Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Japanese Thumb-Extender For Your Too-Big Phone For those of you whose iPhone 6 Pluses haven't bent like soda-fountain straws, or those of you own Galaxy Notes but whose hands remain dainty and tiny, you may want to consider this.
SF News Anti-Facebook Social Network Ello Sees Major Spike In Sign-Ups I, like a number of my friends, have been itching for some alternative to the mind-altering, all-consuming world of Facebook, now that the company has proven itself to be less than progressive when
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo du Jour: Comstock Saloon Asks Customers Not To Drive In Some funny signage has gone up at Comstock Saloon (155 Columbus Avenue) in North Beach, where an out-of-control driver plowed through the front windows and damaged the bar last week. The saloon and
SF News King Fire Grows To 95,000 Acres The King Fire has continued to grow in El Dorado County, and has now consumed over 95,000 acres or 150 square miles of forest, due east of Sacramento in the Sierra Foothills.
SF News Weather Report: Rain Followed By Indian Summer Your rain dances have finally done some good. A little good, anyway. Here in San Francisco we got six-tenths of an inch of rain last night, which was more than most of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mel's Drive-In Near Metreon Reopens After Cockroach Situation Today in health-department closures you might want to take note of: The downtown location of Mel's Drive-In (801 Mission, in the 5th and Mission garage building, near the Metreon and Bloomingdale's) reopened Wednesday
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Artist Ai Weiwei's @Large Installation Inside Alcatraz Chinese dissident artist and architect Ai Weiwei's major installation @Large opens this weekend inside the former prison building of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, and we just got a sneak preview. The
SF News Hot Cop Of The Castro Removes Fan Page, Says Goodbye!? [Updated] Some things in life just make no sense, and this is one of them. The nationally famous gay icon who became known as the Hot Cop of the Castro, 36-year-old beat officer Chris
SF News Larry Ellison Will Either Save Or Destroy That Hawaiian Island He Bought, It's Still Unclear Just last week we were surmising that maybe the huge project of remaking an entire Hawaiian island in his own image was a precipitating factor in Larry Ellison's decision to step down from
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's 10 Prettiest Parklets Ever since the San Francisco Planning Commission opened the floodgates with their Pavement to Parks initiative five years ago, our city has been awash with adorable, tiny parklets. These micro-parks widen our sidewalks
Arts & Entertainment Did Guerrilla Queer Bar Get Co-Opted By A For-Profit Startup? We got an email just this week from Brian McConnell, one of the founders of the infamous Guerrilla Queer Bar which many remember fondly from the dot-com days. Now someone's copying the idea,
SF News The Giants Still Looking At Wild Card, And Pagan Is Out For Back Surgery At last night's Giants-Dodgers game in L.A., Madison Bumgarner had a brief meltdown in the first inning after hitting Yasiel Puig in the foot with a pitch, leading to a shouting match
SF News Day Around The Bay: Ai Weiwei Not Way Awesome? The Chron's review of the Ai Weiwei installation on Alcatraz is not great! [Chron] Uber is putting the screws to new drivers, charging a 25-percent commission to all newbies who sign up as
SF News Transbay Transit Center Deal Collapses, Developers All Back Out Of Tax Deal We thought this was settled two weeks ago, but now everything is a mess. As of today's Board of Supervisors meeting, the original, two-year-old understanding between developers in the Transbay District and the
SF News Study: Megadroughts Of A Decade Or More Headed To The Southwest Even though the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest might be sitting pretty in the next five decades or so of climate change, the same won't be true of the U.S. Southwest,
Arts & Entertainment Video: Remembering The Population And Construction Boom Of 1960s If you think there are a lot of new construction cranes now, and too many people trying to move into San Francisco lately, take a look at this slightly alarmist newsreel from 1963
SF News Bay Area, Pacific Northwest Should Be Just Swell After Climate Change Though we know that rising sea levels are going to be a terrible like, actually horrific thing globally, and that the Bay Area stands to lose our airports, among other things, weather-wise we
SF News Taxi Drivers and Cab Companies Are Escalating Their Losing Battle Against Uber and Lyft A recent estimate puts the dent that rideshare companies have put in the San Francisco taxi industry at 65 percent and that just in the last fifteen months. Though there has been much
SF News The Bay Area Is Still A Mess With Stray Chihuahuas The past few years around Christmas and Valentine's Day we've heard about Chihuahua airlifts happening that take the West Coast's unwanted bumper crop of the little dogs in shelters to places on the
Arts & Entertainment Design Drawings Out For New Warriors Arena At Mission Bay, And It Looks Like A Toilet Norwegian architects Snøhetta, along with stadium architects Manica Architects,* went through a couple of iterations of a design for a stand-alone arena complex for the Warriors on Piers 30-32 last year. Of course
SF News Lyft Kills Their Lyft Plus Program, Drivers Stuck With SUVs They Don't Want Remember how, just back in April, Lyft decided to launch a luxury SUV service in order to compete with Uber SUV? Well, it seems it didn't go so well, and the Chronicle reports
Arts & Entertainment Daisy Does the Niners: 49ers Fall Apart in the 2nd Half. Again. by Daisy Barringer Well, I hope y’all enjoyed watching the San Francisco 49ers face off against Arizona Cardinals yesterday in the NFL’s first-ever game of flag football! I really only have
Arts & Entertainment NSFW: Scenes From Folsom Street Fair 2014 The sun did not make an appearance at the annual bacchanal that is Folsom Street Fair, but there were plenty of full moons! Yes, nudity and general depravity abounded as San Francisco's kink
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SO Chef Posts Another Passive Aggressive Note I guess you could say that the note posted outside SO restaurant in SoMa last Thursday was just flat-out aggressive. But, not content just let things go after a string of unhappy customers,
SF News King Fire Rages On In El Dorado County, Only 18 Percent Contained The largest California wildfire so far this season, the King Fire, is burning on a week after it began in El Dorado County, 60 miles east of Sacramento. The fire began on September
