SF News Day Around The Bay: Oakland A's Fan Sues MLB For Foul Ball Safety Nets The Chron did lengthy “special report” on Airbnb and its impact on SF in the Sunday paper, and comes up with the lower-end-of-the-spectrum number, 350, for an estimate of how many rental units
SF News More Frightening Talk About The Devastating Earthquake Likely Coming To The Pacific Northwest Those who live in Seattle and Portland may have heard inklings of this for many years, but increasingly the geological and seismic science community are sounding alarm bells about a potentially massive and
Arts & Entertainment Scenes And Sounds From The First Weekend Of 'Flower Piano' In Golden Gate Park Duke Ellington's "Take the A-Train." Pianist David Owen. A bit of Burning Man-style delight and randomness came to the SF Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park this past weekend via the first few
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Brewcade Reopens After Small Fire Caused By Next Door Hecho Castro beer-and-arcade-game spot Brewcade, now just seven and a half months old, is closed for two or three days because, according to a statement from the bar, they've got some damages to repair
SF News [Updated] Vallejo Kidnapping Of Denise Huskins Not A Hoax After All, Says FBI Prepare to have your minds blown: Remember the case of the bizarre, totally fake-sounding home-invasion kidnapping that happened in March in Vallejo that was quickly called a hoax by Vallejo police after the
SF News In Small Victory For Artificial Turf Foes, State Will Study Health Effects While our own Rec & Parks Department and plenty of turf industry folks believe they've put the matter to rest over whether artificial turf made largely from recycled rubber tires causes adverse environmental
SF News 600-Unit Residential Building Slated For Van Ness And Market The third "under-developed" corner of Van Ness and Market, a city-owned office building at 30 Van Ness that's currently home to a Walgreen's and the Department of Public Works, is now slated to
Arts & Entertainment Video: Giants Fan Splashes Into McCovey Cove Chasing Home Run Ball Your browser does not support iframes. During Friday night's Giants game against the Phillies, a home run ball hit by Joe Panik bounced out of the stands, and a young man who was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Hilton Reopens Its Top-Story Restaurant, Crafty Fox Debuts, and More Over the last few days we've had news of Black Bark BBQ coming to the Fillmore, more Sonic Drive-Ins on the way to the East Bay, Hapa Ramen doing a late-night pop-up, and
Arts & Entertainment Someone Needs To Turn This Former Oakland Bowling Alley Into Something Awesome The former Dimond Bowl, a long-ago eight-lane bowling alley that hasn't been in use for bowling since the 1970s or 80s, is up for sale, and it's kind of an amazing space. For
Arts & Entertainment Here's The View From The Embarcadero Once Six Proposed New Towers Go Up Near Howard Via Socketsite today, and a "plugged in tipster" over there, we get a rendering (likely from architects Skidmore Owings & Merrill) of their proposed 75 Howard condo building in the context of five
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Mission SRO For Just $1300 A Month This week's featured housing option it can't exactly be called an apartment is a single-room occupancy residential hotel smack in the heart of the Mission which has been advertising its rooms on Craigslist
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Goes Super Classy With Greece Promo In their weekly newsletter for San Francisco this week (and possibly other cities), Yelp decided to make light of the Greek financial crisis which the New York Times today explains is far worse
SF News Day Around The Bay: Cholo Speaks Out Against LGBT Mural The aunt of the two-year-old girl who was killed in a crosswalk near the Metreon last August has been acquitted of child endangerment charges. [Examiner] Portlandia moment: this Tyrannosaurus Rex art bike is
Arts & Entertainment Watch 'Dog Days,' A New Hal Hartley-Esque Web Series Set In SF "Five years ago I never thought we'd even see the day that you were marrying a man... you've come a long way, I mean, from being in a long-term relationship with an abusive
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hapa Ramen Roars Back To Life At A Late-Night Pop-Up This Sunday At Alta CA Returning to his pop-up roots, chef Richie Nakano, now with his Hapa Ramen name back, will be back to making broth this weekend at a late supper on Sunday at Daniel Patterson's Alta
SF News Good News: Bay Lights 10-Year Maintenance Deal Approved We knew that most of the funding was in place to re-install the Bay Lights in a more permanent fashion, in order to have a lifespan of at least 10 years, but today
SF News 'Godzilla El Niño' Now Predicted This Winter Back in April, meteorologists were hesitantly optimistic. But now as ocean temperatures in the Pacific are heading record highs with no signs of stopping, some weather people are getting downright bullish that this
Arts & Entertainment Frances McDormand Coming To Berkeley Rep Next Season In <em>Macbeth</em> Oscar winner and all around terrific actress and person Frances McDormand will be starring as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's dark and murderous Macbeth, next season at Berkeley Rep. The addition to the 2015-2016
SF News Video: What It Will Be Like To Drive To The Golden Gate Bridge, On Doyle Drive, As Of Monday The second set of tunnels and the viaduct leading from Doyle Drive up to the Golden Gate Bridge approach are set to open on Monday after a major road closure this weekend, and
SF News New 'Feminist' Facebook Icons Put Women Up Front A couple of subtle changes are coming to the graphic icons for Friend Requests and Groups on Facebook at the hands of in-house designer Caitlin Winner. As Winner discussed on Medium, she got
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Seven Best Frozen Cocktails In SF We almost had some summer there, right? Assuming it will be warm again in SF, someday, we bring you this concise list of some of the best in frozen cocktails, both out of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Castro Is Teeming With Vermin It may just be the fourth Castro restaurant to be shut down by the health department in recent months, but Slider's Diner (449 Castro, not to be confused with Slider Bar) has been
Arts & Entertainment Is It Possible To Truly Go On Vacation Anymore Unless You're Off The Grid? A lot of us just got back from long weekends or extended vacations and have reached Hump Day in our first week back to our media-saturated, screen-addicted reality. I myself had a three-and-a-half-day
Arts & Entertainment Video: What Apple Thought The Future Would Look Like Back In 1987 This awkward but vaguely funny joke video possibly made for inter-company joke purposes? depicts the technological advances that Apple imagined they would have made by 1997. The video gets some things right, though
