SF News Drug Dealer 'Fat Joe' Finishes Testifying Against Shrimp Boy, Defense Attempts To Discredit Him The trial of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow continues today, and yesterday one of prosecutors' first witnesses who was a former Chow associate who struck a plea bargain in exchange for his testimony finished
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Black Bark BBQ Arrives On Fillmore December 3 In some excellent news for Fillmore district denizens and fans of barbecue, the fast-casual barbecue spinoff of 1300 on Fillmore, Black Bark BBQ, is just a few weeks from opening. This marks a
SF News Self-Driving Google Car Pulled Over By Mountain View Cop For Driving Too Slow One of Google/Alphabet's self-driving cars not one of the SUVs but one of the cute European-looking models got pulled over by a Mountain View traffic cop on Thursday as it was being
SF News Bay Bridge Implosion Will (Probably) Happen Saturday, And There Will Be Nothing To See We and many others have been confused about what, exactly, was going to happen when CalTrans demolishes one of the larger piers of the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge. The implosion,
SF News Day Around The Bay: In-N-Out Sues DoorDash California is breaking the law by failing to include updates about sex offenders on its Megan’s Law website. [KRON 4] In-N-Out is suing SF-based startup DoorDash because it uses an imitation of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>If/Then</i> Starring Idina Menzel And Anthony Rapp Sometimes there's a show, or a movie, that is so original in its form and passionate in its execution that one forgives its fundamental flaws. Such is the case with If/Then, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Del Popolo Pizza Opens On Nob Hill Next Week, And Here's The Menu Very important pizza news, everyone: Jon Darsky's first brick-and-mortar pizza restaurant, modeled after his hugely successful mobile operation of the same name, Del Popolo, will open to the public on Tuesday, November 17
SF News [Update] Utah Judge Takes Foster Child Away From Lesbian Couple In Favor Of Heterosexual Couple, Citing Science A ruling Tuesday in a Utah court indicates just how much further we have to go, in various parts of the country, when it comes to LGBT equality. Judge Scott Johansen ruled that
SF News Airbnb Vows To Work Within Local Laws Worldwide; But Do They Have A Liability Problem? Airbnb, the short-term rental platform that's become a bit of a bête noire lately, particularly for San Francisco progressives and housing activists, has just published a Community Compact and pledged to play nice
SF News Landlords Try To Gut Roommate Provision In New Tenant Law Via The Rent Board, Fail The somewhat controversial provision in a new tenant-protection ordinance passed by the Board of Supervisors and sponsored by Jane Kim that allows tenants to add roommates in a unit up to those set
SF News [Update] SFPD Shoot, Kill Gunman At St. Luke's Hospital Construction Site A scary situation unfolded late Wednesday afternoon at the Mission District's St. Luke's Hospital campus at 3555 Cesar Chavez in which a man was reportedly firing a gun first at the hospital, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 50 Best Brunch Spots For Every Occasion In SF And Oakland Though brunch is not for everybody, there is a time and a place when brunching is absolutely necessary. And if there's anything San Francisco excels at, it's drinking during daylight hours, and eating
Arts & Entertainment [NSFW] Video: 'Who Do I Look Like, A Girl Or A Boy?', A Documentary Short About Shannon Pat Local trans woman and all around eccentric Shannon Pat is an occasional fixture in the LGBTQ nightlife scene in San Francisco, though not many who meet her get to know much about her.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sushi Ran Spinoff In The Castro Will Be Called Nomica Though details are still few, the Sushi Ran team has picked a name for the new restaurant they're plotting for the former Pesce space at 2223 Market Street: Nomica. As Sushi Ran vice
Arts & Entertainment What Should Go Into The Huge Space At Pier 29? An arts use now seems like a likely tenant for a huge empty space along the Embarcadero at Pier 29 that has sat mostly vacant for years the same space that suffered a
Arts & Entertainment Raiders Linebacker Ray-Ray Armstrong Accused Of Barking At A Police Dog (Which Is a Felony) Oh boy. A story is emerging out of Pennsylvania where one of the Oakland Raiders, linebacker Ray-Ray Armstrong, is under investigation for taunting a police dog shortly before Sunday’s game against the
SF News A Scholarly Take On Why People Are Losing Love For Twitter Enough has been said about the supposed imminent demise of Twitter which likely isn't imminent at all but regardless of Twitter the company's slowing growth and questionable financial future, Twitter the communication tool
SF News Former SF Police Chief Heather Fong Shortlisted For Border Control Job; Texas Governor Promises 'Revolt' If She Gets It Onetime San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong, who's lately been serving as Assistant Secretary for State and Local Law Enforcement in the Department of Homeland Security, is apparently on a short list of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Chronicle Tells You How To Hunt And Kill Your Own Thanksgiving Turkey I didn't realize that one could hunt and kill a wild turkey in California and that said turkey would actually be worth eating, but according to the Chronicle, this is totally a thing!
SF News SF's Soon-To-Be Tallest Building Pours Foundation, Will Now Rise Quickly While you were all out day-drinking, the Salesforce Tower construction site was a nexus of major activity on Sunday as an army of cement mixers rolled through to deliver a truly massive amount
SF News Shrimp Boy's Defense Attorney Tony Serra Wants To Get Mayor Lee On Witness Stand What's sure to be the colorful trial of Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow kicked off Monday with opening arguments, and already there is talk of mafia-style hits and steak dinners with an FBI agent
SF News Day Around The Bay: Lightning Struck The Golden Gate Bridge Lightning struck the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on Monday https://t.co/SWwlqKT99L pic.twitter.com/OJUlTU8o5D— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 10, 2015 Lightning struck the Golden Gate Bridge
SF News Huge 5M Development In SoMa Gets Jane Kim's Blessing After Adding 40 Percent Affordability The massive mixed-use development slated for the block surrounding the Chronicle building at 5th and Mission, dubbed 5M, appears to be moving forward despite some controversy, and today we get word that Jane
Arts & Entertainment Juanita More Talks About The End Of The Eight-Year Run Of Castro Club Booty Call Wednesdays Thanksgiving week will mark the end of an era for Castro nightlife as drag queen DJ and promoter Juanita More is ending her weekly party at Q Bar, Booty Call Wednesdays. Eight years
SF News Planning Commissioner Being Compared To Donald Trump For Calling Prop I 'Reverse Racism' A petition campaign has been launched to remove sole Republican Planning Commissioner Michael Antonini following some statements he made in a voting guide for friends and family about Proposition I, the Mission moratorium.
