Arts & Entertainment Go To This Thing Tonight: Weegee If you're like us, your personal library is riddled with true crime books and, far more lurid, true crime photo books. Tonight the Jewish Contemporary Museum will review the life, work, and legacy
Arts & Entertainment Video: Starling Murmuration In Downtown S.F. Our dear friends at Barbary Coast Consulting captured this mesmerizing video of a starling murmuration. What makes this video so special, compared to other murmuration videos, is that this one occurs in downtown
Arts & Entertainment Perfect Man Has 'Brown Hair With Green Eyes,' Say S.F. Women In linkbait news, WhatsYourPrice.com, billed as "the world’s largest dating-auction website" (i.e., a charitable RentBoy.com for straight people), surveyed 3,352 San Francisco ladies in order to determine our
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Butchers Talk About Meat, Cutting, And More "I just like to cut shit," says Ryan Farr of 4505 Meats in the latest video from Thrash Lab, a short doc focusing on young folks in the butchery game. Another red-hot food
Arts & Entertainment After Skewering Hippie School, Jimmy Kimmel Asked To Be Commencement Speaker In a November 27 Jimmy Kimmel Live episode, the titular host poked fun at the Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research at HSU, jesting that to get into the school “you have to
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At 16th And Mission Today... Travis Jensen snapped this shot of a guy with his sports bag strap around his head. Why not?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Map: Dine About Town 2013 View San Francisco Dine About Town 2013 - Restaurants in a larger map The fine folks at Google sent us this map that, from January 15 - 31, you can use to peruse
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Why, God, Why: Marlena's Closing [Updated] Please don't call in a 5150, concerned readers, but we don't want to live in a world with no Marlena's, Hayes Valley's single greatest bar, gay or otherwise. Why, just last Friday your
Arts & Entertainment The Best Non-Gym Workouts In San Francisco Here in San Francisco, our workout options are somewhat limited due to the fact that it's a hell of a hilly town and it's freezing (for Californians, anyway). But going to the gym
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sean Penn Saves Tosca (Sort Of) Big, wonderful news in the bar world today, folks. Business Times reports today that iconic North Beach bar Tosca (242 Columbus) will receive new owners. Furthermore, a Michelin-starred chef will be in charge.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Google's First Chef To Honor Elvis' Birthday Tonight Did you know that today is Elvis' birthday? (Is there a sign more unfortunate being born under than that of Capricorn? [Hi, Andrew!]) And with that, we must tell you that Chef Charlie
Arts & Entertainment Candlestick Prayer Candles For Superstitious 49ers Fans Before we go on, please read Katie Baker's excellent piece on the Steubenville rape case in Ohio. It's all about, among other things, how we can finally stop pretending that athletes (e.g.
SF News Video: Googling In North Korea! On Monday, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt arrived in North Korea with former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson on a humanitarian mission. Today the duo visited a computer lab at Kim Il Sung
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink $1 Coffee At 7-Eleven On Wednesdays We interrupt your regularly scheduled food reading about Mission pop-ups and pickled baby legs to bring you this important announcement: 7-Eleven, purveyor of the world's greatest late-night drunken snacks and cigarettes, will offer
SF News Tanker Hits Bay Bridge, Escapes 2007 Cosco Busan Horror On Monday afternoon, a tanker collided into the number four tower of the Bay Bridges. The tanker, an empty one called the Overseas Reymar, was moving north out of the Bay when it
SF News Day Around The Bay: Help Woman With Her Cancer Treatment! Getting to know the Heights, San Francisco's newest condo development. [Curbed] College massacre suspect One Goh declared incompetent. [Chronicle] Relatives remember slain Berkeley woman. [Berkeleyside] Sidewalk shrooms! [Mission Mission] Bernal woman seeks assistance
Arts & Entertainment Niners-Packers Playoff Tickets On Sale Now Quick reminder (not that you need one), but the 49ers are in the playoffs. Which means that tickets for Sunday's Divisional Round playoff game between SF and Green Bay Packers are on sale.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Johnny Rockets, Chez Papa Resto Closing After two decades in Pac Heights, Johnny Rockets closed over the weekend. Inside Scoop reports: "With the windows papered up this weekend, the employees left a farewell note to the neighborhood, expressing gratitude
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Union Square Sunday Morning "Union Square Sunday 7 a.m." by Demetrios Lyras.
SF News Man Struck, Killed By Train In Hayward A southbound Amtrak train killed an unidentified person along the tracks between Hayward and Fremont a little before 7:45 a.m. this morning. According to Contra Costa Times, "Amtrak train No. 523
SF News Google's Eric Schmidt In North Korea On 'Humanitarian Mission' Billed as "a private, humanitarian mission," Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt arrived in North Korea on Monday. The noted internet powerhouse traveled to the sketchy country with Bill Richardson, former New Mexico governor
SF News Day Around The Bay: New Music Behold, a new music blog featuring one of the city's best writers! [The City] Legendary Bay Area prep football coach announces retirement. [KTVU] Cottage food entrepreneurs on hold. [Inside Scoop] Pelosi to appear
