SF News BART's Track Maintenance Problems Way Bigger Than Previously Reported The track replacement situation between Fruitvale and Coliseum stations that's going to deeply inconvenience thousands of East Bay BART riders this spring and summer is just the first of many urgent repairs that
Arts & Entertainment 11 Photos Of The 15th Annual Bring Your Own Big Wheel Solidifying our town's reputation for being a shameless haven for many thousands of overgrown children, the 15th annual Bring Your Own Big Wheel race down Vermont Street happened on Sunday drawing hundreds, along
SF News New York Times Wags Its Finger At California's Drought Following Governor Brown's announcement last week about mandatory cutbacks in water usage, the New York Times has suddenly decided to take California's worsening drought seriously with a whole package of pieces discussing things
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Sinbad's Hangs On, Mijita Leaves AT&T Park, And More On top of the sad, sad news of the closures of Bar Jules, The Orbit Room and Capp's Corner, this week saw the opening of Aster in the Mission, as well as updates
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Fluorescent Lit Luxury At Third And Palou The hot deal I found for you today is this 100-square-foot room, listed under the apartments section because it apparently has a "private entry," which you could spend a few miserable months in
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's 16 Greatest Infamous Local Legends SF is a city that, historically, worships its kooks. And when it comes to the infamous either because of their oddity or their crimes we have no shortage. Undoubtedly there are more local
SF News Weather Report: More Rain Believe it or not, a tiny bit of moisture might be headed our way this weekend, and next week. The rain gods are blessing us with a decent chance of precipitation on Sunday
SF News Crazed Woman Rear Ends Someone On Fell Street, Proceeds To Hit Three Cyclists A possibly unhinged female driver got into a hit-and-run accident on Fell Street Thursday evening and in escaping the scene, proceeded to collide with three cyclists on Scott Street, including one who was
SF News Day Around The Bay: Peter Thiel Denounces American Democracy Several Bay Area cities, starting with Berkeley, might require tobacco-style climate change warnings on gas pumps. (Seems a little bit late for that.) [CityLab] A 26-year-old San Francisco man who went to Yemen
Arts & Entertainment New Exhibit Shows SoMa In The Days Before It Became All Lofts And Startups Last year we heard about photographer Janet Delaney's coffee-table book of 1970s and early 80s photos of SoMa, in the days before the Moscone Center and Yerba Buena and the rest of it
SF News House Sadness: 265 Square Feet And No Living Room The smallest house currently on the market in SF is this guy, as Curbed shows us. It's a ground floor TIC next to the Presidio, on Baker, and for $425,000 which, yes,
Arts & Entertainment Are Flip-Flops OK In San Francisco? This is an important question, ladies and gentlemen: When and where are flip-flops an acceptable fashion choice in San Francisco, if ever at all? With our recent influx of newcomers, it's a question
SF News Kink.com CEO Still Gunning Against Three Strikes System, Helps Free His First Inmate Remember when Kink.com CEO Peter Acworth came out last year telling the story of his 2013 arrest for cocaine possession and subsequent immediate release from jail? Inspired in part by that, and
SF News Man Acquitted In Brutal 2011 Nob Hill Roommate Murder Yesterday, 28-year-old Waheed Kesmatyar was found not guilty on all charges in a strange and sad case that dates back to 2011, relating to the killing of his 67-year-old roommate Jack Baker. At
SF News Rec & Parks Hires Extra Trash Guy For Dolores Park Since we're all very concerned about the trash-pocalypse that occurs weekly, and sometimes daily, at Dolores Park, here's a very important update: Rec & Parks appears to have added a job to the
SF News After Praising Moronic Indiana Law, Jeb Bush Comes To SF To Fundraise Why bother! And this isn't even an April Fool's joke. While his brother G.W. spent zero time in the Bay Area during his historically disastrous eight years in the White House, Florida
SF News Video: Stanley Roberts Shames People Misusing Embarcadero Bike Lanes Respect the bike lane, people! It's already been noted that Valencia Street and Market Street are places where bike lanes are regularly misused and invaded by vehicles. And third on that Bicycle Coalition
SF News Trial Begins In Case Of Bay Area Teenager Who Killed Herself After Being Humiliated And Bullied The parents of Audrie Pott, the 15-year-old girl who took her own life in 2012 eight days after an incident of sexual assault and subsequent humiliation by several boys, are entering the final
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Belga Will Be The Name Of Cow Hollow's New Belgian Spot, In The Former Cafe Des Amis We learned in early March that the new concept for the Cafe Des Amis space from Beretta/Starbelly guy Adriano Paganini would be a "Belgian brasserie," and today we get word on the
SF News More Twists In Vallejo 'Kidnapping': Kidnappers Say It Was Just A 'Dry Run,' Nancy Grace Says 'Nope' World News Videos | US News Videos While supposed kidnapping victim Denise Huskins and boyfriend Aaron Quinn lawyer up and go quiet, there are more details emerging from the lengthy email/"manifesto" that Huskins'
Arts & Entertainment Gary Dahl, The Man Who Invented The Iconic 1970s Fad Gift The Pet Rock, Dies Apart from mood rings and All In the Family, nothing quite evokes the mid-1970s like The Pet Rock a stroke of marketing genius from advertising copywriter Gary Dahl that went on to become
SF News Parents Ann And Gordon Getty Ask For Privacy In Wake Of Son's Death Getty heir Andrew Getty, the 47-year-old son of San Francisco residents Ann and Gordon Getty and grandson to oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, was found dead in his Hollywood Hills home yesterday of
SF News Guy Who Made Insulting Dolores Park Video Apologizes Just a quick follow-up regarding that annoying video from last week in which a group of guys reacted ungraciously to a couple of Rec & Parks patrol officers who busted them for having
SF News Day Around The Bay: Did Bi-Rite Put The Nail In The Coffin Of A 20-Year-Old Health Food Store? It's windy out there. [KRON 4] There was a four-hour standoff last night involving a potentially suicidal man barricaded in an apartment on Lyon Street in NoPa, but it ended peacefully with the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] North Beach's Beloved Capp's Corner To Close Resident Chronicle old-timer Carl Nolte reported over the weekend on a threat to longtime North Beach spot Capp's Corner, originally named for former owner Joe Caporale. The place isn't quite as old as
