Arts & Entertainment Transbay District Likely To Get A Renzo Piano-Designed Highrise In some more excellent news for architecture and tall buildings in SF, we learned this week that starchitect Renzo Piano, the man behind one of the best-loved new buildings of the last decade
Arts & Entertainment Video: SFMOMA's Rad New Living Wall One of the most stunning aspects of the new SFMOMA is a living wall comprising some 19,440 plants, all California native species, that lines a second-story courtyard along the eastern side of
SF News One More Truss Of Old Bay Bridge To Be Removed Saturday The long, extremely slow process of demolishing the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge continues this weekend with one more 504-foot truss section getting detached, lowered down to the water, and removed.
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Arts & Entertainment Mirkarimi's Wife And Gascon's Wife To Star In SF Production Of 'The Vagina Monologues' What's this? It appears that the wives of two sworn enemies in SF politics, District Attorney George Gascon and former Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, are going to share a stage this weekend in a
SF News UC Berkeley Basketball Coach Accused Of Harassment Ends Appeal, Submits Resignation Just a day after we learned that some 19 UC Berkeley employees have been accused of sexual harassment in recent years, with seven of them losing their jobs in the process, embattled assistant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Check Out The Menu At The Lodge, Now Open In The Lower Haight A few weeks back I alerted you to the coming arrival of The Lodge, and Wednesday night marked night one for the new Lower Haight spot, in the space formerly occupied by Rickybobby.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: The SF LGBT Center's Benefit Soiree This Saturday, April 9, the SF LGBT Center will be hosting its 14th annual Soiree fundraiser, this year with the theme The Imaginarium, and organized by drag queen hostess Juanita More. The event
SF News Dog Owners Get Serious, File Lawsuit Against National Park Service Over New Restrictions In the ongoing drama over new proposed dog rules in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, several local dog-owner groups filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking data from the National Park Service on
SF News Two Dangerous, Mentally Ill Inmates Escape Washington State Hospital Californians are being told to be on the lookout for two potentially dangerous men who escaped custody at a Washington State mental hospital where both were being treated. As KRON 4 reports via
SF News SFPD Text Scandal May Lead To State Or Federal Investigation Public Defender Jeff Adachi has sent out a release Tuesday calling on California Attorney General Kamala Harris to investigate the racist texting scandal in SFPD essentially saying that the department, in this case,
SF News Deplorable Teens Knock Man Unconscious On 15th Street A 54-year-old man was knocked to the ground and is now suffering life-threatening injuries after he was attacked Monday afternoon by a group of ne'er-do-well youths. This all happened, as KRON 4 reports,
Arts & Entertainment Janet Jackson Cancels May 19 Bay Area Tour Stop, Might Be Pregnant? Despite being nearly 50 years old, Janet Jackson apparently wants to have a baby immediately, and this means she will be canceling a scheduled return stop to the Bay Area at Concord Pavilion
Arts & Entertainment Video Palate Cleanser: 'Heatwave' It's the first real one of spring, so excuse me for being excitable. And it's already 92 in the Mission you guys!! (As of 1:40 p.m.) Previously: Record Heat Is Bringing
Arts & Entertainment New App Wants To Be The Airbnb For Hot Tubs, Backyards Have we reached peak app in this our pretty clearly bubbly tech economy of 2016? Some people are still going to tell you no, but I'm here to tell you, and them, about
SF News Record Heat Is Bringing Out Snakes (Watch Out!) Today's potentially record-breaking heat is causing snakes, both the venomous and non-venomous varieties, to slither and creep into yards and homes, alternately seeking both sun and shade. And as Sonoma County Reptile Rescue
SF News Oakland City Council Approves 90-Day Pause On Rent Hikes In a move that sounds even more progressive and renter-friendly than San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, Oakland's City Council last night approved a 90-day moratorium on all rent hikes citywide. The vote came
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Do This Week Sure, the middle of this week (Wednesday) will be hot and gorgeous, but by the weekend you'll be back in your layers and possibly even looking to cower indoors. With all that in
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2016 Lineup Does Indeed Include Radiohead & LCD Soundsystem, Also Lionel Richie And The Muppets! Finally, two weeks after we thought they'd announce it and after that fake-out lineup, we get the real-deal Outside Lands 2016 lineup. And yes, a number of acts from the "projected" lineup are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Sets Opening Date In Chinatown: April 12 Though it once appeared on our list of the most anticipated new restaurants of 2015, Brandon Jew's modern-Chinese passion project Mister Jiu's is finally ready to open in Chinatown next week, April 12,
SF News SF To Become First US City To Require 100-Percent Paid Parental Leave It's all but a done deal that the Board of Supervisors Tuesday will vote to approve a pioneering ordinance that will allow parents of both genders to receive full pay for six weeks
SF News Paypal Kills Plan To Open North Carolina Office Over Anti-LGBT Law Plans by San Jose-based Paypal to open a new global operations center in Charlotte, North Carolina appear to be off the table following the March 23 signing into law of House Bill 2,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Fentanyl Kills Nine More People In Sacramento Experts say the Bay Area is not even close to filling its housing hole, except at the high end of the market, where much of the new construction has taken place. [Chron] Another
Arts & Entertainment Views Of Twin Peaks, Diamond Heights, Cole Valley, And More Of San Francisco Circa 1955 Today I continue reaching into the trove of color photographs taken by hobbyist Charles W. Cushman to bring you some more cityscapes that were on sunny spring days like we're having now, only
SF News Hunter Pence's Scooter Stolen For Second Time In Two Years, This Time From Make-A-Wish Foundation Giants outfielder Hunter Pence has been known to ride a motorized scooter between AT&T Park and his home SoMa home. He had parked the Goped scooter in a secluded spot by
