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On Saturday, a chocolaty holiday marketplace will take over the San Francisco Chocolate Factory .

San Francisco police arrested two women and a juvenile boy after a robbery in the city's South of Market District sparked a pursuit across the Bay Bridge into Oakland Thursday morning, a police lieutenant said.

Driven by the squalling vocals and versatile technique of guitarist John Baizley the band has exceeded the high hopes of their fans with an offering that combines muscular riffing, allusive Southern flair, and affecting dynamics.

MUSIC In late October, I spent a particularly thrilling evening at Annie's Social Club, watching North Carolina-by-way-of-Venus band Valient Thorr fling copious sweat beads into a beer-soaked crowd.

Annie Whiteside, backstage at X in 2008. New Year's Eve marks the close of more than a calendar decade - it's also the last night the lowbrow Folsom Street institution Annie's Social Club will be open.

This little "warehouse in the heart of SOMA" is, for once, the kind of live/work space that isn't advertised as such in a glossy brochure.

Eric Barnes, 28, and Stanley Jacks Jr., 25, were each found guilty last month of three counts of felony vehicular manslaughter in the July 16, 2005 crash that killed Giulia Adesso, 26, Benjamin Boussert, 27, and Jason Choy, 29.

It's been quite the ride, these last 10 years, but the '00s have just about come to an end.

Firefighters in San Francisco extinguished two vehicle fires in the city's South of Market District Thursday morning.

San Francisco's endless hills can be daunting, especially across several days of sightseeing.

Chrome Bags has undertaken a new initiative to further root themselves in the local bicycle community that affords them much of their customer base: using bicycle couriers to deliver bags in San Francisco.

Some details have finally been released about the ~CREDO~ project due to open in the Financial District at the end of December/beginning of the New Year.

Newly-opened SOMA coffeeshop Wicked Grounds has created a unique space for itself at the intersection of two highly-fetishized San Francisco lifestyles, coffee drinking and BDSM .

Mission Bay Drive, the short, stubby road connecting Seventh and Berry streets across the Caltrain tracks, opened on Oct.

This section is written by Erin Archuleta, half of the talent behind local outfit ICHI Catering .

The late, great Herb Caen used to take walks around San Francisco and write about what he saw.

Driven by slow sales, high rents and a yearning for experimentation, San Francisco's art gallery owners are leaving traditional art districts like Union Square for unique spaces and new neighborhoods.

The cultural events of fall can be overwhelming. It's almost as if the arts and design are ready to harvest just like the bounty of nature.

The front page of today's San Francisco Examiner . Are Muni's days on Market Street numbered? That's the gist of the front-page headline in the SF Examiner today, which suggests that Mayor Gavin Newsom has a bold plan to move all bus lines and the F-line historic streetcar line onto side streets to make way for a glorious ...

For all its charms, San Francisco falls sadly short when it comes to late-night dining.