The drink is called the Recoil because we like to use Bulleit (pronounced like bullet) Bourbon and it goes down easy but it has a kick. Kinda cheesy, I know. I like the drink because it's really balanced and can appeal to all different kinds of drinkers. Whiskey drinkers like it because you can taste the bourbon and it's not too sweet. However, it's sweet enough to appeal to those that like sugary stuff. And lets face it, you can add St. Germain to just about anything and it makes it taste better. It's like bacon that way. more ›

What is it with the people in this city and their obsessive need to tinker with things that aren't broken as a way of drawing attention away from things that actually are? It's like, Muni doesn't work, so let's ban salt within city limits because that's like a far more serious issue to contend with than like getting people to actual places away from their houses, you know? more ›

We, the chosen ones, remember bar & bat mitzvah season clearly. There would be this six-month period where fat, shiny envelopes arrived in your mailbox by the pound, inviting you to share in the newfound adulthood of someone who probably ignored you in Hebrew School. So, you'd sack up, buy them a neon bubble chair, don your most impressive mini-skirt and dance all afternoon with the hired backup dancers while "Cotton Eyed Joe" blared in the background... more ›

Although Dolores Park will undergo a lengthy renovation process, a plan that's been in the works for quite some time, this hasn't stopped people from losing their collective feces over the park's estimated year-long closure. Everywhere from SFist's initial post on the closure to comment threads to this Facebook page, folks are curled up in the fetal position, bathed in a pool of their own tears and drool over their precious patch of grass. more ›

"Garden Signs" by technomonk. more ›

We came across these delicious-looking brownies by Jessie Oleson of Cakespy via Serious Eats the other day and thought they'd be a sweet ending to the Super Bowl themed recipes. more ›

For some time now we've been following the progress of the amusingly titled Superb Art Museum of America, which remains papered over but with an impressive new, neo-classical facade at 1025 Market (between 6th and 7th). Curbed became intrigued early last year when the building's name got engraved, they connected it to some Buddhists, and then in December revealed the bizarre, cavernous interior which appears to have a large water feature with a foot bridge. We're now connecting this to the rumors we heard over the last couple years about Buddhists taking over the Hibernia Bank (a deal which must have fallen through, if it was ever a reality). more ›

MUSICAL: The Marsh presents the Marsh Youth Theater’s (MYT’s) Teen Troupe in the premiere of The Wave, a musical by Ron Jones, based on his real-life classroom experiment on fascism that he conducted at Cubberley High School in Palo Alto in 1967. The musical runs through this weekend and next. more ›

Assuming you've given any thought at all to such things, you may have believed, as we did, that the Timothy McSweeney who figures in the name of Dave Eggers' ten-year-old literary journal and website was a fiction. It turns out, the man was real, and died last month, and Dave now explains for the first time that he was a mentally ill member of a family with the same last name as Eggers' maternal grandfather, and who used to write letters addressed to both Dave and his mother when Dave was a kid. It turns out that Eggers' grandfather was the attending obstetrician at Timothy McSweeney's birth in Boston, and from the birth certificate Timothy assumed that he was related to these McSweeneys. He taught studio art at Rutgers before later being confined to an institution, where he presumably still lives, from whence he wrote the letters that entranced little Dave and inspired the name for his quarterly concern. more ›

Number of people pictured in this week's Miss Bigelow's Social City: 28 more ›

Get out there and shoot some photos of your favorite neighborhood spots this weekend, or dig through your archives. Good Magazine, in partnership with Pictory Magazine, is looking for some great shots of local spots to include in their upcoming Neighborhoods Issue, such as a "bar, coffee shop, library, park, bench, record shop, water fountain—whatever it is that gives you that 'I love this neighborhood' feeling." Pictory will also include the winning shots in one of their showcases. more ›