SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cook Shoppe and Blind Butcher Both Quietly Open In the Castro The new replacement restaurant in the former Chow space, called Cook Shoppe, and the new steakhouse in the former Beso space, Blind Butcher, are both open as of this past weekend.
Bay Area Sports San Jose Sharks Look To Extend Series Lead In Monday Night's Game 2 vs. the St. Louis Blues After defeating the St. Louis Blues 6-3 in Saturday's Game 1 of the Western Conference final, the San Jose Sharks will look to extend that series lead to 2-0 with a strong showing, Monday night, at the Shark Tank.
Business & Tech Rideshare Vehicles Are Hotbeds For Germs, Moreso Than Taxis, Says Study Those dangling bottles of hand-sanitizer might be more than just a courtesy! A small-scale study comparing swabs taken from rideshare vehicles with those taken in taxis and rental cars found that the rideshare vehicles had the highest overall presence of bacteria and other germs.
SF News Stormy Weather Arrives This Week To Rudely Interrupt Spring Three consecutive storm systems are moving into the Bay Area beginning late Tuesday, and it's going to make for an unusually wet mid-May.
Bay Area Sports Warriors To Face Trail Blazers Tuesday In Western Conference Finals With the Trail Blazers' impressive come-from-behind road victory 100-96 against the Denver Nuggets on Sunday, the Golden State Warriors have their opponent for the Western Conference Finals — and we'll see a first-in-NBA-history face-off of brothers Steph and Seth Curry.
SF News Eastbound Bay Bridge Traffic Backed Up Into SF Following Rollover Crash If you're reverse-commuting to Oakland or otherwise need to get to the East Bay this morning, you may want to consider BART. Three of five eastbound lanes have been blocked since around 8 a.m.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: String of Shootings Rattles Richmond A pedestrian was killed by a bus in the Tenderloin on Saturday, a proposed hydroelectric plant south of Yosemite is causing controversy, and a big antitrust case against Apple can move forward, says SCOTUS.
SF News Most Tenderloin Drug Dealing Is Controlled By Two Gangs While the SFPD makes about one and a half drug arrests per day, on average, in the Tenderloin, the department still seems only be putting a small dent in the open-air drug trade that goes on in plain sight.
SF News Sunday Links: Suspect Arrested Following Carjacking/Kidnapping In Oakland Saturday night's Amber Alert about a three-year-old girl in a carjacked vehicle ended with the girl safe and a suspect arrested, and there's a BBQ'n While Black event at Lake Merritt today marking the one-year anniversary of the BBQ Becky incident.
Arts & Entertainment 'The Good Book' Explores The Bible As Complicated, Human-Made Mess Taking on a topic as enormous and fraught as the Bible, from a historical and intellectual perspective in our modern era, is an admirably ambitious feat. And in 'The Good Book,' playwrights Lisa Peterson and Dennis O'Hare make an impressive attempt.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Ride 33-Point 2nd Half by Curry, Defeat Rockets 118-113 To Take Series The Golden State Warriors did what many thought improbable, if not impossible, defeating the Rockets 118-113, Friday night, in Houston. With the win, the Warriors take the series 4-2 and will now move on to the Western Conference Finals.
SF News Saturday Links: Comey Tweet Leads to Crazies Descending on Grass Valley School Die-off of gray whales is highly unusual even for a mild El Nino year, Pete Buttigieg was in SF for a fundraiser, and a James Comey tweet sets conspiracy Twitter on fire.
SF News Day Around The Bay: BART Ridership Keeps Slipping Chris Hughes continues talking about breaking up Facebook, CHP rescues woman having medical emergency in moving car in Marin County, and it's going to be nice, sunny weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Your Complete San Francisco Street Fair and Festival Guide For 2019 Now that it's May, it officially street fair and festival season in SF. And given that this is a city where drinking is pretty much required if it's light out and it's a day that starts with "S," you should know the upcoming fair and event schedule that is now upon us, and extends through October.
Bay Area Sports 49ers' Richard Sherman: If Nick Bosa Can Play, He's Okay Fans and analysts alike questioned the 49ers front office and its decision to take Nick Bosa with the no. 2 overall pick in April's NFL draft. But cornerback Richard Sherman isn't having it.
SF News Decorator Showcase House Was Once Owned By CNet Founder, Later Became 'Thug Mansion' For Squatter Art Thief The grand Presidio Heights home at 3800 Washington Street that is currently serving as this year's venue for the Decorator's Showcase has some colorful recent history prior to its latest renovation.
SF News Sonoma Couple Kills 180-Year-Old Tree Trying To Move It, Gets Fined $600,000 This beautiful, 180-year-old heritage oak tree is now demolished, and the property owners are paying a huge fine for a sloppy relocation attempt that went very, very wrong.
Business & Tech Uber IPO Sputters, Stock Already Trading Below Initial Price Uber's big, much ballyhoo'd IPO did not get off to the most glorious start Friday afternoon, as an already conservative $45 initial share price appears too rich for investors' blood. Even Lyft had a bit of a first-day bounce on its IPO day!
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Daniel Patterson Cancels Plans For Alta On Mid-Market; Another Restaurant Will Move In Yotel Now that Daniel Patterson's restaurant group no longer has any locations in the city of his once burgeoning mini-chain called Alta, it comes as no surprise that his two-year-old plan to re-open Alta a few blocks down from its original Mid-Market location has fallen through.
Arts & Entertainment Play Chess With The SF Skyline With This Fancy New Chess Set The Transamerica Pyramid is the queen and Salesforce Tower is the king in this bronze-cast chess set from UK-based Skyline Chess, from the minds of two London architects. Also, the Painted Ladies are pawns, and 555 California didn't make the cut.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Uber Prices IPO Shares At Bottom Of Range Tubbs Fire victims in Santa Rosa say they're being taken advantage of by a contractor, a suspect was arrested in a string of Dublin arsons, and 15 sets of twins are graduating in the same high school class.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Punch Line Comedy Club To Close, Chapelle To Return This Month Muni has a new chief in Julie Kirschbaum (not replacing Reiskin as SFMTA director), Dave Chapelle is coming to town May 20-22, and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes dropped a bomb of an op-ed saying Zuckerberg has too much power and Facebook should be broken up.
SF News Huge Cache Of Over 1,000 Guns Seized From LA Mansion Connected To Gettys The LAPD and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives served a search warrant at a Bel-Air mansion Wednesday that belongs to former Gordon Getty mistress Cynthia Beck.
SF News Second BART Tunnel? Hell, Let’s Add a Third Bay Crossing, Says East Bay Planner The third BART rail across the Bay would actually be an “aerial bridge” from Millbrae to Bay Fair, under a proposal from a respected architect and planner.
Bay Area Sports Breaking: Durant To Miss Remainder Of Series Due To Injury Warriors forward Kevin Durant has been ruled out for the remainder of the Western Conference Semifinals series against the Houston Rockets with a mild calf strain.
