SF News Local Software Engineer Lives In A Van Because She's Too Frugal To Pay High Rent An employed tech worker who recently moved to the Bay Area decided that rents were too high and her housing options were on the lower end of the spectrum were too depressing, so
SF News Alleged Killer Drifters Spark Heightened Outrage Against Haight Street Vagrants A community meeting last week in the Upper Haight may have marked just the beginning of a new wave of anger about the homeless youth who have been a constant sight in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Finn Town Coming To Castro, Causwells Launches Burger Place On Mid-Market, and More You've hopefully heard the good news about The Orbit Room's return, and about WesBurger finding a permanent home in The Mission. Then there's the ridiculous Sinbad's saga that won't end, and St. Vincent
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Island Music Fest Has A Comedy Tent This Year In case you missed it, Treasure Island Music Fest returns this weekend for two pretty mellow days of shows on two stages that don't overlap thus, no running around or stressing about what
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Guide Update Arrives Next Week; 12 New Restaurants Become Bib Gourmand Picks For what it's worth, the Michelin Guide is the most respected and comprehensive guide to local dining curated and edited by a non-local entity, and the go-to source for restaurant picks for globe-trotting
SF News A Huge Number Of Americans Have Come Out As LGBT On Facebook This Year Maybe because of June's Supreme Court ruling on marriage, or maybe because of Caitlyn Jenner, or just because of the tidal wave of mainstream support in general for the LGBT cause, nearly a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Orbit Room Will Live Again! Fans of its craft cocktails and surprisingly excellent pizzas were devastated this past spring when The Orbit Room shut its doors abruptly after 20 years. Now we get the welcome news that some
SF News Twitter Layoffs Affect At Least 240 In SF In a letter to the California Employment Development Department, Twitter's Human Resources Department clarified that their current mass layoff a layoff is considered "mass" in CA if it's 50 or more people will
Arts & Entertainment Seven Things You Should Know Before Entering This Year's Armory Haunted House This year's Hell In the Armory Presents: Inferno is similar to last year's inaugural Hell In the Armory in a few ways, but very few. And, as I found out last night, it's
Arts & Entertainment Trailer: 'All Things Must Pass: The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records' Hitting theaters this weekend is a new documentary directed by Colin Hanks (son of Tom, star of CBS's Life in Pieces) titled All Things Must Pass, all about the phenomenal success and rapid
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Porn Audio Plays Over Target PA Systems In Northern California Target shopper Gina Young was with her twins in the chain's Campbell, California store Wednesday when someone began playing the audio from a porno over the store's PA system. She recorded it for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink WesBurger Snags Permanent Spot In The Mission Popular burger pop-up WesBurger, from chef Wes Rowe, will now be getting its very own brick-and-mortar location at 2240 Mission Street (at 18th), in the former Palacio Latino space, to be called WesBurger
SF News SF Values?: Dede Wilsey's Son Trevor Traina Hosting Fundraiser For Jeb Bush If you think all the Republicans have been run out of San Francisco, you're wrong. And though he may have been an Obama supporter in '08, Trevor Traina is apparently leaning more to
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Better View Of That Shark Feasting On A Seal By Alcatraz After seeing a fairly fuzzy view of the bloody aftermath of a shark preying on a seal next to Alcatraz Island last weekend, via a tourist's cell phone camera, we now get a
SF News Day Around The Bay: Warriors Reporter Suspended From Chronicle It turns out that a lot of the Chronicle pieces about the Warriors, and their semi-controversial arena plans in Mission Bay, have been copy-and-pasted from Warriors press releases. In response, the reporter's been
SF News Facebook Will Now Stop Showing You Photos Of Your Exes And Dead Pets, If You Tell It Not To In addition to testing six new reaction buttons that will let you at least show your empathy for a friend who's in the hospital without using a thumbs-up button, Facebook is finally rolling
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 18 Best Places In San Francisco To Sip A Classic Cocktail If there's one thing San Francisco can never be faulted for, it's not having enough places to drink. We may not have the most bars per capita, but we may very well have
Arts & Entertainment Video: Patty Hearst Discusses Her Kidnapping And Trial In 1982 Interview Because we can never get enough of the Legend of Patty Hearst around here, please enjoy this animation that's recently been made by PBS Digital Studios/Blank on Blank to accompany a 1982
SF News Co-Living Concept In SoMa Becomes Traditional Apartments, Will Still Feature Leather-Themed Plaza Remember this upscale commune thing that was being planned by BUILD Inc. for 1532 Harrison? The original plan was to build 235 units in nine separate pods that would share kitchens and common
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Sinbad's Thwarts Eviction AGAIN By Seeking Bankruptcy Protection The lengthy, frustrating saga of Sinbad's may finally come to an end today though it may not, if the stubbornness of its owners holds true. But today, the authorities will come knocking at
Arts & Entertainment Nancy Pelosi Doesn't Care About Obama's Mom Jeans, Says Trump 'Will Never Be President' House Democratic Leader and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi sat down, perhaps reluctantly, for an ice cream with Larry Wilmore at New York's Big Gay Ice Cream for The Nightly Show, and the results
SF News New York Times Mag Discovers Shrimp Boy, Adores His Anti-Government Attorney Tony Serra The New York Times Magazine this week delves deep into a profile of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow which is also, in turn, a profile of his flamboyant, anti-government defense attorney J. Tony Serra
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink St. Vincent In The Mission Closes For Remodel And Rebrand As Wine Bar And Store Three-and-a-half-year-old wine-centric restaurant St. Vincent (1270 Valencia Street) has closed, as Inside Scoop reports, in order to remodel the space and turn it into more of a wine bar with a bigger retail
Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho's 'psyCHO Tour' Hits The Castro Theatre Thursday In addition to discussing her sexuality, sex toys, and how Patti LaBelle is scared of her, native San Franciscan Margaret Cho may be touching on some more serious issues during two sets at
