SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Valencia Room Spiffs Up Former Elbo Room Spot, Officially Reopens Saturday Take a peek inside the new Valencia Room, with its restored dance floor and sweet new upstairs bathrooms.
SF News SFPD Arrests Suspect In String Of Violent Bayview Robberies That Targeted Women The 52-year-old man had allegedly attacked at least eight women, all of them walking alone at night, in a rash of assaults dating back to January.
SF News Alleged Rapist of 74-Year-Old Woman Disputes His Confession, Pleads Not Guilty A new twist in the grisly case of the rape and kidnapping of an elderly woman, as the defense is now disputing the confession that the suspect made when he was arrested.
Arts & Entertainment 'American Psycho' The Musical Is A Well Executed, Visually Dazzling Romp A new musical based on the cult-hit movie based on the extremely terrible novel, ‘American Psycho’ makes stylish use of the Victoria Theatre stage.
SF News Elderly Woman Dragged By Muni Train Files Claim Against City The City Attorney’s office rejected her claim that the city was responsible for her collapsed lung and broken ribs, so a lawsuit seems likely.
SF News Central Valley Water Crisis Leaves Nearly 1.5 Million Without Clean Water If you hear someone complain that ”Flint still doesn’t have clean water,” there is a far larger water crisis right here at home, where 1.5 million Californians can’t drink or bathe in their water.
Business & Tech Judge Orders Uber To Turn Over Illegal Parking, Safety Hazard Data Police estimate that rideshare drivers commit 65% of San Francisco traffic violations, and the city attorney just won a round in the fight to prove it.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Bay to Breakers Battles Rain With ‘Game of Thrones,’ Elizabeth Holmes Costumes The predicted downpours mostly missed the race, but a few ‘Walkers’ were among the walkers who didn’t run much and brought an endless parade of highly amusing costumes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink $200 Omakase Destination Sushi Nagai Has Opened in Union Square A $180 “promotional” price remains in effect until June 4, at which point the omakase prix fixe will surge to more $200 per person.
Arts & Entertainment The Bay To Breakers Liquor Store Map Is Back For 2019 Get set to get wet, as rain is expected at Bay to Breakers, but you won’t have to run it dry with our annual handy map of where to buy booze along the race course.
Business & Tech Airbnb House Fire in Sonoma Tests Company’s Insurance Response A Sonoma couple learned the hard way that Airbnb's $1 million “Host Guarantee” is not exactly a guarantee, or at least not a quick one.
SF News San Francisco is Getting an ‘Office of Racial Equity’ A new City Hall office will aspire to root out racial bias in hiring and the delivery of city services.
SF News Dolores Park Neighbors Debate Paying Extra To Clean Up Poop, Trash Concerned citizens of Dolores Park-adjacent neighborhoods consider an extra tax on themselves to maintain the oft-trashed park, but that idea pains some Dolores residents.
SF News Massive 5M Office and Condo Project Set To Begin Construction In SoMa The long-delayed 5M project, a dramatic renovation of several South of Market blocks, will add a 400-condo skyscraper, gobs of new office space, and a grass rooftop park to the Chronicle building.
SF News Sonoma Couple Kills 180-Year-Old Tree Trying To Move It, Gets Fined $600,000 This beautiful, 180-year-old heritage oak tree is now demolished, and the property owners are paying a huge fine for a sloppy relocation attempt that went very, very wrong.
SF News Second BART Tunnel? Hell, Let’s Add a Third Bay Crossing, Says East Bay Planner The third BART rail across the Bay would actually be an “aerial bridge” from Millbrae to Bay Fair, under a proposal from a respected architect and planner.
SF News ‘Straight Outta Hunters Point’ Director Kevin Epps Re-Arrested In 2016 Murder Case Director Kevin Epps was already arrested once for this shooting in his Glen Park home, and the DA claims to have strong new evidence against him.
SF News Bay Area Population Booming, The Rest Of California Not So Much The state population grew by 0.5% in 2018, small potatoes by California standards, but the Bay continues to be a magnet, if a bit less so than two years ago.
Arts & Entertainment 20th Annual How Weird Street Faire Keeps It Weird In SoMa Howard Street was awash with onesies, furries, and ravers as the How Weird Street Faire turned 20 Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink No Condo: The Elbo Room Will Remain a Bar, Soon to be Rechristened the Valencia Room Get ready to stumble at the Valencia Room, possibly opening this month, with no plans to slap condominiums on top.
SF News Homeless Couple Lives the Dream, Moves Into $4 Million Piedmont Home A good samaritan welcomes an unhoused couple into his posh suburban Oakland home, neighbors predictably call police on the regular.
SF News SFPD Trumpets Drop in Use-of-Force, Shooting Incidents It’s been nearly a full year since the San Francisco Police Department shot anyone, which they say shows a successful implementation of new use-of-force policies.
SF News MacArthur Maze Overhaul Now Off the Table as Oakland Gives Caltrans an Earful Oakland and Emeryville have put the kibbosh on a three-year, $180 million rebuild of the MacArthur Maze, at least for now.
SF News Huge Percentage of Kids Unvaccinated for Measles at Seven Bay Area Schools The measly rate of measles vaccinations is fueling the current outbreak, and only 22% of students at one Marin school are vaccinated.
SF News Suspect Released in Brutal SoMa Fish Tank Murder Case, Neighbors Furious Still no justice for the murder of Clara Street resident Brian Egg, and his friends and family are even more upset as a former suspect has been released from jail where he'd been held on unrelated charges.
