SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Du Nord Reopens Wednesday With New Menu, Cocktails, Nightly Music It wasn't totally clear if Cafe du Nord (2170 Market Street) was going to continue to be a music venue in any shape or form following a major renovation by the Ne Timeas
SF News Rachel Dolezal Issues Statement, Steps Down From Spokane NAACP Presidency The video confrontation that started it all. Apparent white woman and national punchline Rachel Dolezal issued a statement as promised today that is not so much an explanation, admission of guilt, or apology
SF News [Update] California Court Says Cities Can Require Developers To Build Affordable Housing A ruling arrived today from the California Supreme Court in a case that supports local ordinances, like the one we have in San Francisco, that requires developers of new market-rate housing to set
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Lord Stanley Opens On Russian Hill, Hubert Keller Pops Up, And More This week in the food scene we learned more about Jason Fox's Oro, headed to Mint Plaza, and caught the name of the bar replacing Truck, which will be called The Wooden Nickel.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Taco Bell Opening Upscale Concept In SoMa Serving Booze Goodbye Chevy's, but hello Taco Bell Bar & Grill, or whatever it's going to be called. Taco Bell has confirmed for Hoodline that, after testing a new "upscale" concept restaurant serving beer and
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Studio With A Wet Bar, No Guests Allowed, $1500 It's obvious as one trawls through Craigslist these days that there are a lot of inexperienced landlords trying to pawn off parts of their homes that aren't in use onto desperate people who
SF News SF Mag Talks To Serial Stowaway Marilyn Hartman, Tries To Make Sense Of Her Former SF Weekly investigative journalist Joe Eskanazi was on the perplexing case of Marilyn Hartman for San Francisco Magazine in recent months, tracking her down first at the Florida jail where she landed
SF News What Is Google's Sidewalk Labs And How Will It 'Improve City Life'? This week Google co-founder Larry Page announced the launch of a new "moonshot" company being fully funded by Google called Sidewalk Labs, with the broad and vague mission to "improve life in cities
SF News Day Around The Bay: Hetch Hetchy Still 90 Percent Full! Reddit is banning its worst Subreddit communities, such as Fat People Hate. [The Verge] Judge accuses Uber of deceptive practices in ruling that rejects Uber’s bid to keep that case out of
SF News Oakland Cops Didn't Even Bother With 100-Person Protest Last Night Though there was a protest Wednesday night in downtown Oakland to protest Mayor Libby Schaaf's new strictures on nighttime protests, the Oakland police, perhaps wisely, just decided to pretend it wasn't happening. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alta CA Chef Relocates To Outerlands Interesting news from the food scene today: The opening chef at Alta CA, Yoni Levy, who left the restaurant in April, has popped back up in the kitchen at Outerlands, signaling what could
SF News Warm Water 'Blob' In The Pacific May Be Fueling Drought Separate from the coming El Nino year, an ocean temperature anomaly has been lingering in the Pacific in the shape of a massive "blob" of unusually warm water, up to five degrees warmer
Arts & Entertainment The Onion Suggests San Francisco Should Just Move Out Of San Francisco Already The Onion has come around to mocking SF's skyrocketing rent woes. Their solution: Our pretty city by the Bay has "no choice but to look for a spot further inland." To wit: “It
Arts & Entertainment Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Bandwagoning Warriors Fans In Oakland Asking About A Bunch Of Fake Players Remember the time Jimmy Kimmel and his "Lie Witness News" team went to Coachella and asked people if they were looking forward to seeing The Chelsea Clintons' set? That was funny. This week
SF News Much Like The Nema, Apartments At The Jasper Are Wildly Expensive The new sister building to the now notorious Nema, dubbed The Jasper, is nearing completion and has now put its unit floorplans and rental rates on its website. The 40-story tower, as Curbed
SF News Day Around The Bay: Why Cyclists Matter More Than Everyone A plan to give artists pieces of the old Bay Bridge span will cost toll-payers $2.2 million. [Chron] Today in Clickhole: Poking fun at cyclist politics. [ClickHole] John McCain (yes, that John
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Exclusive: SoMa's Heyday Expands With Second Location All-organic breakfast and lunch spot Heyday, which opened its original location at 180 Spear Street in 2013, is set to branch out with a new, second location at 555 Mission Street (between First
Arts & Entertainment That Outdoor Cinema At Hayes Valley's PROXY May Finally Happen This Fall It turned out to be a lie when we were promised outdoor movies at Hayes Valley's semi-permanent PROXY complex last fall, and it looks as though the concept for the space has morphed
Arts & Entertainment Watch 'The Rejected,' A Recently Rediscovered 1961 Documentary Thought To Be The First Ever Made About Gay People Two local archivists recently triumphed after a six-year treasure hunt, trying to locate an existing copy of a 54-year-old documentary that aired on PBS stations called "The Rejected." Made in 1961 and produced
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Why Is Apple So Obsessed With Tartine Bakery? We've all become pretty accustomed to seeing Bay Area references and shoutouts popping up in the demos and advertising for Apple products West Coast time is always listed as Cupertino time, the doomed
Arts & Entertainment Burner Air Will Airlift The Burner Bourgeoisie To The Playa For Just $2200 If Burning Man were not already a pretty expensive endeavor for the common folk, a new airline that is actually named Burner Air is offering quick flights for all those who can afford
SF News [Updated] Supes Approve Soda Ad Warnings; Will Iconic SoMa Coca-Cola Billboard Get One? The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve warning labels on all print and billboard ads for sodas and sugary drinks in the city, akin to the warnings seen on tobacco
Arts & Entertainment Not A Joke: Local Bank Introduces Robot Greeters That Dance To 'Gangnam Style' In a highly questionable move aimed at carving a niche for themselves as a local brick-and-mortar bank, and at marketing themselves to tech people (?), Sterling Bank & Trust has "hired" two robots to
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Day In The Life Of A Warriors Cheerleader In honor of tonight's Game 3 of the NBA Finals, here's an amusing behind-the-scenes look at a day in the life of Amira, a dance captain on the Warriors' Dance Team. "As an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Chronicle Food Columnist GraceAnn Walden Dies A notoriously feisty monger of local restaurant gossip, GraceAnn Walden, has passed away suddenly of unknown causes. Walden was the founding columnist writing The Inside Scoop in the Chronicle, beginning in 1991, dealing
