SF News Fire Updates: Rocky Fire Grows To 8,000 Acres; Big Creek Fire Grows Near Yosemite A wildfire to our north in Lake County that broke out Wednesday afternoon quickly spread to burn 8,000 acres of trees and brush. It's called the Rocky Fire, and the Chron reports
Arts & Entertainment Morrissey Says Security Officer At SFO Groped His Junk Britain's greatest dour crooner Morrissey was in the Bay Area last weekend performing a Saturday show at the Event Center at San Jose State, and once again he departed here with a major
SF News City Settles For $20K With Cyclist Beaten By Police At Valencia Gardens Though it seems like a fairly paltry sum of money, the City Attorney's office has settled with a man who lives at the Valencia Gardens housing complex who claims he was brutalized and
SF News Day Around The Bay: Both Twitter And Yelp Are In Trouble Twitter has stopped growing its monthly active user base, and execs admit that they don't anticipate new growth until reaching a "mass market" which could take a "significant amount of town." Also, they're
SF News Car Chase Out Of The City Ends In Murder In South San Francisco A bizarre chase involving multiple people and two vehicles ended near a 30-foot cliff in South San Francisco where the Chron reports a body was discovered Tuesday afternoon, at the base of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 16 Best Tacos In San Francisco A person could spend a couple months eating at a different taco establishment every day and still not exhaust San Francisco's supply. Naturally they're not all good, but many are, and we're likely
SF News 15-Year-Old Suspect Named, Charged As An Adult In Rape And Murder Of Maddy Middleton Earlier today, KRON 4 reported on new details in the case of the murder of eight-year-old Madyson "Maddy" Middleton in Santa Cruz on Sunday namely that she had been raped and strangled to
Arts & Entertainment Dolores Park Neighbor Is Sick And Tired Of All The 'Events' In The Park Watch out #dolorespark Carmen wants her parking spot back! #LessLitterMoreFliers pic.twitter.com/PX53B4UlrS— Justin Bigelow (@jdbig) July 28, 2015 This is funny: A woman named Carmen who lives near Dolores Park has
SF News The Case Of The Western Addition Housing Complex Sale Is One Of A Nonprofit Gone Rogue So, the story I brought you the outlines of yesterday about Frederick Douglas Haynes Gardens turns out to be just as odd as it seemed, and involves a church, a nonprofit it created,
Arts & Entertainment Regulator Rules Facebook Has To Allow Pseudonyms... In Germany A data protection authority in Hamburg, Germany has ordered Facebook to allow its German users to employ names of their choosing, because to do otherwise would violate their right to privacy, as Reuters
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chino Temporarily Closed, New Chef Moving In 16th Street dumpling spot Chino, which has been fairly popular since its 2014 opening but failed to fully impress the foodinistas when it came to their signature dumplings, is undergoing a revamp of
SF News [Updated] Hayes Valley-Adjacent Section 8 Project Being Sold To Speculator, Flipped As Market-Rate With $7,000 Rents? We're getting word of a crazy story, without complete details, about a possible pending sale of a Section 8 housing project at 1049 Golden Gate Avenue, near Laguna, that was built with help
Arts & Entertainment War Brewing In Castro Between Party Promoters, Merchants, And City Workers Over Ripping Down Posters Lampposts and street poles in the Castro have long been plastered with images of half-naked men and drag queens on posters promoting gay events in and around the neighborhood. There's good reason for
SF News Weather Report: This Is Not July Sure we've had our share of gray days this month, and the Fourth was predictably socked in. But July in San Francisco in 2015 hasn't been half bad! The weather was lovely and
SF News Missing 8-Year-Old Found Dead In Santa Cruz Dumpster; Teen Neighbor Arrested Nationwide media attention and a statewide Amber alert ensued after reports of the disappearance of Madyson "Maddy" Middleton in Santa Cruz on Sunday just after 5 p.m. But after police canvassed the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Updates On Three Wildfires Still Raging The Wragg Fire near Lake Berryessa, which we talked about last week, remains at 6,591 acres as of early Monday and is 70 percent contained. Further north and east, the Lowell Fire
Arts & Entertainment Stinking 'Corpse Flower' Blooms For One Day In Berkeley, People Flock To Sniff Stench Over at the UC Botanical Garden in Berkeley, a rare Indonesian "corpse flower" specimen that's been blooming every three to four years began spreading its ghastly bloom on Saturday night, and was available
SF News 93-Year-Old Foster City Man Charged In Stabbing Death Of 90-Year-Old Wife In a sad case of what appears to have been a botched murder-suicide, a 93-year-old man has been charged with the murder of his 90-year-old wife after he failed to adequately inflict a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Amazon To Launch First Drive-Thru Grocery Pick-Up Concept In Sunnyvale It looks as though Amazon is going to be experimenting with a new drive-up grocery concept tied to their online grocery ordering system, Amazon Fresh. So, rather than relying on a fleet of
SF News Spike In Car Break-Ins Has Many Blaming Prop 47 Since last summer we've been talking about the recent spike in petty crime, in particular car burglaries and car thefts, and new numbers out of the SFPD suggest that car break-ins in particular
SF News [Updated] More Bad News For Warriors Arena As City Report Predicts Traffic Nightmares While that shadowy coalition of wealthy UCSF donors opposing the Warriors Arena plan is expected to unveil their own traffic impact report today, a city-commissioned environmental impact report on the arena also paints
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: David Kinch's The Bywater Arrives In Los Gatos, Alamo Drafthouse Gets A Bar Guy, And More This week's food news was pretty rich, between the closing announcement from Urchin Bistrot, the important update on Wise Sons Bagel, the taker for the Abbot's Cellar space, and our discovery of ShakeDown
SF News Here's A Map Of Every Shark Attack Ever In The Bay Area Yes, there has been an increase in shark sightings along the California coast of late, possibly due to the coming El Niño, as the Chron recently reported marine wildlife anomalies tend to happen,
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: How Much Would You Bid For This Awful Cave? Ah, greed. Rather than pick a price based on comparable local units, one landlord in the Inner Richmond has decided to auction his crappy studio unit and only take applications from the highest
Arts & Entertainment One Of The GlamCocks Talks About Bringing Burning Man Energy (And Costumes) To Gay Nightlife As SFist noted in this roundup of gay parties last month, one of the most noticeable trends in SF gay nightlife the last year or so has been the infiltration of Burning Man
