SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meadowood Announces 12 Days Of Christmas Celeb Chef Lineup For 2015 I know, I know. It's August. But as is now traditional, this is the time of year when The Restaurant at Meadowood up in St. Helena finalizes their star chef lineup for their
SF News New Filing In Shrimp Boy Case Says Mayor Ed Lee Took 'Substantial Bribes,' Learned The Game From Willie Brown A potentially damning new filing on behalf of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow in federal court today says that, in discovery, the defense found that the prosecution had significant evidence of corruption by multiple
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Six New SF Restaurants Make <em>Bon Appetit</em> Short List Every August, Bon Appétit releases their highly influential Best New Restaurants list, which is always 10 names long and generally comes with the promise of immediate tourist crowds as it did three years
SF News Young Tourists' Car Stolen From Castro Safeway With Dog Inside Well this is upsetting. While car break-ins and such petty crimes have been exploding citywide, we have a case of a brazen car theft from the Safeway at Church and Duboce in which
Arts & Entertainment Scott Wiener Saved Robot Dance Party A little over a month after he was unceremoniously booted from Dolores Park by some killjoy park rangers, Robot Dance Party came back to the party on Saturday, now fully sanctioned and permitted
Arts & Entertainment Alexander Skarsgard Went In Drag To The <em>Diary Of A Teenage Girl</em> Premiere Monday night marked the official premiere of Diary of a Teenage Girl at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, and for some reason one of the film's stars, Alexander Skarsgard, decided to attend
Arts & Entertainment Trans Women Of Asia SF To Star In New Reality Series 'Transcendent' In the era of Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner, Asia SF may seems kind of exploitative, anachronistic, and a little uncomfortable. But the proud, very pretty performers at the trans nightclub/dinner theater
Arts & Entertainment Woody Allen And His Jazz Band Are Also In Town This Week In addition to Jeff Goldblum breezing through town performing with his band, another famed writer/director and musician, Woody Allen, will be making a rare Bay Area appearance with his New Orleans Jazz
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurants Still Annoyed About Postmates, And Not Being Able To Opt Out It makes perfect sense that some restaurants would never offer delivery of their food because their food doesn't travel well, and they know this. But in the era of Postmates and Caviar, restaurants
SF News Mother Of Madyson Middleton Says She Doesn't Blame Mother Of Accused Murderer Laura Jordan, mother of slain eight-year-old Madyson "Maddy" Middleton in Santa Cruz, gave her first media interview over the weekend, one week after her daughter's death. The Chronicle tailed her for a bit
Arts & Entertainment Google And Gap Employees Send Messages Between Folsom Street Offices Via Post-Its Gap Inc. is headquartered on the Embarcadero, with some offices in the building facing Folsom Street. Google also has offices directly across Folsom Street. Employees at the two companies have started posting messages
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Weather Forecast Looking Typically Cloudy, With Possible Rain It's time once again to prepare yourself for Outside Lands, which is happening this weekend (I know, it sneaks up on you), August 7-9, in Golden Gate Park. As usual for this time
SF News Weekend BART Closure Not The Disaster It Was Expected To Be The weekend-long interruption of transbay BART service, which allowed BART crews to do some needed track work in and outside of the Transbay Tube, turned out not to create the traffic nightmare that
SF News There Are Now 21 Wildfires Burning In California; Rocky Fire Grows To 60,000 Acres What's turned out to be the most massive wildfire of the season so far, the Rocky Fire that began last Wednesday in Lake County has now spread across two other county lines, Colusa
Arts & Entertainment Trailer Drops For Unauthorized Steve Jobs Documentary By The Guy Who Made 'Going Clear' Alex Gibney, the director who made the provocative HBO documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, has just made a new doc about the man who made Apple, Steve Jobs, titled
SF News Day Around The Bay: Muni's E Line Rolls Up The Embarcadero Reminder! Muni is shutting down the underground Metro at 9:30 or 10 p.m. starting tonight. Also there is no BART service Saturday or Sunday between West Oakland and Embarcadero Stations. [BART]
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Doesn't Anyone Want This $6800 One-Bedroom? I must be getting jaded, ladies and gentlemen, because when this ad for a $6800/mo "custom" one-bedroom first was shown to me a week or so ago, my first instinct was "yeah
SF News Yellow Cab Offers $35 Flat Fare To SFO This is decently big news in the taxi/rideshare wars: SF's Yellow Cab is doing what New York City taxis have been doing for a couple decades and finally offering a flat-rate fare
SF News The First Blue Moon In Three Years Arrives Tonight Point of information: The phrase "once in a blue moon" should convey something that happens not that often, but also often enough that it's not ultra-rare, like a blue moon, which is most
SF News The Zuckerbergs Are Pregnant Brace yourselves for the Zuckerbaby! Mark Zuckerberg took to Facebook this morning to announce that his wife Priscilla is pregnant with a baby girl. Also, did you know they had one of those
SF News Beloved Teacher Missing For Two Weeks In El Dorado National Forest 44-year-old Ed Cavanaugh, a teacher in SF's Downtown High School, went missing on July 17 near a cabin where he often retreated in the deep woods of El Dorado National Forest. An avid
SF News 24-Year-Old Man Suing SFPD Over Excessive Force During Post-Dyke March Protest There were various reports about some chaos, and police intervention, outside the old Lexington Club on Pink Saturday, after an offshoot of the planned Dyke March went rogue and decided to follow the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Chef Daniel Patterson Hires New Exec Chef At Coi, Will Be Stepping Back Next Year Highly decorated local chef Daniel Patterson, who's one of only two Bay Area chefs (the other is David Kinch) to be cited for his innovations in the Modernist Cuisine tome, is making the
SF News Classmates Of Suspected Murderer Adrian Gonzalez Speak Out, Say He Seemed 'Sweet' The case of the assault and murder of 8-year-old Madyson Middleton is frustrating for a new reason as more friends and classmates speak out about the only suspect in the case, 15-year-old Adrian
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