SF News Mark Zuckerberg Getting Sued By Palo Alto Developer In Property Dispute Because he's stupidly rich and likes to snap up multi-million-dollar properties like second-hand hoodies, Mark Zuckerberg recently spent $43 million to buy up four pieces of property adjoining his own Palo Alto residence,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Give Michael Bauer A Piece Of Your Mind On Twitter Today At Noon Longtime Chronicle restaurant critic Michael Bauer will be hosting (is that the word?) a Twitter chat today starting at noon, in part to discuss this year's Top 100 and to prove that the
SF News Atherton Is Still, Pretty Definitively, America's Most Expensive Zip Code Home prices in Atherton, already sky high as of last fall when Forbes declared it America's toniest zip code, continue to climb, in part because Forbes published that article. As SFGate's real estate
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Recap: Richard vs. Precocious Kids This week's episode brings us that glorious clip from the original trailer of Richard getting slapped by that suburban 10-year-old who tells him to "Get the f**k out of here," and it
SF News Cell Phone Thefts On Muni Reportedly Going Down A dramatic drop in cell phone thefts on Muni may be attributable to increased police presence on busses and trains, or it may be just that fewer people are reporting incidents. According to
SF News Weather Report: Do Not Complain About The Heat I know. Life is rough living in the most gorgeous, sought-after, vibrant, well fed, and expensive city in the country, especially when it comes to the weather. Most summers we suffer beneath blankets
SF News New Birth Tourism Industry Grows For Expectant Chinese Moms A crop of "maternity homes" have been springing up around the Bay Area, providing housing, food, and transportation for pregnant Chinese and Taiwanese nationals, and guaranteed U.S. citizenship for their newborns, all
SF News NEMA Tried To Erase The Castro And Chinatown From Their Map Of S.F. Luxe apartment complex NEMA, whose ridiculous and vaguely offensive marketing efforts have already inspired plenty of blog ire as well as a satirical Twitter account, published a map of San Francisco on their
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Previews New Top 100 Restaurants Online; Michael Mina, Spruce Nixed [Updated] In a departure from previous years' methods of drumming up interest in their inky printed news publication, The Chronicle and Michael Bauer have decided this year to release the stalwart critic's newly revised
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New BBQ: 4505 Burgers & BBQ and Smokestack Both Now Open Up on Divisadero, 4505 Meats has debuted their little burger-and-barbecue joint in the former Brothers/Da'Pitt BBQ space on Grove Street. It's technically takeout only for now, but there is some temporary patio
SF News Infamous SoMa 'Landlords From Hell' Featured on 'Good Morning America' Does everyone remember Kip and Nicole Macy, the charming couple who were trying to flip a building they owned on Clementina Street in the mid-aughts and resorted to some crazy and illegal tactics
Arts & Entertainment Morrissey Fans In San Jose Get Over-Zealous With The Hugging During the encore at last night's Morrissey show at San Jose's City National Civic, fans rushed the stage to try to hug the curmudgeonly singer, as they do. But these fans got way
SF News Five-Alarm Mission Bay Blaze Blamed On Welder Though they can't identify a specific worker as the culprit in the March 11 fire that destroyed that under-construction condo development in Mission Bay, the investigator's report into the blaze concludes that the
SF News Local Ellis Act Law Dissed By Mayor Lee As State Limits Move Forward A new statewide law that will prevent Ellis Act evictions by flip-happy real estate speculators passed a judiciary committee vote 5-2 and is expected to be heard on the full Senate floor next
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Attention Everyone: Ryan Gosling Is In Town, Ate At State Bird Provisions Starved as we are for celebrity sightings that don't involve Mark Zuckerberg or Robin Williams, we bring your attention this a.m. to the very important news that Ryan Gosling was in San
SF News Sup. London Breed Launches New Push For Cell Phone Kill Switch Though it would be far more meaningful at the state level, Supervisor London Breed has a backup plan for some cell phone kill switch legislation in San Francisco. State Senator Mark Leno has
SF News Mitchell Brothers' Heir Wanted In Connection With Huge Identity Theft Ring One of the daughters of the late porntrepreneur Artie Mitchell who owned and operated the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre with his brother Jim until his infamous 1991 murder at the hands of his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Daniel Patterson, Slanted Door Win Big At James Beard Awards Last night in Manhattan, the "Oscars of the food world" happened, and finally, finally, Coi chef Daniel Patterson got the award he's been nominated for dozens of times without winning: Best Chef in
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Recap: 'It Is Pretty Raunchy, Though' [NSFW] In last night's episode of HBO's Silicon Valley, actor TJ Miller, who plays Erlich, once again proved himself to be the show's greatest comedic asset, and we finally get to see fictional rival
SF News Teen Who Survived That Hawaii Flight In A Wheel Well Is Back In California Yahya Abdi, the teenager who miraculously survived that flight to Hawaii on April 20 stowed away in the plane's wheel well, is back in Santa Clara County and in the custody of the
SF News Body Found South Of Stinson Beach A severely decomposed body, to the point where authorities cannot confirm the sex of it, was found by a couple of tourists on Sunday, near Highway 1 a mile south of Stinson Beach.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New List of S.F.'s 'Douchiest Bars' Is Equal-Opportunity Hateful Angry young man Milton Bosch, writing for Complex City Guide, toured San Francisco in search of its "douchiest bars." Now, while I don't argue that our fair city has its share of asshole
Arts & Entertainment The Hook-Up Truck Comes To The Mission Tonight Have you heard about this? There's this artist/entrepreneur by the name of Spy Emerson who got herself a box truck and is now rolling it around the Bay Area, and to events,
SF News Fastrak Screws 33 People Per Day The imperfect system of photographing license plates and billing people apparently wrongly bills about 33 people per day, or one tenth of one percent of its billings. CBS is on the case, and
SF News LGBT Teen Who Committed Fake Hate Crimes Against Herself 10 Years Ago Speaks Out This is likely a story you only noticed or cared about if you were a) growing up in Marin in 2004-05, or b) paying close attention to LGBT hate-crime news, but it did
