SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Presidio Social Club Exempt From Foie Gras Ban Like a scared duck fighting to get that steel tube away from its beak, the effort to eschew the foie gras ban just won't die. This week's news comes from Presidio Social Club,
Arts & Entertainment Nina Arianda To Play Janis Joplin In Big Screen Biopic Enough of this sports talk. Let's get down to serious business: Tony Award-winning actress playing dead divas. Nina Arianda, who recently nabbed best actress honors at the Tonys for her work in Venus
Arts & Entertainment 7 Reasons To Love San Francisco There are countless stories to tell in San Francisco, but sometimes a picture says so much more that mere words. Each Tuesday we present to you 7 Reasons. (Our sister site LAist does
Arts & Entertainment To The Chagrin of Dickey'd Over Fans, Matt Cain Picked To Lead All-Star Game This week marks the annual like-it-or-hate-it week of baseball since it's the kickoff of the 2012 All-Star Game for the National League. Also this week, it was announced that Giants perfect-gamer Matt Cain,
SF News Three Shot During Separate Oakland Robberies Violence in Oakland escalated after a particularly brutal weekend. Three men were shot during separate incidents on Monday night in different parts of East Oakland. At around 12:10 a.m. this morning,
SF News Day Around The Bay: City College Might Close City College on the brink! [KQED] Louis CK's direct-sales concert so far: $6MM. [Boing Boing] And you weekend traffic disruptions are... [SF Appeal] 8,000 mobile devices left at top U.S. airports.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saturday: Free Cream Puff Day at Dianda's! Be sure to haul yourself over to the Mission tomorrow to partake in two things at Dianda's. First, at noon the noted Italian bakery will have a cake cutting ceremony to honor their
Arts & Entertainment Does San Francisco Need A Dutch Urban Cycling Infrastructure? By Alissa de Vogel Amsterdam is frequently and enthusiastically heralded as the best city in the world for cyclists, and for good reason. The entire city and outlying areas are covered with physically
SF News I'm Still Innocent, Says Convicted Murderer Scott Peterson Sentenced to death for murdering his pregnant wife Laci, who was carrying their unborn kid Conner, Scott Peterson still maintains his innocence. On Thursday, the charming Modesto killer filed for automatic appeal of
SF News 5-Fulton Bus Runs Over Man's Arm Over in the Outer Richmond on Thursday afternoon, an unidentified man and a 5-Fulton bus met under grisly circumstances. The collision, reported at 2:57 p.m., happened near the intersection of Cabrillo
SF News Innocent Dolores Park Trashed By Hipsters, Holiday Revelers! The typically peaceful and friendly Dolores Park was shattered after holiday attendees trashed the noted Mission/Castro park during the 4th of July. For shame! "The Dolores Park crowd, estimated to number about
SF News Marina Garbage Trashes Fort Mason...Again [Updated] The flaccid fratboys and aging sorority girls of the Marina have done it again. Not learning their lesson from in April of this year, San Francisco's most troublesome social strata layer trashed the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold, the Beta Bacon Breaded Chicken Breast And now, for your summer viewing/eating enjoyment, the kids at Bacon Bacon food truck have something they're working on. They write, "A little research and development at HQ today. Why use bread
SF News Gay Fathers Ruining Hot Gay Sex, Says New Study Gay dads. They're the worst. First, they rub in our face that they're got their collective shit together via strolling freshly born wee ones around the Castro, giving gay brethern the stink-eye all
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Crème Brûlée Man Coming To SoMa Walk-Up Window Word has it Curtis Kimball's Crème Brûlée (which can currently be found in both mobile and cart forms) will get a semi-permanent home on Folsom. Proving that once again the Mission is not
Arts & Entertainment Important Cycling News: 9th Annual 4th of July Tricycle Races at Pop's by Alissa de Vogel The Tour de France is happening right now, but more importantly yesterday was the 9th annual 4th of July tricycle race at Pop's over on 24th and York. Unlike
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bay Area's Independence Day Fireworks Finale While nowhere near close to matching the accidentally brilliance that went down in San Diego, here is the finale from last night's Independence Day fireworks spectacular. Enjoy. Via SandD2012/YouTube
SF News Bay Bridge Shooting Closes Lower Lanes All but two lanes on the lower deck of the Bay Bridge are open this morning (upper deck is also a mess) after a shooting prompted the closure. According to SF Appeal, 'Sporadic
SF News Day Around The Bay: 'The Silence of the Trans' Holy smokes, it's the preview for The Silence of the Trans starring Sharon Needles & Peaches Christ! * faint * [Peaches Christ] Rockstar Mayhem Fest 2012? Why not. [SF Appeal] Dead robbery suspect IDd as
SF News Breaking: Medical Emergency Prompts BART Shutdown [UPDATED] [Update: BART has resumed normal service.] Yikes! Two of the five Bart lines have been shut down this afternoon due to a medical emergency on a train at the Embarcadero station. "The Richmond
Arts & Entertainment Another Car Drives Into Cement Construction Site; Tourists Look On In Awe Oh geez. Following on the zippy heels of this Porsche that crashed into a Marina cement construction site in February, this unfortunate family wagon seems to have crashed into a cement construction site
SF News Oakland Tribune Photog Robbed While On Assignment An Oakland Tribune photographer was robbed of her equipment while on assignment on Monday. She wasn't hurt, but certainly shaken. The Tribune reports: "Laura Oda, a chief photographer for the Bay Area News
