SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Vegan Community Up In Arms Upon Learning That Gracias Madre Owners Eat Meat Now Unfolding over the last couple weeks has been some MAJOR DRAMA on social media over the revelation not altogether new that Cafe Gratitude founders and owners of SF's Gracias Madre are
Arts & Entertainment Oh Dear, Dede: Two More Museum Board Members, Including Former City Attorney, Resign Over Wilsey Dustup The drama continues at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco i.e. the joint board that oversees the deYoung and Legion of Honor as ongoing infighting persists over a "disability severance&
SF News More Shkreli Fallout: KaloBios Files For Bankruptcy You saw this coming if you were paying attention: After the NASDAQ delisted the stock of SF-based KaloBios and halted trading of it last week in the wake of CEO Martin Shkreli&
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: Mrs. Wilsey Defiant, Says She Didn't Need Board Approval For Gift In a new memo to the board of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, chair and CEO Dede Wilsey says she did absolutely nothing wrong and there is absolutely nothing to worry
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: State Opens Inquiry Into Wilsey's Apparent Financial Misconduct Well, since it looks like this scandal at the deYoung involving Dede Wilsey won't be going away, I guess it's time she gets her own tag along the lines
Arts & Entertainment Dede Wilsey's de Young Museum Scandal Continues After Whistle-Blower Gets Fired SF grand dame and gossip column centerpiece Dede Wilsey has been making news recently for things that don't involve museum balls, fired curators, or her stepson. Last month we heard the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Daughter Of Tadich Grill Family Talks About Being Disowned For Marrying A Black Man, Yelpers Respond En Masse A story with local implications broke on Sunday via the Washington Post, and it's already spelling some trouble for a storied local restaurant, via Yelp. Terri Upshaw, born Terri Buich into
SF News New York Times Mag Discovers Shrimp Boy, Adores His Anti-Government Attorney Tony Serra The New York Times Magazine this week delves deep into a profile of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow which is also, in turn, a profile of his flamboyant, anti-government defense attorney
SF News <i>Forbes</i> Comes After Academy Of Art, Their Low Graduation Rate, And Their Shady Land Use Dealings Whoa. Forbes has not one but two pieces out today coming after the for-profit Academy of Art University and the multimillionaire Stephens family who have been running it for several generations. It&
SF News Mirkarimi Had His License Suspended For Failing To Report Crash Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has apparently been driving on a suspended license since February, as the Chronicle is reporting, all because he failed to submit an accident report to the DMV relating to an
SF News Shrimp Boy Fallout: DA's Office Investigating... Someone The fallout from Tuesday's court filing on behalf of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow continues as reporters have swarmed City Hall, Mayor Lee has issued multiple denials and outright dismissals
SF News David Chiu Wore A Wire To Talk To Shrimp Boy Because He Feared For His Life Another detail to come out of the release yesterday of a court filing in the case against Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow is that former Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, who&
SF News New Filing In Shrimp Boy Case Says Mayor Ed Lee Took 'Substantial Bribes,' Learned The Game From Willie Brown A potentially damning new filing on behalf of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow in federal court today says that, in discovery, the defense found that the prosecution had significant evidence of corruption
SF News Oh No, Leland Yee Pleads Guilty In April of last year, former State Senator Leland Yee pleaded not guilty to federal charges of corruption and firearm trafficking. But then, last July, a revised grand jury indictment added some federal
Arts & Entertainment Eliana Lopez Comedy Opens This Week, Looks As Embarrassing As Expected Sherriff Ross Mirkarimi's actress wife Eliana Lopez will be debuting her all-in-Spanish one-woman comedy this coming weekend, chronicling the year-long 2012 domestic violence scandal that nearly cost
Arts & Entertainment Not A Joke: Eliana Lopez Is Doing A Comedic Play, In Spanish, About The Mirkarimi Domestic Abuse Scandal Well, who saw this coming? Venezuelan-born actress Eliana Lopez, who remains married to Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and is the mother of his child, is now putting on a play, in Spanish, titled
SF News Oh No, Leland Yee: New Racketeering Charges For Yee and Shrimp Boy A revised grand jury indictment filed Friday, which includes 228 charges against 29 defendants, now includes federal racketeering charges against suspended state Senator Leland Yee and Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, as
SF News John Avalos Affair Makes City Hall Rethink Its Employee Handbook Approximately 12 San Franciscans, including his wife, cared about the revelation last week that Supervisor John Avalos had an extended affair with one of his close aides. That aide, Raquel Redondiez, has since
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dozens Of Restaurants Settle On Healthy S.F. Surcharge Issue In case you haven't been keeping up, the local restaurant world has been embroiled in a bit of a legal mess over the last year at the hands of City Attorney
SF News 42 More Cases Dropped Due To SFPD Surveillance Video Scandal (FOOTAGE) District Attorney (and former SFPD Chief) George Gascón announced today that, according to The Chronicle, "The misconduct investigation into a San Francisco police unit of undercover officers will force prosecutors to drop
SF News Current Tally in Dropped Public Defender Cases Due To SFPD Surveillance Video Scandal: 13 A total of thirteen cases being handled by the public defender's office have been dropped so far by the district attorney over the past few days as a result of the
