SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Loses Two Restaurants In One Week; Blueprint Tap Room Shutters In SoMa It seems that a midsummer wave of closures is upon us in the food scene, beginning with a pair of small Asian spots in the Castro one of which had sat quietly on
SF News Dolores Park Neighbors Say Footbridge Has Become Magnet For Hard Drug Sales Neighbors of Dolores Park, from the adjacent Castro and Dolores Heights environs, gathered Monday evening for a contentious community meeting with the SFPD and D8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy to discuss what they see
Arts & Entertainment Photos: A Miniature SF At Legoland California (Salesforce Tower Not Included) As parents with kids likely already know, Legoland California Resort has a section of the theme park called Miniland USA which can be cruised through on a boat or toured on foot. Miniature
Arts & Entertainment Semi-Autonomous VW Electric Microbus, The I.D. Buzz, Makes Appearance In San Francisco Making an obligatory stop for a photo op in the nexus of once-upon-a-time and still-sorta-kinda Hippieville, the Upper Haight, here is VW's concept car version of their upcoming minibus throwback, which also just
Arts & Entertainment A Bunch Of Dummies Just Pulled Over On An East Bay Freeway To Watch The Eclipse Traffic was predicted in connection with yesterday's eclipse in spots all over the country, but a ton of East Bay residents traveling on Highway 24 through Lafayette decided just to pull over and
SF News Asking Rents In San Francisco Are Down About Two Percent Over Last Year They say that rents, on average, really never go down much in SF, they just plateau. And while many have sensed that we've reached such a plateau over the last two years, thanks
SF News Day Around The Bay: Jeff Immelt Leads Pack As Likely New Uber CEO Remember that awesome Super Bowl we had here last year? Well two of the committee members behind it have written a book about what an awesome job they did on it. [Arise 2.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Hundreds Show Up For 'American Idol' Audition In Oakland On Sunday, the American Idol crew swung through the Bay Area sans celebrity judges to hear some local folks audition for the (is it still popular?) ABC singing competition. As local affiliate KGO
SF News Murderous Sex Fantasy, Hatched In Chat Room, Was Allegedly Behind Bizarre Chicago Murder Case Prosecutors in Chicago revealed details for the first time Sunday in the gruesome homicide there on July 27 that ended with two suspects being arrested and briefly held here in the Bay Area.
Arts & Entertainment Feel-Good Feels Du Jour: Northern California Woman Adopts 'Most Unadoptable' Shelter Dog This kind woman walked into our shelter and asked who the oldest, hardest to adopt dog was. So we introduced her to Jake. Jake has been with us for a long time, is
SF News Counter Protests Planned At City Hall And In Castro This Weekend Whether Alt-Right Rally Goes On Or Not This Friday, city leaders will rally concerned citizens and host an afternoon event on the steps of City Hall to condemn hate and the presumed racist overtones of a planned rally in Crissy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chaya Brasserie Closes After 17 Years; Buca Di Beppo Closes After 20 A couple of notable downtown closures to report after the weekend: 17-year-old Chaya Brasserie closed its doors after service on Friday, as Eater reports; and 20-year-old Italian chain restaurant Buca di Beppo has
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Here's What SF Saw Of The Partial Eclipse Thanks to a mostly foggy and cloudy morning, the partial eclipse was partially obscured at its peak around 10:30 this morning, but that didn't stop many from going out to try to
SF News Bay Area Rallies, Raises Funds In Protest Of Planned Alt-Right Event A couple of demonstrations over the weekend showed Bay Area folk on the left of the political spectrum coming out in defiance of the recently defiant displays by those on the far-right end
Arts & Entertainment Video: People Watching The Eclipse At SF Civic Center Despite The Fog And Clouds Despite overcast, eclipse hounds at SF Civic Center still seem pleased. pic.twitter.com/vFvb9dIK6K— Karl Mondon (@karlmondon) August 21, 2017 The clouds aren't wanting to burn off this morning to let San
SF News Milo Yiannopoulos Vows To Return To Berkeley For 'Free Speech Week' Controversial alt-right/conservative figure and former heavy Twitter user Milo Yiannopoulos is attempting to make a return trip to Berkeley in September for what he's dubbed "Free Speech Week," a four-day event on
SF News Small Plane Bound For Oregon Eclipse-Watching Crashes, Kills Two A single-engine plane that reportedly left from the Bay Area, the occupants of which may have been bound for eclipse-watching in Oregon, crashed Saturday afternoon near the Madras Municipal Airport in Jefferson County.
SF News Alt-Right Figure 'Based Stickman' Faces Felony Charge, Three Strikes Stemming From Berkeley Rally Kyle Chapman, the 41-year-old SF-based right-wing activist who showed up to a Berkeley rally in March in a bicycle helmet and gas mask, carrying a stick and a shield with an American flag
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: A Chicken Nugget Tasting Room, Caffe Trieste To Possibly Close, And More This week, as with all other headlines, local food news headlines were dominated with Charlottesville after it was revealed that an employee at Berkeley-based hot dog chain Top Dog was at the white
SF News Day Around The Bay: White Supremacist Banned From OKCupid The ACLU of California issues statement: White Supremacist Violence Is Not Free Speech. [Indybay] White supremacist Christopher Cantwell, who made a name for himself this week by showing off his weaponry and virulent
Arts & Entertainment New Daniel Handler Play 'Imaginary Comforts' To Premiere At Berkeley Rep In October A new play by local author Daniel Handler, of Lemony Snicket fame, by the name of Imaginary Comforts, or The Story of the Ghost of the Dead Rabbit, will be having its world
Arts & Entertainment Former Red Vic Movie Theater/Second Act Transforms Into Bookstore-Cafe Called The Bindery Up in the Haight, the space that was formerly the beloved Red Vic movie theater, later briefly reborn as Second Act Marketplace, has undergone a new transformation and has just softly opened as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New York Times Apologizes After Acting Like Boba Tea Was Brand New Trend 'New York Times’ amends boba tea story after reader outcry https://t.co/jtA6E4wgSz pic.twitter.com/DOdDA5IRW4— Eater (@Eater) August 17, 2017 An article in the New York Times this week about
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Arab Bakery In Oakland Targeted With Racist Attacks Over Mural Nothing like a giant mural of terrorist #RasmeaOdeh to enhance your appetite - in #Oakland eatery https://t.co/es3PHbLMvi pic.twitter.com/SwWUzDCu9J— (((ArchitectGuy))) (@architectguy) June 19, 2017 Recently opened Oakland bakery
SF News FAA Changes SFO Landing Rules After Air Canada Near-Miss Following a widely publicized near-disaster at SFO last month in which an Air Canada jet came within feet of crashing into four planes full of people on a taxiway, the FAA is making
