SF News SF Dentist Who Says Pot Causes Gum Disease Busted In NY Drug Sting Mission Dental Health owner Dr. Jerome Weitz made it a point to remind pot smokers to seek his services more often than abstainers, saying that studies show that cannabis users suffer from increased
Arts & Entertainment A Little Backstory On That NY Cab You Might Have Seen Around SF It's a sight familiar to folks who frequent the Outer Sunset — car painted to resemble a New York taxicab, but covered with flowers. I always figured it was some sort of art car,
SF News Bomb Threat To Flight From SFO Prompts Massive Response In New York The plans of passengers planning on traveling from San Francisco International Airport to Tel Aviv were thwarted Monday night, after a phoned-in bomb threat grounded their flight during its first leg in New
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed California Chef Jeremiah Tower Taking Over New York's Tavern On The Green Chef Jeremiah Tower, who made a name for himself in the Bay Area first behind the line at Chez Panisse and later as the chef-impresario of Stars in San Francisco, has decided to
Arts & Entertainment 'New York Magazine' Officially Bitter It's Not In San Francisco After a blistering, snowy winter on the East Coast and a year in which San Francisco has captured a lot of the national spotlight for its booming economy, Instagram-filtered gay people, and enduring
SF News Dating Startup Will Fly NYC Women To SF For Singles Weekend If there are two things that New York has in abundance, but are still scarce in San Francisco, they are definitely: women and real bagels. The bagels have been taken care of, but
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: New York, New York (By e.Chang) The Week That Was: Won 1, lost 1 against the Rockies. Won 3, lost 1 against the Dodgers. 69-81 for the season, 4th Place in the NL West. The Week
Arts & Entertainment Map: The Bay Area, Through A New Yorker's Eyes Sure, we've seen similar versions before, but a local designer has just created this very simple map to "welcome NYers to San Francisco" and explain the various parts of the Bay Area in
SF News Lady Goes On Epic Rant Against Bicycle Sharing Bicycling is, of course, near and dear to the hearts of many in S.F. Recently, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg launched a bicycle sharing program, emulating those in Paris and London, dubbed
SF News Horrendous Anti-Gay Attack Ad Enters New York Race [Updated] Featuring a pair of characteristically smooth twinks in various stages of love-making, a recent attack ad—one aimed at Sen. Mark Grisanti, a New York Republican who switched his vote in 2011 to
SF News 'Gay' No Longer A Slur, Says New York Court A mid-level appeals court in New York ruled on Thursday that gay is okay — specifically, it's no longer considered a slur to call someone "gay." The ruling was sparked after Mark Yonaty of
Arts & Entertainment Fuzzy New York Columnist Calls San Francisco Fans "Soft" Today in cross-country smacktalk, New York Daily News columnist Filip Bondy just comes right out and says what's on his mind: "San Francisco 49er's fans are soft." After the vitriol that came out
SF News Daisy Does the Niners: Candlestick Erupts Over 27-20 Win Against NY (By Daisy Barringer) I've been to every single 49ers game since I moved back to San Francisco in 2006 I've also been to quite a few playoff games over the years when going
SF News 49ers Preview: Gouging the NY Giants (By Daisy Barringer) There's been a lot of talk in mainstream media this week about the San Francisco 49ers for the first time in, like, forever. ("In, like, forever" is just one example
SF News California Chortles as East Coast Overreacts to Earthquake Sweet payback for each time an East Coaster lambasted Californians for losing it over the slightest chill in the air, reactions to today's earthquake have ranged from the humorous to the bizarre. Especially
Arts & Entertainment In More NY Gay Marriage Sweetness: Gothamist Writer Proposes, Gets a Yes This is probably one of the sweetest things we've seen in our lives. On the morning after a euphoric night of celebrating the New York State Senate's decision to legalize same-sex marriage, contributor
SF News Congratulations, New York! Two years after the New York State Senate strongly rejected gay marriage, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced passage of the Marriage Equality Act today by a margin of 33 to 29,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Better Than New York, Says Alan Richman Grub Street picked up the latest issue of Gentlemen's Quarterly only to discover that Alan Richman, the most awarded food writer in history (14 James Beard Awards!), put his esteemed foot down in
SF News Video: NYPD Arrest Man For "Ridiculing" Cyclist Cyclists, if you've ever been harassed for riding your bike on the sidewalks -- which is forbidden, by the way -- take a moment to bathe in the warm glow of this footage
SF News New York Dealing With Backlash Against Bike Lanes We're not the only city where bikes and cars are at war: the Bloomberg administration in New York has vastly expanded the bike lanes in the city to about 250 miles worth, and
SF News Obama Picks Sonia Sotomayor For Souter's Supreme Court Seat Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a self-described Newyorican who grew up in a housing project in the Bronx after her parents moved from Puerto Rico, has been tapped by President Obama to be the next
SF News Pedestrian Plazas and Street Closures All the Rage in SF & NY Two new urban planning documents in two major American cities -- our own and New York City -- are being released this week that reflect a growing a trend toward creating pedestrian-friendly environments
SF News New York Governor Introduces Gay Marriage Bill Take note, California: the Governor of New York introducing legislation to legalize same-sex marriage. "There is clearly a problem in that those individuals who are gay or lesbian who would live in a
SF News At Least 13 Dead in Binghamton, New York Shooting A man in Binghamton, NY, shot and killed at least 13 people at the American Civic Association. The ACA site says it "Assists immigrants and refugees with immigration and personal counseling, resettlement, citizenship,
SF News New Yorkers Protest Prop 8, Connecticut Begins Gay Marriage Last night, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people gathered for a protest outside the Church of Latter Day Saints' Manhattan Mormon Temple and march down Broadway to Columbus Circle. The planned and peaceful event