SF News Infamous SoMa Gay Sex Club Blow Buddies May Be Endangered As Building Goes Up For Sale Blow Buddies, which has operated for decades in semi-secret with no street signage at 933 Harrison Street, could be in danger if the building it's housed in sells to owners who don't want a sex club there.
SF News Stanford Students Sue Over Admissions Fraud Scandal; Atherton Teen's Georgetown Diploma In Jeopardy A pair of Stanford students have filed a class action lawsuit against the university — and multiple others — in connection with the wide-ranging admissions fraud scandal revealed this week by the FBI.
SF News Congrats, San Francisco! You Win At Getting Syphilis A new report finds that San Francisco leads the nation in syphilis infections, and we come in third for gonorrhea. Yay.
SF News Butterfly Swarm Heading For NorCal Within Days An unusually large population of migrating painted lady butterflies has been swarming over the Los Angeles area in recent days, and they're headed our direction.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Beto's Running The window for the Mavericks surf competition is closing, Kamala supports Newsom's death penalty moratorium, and Facebook still hasn't said what caused Wednesday's outage.
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Gets Its First Lesbian Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson, a 25-year veteran of the SFFD, will step into Joanne Hayes-White's shoes as chief in May, and that Facebook/Instagram outage lasted pretty much all day.
Arts & Entertainment Bill Graham To Light Up With New Conceptual Art Piece Tonight A new public art piece by renowned conceptual art master Joseph Kosuth is getting flicked on officially for the first time tonight, on the previously unsightly Polk Street facade of Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Baby's First Word Is 'Google' It's 2019. We've sent men space, possibly cured AIDS, and we regularly tell bodiless robots to do things for us in our homes like turn on lamps and play songs we like. Why shouldn't babies imitate us?
Arts & Entertainment Raise Your Hand If You Still Have A Collection Of Old Colorful Muni Passes Long gone are the days when the SFMTA printed boldly color-blocked monthly Muni passes that riders would treasure for their clean and attractive graphic design.
SF News Wife Of Maine Man Arrested For Threats Against YouTube Actually Deleted His Channel, Lied To Him About It The story about the jilted YouTuber who took a cross-country trip just to have a word with Google about his deleted channel has taken a darkly funny new twist.
Business & Tech Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Experience Simultaneous Server Issues It ain't so great having three major social platforms served from the same place when the servers go down!
SF News Newsom Calls For (Largely Symbolic) Halt To Death Penalty In CA Due to legal challenges, no one has been executed in California since 2006. But after two ballot initiatives to end the death penalty failed to garner enough votes, Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking it upon himself to end it.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Google Tells Hardware Division Staff To Find New Jobs Google has some non-layoff layoffs, Mission teenager temporarily avoids eviction from grandmother's apartment, and why California figures prominently in the college fraud scandal.
SF News Day Around The Bay: 12,000 Units Proposed For Redwood City Salt Ponds The suspect in the Feb. 28 murder of Bambi Larson in San Jose was undocumented and has a rap sheet, and a 122-unit condo development is proposed for the Candlestick parking lot.
Arts & Entertainment Dodgeball Meets 'Exploding Kittens' In New Game 'Throw Throw Burrito' A new game in development from the creators of popular card game Exploding Kittens involves cards and trying to accrue like cards, and then also throwing plushy burritos at other players.
SF News AOC Piles On With Elizabeth Warren In Saying Our Democracy Has 'A Facebook Problem' Facebook was squarely in the sights of liberal politicians this week after the presidential campaign of Sen. Elizabeth Warren decried the company's decision to remove three of her ads that talked about breaking up Facebook.
SF News Sonoma County Teacher Arrested For Refereeing 'Fight Clubs' In His Classroom A high school teacher in Cloverdale was arrested in connection with accusations that he condoned and played referee at "fight clubs" in which his students participated. At least one student required medical attention.
SF News Bay Area Rich People, Stanford Sailing Coach, Two Hollywood Actresses Indicted In College Admissions Scandal In what's being called the biggest case of college admissions fraud ever, 50 individuals in six states have been indicted, including 14 people in the Bay Area, and actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Laughlin.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Butcher & Farm Heads To Beso Space in Castro, From the Team Behind Lark Following the closure of Beso on 18th Street in the Castro last week, we have news of a taker for the space, and it's the team behind Mediterranean spot Lark just a few doors down.
SF News After Cyclist's Death, SFMTA To Remove Parking And Extend Howard Street Bike Lane Following the death of bicyclist Tess Rothstein on Friday, the SFMTA says it will immediately be removing street parking on the north side of Howard Street between Fourth and Sixth Streets in order to extend the protected bike lane.
SF News Tuesday Morning Links: Homeless Man Arrested In Killing of San Jose Woman A 24-year-old transient has been arrested in the Feb. 28 death of Bambi Larson, a murder-suicide in a Santa Rosa mall parking lot, and Feinstein pushes to ground Boeing 737 Max jets.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pelosi Says Trump 'Not Worth Impeaching' Pelosi's not "for impeachment," a 35-year-old woman was stabbed with an ice pick in SoMa, and a sheriff's deputy faces trial soon following a battery incident in 2017.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Critic Soleil Ho Hates In-N-Out's Fries, Got Nasty Letter About Her Chez Panisse Review From Mimi Sheraton It was just Week 2 for Soleil Ho at the Chronicle — in print at least — and we now have the second edition of her Bite Curious newsletter, as well as her latest Sunday review.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AL's Place To Open AL's Deli In Yuzuki Space at 18th and Guerrero Chef Aaron London's Michelin-starred Mission hit AL's Place is expanding for the first time, and it's onto the gourmet ghetto of 18th Street.
SF News Two-Alarm House Fire Blankets Mount Davidson In Smoke A house fire in the Miraloma Park neighborhood sent smoke up over the skies of San Francisco Monday afternoon.
