SF News Chronicle Now Crowing About Dolores Park's Rat Problem Between C.W. Nevius and mustache twins Matier & Ross, the Chronicle has been ALL OVER the problems with Dolores Park and its massive weekend hoedowns lately. You'd think they hadn't noticed the
SF News Facebook's New Rules Include Bans On Nipples, Revenge Porn, And Descriptions of Sex Acts After doing a bit of flip-flopping on issues like beheading videos and drag queen names this past year, Facebook has just updated their Community Standards, effective today, clarifying some of their previous policies
Arts & Entertainment Jessica Lange Will Not Be On Next Season Of <i>American Horror Story</i> We've learned recently that Lady Gaga will star on the fifth season of American Horror Story this time themed Hotel and that Matt Bomer and Cheyenne Jackson have been added to the repertory
SF News [Update] Landlord Uses Loophole In Rent Control Law To Raise Woman's Rent To $8900 Via a Facebook post over the weekend that's been going locally viral, several tipsters have been alerting SFist to a story that is likely to frighten anyone who's been enjoying the protection of
SF News Day Around The Bay: Water Usage Rules To Get Stepped Up In April There's a $3,000 reward in the case of an escaped suspected child molester who ran off last Friday in San Jose. [CBS 5] As everyone has said, with this drought and the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tom Hanks Showed Up In Los Altos To Buy Girl Scout Cookies Come for the typewriters, stay for the cookies: @tomhanks makes the most of Los Altos! http://t.co/cvMJN3rVvY pic.twitter.com/8lXSWkkTk3— Los Altos Town Crier (@latc) March 12, 2015 The HUGE
SF News Local News Station Rats Out Fun Looking Oakland Neighborhood Speakeasy, Cops Bust It Some clever entrepreneurs working a bit outside the law have taken to launching their own social-media-promoted, black-market bars out of their houses and garages. But you'd best be careful if you try this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Belcampo Now Serving Bone Broth Toddies, Boney Marys Have you heard about the bone broth thing? Well, it's a thing. Paleo enthusiasts across Los Angeles have sung its praises, and there's even something called Broth Fest happening in New York this
SF News California Has One Year Of Water Left A stark Op-Ed in the LA Times lays out the case for why water rationing needs to start, statewide, basically now. Also, the state has to lay out better long-term water strategies, right
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Progress Now Doing Cheap, State Bird-Style Eats For Walk-Ins At The Bar For those who aren't keen on standing in line for a table at State Bird Provisions, or those who haven't managed to snag a decent reservation either there or at new next-door sister
Arts & Entertainment Condo Building Replacing Lucky 13 Just As Ugly As Expected If you were expecting great beauty and architectural innovation to replace beloved dive bar Lucky 13 near Church and Market, you obviously haven't been up on the dominant trend in Upper Market residential
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Street Food Fest To Relocate To Pier 70 And Last Two Days Last year we were hearing from the organizing team behind the wildly popular San Francisco Street Food Fest that they were struggling with the decision to possibly end it, due to issues with
SF News Tim Cook Once Offered Steve Jobs Part Of His Liver A new detail about the closeness of current Apple CEO Tim Cook and the late Steve Jobs has emerged in an excerpt from the forthcoming book Becoming Steve Jobs. In it, as Fast
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All Spice Opens In Game Space With Benefit Event Tonight As mentioned last week, the owner of Game (in the former Masa's on Nob Hill), Sachin Chopra, decided to abandon the game-meat-focused (there was only ever elk and some goat on the menu)
Arts & Entertainment Help Name These Adorable Penguin Chicks Three African penguin checks who join the penguin exhibit at the Academy of Sciences today still need names! Well, two of them do anyway. The youngest, hatched in December, has already been named
Arts & Entertainment Felicity Jones To Star In <i>Rogue One</i>, The First <i>Star Wars</i> Spinoff At a shareholders meeting in SF this morning, Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger made a few big announcements with regard to the Star Wars franchise, and fans across the internet are already
SF News One-Time Reality TV Walk-On And Accused Murderer Jamal Trulove Is A Free Man After S.F. Retrial Jamal Trulove, now 34, has been acquitted in a retrial after spending the last seven years behind bars for a 2007 murder he maintained he did not commit. Some of you may remember
SF News Day Around The Bay: Will Apple Buy Tesla? Should Apple buy Tesla? Some shareholders say “yes.” [Wired] The "feeling fat” emoji has been removed from Facebook. [SFGate] Try out for Family Feud in SF! [CBS 5] The homeless man allegedly beaten
Arts & Entertainment Polyamorous East Bay Throuple Makes Video About Love Though the Bay Area is probably one of the country's hubs (outside Utah) for multi-partner, polyamorous relationships, you don't hear too much about throuples who actually get married. Enter the triad who call
SF News Oakland Mother Of Three Killed While Trying To Protect Children From Flying Bullets Oakland had its 19th homicide of the year on Monday afternoon, and the circumstances were especially dramatic and terrible. A 30-year-old West Oakland mother of three, Chyemil Pierce, was struck and killed by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Best Burritos In San Francisco: A Definitive List If you want to start a fight in this town, try bringing up the burrito thing. Everyone's got a favorite, and Mission boozehounds will go to the mat over the relative superiority of
SF News Notorious Landlord Accuses 70-Year-Old Grandmother Of Dealing Drugs In Mission Eviction Fight A 70-year-old woman who has enjoyed the same rent-controlled Mission apartment for four decades is now facing some newly aggressive tactics from a landlord who wants her out. As CBS 5 is reporting,
SF News Here's What $10.5 Million Buys You On Russian Hill You thought that $5 million South Park pad last week was expensive? Allow me to show you a condo of similar size that is currently commanding the highest per-square-foot price in the city.
SF News There Is Definitely An Earthquake Coming, At Some Point Your monthly reminder to finally pull that earthquake kit together has arrived. I believe it was just October when the last study came out informing us that there were four fault lines around
SF News W. Kamau Bell Will Discuss Incident of 'Implicit Bias' With Berkeley Cafe Owner This Friday Back in January, local comedian W. Kamau Bell wrote a lengthy tale of a frustrating, unfortunate incident that happened to him outside the Elmwood Cafe, a place he and his wife like to