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
Arts & Entertainment Rec & Parks Begs You To '#LoveDolores' And Not Destroy The New North Side Of The Park You know how we told you that the freshly sodded north half of Dolores Park would be reopening June 18? And remember how Rec & Parks came up with that loony public-service campaign
SF News The 2016 Presidential Race Has Its Own Emperor Norton Have you heard about His Royal Majesty Caesar Saint Augustine de Buonaparte Emperor of the United States of Turtle Island? Well he's a Malibu resident who's been officially running for President in every
SF News 19-Year-Old Struck During High-Speed Pursuit At 8th And Market Is Summer Intern At Square The pedestrian who was struck by a speeding BMW last Tuesday night while crossing the street at 8th and Market remains hospitalized at SF General but is now recovering and has spoken to
SF News Day Around The Bay: Plane Makes Emergency Landing On 101 The FBI will be helping Oakland police solve some the city's unsolved homicides, and this bothers some privacy activists. [Chron] A small plane with four people inside made an emergency landing on Highway
Arts & Entertainment How To Take A 7x7x7x7-Mile Walking Tour Of San Francisco Via a group of friends who just completed one of these urban hikes/treks, I bring you a quick how-to guide for walking completely around the city in one great big circle. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NYT Food Writer Mark Bittman Launches Video Series About California For the last couple of years, New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman has been having an extended love affair with California, and with the Bay Area in particular. It seems like he
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Name For Bar Replacing Truck: The Wooden Nickel Following our report last week that Mission gay bar Truck is set to close fairly soon, a tipster sent in the public notice of the liquor license transfer which has the DBA for
SF News Just How Many Apartments In SF Are Being Used As Full-Time Airbnb Rentals? A few weeks back the city's Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office, at the behest of Supervisor David Campos, put out a report in which they attempted to estimate how many "commercial users"
SF News People Lined Up Overnight To Get Good Seats At Apple Conference Keynote Today Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference descends on SF this week, just two weeks after Google's developer conference, and ticket-holders still line up overnight for these things even when there isn't a big product announcement
SF News BART Shutting Down All East Bay-SF Service During Two Late-Summer Weekends You know all the urgent track maintenance BART has been talking about that has to get done? Well, now the transit agency is announcing that it will be shutting down all service between
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Sufjan Stevens at the Fox There are moments during shows at the Fox Theater when the majesty of the space lends its cathedral-like weight to the performer on stage, elevating their music to the eternal plane of hymns.
SF News Campos Called To Task For Saying He's 'Proud' Of 100-Percent Non-Affordable Vida Development Supervisor David Campos was on a KQED radio program recently discussing the proposed moratorium on market-rate housing development in the Mission Scott Wiener was on the program too, arguing the con side. And
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Another Illegal, Kitchen-Less Cell You know you have a right to a kitchen, right? Yeah, even if it's just a sink and a hotplate and a mini-fridge, that's what's required to exist in a legally rentable unit.
Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho To Host Pre-Pride Benefit Called 'Cirque' At Dirty Habit SF-born comedian Margaret Cho, whom we've been seeing a whole lot more of since her recent divorce, will be back in town hosting a pre-Pride affair on Thursday, June 25, at Dirty Habit
SF News Deplorable Teens Rob Elderly Ice Cream Vendor At Gunpoint Two teenagers, described as a 17-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, robbed a 68-year-old man selling ice cream and frozen treats on a Mission sidewalk Wednesday, as the Examiner reports. The robbery occurred
SF News City Attorney Now Suing Evil Landlord Who's Been Forcing Out Rent-Controlled Tenants A real estate investor who for the last two years has been hellbent on kicking out tenants paying below-market rents in order to re-rent units for more money is now facing a lawsuit
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Progress Lands Among <i>Food & Wine</i>'s Best New Restaurants Continuing their winning streak of national honors which has kept tables at State Bird Provisions and now The Progress pretty hard to come by chefs Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski just garnered another:
Arts & Entertainment Is That '94110' Series Just An Elaborate Prank? The local media, ourselves included, have been agape at the tech-absurdity and apparent shallowness of the proposed TV series about the Mission titled 94110 that put out an open casting call back in
Arts & Entertainment Video: Singer-Songwriter Spencer Day Covers 'These Boots Are Made For Walkin' Old-school-style crooner Spencer Day, known for vocal stylings in the vein of a Harry Connick Jr. or Meyer Hawthorne, has a new album out titled Daybreak, and he'll be headlining this weekend for
SF News Stop Saying That SF's Median Rent Is $4225 Yes, we know that the rental market in SF is crazy, but figures about what the actual median rent is here have been widely exaggerated, misunderstood, and irresponsibly quoted quite often over the
SF News Good News!: Bay Bridge Rod Failed Because Of Stripping, Not Corrosion Though there's been very little news you could categorize as good when it comes to the one-and-a-half-year-old eastern span of the Bay Bridge, today the Chron reports that a full inspection of the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Rare Footage Of Gray Whale Mother And Two Calves Caught By Drone A guy who runs a dolphin- and whale-watching operation in Southern California recently caught this footage, via a drone camera, of a gray whale with her two twin calves. Captain Dave Anderson of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Gay Bar Truck Closing After Eight Years Sad news! Scrappy, automotive-themed, often very dirty gay bar Truck is shutting its doors later this month, as owner Paul Ringhofer-Miller confirms to SFist today. Ringhofer-Miller says that the bar has been sold
SF News Oakland's New Mayor To Be Faced With Another Big Demonstration Friday Over Her Protest Crackdown If you've been in the Bay Area more than a minute you should already know that Oakland loves a protest or, should I say, protesters really like to shake shit up across the
