Arts & Entertainment The Steps Of San Francisco: All About The Filbert Steps On Telegraph Hill This marks the inaugural piece in a series about the stairway streets and various hidden steps of San Francisco. Though they're familiar to some tourists with guidebooks in hand, and those who watched
SF News NY Finance Bro Writes Observations About SF Scene, And They're Predictably Terrible A wealth management dude from New York just spent four days in San Francisco and decided to opine about what he saw and heard here. No one seems to have told him where
SF News Mayor Wants To Reroute Caltrain Past Warriors Arena, Tear Down 280 Overpass The big news being broken by mustache twins Matier & Ross today is a potential plan, unveiled in a closed-door meeting last week at City Hall, to drastically rethink the routing of Caltrain
SF News Day Around The Bay: Watch Out For The 420 Games Like they did during the drought in the 70s, state officials began building an emergency, 40-foot-tall, $40 million rock wall to prevent saltwater intrusion into the Sacramento River Delta. [Chron] The 420 Games
SF News SF Political Consultant Enrique Pearce Jailed On Child Porn Charges Enrique Pearce, the man who successfully ran Jane Kim's election campaign to the Board of Supervisors, and the Run, Ed, Run campaign, was arrested last night on charges that he was in possession
Arts & Entertainment SFJAZZ Honoring Joni Mitchell Tonight, Puts Up This Message On Franklin Street Though the great Joni Mitchell remains too infirm to attend the SFJAZZ Gala that's being held in her honor tonight, the event is nevertheless moving forward and will feature tribute performances of her
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Toolshed To Call Your Own For $800/Month This week's edition of Apartment Sadness came in via the tipline from some apartment listings in the Stanford University classifieds. Thus, we don't have a link to share, but needless to say if
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Circa Closes In The Marina, Will Become New Restaurant From Palm House Team As Inside Scoop reported this week, the decade-old Sunday Funday spot in the Marina, Circa, has officially shuttered. We heard back in March that the owner was looking to change things up at
Arts & Entertainment Idina Menzel Coming To SF This Fall In 'If/Then' Broadway star Idina Menzel will be joining the national tour of the Tony-nominated musical she starred in last year on Broadway, If/Then, for its first seven cities, the third of which will
SF News Bay Bridge News Gets Continually Worse, Tower Rod Fails Test Back in October we first heard the news that, among all the other problems with the new span of the Bay Bridge, most of the 423 steel rods securing the span's tower base
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DNA Lounge Owner Snags Longtime Small Club Space At Fifth And Folsom The storied small club space at Fifth and Folsom which has been home to Annie's Social Club, the Covered Wagon Saloon, Cherry (the birthplace of the popular Bootie party) and most recently Qi
SF News Now Yelp Might Be For Sale What's that sound? The "market correction" or bubble pop or whatever you want to call it may be getting nearer as big companies are wondering if it's time to cash out including this
SF News Warriors Arena Could Be In Serious Trouble, But Maybe Not Joe Lacob, the majority owner of the Golden State Warriors, has come out swinging in the Business Times with regard to that shadowy Mission Bay Alliance that emerged last week with the goal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Step Inside Belga, The New Belgian Brasserie In The Former Cafe Des Amis We've been hearing news for a couple months now about Belga, the new Belgian concept coming to the grand former Cafe Des Amis space on Union Street, and now it's finally going to
SF News Same Woman Who Accused Ray McDonald Of Rape Now Accusing 49er Ahmad Brooks Of Assault The same woman whose rape accusations got football player Ray McDonald dropped from the San Francisco 49ers last December is responding to a defamation suit from McDonald by leveling a new accusation: She
SF News Day Around The Bay: More Layoffs At Zynga We may be in for some thunder and lightning with the storm that's passing through Thursday. [CBS 5] Zynga is having more layoffs, getting out of the sports game category, getting rid of
Arts & Entertainment Nightclubs And Music Venues Can't Be Sued Over Noise Complaints, Say Supervisors In a victory for SF nightlife, that proposal we talked about back in March to legislate protections for music venues and nightclubs against complaints by new neighbors and condo owners passed at yesterday's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Vegetarian Dishes At Meat-Centric SF Restaurants We've talked before about some of the best vegetarian and vegan dishes around town, but today we're focusing on some unsung and really delicious vegetarian options that can be found on some of
SF News Serial Stowaway Marilyn Hartman Pops Up In Chicago, Gets Arrested Possibly clinically depressed, possibly otherwise mentally ill, but seemingly always on the move with the cunning and quickness of a fox, Marilyn Hartman has been arrested yet again, this time at Chicago's O'Hare
SF News Both Campos And Guy Vying For His Seat Push To Halt Market-Rate Development In The Mission Dueling paths toward to a potential moratorium on market-rate development in the Mission moved forward this week. One is a two-year, temporary measure that Supervisor David Campos wants to pass via a vote
Arts & Entertainment If The Warriors Win It All, Does Oakland Or SF Get To Host The Parade? We're a little spoiled with the victory parades around here, but this is a good question: If the Warriors succeed in winning their first NBA championship in 40 years, which "home" city gets
SF News Drag Queens Renew Fight Over Facebook 'Real Name' Policy, Demand That Company Be Banned From Pride Parades Using the hashtag #NoPrideForFacebook, a San Francisco group headed by the same drag queens who went to war with Facebook last fall are now calling for a ban on Facebook's participation in the
SF News Sheryl Sandberg's Husband Dave Goldberg Died In Treadmill Accident The sudden death last week of SurveyMonkey CEO and husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, David Goldberg, was shrouded in a bit of mystery. But as of late yesterday news outlets were reporting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Not-Terrible Things To Do On Cinco De Mayo Yep, it's Cinco de Drinko again, a.k.a. St. Patrick's Day for margaritas, a.k.a. another excuse to get drunk after/during work. Assuming you're a professional imbiber and you wouldn't
SF News Tesla's New Batteries For Your Home Could Help Us All Say Goodbye To The Power Grid Tesla CEO Elon Musk not-so-quietly unveiled a new product, the Powerwall Tesla Home Battery, last week, that stands to change the way everyone thinks about solar power and sustainable energy. Until now, putting
