SF News Day Around The Bay: Bay Area Inundated With Wasp Nests Oakland Councilwoman Lynette Gibson McElhaney may be facing hefty fines for ethics violations relating to a city-contracted architecture firm from whom she received free help in opposing a development that was planned next
SF News Uber Suspends Driver For Engaging In Sex While A Backseat Passenger Was On A Trip We have a fresh story of an Uber driver behaving badly, and this time it didn't have to do with victimizing a passenger but rather making a passenger feel really, really uncomfortable while
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink More Details On Plan To Turn Stonestown Macy's Into Multiplex Theater With Food Court We heard outlines of a plan a couple weeks ago by new property owner General Growth Properties (GGP) to redevelop the Macy's store at the Stonestown mall. Now the Chronicle gets a few
Arts & Entertainment Pioneering Trans Performer And Onetime Marilyn Monroe Impersonator Aleshia Brevard Dies At 79 One of the first trans women in the US to receive sexual reassignment surgery, and a performer known for small roles in film and television as well as her spot-on Marilyn Monroe impression
SF News 'Game Of Thrones' Leads To Spate Of Abandoned Huskies With Funny Names Siberian huskies, the strong, wolf-like dogs originally bred for sled-pulling in the Arctic, have along with some of other wolf-esque breeds like the Alaskan malamute been gaining huge popularity in the US and
SF News BART Now Says The First 'Fleet of the Future' Cars Will Be Taking Passengers In September BART is not making any promises, but via a media ride-along event on Monday, they are eager to let the public know that they are not behind schedule anymore with the rollout of
SF News Day Around The Bay: Seven Suspects Sought In Oakland Gang Rape City Attorney Dennis Herrera is still trying to force Uber and Lyft to release data on their drivers' daily trips within the city, and he's just filed a petition in court. [Chronicle] Check
SF News Facebook Cafeteria Workers Unionize, Say They're Not Sharing In The Tech Wealth A decision by about 500 cafeteria workers at Facebook's Menlo Park campus to unionize led the Guardian to do this piece profiling a husband and wife who work in the cafeteria and are
SF News Boutique Hotel With Roof Deck Planned For 18th Street In The Castro Plans for a modern new hotel in the heart of #TheCastro #CastroSF #RealestateSF https://t.co/at2tGEMvMC pic.twitter.com/qyHedYLn64— SocketSite (@SocketSite) July 24, 2017 A four-story, 12-room boutique hotel is in
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Rock Stars In Absurd New iPhone Ad Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is the star of a new commercial for Siri and the iPhone 7 called "The Rock x Siri Dominate the Day," and it's all about how insanely busy the
SF News Video: Victim In Richmond BART Mob Attack Speaks Out 30-year-old Landon Sims has no idea why a gang of about a dozen teenagers randomly attacked him outside the Richmond BART station last week. Robbery was not the apparent motive because, as he
SF News [Update] Online Fact-Checker Snopes.com Reaches Out For Donations In Midst Of Ownership Dispute Snopes.com, the 23-year-old fact-checking website devoted to keeping the internet honest, is in the midst of an ownership struggle that, according to one side of the dispute, is threatening the future of
SF News Kate Steinle Murder Trial Possibly Getting Postponed The defendant in the murder case of Kathryn Steinle, who was fatally shot two years ago on Pier 14, made an appearance in court Friday, and as the Mercury News reports, his attorneys
SF News Two Bay Area Runners Win SF Marathon The San Francisco Marathon shut down some streets this morning, and runners were going before dawn, circling the city through Golden Gate Park, across the Golden Gate Bridge, and back to the starting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Bar Tartine Space Becoming A Matcha Shop, Barcino Opens In Hayes Valley, And More This week on the food scene we learned that Wise Sons is expanding to Hayes Valley, likely with a bagel shop, and we learned some behind-the-scenes secrets from an In-N-Out employee. Also, Namu
SF News Video: Dog Attacked By Otters In Washington Lake A two-year-old black Labrador retriever was attacked by several otters last Wednesday in American Lake in Lakewood, Washington. As KRON 4 reports, the dog's guardian, Linda Willingham, witnessed the attack and she said
SF News SF Man Arrested For Indecent Exposure For The 11th Time Outside Daly City Target An unstoppable public masturbator was sentenced this week to 16 months in jail after he was caught pleasuring himself in his car in a parking lot at the Serramonte Center Target store in
Arts & Entertainment Counting Crows & Matchbox Twenty Fans Sad After Friday Shoreline Show Gets Postponed Shoreline Amphitheatre had to call off a concert Friday featuring 90s throwbacks (and Bay Area native band) Counting Crows and Matchbox Twenty all because some part of a road or ramp collapsed making
Arts & Entertainment Cool New Trove Of Found Photos Shows Us San Francisco In The 1950s This week Mission Mission turned us on to this Tumblr called Found Photos which includes a bunch of vintage scenes of San Francisco in the 1950s and 60s. The photographers are unknown, and
SF News Day Around The Bay: Hive With 40,000 Bees Removed From Castro Home Buzz Off: 40,000 Bees Removed From Castro Courtyard https://t.co/gBGCBovA1N by @YourProtagonist pic.twitter.com/Bmoi9LTqso— Hoodline (@Hoodline) July 20, 2017 Housing advocates say it's increasingly common for Bay Area
SF News Video: Stanley Roberts Tags Along On Pacifica Traffic Stops This week, KRON 4's Stanley Roberts got to do his favorite thing, shaming unlawful drivers, this time alongside cops with the San Mateo County Saturation and Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) in Pacifica. In
Arts & Entertainment Pro Talent Shines In 'La Cage Aux Folles' at SF Playhouse Thanks to the 1996 movie The Birdcage, the charming and ahead-of-its-time story of La Cage Aux Folles is well known to American audiences. Less well known to contemporary audiences is the 1978 French
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Outer Richmond Carpeted Gem, $2800/Mo Though the housing market has been tempered by a combination of slower job growth, population out-migration and increased supply, that doesn't really mean that prices have come down. It does mean that there
Arts & Entertainment The 9 Most Infamous Cults In The Bay Area 'Cult' is a word that gets thrown around casually a lot to describe everything from Mormonism to Soul Cycle. But here in the Bay Area there's been a special affinity for cultism, and
SF News Detwiler Fire Grows To 74,000 Acres, Destroys 58 Homes The five-day-old Detwiler Fire continues to grow, though at a slightly slower pace than it did in the previous couple of days, reaching 74,000 acres by Friday morning. It is now 15
