SF News Once Again, Someone Blames Progressives For The Housing Crisis If you live in San Francisco, or if you've lived here in the last few years, you've participated in this debate 100 times already. Why do we have an affordability crisis? Because we
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bowling Alley Still Up For Grabs! Remember that old Oakland bowling alley we told you about a couple weeks ago that was on the market and a sale was pending? It fell through. [SF Mag] There's a battle being
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo Du Jour: Michael Bauer, Incognito Arguably anonymous Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer took another step toward non-anonymity with an on-camera interview recently. This interview with The New West's Will Hearst appears to have been posted last month, but
SF News 'Godzilla El Niño' Now Being Called 'Strongest In Recorded History' Um, guys? This winter could be a disaster! But the skiing is probably going to be insane. A new piece in the Washington Post, and the new thermographic image above, are here to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wise Sons Bagel Will Finally Become A Reality At Fillmore And Geary This Fall Today we get both an in-depth look at the state of the Bay Area bagel in the New York Times Magazine, which features Wise Sons Bagel, and a feature story in the Chronicle
SF News Your UberX Driver Is Also Probably Your Postmates And Washio Delivery Person A new survey by a dubiously named outfit called SherpaShare which itself is a service portal for workers in the gig/sharing economy confirms that many drivers for services like Uber and Lyft
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Valencia Restaurant Shakeout Continues As Urchin Bistrot Calls It Quits After just under a year in business, Urchin Bistrot is closing on July 31, having never quite drawn the crowds it hoped to on the busy restaurant corridor of Valencia. As Inside Scoop
SF News You Won't Be Able To Get Home On The Muni Underground After 10 PM Starting July 31 Muni will once more try to ruin your life starting next month as a planned and not well publicized six-month late-night shutdown of the entire underground system begins to make upgrades to its
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Nine Best Veggie Burgers In SF (And Oakland) Not all veggie burgers are created equal, just as not all meat burgers are created equal, and many a vegetarian and vegan will tell you this. "Compressed patties of yuck" is how SFist's
SF News SF Woman And Boyfriend Assaulted By Fellow Lyft Line Passenger Everyone who loves the cheapness of Uber Pool and Lyft Line, take heed: You never know who you're sharing a car with. A cautionary tale came in via the tip line regarding a
SF News Reminder: We Are Still Due For A Big Earthquake On The Hayward Fault Scientists and KRON 4 are using Tuesday morning's tiny quake on the Hayward Fault as an excuse to remind us all that a big and potentially deadly earthquake is due "any day now,
SF News Gavin Newsom And Marijuana Task Force Want To Regulate Legal Pot-Grows Like Breweries A Blue Ribbon Commission with a mission to create a policy framework for the eventual (inevitable) legalization of marijuana in California has just released a new "Pathways Report." The report gets specific for
SF News Woman Found Imprisoned In Closet In Richmond For A Year By Facebook Mail-Order Husband A 35-year-old man and a male relative were arrested Tuesday in Richmond's Iron Triangle neighborhood on suspicion of human trafficking and a host of other offenses after a woman was rescued from the
SF News Day Around The Bay: MTV's <em>Real World</em> Casting Comes To SF Again Apple's financials didn't turn out so bad, with profit up 38 percent, but their stock price still slipped in after-hours trading. [NYT] The Real World, which apparently will never end on MTV, is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley's Pyramid Alehouse Shuts Down After 18 Years Fans of the big, indoor-outdoor Pyramid Alehouse brewpub in deepest Berkeley will be sad this week to learn that the place has abruptly shut down. As the East Bay Express reports, the brewery
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luna Park Officially Closed; Notices On Door Suggest Foreclosure As of last month we knew that Valencia Street mainstay Luna Park had been sold to the owner of Mission Beach Cafe and a closure was probably imminent and this followed on an
SF News Twitter Just Killed Off Background Images, Twitterers Revolt Over 'Blinding' Whiteness Gone is the default pastel blue, and gone are all your custom wallpapers on public timelines as Twitter makes the bold decision to make everyone's web feed pages the same, uniform, plain white.
Arts & Entertainment Tenderloin Museum Opens In Former Sizzler Steakhouse Space Did you know that multiple cities in the U.S., including New York, once had sketchy neighborhoods nicknamed "Tenderloin" all because policemen could always expect bribes and/or hazard pay for working there,
SF News Does San Francisco Need A New Jail? The Board of Supervisors will vote today on whether to go after $80 million in state funding for the construction of a new county jail facility to replace the seismically unsound one we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Cold Beer Cold Water' Guy Moving To Hawaii!! Important news from the world of Dolores Park vendors: Infamous 'Cold beer cold water' dude, known only otherwise as James, has announced he's moving to Hawaii in a matter of weeks. As Uptown
SF News Video: Crazy Numbers Of Whales Showing Up Around The Bay It's not just that family of humpbacks spotted in the Bay in May, or these whales frollicking near Seal Rock two weeks ago there's actually hundreds more whales showing up, particularly between the
SF News [Updated] Case Study In Affordable Housing Proves That BMR Buyers Can Get Shafted Remember the viral story about the "poor door" that a New York developer was fighting to construct so that wealthy residents in the new building would not have to rub elbows with, or
SF News Rachel Dolezal Says She's Doing Black Hair To Pay The Bills, Remains Defiantly Transracial (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=
SF News Alleged Vallejo Kidnapper Says His Mental Illness Is 'Extreme' And He's 'Relieved To Be In Jail' Over the weekend KPIX/CBS 5 snagged the first jailhouse interview with suspected kidnapper and all around freaky dude Matthew Muller. While they weren't allowed to bring a camera into the jail, reporter
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Sunday Night's Brilliant Sunset Sunday brought one of those rare, actually warm SF nights, with temperatures all over town over 70 degrees well past sunset. And the sunset itself aided by the outer-ring cloud remnants of Hurricane
