Fiona Hinze can see it coming when she spins around the streets of San Francisco: An indicator showing that her wheelchair battery is running out of juice. Hinze is always with someone when she's out with her power chair. When the battery dies, she switches on the manual mode, takes the chair out of gear, and asks her companion to push her chair - which weighs a couple hundred pounds, plus her body weight - to her car.
As seen on Comedy Central, Roast Battle combines the best parts of sports and standup comedy. Two comedians square off in a competition of joke writing to see who can come up with the funniest and most creative verbal insults. They make their case for victory to our panel of judges featuring the best comedian and roast battlers from all over the country!
Members of the Board of Supervisors are calling for action and accountability after Mission Local reported that women held in a San Francisco jail were allegedly forced to undress in front of each other while sheriff's deputies watched and filmed them with their body-worn cameras. Late Thursday afternoon, 17 women filed a claim with the city saying that deputies violated multiple laws and policies in May when they strip searched them en masse while male deputies were present.
Comedian John Mulaney returned to San Francisco - which he once dubbed "a city that isn't nice" - with a much warmer tone on Thursday, his first of three nights at the Masonic. Mulaney opened the show by reminiscing on his history with San Francisco, including his first gig at the Punch Line and his first 2,000-person show at Davies Symphony Hall. However, he remembered one of his most recent sets in the city with a little less warmth.
Detective Charles Nieuwendyk is back. The professor-turned-undercover agent played by Ted Danson in the hit Netflix show "A Man on the Inside" returns this week for a second season, where he aims his investigative eye at a Bay Area college. Inspired by the Chilean documentary "The Mole Agent," the first season of "A Man on the Inside" created by Mike Schur ("Parks and Recreation") was one of the most San Francisco-centric TV shows in years.
Those structures are - or were - earthquake shacks, also known as earthquake cottages or refugee cottages. With the help of the Army, the city built the shacks in the wake of the 1906 earthquake, which left 225,000 San Franciscans without homes. They placed the tiny, one-room cottages in city parks, and residents whose homes had been destroyed paid $2 a month to live in them. At one point, more than 16,000 people lived in the shacks - approximately three for every 250-square-foot dwelling.
Every December, the streets of San Francisco fill up with Santas going bar hopping, celebrating the holiday and having fun. You know it as SantaCon. This year's event is on Dec. 13. And we know it's not just a San Francisco holiday event; here are events nationwide.
SF-based developer Align Real Estate does, in fact, have a larger strategy to redevelop Safeway properties in the city and turn them into multi-story residential complexes with retail on the ground floor, including replacement Safeway stores. With Tuesday's announcement that Align, the same developer behind the project to redevelop the Fillmore Safeway property, was working to potentially redevelop the Ocean Beach Safeway in similar fashion, we surmised there could be a larger strategy at play.
The SF Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve a new affordable-housing program based in a new building on mid-Market Street that would be dedicated to housing artists and creative types who are largely being priced out of the city. "The story of San Francisco cannot be told without its artists," says Supervisor Rafael Mandelman in a statement. "This program is an important step toward honoring that legacy and ensuring artists remain at the heart of our city's future."
The department reported that a "high speed motor vehicle accident" had occurred, and images from the scene show two of the vehicles ended up facing downhill on Broderick Street toward Lombard. A gray pickup truck collided violently with a black crossover SUV and a black BMW sedan, and all three vehicles were left mangled on the corner of Broderick, up against the side of the La Luna Inn.
There is a place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park that is heaven for Bay Area inline skaters and roller skaters who like to boogie to the funky beat on wheels. The Godfather of Skate brings his mobile DJ unit and plays groovy tunes for you to skate to. On most Sundays, there's usually someone willing to teach you a few choreographed roller disco dance moves.
A crash on eastbound I-80 in San Francisco, near the Bay Bridge, led to a significant fuel spill and a traffic nightmare for those trying to drive to the East Bay Monday morning. The crash happened around 9 am Monday on eastbound I-80 approaching the Bay Bridge, east of Fourth Street. As the Chronicle reports via CHP, at least one person was reported injured, though it's not clear how many vehicles were involved.
A delightful evening of comedy, happening every 2nd Thursday. Shameful things will be discussed by the shameless and shameful. Maybe reach catharsis, and if not, there's drinks. Hosted by the ever-shame-wracked Annette Mullaney and featuring the best of Bay Area and visiting comedians.
