SF News The CIA Has Been Trying To Crack iPhone's Security Encryption For Years A new piece on The Intercept, following on a secret, annual, CIA-sponsored hacker "Jamboree" devoted to "exploiting security flaws in household and commercial electronics," suggests that U.S. spies have been intent on
SF News Here's Why Everyone Needs To Stop Bemoaning A Vanishing San Francisco And Move On When you first fall in love with someone, during that first dizzying, marvelous honeymoon phase, however long it lasts, you and your new love feel like you're always on the same page. You
SF News SFPD Chases Suspect Through BART Tunnels Monday Night Causing Major Delays What Embarcadero #BART station looks like when there is a delay. Happy to be off the train. pic.twitter.com/4ObYTmpml7— Sally K (@Sally_K) March 10, 2015 Were you stuck on an
SF News Day Around The Bay: Will All The Bridges Go For Automated Tolls? The Bay Area Toll Authority, which operates the Bay, San Mateo, Dumbarton, Richmond-San Rafael, Carquinez, Benicia-Martinez, and Antioch bridges, is hiring a consultant to look into the question of whether all the bridges
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queen Wins Mr. SF Leather Title In a definite first, and a sign of the ongoing changing nature of the leather scene both here and elsewhere, the 2015 title of Mr. SF Leather was awarded on Saturday to Trevor
Arts & Entertainment Aretha Franklin To Play Oracle Arena In August In her first Bay Area concert date in over 30 years, great diva Aretha Franklin has just booked a show for August 10 at Oakland's Oracle Arena. Goldenvoice just announced the show with
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: Patrick And Kevin Go To A Gaymer Prom It is genuinely nice to see Patrick happy, and not being neurotic about it, and finally able to enjoy his newly cemented relationship with Kevin and last night's episode, kind of like last
SF News HIV-Positive Fireman Sues City Over Harassment A San Francisco firefighter who thinks he may have contracted HIV while in the line of duty says that the subsequent harassment by fellow firefighters and mistreatment by the SFFD amounted to discrimination.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Experience Some Serious Cocktail Geekery At Benjamin Cooper, A New Bar From Two Former Big Barmen Among local drinkers, the short-lived, ultra-tiny, always delicious Tenderloin bar Big remains a minorly mythic thing in our memories ephemeral as a pop-up, gushed over, and gone before its time. Well, it's seen
SF News FBI Uses Facebook Messages To Nab Alleged Meth-Smuggling TSA Agents At SFO Two TSA screeners working at SFO were allegedly involved in a plot involving a third individual to smuggle multiple pounds of methamphetamine through security checkpoints in carry-on luggage. As the Examiner reports, all
SF News With Chronicle's Help, Assault Victim Reunited With Leg Last week brought us not one but two tales of prosthetic legs stolen from their owners, the first of which was found leaning up against a tree at Eighth and Market on Friday,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Millennium Heads To Rockridge, Game Flips Into All Spice, And More This week we learned that Cafe Des Amis in Cow Hollow will be becoming a Belgian-style brasserie, and we learned that Lark, a New American bistro is headed for the former Brandy Ho's
SF News Bomb Scare At Blue Bottle Shuts Down Mint Plaza SF Bomb Squad, cops, hook and ladder now outside #SFMint and tech-fave @BlueBottle coffee, closing Mint Plaza pic.twitter.com/viLy9tx6el— Carla Marinucci (@cmarinucci) March 6, 2015 The bomb squad and a bunch
SF News Giants Join Legal Brief Urging SCOTUS To Legalize Gay Marriage Well this is fun. The Giants have joined in legal brief along with the New England Patriots and the Tampa Bay Rays urging the Supreme Court to overturn all remaining state gay marriage
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A 'Conveniently Located' 170-Square-Foot Illegal In-Law Are you just about done with this life, unable to afford much more than $1000 in rent, and wholly unconcerned with the attractiveness of your surroundings? Allow me to point you to the
Arts & Entertainment Once Again, Pink Saturday Not Cancelled, Will End Early And Be Paid For By City Though the story that Pink Saturday was cancelled was widely, incorrectly reported a couple weeks back, the fact is that with or without the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence manning the gates, 10,000
SF News Out With The Old: Apple Will Replace AT&T In Dow Index Despite it remaining a telecommunications giant, AT&T will be losing its long-held place on the Dow Jones industrial average to Apple as of March 19, as the New York Times is
Arts & Entertainment Hunter Pence Broke His Forearm, Will Be Out For Beginning Of Giants' Season Giants outfielder and overall wild-eyed star Hunter Pence suffered a broken left forearm yesterday from a pitch thrown during a spring training game. As ESPN is reporting, it looks like he'll be out
SF News Day Around The Bay: Wilt Chamberlain's Secret Son In SF? Local man claims he’s Wilt Chamberlain’s secret son. [UK Daily Mail] Oakland police are offering a $15,000 reward for any information about yesterday's I-580 shooting. The victim is now stable,
SF News Disgruntled Lyft Drivers Plot Possible Strike SFist received a tip this week that a gang of Lyft drivers were might peeved about a lucrative promotion that was dangled by the company and then, apparently, rescinded rather quickly. The deal
Arts & Entertainment And Now Meet The New Baby Penguins At The Academy Of Sciences As ABC 7's Dan Ashley dutifully shows us, three adorable African penguin chicks are making their debut in the Academy of Sciences peguin exhibit next week, on March 11. The three little guys
Arts & Entertainment The 14 Best San Francisco-Set Novels We live in a relentlessly beautiful place that has inspired many over the years. This has always been a city brimming with artists, writers, and musicians and SF's bohemian streak will hopefully not
SF News El Niño Finally Arrives; Will Not Save California, Rain-Wise Remember that "weak" El Niño that was supposed to develop this winter? Well, it's March, and it just got here. As predicted back in October, this season's ocean warming was not on track
Arts & Entertainment Video: Parallel Parking Fail On Polk Leads To Mass Mockery By Drunk People This is pretty funny. A tipster sent us this video from last weekend in which a hapless guy in what might be a rental car got himself stuck, diagonally, in a parking spot
Arts & Entertainment Huge Music Fest To Rival Outside Lands Possibly Headed To Sonoma Raceway The owners of the Sonoma Raceway (the NASCAR venue up north formerly known as Sears Point and Infineon) have submitted a proposal to play host to a massive music festival on the scale
