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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sonic Drive-Ins Coming To Oakland, Pleasanton, And Elsewhere The Oklahoma-based Sonic Drive-In, which you probably have seen many commercials for but have not necessarily sampled yourself if you've only lived in the inner Bay Area most of your life (or Manhattan
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Chipotle Burrito Bowl Just Got More Expensive Because Of The Minimum Wage Hike Chipotle fans in San Francisco are going to notice that prices across the menu have risen about 10 percent in an unannounced move that one equity research report attributes to the recent minimum
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Day Around The Bay: Local Chefs Save Water While Cooking Too California chefs, in particular several in San Francisco like Octavia/Frances chef Melissa Perello, are doing their part to conserve water during the drought, doing things like watering plants with leftover cooking water,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed New York Chef Matthew Lightner Taking Over Iconic Fagiani's In Napa Big news for downtown Napa's food scene today: The Thomas, the restaurant concept that New York design and hospitality firm AvroKO opened three years ago in the iconic Fagiani's bar space, will be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Black Bark BBQ Headed To Fillmore In September A new barbecue spinoff of the upscale 1300 on Fillmore, dubbed Black Bark BBQ, is set to open across the street this fall, possibly as early as September, as Eater is reporting. The
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Some Whales Frolicking Near Seal Rock Last Night Richmond SF posted this video from a reader that was shot around 7:30 p.m. Monday evening, as the sun was setting near Seal Rock at Ocean Beach. It was "shot from
SF News It Looks Like We Will Be Voting On Changing The 'Airbnb Law' In November Opponents of SF's short-term rental ordinance, dubbed the 'Airbnb Law,' that was passed by the Board of Supervisors last October, have succeeded in gathering almost 16,000 signatures to get a proposition
SF News Multiple Marine Mammals Found Dead Along Ocean Beach Monday At least two dead sea lions, including one large adult, and one large dolphin, washed ashore today along Ocean Beach and there may be more to come. A tipster sent in these photos
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thieves Who Stole $300K In Wine From The French Laundry Still At Large A quick update in the wine theft case that rocked the food world back in December: As mustache twins Matier & Ross report, the thieves responsible, and the wealthy wine collector in North
SF News Pleasanton Construction Firm Denied Access To Evidence In Berkeley Balcony Case; Erin Brockovich Joins Fight Against Them The story of the tragic collapse of that balcony on June 16 in Berkeley proceeds on, and as it turns out, the Pleasanton-based company Segue Construction that built the arguably faulty balconies on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved SoMa Bistro Le Charm Closing, Will Reopen As Something Very Similar Called Mathilde 20-plus-year-old French bistro Le Charm, which was serving fish quenelles in lobster sauce and onion soup to the tech geeks of the dot-com boom back when SoMa was still scrappy, is changing hands
Arts & Entertainment Videos: Illegal Fireworks Blowing Up All Over The Mission As is traditional, Saturday night (and Sunday) was ablaze with illegal rooftop and middle-of-the-street fireworks displays, particularly in the Mission and dangerous though it might be it was, as usual, the only fireworks
SF News Dolores Park Predictably Littered With Trash On July 4th Though the message may have made it out to some like most of the people who partied in Dolores Park during the day on Saturday, July 4th the people who lingered on in
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Live With A Lot Of Rules, And 'Not Forever,' With Noe Valley Couple For $2200/Mo I'm bringing you a pre-holiday bit of Apartment Sadness prior to tomorrow's day off, just so you can get it over with, wipe away the tears, and get on with celebrating America. Today's
SF News SF Streets Are Extra Poopy Thanks To Drought? Remember how last year it seemed like the local media couldn't stop talking about poop? Even though the discussion of feces gumming up our BART escalators dates back a couple of years, the
SF News Day Around The Bay: iPhone 6S Details Leaked Zillow now claims that $4252 is SF's median rent, up from $4225, but we know better. [CBS 5] Caught on tape: man walks into Richmond District bike shop, steals thousand-dollar bike, assaults owner.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Giordano Bros. Closes Their North Beach Bar After Over A Decade Sports bar/sandwich spot Giordano Bros., which first opened on Columbus Avenue in North Beach in 2004 serving up their signature, Pittsburgh-style "all-in-one" sandwiches and catering especially to Steelers fans, is calling it
Arts & Entertainment The 9 Best Outdoor Getaways In And Around The Bay Area It's summer, officially, and and thus vacation season, but a lot of us have either not found the money to take a real vacation this year like we deserve, or we haven't had
Arts & Entertainment Catholic Group 'Speaks From The Heart' Against Gay Marriage, Internet Mocks Them A conservative group called Catholic Vote gave the internet a gift last week in the form of a black-and-white YouTube video in which a group of well meaning Catholics all speak cryptically about
Arts & Entertainment New Yorker Finds Himself Charmed By SF's Panhandlers, Parks, Beauty McSweeney's just published a new column by Vinson Cunningham, who's been writing an ongoing series called "Field Notes From Gentrified Places." Because, yes, there are other cities with this gentrification problem besides ours.
Arts & Entertainment Kim Kardashian Talks Cellulite, Spanx, Objectifying Herself At The Castro Theatre Pregnant Kim Kardashian was seen at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Tuesday A photo posted by Ramses (@kingramsesfresh) on Jul 1, 2015 at 10:59am PDT The reviews are in, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 40-Year-Old Oakland Restaurant Bay Wolf Closing In August An iconic fixture of Oakland's Piedmont Avenue since 1975, Bay Wolf is now set to close right after celebrating its 40th Anniversary this summer, as Inside Scoop is reporting. The restaurant is of
SF News Livermore Highway Shut Down After Multi-Vehicle Crash #BREAKING: Multiple-vehicle collision blocking both directions on Hwy. 84 in Livermore. @nbcbayarea pic.twitter.com/CHQDcSZS8F— Kristofer Noceda (@krisnoceda) June 30, 2015 Highway 84 in Livermore looks to be shut down in both
Arts & Entertainment Caitlyn Jenner Number Added To <i>Beach Blanket Babylon</i> San Francisco's, and the world's, longest running musical revue Beach Blanket Babylon, which always tries to revise the show to reflect, and mock, current events, has just added a new number featuring a
