Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: An SRO That Calls Itself An SRO For the second week in a row we have a spiffed-up SRO that some owners are trying to fill with a better class of tenant than they've likely previously had, given the location
SF News Medical Examiner Rules Feather Lynn Death A Homicide, Person Of Interest To Be Pursued Just a week after we were marking the one-year anniversary of the troublesome death of Feather Lynn a.k.a. Bryan Higgins, the Bay Area Reporter reveals that the city medical examiner has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe Burger Shuts Down After Four Months Marlowe Burger, the temporary fast-casual burger spot from the Marlowe team (in the former Marlowe digs), turns out to have been even more temporary than originally intended. While the building is slated for
SF News Three-Alarm Warehouse Fire In Vallejo Raises Toxic Smoke Concerns #update: #vallejo fire says no more concern of wall falling on 5-600 gal propane tank. Still putting out hotspots pic.twitter.com/RJAWP2ZtLB— Stephanie Chuang (@StephChuang) August 21, 2015 A big fire at
SF News Day Around The Bay: Another High-Speed Chase Ends In A Crash A woman spotted weaving in a silver Infinity in the East Bay took off at speeds up to 120 miles per hour and led CHP officers on a 3 a.m. chase from
SF News Larger iPad With Stylus Rumored To Be Coming Soon Amongst the Apple nerderati, there's talk that a new, larger iPad, clocking in at 12.9 inches, is on the way this fall, perhaps to be announced at Apple's upcoming September event. As
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Reporter Seeks Out Food Poisoning, Gets Food Poisoning Over at the revamped, back-from-the-dead Bold Italic, food correspondent Hana Nobel decided to search Yelp for the lowest-rated restaurants in town, specifically seeking out keywords such as “worst,” “food poisoning.” She ate at
SF News 16th And Mission Developer Suing Land Owner, Project Could Be Doomed This is interesting, and may spell doom for the project that many a Mission activist would love to see doomed: The developer behind that massive, 330-unit building proposed for 16th and Mission is
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Jonathan Groff Singing 'Spring Awakening' Song While Wearing Warriors T-Shirt Looking star Jonathan Groff, who's currently on Broadway in the much ballyhoo'd and likely-to-win-every-Tony new musical Hamilton, appears to have taken at least one souvenir of the Bay Area back to New York
SF News Rose Pak Suffering From Kidney Failure, Calls Mayor Lee 'The Biggest Disappointment' Legendary local power broker Rose Pak, who's graced our pages many, many times over the years as she asserted her influence on city politics at every important turn, is gravely ill, as San
SF News SF And LA District Attorneys: 'Some Uber Drivers Are Murderers And Felons' According to a new amended complaint by the district attorneys of San Francisco and Los Angeles, Uber's background-check method is inferior to that of regular taxi companies, and it failed to catch the
Arts & Entertainment SF Zoo Rhino's Twitter Account Is Trending Ever the masters of social media, some staffers at the San Francisco Zoo started a Twitter account for their "most popular herbivore," Boone the rhinoceros a few months back, which SFist noted back
SF News [Update] Plague Of Biting Green Bugs To Ruin Burning Man Are dead bugs MOOP? Burning questions for @BurningMan 2015 pic.twitter.com/4oSpG7fQAo— Champagne Lounge (@CLoungebrc) August 18, 2015 File under great schadenfreude material for all Burning Man haters: Some kind of as-yet-unidentified
SF News <i>Forbes</i> Comes After Academy Of Art, Their Low Graduation Rate, And Their Shady Land Use Dealings Whoa. Forbes has not one but two pieces out today coming after the for-profit Academy of Art University and the multimillionaire Stephens family who have been running it for several generations. It's only
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Niche Stores In San Francisco Sometimes you just need a part for your electric train set, or a skein of a specific brand of alpaca yarn, and you don't want to wait three days for Amazon. In this
SF News Video Of One-Legged Man Restrained By Police On Mid-Market Prompts Review The cellphone video above that we showed you on Monday via reporter Chaédria LaBouvier has now prompted a wave of media coverage and an incident review by the SFPD and SFFD. Both departments
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Slow Club Closing To Make Room For The Morris, From Frances Wine Guy Paul Einbund After 24 years at what was once an under-populated, pre-Web 1.0, media-saturated corner of the Mission/Potrero border, The Slow Club is calling it quits this fall to make way for a
SF News Day Around The Bay: Regarding The Housing Bubble, And How It Is Really A Bubble Is California having an earthquake "swarm"? (Probably not.) [Wired] Yesterday’s quake damaged water mains across the East Bay. [SF Appeal] San Jose police have issued a message to the third suspect in
SF News Why We May Never Have Wi-Fi On Muni Or BART You'll recall how last year BART canceled that contract they had with a wi-fi service provider after five spotty years of service that drew thousands of complaints. Well, commuters and the Chronicle's Michael
SF News Police Still Seeking Suspects In January Drive-By In Bayview, Release Video Of Vehicle Two people were killed and one injured in a January 27 drive-by shooting, and seven months later that double-homicide has yet to be solved. One of the victims in the shooting, 32-year-old Maria
SF News [Updated] Fire In Outer Sunset Closes Riptide Bar, Disrupts Muni Service Photo via SF Firefighters 798/Twitter A fire that broke out on Taraval between 46th and 47th Avenues this morning at 10:15 a.m. has grown to two alarms, and firefighters are
Arts & Entertainment Video: BDSM Meets Broadway In Snappy New Folsom Street Fair Promo Folsom Street Events enlisted the talents of Aron Kantor the same filmmaker who made this awesome, Almodovar-inspired promo film for the Hard French Winter Ball a couple years back to make a new
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AL's Place Named Best New Restaurant In The U.S. By <i>Bon Appetit</i>; Rintaro Also Makes Top 10 No sooner had I sang the praises of Aaron London's first solo restaurant AL's Place in the Mission, Bon Appétit's Andrew Knowlton has just bestowed the big honor of naming it the best
SF News Wildfire Updates: Jerusalem Fire 90 Percent Contained; Rough Fire Grows To 21,000 Acres The national news has, per usual, been making it sound to most of the country like all of California is on fire, and between the 4,000 convicted felons now fighting the fires
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kitchit Ends Private Chef Service, Will Focus On Kitchit Tonight Instead In the realm of laziness that brought us on-demand dinner businesses like Munchery and Sprig, SF-based Kitchit has occupied a more expensive realm that allowed people to bring private chefs to their homes
