This shortened, travel-heavy week is often a time for under-the-radar openings and end-of-year closing announcements. We are, sadly, saying goodbye to old-timey greasy spoon The Lucky Penny
In what is by the San Jose Mercury News' calculations the largest payout in that city's history, a federal jury has awarded $11.3 million in damages to a man
We'd heard back in March that local theater outfit SHN had possibly leased the Old Mint at 5th and Mission, leading me to speculate that the space could get used for
The pair suspected in the deaths of two small children found in a Northern California storage locker earlier this month have been charged with murder, child abuse, torture, and conspiracy with special circumstances.
The stoney dreams of bad seafood pungently mixed with the aroma of medical cannabis wafting from the SF-branded fleeces of confused tourists may have died a less-than-glamorous death last week,
A new theory presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union is shaking up the seismologist world (they are likely tired of this joke, but will, I'm sure, understand)
While why a felled tree is seen as a representation of Christmas is the topic of much debate, the San Francisco Fire Department doesn't care about symbolism — they just want to
Just in time for Christmas, maker of futuristic robots for the US Military, Google-owned Boston Dynamics, has unleashed a video that is sure to crush all visions of sugar plums dancing in
A "perfect storm" of El Niño season rain and unusually high King Tides on Christmas Eve could cause some serious snags in holiday travel, especially out of SFO. As the Business
We told you back in April to stop flying your drones around the Golden Gate Bridge, but you just couldn't listen, could you? Well, maybe you could, but enough folks couldn&
@reviewjournal shooting star from Summerlin pic.twitter.com/ZBBI8aDika — Andy McEldowney (@a_mceldowney) December 23, 2015 We wanted to believe in something bigger than ourselves, in life from galaxies far, far away, in
As expected and hinted at yesterday, the CHP has just released its report following a surprise audit of City Sightseeing, the local tour bus operator whose double-decker bus seriously injured multiple people
As the last several days of rain tapers off, forecasters are predicting another form of precipitation for the Bay Area: Snow! (Just not very much of it.) According to the Chron, meteorologists "
* Here's how that cyclist who was struck by an errant tour bus is doing. [SFist] * Three Oakland Raiders, Two San Francisco 49ers will be playing in the Pro Bowl. [KRON4] * "
News broke late Tuesday that Air Force Major Adrianna Vorderbruggen, 36, a recent transplant to the San Francisco Bay Area, had become the first openly gay US military servicewoman to be killed in
This post is a sponsored collaboration between Gothamist and the Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express. If you could travel anywhere for the holidays, where would you go? Would it be
* Wow, Daisy really wasn't kidding when she said Levi's Stadium was "a ghost town" last Sunday. [Oregonian] * UC Berkeley plans to open a huge art museum, events
A Bay Area pro-development political action committee failed in its recent effort to take over the San Francisco chapter of the Sierra Club. San Francisco Bay Area Renters Federation (SFBARF) accused the
Bear detained.All good, no injuries. Cinnamon back to his home in Hume Lake:) pic.twitter.com/nPsnu2Px44 — Fresno Police (@FresnoPolice) December 22, 2015 Beware of hitchhikers — they just might be dangerous, as
It's not the complete, dismal conclusion of the so-called SFPD racist text scandal, because Chief Greg Suhr has vowed to appeal the decision, but police officers who texted racist and
Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow took the witness stand Monday in his racketeering trial that has also turned into an ersatz murder trial, serving as the first witness in his defense after
It's been raining in Tahoe. Like, a lot. Over the past 24 hours the lake has reportedly risen 1.92 inches — a height increase that roughly translates to 6.39 billion
The hour draws nigh for Lucky Penny. Yes, at the intersection of Geary and Masonic, the old-school, late-night, sometimes iffy diner's time has unfortunately run out, which Hoodline reports
SpaceX finally did it. The pioneering company in contract with NASA to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station managed yesterday to vertically land its Falcon 9 rocket on a landing pad in
Last year, three ladies from the cast of Downton Abbey Laura Carmichael (Lady Edith), Lesley Nicol (Mrs. Patmore), and Phyllis Logan (Mrs. Hughes) sat down for a spirited round of Cards Against Humanity
