SF News Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Involved In Car Accident; It's Unclear If She Was Texting Coincidentally and unfortunately, in the same week in which she was publicly shamed for texting while driving by Stanley Roberts, Oakland mayor Jean Quan had a car accident on Sunday. Early reports suggest
SF News Uber Valued at $18.2 Billion, Now One Of The Biggest Companies In Bay Area With a new valuation on Friday that came with a $1.2 billion influx of cash, Uber is now second only to Facebook in terms of the pre-IPO investment sum that it has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meals On Wheels Star Chefs & Vintners Gala Raises Record Sum On Sunday, over 100 Bay Area chefs gathered to cook for the annual, lavish benefit affair known as the Star Chefs & Vintners Gala, now in its 27th year raising money for Meals
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This: A Morning Dance Party, On A Tuesday On Tuesday, a group from New York is throwing an innovative sort of party, for the kinds of people who would rather get their groove on with their morning coffee than, say, go
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Lumpia at Chino The cocktails are really good at the new Asian spinoff of Tacolicious, Chino, and I've only gotten to try a couple of the dishes so far the place has been packed, by the
Arts & Entertainment Check Out This Trove Of Gold Rush-Era San Francisco Photography Several dozen photographs from around San Francisco, all taken by George Robinson Fardon in 1856, have just resurfaced via the digital collection of Southern Methodist University's libraries. Among the places you'll sort of
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Micro-Climates, And June Gloom, Described In Emoji As we mentioned the other day, the Mission is where you can often succeed in outrunning the fog during these summer months. And on some afternoons when the fog has burned off over
SF News Online Hookup In Bernal Heights Turns Into Robbery Setup, Leads To Car Chase A guy was trying to hook up online in Bernal Heights last night, and when he went to meet up with the girl, she turned out to be bait for an armed robbery.
Arts & Entertainment Zoning Rule Holds Up New SoMa Nightclub From Heklina, Of Trannyshack Fame Drag show impresario Heklina, a.k.a. Stefan Grygelko, amidst the recent controversy over the rebranding of her iconic party Trannyshack, is trying to buy the building on the northwest corner of Folsom
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Watch The State Bird Provisions Chefs Go On A Food And Booze Crawl With <i>Vice</i> For a couple of years now Vice has been doing a video series where they take chefs around late at night to some of their favorite spots, and film them getting drunk with
Arts & Entertainment The 21 Least Amazing 'Viral' Posts That Never Blew Anyone's Mind One of the more tiresome, repetitive, and egregious trends clogging our feeds these days is the scourge of the purposefully share-worthy headline. You would think that by now people would stop falling for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hubert Keller's Fleur de Lys Closing This Month After 44 Years Chef Hubert Keller, whose romantic French restaurant Fleur de Lys has been serving escargot on Nob Hill for 44 years 28 of those with him in the kitchen has decided to close his
SF News San Francisco Mocked For Once Again Limiting Housing Development This is the headline from a Washington Post blog yesterday: "Voters in one of America’s most expensive cities just came up with another way to block new housing." As you may or
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tante Marie's Cooking School Closing After 35 Years Sad news! Mary Risley, the forthright and whip-smart woman who founded Tante Marie's Cooking School here in San Francisco back in the 80s after giving up a lucrative career as an investment banker
SF News Ryan Chamberlain Ordered To Get Psych Evaluation, Friends Raise $11,000 For Legal Defense Calling him "part of the San Francisco political family" and saying that "no one should be tried in the press," former investigator for the City Attorney's office Adriel Hampton launched a crowdfunding campaign
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yoshi's S.F. Sold, Will Get New Name, New Restaurant Yoshi's San Francisco, which unlike its Oakland mothership strayed quickly from the jazz genre after it opened in 2007, has been sold to a group called Fillmore Live Entertainment, which will be transitioning
SF News UberX Driver With Priors Facing Battery Charges A complaint that began on Twitter, in which an UberX customer claims he was verbally and physically assaulted by a driver in November, has now been escalated to the District Attorney's office. George
Arts & Entertainment Hayes Valley To Get Outdoor Movies This Fall Further solidifying Hayes Valley's position as the trendiest and most centrally located of all our rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods, the Proxy development next to Patricia's Green on Octavia is getting a small outdoor cinema.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: <i>A Film About Coffee</i> "It's no longer a cup o' joe," as one narrator puts it. "It's now an adventure." That might inspire some ughs from some of you non-coffee-obsessives. But check out this trailer for A
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Summer Guide: The 10 Quickest Ways To Escape The Fog So, you're relatively new to San Francisco, and last week (or earlier last month) when that sunny weather hit, you thought, "Ah, here it is! The California summer I've been dreaming of." Then
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Amber Dhara Briefly Shut Down For Rat Problem Perpetually empty Indian restaurant Amber Dhara (680 Valencia Street) is facing further problems after it's come to light that they were shut down by the Health Department last week for a rodent infestation.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Exhibit Of Rare Cockettes And Sylvester Posters By Todd Trexler The late artist Todd Trexler, who as a young man in San Francisco in the 1970s was connected to The Cockettes and became one of the go-to poster artists for their Nocturnal Dream
SF News Second Stray Bullet In A Year Zips Through Man's Webster Street Apartment A man living in a top-floor unit on Webster Street between Hayes and Fell saw the second stray bullet in a year come crashing through a front window Sunday night, lodging in a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Leon Trotsky, Piglet On Wheels Meet Leon Trotsky, a three-week-old piglet who's just learned to trot using a couple of hind wheels. He had his "femur both broken and dislocated, plus an injured hock and ligament damage on
SF News New iMessage Update Copies Features From SnapChat, Facebook At its Worldwide Developer Conference today, Apple unveiled a new OS update, but the most important thing had to do with changes to iMessage that are going to make it much cooler to
