Google Maps

Why? Has a Stalker Pt. 2

Spring Fever? Head North to Fish

More reliable than Google Maps: Directions to FishFish 350 Harbor near Gate Five Rd., Sausalito, 331-3474. It's May, that happy season of blooming honeysuckle and brilliant sunshine, the perfect time to hop a ferryboat to Sausalito and enjoy the year's most intoxicating weather. Just make sure to ke ... More >>

Alice Waters' Favorite Places In the Bay Area, Mapped for Your Pleasure

Meredith BrodyAlice [hearts] waltzing -- and using Google Maps.Alice Waters plopped down at our table last night to catch her breath between waltzes. A four-piece bal musette band was playing at the annual Bastille Day celebration at Chez Panisse (aioli, cassoulet, tri-color ice cream bombe), and Ml ... More >>

Google Maps 'Favorite Places' Unveiled: Local Businesses Welcomed to the Interwebz

Mayor Gavin Newsom: bears striking resemblance to Will ArnettGoogle Maps unveiled their latest project called "Favorite Places" this afternoon at a press conference/meet and greet/smorgasbord inside City Hall. Local business owners, members of the press, and Mayor Gavin Newsom mingled, networked, an ... More >>

Gray Area's new gallery hopes to cast light on an underserved neighborhood

Mayor Gavin Newsom: bears striking resemblance to Will ArnettGoogle Maps unveiled their latest project called "Favorite Places" this afternoon at a press conference/meet and greet/smorgasbord inside City Hall. Local business owners, members of the press, and Mayor Gavin Newsom mingled, networked, an ... More >>

A Few Copies of McSweeney's Food-Obsessed Panorama Are Just $5 Tomorrow. Here's Where

Get a taste of high culture at a rock-bottom price.​We've been stewing like a bone-warming pot of chili in anticipation of Panorama's heavyweight food section -- and counting coins we've scooped up from the bottom of our laundry bag. The $16 price tag for the upcoming McSweeney's issue is not ... More >>

San Franciscans Joyously, Graphically Document Sex on New Web Site

Quick! Run to the computer! ​"Amazinggggg" (yes, that's five G's) is how one man described a recent sexual encounter in San Francisco. "It was freaking great!!!!!!" another man wrote about his Feb. 19 outdoor rendezvous with his male partner. Both used the Web site IJustMadeLove.com to broadcast t ... More >>

The SFO Cannonball Run

Horrified by a typical taxi trip from SFO? Thank a government program that pays cabbies to speed.

Traverse the Districts

Horrified by a typical taxi trip from SFO? Thank a government program that pays cabbies to speed.

Coming Saturday: Muni Service Cuts

Well, this ain't happening here...​You don't have to wait long to wait long. Starting tomorrow, May 8, Muni will initiate 10 percent service cuts in a cost-cutting measure. The agency stands to save around $4.8 million for the rest of fiscal 2010 (which ends on July 1) and $28.4 million in fiscal ... More >>

Washington Post Uncovers Six 'Top Secret' Government Contractors in San Francisco

​The Washington Post today rolled out its eagerly awaited investigative project, "Top Secret America." The multimedia production -- including video, databases, an interactive map, and a series of stories by Post aces Dana Priest and William M. Arkin -- attempts to catalog the massive intelligence ... More >>

Rachael Smith, Alleged Craigslist Apartment Swindler, Was Never Required to Pay Bail

San Francisco Police DepartmentRachael Smith didn't skip bail -- because she didn't have to pay any​Tonight, victims who fell prey to the same alleged con artist will gather in empathy and anger as they discuss how to move forward after being purportedly scammed out of thousands of dollars by Rach ... More >>

"Catfish": Truth is stranger than fiction

San Francisco Police DepartmentRachael Smith didn't skip bail -- because she didn't have to pay any​Tonight, victims who fell prey to the same alleged con artist will gather in empathy and anger as they discuss how to move forward after being purportedly scammed out of thousands of dollars by Rach ... More >>

Lightning Strikes High School Students in Santa Clara. But Not Santa Clara You're Thinking Of.

​A story coming over the wire about lightning striking a pair of high school students in Santa Clara is accurate. But the town in question isn't the South Bay city of 110,000 but a small Utah burg of not quite 4,700. The Utah town -- which bills itself as "a beautiful place to live" on its website ... More >>

Will Google Hotpot Replace Yelp and Foursquare?

