FILM: Roxie Theater kicks off its week-long Hollywood Before the Code series tonight, featuring films produced before 1932 that are filled with "erotically charged images, dangerous, graphic violence, and bizarrely aberrant behavior." Tonight's double feature is Scarface and Three on a Match. (6:45 to 9:45 p.m. or 8 to 11 p.m., Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street) more ›

Challah! Whether hard or soft opening (ew), Wise Sons is sorta, but pretty much open for business starting today. We're being told it's a "soft" opening, so you might want to give them a call beforehand to make certain-certain that they're open before heading over to quell your bialy fix this weekend, but, whatever, they're totally open. While the grand opening will be on the 22nd, but you can absolutely still get some grub in the meantime. more ›

A particular highlight of this week's First Thursday open galleries at 49 Geary (and elsewhere around town) is a show of exquisite, large-scale color photo portraits by Richard Learoyd at the Fraenkel Gallery. Each unique direct-positive image is made with a giant camera that is basically two rooms with a lens mounted between them. This modern day Vermeer has had one of his portraits attracting unprecedented buzz at SFMOMA over the past few months, and now here's a chance to bask in the magnificent glow of dozens more of his masterworks, even for those of us who can't afford the tens of thousands of dollars to take one home. more ›

Well, we tried. And failed. See, after EaterWire told us about Thomas Keller "catering the grand opening party at the new Prada flagship" in downtown SF, we got moist thinking about attending the minimalist designer's latest unveiling to snap up a few pics, rub elbows with San Francisco Magazine folks, and maybe steal an accessory or eight. That is, until we couldn't get clearance from Allison Speer PR who told us, ahem, "[w]e are at capacity and i can not [sic] admit additional names," going to on tell SFist "[w]e reviewed your sigth [sic] and are UNABLE to accommodate your request." more ›

SFist Jim reports that he went to the reopening of the San Francisco Zoo today, where he snapped the picture, above, of the tributes being placed at the zoo's tiger statue, and which he described as "a big bust." When we first read SFist Jim's email, we thought he was talking about the tiger statue (we were like, "they made a bust of Tatiana? So fast!"), but no, he meant the crowds, which were sparse to the point where there was more media there than zoo visitors. more ›

BeyondChron has a civil point/counter-point debate going on about Yoshi's SF, which opens its doors today. But let's go back a bit, shall we? If you didn't know, San Francisco has the most cheery pockmark on its record: the "Negro removal" period. During this time historic buildings were torn down and black Western Addition residents were shooed out of the city. A movement that "never succeeded in driving all blacks from the Fillmore," but... more ›

How the church appeared on November 13. This Friday -- Black Friday -- Michaela Alioto-Pier's little neighborhood that thrives on ridicule will become a little more ridicule-less. At 9 a.m., Pacific Standard Time, on the day of November twenty-third, two thousand and seven, the store at 2125 Chestnut will open its doors. And at that moment? Apple will welcome in its third San Francisco store, completing the trilogy started by its flagship location on... more ›