SF News As City Seeks to Crack Down on Unpermitted Vendors at Fisherman's Wharf, ABC Passes Buck to DA A boom in unpermitted, illegal food, beverage, and goods sales around Fisherman's Wharf has led to widespread complaints from business owners and others.
SF Politics Scott Wiener's Bills Expanding Outdoor Drinking Rules Pass Unanimously In Committee Two outdoor booze-related bills introduced in February in the California State House by Senator Scott Wiener have passed with unanimous, bipartisan support in the Senate Governmental Organization Committee.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California ABC Agents Conduct Sting to Prevent Booze Deliveries to Minors The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) may have relaxed some of its rules around the sale of alcohol to go but that doesn't mean they've gotten relaxed about enforcement of underage drinking laws.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dreams Of Pumpkin Spice Merlot Nixed As Starbucks Withdraws Beer And Wine Applications Looks like you'll have to stick to just pouring your own damn adult beverage of choice in those morning Grandes. The Chronicle reports that Starbucks has decided to withdraw its application for a
SF News Assault Rifles, Silencers, And Grenade Launcher Seized Following Raid Of Illegal Distillery An East Bay man was apparently channeling Al Capone, as a tip to agents of the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) led not only to the discovery yesterday of an illegal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Playland On Polk Suspended For Sale Of Cocaine, Marijuana According to the website for Playland, the Polk Street bar will be closed for a "remodel" until March 3rd. But the Chronicle is implying that's some coded language, and maybe not the first
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gestalt On 16th Shut Down For Selling Weed Mission beer and bicyclist bar Gestalt Haus has had their liquor license suspended for 30 days after a doorman was caught selling marijuana. California Alcoholic Beverage Control spokesman John Carr issued a statement
Arts & Entertainment The Craziest Mob Hits, From Barbershop Ambushes To Trojan Horse Car Bombings Sponsored by ABC's new drama Red Widow: Organized crime has always thrived on intimidation and brutal acts, but sometimes the violence is unspeakably gruesome. Here are some of the most notorious mob hits,
SF News ABC Filming Pilot in SF, But What About Bravo? SF Examiner has details that ABC is filming the a new police pilot in SF. It's called True Blue. It will star Scott Foley, Marc Blucas and Theo Huxtable. And we can't imagine
SF News ABC Drops Suit Against GAMH The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, a malignant cancer attacking San Francisco's nightlife scene, has dropped its "ambiguous" suit against Great American Music Hall. It seems the ABC was upset at the O'Farrell
SF News The Latest on ABC vs. SF All-Ages Music Venues 7 x 7 created this great video featuring Dawn Holliday, co-owner of Slim's, Guy Carson, owner of Cafe Du Nord, and Amy Miller of Sonicliving.com speaking about the Alcoholic Beverage Control's recent
SF News UPDATE: DNA to Lose Liquor License? Not Likely This cannot be good. Aiding in the closure of one of the few business that make money in SF? Ugh. According to Anna Conda, former Miss Trannyshack and club promoter of Herr-A-Chick, the
SF News Fowler Hate You know greater-good types who, under the impression they're doing God's work, treat people like crap on a one-on-one basis? You know the type, right? (Because, let's face it, you might be one.
SF News Did You Ride the 33 Outbound Yesterday Afternoon? ABC 7's Dan Noyes needs your help, public transit riders! It's for a story. According to his latest tweet, "I-Team's looking for anyone aboard MUNI bus 33 outbound yesterday @3:45pm who witnessed
SF News Stephen Fowler, "Worst Husband in the World" Wow, what dicks. And not in a good way. Nasty Now Valley millionaires Stephen Fowler and his wife, venture capitalist and "certified hypnotherapist / life coach" Renee Stephens, proved themselves just trashy enough to
misc Brave ABC Affiliate Protects Los Angeles from Televised Homosexual Menace Remember the other day, we told you about a bunch of new TV ads about how gay families can actually be pleasant and likable? Well, you'll be glad to hear that the spots
misc Today in San Francisco History - The Black Cat Café Timecapsule: October 31, 1963 On Halloween night, the "Black Cat Cafe" -- that notorious, flamboyant and most historically significant of San Francisco's gay nightspots, held a final celebration before closing down for good.
SF News Get In On The Airborne Settlement! Delicious, effervescent cold remedy Airborne, it seems, exaggerated their sniffle-fighting prowess. Turns out they faked their clinical trials, and are now offering you, the customer, some cash back. According to a 2006 ABC
SF News Day Around the Bay Did you hear? Matt Gonzalez was in the news today. [SFBG] Which seawall lot plan do you like best? [Curbed] Set in SF, ABC's uses faux cable cars. The nerve! [SFGate] Frozen yogurt
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *FILM: Before she was hooked on aerobics and uttering "cunt" on live TV, Jane Fonda had a memorable career as an actress. She won her first Oscar for playing "Bree," a whore, in
SF News Bernie Ward, "Sexfairy," and Damning Evidence As many of you know, Bernie Ward, former Catholic priest and KGO 810 AM host, was fired from his job after the Feds hit him with charges of child pornography. Although he used
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight UndergroundfilmMaker Festival: It goes a little something like this, "In an era where filmmakers are called 'users' who 'generate content,' [Hey now! -- sfist] Undergroundfilm wishes to put the spotlight back where
misc News Flash: Muni Not Without Some Problems The next installment of his long-running Muni investigation airs tonight at 6pm on ABC-7, and it sounds like it's going to be awesome: after spending months pouring through Muni's complaint records (while simultaneously
SF News Zoinks: Tanker Truck Accident Shuts Down 101 in Redwood City Due to a gasoline tanker truck accident -- which resulted in an eco-unfriendly dousing of over "26 gallons" (?) of gasoline, or so said CBS 5's Judge Judy breaking-news interruption -- all northbound and
misc Day Around the Bay Tiger attack emergency 911 calls released. [ABC 7] Totally! Macworld Expo's banners blow. Hard. And not in a good way. [Curbed] MAPI is hard. [eWEEK] "Flesh-eating, sexually-transmitted bacteria" hitting SF? Oh dear. [io9]
