SF News Three-Year Study In SF Shows No New HIV Infections Among PrEP Users A 32-month study at the Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center found that among sexually active gay men who were taking PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) the HIV-prevention treatment program using the drug Truvada no
Arts & Entertainment The New Apple TV Is Probably The Focus Of Next Week's Civic Center Event Like we surmised earlier, since new iPhones are hardly cause for huge press events at this juncture, that unusually large, splashy Apple event being set up at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium for next
SF News Accused Vallejo Kidnapper Matthew Muller Confessed In Jailhouse Interview, Said He Acted Alone The latest in the case against Matthew Muller, the sole suspect in the March kidnapping and alleged sexual assault of Vallejo resident Denise Huskins, makes this bizarre tale all the richer. As Wired
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Local Theaters In The Bay Area The SF Bay Area may not hold a candle to New York when it comes to theater offerings, but you may not be aware of the rich array of small local and regional
SF News Thank God: It Will Now Be 10 Times More Expensive To Launch A Ballot Initiative Even though in my opinion it ought to cost $200,000, the state has thankfully raised the fee for filing a ballot initiative from $200 to $2,000, making it slightly more difficult
SF News North Bay To Get Actual Functioning Commuter Rail Next Year North Bay residents who rely on the 101 corridor are soon going to have another, less trafficky option for getting to and from the Golden Gate or at least to and from San
SF News Rachel Dolezal Is Pregnant Perhaps not content to let her fifteen minutes of infamy fade out, transracial spokeswoman Rachel Dolezal tells TMZ she's pregnant. The 37-year-old Spokane resident, who last we heard was doing hair to pay
SF News Day Around The Bay: Don't Worry About The Blob At least one Stanford climatologist is saying that the Pacific Ocean "blob" is not going to affect an El Nino pattern in the slightest, and will likely go away this winter anyway. [Bay
SF News Uber Class Action To Make Drivers Employees Moves Forward A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit proceeding in San Francisco against Uber to get drivers reclassified as employees instead of independent contractors can move forward as a class action. This means
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Le Colonial Wants To Be Relevant Again, Hires New Chef Longtime locals will recall the heady latter days of the dot-com boom when Le Colonial was one of the absolute hottest tickets in town. Back then, the Tiki-cool environs of the original Trader
SF News Historic Confluence Of Three Category-4 Pacific Hurricanes Could Spell Trouble Adding to the evidence of this mega-powerful, 'Godzilla' El Niño season coming our way, there was a period between Saturday and early Sunday when, for the first time since we've been observing our
SF News Third Body In Several Months Found In The Same Tenderloin SRO, Investigation Ongoing The Crosby Hotel, a 125-unit SRO building at 516 O'Farrell Street in the Tenderloin, has seen an arguably unusual number of deaths among its residents so far this year, and it made headlines
SF News 'Beast On Bryant' Gets Stalled After Community Pushback A second big proposed development, and the second largest to have brought the ire of Mission activists fighting for more affordable housing, has been stymied in seeking its approvals from the Planning Commission.
SF News Women's Book Club Plans To Sue Napa Valley Wine Train For $5 Million Somewhat predictably following a media firestorm around the unceremonious removal of 11 East Bay women from the Napa Valley Wine Train for allegedly being loud whilst drinking their wine, the group has engaged
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Nicely Dressed' Dead Body Found Outside The Mill Man Found Dead In Parklet Outside The Mill: http://t.co/wKs5n31tP8 by @LightExposures pic.twitter.com/q3NAjhzv9S— Hoodline (@HoodlineSF) August 31, 2015 The deceased body of a "nicely dressed gentlemen" was discovered
SF News BART Will Maybe Solve Terrible Screeching Sound In Transbay Tube Once And For All During the weekend closure of the Transbay Tube earlier this month, BART replaced some of the tracks in the tube itself that they say are responsible for the terrible screeching sound that we
SF News The Sacramento River Delta Could Have Its Own Katrina-Like Levee Disaster As you may or may not be aware, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is made up of a series of levees, all of which protect a freshwater source that supplies water to two-thirds
SF News 9th Circuit Hears Arguments In Constitutionality Of Death Penalty In California An appeal from California Attorney General Kamala Harris, in a case pertaining to delays in California's death penalty system, went before a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit today in Pasadena. Harris is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yep, New Owner Of The Grubstake Wants To Raze It To Build Condos Despite some protestations earlier this month claiming that they would continue to run beloved late-night diner The Grubstake "as is," new almost-owners Nick Pigott and Johnny "Love" Metheny have just quietly engaged design
SF News Muni Wants To Be Better: More Trains And Route Changes Coming In September You know how Muni switched some things up in April, adding some rapid/skip-stop bus lines to existing lines and trying to improve service for certain parts of town? Well that was just
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Opens With Traffic, Dust Storms, Susan Sarandon We'll keep the negativity to a minimum because obviously we're not there and can't speak to its glories and wonders, but Burning Man officially began Sunday with the first arrivals of RVs and
SF News Day Around The Bay: Shrimp Boy's Motion To Dismiss Denied Vanity Fair is hosting a 'New Establishment Summit' in SF on October 1 featuring some "tech titans," and tickets are $5,500. Yes, $5,500. [RachelSchafer/Twitter] Judge rejects Shrimp Boy’s bid
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rainforest Café Manager Tied Up, Robbed At Gunpoint A manager at the Rainforest Café at Fisherman's Wharf was held up at gunpoint around 1 a.m. this morning. Bay City News reports that a suspect entered the restaurant and made his
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: The Stuff Of Blurry Nightmares For some reason, the person who posted this ad to Craigslist for an in-law one-bedroom in the Bayview couldn't take a clear shot of the unit in question. Either their phone really sucks,
Arts & Entertainment Weird Documentary Profiles Local Drag Queen Heklina As part of their Truly CA series, KQED has just shared this documentary short about San Francisco drag star and Oasis co-owner Heklina. It's a little odd, with a Bergman-esque opening sequence involving
