Arts & Entertainment When Your Lyft Driver Stalks You: A Cautionary Tale [Update] Much ink has been spilled over the pros and cons of the ride-sharing services that have quickly become a fixture of city life. But not so much has been said about what happens
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: 'How To Make Money Selling Drugs' Crime isn't supposed to pay, but sometimes it does ... to the tune of something like $1 million a week. Screening at the Roxie Theater this week, How to Make Money Selling Drugs (2012)
SF News Man Killed In Berkeley Hit and Run The University Avenue overpass near Interstate 80 in Berkeley was the site of a fatal early morning hit and run accident. At 5:10 a.m. this morning, a police officer encountered the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Porc De Triomphe: Bacon Bacon To Reopen Back in May, noted pork purveyor Bacon Bacon was forced to close the doors of its Upper Haight/Cole Valley outpost due in part to neighbor's complaints about the "obnoxious" and "acrid" smell
Arts & Entertainment The Scutaro RainGlobe Makes Us Kinda Sad It should have been a great idea. It is a great idea. Take that unforgettable moment last year when the heavens opened and Giants second baseman Marco Scutaro spread his arms wide in
SF News Creepy Meatball Poisoner Still At Large, 3 Dogs Sickened It's either a far-reaching conspiracy, or one very industrious (and creepy) dog-hater: the person(s) responsible for the trail of poisoned meatballs is still at large and has been hitting neighborhoods across the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Google Google Apps Apps' Yes, it's less a palate cleanser than a main course of anti-gentrification, but Esta Noche drag star Persia's (probably NSFW) video "Google Google Apps Apps" might be just the afternoon brain tickler you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink We Tried to Make Humphry Slocombe's Secret Breakfast Ice Cream, And This Is What Happened When it comes to ice cream in this city, some flavors are frozen royalty: Bi-rite Salted Caramel, for instance, or Mitchell's Mexican Chocolate. But after getting it into my head to make ice
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour: Spreckels Lake Somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout, but there is no joy at Spreckels Lake in Golden Gate Park, which is under renovation and looks like a tired metaphor for the fleetingness
SF News City College's Accreditation Has Been Revoked The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges released news todays that City College of San Francisco's accreditation has been revoked, saying it does not meet program criteria and no longer has "quality
SF News Just in Time For 4th Of July, Bottles & Kegs Banned At Fort Mason This is why we can't have nice things kegs. A year after Fourth of July festivities left Fort Mason's Great Meadow littered with empty 12-packs, glass bottles, and all manner of summer holiday
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shark Fin Ban Goes Into Full Effect, Chinatown Fights Back The state ban on the possession or sale of shark fins took full effect on July 1, and Chinatown restaurants are none too happy about it. The law, which began to take effect
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Named Snobbiest City, Which It Kinda Is Travel+Leisure has given San Francisco top billing in its list of America's Snobbiest Cities, based on a variety of factors such as propensity for recycling, culture and other markers of "elitism". To
SF News Car Crashes into Oakland Church After S.F. Gunplay, Epic Chase It was an eventful day in the Civic Center area last night. Around 8:30 p.m., shots were fired around Leavenworth and McAllister Streets. Police gave chase to a silver Mercedes containing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tamale Lady Launches Online Fundraising Campaign Two weeks after we reported that much-loved neighborhood fixture Virginia Ramos, aka The Tamale Lady, was no longer welcome to sell her tamales at Zeitgeist, a new Indiegogo fundraising campaign has been set
SF News Sean Parker Writes Mammoth Screed On Big Sur Wedding, Online Media Sean Parker brims thoughts and emotions, all of which he poured into an 9,000+ word article published today on TechCrunch. The article, "Weddings Used to Be Sacred and Other Lessons About Online
Arts & Entertainment In Which We Interview Bernal's Wild Marmot When we caught wind that a displaced marmot was hiding out in a Bernal backyard, we knew we needed to check in with the furry visitor to find out more. We sat down
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In The Castro... Parrot 1: "He said yes!" Parrot 2 [tearfully]: "We've been waiting so long for this moment."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat This: Smitten's Pride Sundae The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the helicopters are hovering above City Hall: it's a special day, and it's time to celebrate. Today's historic Supreme Court gay marriage ruling has San
SF News Yikes: BART And AC Transit Workers Vote To Authorize Strike Get ready to redefine your idea of commute hell. This morning, BART workers announced the results of last night's vote on whether to strike pending the expiration of their contract on Sunday. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thoughts On S.F.'s Erotic Supper Club Did you know about S.F.'s erotic supper club, "Our Gourmet Life"? Even if you didn't, you've probably assumed that a) something like that exists and b) the food is probably mediocre.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This: Diebenkorn At The De Young Out-of-towners and guide books like to euphemistically describe San Francisco as "colorful". By that they might mean perverse, strange, demented or just a little more intense than your typical stopover in Des Moines.
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: Shipwreck At The Booksmith As literary events go, we're not sure you can do better than "competitive erotic fanfiction." Tonight, The Booksmith hosts Shipwreck, a contest billed as "fun for the literary pervert" wherein six writers square
SF News Girl Who Escaped Kidnapper Actually Just A Total Liar A 10-year-old girl escaped an attempted kidnapper in Pacifica on Sunday night by punching her assailant and running away. At least, that's what she said happened. Turns out, the adorable preteen was lying
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dogs > Children Taste-testing local artisanal coffee against generic (and how one unlucky TBI intern ranked Folgers above all the rest). [The Bold Italic] Here is a photo of 49ers tight end Vernon Davis straight chillin'
