SF News Kitten Dyed Blue, Likely Used As Dog's Chew Toy, Rescued In South Bay A seven-week-old kitten who's been named Smurf, because its previous owner/abuser dyed its fur blue, is recovering and receiving treatment at the Nine Lives Foundation shelter and clinic in Redwood City after
Arts & Entertainment Video: Patti Smith Celebrates Her 69th Birthday At The Fillmore The great and legendary Patti Smith did a series of three shows at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium last week, culminating in a New Year's Eve show, and also including a show on her
Arts & Entertainment Dustin Lance Black And Gus Van Sant Return To Familiar Turf With SF LGBT History Doc Series The writer and director of 2008's Milk, Dustin Lance Black and Gus Van Sant, will be reuniting returning to the topic of LGBT history in San Francisco with When We Rise, an eight-part
Arts & Entertainment The Worst And Saddest Of Apartment Sadness, 2015 Since today is basically a Friday, and the last day of the year, I've decided to recap this terribly sad, though sadly funny year of Craigslist scouring and apartment-hunting schadenfreude. No doubt, if
Arts & Entertainment Important Question: Where Are The New Year's Fireworks? Hey, all you who are new to town and looking to do the touristy things that new folks do! Or hey to all those of you who have been in SF for years
SF News Suitcase Murder Update: Victim's Father Still Wants To Know What Happened Anyone who tracks homicide news has likely been wondering what's going on with the case of deceased murder suspect Marc Andrus and his alleged victim who was also his friend, Omar Shahwan. Shahwan,
SF News SFPD Bolsters New Year's Eve Security Over Terror Fears Like in cities across the globe tonight, San Francisco police are preparing as best they can for the possibility of a terror attack in the wake of the November attack on Paris and
SF News 25 Things We Learned Not To Do In 2015 It's been an odd and scary year in many ways. But 2015 came on the heels of a number of odd years, and when you cover crime and such on a daily basis,
SF News SF's Least Expensive Home Sales In 2015 Were All Decrepit Shacks You only need to have clicked on Curbed once or twice this year to have seen that even basic forms of shelter cost a million dollars in 2015 San Francisco, and that unless
SF News More Shkreli Fallout: KaloBios Files For Bankruptcy You saw this coming if you were paying attention: After the NASDAQ delisted the stock of SF-based KaloBios and halted trading of it last week in the wake of CEO Martin Shkreli's arrest,
SF News Twin Earthquakes Strike Northern And Southern California Within Minutes Of Each Other Once again drawing my paranoid mind back to Eve's favorite movie San Andreas, a pair of theoretically unrelated earthquakes struck hundreds of miles from each other Tuesday evening within just 13 minutes. The
Arts & Entertainment Tom Cruise's Son To Celebrate His 21st Birthday By DJing At Temple In SF Well this is odd. Famed Scientology evangelist and sometimes actor Tom Cruise is father to a fully grown son now who's a globe-trotting DJ, in case you weren't aware, and that son, Connor
Arts & Entertainment Union Square Bar To Become Pop-Up Ball Pit In March It's often been said that SF is a place for perpetual Peter Pan Syndrome, what with our goofy costumed foot races and annual adult pillow fights. And though that adult Slip-N-Slide thing got
SF News Google Glass 2.0 Is On Its Way, And It Won't Be Marketed To Consumers Alphabet is not giving up on Google Glass. As the company said earlier this year, the road has not gone off a cliff for the much reviled facecomputer, and now 9 to 5
SF News As Witness Testimony Wraps, Shrimp Boy's Lawyers Allege Judicial Misconduct The final defense witnesses are expected today in the trial of Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow, in which he's charged with racketeering, money laundering, murder, and dozens of other offenses related to the organized
SF News Body Found In U-Haul In Hayward ID'd As 40-Year-Old Bay Point Man The odd case of Charles Goetting, the 27-year-old man suspected of shooting a BART police officer on Christmas morning, driving a stolen U-Haul van, and murdering another man whose body was found in
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mayor Lee And Aaron Peskin Are Pals Now? Lee, Peskin put bitter election behind them. via @matierandross https://t.co/vLc01gP3kh pic.twitter.com/K9MgayQML0— The Chronicle (@sfchronicle) December 27, 2015 Ed Lee and newly reelected Supervisor Aaron Peskin are hanging
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Guy Fieri Tries To Dump Remaining Johnny Garlic's Restaurants, But The Restaurants Are Fighting To Stay Open Noted Warriors fan, former Lamborghini owner, Food Network punchline, and annoyer of his Santa Rosa neighbors Guy Fieri has also been, in the last two decades, a restaurateur. But he's looking to rid
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What The San Jose Marriott Will Be Serving Whichever Super Bowl Team Is Staying There The kitchen at the San Jose Marriott, which will be hosting one of the two teams heading here for the Super Bowl, is already well schooled in feeding hungry NFL teams since they
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Dive, Mission Bar, Actually Gets New Lease It's a sad state of affairs when it's newsworthy that a divey, no-frills bar in the Mission with no special history but plenty of loyal fans is actually not closing. But that is
SF News $30K/Month Penthouse Still On Market, And Here's A Better Look Inside New York has for a long time had monthly rental rates that crossed into five figures for some well located, higher-end apartments in Manhattan, but such things are still pretty new to San
Arts & Entertainment Daisy Does The Niners: SF Loses To Detroit 32-17, No One Cares by Daisy Barringer Someone last week suggested that instead of writing a column about the 49ers this week, I instead create a list of 49 things you’d be better off doing than
SF News San Francisco Drivers Only Getting Worse; Intersection-Blocking Citations Tripled In 2015 Everyone who's been behind a wheel recently or been stuck in downtown traffic in a Lyft knows what Dianne Feinstein knows: Traffic in San Francisco is worse than it's ever been. Or at
SF News Suspicious Man At Hayward BART Allegedly Shoots Cop, Then A Body Is Found In His Van Two BART cops went to question a suspicious and nervous-seeming man outside a parking structure at the Hayward BART station on Christmas morning after seeing him walking away from a U-Haul with a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Get Some Christmas Eve Tamales In case you missed that tamale party earlier in the week and have not thought ahead about the all-important, must-have food item for a San Francisco Christmas, here are some good bets for
