SF News Day Around the Bay Chronicle Columnist (and SFist favorite) Leah Garchik asks, "Is nudity the new dressy casual?" We ask: how can one be both "dressy" and not dressed? [Garchick] Are you old? Are you single? Do
SF News Roughly 100 Turn Out for 'Run Ed Run' Rally at City Hall On the steps of City Hall this afternoon, roughly 100 people gathered to pretend urge Temporary Mayor Ed Lee to officially enter the Mayor's Race and run for a full term in November.
Arts & Entertainment On the Calendar: Midnight Mystery Ride Promises to Be Dark, Mysterious, Boozy As far as rowdy, bike-based social events go: Critical Mass is old news. Even Nevius is all over it these days. While the now-monthly San Francisco Bike Party seems to be the current
SF News AirBnB Responds to Safety Concerns, Ransacking Victim Still Concerned for Her Safety After the story of a harrowing AirBnB hosting experience broke wide last week, both the victim Emily/E.J. and the company's CEO Brian Chesky have seen fit to respond with their respective
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller Heading to London for French Laundry Pop-Up Yes, we know. Pop-ups are over, but as with most things at Thomas Keller's exemplary French Laundry, this tidbit is of a slightly higher quality than most. Today's update from the Keller-verse comes
Arts & Entertainment Ten Brief Excerpts from the August Issue of the Nob Hill Gazette As is our monthly tradition around here, we now present our favorite utterances from the August issue of San Francisco's "most exclusive news magazine". Provided (mostly) without commentary and in no particular order.
SF News Monday Morning Roundup Your weekend Giants scores in brief: Swept by the Reds. Sadness. Despair. Zito-rage. [MLB.com] Some guy in Richmond, CA wants to collect one copy of every book ever written. We wish him
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Willie Brown The former mayor ate his way around the country again this week. On his usual San Francisco to Los Angeles to DC to New York circuit, Da Gourmayor failed to find any memorable
SF News Powell Street Cable Car Service Halted for Now Sorry Tourists and Nob Hill historic transit fans: Bay City News reports the Powell Street Cable Car lines are currently out of commission until further notice. Muni officials spotted a problem with one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anthony Bourdain Coming to Zeitgeist's Renovated Patio Noted carnivore, vernacular cuisine fan and TV personality Anthony Bourdain will be returning to San Francisco for another TV shoot next month. As the beergazers in the Mission noted yesterday, Zeitgeist spilled the
SF News Chuck Nevius, Unlikely Bicycle Advocate, Would Like Everyone to Grow Up The Chronicle's resident sit-lie advocate and Tenderloin poo surveyor, has discovered bicycles today. And behold: "Bikes are the future" ! As it turns out, even those of you who aren't "fanatic bike messenger types"
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional Tim Lincecum shook off whatever sickness had him sitting out earlier in the week to throw for six scoreless innings in Philadelphia last night. Carlos Beltran's bat didn't get ahold of anything in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Only Redistricting Map That Matters: California Organized by Proximity to In-N-Out Locations Behold: California, Animal Style. Or perhaps more accurately: what California would look like if we organized our districts by proximity to In-N-Out Burger Locations. From the delightfully geographic mind of Yo-Shang Cheng, who
SF News Giants Memorabilia Thief Arrested at Walnut Creek Motel 6 After a careless man lost his Hyundai full of Willie McCovey-signed baseball gear outside of a Walnut Creek McDonald's on Monday, authorities in the East Bay tracked down and arrested the caught-on-camera thief
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Columnist Laments the Red Vic's Popcorn Seasonings "In my usual high-minded state, I was wondering what would happen to the leftover candy, but the counter stock already looked depleted. Not so the plastic bottles of popcorn seasoning - Chinese Five
SF News San Francisco Woman's Apartment Ransacked by Seemingly Cordial AirBnB Renter A San Francisco woman who rented out her apartment on AirBnB, a service that allows people to rent out their spare rooms or entire apartments as vacation rentals without the icky feeling that
SF News Circumcision Ban Won't Pop Up on November Ballot In the latest news around the proposed circumcision ban, a San Francisco Superior Court Judge has tentatively ruled that the proposed ordinance should not be allowed on the November ballot. Although there are
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup Matt Cain fares better in Philly than Zito did the other night and we end up with a very Giants-like 2-1 win. Brian Wilson Savewatch 2011 hits 32 on the season. [MLB.com]
Arts & Entertainment Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Getting right down to the big issues this week (because SFGovTV's footage of yesterday's meeting inexplicably cuts off the first 45 minutes of administrative items), let's talk about those Muni bus wraps. The
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Weeklies: July 27, 2011 July is harsh in San Francisco and the midday sun will soon give way to another night of cold, misty fog. Should you need a disposable blanket and/or bit of kindling, you'll
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Today's Booze News: Market Street Safeway Likely Adding Wine Tastings Oenophiles and winedrunk sensible shoppers in the Castro, Upper Market and Lower Haight neighborhoods rejoice: you might soon be able to slip in a free tipple while shopping for toilet paper, to-go sushi
SF News Muni Vehicles to Get More Corporate-Sponsored Decorations Or "advertisements" as people in the business like to call them. At yesterday's meeting, the Board of Supervisors narrowly approved an initiative to allow the SFMTA to completely cover Muni buses and trains
SF News Kenneth Harding's Brother Arrested in Connection with Seattle Homicide While the SFPD continues to sort out the Kenneth Harding shooting-death case, Chronicle reports today that Harding's older brother Ondrell Harding is now wanted in connection with the beating death of a 50-year-old
SF News Car Loaded with Giants Memorabilia Stolen from Walnut Creek McDonald's On Monday morning, a man driving a silver Hyundai carrying a cargo of baseball bats and balls signed by San Francisco Giants legend Willie McCovey left the keys in the ignition while he
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump Last night, Barry Zito replaced Tim Lincecum to start the Giants' first meeting against the Phillies since last season. Zito let four runs get away from him in the first inning alone. Final
