SF News New Valencia Street Music Venue, Preservation Hall West, To Open Early October Preservation Hall West, an expansion of the historic New Orleans Jazz hall, will become San Francisco's (and the Mission's) newest music venue when it opens its doors just in time for the annual
SF News NASA Moves Space Shuttle Endeavour Flyover to Friday, Releases Additional Details Heads up, Space Camp alumni: due to inclement weather forecasts down in Florida, NASA has postponed the Space Shuttle Endeavour's Bay Area flyover to this Friday, September 21st. In addition to the change
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Mission Playground Reopens Former Hyphy Short Bus now doing service signing up new voters in the Bayview [SFAppeal] Ta-da, the Mission Playground is now (re-)opened for your kids' enjoyment. [MissionLocal] People actually want to eat
SF News Day Around The Bay: Is Zuckerberg The New Elvis? "In the case of celebrity, Mr. Zuckerberg seems to be the Elvis Presley of our era." — That and other insights on celebrity from this week's TechCrunch Disrupt Conference. [NYT] The S.F. Zoo
Arts & Entertainment Have You Seen This Missing Gutter Punk? If you have, please send him home. According to the flyer, his parents love him and his trust fund is waiting. Spotted in Hayes Valley by Courtney. And we're digging it. Very Wendy
SF News 67-Year-Old Man Assaulted In Hospital Bathroom A 67-year-old man was grabbed by the neck and dragged out of a stall in a first-floor bathroom at St. Francisco Memorial Hospital in Nob Hill earlier this week. The 41-year-old suspect reportedly
SF News Space Shuttle Endeavour To Buzz San Francisco Thursday, September 20th On the morning of September 20th, the 12 year old in all of us will be stirred awake by the sight of Space Shuttle Endeavour flying low over San Francisco and her many
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Well-Lit Places To Meet For Your First Online Date Here's adorable pastry chef (and Top Chef winner) Yigit Pura all dolled up for the opening of his new Tout Sweet Patisserie. [SFWire] Updates on the NIMBY drama in Lafayette Park. [CurbedSF] Where
SF News Day Around The Bay: Prehistoric Mammoth Discovered Beneath New Transbay Center Construction workers at the new Transbay Transit Center site uncovered parts of a prehistoric Columbian Mammoth. [SFAppeal] Mingling with San Francisco's party crasher culture. [7x7] Gotye spotted bowling in the Mission. Now he's
SF News One Woman's Harrowing Account Of Sexual Assault On Muni Earlier this week, one local woman shared her harrowing story of the sort of inexcusable behavior that is unfortunately still all too common in every woman's day-to-day life. And it happened on a
SF News BART Agents Fighting Losing War On Rats While we always felt that the Bay Area's subterranean public transit systems were never as overrun with rodents as say the New York City subway, it turns out the folks who are down
SF News Stick Deemed 'Deadly Weapon' In Golden Gate Park Ranger Assault On Monday, we shared the story of a stubborn homeless guy who attacked a Park Ranger with a stick, forcing said ranger to call for police backup. That suspect has been identified as
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: A Dolores Park Coffee Cart No One Could Be Mad At Can you help SFPD solve this Divisadero Street homicide? [SFAppeal] The Coffee Nomad's Dolores park coffee cart is so adorable, who could be mad at it? [GrubSF] What's happening at the Odd Fellows
Arts & Entertainment Gallery: Special Delivery's Massive Street Art Museum Endless Canvas' warehouse-turned-graffiti gallery opened last weekend and the hordes of street art aficionados and photographers we on hand at the Carbon Warehouse (formerly the Flint Ink factory) at 4th and Gilman in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Luminaries To Discuss SF Food Scene At Pop-Up Clothing Retailer Thursday night, Uniqlo's Union Square pop-up store will host a discussion panel featuring white-hot local food experts like Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien, Commonwealth's Jason Fox, Brandon Jew of Bar Agricole and Chad
SF News Ruffian Arrested For AT&T Park Bathroom Assault A 26-year-old man from Grass Valley, California was arrested Sunday evening after assaulting a 21-year-old victim in a bathroom at AT&T Park during the always tense Giants-Dodgers series this weekend. According
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Top Execs Fleeing Zynga San Francisco Firefighters remember their experiences at Ground Zero. [KTVU] Yesterday's Giants game had . [McCoveyChron] Top execs are fleeing Zynga as the social games maker starts to lose its shine. [SFEx] Even more
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: MC Hammer Handing Out Grilled Cheeses From A Food Truck Barge We've already expressed some thoughts about The Melt's trend-busting publicity stunt that happened on Sunday. The Bay Area, Calif.-based and quick grilled cheese chain combines the ease of Starbucks with all the
SF News Homeless Guy Attacks Golden Gate Park Ranger With A Stick This morning around 10 a.m., a homeless man in Golden Gate Park became violent when a park ranger approached him in the park. The homeless man apparently did not like being hassled
SF News Hacker Goes After GoDaddy.com, Takes Down Millions Of Websites A hacker and security activist associated with the Anonymous collective is claiming responsibility for an attack on GoDaddy.com's widely used web hosting and doman registration service that darkened a large swath of
SF News Man Seriously Injured In Early Morning Shooting Near Union Square Just after midnight early Sunday morning, a man was shot by three suspects on the first block on Ellis Street near Market Street. The three suspects were walking with the victim before they
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Museum Workers Arrested At de Young Demonstration Nineteen museum workers arrested at de Young Museum demonstration. [SFAppeal] Muni is getting 45 new hybrid buses, probably still going to be late all the time. [Chron] Some folks want to make In-N-Out
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Only Rap Video Ever Made About Wine Country This video, produced by and for "connoisseurs of fine wine with a gangsta sensibility," has all the rap video tropes we could ask for: gold chains, babes writhing sensually, unnecessary black-and-white shots, and
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing This Weekend: Special Delivery's Massive Graffiti Museum We mentioned it last week, but now that the location and details of Endless Canvas' 36,000-square-foot ad hoc street art museum have been revealed, the event will make a rad addition to
SF News Two Richmond District Porta-Potties Went Up In Flames Last Night In what could be the return of the infamous toilet torcher, or just the work of some mischievous neighborhood punks, Bay City News reports two portable toilets were "engulfed in flames" in the
