SF News Study Says U.S. Has Fewest Cyclists, But Americans Most Likely To Die Bicycling In the Netherlands, everyone owns a bike. Here, just about everyone owns a car. Hence, when you look at a comparison of how many miles the average citizen cycled compared to how many
SF News Accused Silk Road Founder Wants His Bitcoin Back Alleged underground drug-trade website proprietor Ross Ulbricht, a.k.a. Dread Pirate Roberts of The Silk Road, is saying in a new court filing that the federal government owes him his 144,336
Arts & Entertainment What Was The Awesomest Christmas Present You Ever Got? Christmas is just better when you're a kid. Like five, six, or seven years old. The anticipation is insane. The wonder and delight at waking up Christmas morning are real. It's a time
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Might Get A Gay Bar Next Door To The Paramount A group headed by former Oakland City Council legislative director Richard Fuentes is trying to find investors for a gay bar in the Uptown neighborhood, next door to the Paramount Theater. Unfortunately, though,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Verbena, A Spinoff Of Berkeley's Gather, Now Open On Polk As of last night, Verbena, the spinoff of popular Berkeley spot Gather, has opened at 2323 Polk Street. The space was the longtime home of Rex Cafe, and then briefly Marbella, and it's
SF News Kaplan's, The Army-Navy Store On Mid-Market, Closing After 74 Years In another sign of Mid-Market's continued comeuppance, Kaplan's, the 74-year-old army-navy store between 6th and 7th, is closing to make way for a 9-story hotel. The Kaplan family has struck a deal to
SF News Photos: Gypsy Taub And Jaymz Smith's Nude Wedding At San Francisco City Hall [NSFW] Longtime nudism activist Gypsy Taub, 44, married fiancé Jaymz Smith, 20, yesterday as planned on the steps of City Hall. At least, they were on the steps until they stripped naked for their
SF News BART Board Mulls Banning Strikes; Tensions Over Contract Provisions Still Ongoing A BART board member has suggested that the rail concern put its own measure on the ballot in the next few years to disallow BART worker unions from striking in the event of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Benu Chef Corey Lee to Open French Bistro, Monsieur Benjamin, in Hayes Valley News that Corey Lee, executive chef at Benu and onetime chef de cuisine at the French Laundry, was opening a new casual concept at Gough and Hayes arrived back in July. But this
SF News New Bay Bridge Span Bolts Finally, Finally Fixed The drama that gripped the region for the entire spring and summer over those cracked steel bolts/rods in the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge has finally come to a quiet
SF News City Attorney May Investigate Twin Peaks Home Collapse On Tuesday we told you about the mysterious, apparently spontaneous collapse of a home at 125 Crown Terrace on Twin Peaks belonging to former Building Inspection Commissioner Mel Murphy, who now serves on
SF News If You Shopped at Target Since Thanksgiving, Your Credit Card Was Probably Stolen The data from some 40 million transactions at Target stores nationwide was stolen by cybercriminals in the last couple of weeks. As this security blogger first reported, the investigation is underway but it
Arts & Entertainment Video: Google's 2013 Zeitgeist Montage Features America's Cup, Daft Punk, Mandela Google just released their "zeitgeist" video, which attempts to define the year in 90 seconds (from an American perspective). It includes the birth of Prince George, Daniel Day Lewis accepting his Oscar for
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dogs Ruin Christmas Some dog owners are like stage parents, going to great lengths to make YouTube stars out of their pets. Such is the case with Maymo, who's been vary cutely made to walk in
SF News Big Sur Wildfire Update: 20% Contained, Fire Moving Slowly The late season wildfire burning in the Los Padres National Forest in Big Sur is still moving slowly, and as of Tuesday night it had burned 769 acres and was 20 percent contained.
SF News Thieves Pry ATM Out Of Concrete, Begin High-Speed Chase On And Off Bay Bridge Some thieves went after some quick Christmas cash in a most dramatic fashion last night, using a van to rip an ATM off of a concrete pillar at Fillmore and Jackson and then
Arts & Entertainment Video: Do Not Ever Mess With A Cat In The Snow The internet has blessed us with another amazing home video, this one just in time for the holiday season. A Detroit woman trying to shoo a cat away from her yard, in order
SF News Gypsy Taub's Nude Nuptials Scheduled For Thursday Well, this should be fun. As we discussed a couple weeks back, local nudism activist Gypsy Taub and her newfound love Jaymz Smith are planning to be wed on Thursday, in the nude,
SF News Ammiano Could Be Contender Against Mayor Lee, But 'Not Shopping For Drapes Yet' Matier and Ross are just putting this out there: Tom Ammiano is so far the strongest progressive opponent for Mayor Ed Lee when he comes up for re-election in 2015. The openly gay
SF News Former Building Inspector's Twin Peaks Home Mysteriously Slides Down Cliff Unfortunately (or fortunately) for developer and former president of the city's Building Inspection Commission Mel Murphy, a house he was renovating at 125 Crown Terrace collapsed Monday night around 10:30, as the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Nebbia, A Casual Spinoff of La Ciccia, Now Open The couple behind Noe Valley's beloved Sardinian spot La Ciccia, chef Massimiliano Conti and Lorella Degan have just softly opened La Nebbia (translation: "the fog") nearby at 1781 Church Street. As Tablehopper reports,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Capital Cities' 'Kangaroo Court' We predicted back in April that Capital Cities' hit single "Safe and Sound" was destined to be your summer jam. It was definitely one of ours. But the rest of the country has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Range Team Opens Third Rail, A New Cocktail Spot, In Dogpatch As of last night, The Third Rail (628 20th Street near 3rd) is open in Dogpatch. The long awaited bar spinoff from the Range team of bar manager Jeff Lyon and chef Phil
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Apple Is Patenting An OpenTable Killer We didn't know Apple wanted a foothold in the restaurant business, but it looks like they do! They're in the process of patenting an all-in-one reservation, wait list, ordering, and menu recommendation software
SF News Paulo Netto, Five Other Young Men, Remain Missing From S.F. The families of six men who've gone missing from the streets of San Francisco in recent years are gathering for another candlelight vigil tonight to keep attention on these unsolved cases. The most
