SF News Sunday Storm Topples More Trees, Causes Floods, Shuts Down Highways Bay Area: El Niño to deliver another potent storm system later this week https://t.co/70TGZTU345 @sbaxter_sc pic.twitter.com/8jn8IqfNVc— Mercury News (@mercnews) March 7, 2016 Following all that stormy
SF News Serial Stowaway Marilyn Hartman Sentenced To Six Months In Mental Health Facility Poor Marilyn Hartman. The 64-year-old serial airplane stowaway, who has succeeded in criss-crossing the country a couple times in recent years and been arrested or detained by police for it multiple times in
Arts & Entertainment St. Lucia's Jean-Philip Grobler Talks 'Trop-Pop,' And Why The 80's Are Still Inspiring St. Lucia is the name of the band and musical enterprise started by South African-born singer-songwriter Jean-Philip Grobler. Along with wife Patti Beranek and live band members Ross Clark, Nick Paul, and Dustin
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Off The Grid Fort Mason Restarts (In The Rain) Tonight The season for Off The Grid's weekly food truck party at Fort Mason begins again tonight, March 4, and it promises to be a wet one. Typically drawing 8,000 to 10,000
SF News Large Tree Topples Onto Car In Presidio Heights BREAKING: Large tree falls on cars, #Muni bus in Presidio Heights https://t.co/sker1lwjPK via @jonahowenlamb pic.twitter.com/6HaLYRq5A6— SF Examiner (@sfexaminer) March 4, 2016 A pretty sizable, 30-foot tree fell
SF News 97-Year-Old Woman Fighting Eviction In Burlingame Dies A story that broke two weeks ago about a 97-year-old woman in Burlingame who was getting evicted from her home of 66 years has come to a sad and sudden end. Marie Hatch
SF News Day Around The Bay: PG&E Finally Going On Trial For The 2010 San Bruno Blast [Fortune Magazine] (once again) says Google is the best place to work in the US. Here's some video of yet another sinkhole in Pacifica, this one on Beach Boulevard. [KRON 4] The giant,
Arts & Entertainment 'Macbeth' At Berkeley Rep Is A Quiet Triumph For Frances McDormand I'm never fully on board with productions of Shakespeare that offer little in the way of visual or conceptual updates to The Bard's 400-year-old dialogue and poetry much like I have no patience
Arts & Entertainment Hugh Laurie TV Series For Hulu, Based On Noir-Ish SF-Set Novel <i>Chance</i>, Scouts Locations In Mission Hugh Laurie is set to star in a new drama series for Hulu called Chance, that is about to begin filming in San Francisco. As the Chronicle reports, a flier recently appeared in
SF News Rookie Cop Fired 23 Shots At Alex Nieto, Thought Niners Jacket Was Gang-Related Rookie SFPD officer thought Alex Nieto may have been gang member because of red Niners jacket. #ABC7Now pic.twitter.com/StO0pHRxpi— Dan Noyes (@dannoyes) March 2, 2016 In the first witness testimony in
SF News How Cow Hollow And Dogpatch Got Their Names, And More Fun Neighborhood Facts Yes, there were once cows in Cow Hollow, and back in 1880 the name for the area between Pacific Heights, the Marina, the Presidio, and Russian Hill would have made a lot more
SF News Why Are There So Many Uber Drivers Sleeping In The Safeway Parking Lot? The other night I had an UberX driver tell me, in detail, how he was attempting to crank out 25 rides that evening, no matter how long it took him, and that I
SF News Google Searches For 'Move To Canada' Hit Highest Point Since 2004 Election Not surprisingly, everyone is searching for how to move to Canada again, and Donald Trump hasn't even been elected yet! According to Google Trends, searches for "move to Canada" are on the rise
Arts & Entertainment Sunday Streets Announces 2016 Street Closure Schedule It's time once again, as spring swiftly approaches, to start thinking about those special Sundays when one thoroughfare in the city gets shut down and turned into a pedestrian- and bike- and rollerskate-only
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 9 Best Late-Night Happy Hours In San Francisco Who has time for traditional happy-hour hours anymore, amirite? The hours between 4 and 8 p.m. are, for many of us, filled with work, commuting, and gym-going, except on those occasions when
SF News Officers Fired On Alex Nieto As Many As 59 Times; Nieto Allegedly Fired Taser At Them Three Times As the civil trial begins in a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of San Francisco following the 2014 death of Alejandro "Alex" Nieto at the hands of SF police, some fresh details
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Myriad, A New Food Hall, Opens At 15th And Market About half of the tenants in the long-empty ground-floor space of the 18-month-old, flatiron-shaped residential building at 15th and Market are up and running, and The Myriad is, at last, finally open. As
SF News Husband And Wife Randomly Assaulted In Duboce Triangle A couple walking home last Tuesday night on typically quiet Sanchez Street in Duboce Triangle fell victim to a seemingly random assault by four young men, and robbery was not the motive. According
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The Fried Chicken And Egg Sandwich At Salumeria's Brunch Sure to make any new list we make of the city's best sandwiches, and part of one of SF's top brunch menus, is this little piece of high-cholesterol heaven at Salumeria on the
SF News More People Searching For 'Donald Drumpf' On Google Than For Rubio Or Cruz Hopefully most of you have by now watched this week's Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, in which the comedian brilliantly skewers Donald Trump and all his Donald Trump smugness, dishonesty, and spurious
SF News Body Of Missing Ski Instructor Found Under Snow Six Weeks Later In Tahoe The body of 23-year-old Placer County ski instructor Carson May was found Monday buried under five feet of snow, six weeks after he went missing in the back country of Sugar Bowl ski
SF News Civil Rights Trial Against City In Alex Nieto Shooting Begins Today A federal trial in the civil rights lawsuit against the City of San Francisco regarding the March 2014 shooting death of 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto is set to begin today, as the Examiner reports,
SF News Remaining 50 (Or So) Tents Forced Off Division Street Early Tuesday San Francisco crews are not negotiating w/the homeless around Division St. anymore. Today is clear out day. pic.twitter.com/UO8eaiFYb1— Amy Hollyfield (@amyhollyfield) March 1, 2016 Monday morning we noted how
SF News Day Around The Bay: SCOTUS Allows CA Affordable Housing Requirement Rules To Stand In declining to hear a case challenging San Jose's recent ordinance (upheld by a California court last year), which still hasn't taken effect but is similar to San Francisco's, requiring developers of large
SF News Zuck Is Not Too Worried About ISIS Threats That threat video ostensibly posted by ISIS/ISIL last week which made direct mention of Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg as well as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey doesn't concern Zuck too much.
