SF News SF Officially Puts In Bid For 2024 Olympics Whether it's realistic or financially feasible or not, San Francisco is officially in the running to be the host city for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. The U.S. Olympic Committee will be
SF News Day Around The Bay: No More Left Turns Off Van Ness The SFMTA has approved the Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit project, which will include two dedicated bus lanes along the center median of Van Ness, and no more left turns, ever. Construction on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hapa Ramen Finally Gets Brick-And-Mortar Location This Weekend Chef Richie Nakano has been promising the city a permanent home for his Hapa Ramen pop-up and farmers' market stand since the first Obama Administration, and it is finally, finally happening on Sunday.
SF News Police Still Have No Leads In The Death Of Feather Lynn The tragic story of Feather Lynn, a.k.a. Bryan Higgins, the Radical Faerie who was killed in an altercation on Church Street near Duboce on the morning of August 10, still has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo du Jour: #TBT Guy Fieri At PacBell Park, With Mullet If you thought Guy Fieri's current hairstyle was bad, you should have seen the mullet he was sporting back in 2000! This Throwback Thursday portrait just arrived via Guy's Twitter showing him with
Arts & Entertainment Goodbye Panda!? Pablo Sandoval is almost probably going to be playing for the Red Sox next season, and this means that thousands of Giants fans will need to burn / toss their panda hats and panda
SF News Four Longtime Tenants Vow To Fight Ellis Eviction From Rube Goldberg Building In Hayes Valley Four tenants in two units where the rents are $1,200 and $1,300 a month, at Gough and Oak Streets, are fighting to stay put as their landlord is attempting to evict
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yank Sing Owners Pay $4 Million In Back Pay To Workers The owners of the ever popular dim sum destination Yank Sing, which between its two locations employs 280 people, have agreed to pay $4 million in back pay and benefits to its workers
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The A-to-Z Of Musical Genres This is really fun, you guys! Canadian musicians Andrew Huang and David Brown of Boy in a Band presented themselves with the challenge of naming and demonstrating 26 musical genres in alphabetical order.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Tech Boom!', a New Web Series Having been a little disappointed with SanFranLand earlier this year, I approached a new satirical web series about SF's tech boom with a little trepidation. It's called Tech Boom! And I'll just say
SF News Remembering Jonestown And Why We Should Stop Saying 'Drink The Kool-Aid' This week marks the 36th anniversary of the deadly event we now simply call Jonestown. The horrifying tragedy was a national one, but it's one that belonged to the Bay Area, where the
SF News Is Google Glass Over? God I Hope So. All of our fears of a city or, dear Jesus, a nation crawling with Glassholes appear to be unfounded. As Reuters reports, engineers at Google have fled the project left and right and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Massive New Chinese Restaurant Crystal Jade Debuts At Embarcadero Center A huge new restaurant from the Singapore-based restaurant conglomerate Crystal Jade opens today at Embarcadero Center 4, and just to reiterate, this place is enormous. As we noted last month, this is the
Arts & Entertainment Mindy Kaling Arrives In S.F. To Shoot For 'The Mindy Project,' Instagrams It Looking is wrapping up their three-month shoot for Season 2 this week, and meanwhile The Mindy Project just arrived here to shoot an episode that airs in January. It looks like Mindy Kaling
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Real Apple Store The 1,000-year-old Borough Market in London (yes, it is one thousand years old) just celebrated its birthday, which coincided with Apple Day, but opening a spoof on the Apple Store dubbed The
SF News Uber CEO Scrambles, Tweets Rapid Response To Colleague's Troubling Comments About Journalists Facing another PR nightmare via some troubling off-hand remarks made by Uber executive Emil Michael, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick took to Twitter this morning to issue a 11 14-part statement. 14 parts of
SF News Mirkarimi Will Face Challenge By One-Time Acting Sheriff Vicki Hennessy in 2015 It looks like Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi will once again have to defend himself against some three-year-old allegations of domestic violence as he attempts a re-election bid next year. And challenging him in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Hawker Fare Taking Over Amber Dhara Space For Mission Off-Shoot Good news for all rice-bowl lovers: Oakland's popular Thai-influenced Hawker Fare, from chef-owner James Syhabout (Commis, Box & Bells, The Dock at Linden Street), is taking over the massive space at 18th and
SF News Scott Wiener Has A Plan To Take Care Of Falling Street Trees You know all those notices that have been plastic-wrapped to trees all over town informing adjacent homeowners that responsibility for the maintenance of street trees next to their property is being transferred to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: YouTube-ing Family Makes 'All About The Baste,' a Thanksgiving Parody Remember the Holderness Family? They did this viral video last year showing off their Christmas jammies, and now they're back with a Thanksgiving spoof of that ubiquitous Meghan Trainor song "All About the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Does Super Duper Really Make The Bay Area's Best Burger? (The Answer Is No.) While Super Duper makes a perfectly decent, if greasy, under-$10 burger, I've got to take this opportunity to call out the Business Times and their poorly conceived Bay Area food bracket thing,
Arts & Entertainment Uber and Spotify Partner So That You Can Stream Your Playlists In The Car Just the other day a friend and I were wondering why Uber and Spotify hadn't partnered yet so that you could stream your preferred playlist the minute you got in an Uber car.
SF News Batkid One Year Later: Miles Turns 6, Remains In Remission The one-year anniversary of the great Batkid brouhaha that turned five-year-old Make-a-Wish kid Miles Scott into a national celebrity just arrived on Saturday. And we're happy to inform you that Miles, now six,
Arts & Entertainment Oprah Drops In For Castro Screening, Everyone Goes Nuts Queen of Everything Oprah Winfrey made an appearance at a Q&A on Sunday at the Castro Theatre in conjunction with a screening of Selma, the new Martin Luther King biopic in
SF News California On Track For Hottest Year On Record We all know it's been a warm, dry year. And if that surprise beach day a week ago, in November, weren't yet another clue, new data from the National Climatic Data Center shows
