SF News Supervisor Pushing For Free/Cheap HIV-Prevention Drug Truvada The HIV-prevention drug Truvada, a.k.a. PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) has been a topic of approximately 9 trillion conversations in gay bars over the last year, in large part due to the growing
SF News Two New Wildfires Sparked Near Yosemite And Oregon Border Among the 12 major wildfires currently burning across the state, two fresh ones were sparked in the last two days: the Courtney Fire, burning not far from the recent Junction Fire near Oakhurst
SF News Day Around The Bay: A Large Testicle Heads To S.F. Evidence from a 2011 robbery case in North Beach was mistakenly destroyed by a Central Station police officer. [Chron] Three people were seriously injured when a deck collapsed during a house party in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Turkey, The Kitten Who Gobbles And now, a tiny kitten named Turkey, found in an animal shelter in Florida, so named because she makes adorable "gobble gobble" sounds when she eats. This should take your mind off your
SF News Video: Apparently Disturbed Woman Roughed Up By BART Police In Dramatic Scene [Updated] This series of three videos came in via the tip line over the weekend and they appear to show a talkative, allegedly mentally disturbed woman getting some rough treatment at the hands of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink BMW Slams Into Comstock Saloon In North Beach, Two Injured [Updated] Just before 2 p.m. this afternoon a car went barreling through the front doors of Comstock Saloon on Columbus Avenue, injuring two people though it's unclear if the driver was among the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Taqueria Slammed As A Result Of Burrito Bracket Win Though I reiterate my disagreement with the decision to name La Taqueria not only the best burrito-maker in the Mission but in the nation, the resulting buzz has been a boon for business.
SF News Facebook Grants Meeting To Drag Queens Regarding Name Policy [Updated] The story that SFist broke last week about Facebook cracking down on drag queens and other performers who use drag names in place of their real names has spread all over and even
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Gets Its First Bitcoin ATM At FiDi Cafe Workshop Cafe (180 Montgomery Street) just became the first place in the city to have a BTM or Bitcoin Teller Machine on premises. The machine actually allows owners of bitcoin to convert the
SF News Here's What A Shipment of 195,000 New iPhones Looks Like Arriving From China As you've probably heard, pre-orders of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have been huge basically double what they were for the iPhone 5 just in the first 24 hours. So, as Apple
SF News One Of SoMa's Last Gay Porn Studios Getting Razed To Make Way For Fancy Office Building The former SoMa headquarters of Hot House Entertainment, a popular gay porn brand dating back 21 years, is getting razed to be replaced by a five-story office building, as Curbed reports. The industrial
SF News Mother And Child Punched In The Face By Homeless Woman In Union Square A woman and her two-year-old son were violently attacked by a disturbed homeless woman in Union Square in recent weeks, and now she and her husband have spoken to KRON 4 in an
SF News 49ers Lose Their First Game At Levi's Stadium Much to the dismay of fans especially those who braved the traffic getting in and out of Levi's Stadium the 49ers lost their first regular season game at the stadium to the Chicago
Arts & Entertainment Check Out A New Illustrated Map Of S.F. Created By Artist Jenni Sparks Map illustrator Jenni Sparks, who has done whimsical, detailed hand-drawn maps of New York, London, and Berlin for the British outfit Evermade, has just created one for San Francisco featuring everything from Truck
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Cafe Du Nord Will Be More Restaurant Than Venue, Lazy Bear Sets a Date, and More Topping this week's food-scene headlines is the impending opening of Lazy Bear, the brick-and-mortar restaurant from underground-dining chef David Barzelay the name is an anagram of his last name. Barzelay will be doing
Arts & Entertainment Kink.com Giving Away Free Armory Tour Passes For Folsom Weekend If you've never gone on a tour of the kinky dungeons of Kink.com's Armory complex, you may get your chance next weekend during S.F.'s high holiday of kink. In honor
SF News President Offers Federal Disaster Funds For Napa Earthquake The White House has officially declared the August 24 Napa earthquake and its subsequent aftershocks a major disaster and federal funds will therefore be available to aid in the cleanup. Per the White
SF News Homeless Google Staffers Have Lived On Mountain View Campus For Weeks, Months At a Time Google may encourage its workers to stay on duty for extended periods by offering three meals a day in the cafeteria, a gym, and plenty of play spaces. But rising rents in Silicon
SF News iPhone 6 Goes On Pre-Sale, Larger Version Already Sold Out The new, almost iPad-mini-sized iPhone 6 Plus is already sold out for pre-sale on Apple's website and those rabid customers will now have a three- to four-week wait (and counting) for their big
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fleet Week Returns! Fleet Week is back next month, October 6 to 13, after taking a hiatus last year. Get ready for teeth-rattling fighter jets overhead. [NBC Bay Area] Study: Uber is making 12 times as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bandidos In The Castro Changes Name To Hecho Amid Controversy The owners of one-week-old Castro restaurant Bandidos have bent to criticism that their choice of name has ethnically offensive connotations. Today they announced that they're going with the name Hecho, which is Spanish
SF News Privacy Concerns Already Raised For Unreleased Apple Watch The Apple Watch won't be causing lines at Apple stores until at least March of next year (I'm guessing, they just said "early next year"), but people are already nervous about the privacy
SF News Big House, Small House: What $5.5M Gets You In Russian Hill Vs. What $2,900/Month Gets You In The Castro A couple of notable price-checks today to make you more depressed about the real estate market: A spacious Russian Hill condo has come back on the market with a small price cut, down
SF News Russian Billionaire's Yacht Reappears In S.F. Bay Does anyone remember the last time Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko paid a visit to S.F. in his $323 million Philippe Starck-designed megayacht? It was in 2010, and now, four years later, the
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queens, Other Performers Outraged As Facebook Forces Them To Use Their Real Names [Updated] Facebook has recently launched a new crackdown on people using stage names, adopted nicknames, or drag names as their primary profile names, forcing local drag queens and Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to suffer
