SF News Day Around The Bay: Sean Parker Plans To Give Away All His Money The Board of Supervisors narrowly voted to approve an advisory resolution (that is, it’s not enforceable) to hire more police officers after a lengthy argument, [Chron, Examiner] That unruly jerk of a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley Restaurant Removes Signature Portobello Fritters From Menu, Diners Revolt At Rivoli in Berkeley, there have been some portobello mushroom fritters on the menu that were introduced by chef-owner Wendy Brucker back in the '90s that became a signature of the restaurant. They're
SF News Bay Bridge Bolts Show More 'Ominous' Cracks, May Not Even Be Safe To Drive On The saga of the cracked bolts on the Bay Bridge's two-year-old eastern span continues as experts testified Tuesday at a bridge oversight panel meeting. Even though there was a minor bit of good
Arts & Entertainment Perez Hilton To Play Bob Saget In <i>Full House: The Musical!</i> An off-Broadway musical set to premiere in New York this fall will lampoon the sitcom Full House, and will give celebrity barnacle Perez Hilton a new opportunity to show off his talents as
SF News Dry Rot Confirmed As Cause Of Fatal Balcony Collapse In Berkeley Berkeley building inspectors have determined that water seepage and dry rot were to blame for the balcony collapse that took the lives of six young people last week, five of them on J1
Arts & Entertainment How To Do SF Pride: An LGBT Pride Week Guide Of course you must know by now, at least via all the rainbow flags on Market Street or via your one gay friend, that it's LGBT Pride Week. As SFist has discussed in
SF News Gmail Now Lets You Take Back Email You Just Sent Though the feature has been available to those in the know as a public beta option for a while now in Gmail Labs, Gmail has now made their Undo Send feature fully legitimized
Arts & Entertainment Alamo Square Was Once 'A Primeval Forest Of Rocks' Fought Over By Land-Grabbers The history of certain pockets of real estate in San Francisco is fascinating, and young historian Griffin Estes has pulled together a pretty thorough timeline of tidbits for Hoodline about how Alamo Square
Arts & Entertainment You Can Own Whoopi Goldberg's Long-Ago Berkeley Home For $1.275M Actor and comedian Whoopi Goldberg, n&233;e Caryn Johnson, did some of her first work as a performer in Berkeley in the 1970s, and it was there after she had her
Arts & Entertainment Oaklanders Break Longest Soul Train Record With 337 Dancers KTVU - Over the weekend and I'm shocked that I somehow didn't hear about this earlier a group of 337 Oaklanders broke the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous soul train. This
SF News Now Uber Wants To Track Your Location Even When App Is Not Running Rapidly expanding, IPO-hinting "technology platform" Uber makes way too many headlines these days. But in the case of their new privacy policy, due to take effect July 15, it feels like they may
SF News Day Around The Bay: Instacart Converts A Bunch Of Its Contractors Into Employees Apparently seeing the direction in which the wind is blowing, Instacart’s converting some independent contractors into part-time employees. CEO Apoorva Mehta acknowledges that the company's best "shoppers" are the ones who are
Arts & Entertainment Proposals For Renovated Palace Of Fine Arts Include Two Gym Complexes, And An Arts Center An initial RFP (request for proposals) went out last fall to gauge interest a revamped and reimagined Palace of Fine Arts complex. The Marina-adjacent complex, which along with the outdoor promenades and landmark
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lucky Charms And Trix To Lose Artificial Colors, May 'Look Different' Says General Mills Two of the most iconic brands of the great American cereal kaleidoscope, Lucky Charms and Trix, are both getting reformulated in the coming year by cereal-maker General Mills. As the company announced via
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Temple Takes Shape Again, Gets Its 37-Foot Spire Today In Hayes Valley New temple being constructed in Patricia's Green #BurningMan #HayesValley pic.twitter.com/HOnxuRTLmX— Dave Lester (@davelester) June 22, 2015 As we mentioned the other week, artist David Best is building a brand new
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trailer: <i>Crafted</i>, A New Documentary Short By Morgan Spurlock Featuring Bar Tartine The co-chefs of the soon-to-be-renamed Bar Tartine, Nicolaus Balla and Cortney Burns, are two of the featured stars of a new documentary about what it means to be an artisan, titled Crafted. The
Arts & Entertainment Tons Of You Showed Up At Dolores Park This Past Weekend, But Where Were The Recycle Bins? People have packed #DoloresPark to enjoy some sun on this first weekend of newly finished renovations. pic.twitter.com/qTe2O6IF4d— Sergio Quintana (@svqjournalist) June 22, 2015 The opening weekend of the north side
SF News Building Trades Council Takes Stand Against Mission Developer Over Lack Of Affordability A group representing various construction trade unions has taken a surprising stand against one large market-rate rental development slated for 2000 Bryant Street in the Mission, stating in a resolution submitted to the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Love and Information' at A.C.T. The inaugural production at A.C.T.'s brand new Strand Theater on Market Street promised to be edgy, challenging, and envelope-pushing in ways that the theater company can't always be given the
SF News Buddhist Monk Stabs Buddhist Monk In East Oakland Oakland police are on the hunt for a Buddhist monk who stabbed the head monk of a monastery he had recently joined. The bizarre attack happened Tuesday evening at the Branch of International
Arts & Entertainment Local Singer Sony Holland Sings About Gentrification In 'Hasn't Been The Same Around Here' Much like local musician Kelly Niland did earlier this year with the LCD Soundsystem riff "Mission I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down," local singer Sony Holland brings us this rockabilly-ish original
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Someone In The Excelsior Carpeted Their Basement Just For You This is what it's come to for under $1000, everyone. Someone has "newly remodeled" these two "rooms," which do not appear to have separate entry doors but do have separate bathrooms, and they
SF News [Updated] Three People Shot Near Warriors Victory Rally Shooting scene @ Lakeshore & 18th after #gswparade in #Oakland. @warriors @oaklandpoliceca @insidebayarea pic.twitter.com/9JhfsemRBI— Tyska (@Tyska) June 19, 2015 Five blocks away from the end of the Warriors victory parade route
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Warriors' Draymond Green Super Wasted On Camera, Dissing Cavs, Likely Drinking Since Last Night Well, this is funny. In addition to all the Oaklanders who've been drinking since 7 or 8 this morning while waiting for the Warriors victory parade to start, Warriors team member Draymond Green
SF News Woman Who Punched Hipster Girl At Nordstrom Rack Pleads No Contest To Felony Assault Everyone's favorite Nordstrom Rack assault story is back in the news as the woman caught on surveillance video punching another woman who told her to quiet her child down has had her day
