SF News Two-Alarm Fire Burns Church On 20th Street In The Mission [Updated] There's a fire currently burning in a church on 20th Street in the Mission, near San Carlos. NBC Bay Area reports that the church is located at 3541 20th Street, and that the
SF News Condom Bill Targeting California Porn Industry Dies In Committee A bill that would have made it a criminal act to shoot pornography in California without condoms got permanently shelved today by the State Senate's Appropriations Committee. The bill, introduced by SoCal Assemblyman
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Spanish Spot Beso Opens In the Castro Tonight The Castro is gaining one more food option in a spot where there was none before this evening, and that would be Beso (4058 18th Street), the new Spanish spinoff of four-year-old Bisou
SF News Condo Prices Might Actually Be Starting To Come Down In some proof-positive of the law of supply and demand, prices of newly constructed condos in San Francisco actually came down 3 percent in July. The latest monthly report from The Mark Company
SF News Matchmaker Chooses San Francisco To Launch Nationwide Search For One Millionaire's Soul Mate Minnesota-based matchmaker Kailen Rosenberg who can be seen, amidst many jump-cuts, discussing her trade and her recent book Real Love, Right Now in the video above is coming to San Francisco next month
SF News Marin County Sheriff Defensive Amid Criticism That Robin Williams' Suicide Was Overly Described Many people, including some SFist readers, reacted strongly to the level of detail that was given in the press conference Tuesday with regard to Robin Williams' cause of death, saying that the Marin
SF News Photo Du Jour: A Vigil For Feather Lynn Here's a photo from this afternoon's vigil in Duboce Park for Feather Lynn, a.k.a. Bryan Higgins, whose family removed him from life support today. At least 100 people gathered and held
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'SanFranLand,' A New Web Series First of all: San Fran? I guess I'm supposed to forgive creator Ryan Lynch for using my least favorite abbreviation of San Francisco in the title of her new web series, SanFranLand, which
SF News Facing Challenge To Bomb Charge In Ryan Chamberlain Case, Prosecutors May Bring Lethal Toxin Charge Too The case against disgraced political consultant and possible domestic terrorist Ryan Chamberlain continues to unfold in pre-trial hearings in federal court, and this week federal prosecutors are saying they may add a lethal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Elite Reviewers Suing Company (Again) For Unpaid Wages, Claiming They Are Real Writers [Updated] People who are such obsessive, prodigious users of Yelp that they gain Elite status and claim firsties on reviewing every food truck and Muni stop, are taking part in a class action lawsuit
SF News @HiddenCash Is Dunzo The Hidden Cash guy, a.k.a. real estate guy Jason Buzi, released a statement Tuesday along with his co-conspirator Yan Budman, saying that their little game of hiding envelopes and other containers
SF News Slain Man Found Near Duboce Park, Now ID'd, To Be Removed From Life Support Today; Suspect Sought In Homicide The unidentified man found early Sunday, who was unconscious and badly beaten near the corner of Church and Duboce Streets, was publicly identified late yesterday as 31-year-old Bryan Higgins, a.k.a. Feather
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Gets His Hair Wet Our very own Lieutenant Governor got soaked for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge at AT&T Park today. [7x7] Also, Gavin is super excited about marijuana legalization. [HuffPo] San Franciscans have Grouponed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Hill Saloon Staff and Patrons Were Robbed On Saturday The little bar at the intersection of the Mission and Potrero Hill, Mission Hill Saloon, was robbed at gunpoint late Friday night, early Saturday, right as they were doing last call. As Mission
SF News Hot Cop Of Castro Is Doing Wet T-Shirt Contest For Charity Officer Chris Kohrs, a.k.a. The Hot Cop of Castro, is participating in a contest for charity next Monday that will involve him wearing something skimpy and having buckets of ice thrown
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink KronnerBurger Takes Over Longtime Piedmont Avenue Mainstay This October Chef Chris Kronner's burger venture, KronnerBurger, which began life as a pop-up at Bruno's in 2012 and has since high-tailed to Oakland, will finally be getting a permanent home this fall, as Inside
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Huge New Food Hall Headed To Hollywood Billiards Building In Mid-Market You've heard about the food-hall trend, right? There's the Second Act Marketplace in the old Red Vic, which followed on 331 Cortland in Bernal, and just recently we've heard about The Market Hall
Arts & Entertainment Watch Robin Williams Rallying The Crowd At A Giants Post-Season Game In 2010 As many Giants fans know, Robin Williams was a fixture at many games, especially in the post-season of the past few years. On October 7, 2010, as the Giants were about to play
SF News Cell Phone Kill-Switch Bill Heads To Governor's Desk A draft of Mark Leno's bill that would require all new mobile phones sold in California to come equipped with built-in and activated "kill switches" to discourage theft has passed the Senate and
SF News Robin Williams Committed Suicide By Hanging, Left No Note [Updated] A sad detail in the cause of Robin Williams' reported suicide has been confirmed today. Both TMZ and CBS are reporting, via the Marin County fire scanner audio, that the actor was found
Arts & Entertainment Robin Williams Dead At Age 63, Possibly By Suicide Robin Williams, the Oscar-winning actor and stand-up comedian who's lived for many years in the San Francisco Bay Area, was found dead in his Tiburon, California home on Monday, as the Marin Sheriff's
SF News Unidentified Man Found Critically Injured Near Duboce Park Sunday Morning [Updated] The Sheriff's Department is hoping the public can help identify this man who was found critically injured and unconscious near the intersection of Church and Duboce Streets around 7:30 a.m. on
SF News Uber Charged People $300 to $500 To Get Out Of Outside Lands Mess Reports are flowing in today from disgruntled Uber customers leaving Outside Lands who, under the 5-fold surge pricing we mentioned earlier, ended up with receipts for in-city trips mind you that totalled anywhere
SF News Space Nerds Launch McMoon's, A Control Center In A Defunct McDonald's To Hijack A Decommissioned NASA Satellite A group of space enthusiasts in Mountain View, California, with cooperation from NASA, have taken control of a 36-year-old decommissioned satellite that was originally put into orbit to study solar weather. The ISEE-3
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleaner: Allegedly Drunk Lady Plows Into Oakland Fire Hydrant What's that about the drought? An allegedly drunk woman piloting a vintage Mercedes crashed into a fire hydrant in Oakland a few days ago, and we have some citizen-uploaded video footage. It was
