Arts & Entertainment Your Complete San Francisco Street Fair and Festival Guide For 2019 Now that it's May, it officially street fair and festival season in SF. And given that this is a city where drinking is pretty much required if it's light out and it's a day that starts with "S," you should know the upcoming fair and event schedule that is now upon us, and extends through October.
SF News Decorator Showcase House Was Once Owned By CNet Founder, Later Became 'Thug Mansion' For Squatter Art Thief The grand Presidio Heights home at 3800 Washington Street that is currently serving as this year's venue for the Decorator's Showcase has some colorful recent history prior to its latest renovation.
Business & Tech Uber IPO Sputters, Stock Already Trading Below Initial Price Uber's big, much ballyhoo'd IPO did not get off to the most glorious start Friday afternoon, as an already conservative $45 initial share price appears too rich for investors' blood. Even Lyft had a bit of a first-day bounce on its IPO day!
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Daniel Patterson Cancels Plans For Alta On Mid-Market; Another Restaurant Will Move In Yotel Now that Daniel Patterson's restaurant group no longer has any locations in the city of his once burgeoning mini-chain called Alta, it comes as no surprise that his two-year-old plan to re-open Alta a few blocks down from its original Mid-Market location has fallen through.
Arts & Entertainment Play Chess With The SF Skyline With This Fancy New Chess Set The Transamerica Pyramid is the queen and Salesforce Tower is the king in this bronze-cast chess set from UK-based Skyline Chess, from the minds of two London architects. Also, the Painted Ladies are pawns, and 555 California didn't make the cut.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Uber Prices IPO Shares At Bottom Of Range Tubbs Fire victims in Santa Rosa say they're being taken advantage of by a contractor, a suspect was arrested in a string of Dublin arsons, and 15 sets of twins are graduating in the same high school class.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Punch Line Comedy Club To Close, Chapelle To Return This Month Muni has a new chief in Julie Kirschbaum (not replacing Reiskin as SFMTA director), Dave Chapelle is coming to town May 20-22, and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes dropped a bomb of an op-ed saying Zuckerberg has too much power and Facebook should be broken up.
SF News Huge Cache Of Over 1,000 Guns Seized From LA Mansion Connected To Gettys The LAPD and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives served a search warrant at a Bel-Air mansion Wednesday that belongs to former Gordon Getty mistress Cynthia Beck.
SF News SF Still Tops New York, Dubai, And Hong Kong For Number of Billionaires Per Capita Just in case you needed another depressing statistic about our local surroundings, San Francisco now has a greater density of billionaires than any other city in the world.
SF News As It Turns Out, The 'Twitter Tax Break' Was No Cure-All For Mid-Market's Many Troubles The crossroads of SF's busiest thoroughfare and its historically most chaotic gathering places for drug-addicted, sometimes mentally ill, and often in-crisis residents has not taken so quickly or easily to the forces of gentrification.
SF News Judge In Ghost Ship Trial Warns Jury, Holds Closed-Door Hearing On Outside Communications We're only a week into what's likely to be the months-long Ghost Ship trial, and already there appear to have been multiple issues with the jury and contacts being made outside the courtroom.
SF News Thursday Morning Whats Up: Munchery Sells Its South SF Headquarters Florence Fang has filed her discrimination suit in the Flintstones House case, Munchery has sold its food service facility at auction, and what to expect from Uber's IPO day.
SF News Day Around The Bay: DA Investigates SF Doctor Who Issued Vaccination Exemptions A child assault suspect who faked his own Golden Gate Bridge suicide in 2016 was arrested in Florida, a Millbrae flasher is on the loose, and Oakland's former assistant fire marshal testified in the Ghost Ship trial.
SF News Problematic Sharp Turn In Oakland BART Tunnel All Thanks To A 1960s Political Compromise You know that screeching turn that BART trains have to make between Lake Merritt and 12th Street-City Center in Oakland? It didn't need to be that sharp, or that screeching, if it weren't for a decision forced by a political favor during BART's design phase.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Firm Designs 3-D Printed Village For Farm Workers In Latin America An SF-based design firm has partnered with a nonprofit that develops housing in the developing world to build a 50-unit housing village using 3-D printing construction technology in 50 days time.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marina To Get A Second Country-Western Bar, This One With A Mechanical Bull Yee-haw? Westwood, a new country music bar from one of the guys behind The Brixton, Trademark & Copyright, Horsefeather, and Last Rites, is headed for the former Stock in Trade space on Lombard by late May.
SF News Scenes From The Picket Line Outside Uber HQ In SF Drivers for both Uber and Lyft are on strike today, protesting low wages and a lack of transparency around compensation, and a couple hundred gathered outside Uber's Market Street offices this afternoon ahead of the company's planned IPO.
SF News Gas Leak Prompts Evacuations, N-Train Disruption In Sunset District A gas leak possibly caused by a backhoe working near the Muni tracks at 23rd Avenue and Judah has prompted evacuations and a shelter-in-place order.
Business & Tech Amazon Go a No-Go As Supes Vote To Ban Cashless Stores The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to ban all retail outlets in the city that don't accept cash as payment. The move to quell a growing trend of cashless stores and restaurants is meant to ensure access to all stores by low-income residents.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Uber / Lyft Driver Strike Kicks Off SF School Board President says he was racially profiled at a Walgreens, Monday's dead whale gets necropsy, and A's pitcher Mike Fiers pitches no-hitter.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mistrial Declared In Skateboard Attack On Security Guard The case of the Redwood City woman who tried to drown her just-born baby in a McDonald's toilet in 2017 has resolved with no jail time, and the planned Uber/Lyft strike might not impact riders.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Bakery Hosting Bagel Pop-Up Wednesday Night Get set for a longer-than-typical line outside Tartine Bakery Wednesday evening as notoriously bagel-starved SF gets a new bagel pop-up to try, called Midnite Bagel.
SF News Confessed Bay Area Killer Linked Through DNA To Tahoe Cold Case From 1982 A confessed murderer who committed suicide in jail while awaiting trial in 1983 has been definitively linked to the 1982 murder of Mary Edith Silvani near Lake Tahoe
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two SF Restaurants, Benu and Bar Agricole, Take Home Big Prizes at the James Beard Awards "Eighth time’s a charm," joked Bar Agricole owner Thad Vogler in his acceptance speech, after the place won the James Beard Award for Outstanding Bar Program following annual nominations going back to 2012.
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For 'Wine Country,' The Amy Poehler-Directed, Napa-Set Comedy Based On Rachel Dratch's Actual 50th Birthday "Just remember guys, whatever gets said, it's probably what the person has always felt, and the alcohol just let it out," says Tina Fey's character, Tammy.
