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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Suit' At A.C.T. If the words "Apartheid-era Johannesburg" were not enough to sadden or turn off a lot of theater-goers, allow me to just get this out of the way: The Suit is possibly one of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: LIX, The Smallest 3-D Printing Pen Get ready to be amazed. So, maybe you've played with a hot glue gun before, or maybe you saw this other 3Doodler thing from about a year ago, but LIX is way, way
SF News Group Files Suit Against City Over Google Buses A group of anti-gentrification and transit activist filed suit today in San Francisco Superior Court hoping to kill the City-approved "Commuter Shuttle Pilot Program," otherwise known as Muni's Google Bus Compromise, which was
SF News Twitter Gets More Facebook-y With Rumored 'Whisper Mode,' Group Chats In a new interview with Bloomberg, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo hints that the ubiquitous public-conversation venue will offer something akin to Facebook's private group chat function, and an in-between "Whisper Mode" option for
Arts & Entertainment Kurt Cobain Note Surfaces Calling Courtney 'Bitch With Zits' Twenty years after his suicide (the Seattle Police are holding firm that it was a suicide), Kurt Cobain's case file has been opened up to the public a bit more, and among the
SF News Evil Elmo Returns With Anti-Semitic Rant On Muni Fisherman's Wharf fixture Dan Sandler, a.k.a. Evil Elmo, is back! He's making headlines again just six weeks after a pair of Chronicle pieces in which we learned of a recent scuffle
SF News Mayor Ed Lee, Jane Kim Attend Ribbon Cutting For SoMa Affordable Housing Complex For those who suggest that the only way to build affordable housing is by requiring for-profit developers to include it in their buildings, look no further than today's grand opening of a new
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coi Squeaks Into Top 50 Restaurants In The World Once More Yesterday marked the release of the annual World's 50 Best Restaurants lists as ranked by London-based Restaurant Magazine. The three Bay Area restaurants that have figured on here the last few years continue
Arts & Entertainment And Now, A Dizzying GIF Wall Of SF Landmarks Yeah, whoa. Back in 2012, filmmakers Kevin Parry and Andrea Nesbitt made this music video for a song by Kalle Mattson and a project they dubbed Hypno SF. They took footage of Sutro
SF News Lyft To Start Offering 'Luxury' Rides In White Ford Explorers This week Lyft is set to start testing a new, upscale SUV service in San Francisco in a clear bid to compete with Uber's more luxurious chauffeuring options. The first half dozen SUV
SF News Etiquette Week: How To Bring Your Backpack On Muni/BART It seems that not enough people have received the message that carrying a backpack on public transit, or in any crowded urban setting, is not the same as carrying a backpack on a
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Palate Cleanser: Dogs Annoying Cats With Friendship Once again proving that the interspecies misunderstanding between dogs and cats is entirely the cats' fault, please observe this cheery new compilation of dogs trying to be sweet to mean, bitchy cats. There
Arts & Entertainment New 'Judgmental' Map Of S.F. Neighborhoods Amuses, Confuses Click to enlarge This new map of the city by local funny guy Dan Steiner popped up on Curbed yesterday, and much like similar maps that have come before, it's an amusing and
SF News California Drought Caused By Climate Change, Says Study A new, real-time study from Utah State University climate scientists suggests that climate change is to blame for the "dipole" situation we had this past winter, the one that caused the Polar Vortex
SF News Firefighters Put Out Three Small, Concurrent Fires This A.M. What's with all the fire lately? In a twenty-minute span this morning, between 6:10 and 6:30 a.m., three fires broke out within a mile and a half of each other,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Things Straight Guys Say to Lesbians He's given us gay men talking about vaginas, and real lesbians watching fake lesbian porn. And now professional YouTuberist Davey Wavey brings us a segment of real lesbians talking about all the absurd
SF News Weather Report: More Rain and Thunder This week's blustery winds are giving way to some more much-needed rain, and possible thunderstorms, tonight into tomorrow. We're looking at a pretty decent chance of some showers late tonight, which are going
SF News City Attorney Makes Examples Of Two Greedy, Eviction-Happy Landlords Just as that compromise legislation regarding short-term rentals like Airbnb makes its way through Board of Supervisors approvals, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is taking two landlords to task for doing something the new
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Set To Get New Food Hall Thing at Market and 15th The concept of a European-style market hall has been trending around town, many years after Oakland's Rockridge got theirs. First there was 331 Cortland over in Bernal, with its rotating vendor stalls, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Grilled Squid With Green Strawberries at Plum Fans of chef Kim Alter's food at Haven in Jack London Square were sad to learn that she was no longer in the kitchen there as of last fall. But owner Daniel Patterson
SF News Have AirBnB, Lyft, Etc. Made Us More Trusting? Once upon a time, everyone thought that online dating was only going to lead to more serial killers. But now we know better: There aren't any more serial killers than there were before,
SF News BREAKING: 3-Alarm Fire In Duboce Triangle [Updates] A three-alarm fire has broken out and spread to at least two residential buildings on Walter Street off of Duboce Park. Emergency_In_SF reports that the roof of the building that originally
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Death: The Attic Closes Forever on 24th Street Fans of dingy, timeworn, kind of smelly but easily loveable 24th dive The Attic will be depressed to learn that it closed as of Sunday night. The closure was expected, and was originally
