Arts & Entertainment Put On This New Wave Christmas Mixtape While You Bake Those Final Cookies In honor of Christmas after this odd and violent year we've had, an outfit that calls themselves Generic Male DJs has put out a mixtape of almost two dozen rare examples of Christmas
Arts & Entertainment Mike Monteiro Offers To Insult SF-Hating VC Guy In Exchange For Charitable Donations You know that withering, book- and fine carpet-loving Englishman who's woefully stuck in dreary San Francisco and wishes he could see some culture and trees again someday? Well, Benedict Evans, known previously to
Arts & Entertainment Old Mint Will Not Be Theater Space After All, Will Continue As Some Kind Of Event Venue We'd heard back in March that local theater outfit SHN had possibly leased the Old Mint at 5th and Mission, leading me to speculate that the space could get used for some sort
SF News Salinas Couple Tami Joy Huntsman And Gonzalo Curiel Charged With Children's Murder The pair suspected in the deaths of two small children found in a Northern California storage locker earlier this month have been charged with murder, child abuse, torture, and conspiracy with special circumstances.
SF News Parts Of SFO Could Be Under Water For Christmas Eve Travel Due To King Tides, El Niño A "perfect storm" of El Niño season rain and unusually high King Tides on Christmas Eve could cause some serious snags in holiday travel, especially out of SFO. As the Business Times is
SF News CHP Releases Its Report On City Sightseeing Buses, Finds Multiple Mechanical Problems As expected and hinted at yesterday, the CHP has just released its report following a surprise audit of City Sightseeing, the local tour bus operator whose double-decker bus seriously injured multiple people when
SF News Bay Area Woman Becomes First Openly Gay Servicewoman Killed In Combat, In Afghanistan News broke late Tuesday that Air Force Major Adrianna Vorderbruggen, 36, a recent transplant to the San Francisco Bay Area, had become the first openly gay US military servicewoman to be killed in
SF News Shrimp Boy Takes The Stand, Speaks Publicly For The First Time Since 2014 Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow took the witness stand Monday in his racketeering trial that has also turned into an ersatz murder trial, serving as the first witness in his defense after five weeks
Arts & Entertainment Video: <i>Downton Abbey</i>'s Lady Mary Gets Filthy At Cards Against Humanity Last year, three ladies from the cast of Downton Abbey Laura Carmichael (Lady Edith), Lesley Nicol (Mrs. Patmore), and Phyllis Logan (Mrs. Hughes) sat down for a spirited round of Cards Against Humanity
SF News Google Partners With Ford For Self-Driving Car Manufacture Google well, technically Alphabet has struck a non-exclusive partnership deal with Ford to build its first production run of autonomous vehicles, as Yahoo Autos is reporting. This marks a shift for Ford, which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Mainstay Harvey's Closed For Holiday Week Remodel, Menu Update Longtime Castro nachos-and-burger spot Harvey's named, of course, for Harvey Milk is closed this week for a remodel, but don't be alarmed. Even though "remodel" is sometimes code for "closed indefinitely," they are
SF News Cyclist Struck By Tour Bus Is Tourist From Brazil, And He's Doing Just Fine I was wondering when the first story first broke about the out-of-control double-decker tour bus that struck multiple cars, pedestrians, and a cyclist before crashing into the new Apple store construction site at
SF News Day Around The Bay: You Can Still Rent Brian Chesky's Couch For $50 [People Magazine] is surprised to learn what we've known for quite some time: You can still rent Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky's couch on Rausch Street for $50. (Up from $40 as of last
Arts & Entertainment Curran Theatre Breaks Off From SHN, Will Produce Its Own Edgier Shows In 2016 I missed the memo about this when it first went around this fall, but the historic Curran Theatre, in addition to undergoing a major renovation right now, is no longer going to be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing: Tamale Party At Hecho For many in the Latino community, Christmas is all about tamales. And tonight you can either hop in to Hecho in the Castro for a prix fixe tamale feast, or take a dozen
SF News VC Guy Incites Twitter Ire By Saying There Is Nothing To Do Or See In San Francisco In yet another example of the ways in which the newer denizens of New San Francisco don't exactly appreciate the place, local tech jerk Benedict Evans took to Twitter last night to vent
SF News Facebook Offers Employees $10K Incentive To Stop Taking Shuttles, Move Closer To Office Trying to stem the tide of its workforce fleeing the Peninsula to live in SF, Facebook is offering its employees a one-time bonus of $10,000 to $15,000 to move closer to
SF News Gascon On Mario Woods Shooting: 'This Is Not A Conversation About Tasers' As District Attorney George Gascon prepares to potentially file criminal charges against the five SFPD officers involved in the shooting of Mario Woods, he's assured protesters that the investigation into the incident will
Arts & Entertainment Video: Friday's Rainy Lightsaber Battle In an attempt to break a world record for the largest ever faux-lightsaber battle (7,000 people, San Diego ComiCon, 2015), a legion of dorks gathered in a park by the Embarcadero Friday
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SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Little Gem Debuts In Hayes Valley, Dance Club Love + Propaganda Opens, and More This past week on the local food scene we said goodbye to Local Mission Eatery (tomorrow's its last night), and hello to the upcoming Mister Jiu's in Chinatown, due early next year. And,
SF News Remaining Harbin Hot Springs Staff Talk Rebuilding, El Niño Mudslides, A Possible Reopening Next Spring Harbin Hot Springs was one of the most visibly dramatic losses from September's Valley Fire for those in the Bay Area who did not live in or know Lake County too well the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whole Foods To Open One Of The First Of Its Cheaper 365 Market Concepts On Polk Whole Foods is rolling out the first of its slimmed down, less expensive 365 By Whole Foods markets in 2016, beginning with one in LA's Silverlake neighborhood, and another now proposed for the
SF News Oikos University Shooter One Goh Ruled Incompetent To Stand Trial For Second Time Though it does not preclude the possibility of a trial in the future, accused and confessed Oikos University shooting suspect One Goh has once again been ruled mentally incompetent by an Alameda County
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 17 Best New Restaurants Of 2015 Last week we brought you our picks for the best new bars to arrive in town this past year, and now we bring you their restaurant brethren. This has been a truly terrific
