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
SF News Large Sinkhole On Fourth Street, Caused By Central Subway Construction, May Take Weeks To Fix A pretty significant sinkhole that appeared at Fourth and Jessie Streets over the weekend, which the SFMTA is euphemistically referring to as a "void in the street," may take two weeks or more
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Most Exciting Restaurants Arriving In 2015 The restaurant economy, like the rest of the Bay Area's economy, has been booming these past couple of years, and 2015 is showing no slowdown in the openings department. We've got a trio
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Hilarious Vintage Ad For Computer Sound Card This is an ad, circa the late-1980s, for the AdLib Music Synthesizer Card, geared toward video games made for the PC. The company would be out of business by 1992, as the YouTube
SF News Federal Judge Allows Nudists' Suit Against City To Move Forward The crusade to retain the right to be naked in the streets of San Francisco marches on as a federal judge has whittled down a lawsuit brought by nudist activists against the City
SF News Weather Report: It's Really F***ing Cold Today you can expect to be blasted with some really cold (for us) Canadian air, if you haven't been already. Despite sunny, dry conditions, a cold weather system is blowing down on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [UPDATE] French Laundry Robbed Of $300,000 Worth Of Fine Wine On Christmas Day Famed Napa Valley restaurant The French Laundry fell victim to a Christmas Day heist that only wealthy wine snobs can appreciate the gravity of. As Inside Scoop reports, a thief or thieves made
SF News [UPDATE] No More Wi-Fi On BART Trains, In Stations Though you may have found some free wi-fi in BART stations and on some trains the last few years, the test program under which that was being provided has now ended. As BART
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tomorrow's Another Free Burger Day At Super Duper Tomorrow, December 30, at Super Duper's eight Bay Area locations, they're giving away free burgers, fries, and soft-serve to the first 100 people through the door, just to celebrate New Year's, or something.
SF News Fund To Help Family Of Injured Window Washer Pedro Perez Tops $73K A GoFundMe campaign set up two weeks ago to assist the San Leandro family of the window washer who survived an 11-story fall last month in SF's Financial District has more than tripled
SF News Attorney For Sheriff's Deputy Involved In SF General Brutality Case Calls Charges 'Political' In a somewhat curious statement, the attorney representing San Francisco sheriff's deputy Michael Lewelling who was arrested on December 19 in connection with some apparent brutality against a man with a cane in
SF News 2014: The Year Facebook Started To Figure Out How It Hurts People In a further example of the ways in which Facebook's corporate team can be a little short-sighted about human existence, the company got a very public drubbing over the holiday week after web
Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho Wraps Up Her Mini Busking Tour For The Homeless Back in mid-November we told you about how locally born comedian Margaret Cho had returned to SF for a while and was busking (and stripping) on the streets to raise money and collect
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour: Real Snowman Reappears In Precita Park Last Christmas Eve some clever, anonymous Bernal resident installed a snowman made of real snow in Precita Park, and on Wednesday, another real snowman appeared, right on schedule in what now may be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Opening Nears For Mourad, Gussie's Chicken and Waffles Closes, and More Despite it being a holiday week in a half-empty town, a few things are still happening in the food scene, right down to the wire of New Year's Eve (see also our quick-and-dirty
SF News Pair Of Despicable Package Thieves Nabbed In East Bay With Carload Of Christmas Loot A duo claiming to be "transients" from San Francisco were arrested Wednesday after being spotted in a couple of East Bay neighborhood acting shady and swiping packages from peoples' front doors. ON CHRISTMAS
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Boxing Day Edition Some mostly peaceful Christmas evening protests in Oakland ended in vandalism, at least one dumpster fire, a messed up Christmas tree at Jack London Square, and a smashed-up BevMo. [ABC 7, CBS 5,
SF News Two Potrero Hill Homes Destroyed In Christmas Morning Fire I don't know what it is with Christmas and fires, but for the second year in a row there was a major house fire on Christmas Day. Thursday morning a fire broke out
Arts & Entertainment Hackers Try To Ruin Projected GIF Holiday Cards You know those animated GIF greeting cards you could get projected on those walls downtown, along Market Street, sponsored by some local artists and arts orgs? Well, "some time traveling hackers from the
Arts & Entertainment Where To See 'The Interview' In The Bay Area On Christmas Day Over a dozen independent cinemas around the Bay Area have leapt at the chance to screen the new James Franco/Seth Rogan satire The Interview just a day after Sony Pictures decided to
SF News Vallejo Homeowner Surprises Package Thief With Box Of Poop Package thievery from doorsteps is rampant this time of year, and one Vallejo homeowner decided to emulate some fellow fed-up victims and leave a decoy package for his repeated thief filled with dog
SF News [UPDATES] LGBT Protesters Block Octavia And Market Freeway Entrance In Solidarity With Black Lives Matter A planned march to show LGBT solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement on Christmas Eve morning is expected to attempt to block the Octavia and Market on/off-ramp during rush hour. SFist
SF News Day Around The Bay: Cool Fossils Emerge After Storms The storms of the last couple of weeks have revealed some cool fossils down the coast, including an ancient Meglodon tooth that may be 10 million years old. [Chron] Two aggressive pitbulls were
SF News Local Production Company Puts Out PSA Encouraging Kids To Steal Their Parents' Guns A local company called Sleeper 13 Productions posted this video a couple weeks ago that advocates for ending gun violence by having kids steal their parents' handguns and turn them in to teachers
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Jimmy Fallon and One Direction's 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town' Kind of like he did with Idina Menzel and "Let It Go," Jimmy Fallon and the Roots gathered in a dressing room and did an acoustic version of "Santa Claus Is Coming To
