SF News Multiple Top Executives Leaving Twitter, Stock Price Plummets [Updated] Is anyone hearing a popping sound? This week saw the departures of two higher-ups at Twitter, COO Ali Rowghani and media unit head Chloe Sladden. As Recode notes, Sladden's departure is not unexpected
SF News New Dolores Park Restroom To Rise From The Ground Next Week This is just a quick update on the ongoing construction happening in the northern half of Dolores Park, but next week is when the concrete trucks arrive! As Dolores Park Works reports, Cara
SF News Gavin Newsom Demands Apology From Rick Perry Over Gay Comments Lieutenant governor and gay marriage hero Gavin Newsom took to Twitter yesterday to scold Texas governor Rick Perry for his ignorance about gay stuff. And he's demanding that Perry apologize. To recap, Perry
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Priceline Buys OpenTable for $2.6 Billion San Francisco-based OpenTable is becoming part of the Priceline Group in a deal announced Friday, sending the share price of OpenTable stock up 50% in morning trading, to $104. Priceline agreed to pay
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo Trying To Get Adorable, Rare Blue-Eyed Lemurs To Mate Meet Dern. She's a rare blue-eyed lemur who recently arrived at the Oakland Zoo from Waco, Texas, and she joins Oakland's other blue-eyed lemur resident, Anthony. The zoo is hoping the two are
Arts & Entertainment What We Know About <i>American Horror Story: Freak Show</i>, Debuting In October As with the leadup to the Season 3/Coven premiere, there have been just snippets of intel trickling out about the upcoming fourth season of American Horror Story, this one set in Florida
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Peking Duck' Nope. I don't know what to make of it either. It's kind of like one of those anti-depressant commercials, though, no? [UCB Comedy]
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Interval, A Bookish New Bar For Mensa Nerds, Opens At Fort Mason On Monday Have you heard about the Long Now Foundation? It's an 18-year-old concern, based in San Francisco, whose focus is on "long-term thinking," as in the next 10,000 years. Their projects, so far,
Arts & Entertainment Check Out These Beautiful Aerial Photos Of Andres Amador's Sand Art At Ocean Beach (And Elsewhere) "People are really enthralled that I would do something that's destined to wash away," says earthscape artist Andres Amador. "That really strikes a chord with people. Because really, truly, that's the story of
SF News Mission Development Property Breaks Real Estate Record A development property on 16th between Valencia and Guerrero, the Superior Automotive site at 3150 16th, just sold for $8.7 million in a land deal that may be the highest price ever
SF News Rick Perry Has Nerve To Come To S.F. And Compare Homosexuality To Alcoholism Governor Rick Perry, who may or may not be toying with another presidential bid, let it be known last night at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco that he's still very much an
SF News Two Tech Billionaires Have Shouting Match About Housing Crisis, Ed Lee At Bloomberg's Next Big Thing conference in Sausalito today, local billionaires Ron Conway and Chamath Palihapitiya got into a shouting match about how to solve San Francisco's housing crisis, and whether Mayor Ed
Arts & Entertainment Intersection For The Arts Faces Closure Without Major Fundraising Drive As we learned last month, 50-year-old Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco's oldest alternative-arts organization, is in a crisis, and its former executive director says the problem is structural. If the organization fails
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Artisan Cheese Makers Freaking Out About New FDA Rules [Updated] Cheesehounds will recall the debacle of 2005 when the FDA ruled that Americans could no longer consume raw-milk cheeses aged for less than 60 days, causing chaos in the French cheese industry where
SF News All About The Silk Road-Like Sites That Ryan Chamberlain Allegedly Used To Buy Lethal Toxins As we learned last week, the FBI says they ended up at Ryan Chamberlain's apartment because he had been contacting sellers on a darknet site called Black Market Reloaded, which has come to
SF News Video: 1980s News Coverage Of S.F.'s Pioneering Gay Rights Advances This is pretty weighty stuff, so not a palate cleanser, but in honor of Pride month, check out this pretty stunning, hour-long supercut of archival news footage pertaining to gay rights and the
SF News Congratulations: S.F. Likely Source Of New Strain Of Gonorrhea Last year the talk was about syphilis being on the rise in S.F., and across the country a new, antibiotic-resistant strain of the clap was making headlines too. Well, now they say
SF News Hit-and-Run Driver Arrested After Allegedly Plowing Mustang Into Two Pedestrians, A Muni Bus, And One Hotel A crazed Hayward man took his red Ford Mustang on a quick tour of downtown San Francisco on Sunday evening that involved crashing into the Parc 55 Hotel, plowing into a Muni bus,
SF News Two Toddlers Hit By Bullets In Separate Shootings In Oakland Marking two more in a series of disturbing incidents involving innocent kids in the East Bay, a two-year-old and a three-year-old were wounded by gunfire in separate incidents on Monday in Oakland. The
SF News San Francisco Likely Eliminated As Potential Host For Next America's Cup Though Larry Ellison and his reps at Oracle Racing might love (and live in) San Francisco, their threats to move the race to San Diego in 2017 were real. Negotiations with potential host
SF News Two-Year-Old Boy Killed By Toppled Dolphin Sculpture At Fisherman's Wharf A tragic accident took the life of a two-year-old boy Friday outside one of the many statuary/art/tchotchke shops along Jefferson Street at Fisherman's Wharf. The boy, whose family was visiting from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Huge New Food Hall Headed For Mission Bay Late This Summer Inspired by the massive, multi-vendor food halls of Europe, and along the lines of Mario Batali's Eataly in New York, Los Angeles restaurateur Tony Riviera is bringing something called The Market Hall to
Arts & Entertainment Juanita More Talks About Her 10th Annual Pride Party, Jake Shears, and Teaching Uber Some Manners It's happening. Once again it's Pride Month, and soon it will be Pride Week, and for the tenth year running local drag star Juanita More will be throwing her big end-of-the-weekend bash, which
SF News Inmate Escapes S.F. Jail One Month Before Scheduled Release The man pictured at right is loose on the streets of the Bay Area after outrunning a corrections officer who was escorting him to take out the trash. He is Timothy Deshone Midgett,
SF News Scourge of Smart Car Tipping Continues In Cole Valley, Twin Peaks Those pranksters who were tipping Smart cars around Bernal back in April, or some copycat vandals, were back it late Thursday night / early Friday, tipping two more vehicles around Twin Peaks and Cole
