Arts & Entertainment Larry Ellison's Daughter Once Again Made Some Good Movies This Year It's awards season again, so it's time to check back and see what Larry Ellison's kids have been up to with their millions down in Hollywood. The Oracle founder has two progeny who
SF News 22-Year-Old Oakland Man To Stand Trial In Murder Of 8-Year-Old At Sleepover 22-year-old Darnell Williams was ordered to stand trial Monday in the shooting death of an innocent 8-year-old girl and in injuring three other people, including two other children, last July. The murder occurred
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New In The FiDi: Bun Mee And Super Duper Open New Spots Tomorrow is opening day for the second location of popular Pac Heights sandwich spot Bun Mee, as Eater tells us. Like the first location, opened in 2011 at 2015 Fillmore Street, the new
SF News Uber Cars Attacked By Striking Taxi Drivers In Paris One place in the world where the tension between traditional cab drivers and on-demand car services like Uber is getting most heated is France, and a taxi strike at Paris airports Monday turned
SF News Seattle Seahawks Shut Californians Out Of Ticket Sales For NFC Championship Fans of the San Francisco 49ers won't be able to purchase tickets this morning to Sunday's NFC Championship game in Seattle against the Seahawks because the team is barring ticket sales to fans
SF News Mid-Market Tenants Suing Landlord To Counter Eviction Remember the case of 1049 Market, where about a hundred people faced eviction all because a percentage of the units were declared illegal and the landlord decided to convert to office? Well, a
Arts & Entertainment What The Current SF Tech-Class War Has In Common With 'Downton Abbey' With the American premiere of the fourth season of Downton Abbey on Sunday (we know, you and your clever friends downloaded it via Britain months ago) came a new round of reviews in
SF News Have You Gotten Your Flu Shot? Relatively young, healthy people have been dying from the H1N1 flu strain going around this year not in large in numbers, but still. There have so far been nine Bay Area flu deaths
SF News Weather Report: Drought Two weeks into the new year and what, we had that pathetic drizzle Tuesday night and that's it? The miseries of January can certainly be made more miserable by grayness and rain, but
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Baby Elephant Learns To Use Her Trunk Watch as a little baby Sumatran elephant, now four months old, learns to imitate her mother's behavior and grab at grass and plants with her little bitty trunk. This baby elephant was born
SF News Sheriff's Deputy In Lynne Spalding Case: 'No, I Didn't Smell Her...' The case of a San Francisco woman who went missing during a stay at S.F. General only to be found dead, weeks later, in a hospital stairwell, just keeps getting worse as
SF News Murder Conviction Overturned In One-Time Reality TV Contestant Jamal Trulove Jamal Trulove, a one-time reality TV walk-on who was convicted in 2010 for the murder of a man in San Francisco, may still get his freedom back following an appellate court decision this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Debuts New Zodiac-Themed Cocktail Menu Still blazing hot one-year-old Mission bar Trick Dog debuts the third incarnation of their drink menu today, after updating only once since their opening last January. This new round of drinks, in cleverly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca Gets The NYT Treatment New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells has started, as of last year, doing a "Critic on the Road" series in which he offers up mini-reviews of notable restaurants around the country, without
SF News Apparent Crew Member Suicide Diverts Hawaii-Bound Cruise From S.F. A cruise ship bound for the Big Island of Hawaii that left San Francisco Bay on Saturday has been diverted off its course as it searches for a missing crew member who went
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three Twins Ice Cream Reopens Following 2011 Fire Good news for all you Lower Haighters and ice cream obsessives: Three Twins is reopening their Fillmore Street shop today after an almost two-and-a-half-year hiatus. And as Haighteration reports, they're now scooping a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jamie Oliver Drops In On Alice Waters In Berkeley Arguably Britain's biggest celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver, who's made it a crusade of his both in England and in the U.S. to encourage healthier eating for school kids, paid a visit Monday
SF News Video: Woman Tackles Bicycle Thief In S.F. [UPDATE] Update: This video is from 2011. Yikes. Sorry about that, folks. A woman identified only as a "brave designer at the WCG office in San Francisco" (near the waterfront at 60 Francisco) saw
Arts & Entertainment Video: Daredevil Walks Tightrope Near Land's End He won't tell you where this high-line tightrope is, strung between a cliff and a rock outcropping over the ocean's edge near the Golden Gate Bridge, but we can tell you right now
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Grocery Store May Get Formula-Retail Exception A planned, large-scale grocery store at 555 Fulton Street (between Laguna and Octavia) is going before the Board of Supervisors tonight to possibly receive an exception to the neighborhood's ban on formula retail.
Arts & Entertainment Interactive 'Speakeasy' Play, With Its Own Bar And Casino, Premieres This Week This Friday, a new experience in "immersive" theater is debuting at an undisclosed location in the Tenderloin where you'll need a password to enter (kind of like at Bourbon & Branch, the 8-year-old
Arts & Entertainment 'The Advocate' Once Again Tries To Convince Us That San Francisco Isn't Gay Enough Even though The Advocate is barely even a publication anymore, they have a website and some sort of shoestring budget and every January they update their idiosyncratic, totally arbitrary list of the gayest
SF News 29-Year-Old Man Pleads Not Guilty In Pre-New Year Car Chase The guy arrested in that December 30 high-speed chase that led from Potrero Hill to the Upper Haight has pleaded not guilty to charges of felony evading police, assault with a deadly weapon,
SF News That Christmas Fire Was At Former Supervisor Christina Olague's Home, And One Of Her Housemates Has Died The story of the Christmas night fire that tore through a Victorian at 618 Baker Street has taken a darker turn as we learn that one of the residents injured in the blaze
SF News Chris Kluwe Says He Was Fired Because Of 'Bigot' Football Coach's Views On Gay Marriage Last May, Minnesota Vikings punter and outspoken gay marriage advocate Chris Kluwe was released from his contract with the team for what his superiors say were reasons "based on his football performance." Today,
