SF News New Rule Would Ban Cars From East Side Of Twin Peaks As reported last summer, a change is coming to Twin Peaks. The popular tourist destination and vantage point draws throngs of tourists and locals whose cars can crowd its roads and create a
SF News Deputy Public Defender Was Wrongly Arrested While Protecting Her Client, Office Of Citizens Complaints Finds Jami Tillotson, at the time a San Francisco Deputy Public Defender, was arrested without cause and unduly detained in January 2015 according to a now public investigation by the Office of Citizen Complaints.
misc The Bay Area's 11 Best Standup Comedians The fertile funny grounds of the Bay Area have produced homegrown comedy legends like Robin Williams and Margaret Cho, and Gracie Allen, Phyllis Diller, and Carol Channing before them. But there are some
SF News After Raising Delivery Fees, Struggling Instacart Cuts Driver Pay By 63% It's not easy being a grocery delivery startup! Just ask Webvan, the dot-bomb-era delivery service that flamed out so spectacularly in 2001 that its name is synonymous with early
SF News Goodbye Rain: Warm Weather And Sunshine For The Week Ahead It sure has been raining a lot lately, hasn't it? Well, for all of you feeling just a little too cooped up/soggy we have some good news: The National Weather
SF News Squatters Blamed For Three-Alarm Fire In Remains Of Mission Building Destroyed In Earlier Blaze Fire and smoke at 22nd and Mission pic.twitter.com/QglIX7rSEI — Michael Margolis (@yipe) March 14, 2016 The ruins of a Mission building that was the site of a deadly fire in January,
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Flower Mart Will Be One SF's Largest Commercial Developments * Your weekend ICYMI: Manually-changed clocks were changed, Uber has a secret phone number for non-emergencies, the Tenderloin's iconic Lafayette Coffee shop closed, those teetering Pacifica apartments were demolished, yet
Arts & Entertainment Go Up An Octave With SF Opera Lab's Spring Performances Forget what you know about traditional opera—SF Opera Lab promises an adventurous theatrical experience, showcasing new and innovative ways to celebrate the power of the human voice. From the great minds behind
SF News Video: Teetering Apartment Teardown Taking Place in Pacifica Think this weekend’s El Nino downpours are causing you problems? Consider the plight of the perilous Pacifica apartments at 320 Esplanade Avenue, which have been dangling over a cliff for more than
SF News Tenderloin Hit-And-Run Leaves One Dead, One Hospitalized One man lies dead and and another is hospitalized after a Saturday night hit-and-run in the Tenderloin. According to KRON 4, the hit-and-run accident took place at 6:46
SF News SXSW Creates Stir By Demanding Panelist Remove Hijab Thennnnn I was given the wrong ID! From now on my name is Tamir & I work for Time Warner Inc #SXSW2016 pic.twitter.com/TE3jJR16P6 — Ibtihaj Muhammad (@IbtihajMuhammad) March 12, 2016 Another
SF News Sunday Morning Coming Down: Pier 80's Medical Warriors * That exhausted feeling you have right now might be Daylight Saving Time going into effect. [SFist] * If humanity is to be won or lost on a game of Go, chalk one up for
SF News 91-Year-Old Tenderloin Cafe To Close Sunday Fans of Tenderloin greasy spoon cuisine and ambiance are losing another legend this weekend, though the little institution swears they’ll reopen at another nearby location. The Lafayette Coffee Shop at the intersection
SF News Uber Enacts Secret 800 Emergency Number for "Non-Emergencies" To ease your anxiety over the disturbing frequency of sexual assault complaints, driver theft of passenger property and a recent shooting spree by an Uber driver in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the revolutionary and somewhat
SF News Already? Daylight Saving Time Goes Into Effect Tonight Quelle horreur! Daylight Saving Time officially begins at 2 a.m. Sunday morning, or in party people terms, “2 a.m. tonight”. That means we’ll be setting our clocks forward in the
SF News Saturday Morning Special: Jack London Square Has Been Sold * Time to look at some doughnut photos. [SFist] * Stolen Zipcar excitement on Third Street! [Captain Vaswani/Twitter] * "A couple in front of me ordered a beautifully plated ahi appetizer, which they ate
SF News Day Around The Bay: Planning Announces Sea Level Rise Action Plan * SF Planning announces its Sea Rise Action Plan, hoping to counter the threat. [Chron] * Speaking of which, stay up to date on the storm of the weekend, bringing floods, school closures, a K-
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Bauer Dreams Of Po Boys, Get Ready For Poke We told you where to find the best Irish food in San Francisco, warned you not to eat Trader Joe's pistachios, lamented the demolition of waterfront staple Sinbad's, and
SF News SF Ranks 2nd In Highest Per Capita Campaign Contributions To Bernie Sanders Cities on the left-leaning left coast are donating in droves to Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Senator and candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination about whom all your (most vocal and enfranchised) friends
SF News Is The SF Dream House Contest For Real? Was it all a dream... house? The San Francisco Dream House raffle, a yearly benefit for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, advertises a mansion home as its grand prize, but it
SF News Airbnb's Listing Of Israeli West Bank Settlements Incites Protest Security only allowed one person inside to deliver #StolenHomes petition with over 140,000 signatures to #airbnb pic.twitter.com/SlbQBQIapw — Steve Rhodes (@tigerbeat) March 11, 2016 These days, it's starting
Arts & Entertainment New Posters For HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Blur Line Between Parody, Documentary To quote from HBO's Silicon Valley, the technology industry has reached "Florence during the Renaissance," levels. "This is Camelot," a Google CEO type bloviated in the beginning
Arts & Entertainment 'Black Lives Matter' Named As Grand Marshal Of San Francisco's 2016's Pride Parade San Francisco's LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade is a huge event, with an estimated million folks at the last one in 2015. The event is so massive, in fact, that they
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hello, Doughnut Dolly! These Beauties Are Headed To Mid-Market Sweet doughnuts who art from heaven, Doughnut Dolly be thy name. Previously confined to two shops in the East Bay, the gloriously fried goods from Donut Dolly owner/mastermind Hannah Hoffman are now
Arts & Entertainment Your Drunk Inner Child Can't Wait For Next Week's Boozy Ball Pit San Franciscans, deservedly or not, have a reputation for falling prey to Peter Pan Syndrome, as anyone who skipped Easter Mass in favor of careening wildly on tricycles down a perilous hill can
