SF News Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Facing New Drug Charges, Trial Date Set We've got an update in the pre-trial saga of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht as a new, amended indictment got filed by federal prosecutors last week. As Ars Technica reports, Ulbricht now faces
Arts & Entertainment Matt Bomer Joins Cast of <i>American Horror Story</i>, Three Creepy Teasers Released [Updated] Since we last rounded up all the known facts about the upcoming American Horror Story: Freak Show, several more cast announcements have been made, and two unsettling teasers have come out in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chefs Daniel Patterson and Roy Choi To Launch Fast-Food Concept Called Loco'l A cool concept with an odd name from a pair of California chefs was announced today at the MAD food symposium in Copenhagen, and it's called Loco'l. S.F. chef and restaurateur Daniel
SF News Napa Earthquake Update: More Injuries Reported, About 100 Buildings Red-Tagged The tally of earthquake damages in Napa continues to roll in as of this morning, and schools are closed today across the county. The injury count has continued to rise, with 208 people
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Jack's Oyster Bar Debuts, Huxley Opens In September, and More The big opening of the week is across the Bay at Jack London Square, and that would be Jack's Oyster Bar. It's a fish shack/raw bar concept from Bocanova owners Rick Hackett
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Food Writers Bemoan Overcooked Burgers, And The Ongoing 'Reign of Michael Bauer' Eater SF has adopted one of the conventions of Eater NY's 'Shitshow Week,' which is the anonymous Airing of Grievances by local food scribes. Among the common themes in this roundup of
SF News Beware Of Crazed Blackbird That Attacks All Passing Humans Near Stow Lake Over in Golden Gate Park, there is a rogue blackbird which, maybe under the pretenses of protecting a nest or maybe because it's just insanely aggressive, has made a habit of pouncing and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Guerneville Restaurateur Crista Luedtke Opening New Cocktail Bar El Barrio Frequent weekenders to Guerneville will tell you that the only game in town, until very recently, when it comes to a delicious dinner worthy of S.F. palates is Boon Eat + Drink. Chef-owner
SF News Unidentified Fumes At West Oakland Cause System-Wide BART Delay [Updated] We're getting reports via a perturbed BART rider that "something has been released" causing passengers to start coughing on the lead car of a BART train at West Oakland Station. Another rider says
SF News California Says Yes To Dogs On Restaurant Patios Dog-lovers across the state won a victory, or something, this week when Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that permits dogs in outdoor seating areas at restaurants so long as the
SF News How To Get A Last-Minute Burning Man Ticket You may think it's impossible this late in the game, but it's never completely impossible. Between your friends on the Faceplace and random Craigslist serendipity, there are still some Burning Man tickets floating
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ebola In Sacramento? A patient who visited a West African country sometime in the last month has been put in isolation in a Sacramento hospital with some sort of symptoms, but despite the media freakout public
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime Berkeley Bar Spats, Shuttered For Five Years, May Reopen This Fall UC Berkeley alums and longtime Berkeley residents know the legend of Spats, the dusty but homey Shattuck Avenue bar (known as Oleg's back in the 70s), which has always been a bizarre, sprawling
SF News Airbnb Squatters Leave Palm Springs Condo In Dead Of Night The story of the two (possibly Russian) brothers, Maksym and Denys Pashanin, who've been squatting in one San Francisco woman's Palm Springs condo since late May has finally come to a close and
SF News Video: Man Does Sit-Ups On BART Anyone who has ever spent more than a half second looking at the carpet on a BART train should know this man is insane. SF Weekly spotted this video of a man in
SF News SFPD Releases Footage Of Possible Suspect In Duboce Triangle Homicide There's been a development in last week's murder of Bryan "Feather Lynn" Higgins near Duboce Park. The SFPD has just released footage of the person of interest they're seeking, the previously reported white
SF News 20 Tenants Protest Eviction From Mission Building Where Shady Manager And Landlord Were Scheming A shady situation has come to light at a three-story apartment building at 3150-3154 26th Street where about 16 to 20 tenants are facing eviction amid what appears to be an ill-conceived plot
SF News Not Content To Ruin Just San Francisco, Rich Techies Are Gentrifying Burning Man Too This will come as news only to people who have not attended Burning Man in the last couple of years, but the New York Times has just caught on to the fact that
SF News Sleepy Sausalito Shaken Up By Police Chase, Car Crash Into Restaurant Several people were injured when a high-speed chase Tuesday stemming from a Marin City domestic violence incident spilled over onto Bridgeway in Sausalito, and ended with a dramatic crash into a popular coffee
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink With Shakewell, Onetime 'Top Chef' Contestants Jen Biesty and Tim Nugent May Be Starting A Mini Oakland Empire With the announcement today of the Season 12 cast of Bravo's long-running Top Chef, it seems appropriate to take a moment to look in on a pair of former cheftestants from the Bay
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Amy Poehler As Art Snob Some of you who watch a lot of TV have likely seen this already, but in her series of funny spots for Old Navy, this has to be Amy Poehler's best. Watch in
SF News Photos: First Look At The Man, The Temple, And A Wet Black Rock City It's been rainy out on the playa as the setup crews for Burning Man 2014 have been slaving away to construct the essential pieces of Black Rock City for the 70,000 or
SF News Video: Hot Cop Of The Castro Does Ice Bucket Challenge Hold the phone. Drop everything. It's time to watch footage of Office Chris Kohrs, a.k.a. the Hot Cop of the Castro doing the ice bucket challenge at The Café on Sunday.
SF News Jurors Deliberate Over Salacious Evidence In 2011 Gay Murder In Buena Vista Park Arguments in the trial of 25-year-old David Munoz Diaz ended Monday after jurors heard two weeks of salacious, kink-related evidence in the 2011 murder case of 23-year-old Freddy Canul-Arguello. The two men met
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Chef Melissa King To Appear On 12th Season of <i>Top Chef</i>, Premiering In October Recent Luce sous chef Melissa King, who has ten years experience in the Bay Area fine dining scene, has landed a place in the cast of Top Chef's 12th season, which premieres October
