SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Medjool To Become Rooftop-Only Establishment Fresh off of yesterday's announcement that plans are finally in the works to fix up the New Mission Theater, Mission Street tycoon Gus Murad's other holding over at Medjool announced they will be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink "Tawdry" Bar Needs To Go, Say Gold Dust Lounge Landlords While the owners and fans of the Gold Dust Lounge don t-shirts and argue in favor of the bar's historic status before the Historic Preservation Committee today, a PR group for the Handlery
Arts & Entertainment February 14th, 2012 Declared "Tony Bennett Day" In San Francisco [Photos] As you know, San Francisco's honorary Granddad was celebrated in a ceremony at City Hall earlier today. While the emergency warning siren might have failed to entertain us, the San Francisco Boy's Chorus,
Arts & Entertainment These Adorable African Penguins Would Like To Be Your Valentine [Photos] In what has become a yearly Valentine's tradition at the California Academy of Sciences, the museum's African penguins received heart-shaped love notes from visitors yesterday afternoon. The notes, written on red heart-shaped cards,
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Be Our Valentine, San Francisco Please enjoy these vintage photos of all the long-gone San Francisco landmarks we miss so much. [CurbedSF] Paul Simon will headline San Francisco's biggest charity event of the year, The Black and White
Arts & Entertainment Tony Bennett Uses Whitney Houston's Death To Call For Legalization Of Drugs Noted crooner and Supreme Chancellor of San Francisco Tony Bennett, used the stage at Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party Saturday night to implore his audience to join his campaign to reform this country's drug
SF News Mayor Jean Quan Allegedly Tells Local Mom To Move Out Of Oakland Over in Oakland, where two separate efforts are underway to recall Mayor Jean Quan, the city's top elected official isn't exactly helping herself out in the PR department. Or the deli department either,
Arts & Entertainment Behold: Bill Murray Golfing In A Camouflage Ghillie Suit The fashion reports from Pebble Beach keep rolling in. First it was San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Cain stepping out in argyle with the Giants broadcast team and now we have 2012 Bill
SF News 19-Year-Old Shot In Bayview Sunday In the Bayview, another 19-year-old man was found shot in the back after an incident Sunday morning. The victim, who is expected to survive his gunshot wounds, told police he was standing outside
SF News San Francisco Still Exporting Chihuahuas To New York City Despite previous rescue efforts by Virgin America and S.F. Animal Care & Control, it seems San Francisco still has a surplus of the pocket-sized pooches thanks to the sort of people who
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Gavin Newsom Misses Us L'Oreal clean gel user Gavin Newsom misses being our mayor. Well, yeah, duh. Obviously. [Chron] Hipster Jack Russell window tosser won’t face charges. [SF Appeal] Clement Street neighbor protests the lack of
SF News This Week In Willie Brown: Solving The Taxi Problem Another cab driver recognized Willie Brown this week. Not only did the cabbie recognize the former mayor climbing in to the backseat, hoping to be driven down to the Hotel Vitale — but the
SF News Ingleside Heights Bathroom Drug Cook Busted, Maybe More Boring Than Expected [Updated] 33-year-old Angelic Cisneros, the woman who blew out the windows of her fiancé's Ingleside apartment while cooking up drugs in the bathroom, has been arrested for five felonies, including one count of possession
SF News N-Judah To Become Slightly More Frustrating On Weekends The city's most used (and most loved/hated) light rail line will be taking weekends off starting at the end of this month. As the Examiner explains this morning, Muni will stop running
Arts & Entertainment Lana Del Rey Performs At Amoeba Records [Video] Fresh off of a less than stellar SNL performance followed by an actually quite lovely Letterman appearance, Lana Del Rey — the lippy chanteuse with a flair for vintage California — breezed through San Francisco
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: New Bay Bridge Span Opens Labor Day 2013 The new East span of the Bay Bridge gets an official opening date: Labor Day 2013. [Chron] Patricia Unterman gives you her last-minute Valentine's dining plan. [SFEx] A defense attorney for the Muni
SF News Local Thieves Are Now Stealing Fryer Grease As it turns out copper wire and heavy metals aren't the poorest thing Bay Area thieves are ripping off these days. As CBSLocal reports this week, bandits in San Francisco have started knocking
Arts & Entertainment Entire City Required To Listen To Tony Bennett At Noon On Valentine's Day Fifty years after he debuted "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" at the Venetian Room in the Fairmont Hotel, noted San Francisco fan and former Belvedere mansion owner Tony Bennett will return
Arts & Entertainment Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone Back Together In... Line For Shoulder Surgery Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger re-united with his Expendables 2 co-star Sylvester Stallone yesterday. By sheer coincidence, the two aging action heros ended up in the same room, which also happened to be
SF News Suicidal Man Aimed To Get Himself Shot, Ends Up Assaulted By SFPD Instead A 49-year-old man attempting to lure police in to shooting him to death went on a rampage in his SoMa apartment building Tuesday night that ended in a brutal-looking punch-up from SFPD officers
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Oakland Taco Truck Owners Arm Themselves Oakland taco truck owners arm themselves. [KTVU] San Francisco's taxi fleet: the cleanest! [BCN/Appeal] Mad cow disease strikes San Rafael. [CBS5] Artist David Choe discusses gambling for Facebook millions with Howard Stern.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Meet Your New City Administrator California chefs are finally embracing the "California Cuisine" label. They were being kind of stuck up about it before. [InsideScoop] Meet Naomi Kelly, your new City Administrator. Anyway, the Weekly totally likes her.
SF News San Francisco Wins Award For Expensive Parking, Fewer Spaces Or if you want to look at it another way: San Francisco won a Sustainable Transport Award for the SFPark program's dynamic meter pricing and for replacing a citywide swath of parallel parking
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Important Hamburger News: Wise Sons Pastrami Deli Burgers Find A Permanent Home After a year of wandering the desert popping up around town, much buzzed-about pop-up (there's that word), Wise Sons Jewish Deli will gets closer to opening their doors on a legitimate retail space
SF News Paper Bag Fee Approved, Pink Plastic Bags Face Danger Of Extinction At yesterday's meeting the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a 10-cent fee for every bag (paper, compostable, or reusable) your local grocer's bagman decides to hand out. While we've gotten used to not
