SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Food Network Is Letting Yelpers Have A TV Show At this late date, Yelpers are finally going to get a nationally televised stage from which to deliver their amateur snark about restaurants they do not like or, to use a phrase popular
SF News The DC Metro, At Almost The Same Age As BART, Is Also Having Major Problems At Middle Age The Bay Area is not alone in having a mass transit system built in the mid-1970's that is showing some major signs of age this past year that are in part the result
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two SF Chefs, Ravi Kapur And David Barzelay, Named <em>Food & Wine</em> Best New Chefs The prestigious annual honor of being named to Food & Wine's Best New Chefs issue will be going to not one but two local chefs this year, once again proving San Francisco is
SF News Car Collides With Fire Hydrant, Creates Seven-Story Geyser At Polk And Hayes (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=
SF News [Update] Virgin America Sold To Alaska Airlines As reported last week, Virgin America put itself up for sale, and the boutique airline owned in part by Virgin Atlantic founder Richard Branson has reached a deal to be acquired by Alaska
Arts & Entertainment 'An Act Of God' Starring Sean Hayes Is A Smart, Mostly Light-Hearted Take On The Maker Sean Hayes the performer is not to be confused with the character of Jack McFarland on Will & Grace that he's blessed (or doomed) to be branded with as his career-defining role. And
SF News Airbnb Reveals 20% Of SF Listings Are By Hosts Listing Multiple Homes, Vows Crackdown Airbnb has issued a mea culpa of sorts today, and a reversal of some of its previous rhetoric surrounding the issue of hosts who illegally use the platform to turn themselves into small-scale
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Actual Shipping Container In The Bayview, $600/Mo Last summer, the local media caught wind of a 31-year-old business school grad who'd built an ersatz apartment complex out of 11 shipping containers that were all in an Oakland warehouse somewhere, for
Arts & Entertainment Guns N' Roses Reuniting For Tour, Playing AT&T Park August 9 Late '80's rock gods Guns N' Roses, most of them anyway, are reuniting for a full tour this year, dubbed the Not In This Lifetime Tour, as they announced today. And it's not
SF News Six Months Later, Valley Fire Victim Reunited With Lost Cat Last September's Valley Fire devastated the community of Middletown, California and destroyed over 1200 homes, becoming the third most destructive wildfire in state history. It also killed four people and an unknown number
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink When Did We Start Calling It 'Brunch,' And When Did It Become A Thing? Brunch. It's the meal that many of you love to get tanked at after a long weekend of getting tanked, before settling in for a long Sunday's nap. And it's the meal that
SF News Day Around The Bay: Roommate In Dreadlock Dispute Speaks The roommate of the woman involved in that dreadlock dispute at SF State speaks out about her roommate's obsession with social justice and black power. [ABC 7] Have you seen this adorable dog?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Names Six Rising Star Chefs, Including Aatxe's Ryan Pollnow and Californios' Val Cantu See how The Chronicle’s 2016 Rising Star Chefs shape the Bay Area’s dining scene.https://t.co/SqGOBx13G2 pic.twitter.com/VyMPaojLdG— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) March 31, 2016 It's time again for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Best Soup Dumplings (Xiao Long Bao) In The Bay Area There is some mad competition among dim sum parlors on both coasts for the claim of "best soup dumpling," because these multifaceted Shanghainese delicacies known as xiao long bao (or XLB) are far
SF News No Death Penalty Sought In Case Of Alleged Drug-Addled Drifter Murderers The Marin County DA's office announced in a statement late Wednesday that the death penalty would not be sought in the case of the suspected murderous trio of drifters apprehended in October, Morrison
SF News BART Delay This Morning Caused By Police Chase And Car Crash Near Tracks In Pleasant Hill UPDATE: A car was reported on the #BART tracks, causing major delays https://t.co/ewPpdMRKh0 pic.twitter.com/YuafM31lnq— KRON 4 News (@kron4news) March 31, 2016 Yet again BART riders faced a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Hunted And The Arsenal, Two New Restaurants Focused On Game And Seafood, Headed To SoMa Back in November, Hoodline caught the news that "hunter-gatherer chef" Erik Sun, who's both a partner and occasionally a chef at popular downtown Los Angeles restaurant Bestia was heading to San Francisco to
Arts & Entertainment Rare Desert Plant Blooms For First Time In 50 Years In East Bay Botanical Garden A rare giant nolina, a desert plant native to California's eastern Mojave Desert, has just bloomed for the first time since it was planted in Berkeley's Tilden Park, at the Regional Parks Botanic
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Chef Nancy Oakes Pens Ode To Duarte's Tavern In Pescadero In-the-know locals and those bent on exploring likely all know of Duarte's Tavern down the Peninsula in Pescadero, one of the oldest and most beloved restaurants in the Bay Area clocking in at
SF News Pharma Company Hikes Price Of Aid-In-Dying Drug After California Passes Right-To-Die Law Following the passage of California's right-to-die/death with dignity legislation last fall, a pharmaceutical company that acquired the most popular drug of choice for the process doubled the price of it for patients
Arts & Entertainment Brace: Goatchella Returns To The Ferry Building April 16 Families with children and hipsters alike have turned CUESA's perfectly innocent, annual Baby Goat Festival into a thing of viral intensity and long lines, and now in its eighth year, the event last
SF News Uber Sends Private Investigator To Question Former Employee Suspected Of Leaking 'Rape' Searches The extraordinarily broad reach of Uber across the nation (and world) and their questionable process for screening and hiring drivers has a lot of people worried about what the next shoe to drop
SF News Apple Wants Answers About How The FBI Hacked That iPhone Apple remains in the dark about how a federally contracted "outside party" believed to be Israeli mobile forensics specialists Cellebrite succeeded in circumventing the security protections in the iPhone 5C in order to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold The Food Vendor Lineup For Off The Grid's Presidio Picnic, Restarting April 3 Off the Grid's second most popular Marina-adjacent food truck party, their weekly Sunday Presidio Picnic series, restarts its season on Sunday April 3, and the vendor lineup has just been announced. As always,
SF News Board Of Supes Reprimands UCSF For Firing Of Chinese-Speaking Janitors There's been a recent dustup between the Board of Supervisors and the city's second largest employer, UCSF, over what the supervisors see as unjust labor practices on the part of the university. The
