SF News Should Airbnb Have Responded Differently To Madrid Sexual Assault Report? Another week, another horror story about the sharing economy making a victim out of someone somewhere in the world. This time it's the story of 19-year-old Jacob Lopez who traveled to Madrid and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owner Of SoMa's 30-Year-Old Lone Star Saloon Says Bar Could Be Endangered Tony Huerta, the owner of the well worn and well loved SoMa gay bar The Lone Star Saloon (1354 Harrison Street), wants to get out the vote this November for a local ballot
SF News Justice Department Says Homeless Shouldn't Be Cited, Sit/Lie Laws Unconstitutional A recent statement by the U.S. Department of Justice regarding a little-known local ordinance in Boise, Idaho could have broad-ranging impacts on ordinances elsewhere pertaining to homeless people's right to exist in
Arts & Entertainment Burner Dad Writes First Burning Man Children's Book Yes, it's true. People bring children to Burning Man. Lots of people. And lest you assume as I did when I wrote this diatribe against parents who subject their children to the annual
SF News Video: Homeless Amputee Taken Down By 14 Cops At Seventh And Market An incident occurred on mid-Market two weeks ago in which a one-legged man with crutches was reported, possibly by a nearby business owner, for waving some "sticks" around in the vicinity. Though we
SF News Remembering Anastasia, The Homeless Trans Woman Who Died In The Castro (Who May Not Have Been Trans) No one knew much about the mentally ill, homeless person who called herself Anastasia when she died on a bench outside Peet's Coffee in the Castro on New Year's Eve. Various people in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Checking In On Mozzeria, The Deaf-Owned Pizzeria On 16th San Francisco's first deaf-owned restaurant, and the only deaf-owned-and-operated restaurant anywhere in the country, Mozzeria, will celebrate four years in business this December. As of last year, they just added a food truck
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Prison-Cell-Like SRO They're Calling An 'Efficiency' I considered highlighting another expensive atrocity this week - a $6500 one-bedroom that comes with some nice countertops, proximity to Duboce Park, free SF maid service, and constant noise from the Muni light
SF News Video: How El Niño Works The will-we-or-won't-we game has begun with regard to the "Godzilla El Niño" taking shape off our coast, and this week we got the U.S. Climate Prediction Center’s monthly update which only
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cadillac Bar & Grill Debuts At Twitter Building Another one of several new food spots to debut in the Market Square complex opened this week, and that's the revamp of long-ago SF margarita and Tex-Mex destination, The Cadillac Bar & Grill.
SF News One Year On, No Apparent Progress In Feather Lynn Murder It's been a full year since the "suspicious death" of 31-year-old Bryan Higgins a.k.a. Feather Lynn on Church Street, and six months since police said they had identified a person of
SF News Ron Conway Donations In District 3 Fight Questioned The only two local-official elections that will be at all interesting this November are the Sheriff's race in which incumbent Ross Mirkarimi will have to fend of bad press and a back-room campaign
Arts & Entertainment Checking Back In On The Transbay Transit Center, And Its Shiny Metal 'Skin' The Transbay Transit Center, which will transform the landscape of downtown SF when it opens for business in late 2017, continues to take shape out of the ground along four blocks of Natoma
SF News Day Around The Bay: Don't Pass Cable Cars! Two cable car operators were hit earlier this year. And now @sfmta_muni is working to make the iconic job safer. http://t.co/p77rsOaDHW— KQED News (@KQEDnews) August 12, 2015 Following on
SF News Jerusalem Fire Now At 16,500 Acres, Spreads To Napa County Winds have whipped the still growing Jerusalem Fire since yesterday, spreading it across the county line so it's now burning in both Lake and Napa Counties. It also grew from 14,000 acres
SF News If You've Got $3,000 A Month To Spend On A Studio, There Are Now Hundreds To Choose From All those construction cranes you've seen across the city the past couple of years are finally resulting in a ton of new housing, however it's still not enough to satisfy demand and it's
SF News Chevron Gets Fined Over Toxic 'Flaring' In Richmond Remember when there were those huge scary flames over the Richmond Chevron refinery just before Christmas that got explained as some emergency "flaring" to avoid a potential disaster? Well, incidents like that, and
SF News Will The Sunset Finally Get Housing Density? The Board of Supervisors is set to debate and potentially pass some new legislation this fall that would allow for so-called "density bonuses" in neighborhoods where not a lot of housing density currently
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Check Out The New Menu At Chino, Which Is Back Open As reported a couple weeks back, Chino at 16th and Guerrero just got a whole food makeover at the hands of one-time Laiola chef Ron Pei. The restaurant, while pretty consistently crowded since
SF News Ex-Convict With Obvious Anger Issues Gets 12 Years, No Third Strike, For February Mayhem A 32-year-old man with a long rap-sheet and clear problems with authority, and following the law, got a reprieve from a liberal Superior Court judge who could have given him a 40-year "three
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's About Time: <i>Bon Appétit</i> Declares SF The Best Food City In The Country We saw last week that Bon Appétit restaurant critic Andrew Knowlton had named a full half-dozen new SF restaurants to his Top 50 list of new spots around the country tying us with
SF News Dead Bodies Keep Turning Up In Tenderloin SRO No One Should Have To Live In The Crosby Hotel at 516 O'Farrell Street may be a case study in poorly managed, essentially neglected Tenderloin SROs. Not only was a 48-year-old man found dead in his room last week of
SF News Jerusalem Fire Grows To 12,000 Acres A quick update on that second Lake County wildfire that broke out Sunday, the footprint of which is likely to overlap with the now almost fully contained Rocky Fire. The Jerusalem Fire, which
SF News Day Around The Bay: Outside Lands Wristband Scalper Robbed At Gunpoint Mid-Market, around Van Ness, is going to get awfully crowded with tall buildings. [Socketsite] A kid who was (illegally) selling Outside Lands wristbands on Craigslist got briefly kidnapped and robbed at gunpoint of
SF News Mirkarimi Had His License Suspended For Failing To Report Crash Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has apparently been driving on a suspended license since February, as the Chronicle is reporting, all because he failed to submit an accident report to the DMV relating to an
