Thanks to the 1996 movie The Birdcage, the charming and ahead-of-its-time story of La Cage Aux Folles is well known to American audiences. Less well known to contemporary audiences is
Just hours after Thursday’s report that UC Berkeley was denying conservative pundit Ben Shapiro a campus venue for a proposed September 14 speech, the Chronicle reports that the university has agreed to
Though the housing market has been tempered by a combination of slower job growth, population out-migration and increased supply, that doesn't really mean that prices have come down. It does
'Cult' is a word that gets thrown around casually a lot to describe everything from Mormonism to Soul Cycle. But here in the Bay Area there's been a special
Facebook founder and fleece enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg toured Montana's Glacier National Park on July 15 and as one might imagine, the tour's guest list was a hot-button issue.
TechCrunch writer Catherine Shu repeatedly declined the advances of 500 Startups venture partner and entrepreneur-in-residence Tristan Pollock but that didn't stop him from allegedly grabbing her and groping her.
The five-day-old Detwiler Fire continues to grow, though at a slightly slower pace than it did in the previous couple of days, reaching 74,000 acres by Friday morning. It is
SF Chronicle recipe for Avocado Toast, April 8, 1927 https://t.co/UMnH7YCnLM pic.twitter.com/AZ4NI2MZky — Eric Fischer (@enf) July 20, 2017 Though avocado toast — the complicated culinary concoction in which mashed
* Airbnb is on track to host a million guests by the end of 2017. [SF Business Times] * YouTube is trying a tech fix to direct viewers away from extremist videos. [CNet] * Mountain lion
Anxiety over BART crime, safety, and deplorable teens will surely be on the rise after yet another BART attack by a teen mob Thursday, this one at the Richmond station. The Chronicle reports
A nasty pair of thieves attacked a man on Van Ness Avenue late Thursday, assaulting him and stealing his ventriloquism device. Police say that the crime went down at 10:50 p.m.
An evening attack in Hayes Valley left a San Francisco resident dead Thursday night, and sent San Francisco's homicide count for 2017 to 39. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson
Lyft is nipping at the heels of main competitor Uber in joining the race to bring autonomous vehicles onto the road, but they're doing so with a slightly different and they
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Firefighters are responding to a vegetation fire on Upper Stagecoach Trail in the Auburn State Recreation Area in Placer County. pic.twitter.com/pcz7VBu95r — CAL FIRE NEU (@CALFIRENEU) July 20, 2017 * A small
A manhunt is intensifying for two members of Richmond street gang known as the Manor Boyz who were the subjects of a six-month police and FBI investigation and crackdown. As Richmond Police
News flew around the local blogosphere late Wednesday that, following an Entertainment Commission hearing on Tuesday, the extraordinarily delayed revival of Hamburger Mary's might, three and a half years after we
Contemporary Bay Area residents can rightfully complain of overpopulation, overdevelopment, and a housing crunch. But amidst this development boom, the history buffs over at KQED remind us that the Bay Area still has
The City of San Jose really needs to unload the historic Hayes Mansion. Upkeep is costing the city millions every year and their last buyer just fell through. Let's start last
Everything all summer long in SF continues to officially be "hippie" themed because it's the 50th anniversary of the famed Summer of Love and if you haven't
Fans of “Conservatives vs. Antifa” antics in Berkeley will want to know that the latest dust-up is going precisely according to formula. Barely a week after Berkeley College Republicans and the Young
The biggest wildfire currently raging in California is the 70,000-acre, 109-square mile Detwiler Fire in Mariposa County. It nearly doubled again in size between Wednesday and Thursday, and as the
A crackdown on hourly rentals in Tennessee hotels has apparently sent sex workers into area Airbnbs, with one Oakland man allegedly traveling south to cash in on the brave new brothel world. ABC
* Disability rights organization files class-action lawsuit against Uber over wheelchair access. [Associated Press] * No one knows who will be securing the Transbay Transit Center. [SF Examiner] * San Jose police dog attacks toddler.
