In new year revamp news, noted Haight Street dive bar Murio's Trophy Room has been transformed with a new, slightly slicker look. After closing a closing a few months back to update the always charming "random stuff on the wall" theme, Inside Scoop reports the venue for many a Roller Derby afterparty has thrown open their new floor-to-ceiling windows to welcome patrons to a sleek new space featuring, most strikingly, actual tables at which to sit down. more ›

As local, national, and worldwide print publishing continues to take a brutal, Christ-like thrashing -- take, for example, the San Jose Mercury News' recent layoffs and a 30% drop in the San Francisco Chronicle's daily circulation -- the time-honored watering hole for "crusty but benign" journos, it seems, has also taken a beating. more ›