SF News Nevius Solves SF's Homeless Problem: Limit The Number We Help Following last week's blitz of coverage as part of the SF Homeless Project, Chron columnist C.W. Nevius is finally, predictably chiming in with his common-sense, let's-stop-the-nonsense take on what's arguably the city's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Central Kitchen Closes This Week For Revamp, Will Reopen July 21 With New, More Shareable Menu Chef Thomas McNaughton sent out a group email today announcing that Central Kitchen will be closing on July 9th for a major two-week overhaul, and saying, "Doing a standard press release for this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sprig Relaunches Guest Chef Series With David Nayfeld Of Upcoming Che Fico Che Fico, the big new Italian restaurant coming to the Little Star block of Divisadero (834-838 Divis) that we recently got an update on, is still probably six months off, at least. But
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Brief History Of Silicon Valley — Which Does Not Include San Francisco, FYI An apparently new outfit called VanDeGraph just produced this YouTube explainer for everyone who doesn't understand the difference between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, or what defines the Bay Area. The video features
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Belga/Starbelly/Beretta Owner Snags Former Betelnut Space On Union Street The 20-year home to Betelnut in Cow Hollow, which helped usher in the era of Asian fusion and which finally closed in September 2015 after a couple of attempts to rebrand and relaunch,
SF News Firm That Recruited Ousted Oakland Police Chief Charging SF $49K To Find New SFPD Chief The national search process is beginning for a new chief of police for San Francisco, following a season of high tension and high drama on both sides of the bay for both the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Israel Calls Out Facebook As A 'Monster' In Fight Against Terror According to one metric on one apartment listing site, SF one-bedrooms are back to being a tiny bit cheaper than one-bedrooms in New York for the first time in over a year. [Curbed]
Arts & Entertainment Furry Community Responds To Possible Closing Of The Stud, Their Monthly Gathering Place Every second Saturday for a number of years now has been Frolic, the Bay Area furry community's regular monthly dance party hosted at The Stud. It's one of many community's worried by the
SF News Hayward City Workers Accidentally Destroy Longtime Geo-Pilgrimage Site On Hayward Fault A curb that sits directly atop one section of the Hayward Fault in the East Bay, well known to earthquake science nerds and the local geological community since the 1970's but apparently not
SF News Bohemian Grove Employees Get $7 Million In Wage Theft Settlement Valets at Bohemian Grove, the ultra-elite private resort in the redwoods of Monte Rio owned by the Bohemian Club, just won a significant settlement from the 144-year-old private gentlemen's club. As the Chronicle
SF News Kid Orders Custom Trump T-Shirt At Haight Shop And Employees Leave Little Message For Him Inside A 14-year-old Trump supporter recently went into Bang-On, the custom t-shirt shop in the Upper Haight, asking that they make him a Trump shirt, simple black with yellow lettering. Several employees apparently snickered
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two San Jose Men Win First And Second Place In Hot Dog Eating Competition, Again San Jose is home to two of the nation's most decorated competitive eaters, and the two went stomach to stomach once again at Coney Island's annual July Fourth hot dog eating contest, with
SF News Driver In Fatal Tesla Crash Posted YouTube Videos Of Himself Testing Auto-Pilot Feature Joshua Brown, the 40-year-old Ohio man who was killed in May while his Tesla Model S was in auto-pilot mode, was, like many Tesla owners, a technology enthusiast who enjoyed testing the limits
SF News UC Berkeley Student Was Among 20 Killed In Bangladesh Shooting 19-year-old Indian national Tarishi Jain, a student at UC Berkeley who had just finished her sophomore year at the school, was one of the dead in a brutal mass shooting and hostage situation
SF News Did Prince Make An Anonymous $34 Million Donation To Help Oakland Before He Died? A very large donation to the San Francisco Foundation last summer from a donor who wished to remain anonymous may have come from Prince, or so surmises Tamara Palmer writing for SF Sounds.
SF News Gov. Brown Signs Six Gun Reform Bills Into Law Ahead Of Holiday California lawmakers delivered a host of firearm control bills to Governor Jerry Brown's desk Thursday, 11 in all, whichamount to some of the most sweeping legislation limiting gun sales and banning certain types
SF News Crime On The Decline In 2016, Says SFPD Opera-goer muggings aside, crime is actually down this year according to new stats from the SFPD. As the Examiner reports, new data from May shows a downward trend in the frequency of robberies,
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Millennial Hippie Commune Of Your Worst Nightmares Fire dancing! Communal dinners! People cutting each others' hair and frolicking together on the beach! Chateau Ubuntu has it all. This 38-person (!), 10-bedroom house near Alamo Square rents spots for $650 to $1,
SF News How The Closure Of Goodwill Impacts The Homeless, And More Stories From The SF Homeless Project As the week winds down, we have another wave of pieces from the SF Homeless Project, covering a variety of subjects. Here are some highlights: KRON 4 has a piece about family homelessness,
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: $2400 For Crap House In El Cerrito Yay! Even parts of the East Bay that can't even be called hip are trying to charge absurd prices for terrible apartments. A tipster called our attention to an ad, since deleted, for
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Alan Cumming Sings At The Castro We told you about this when it was announced, but tonight's the night that actor Alan Cumming brings his one-man cabaret act, Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs, to the Castro Theater, and there
SF News Stanley Roberts Shames Tour Buses That Still Circle Alamo Square A ban on tour busses clogging the four streets that ring Alamo Square took effect in 2013, however that hasn't stopped some operators of smaller but still illegal short busses from taking people
Arts & Entertainment R-Rated <i>Sausage Party</i> Trailer Screens Before <i>Finding Dory</i> And Concord Parents Flip Out This is pretty funny, at least if you're a non-parent: There's a totally dark and adult-themed animated feature coming out called Sausage Party, the trailer for which is above, and it's a stoner-esque
SF News Day Around The Bay: #HeterosexualPrideDay Can Go Eff Itself More from the SF Homeless Project: A look at how the issue of homelessness has been addressed by the local business community, and how it impacts local business (especially tourism) via the [SF
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New 'Fast Fine Dining' Spot Corridor Debuts On Van Ness The guys from Hi Neighbor Restaurant Group (Stones Throw, Trestle) just opened their latest project in the base of the 100 Van Ness tower on Tuesday evening, and it's called Corridor. Kind of
