SF News New Bay Bridge Approach Will Feature 88 Palm Trees [Updated] The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, whenever it actually opens, will feature a median dotted with 88 palm trees that will blow in the breeze and possibly die within months. Landscapers
Arts & Entertainment Map: The BART System, If It Were in Super Mario Land Redditor joshing_uno created this 8-bit-style map of the BART system and the Bay Area using icons familiar to fans of Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. The tunnel icons, you see, are used to
SF News Are We Seriously Heading For a Second BART Strike? We are, very possibly, looking at another BART strike next Monday if contract negotiations between BART and two of its employee unions don't drastically improve in the next few days. As always happens
Arts & Entertainment Photos From Up Your Alley 2013 [NSFW] Up Your Alley Fair, the smaller, gayer precursor to Folsom Street Fair colloquially called Dore Alley, happened amidst the fog yesterday. The chilly weather did not stop a healthy number of dudes from
SF News Pope Francis Kinder About Gays Than Benedict Signaling that he is somewhat more liberal on the issue of homosexuality than his predecessor, Pope Francis made some frank comments to journalists on his way back to Rome from Brazil on Monday
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Lonely Island's 'YOLO' feat. Jimmy Fallon In Lonely Island's song "YOLO," which they performed with the help of Jimmy Fallon on Fallon's show last night, the you-only-live-once mantra is given a, well, older person's spin. "Don't get too crazy/
SF News New Study Suggests Bee Colony Collapses Triggered By Fungicides As we've all been hearing for several years, honeybee populations in the U.S. and Europe are dwindling due to what's called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), and scientists and farmers have been at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Benu's Corey Lee To Open Spinoff In Hayes Valley News this morning via the liquor license applications is that acclaimed Benu chef Corey Lee is working on a new project at 451 Gough Street (between Grove and Hayes). He won't divulge any
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Mag Announces Best Chef Honorees San Francisco Magazine annually annoints a Best Chef of the year, as well as a restaurateur, a pastry chef, and a rising star. This year, rather than leave it up to the editorial
SF News Well-Loved Neighbor Killed In Broad Daylight In East Oakland; City Leaders React A 66-year-old woman known well to her neighbors as someone who would gladly watch over your pets if you were out of town was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon while driving her car
SF News Asiana Crash Victim Hit By Firetruck After Being Pulled From Plane By Rescue Worker Well, this is even sadder than the originally assumed sequence of events: It turns out that the 16-year-old girl who was run over by the firetruck responding to the crash of Asiana Flight
SF News Man Falls From Roof Trying To Avoid Police After Mission Shooting There is a lot missing from this story, but a shooting on a roof in the Mission yesterday evening left one man with a gunshot wound to the leg, and another, described as
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: SNL Cast Members Breaking, The Supercut Everyone loves to see the funny folks on SNL (we're looking at you Bill Hader) breaking i.e. breaking into uncontrollable laughter at their own hilariousness while on live television. Here, for your
SF News Trans Male Teenager Prevails Over California School District, Will Be Treated As Male A California school district has been ordered by the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education to treat a trans male ninth grader as male, despite his being born female. The teenager, who
SF News Video: Swinging Chandelier Spooks Tour Guides At Winchester Mystery House One of the only tourist attractions in San Jose, the Winchester Mystery House, is getting some fresh publicity by way of a video purporting to show a chandelier swaying of its accord. Tour
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Churchill/Bloodhound Guys Opening Another Bar In Bernal Two members of the team behind Churchill and Bloodhound, Mike Goebel and Darin Brunson, along with partner John Ottman-Combs, have taken over the former Stray Bar space on Cortland Avenue in Bernal Heights
SF News Transbay Project Faces Funding Drama The Transbay Transit Center project is now facing a $300 million shortfall, which, in case you aren't sure, is kind of a big number. The first phase of the project, which includes the
Arts & Entertainment Unremarkable Boat Unearthed At Folsom and Main Today in mostly unexciting archaeology news: A construction crew unearthed an intact, 23-foot boat while excavating a site at 201 Folsom Street, which is to become a condominium tower. Despite being on a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mommies In Hollywood Funny guy John Roberts, who became Internet-famous a few years back because of this video in which he played a Christmas tree-obsessed version of his own mother, has been teaming up with (S.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant And Bar Coming To Old Purple Onion Space Legendary North Beach comedy venue The Purple Onion closed last fall after 60 years in business, and in its place, this fall, will be a new restaurant on the main level (above the
SF News Popular App Tinder Had a Huge Privacy Flaw, Now Fixed And in further proof that privacy barely exists anymore, a popular new hookup social media app turns out to have had a huge security flaw that was broadcasting your GPS location and all
SF News CA Supreme Court Rejects Another Request To Halt Gay Marriages We told you last week how the stubborn backers of Prop 8 have brought a new suit to the California Supreme Court on behalf of San Diego County Clerk Ernest Dronenburg, arguing that
SF News BART Still On The Hunt For Couple Who Made That Sex Video Lest they spawn too many imitators, that lascivious couple caught on video having unapologetic sex in the back of a moving BART train is now wanted by BART police and will be subject
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Beijing Subway At Rush Hour, Illustrated Ex-New Yorkers in S.F. love to scoff at what San Franciscans consider "crowded" on Muni and BART trains, given how much more civil, spacious, and temperature controlled things are aboard public transit
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Top Chef' Alum Jen Biesty To Open Shakewell Bar & Kitchen In Oakland Local chef Jen Biesty and her partner in (pastry) crime Tim Nugent have nailed down a location near Oakland's Grand Lake district for a new Mediterranean-influenced, "Americlectic" spot they're called Shakewell Bar &
