Arts & Entertainment Behold Google's Crazy New 'Canopy'-Covered Campus Designs We've been hearing a lot this week about the city of Mountain View, California and its residents being a little fed up with getting steamrolled by their biggest employer, Google. The New York
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sinbad's To Close After 40 Years On The Waterfront In order to make way for a new ferry terminal on Pier 2, longtime Embarcadero institution Sinbad's will be calling it quits, possibly as soon as next month but definitely within a year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How Food Delivery Services Are Taking A Bite Out of Restaurant Profits Services like Caviar, Postmates, and Eat 24 (now part of the Yelp empire) are increasingly becoming a vital part of fast-casual restaurants' revenue streams. But as the Chronicle discusses with several of them
SF News Person Of Interest Identified In Feather Lynn Homicide Even though the medical examiner has, remarkably, still not decided if the August death of Bryan "Feather Lynn" Higgins was a homicide, police and the Bay Area Reporter have identified a person of
SF News Gas Leak In Chinatown Causing Muni Bus Delays, Traffic A reported gas leak at Stockton and Jackson Streets sent news choppers into the air over downtown and put some Muni bus routes out of commission this afternoon, and drivers are being told
Arts & Entertainment Here's What The New Development May Look Like On The Sullivan's Funeral Home Site In The Castro Right after the new year we learned of some development plans for one of the last remaining, "underdeveloped" parking lot sites in the Castro neighborhood, and that the one surrounding the historic Sullivan's
SF News More On The 'Small Herd' Of Guinea Pigs Living In Dolores Park Yesterday we briefly noted the discovery of some guinea pigs that were abandoned in Dolores Park, and are now making a go of it on their own, in the urban wild. Now we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF-Based Startup Chefs Feed Hopes To Be The Anti-Yelp About three and a half years ago, local restaurant publicists and brothers Jared and Steve Rivera decided to launch an app that collected the food recommendations of chefs the idea being that who
SF News Lawsuit Contends Purina's Beneful Dog Food Is Killing Dogs A class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco alleges that a man's three dogs were sickened and died after two months of eating Purina's Beneful dog food and the firm handling
SF News Apple Watch To Be Unveiled, For Real This Time, March 9 Invitations have gone out for Apple's next big unveiling event, on March 9, with the cheeky and obvious tagline "Spring Forward" as the sole clue about what the focus of the event will
SF News The Latest Chapter In The 1049 Market Saga: New Eviction Notices, Subpeona For Jane Kim The landlord of 1049 Market Street, the building filled with low-rent live-work units that some tenants have lived in over 15 years, appears to be getting desperate, and is going on the offensive
SF News Day Around The Bay: Guinea Pigs Found Roaming Free In Dolores Park Tragically, a 26-year-old local entrepreneur fell to his death after losing his balance while dancing at a rooftop party in S.F. on Saturday. [Mercury-News] Mountain View has kind of had it with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Bay Area's Nine Best Bagels The bagel situation around the Bay Area remains a dicey one and many a New York transplant is quick to say that it is downright dismal, and we should be ashamed, and the
SF News Campos Calls Wiener 'The Ghost Of Ronald Reagan' In Re: Housing Policy On this week's episode of Board of Supervisors Inside Baseball, we have a little bit of a scuffle happening between Supervisors David Campos and Scott Wiener. After Wiener unleashed a barbed essay earlier
Arts & Entertainment Porn Star Jeremy Long Comes Out As UC Berkeley Law Student Asian American, hetero porn star Jeremy Long has dreams of becoming a public defender, and as CBS 5's Joe Vasquez reports, he's currently enrolled in his second year of law school UC Berkeley's
Arts & Entertainment Next Season's <i>American Horror Story: Hotel</i> Will Star Lady Gaga Creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk gave first-announcement honors for American Horror Story's fifth season theme to Lady Gaga today, along with the news that the singer will be one of the new
SF News Hillary Clinton Talks About Creating A 'Nice Warm Purple Space' Of Bipartisan Cooperation At Silicon Valley Conference Yesterday in Silicon Valley, Hillary Clinton sat down on stage for an interview with Re/Code's Kara Swisher, who opened with the joke, "I was just interviewing President Obama and I'm looking forward
Arts & Entertainment Video: This American Cat A couple of cat-loving satirists decided to make this This American Life spoof over at Oakland's Cat Town Cafe, and it's kind of cute and kind of odd! As Eater tells us, the
Arts & Entertainment Some Joker Has Put Up A Burning Man Ticket On StubHub For $1 Million The increasingly tragi-comic ridiculousness of Burning Man continues today with someone posting a pair of tickets to Burning Man on StubHub for $1 million apiece. Perhaps this is some kind of political statement
Arts & Entertainment Apple Adds Racially Diverse Emoji; Asians Already Crying 'Yellowface!' In the next update of Apple's OS and iOS, there will be new sets of emoji in six different skin tones, in order to reflect the racial diversity of the planet, and iPhone
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Driver And Customer Respond Regarding Curry Boyzz Delivery Incident The tale of the alleged homophobic attack on Sunday from a Curry Boyzz delivery guy in the Castro may, naturally, have more sides to it. SFist has reached out to the owners of
Arts & Entertainment About 30 People Still Protesting Artificial Turf Being Installed At Beach Chalet Soccer Fields I bet you thought this story was over last November! But you were wrong. Some 30 stalwart protesters are still engaged in a years-long battle over the installation of artificial turf on the
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: Patrick's Halloween Meltdown The writers of this week's episode of HBO's Looking, the sixth in this ten-episode season, did a good job building some tension around a totally disastrous Halloween party that Patrick and Augustin decide
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Resident Greeted With Vicious Homophobia From Curry Boyzz Delivery Driver Many residents in the Castro were amused when a nondescript restaurant on 18th Street transformed five years ago into an Indian/Pakistani restaurant called Curry Boyzz perhaps in an attempt to pander to
SF News Is The Answer Simply More Housing, Or More Affordable Housing? The Debate Rages On. After Supervisor David Campos last week started suggesting that the Mission neighborhood might need a moratorium on new market-rate housing construction, the debate has been reignited again over whether our housing crisis is
