SF News Oakland Loses Third Police Chief In A Week Amid Brand New Racist Texting Scandal For an idea about the rank and file's opinion on Paul Figueroa: this was making the rounds in #OPS social circles pic.twitter.com/qyWyF446eR— Ali Winston (@awinston) June 18, 2016 Wow, Oakland.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Jane Coming To Fillmore, Camino Expands With Kebabs, and More This week on the food scene we heard about Single Thread, the high-profile new fine dining spot coming to Healdsburg from chef Kyle Connaughton; we told you about the crowd-funding campaign to revive
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open: Pacific Cocktail Haven, The Replacement Bar For Cantina Back in December many lamented the news that Latin-inflected cocktail spot Cantina, which has been going strong for most of the last decade just off Union Square, had been sold and would likely
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Rainbow Slip-n-Slide Planned For Dyke March Day In Dolores Park; Dyke March Organizers Object Some folks have launched a crowd-funding campaign, the proceeds of which they are pledging to the Orlando Pulse victims' fund and the SF LGBT Center, and it's all a benefit centered around The
Arts & Entertainment Even Ayesha Curry Says The NBA Finals Are Rigged Last night's Finals Game 6 between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors was largely an embarrassment for the Dubs more on in The Dub Sack but for the second game in
SF News Day Around The Bay: NRA Uses Local Trans Woman To Tell LGBT-ers To Arm Themselves Now the NRA is using an area trans woman, Nicki Stallard, to argue for LGBT people to arm themselves and fight against gun control in California. [SF Weekly] An all-star band, including former
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Mayor Declares This 'Tupac Shakur Day' As Teaser For Biopic Drops June 16, 2016 would have been Bay Area rapper Tupac Shakur's 45th birthday, but the New York-born, Marin City-reared star was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas on September 7,
SF News California Parent Of Paris Attack Victim Suing Twitter And Facebook For Providing 'Material Support' To ISIS Reynaldo Gonzalez, the father of Cal State Long Beach student Nohemi Gonzalez who was killed in November's terrorist attacks in Paris, is now suing Facebook, Twitter, and Google for the roles they played
Arts & Entertainment The 11 Best Hikes: East & North Bay Edition Hiking weather is here, and hikes to our east and north where the weather can be way more summer-like in the summertime are a very good idea on weekends to escape the gloom
Arts & Entertainment Video: Insane Faux Japanese Ad For Donald Trump This is the work of Mike Diva, a Los Angeles-based video artist and director who's been having some fun posting some ironic day-glo graphics of Donald Trump on Instagram recently. It's not actually
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All About Single Thread, A New Fine Dining Spot From A Euro- and Japan-Trained Chef Headed To Healdsburg Chef Kyle Connaughton, who contributed to the tome Modernist Cuisine and has trained and worked with two of the food world's biggest names, Michel Bras and Heston Blumenthal, is along with his wife
Arts & Entertainment Virgin America To Remain Its Own Separate Brand For Now, Maybe Forever In a talk in front of an aviation professionals' group in New York, Alaska Airlines CEO Brad Tilden said "the thing I’m losing the most sleep over with our merger" with Virgin
SF News Why Was The Interim Oakland Police Chief Canned So Quickly? There is a lot of instability right now in our community which is bringing us together on the issue of gun... https://t.co/T9EzHvpiOW— D Mendoza Consulting (@Champ4Justice) June 16, 2016 Yesterday's
Arts & Entertainment Video: Pod of Humpback Whales Hanging Out By Surf Spot In Pacifica Another close encounter with whales this week as we get video of what appears to be a trio of humpbacks feeding very near the shoreline at Linda Mar Beach. Skyler Thomas shared video
SF News OMG: Winter-Like Storm To Arrive In Mid-June, On Thursday I'm sorry, everyone. El Niño may be technically over, but the rain isn't yet giving up for the summer. As SFGate reports, via the National Weather Service, there is a wet morning ahead,
SF News Supervisors Approve Six New Homeless Navigation Centers (Without Booze Or Drugs) Supervisor David Campos's previously announced legislation that mandates the creation of six new homeless navigation centers like the one already in the Mission, all within two years, received unanimous support from the Board
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bob Dylan Obliges Heckling Fan And Plays 'Free Bird' At Berkeley Greek At his show at the Berkeley Greek Theater last week, the great Bob Dylan, just as he and his band were about to close out his set, decided to give in to a
SF News Oakland Police Sex Scandal Deepens With More East Bay Officers Implicated, Interim Oakland Chief Fired News of a sex scandal that already cost Oakland's chief of police his job broke over the weekend though hints of it were first reported last month by KRON 4 when an internal
SF News Big Gay Kiss-In Planned In Castro Tonight Following Orlando Mass Hate Crime While there is no appropriate or satisfying response to what happened in Orlando on Sunday, LGBT communities around the world have responded with huge vigils and outpourings of love, horror, and support. A
SF News Local Programmer Claims He Didn't Do Any Work For The Last Six Years, Just Got Fired A story that's been making the rounds, first via Reddit, involves a well-paid engineer at "a well-known tech company in the Bay Area" who says he did virtually nothing for the last six
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing: StarChefs' 2016 Rising Stars Gala Not to be confused with the annual Meals on Wheels benefit that's also called the Star Chefs & Vintners Gala, the restaurant industry trade publication StarChefs.com also swings through San Francisco every
Arts & Entertainment Behold The Catacomb Of Veils, A Huge, Pyramid-Like Monument Coming To Burning Man 2016 One experienced Burning Man temple construction crew, led by artist Dan Sullivan, is working on a monumental project for the playa this year called Catacomb of Veils. Currently under construction on Pier 70
SF News Teen Accused In Santa Cruz Murder Of Maddy Middleton Won't Be Tried Until 2017 The 16-year-old boy accused in the assault and murder last July of 8-year-old Madyson "Maddy" Middleton made a brief appearance in court Tuesday morning to enter a not-guilty plea. As KRON 4 reports,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Street Food Park Arrives In Mission Bay Next Week The team behind the bustling, three-year-old SoMa StrEat Food Park are getting set to open a second food-truck gathering spot: SPARK. News arrives via their press team today that SPARK, right in the
SF News Juror In Brock Turner Case Pens Letter To Judge, Says 'Shame On You' None of the names of the predominantly male jury in the sexual assault trial of Brock Turner have been revealed, however we are now hearing from the first of those jurors to speak