GoogleGoogle Hotpot ratings.​We wish we had a new Mongolian or Chinese hotpot place to tell you about today. Unfortunately we just have Google Hotpot. Are Yelp and Foursquare not sufficiently filling up your Smartphone, time, and tummy? Well, here is yet another way to distract yourself, give ... More >>

Nevada-Boston College Matchup in San Francisco Bowl Points to Vile State of Pac-10

Nevada fans like the guy on the right will be heading to San Francisco. Pac-10 fans like the dude in the bear suit will not.​In the Pac-10 this year, there was Oregon and Stanford and everybody else. Accordingly, when it comes to stocking football bowl games -- there's nobody else. Case in point: ... More >>

Off the Grid: 5M Launching at Minna and Fifth St.

Google MapsThe newest Off the Grid is part of the Intersection 5M project on the ground floor of the Chronicle building. Food trucks will park in the tunnel.​Organizer Matt Cohen got the green light yesterday from the city's street gods, aka the Interdepartmental Staff Committee on Traffic and ... More >>

Sunday: S.F.'s Most Elaborate Beer Run

Google MapsNot exactly Bay to Breakers, but then, B2B doesn't fall in the middle of Beer Week.​Much about beer is subjective, like what style/brewery/IBUs/glassware is best, or if a beer should taste great or be less filling. But there are a few universal truths when it comes to beer, includin ... More >>

Google Maps Says It's Not to Blame for Pedestrian Hit by Car

Google the phrase "common sense"​If Google maps led you off a cliff, would you jump?Well, if you did make the plunge and got hurt in the process, the Bay Area media giant claims it wouldn't be at fault. Google is finding itself at the center of a bizarre and never ending lawsuit where a pedestria ... More >>

S.F. Plastic Surgeon Wants to Shut Down Negative Web Commenters

Google the phrase "common sense"​If Google maps led you off a cliff, would you jump?Well, if you did make the plunge and got hurt in the process, the Bay Area media giant claims it wouldn't be at fault. Google is finding itself at the center of a bizarre and never ending lawsuit where a pedestria ... More >>

Tacos Surge, Ragazza Opens the Back Door, the Line Up Comes Back

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Luis ChongVincent Schofield's tacos at Taco Libre.​Tacos, tacos, tacos: If you missed it yesterday, SFoodie's Luis Chong checks out Taco Libre, the week-old taqueria launched by Nombe chef Vin ... More >>

Everywhere and Nowhere

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Luis ChongVincent Schofield's tacos at Taco Libre.​Tacos, tacos, tacos: If you missed it yesterday, SFoodie's Luis Chong checks out Taco Libre, the week-old taqueria launched by Nombe chef Vin ... More >>

San Francycle: Adventure Cycling from Miami to S.F.

​Oh, sure, your commute to the office might seem far, but how would you like to ride 3,500 miles? Two weeks ago, cyclist Mario Renteria, 23, set off from Miami on a cross-country ride to San Francisco. Google Maps estimates that if you pedal nonstop, 24 hours a day, it'll take about 11 and a half ... More >>

Google Maps Now Tracks BART in Real-Time

GoogleBART riders, kneel before Google​No need to rush out the door to catch that next BART train. We all know it will probably be late anyway. But to temper your anger over this often frustrating transit system, Google has rolled out its real-time tracking system for public transportation that's ... More >>

Summer Guide: The Best Obscure Tourist Attractions

GoogleBART riders, kneel before Google​No need to rush out the door to catch that next BART train. We all know it will probably be late anyway. But to temper your anger over this often frustrating transit system, Google has rolled out its real-time tracking system for public transportation that's ... More >>

Google Made It Easy for Anyone to Stalk You

There are some things Google should not know​When it comes to privacy, it's usually Facebook's amorphous policies that have people riled up -- you know the ones who are always frantically checking to make sure strangers can't see those damning photos that have no business being online in the first ... More >>

James Hetfield to Marin Hikers: "Don't Tread on Me (Or My Property)!"

Metallica singer James Hetfield​Exit light, enter night, if you will -- but don't go entering into James Hetfield's sprawling Marin County property. The Metallica singer and rhythm guitarist erected a metal fence on his ranch that blocked off a popular trail connecting two nature preserves. S ... More >>

Off the Grid Moves Under SF Chronicle on Fridays

Google MapsFood trucks park Wednesday and now Friday right under the Chronicle's collective noses​Off the Grid has been so successful at putting street food once a week on Fifth and Minna Streets, in the alley that bisects the San Francisco Chronicle, that its appearances are doubling. Starti ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Google MapsFood trucks park Wednesday and now Friday right under the Chronicle's collective noses​Off the Grid has been so successful at putting street food once a week on Fifth and Minna Streets, in the alley that bisects the San Francisco Chronicle, that its appearances are doubling. Starti ... More >>