Arts & Entertainment Man Loses Fantasy Football Bet, Has To Recreate 'Chandelier' Video Shot For Shot Local man Chuck Jose lost a bet in his fantasy football league, and with that bet, as ABC 7 reports, he lost a little bit of his dignity. His fellow fantasy leaguers made
SF News New SoMa Micro-Apartment Complex, The Panoramic, Already Mostly Leased As Student Dorm Space A new batch of micro-apartments in SoMa (remember those?) will be hitting the market around June 2015, called The Panoramic. Located at 9th and Mission, the building has already been largely leased out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hamburger Mary's And SoulCycle Are Both Coming To The Castro Clearing the final major hurdle of the Planning Commission, both the proposed Hamburger Mary's in the former Patio Cafe space (531 Castro) and a proposed location of popular spin class church (or whatever)
SF News Day Around The Bay: Thomas Keller Gets Dissed Meet Jirayut Latthivongskorn, a Thai national who is UCSF's first undocumented med student. [National Journal] Ten years in, Eater NY says, Thomas Keller's Per Se is “showing its age” and its “luxuries have
SF News City May Cut The Number Of Businesses Allowed To Sell Tobacco Products In an effort that began six years ago and came up for debate again today in the Board of Supes' Neighborhood Services and Safety Committee, the City may limit the number of businesses
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 30 Best Sandwiches In San Francisco Anyone who eats food in SF knows that the sandwich holds a sacred place in the pantheon of great things that people endlessly gush, tweet, and blog about year after year. Because sandwiches
Arts & Entertainment The 'Terminator: Genisys' Trailer Arrives Complete With School Bus Flip On Golden Gate Bridge As noted over the summer, the fifth movie in the Terminator franchise, Terminator: Genisys, was shot in and around San Francisco, and even though it won't be out until next summer, the trailer
SF News How Much More Rain Would California Need To End The Drought? This spate of December rainfall we've been having is good news, obviously, for California's drought, but everyone should understand just how much more rain we would need to see an end of the
SF News Will The Olympics In SF Just Mean More Gentrification And Crackdowns On The Poor? The Nation has added its "hell no" to the idea of San Francisco hosting the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, summing up the wake of an Olympic Games in any city thusly: "Debt. Displacement.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burger King Revives The Yumbo Sandwich, Not Seen Since 1974 If you're on the older end of Gen X, or a late Boomer, as it were, you may remember the Yumbo sandwich at Burger King, which disappeared from the chain's menus for reasons
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Everybody Say Yeah' From 'Kinky Boots' Opening tonight in San Francisco is the first touring production of the 2013 Tony Award-winning Best New Musical, Kinky Boots, direct from Broadway where it's still playing to sellout crowds. Adapted from the
Arts & Entertainment Video: DJ Earworm's United States Of Pop 2014 Has Dropped Formerly SF-based DJ and recent LA transplant DJ Earworm has just dropped his hotly anticipated, traditional annual tribute mashup to the year in pop, and it's a good one. As usual he uses
SF News SF Bicycle Coalition Hires Well Known NY Bike Guy Noah Budnick As Its New Director The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition has just hired its first new executive director in seventeen years, replacing longtime leader Leah Shahum, and his name is Noah Budnick. Budnick is well known in New
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Indochine, A New Vegan Spot From Sunflower Team, Opens On Valencia; Also, What's Up With Sunflower? Though popular Vietnamese spot Sunflower remains closed in their prime corner location at Valencia and 16th the team, who still has another restaurant on Potrero Hill, remains cagey about why it abruptly closed
SF News Tuesday Night Rainstorm Brings Lightning Strikes, Floods, Power Outages As rain continues to fall across the Bay Area, Wednesday morning has brought a flood advisory, reports of mudslides in Los Gatos, major public transit delays including a flooded Van Ness Station, reports
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Cell Phone Thief's Selfie Fail A dumb dude who stole someone's iPhone in Stockton is apparently unaware of the whole cloud concept he's been shooting lots of selfies, which the owner of the stolen phone now has access
SF News We Could Have BART Service To The Richmond... By 2040 BART is officially studying the possibility of constructing a second Transbay Tube which would take BART service through Alameda, into SoMa, and potentially out to the western part of the city that's currently
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Jane Krakowski Auditions For 'Peter Pan' Leaked 'Peter Pan Live!' Audition Tape with Jane Krakowski from Jane Krakowski You know the network television event (and possible biggest debacle) of the season, Peter Pan: Live, airs on Thursday on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Do Younger People Just Not Care About Making Reservations? Michael Bauer is back on the peeve beat in today's Between Meals blog post, and the topic: restaurants that only take reservations for parties of six or more. (The topic of no-reservation restaurants,
SF News Angry Cabbies Now Sporting Anti-Uber Bumper Stickers Cabbies fed up with UberX taking all their business now have bumper stickers on their cabs that make joking reference to the case of Patrick Karajah, the UberX driver who allegedly attacked passenger
SF News Out Of 79 People Arrested In Violent Protest Friday, 23 Were From San Francisco The Ferguson protest that turned into a violent and vandalism-heavy riot Friday in Union Square and in the Mission led to 79 arrests and charges filed against 4 individuals, as police chief Greg
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Opening Tonight: Cockscomb, Chris Cosentino's New SoMa Spot Right on schedule, chef Chris Cosentino's newest restaurant, Cockscomb, is opening at 4th and Brannan tonight, bringing the Top Chef Master's non-Italian talents to life in a newly renovated space. The concrete building
SF News Another 'Unique' Eviction Situation Hits Tenants Of Van Ness Mixed Use Building You may recall the ongoing tale of 1049 Market Street where over 100 people were displaced or nearly displaced from over 75 "live-work" units that had become primary residences for students and other
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry To Close For Several Months, Will Reopen With New Ticket System [Updated] The iconic French Laundry in Yountville has confirmed dates for a planned closure and major renovation, and the plans are a fair bit more ambitious than originally hinted at. As chef-owner Thomas Keller
SF News Bizarre Break-in Involving Clearly High Individual Ends In Rooftop Standoff In San Jose Are bath salts back in the news? Whatever the guy was on, an obviously intoxicated individual caused a lengthy, totally wacky standoff on the roof of a home in San Jose on Sunday
