SF News Prancing Deer Distract, Delight Friday Commuters On Golden Gate Bridge Traffic was snarled on the Golden Gate Bridge Friday evening by two footloose and carefree deer who decided to prance their way from the Presidio to Marin by the quickest possible route. The
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This: Sugar Pie DeSanto At Hard French On Saturday This Saturday, 78-year-old Bay Area soul music legend Sugar Pie DeSanto is making a return appearance to the stage at Hard French for a late-afternoon performance that shouldn't be missed. DeSanto previously appeared
SF News Yelp Is Allowed To Manipulate Ratings And Remove Good Reviews, Says Court Yelp has consistently challenged the notion that they've extorted small businesses by implying a pay-to-play structure when it comes to the way positive and negative reviews are displayed on the site, and so
SF News Burning Man Attendees May Have Been Exposed To West Nile Virus Nine mosquito traps were set in the vicinity of Gerlach, Nevada for the purposes of checking for West Nile Virus the week before Burning Man, and results are now in from a state
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Joan Rivers and Louis C.K. Have Sex RIP, Joan. You were the most biting of all biting comedians, and as the New York Times put it in their just-published obit, you "evolved from a sassy, self-deprecating performer early in [your]
SF News More Of San Francisco's Trash Went To Landfills Last Year, Not Less Nate Silver's swell number-crunching blog FiveThirtyEight just did an exposé of sorts about San Francisco's long-held status as the nation's mecca for trash diversion specifically the oft-cited figure that, as a city, we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popeye's On Divisadero Is Saved It turns out Popeye's on Divis wasn't under threat at all, despite the mysterious remodel the space was undergoing last week. The fried chicken emporium reopened Tuesday with a spiffy new look, and
SF News Video: <i>Today</i> Show Chases Bike Thief In San Francisco Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Bike thievery. It's a national epidemic. But San Francisco is, as we all know, one place where it's happening with
Arts & Entertainment Grover Norquist's Burning Man, Recounted Grover Norquist made it to Burning Man, as promised. And he's written a brief piece for the UK Guardian about just how marvelous the experience was, and more than he'd hoped. He gets
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour: Poop Map Yes, that is human excrement. It's smeared in what appears to be the shape of a 7, with the diagonal slope vaguely following the diagonal of Market Street on this transit map. Welcome
SF News Chinatown Freaked Out By Another Serial Burglar A serial burglar/home-invader has been scaring Chinatown's elderly in a series of four crimes in this normally not-crime-ridden neighborhood at least crime that's not being perpetrated by Shrimp Boy and the Hung
SF News Will Tech Workers Get Dinged By The IRS For Free Lunches? You know how all the big tech companies employ their own executive chefs and provide lovely lunch and dinner options to their employees every day so no one ever has to leave the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Booze-Delivery App Launches In S.F. Just the other week I was talking about the glut of new food-delivery startups like Instacart, Caviar, and Spoonrocket, and I mentioned the booze delivery services that are already in town like Saucey
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Les Clos, A Wine Bar From Saison's Mark Bright, Opens September 20 Mark Bright, partner and wine director at Saison (178 Townsend), is just about ready to unveil his new, down-the-street wine bar spinoff Les Clos (234 Townsend), which we previously talked about back in
SF News Have The New S.F. Tenant Protection Measures Done Any Good? It may be too soon to tell if any of the laws passed in the last two years protecting tenants and making evictions more expensive for landlords will ultimately have an impact on
SF News Stanley Roberts Is Back On The Evil Elmo Beat After new video appeared online last week of everyone's favorite mentally ill incarnation of a Sesame Street character, Evil Elmo, back to his old tourist-harassing tricks at Fisherman's Wharf, KRON 4's resident scold
SF News Socialites Trevor And Alexis Traina Sued By Former Maid Over Fall Trevor Traina, son of S.F. grand dame Dede Wilsey both of whom were immortalized in this fantastic dinner scene from Sean Wilsey's Oh the Glory Of It All in which wicked stepmother
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Second Chef Shuffle In Six Months Happens at Outerlands What is going on at the Outer Sunset's premiere destination restaurant? Less than six months after Outerlands parted ways with Brett Cooper the chef who arguably put the restaurant on the foodinista map
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Drone Footage of Apple's 'Spaceship Doughnut' Campus Under Construction This video came out about a week ago, but for those like us who missed it in the crush of Labor Day escape plans, please enjoy. It's very recent footage, shot by a
SF News PG&E To Be Fined $1.4 Billion By Public Utilities Commission Over San Bruno Blast [Updated] In the largest ever fine to be imposed by California's Public Utilities Commission, PG&E may be slapped with a $1.4 billion fine for the institutional negligence that led up to
Arts & Entertainment Castro's Rainbow Honor Walk Dedicated Today One of the final pieces in the major sidewalk-improvement project in the Castro had its dedication ceremony this morning, and that's the series of embedded plaques dubbed the Rainbow Honor Walk. The plaques
SF News Video: Two Ladies of the Tenderloin Have Spat We're not looking to make light of the perils and travails of T-Loin life, but while you were likely at the beach or having a civilized barbecue over the Labor Day weekend, this
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Twin Baby Giraffes Born at San Francisco Zoo, One Survives Last week the San Francisco Zoo welcomed a rare occurrence the live birth of twin reticulated giraffes in captivity which turned into a bittersweet event after one of the two twins died two
SF News Centerplate CEO Getting Ousted Over Dog Abuse Video Following the release of the video last week that showed Desmond Hague, CEO of Centerplate, kicking a Doberman pinscher and hoisting it by its leash, the company is expected to announce Hague's resignation
SF News Aftershocks Still Rocking Napa a Week Later Two small jolts were felt overnight and early this morning in Napa County, one just before 2 a.m. and one just after 6:30 a.m., as CBS 5 reports. The two
