SF News BREAKING: Facebook Issues Mea Culpa To Drag Queens And Others Over 'Real Name' Policy [Updated] Three weeks after SFist broke the story about Facebook's "real-name" crackdown on drag queens and performers a story that made headlines literally everywhere, because the internet loves drag queens it appears that the
SF News Castro Crosswalks Turning Rainbow Today One of the final pieces of the months-long Castro Streetscape Improvement project falls into place today, and boy is it garish! Yes, the crosswalks of the neighborhood will forever be stained rainbow, like
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Step Inside The Hall, Opening Today On Mid-Market The latest in a steady of stream of projects that are transforming the mid-Market corridor has arrived, and it's called The Hall. It's a multi-faceted food hall with its own beer-and-wine bar that's
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Giant Caterpillar Squeaks When Goosed This darling little video comes to us via Japan (I think), and it's footage of an acleris semipurana, a giant green caterpillar which is actually native to the Eastern U.S. and Canada.
SF News Weather Report: Summer At Last I promised you proper Indian Summer, and this week it's almost (almost) happening, even though we've yet to have a truly warm night since like that weird mosquito week in July. And we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Big Soda Spending Big Bucks To Defeat Soda Tax Measure, And They've Got Bill Clinton On Their Side You may have already seen the above TV spot which just launched last week from the No on E campaign. It's funded by the deep pockets of the American beverage industry who have
SF News Almost Half Of Newly Built Condos In S.F. Are Second Homes For Peninsula Wealthy, Others Anecdotally most of us have understood for years that the San Francisco luxury condo market is attracting buyers from afar in search of second or third homes or pied-a-terres, much like the Manhattan
SF News Daisy Does The Niners: The 49ers Get Their First Win At Levi’s Stadium by Daisy Barringer I guess we should have all known the 49ers would win yesterday. After all, since Harbaugh took over as head coach, the team has not lost three games in a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wise Sons Deli Finally Launches Dinner Two Years Later One of the main reasons I never get over to Wise Sons Deli is their hours: They've only been doing breakfast and lunch service, five days a week (Wednesday to Sunday, but Tuesday's
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Aretha Franklin Covers 'Rolling In The Deep' Put on your headphones, kids. The great Aretha Franklin has a new album coming out, and she's covered one of the great diva ballads of the last decade, Adelle's "Rolling In the Deep.
SF News New iPhones Don't Bend So Easily At All, Says Consumer Reports; British Punks Show Otherwise Maybe #bendgate is over as quickly as it began, but in a boon for Apple and its loyalists, Consumer Reports has rushed out a highly scientific report that proves that you can't bend
SF News Earthquake Swarm Near Mammoth Lakes Area Nothing To Be Concerned About, Probably A swarm of over 700 small earthquakes (you read that right) measuring mostly under 2.0 that began on Thursday in Long Valley, seven miles east of the Mammoth Lakes resort area, is
SF News Report: Tech Shuttle Drivers Have Pretty Miserable Lives No big surprise here, but the drivers piloting the army of tech-company shuttles ferrying people between San Francisco and Silicon Valley are largely underpaid and overworked, as the Chronicle reports. And while the
Arts & Entertainment Robin Williams Memorial In S.F. Draws Dozens Of Stars; Billy Crystal 'In Tears' On Saturday, Billy Crystal hosted a star-studded private memorial celebration of the late Robin Williams that drew dozens of his former costars, directors, and famous comedian friends, and included emotional tributes by his
SF News Video: Volcano Ash Cloud In Japan As Seen By Hikers Caught In It [Updated] One of the hikers on Mount Ontake in central Japan took this stunning video of the enormous ash cloud that came rolling down around him and hundreds of others when the mountain's volcano
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SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: American Grilled Cheese Kitchen Expands, TBD Switches Things Up Again, and More I know. You're still upset about Sunflower (maybe) being closed for good. Well, buck up and let's get on with the rest of the stuff making food headlines this week. First off, as
SF News Oakland Murderers Took Six Weeks Off This Summer, And That's A Record Not since the late 1990's has Oakland gone a full six-week stretch without a homicide, but it just happened. From August 2 to September 13, no one was killed in Oakland, a 43-day
SF News Here's A Video Of That Lady Speeding Off Down Octavia With A Meter Maid On Her Hood Somebody sent KRON 4 some cell phone video of Bo Mounsombath turning the corner off of Oak onto Octavia with a parking control officer clinging to the hood of her car on the
SF News More On The Escalating Tensions Between Transbay Developers And City Hall This all may be much ado about nothing in the end because it's in everyone's best interest to resolve this dispute quickly and no one really wants a lawsuit but tensions remain high
Arts & Entertainment Video: Conan Mocks 'Flaccid' iPhones Does your new iPhone 6 Plus have trouble staying hard? You've likely heard the stories about #bendgate/#bendghazi. Well, Conan took a funny jab at the issue last night. Meanwhile, Apple has come
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink City Gets Another Food Truck Park/Beer Garden You've heard about the SoMa StrEat [sic] Food Park? Well, say hello to the Duboce Truck Stop, which is at 55 Duboce, and is both freeway- and skate park-adjacent. It's a little lot
SF News District Attorneys Call Uber, Lyft, And Sidecar 'A Continuing Threat To Consumers' [Updated] Bad news hit the desks of ride-share company execs this week: The district attorneys of S.F. and L.A. have teamed up to investigate Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar for a handful of
SF News Suspect In A Florida Cold Case Turns Up In S.F. 19 Years Later Here's a bit of real-life crime drama for your afternoon: 47-year-old Antonio Calvillo, who had been wanted in connection with the 1995 murder of 27-year-old Shirley Laseter in Palm Beach County and who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Mission Restaurant Sunflower Closed For Unknown Reasons One of the last bastions of cheap eats in the Mission besides taquerias and Indian, Sunflower at 16th and Valencia, is mysteriously "closed until further notice," as Eater reports, and this is not
