Arts & Entertainment Red Tricycle's Guide To Bringing Kids To Burning Man If dragging your child to a drug-fueled party in the desert is your bag, you're in luck. Parenting newsletter Red Tricycle recently published this jarring Insider’s Guide to Burning Man with Kids
SF News Meanwhile, In New York City: Mandatory Evacuations On the other coast today, Hurricane Irene prompted mandatory evacuations along coastal areas in New York City. This includes Brooklyn's Coney Island and Manhattan Beach, Broad Channel in Queens, South Beach, Midland Beach,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Reminder: Free Grilled Cheese In SOMA Today Hey, you! Go get a free grilled cheese and soup combo today at The Melt. As FunCheap reminds us, "come by the brand new location in SoMa at 115 New Montgomery from noon
SF News Colorful Infographic Details Common Cycling Injuries This nifty infographic (which you can click to enlarge) comes from the Christensen Law Firm ("Utah's bicycle lawyers"). It uses data from the Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute; Bicycle Safety Almanac's statistics on safety,
SF News Man Shot In The Mission A little after 9:45 p.m. Thursday night, a man was shot in the hip while walking near 18th and Mission Streets. "The victim was taken to San Francisco General Hospital with
Arts & Entertainment What's Going On Here, Brokenhearted Sofa? Photographer Erik Wilson (famous for his abandoned sofa oeuvre) snapped this shot of a message from brokenhearted Pappy to his very special Bugaloo. Pappy wrote similar pleas here and here. Here's to hoping
SF News Man Mugged, Slashed On Mission Street By Old Man A 27-year-old man was mugged and assaulted while walking along Mission between 16th and 17th Streets on Wednesday night. The victim "was walking along the street when a suspect approached and demanded his
Arts & Entertainment Twentysomething: Dan Johnson Welcome again to Twentysomething, SFist's newest interviewing series. What exactly is Twentysomething, you ask? Well, similar to the Proust Questionnaire or the gobbledygook heard at the end of each Inside the Actor's Studio,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: Alice Waters' Edible Schoolyard Lunch Box By Joe Payne Dutiful lunch hour wage earners lined up on Wednesday with the hopes of getting a free Chez Panisee-crafted lunch. If you recall, the fresh food philosophy maven took over Maiden
Arts & Entertainment What You Should Know About Flattening Coins On the F-Market Rail For some bored downtown workerbees, flattening coins on the F-Market track is a shiny way to pass the time. Take, for example, Matthew Knudsen, who pressed these beauties just the other day. SFist
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller Creates, Sells New Gluten-Free Flour Noted French Laundry chef Thomas Keller's philosophy goes something like this, "To make people happy...that’s what cooking is all about." Which is why, in part, he now has his own brand
SF News Tim Cook: New Apple CEO and Most Powerful Gay in America After Steve Jobs resigned as Apple CEO on Wednesday, COO Tim Cook took over, effectively becoming the most power gay man in the country. Cook's ascension, if you will, should have a profound
SF News Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO, Effective Immediately Apple CEO Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple, the company he cofounded in 1976 with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. In a letter to the Apple Board of Directors and community,
SF News Gas Leak at Howard and Beale [Updated] A gas leak at Howard and Beale streets has prompted a street closure in the area. Which is to say, avoid the area of Beale between Mission and Howard for now. Muni is
SF News We Need More LGBT Cops, Says SFPD Gay? Need a job? Want a tough job that requires patience, handling weaponry, and dealing with the public at large? Well, the San Francisco Police Department will accept Q2-Entry-Level Police Officer applications beginning
Arts & Entertainment Locals Fight to Keep China Camp State Park Open By Julie Wolfson Along the shore of San Pablo Bay in San Rafael, the beautiful views from China Camp have attracted visitors for decades. With an historic Chinese fishing village museum that tells
SF News Watch Nancy Reagan Fall Former First Lady Nancy Reagan, now 90 years old, buckled on Tuesday in front of a crowd of people and cameras while being escorted by brand spanking Tea Party favorite, U.S. Sen.
SF News Another 3.6 Earthquake Hits East Bay Yet another earthquake hit near San Leandro at 9:58 am. BART will run a bit slower for the next hour or so. This most recent quake follows last night's 3.6 quake
SF News S.F. Supervisors Chiu, Kim, and Mar Heading to Burning Man Supervisors David Chiu and Jane Kim will voyage to the annual art and drug festival in the Nevada desert known as Burning Man. For whatever reason, they plan on spending only 24 hours
SF News Man Opens Fire On Officer In Silver Terrace A cop driving home was shot at this morning. "The off-duty officer drove away from a man, who police described as only a black man, who ran up to his car around Bayshore
SF News 3.6 Earthquake Hits Bay Area On the heels of Virginia's big (?) earthquake, the Bay Area felt a 3.6 tremor hit late Tuesday night. By comparison, the quake was small and occurred a little before 11:40 pm.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Campton Place Offers Power Hour Lunch Deal Promising to get you in and out in 60 minutes, Michelin-starred Campton Place, located in Union Square, just introduced a new 3-course, prix-fixe Power Hour Business Lunch "as a tasty, healthy alternative to
