SF News Guy Breaks Into SoMa Kennel, Frees Dogs, Steals Dog Toys, Gets Caught On this week's bizarre crime beat, we have the story of 59-year-old Michael Grunwald, an apparent dog-lover who broke in and tried to burgle a SoMa doggy daycare called K-9 Playtime (590 Brannan
Arts & Entertainment New Theater Company Debuts Story Of Infamous 'Cable Car Nymphomaniac' A new local theater company, the Fogg Theatre, launches this month with a world premiere of an original musical based on an infamous tabloid tale from the 1960s, and it's called The Cable
SF News Castro Funeral Home That Became A Touchstone In The AIDS Crisis To Get Converted To Condos, Retail Sullivan's Funeral Home in the Castro (2254 Market Street), one of the last vestiges of the neighborhood's pre-1960s Irish heritage and a tragic, central landmark during the AIDS crisis of the 1980's and
Arts & Entertainment Video: Ladies of 'Downton Abbey' Play Cards Against Humanity Brilliantly, the folks at Entertainment Weekly decided to have three of the actresses from Downtown Abbey Laura Carmichael (Lady Edith), Lesley Nicol (Mrs. Patmore), and Phyllis Logan (Mrs. Hughes) play a round of
Arts & Entertainment Avett Brothers, No Doubt, and Robert Plant Top BottleRock 2015 Lineup They might be a bit overshadowed today by the Coachella lineup announcement, but Napa's little music festival that could, BottleRock, made its own announcement today. In keeping with the 2013 and 2014 lineups,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hog & Rocks Flouts Law, Serves Foie Gras Burger Remember foie gras? Ah, that decadent, arguably inhumane, stupidly rich butter of the gods. I sometimes miss it, even if I'm fine with regular duck liver pate most days. A lot of chefs
SF News Now There's Officially An Anti-Olympics Campaign; US Olympic Committee To Make Its Decision Thursday Like there already is in Boston, San Francisco now has a coalition of citizens and politicians getting vocal in the press about their opposition to the city's bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
SF News Man Shot By Mission Police Left Suicide Note, Tells Cops 'You Did Nothing Wrong' In a totally bizarre twist to the officer-involved shooting that occurred in the parking lot of the SFPD's Mission Station on Sunday evening, the department has just released a suicide note apparently penned
SF News Day Around The Bay: Ellis Evictions Finally Slow Down Ellis Act evictions slowed down in 2014, as it turns out, and 48 Hills is crediting tenant organizing and protests with the slowdown. [48 Hills] A town hall meeting has been scheduled for
SF News Reminder: Golden Gate Bridge Closed To Traffic This Weekend To Get New Median In case you missed our post last week and don't watch local news, we'd like to alert you to the fact that the Golden Gate Bridge will be closed to car traffic this
SF News California's High-Speed Rail Finally Breaks Ground, In Fresno, Tomorrow The much dreamt-of, argued-over, fretted-over, celebrated and maligned high-speed rail system from San Francisco to Los Angeles, which will not be completed until many of us are middle aged or entering retirement, is
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Another Pretty Drone Video Of The Bay Area Bay Area By Air from Pre-Future LLC on Vimeo. In honor of the this fresh start to the year, a multi-copter drone enthusiast with a GoPro has given us another lovely video of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Abbot's Cellar Closing After Two Years On Valencia, Owner Partly Blames Minimum Wage Hike The big beer-focused restaurant Abbot's Cellar (462 Valencia), from the team that opened the always-packed Monk's Kettle, has just made the surprise announcement that they're closing at the end of January after two
SF News SF Named The Second Healthiest City In The Nation A website I've never heard of but which nonetheless appears to have used some sound data analysis has named the SF Bay Area the second healthiest metro area in the nation, behind Boston.
SF News Local Black Lives Matter Activists Come Up With List Of Demands For SFPD After a Sunday community meeting at City College's Southeast Campus, the local Black Lives Matter movement appears to have officially come up with a list of concrete demands for the SFPD. The meeting,
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Shortlist Of 49ers Head Coach Candidates The San Francisco 49ers and owner Jed York are wasting no time interviewing potential candidates to fill the recently vacated shoes of Jim Harbaugh, and the most recent high-profile interviewee is a familiar
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Etoile Shutters In Napa, Cafe Des Amis Calls It Quits, and More Happy New Year, everyone. Though we've got a bunch of good stuff to look forward to, restaurant-wise, in 2015, the last week of the year brought with it its usual surprise closing announcements.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Sausage Plant In The Bayview Goes Up In Smoke Headline of the Day: Multilingual Silicon Valley futurist and robotics CEO marries trophy husband actor (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). [NY Mag] You know how that Christmas Day wine heist at the French Laundry sounded pretty
SF News Video: Mario Cuomo Speaking At The Democratic Convention In SF In 1984 In memory of Democratic leader, and New York's last liberal governor, Mario Cuomo, who passed away yesterday at age 82, here's a clip from Cuomo's inspiring keynote address at the Democratic National Convention
Arts & Entertainment People Are Mocking The New Design For A Tower At One Van Ness Back in October we heard that plans had shifted for a tall residential tower being developed at the corner of Market and Van Ness which originally had architect Richard Meier attached. The developer
Arts & Entertainment Seven Things <i>Back To The Future II</i> Got Totally Right About 2015 2015 is the year that Marty McFly traveled to in Back to the Future II, and his hometown of Hill Valley is supposedly just outside the Bay Area, somewhere near Grass Valley, with
SF News Airbnb Hands Out $1 Million, $10 At A Time, For Random Acts Of Kindness By way of a New Year's PR boost, Airbnb has given out $10 each (or the equivalent in foreign currency) to 100,000 of its loyal users for use in "helping to rid
Arts & Entertainment GLBT History Museum Seeks End-Of-Year Donations To Help Relocate Their Archive The Castro-based GLBT History Museum is reaching out for end-of-the-year, tax-deductible donations because one of the big projects they've got to undertake in the new year is moving their entire, diverse archive of
Arts & Entertainment Five Reasons Why SF Has Never Been A Good New Year's Town Look. I, like anyone who's stayed in this city over a decade, have no shortage of love for all things San Francisco. I defend it against the dismissals of Angelenos and New Yorkers
SF News Apartment Sadness: 225-Square Foot Mini-Studio With Bunk Bed Goes For $1750/Mo Remember the sad Noe Valley "mini-studio" from three weeks ago that was going for $1425/month? Well, it gets worse. Over near Duboce Park, as Curbed shows us, you could have nine more
