arts Counting Crows, Spearhead, and Train To Perform Benefit Concerts For Fire Relief In Napa And Sonoma Following on a larger-scale benefit concert for victims of the North Bay wildfires happening November 9 at AT&T Park, a trio of smaller benefit events were just announced by BottleRock Presents,
SF News PG&E 'Recloser' Devices Implicated As Possible Wildfire Cause As Another Lawsuit Is Filed Three more North Bay families are expected to file a lawsuit against PG&E Thursday, implicating the utility in the devastating wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes in Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Supervisor Fewer Calls For Off-Duty Cops To Guard Safeways Following Attack On Employee Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer was calling Wednesday for Safeway corporate to step up and do something more "proactive" about security at their San Francisco stores, following two violent incidents involving shoplifters attacking store
SF News Jurors Hear Garcia Zarate Confession For First Time In Steinle Murder Trial Audio excerpts from about four and a half hours of the interrogation of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate during the early morning hours of July 2, 2015 were played for the jury in the
arts Sloped Amphitheater, Designed For Rallies, Selected For Harvey Milk Plaza Redo The conclusion of a design competition to revamp Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro has arrived, and a design by local firm Perkins Eastman has emerged the winner. The concept centers around a
SF News CA Legislators Seek To Block PG&E From Passing Fire Costs On To Customers As PG&E is potentially facing a torrent of litigation in connection with the Northern California wildfires this month, in addition to the costs of repairing or replacing infrastructure and power lines
arts Photo Du Jour: Goodwill Goes Down After shutting its doors in August to make way for a much publicized mixed-use development, the Goodwill store on South Van Ness became rubble over the weekend, and many people documented it on
SF News Thursday Rain Could Cause Toxic Runoff From Wine Country Fires Rain that's predicted for late Thursday and Friday could lead to runoff from fire zones in the North Bay that are still littered with toxic ash and debris containing harmful chemicals. While cleanup
SF News Four Shot On Fillmore Street Friday, One Suspect Arrested VIDEO: Police investigating quadruple shooting on Fillmore Street in San Francisco https://t.co/C3aqxkmDyV pic.twitter.com/lyHUyUF9Sj— San Francisco Info (@SFinformer) October 28, 2017 Gunfire erupted in the Western Addition Friday
arts Stephen Parr, Archivist Of The Film World's Oddest Artifacts, Dies At 63 Film mavens and filmmakers in San Francisco have long known about the marvelous, lovingly curated series known under the names "Strange Sinema," "Cinema Soiree" and others in which Oddball Films and SF Media
SF News Burning Man Group Lends Shipping Container Dorms To House Fire Victims In Santa Rosa The group Burners Without Borders, along with the Burning Man camp called Camp Epic, are launching something in Santa Rosa called Oasis Village, on land that's being offered by a local businessman. The
SF News Day Around The Bay: LED Flower Things Sprout In Jane Warner Plaza The LED art installation above, called The Seeds by the group Aphidoidea, are getting their official first lighting tonight. [Hoodline] The SF DA's office announced they won’t be charging four more SFPD
SF News Twitter Apparently Pitched Russian Media Outlet RT On Spending Millions In Ads Last Year Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT revealed in FULL https://t.co/flh9GLg4f0 pic.twitter.com/ZKOntGvTat— RT (@RT_com) October 27, 2017 Pushing back against Twitter, which announced this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sorry, Castro, Hamburger Mary's Is Probably Never Opening In the long LOOOOONG saga of the former Patio Cafe property at 531 Castro, another year is winding down, more vague promises have been lobbed by landlord Les Natali, and the place remains
SF News UC Berkeley Paper Apologizes, Retracts Anti-Semitic Cartoon A satirical cartoon of recent UC Berkeley campus speaker, the attorney Alan Dershowitz, that many saw as having anti-Semitic overtones has been retracted by the Daily Californian, and the editor of the student-run
SF News 'I Thought It Would Be Pretty Safe,' Says Federal Ranger Whose Gun Was Stolen And Used In Steinle Killing In testimony on Day Four of the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate for the July 2015 murder of Kate Steinle, Bureau of Land Management Ranger John Woychowski described how he had secured
SF News President Trump Lashes Back At Local Billionaire Tom Steyer's Impeachment Campaign President Trump is lashing back at yet another critic via an early morning tweet today, and this time it's billionaire activist Tom Steyer, who is dropping upwards of $10 million on a national
SF News Day Around The Bay: Another Week, Another Uber Lawsuit A new lawsuit is accusing Uber of compensating women less than male counterparts. [Ars Technica] Uber launches multi-stop trips in the U.S. and Canada. [VentureBeat] Man has backpack stolen in SF, then
SF News Op-Ed: Facebook Wouldn't Be As Big Of A Problem For The News If People Actually Clicked And Read Stories The ongoing villainizing of Facebook for its role as a disseminator of fake news and Russian-fed propaganda in the 2016 election necessarily leads to a discussion of another very significant villain: the laziness
SF News The Most Dangerous SF Intersection For Pedestrians? Fifth And Market A new study from a potentially self-interested source (a personal injury law firm) has found that SF's most dangerous intersection for pedestrians is Fifth and Market Street, at least when looking at the
SF News Walgreens Announces Plans To Shutter 600 Stores, Likely Including Some In SF Following their deal to acquire a portion of Rite Aid's store inventory, Walgreens announced this week that it plans to shutter 600 stores, most of them under the Rite Aid brand, but including
arts Behold: The Social Network Tarots Forget the Hermit and the Three of Cups. You can get your tarot cards read with far more contemporary symbols of joy and dread: The Social Network Tarots. This appears, for now, just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Sisters Team Opens New Berkeley Wine Bar, Les Arceaux Fans of the now shuttered Two Sisters Bar & Books in Hayes Valley can rest assured that they can still find a bit of that magic across the Bay, in the form of
SF News Updates In Mysterious Sherri Papini Abduction Case Include DNA, Few Real Leads Almost a year ago, 34-year-old Sherri Papini was found bruised, beaten, branded, and partially shackled by the side of a highway in Northern California after she had gone missing three weeks earlier while
SF News Reddit Finally Tries To Ban Nazi Subreddits With New Anti-Violence Policy Reddit, the angry internet's most favored bulletin board and scream chamber, announced late Wednesday that they were taking a new if extremely belated stand against hate, white supremacy, and violence. In updating their
