SF News Kayakers Almost Crushed By Breaching Whale Think Whale Saved Their Lives It turns out that one of the people in that kayak from the crazy video of the breaching humpback whale in Monterey Bay last week is a British documentary filmmaker named Tom Mustill
Arts & Entertainment Video: Behold, The Full-Size Emoji Keyboard For no reason other than making good YouTube fodder, the world now has a full-scale emoji keyboard, featuring every emoji currently in existence, plus a few that aren't even compatible with most devices
SF News The Chronicle Discovers That Coffee Costs Four Dollars In a print package that was a cover piece of the Sunday paper titled "San Francisco's Strange Detour From Paradise to Parody," the Chronicle comes way late to the game (surprise) in lamenting
SF News Tassajara Fire Near Carmel Burns Over 1,000 Acres; Valley Fire Now 70 Percent Contained Firefighters working over the weekend brought the Valley Fire further under control, to 70 percent containment, after it has now burned an area of 75,881 acres (119 square miles) in Lake, Sonoma,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Expanded Alembic Unveiled, Chefs Leave Keystone and Hog & Rocks, And More This week was full of food development, from the upcoming opening of Dat Spot on Potrero Hill, the rebranding of SliderBar as Ovok, and news about the new pastry chef at cruffin-famous Mr.
SF News Woman Survived Wildfire At Home With Dogs, Says She's Blessed To Still Have House As the Valley Fire reaches 40 percent containment today, residents of the towns of Middletown and Cobb still aren't being allowed back into the burn area to assess the damage. However, ABC 7
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: North Beach Flophouse With Bedbugs, $1450/Mo Wow. So, a tipster turned me on to this site, a "housing services" outfit from a real estate group called Latitude 38, and in addition to offering furnished corporate housing they also offer
SF News Accused Vallejo Kidnapper Matthew Muller Faints In Court, Pleads No Contest In Dublin Home Invasion Case Mentally ill kidnapping suspect Matthew Muller appeared in an Alameda County court in Hayward this morning and promptly fainted, necessitating his having to be revived. As the Contra Costa Times reports, Muller subsequently
SF News Video Of Stockton Police Roughing Up Jaywalking Teen Incites Outrage On Social Media Yet another example, caught on video, of police overreach and arguable brutality has been making the rounds on social media, this time out of Stockton, California. The two-and-a-half-minute video shows a 16-year-old black
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pac Heights Is Having A Food Fest Too Sometime Monday night, burglars broke into St. Anthony's Church at Folsom and Cesar Chavez and stole a bunch of relics. [Mission Local] Along with pushing its new, mandatory News app, Apple is suddenly
SF News Kidnapped Woman Denise Huskins Suing Vallejo Over 'Hoax' Situation Denise Huskins the Vallejo woman who, it turns out, was legitimately kidnapped back in March, apparently by a mentally ill individual who's already confessed is now said to be filing a claim against
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Pizza In San Francisco: A Definitive List Last year we skirted the issue of naming the "best" pizza in town by creating a list that was more about the best pizza you can find in a given neighborhood or for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: <i>East Side Sushi</i>, A Movie Shot In Oakland, Opens Friday Indie film and festival darling East Side Sushi, written and directed by SF State film program grad Anthony Lucero, is a story about Juana (Diana Elizabeth Torres), who gives up running her dad's
SF News SF Couple Leaves For Burning Man And Their Hired Housesitter Airbnb's Their Apartment A San Francisco couple may be pursuing a civil lawsuit after their hired, professional housesitter put their home on Airbnb without their knowledge, while they were away at Burning Man. As the UK
SF News Start Of Valley Fire Appears To Be In Small Shed In Town Of Cobb Though the actual cause of the devastating Valley Fire in Lake County remains under investigation, authorities appear to have located its origination point, and it's in the community of Cobb where some of
Arts & Entertainment First (Computer-Generated) Tour Of The New Warriors Arena Since Salesforce still owns the property, Golden State Warriors COO Rick Welts took the opportunity at the Dreamforce conference this week to unveil the above rendering video of the exterior and interior of
SF News Valley Fire May Have Claimed Up To Five Lives; Second And Third Victims Confirmed We were told on Monday and Tuesday that there was one confirmed death from the swift-moving Valley Fire last week, and that was 72-year-old Barbara McWilliams. Yesterday we learned that a missing 69-year-old
SF News Day Around The Bay: Zito Is Finally Back In The A's Bullpen Berkeley moves forward on raising the legal age to purchase tobacco to 21. [KRON 4] Bankrupt high-end private commuter bus startup Leap is auctioning off its buses again in October, since that eBay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dat Spot Opens Monday In Former Chez Maman Space In Potrero Back in December we learned of the closure of 12-year-old Chez Papa Bistrot, only to have the space become the larger home of the original Chez Maman in March. Now, as the Scoop
SF News John King On New Luxury Downtown Apartments: 'This Isn’t The San Francisco That Most Of Us Know' Architecture and urban design critic John King has penned his official thoughts on The Jasper, that 40-story tower on Rincon Hill that's just opening up for renters, and he sounds sort of disturbed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Napa Valley Wine Train Sold To Seattle Company Two weeks after we learned of a possible $5 million civil suit against the Napa Valley Wine Train related to that PR nightmare last month involving a group of black woman who were
Arts & Entertainment Apple CEO Tim Cook Talks About Coming Out On Colbert Continuing to stuff his interview schedule with business and technology titans in week two of the new Late Show, Stephen Colbert last night chatted with Apple CEO Tim Cook, both on serious topics
SF News Valley Fire Update: 30 Percent Contained, Man Missing, Badly Burned Cat Survives The devastation via wildfire to our north is now in its fifth day, and the Valley Fire is now growing more slowly, reaching 70,000 acres (over 100 square miles) and 30 percent
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cruffin-Maker Mr. Holmes Bakehouse Announces New Chef, New Menu Items Though it appears they will continue making cruffins and doughnuts unabated, there were some not-so-hushed whispers about the demise of Instagram-famous local bakery Mr. Holmes after founding pastry chef Ry Stephen departed the
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