SF News Stanley Roberts Is Back On The Evil Elmo Beat After new video appeared online last week of everyone's favorite mentally ill incarnation of a Sesame Street character, Evil Elmo, back to his old tourist-harassing tricks at Fisherman's Wharf, KRON 4's resident scold
Arts & Entertainment Video: Evil Elmo Back To Making Children Cry At Fisherman's Wharf He's back! He never actually went anywhere, but just like the sea lions who occasionally disappear from their favorite dock at Pier 39, Evil Elmo sometimes goes below the radar for a few
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Angry Public Blasts SF Restaurant Over Anti-Kid Policy That They Don't Actually Have Grotto confusion? It's an issue for two Northern California restaurants, especially when one announces they they'll give noisy kids the boot, and another says that they welcome the little critters with open arms.
SF News Earthquake Disaster Flick Starring The Rock Shoots This Month, Everyone Freaking Out A movie called San Andreas starring Dwayne “The Rock’’ Johnson, Kylie Minogue (!), and Alexandra Daddario is set to begin shooting in San Francisco later this month, and already some neighbors in tony Russian
Arts & Entertainment Elaborate, Dark, Disney-Esque Tourist Attraction, The Dungeon, Opens At Fisherman's Wharf Next Week In space formerly occupied by the The Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf, something called The Dungeon is opening on June 26, bringing a popular European tourist attraction to our shores for the first
SF News Ambulance For Toddler Killed By Toppling Statue Was Significantly Delayed When a statue in front of a Fisherman's Wharf business toppled onto vacationing toddler Kayson Shelton, SFPD officers and San Francisco firefighters arrived on the scene almost immediately. However, perhaps the most important
SF News Two-Year-Old Boy Killed By Toppled Dolphin Sculpture At Fisherman's Wharf A tragic accident took the life of a two-year-old boy Friday outside one of the many statuary/art/tchotchke shops along Jefferson Street at Fisherman's Wharf. The boy, whose family was visiting from
SF News Evil Elmo Returns With Anti-Semitic Rant On Muni Fisherman's Wharf fixture Dan Sandler, a.k.a. Evil Elmo, is back! He's making headlines again just six weeks after a pair of Chronicle pieces in which we learned of a recent scuffle
SF News Fisherman's Wharf Street Kids Not Tickled By 'Bad Elmo' A man known across the country for spewing obscenities and anti-Semitic comments while wearing a giant fuzzy muppet costume has experiencing some harassment of his own in Fisherman's Wharf after a group of
SF News Bushman Dies, San Francisco Now Left With Only One Bushman Gregory Jacobs, one of a pair of enterprising panhandlers who hid behind shrubbery and scared the bejeezus out of unsuspecting tourists in Fisherman's wharf, died last Sunday of a sudden heart complication. Jacobs
Arts & Entertainment Fleet Week Replaced By Wharf Fest With the Blue Angels grounded and the actual fleet temporarily mothballed due to government sequestration, this year's annual demonstration of American naval power will be replaced by a much tamer celebration of the
SF News The Wax Museum At Fisherman's Wharf Closes Today After 50 Years The Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf is closing today, and even though we've never set foot inside and wax museums are generally creepy and archaic, this seems notable. Interestingly, it does not seem
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F.'s First Applebee's Now Open In The Wharf Applebee's has, at last, opened a restaurant in San Francisco.It's in the Wharf and you should go. Why? The stellar views of the bay, for starters. Speaking of starters, will the Ultimate
SF News Knife Crime 2013: Frappucino Likely Involved In Fisherman's Wharf Stabbing Although we cannot officially confirm the origin nor flavor of said beverage, the Examiner reports that a milkshake, or similar blended dessert drink, played an integral part in a stabbing on Jones Street
SF News Man Attempts To Swim With Pier 39 Sea Lions, Promptly Removed For Pestering Pinnipeds Just after 3 p.m. this afternoon, a 22-year-old man decided he would join the famous Fisherman's Wharf sea lions for a chilly swim in the bay near Pier 39. The San Francisco
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Maybe 50 Pounds' Of Marijuana Found In Joe's Crab Shack Dumpster More possible fallout from this weekend's 4/20 festivities: An employee at the faux-shabby Joe's Crab Shack found three garbage bags filled with marijuana in a dumpster behind the seafood chain's Fisherman's Wharf
Arts & Entertainment More Pleasant Pope Benedict XVI Can Be Found At S.F. Wax Museum Pope Benedict XVI, a man of the cloth who will be best remembered for his homophobic decrees and an anti-Islamic snafu, is the first pope to resign in over 600 years. Peace out.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Reminder: Gold Dust Lounge Opens Tonight! Gold Dust Lounge, once located in Union Square for an impressive 80 years, will finally reopen today in its new neighborhood. And, of course, it will be quite the affair. It all starts
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Crab Strike Cracked! Dungeness Return To Tables By Friday Good news, crustacean fans, the frustrating mid-season crab fishermen's strike that caused a run on dungeness crab last week has been smashed open and practically dipped in butter already. Skippers and fishmongers cut
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Disputes Make Local Fishermen Crabby Those plans you had for a holiday-themed crab boil this weekend are not looking good. Earlier this week local crab fisherman caught word that the cheapskate fishmongers were planning to drop the price
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Report: Crab Will Be More Expensive, Possibly More Scarce This Year Unlike last year, commercial crab fishing season will kick off right on schedule and in time to get crab dips onto Thanksgiving tables around the Bay this year. The caveat: retail prices will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gold Dust Lounge Will Open NYE, Inspires Country Western Song San Francisco's Bar/cultural phenomenon/t-shirt slogan the Gold Dust Lounge shed some more light on their forthcoming Fisherman's Wharf location yesterday. Not only will the bar be incredibly long, but one of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gold Dust Lounge Reveals New Location Will Look Like A Bar This afternoon, the historic (maybe) Gold Dust Lounge shared an early look at how they imagine their forthcoming Fisherman's Wharf location will turn out. And the new place looks... Well, it looks pretty
SF News Hide Your Kids: 'Evil Elmo' Descends On San Francisco A man known for dressing up in an Elmo costume and harassing tourists in Times Square with anti-Semitic rants has apparently decamped to San Francisco for the week, where he's doing the same
