SF News Are People Finally Sick Of Black Friday Insanity? Despite much crowing by retail watchers about how well the retail sector is expected to do this holiday season, Black Friday weekend proved to be a major disappointment, with overall spending down significantly
SF News Friday Night Protests In Union Square Bring Violence and Vandalism To SF Though the Ferguson-related fracas has stayed mostly across the Bay in Oakland this week, Black Friday brought a chaotic night with a couple hundred protesters to the middle of San Francisco. Several dozen
Arts & Entertainment Black Friday Palate Cleanser: Weed Snobs We already live in a world of weed connoisseurs who could rattle off a litany of whimsically named indica-sativa hybrids and tell you the relative THC and CBD levels of each. And as
SF News Protesters Chain Themselves To BART Trains At West Oakland, Temporarily Halt Transbay Train Service [Updated] Following a quiet Thanksgiving Day in Oakland, protest-wise, a group of 20 to 25 Ferguson-related protesters managed to chain themselves together and chain themselves to two BART trains at West Oakland Station, shutting
SF News Day Around The Bay: Beer Wins Everything In Asinine Bay Area Food Competition Remember that asinine Food Madness bracket thing where the Business Times was pitting burgers up against beer up against coffee and ice cream? Well, beer won. Devil’s Canyon Brewing Co. wins the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Kathleen Turner in 'Red Hot Patriot' at Berkeley Rep Biographical one-person shows aren't always the stuff of thrilling drama. But if you take a legendary actress and give her some witty material written by one of our country's great political columnists, it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Fancy Cocktail Ice Is Killing The Planet All those baseball-sized and Rubik's Cube-sized ice cubes that you enjoy in your Old Fashioneds at [insert name of favorite local craft cocktail bar] may in fact be contributing to the death of
SF News Second Night Of Ferguson Protests In Oakland Leads To More Looting, Fires, 43 Arrests For the second night, protesters canvassed different parts of Oakland Tuesday in response to Monday's grand jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri, briefly disrupting traffic on two freeways, setting bonfires, looting, and generally harkening
SF News Two Apparent BART Suicides Closed Embarcadero And Berkeley Stations Tuesday Night One apparent suicide and an apparent suicide attempt that occurred within two hours of each other shut down both the Downtown Berkeley and Embarcadero stations last night, one during rush hour. The first
SF News Is Your Dog Worse For The Environment Than Driving A Car? A hyper-conscious environmental sort from Missoula recently wrote in to the Sierra Club to settle a debate he was having about the impact of pets on the environment. He apparently has a killjoy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thanksgiving Slacker Prep: The Best Places For Takeout Turkey And Pie In SF For all you jerks out there who can't be bothered to roast a turkey yourself something which requires very little skill, as local cooking guru Mary Risley taught us a couple years ago,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Behind The Scenes of 'Looking' Season 2 As mentioned earlier, HBO's Looking wrapped shooting last week in SF on Season 2, the first episode of which which will premiere on January 11. But here's an "invitation to the set" video
Arts & Entertainment Beat Scholars And Historians Rejoice As Lost 18-Page Neal Cassady Letter Is Discovered Intact In Oakland A long-lost letter written by Neal Cassady to his friend Jack Kerouac in December 1950, thought to be the inspiration for what would become Kerouac's confessional, stream-of-consciousness writing style, was just discovered stuffed
SF News New Map Shows How Expensive It Is To Rent An Apartment Near BART Click to enlarge It's no longer true that if you get priced out of San Francisco you can just move east as we learned last week, rents in Oakland are actually shooting up
SF News Ferguson-Related Protest In Oakland Snarls Traffic On 580, Causes Late-Night Chaos In Downtown A protest and "die-in" in downtown Oakland involving a reported 1,000 people led to a traffic-snarling march onto the I-580 freeway Monday night, as Bay City News reports. The protesters came out
SF News Day Around The Bay: An 'Amnesty Pond' For Unwanted Goldfish After purposely killing off over 800 former pet goldfish and their offspring that had been dumped in the Presidio's Mountain Lake which they did in order to begin restocking it with native species
SF News The Flavor Of SF's Tap Water Will Be Changing, Slightly We've been lulled into thinking this past year that San Francisco's precious, Sierra Nevada-borne water supply at Hetch Hetchy was under no threat of depleting despite the dought-related suffering that's happening all across
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Shake & Bake,' For Thanksgiving (A Taylor Swift Parody) A lot of you who are not flying out of town in the next two days are probably still debating where to eat your turkey on Thursday, or deciding whose houses to hit
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brewcade Opens In The Castro December 10 And Here's The Full Vintage Arcade Game List The opening of Brewcade (2200 Market Street at Sanchez) the Castro's upcoming beer-and-arcade-game bar from the owner of Blackbird is finally almost upon us. Today they announce an opening date of December 10,
Arts & Entertainment Daisy Does The Niners: SF Just Barely Beats Washington 17-13 by Daisy Barringer I should know better by now than to go into any game expecting an easy win. And yet, still: I totally thought the 49ers would handle Washington, a team with
SF News This Nightmare Fish That Was Just Photographed In Monterey Bay Will Haunt Your Life What you are looking at is a female anglerfish, of a species known as the "black seadevil" for obvious reasons. It's pretty small (9 centimeters) and lives at depths of 1,900 feet
Arts & Entertainment It's Official: Pablo Sandoval Is Headed To Boston [Updated] As we heard last week, and as many had heard rumored for weeks now, Giants third-baseman Pablo Sandoval is using his free agency to land a plum deal with the Red Sox. And
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Jackalope Debuts On Polk, An Update on Aveline, and More There's probably already a line forming at the new Hapa Ramen, even though it doesn't open to the public until Sunday, but there's actually plenty else that's been happening in the local food
SF News Stockton P.E. Teacher Accused Of Corporal Abuse Of 14-Year-Old Girl In Swimming Pool Incident This video's been making the rounds showing Stockton P.E. teacher Denny Peterson physically trying to drag a 14-year-old girl by the arms and torso into a swimming pool. As the local ABC
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Horribly Named Tacorgasmico Is Coming To The Castro The former Blue restaurant space at 2337 Market Street, vacant for over two years, is finally getting a new tenant with a terrible, terrible name. It's called Tacorgasmico, and Hoodline notes that the
