone is renting out an "in-law" that is more accurately described as a "tool shed in the backyard with
SF News If You Get In A Vehicle Accident In West Oakland You Will Get Robbed Proving that West Oakland is in fact still a rough place in which you don't want to take any unnecessary pauses, a cyclist was struck by a pickup truck there on Tuesday, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video Makes False Claims About The History Of The Mission Burrito SFGov TV, the SF city media arm, has a running web series called QuickBites, and they've just done a piece on the Mission-style burrito that makes some highly spurious claims. The big falsehood:
SF News Shutdown Averted For City College Of SF Speaking of community colleges, 18 months plagued with fights between the administration of City College of San Francisco, the City, and the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges over the college's accreditation
Arts & Entertainment First SF Episode Of <i>The Mindy Project</i> Airs, Includes Jokes About WIRED, Tech Billionaires The first Bay Area-located episode of The Mindy Project aired last week, but last night was the first one in actual SF, titled "San Francisco Bae," and in it Mindy Kaling's character reconnects
Arts & Entertainment Video: Seattle Dog Takes Public Transit To Park By Herself Ahhhh... This is amazing. A Seattle dog has learned to ride public transit by herself after not wanting to wait around for her human to take her to the dog park, which is
SF News Tom Hanks Lends Support For President's Community College Plan, Says Chabot College 'Made Me What I Am Today' Oscar winner and recent Kennedy Center honoree Tom Hanks has voiced his full support in a NYT op-ed for President Obama's proposal to make two years of free community college available to all
SF News SF Not Quite As Bad As Manhattan Or Miami When It Comes To Absentee Condo Owners Remember back in September when 48 Hills sorted through a bunch of condo sales data to determine that some 39 percent of new condos in the last 14 years had been sold as
SF News SF Native Who Fought For Soccer Field Takes Us On A Gentrification Tour Of The Mission We already knew from his speech-making in the now infamous Mission Playground soccer field incident that Kai, the college student and Mission native who's preferred not to give his last name in the
