Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour: Parked This photo was taken last week by local photographer Darwin Bell.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Whysk, A Transportation Startup Please enjoy this bit of humor from ClickHole, the Onion's brilliant sendup of all things viral and BuzzFeed-esque. It's all about an app, well, sort of... a company called Whysk that "gets people
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Once Again, Taqueria Cancun Tops All Other Local Burritos In Burrito Bracket I'm going to stand behind the fact that the al pastor burrito at Taqueria Cancun is, in fact, a local treasure, and I'm glad that yet another burrito reviewer agrees with me. Burrito
Arts & Entertainment Oakland To Host Its First LGBT Pride Parade This Year Oakland's traditional Labor Day Weekend Pride festivities will, for the first time this year, include an actual parade. As the Bay Area Reporter tells us via Oakland Pride's newsletter, the plan is to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Urchin, A Casual Bistro From Michelin-Starred Ame Chefs, Opens On Valencia Street After a year lying empty, the former Wo Hing General Store space at 584 Valencia Street (which was also the original home of The Slanted Door in the 90s) has been rechristened as
SF News Clothes Contact To Remain Open Through Year's End Phew, right? For anyone who was panicking that Clothes Contact, the $10-a-pound vintage store that's been the go-to for bargain hunters for two decades, was going to be closing imminently, you can breathe
SF News Tech Bus Bottoms Out, Blocks J Train In Both Directions at 21st Street Just in case you needed a little schadenfreude to kick off your Tuesday: A tipster sent in these photos of a tech bus that became stuck at 21st and Chattanooga this morning as
Arts & Entertainment Janis Joplin Forever Stamps To Debut At Outside Lands The United States Postal Service announced a month ago that it'd be putting out the fifth in its Music Icons series of commemorative stamps, featuring Janis Joplin. Given Joplin's historic connection to San
SF News How the Public Utilities Commission Is Planning To Get You Drinkable Water After An Earthquake I'm sure you've heard that your earthquake kit is supposed to have three days worth of drinking water in it. But in case you haven't been able to pull that together, or if
SF News Now In S.F., Eccentric Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Is Launching An Audio-Tour Company Ousted Groupon founder Andrew Mason, now 34, has relocated to San Francisco, lost 30 pounds, and since last fall he's been working on a new venture: Detour. It's a mobile app, currently in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Creepy New App and Robotic Feeder For Crazy Cat Owners Are you the kind of person who worries obsessively whether you little tiger-striped tabby Muffinhead has had a change in appetite while you're at work? Would you love it if there was an
SF News Update On The El Portal Fire, Now 96 Percent Contained Thankfully, the El Portal Fire, which has been burning over a week at the western edge of Yosemite National Park and in Stanislaus National Forest, is now 96 percent contained after burning 4,
SF News First Big Event at Levi's Stadium Creates Total Traffic Clusterf**k San Jose Earthquakes fans became guinea pigs Saturday night in the poorly conceived traffic experiment that is Levi's Stadium. Attendees at the soccer game, the first major event at the stadium, were stuck
SF News Day Around the Bay: Medical Marijuana Delivery? Important update on those emergency water hydrants: They should not be assumed to be safe for drinking, like at all. [SFist] That promised program, funded by Google, of free wifi in S.F.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Game To Open In Former Masa's, CREAM Opens On 16th, and More Once again, we bring you all the notable food news we missed from the past week, starting with... Tonight marks the real kickoff of Eat Drink SF, the food fest formerly known as
SF News New App Provides Valet Parking Service Anywhere In SoMa Being the hub of techie San Francisco, Inner SoMa is the geographical limit of a new app that connects people in cars desperate to park with people who are willing to park them,
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Whale Watching Huge schools of anchovies moved in close to shore starting last Sunday in Monterey Bay, and the humpback whales followed. Photos like this one from Blue Ocean Whale Watch then began popping up
Arts & Entertainment Oakland-Based Artists Seek Donors For 'Gay Men Draw Vaginas' Book A pair of Oakland-based artists/humorists have been setting up vagina-drawing booths over the past two years, sometimes making appearances at Gay Beach in Dolores Park and in the Castro, asking gay men
SF News Airbnb Squatters Are Seasoned Scam Artists, Squatted In S.F. Before As it turns out, (possibly) Russian brothers Maksym and Denys Pashanin, now forever known as the Airbnb Squatters, had eviction papers served to them in a San Francisco SRO way back in 2009.
SF News Today Is The First Official Day Tech Buses Share Muni Stops, And There's Already A Protest The pilot program to allow corporate shuttles (a.k.a. "Google Buses") to share a select number of Muni stops, and to pay for the privilege, begins today, and we can expect complaints
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Plin, a New Italian Restaurant From Alexander Alioto, Opens Friday In the Mission Gone are all the conduit pipes that made the former Conduit restaurant space a little chilly and odd, as restaurant spaces go. For the opening of Plin (280 Valencia Street, more recently Brass
SF News How Much Should You Get Paid If Your Landlord Wants To Buy You Out Of Your Rent-Controlled Apartment? There has been a notable increase in the last year or so probably among your friends in rent-controlled apartments, but also among people seeking counseling from the Tenants' Union of buyout offers by
SF News The Current California Drought, Illustrated Are you more of a visual learner? Here's a dramatic graphic showing just how short on water the state of California is compared to just last week, and last year. That dark maroon
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chefs Respond To Minimum Wage Hike: 'Get Ready For the $25 Burger' Remember that awful billboard? Well, Zagat went around asking San Francisco chefs and restaurant owners how they're planning to deal with the all-but-inevitable minimum wage hike that's going on the November ballot, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Outside Lands Food Stage Sounds Ridiculous, Amazing At this year's Outside Lands there's going to be a new food-and-performance stage that they're dubbing GastroMagic. As Inside Scoop reports, the just-added extra food stage is going to combine chef demos and
