SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Locanda Expertly Described by Willie Brown If we may Brown-block Andrew Dalton's excellent Friday feature on former SF Mayor Willie Brown, the noted power player-cum-freebie king just published yet another seamless post at Inside Scoop. It's genius. Sheer genius.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: My First Earthquake's 'Enya Got Nothing' Made with 1,300 balloons and 5 coats of make-up, My First Earthquake just released a video for "Enya Got Nothing" from their second full-length album, Friction. And what does this matter to
SF News Drunk Woman Crashes Into Fire Station Drunk drivers. They're the scum on the Earth, right? Right. Well, what about if you're a drunk driver who gets in a car with your daughter and then crashes into a fire house?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pizza Hut Bans Man Wearing for Drag Pizza Hut, noted purveyors of the Personal Pan Pizza (do they still carry those?), sits in hot water this morning after 86ing a male customer for wearing drag. Vishon Murphy was apparently asked
SF News Hayes Valley Murder Victim Identified The Chronicle reports that the 20-year-old man shot and killed in Hayes Valley on Monday has been identified as Sean Wilson. Officers responded to a shooting at Webster and Hayes in San Francisco
SF News '$2000 Rap Contest' Flyer Question Answered Like others, Andrew Dudley of Haighteration was baffled by the many, many, many $2000 Rap Contest flyers that seemingly popped up all over San Francisco this past weekend. To find our more, Dudley,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Brian Wilson Loves Gary Danko, Juanita More Eats, Pa. Joint Bans Kids Gary Danko, you are one lucky man. Noted Giants closer and all-around meaty stud Brian Wilson sang your titular restaurant praises on Monday night. Which, well... it doesn't get much better than that,
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 or Wednesday, we present to you 7 Reasons. (Our sister site
Arts & Entertainment Open Casting Call: Hep B 2012 Calendar Well, this looks like fun. The folks at Asian Week are looking for "enthusiastic and passionate" Asian American models for the 2012 Hepatitis B Awareness calendar. Used to encourage the public to "be
SF News Last Night's Hayes Valley Murder: S.F. Homicide #30 A little before 11:30 p.m. Monday night, police officers responded to a shooting at Webster and Hayes in San Francisco. Once the fuzz arrived, "they found a man in his 20s
SF News Fan Almost Plummets from Stands During Home Run Derby Ugh, exhibition season is upon us. Now that that's out of the way, during last night's Home Run Derby a fan almost fell from the stands to the pool deck below. (Yes, there
SF News Michele Bachmann Signs Racist Pledge Declaring Black Children Were Better Off Slaves Avowed racist Rep. Michele Bachmann, the GOP presidential candidate, signed an anti-Christian conservative pledge last week stating that among other things, according to the Telegraph, "African American children were more likely to grow
Arts & Entertainment Portishead Coming to Berkeley The grating '90s revival continues at fullblast with a not-so-grating '90s band coming to town. "British downtempo" group Portishead just announced their first North American tour in 13 years, which will include a
SF News Cycling On City Streets Linked to Heart Risks Just what we've always expected, driving in a 2011 BMW X5 is safer and healthier than riding your bike along city streets. According to the Chronicle, "A new study published in the journal
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour "I am not sure the new ad campaign for crystal meth is going to be too effective," photographer Darwin Bell explained to SFist after seinding in this shot.
SF News No Leads in Philip DiMartino Murder Case After Almost One Year San Francisco Police Department is offering $25,000 in information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for the brutal stabbing death of Philip DiMartino. On August 2, 2010
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Charles Phan Announces Plans for Old Slanted Door Space After closing the Mission locale over nine years ago -- has it really been nine years?! -- Charles Phan recently told Tamara Palmer what he plans on doing with the old Slanted Door
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Stuff Alert: 7-Eleven's Free Slurpee Day is Today Today, Monday July 11, you'll be able to pick up a free Slurpee in celebration of the company's 84th anniversary. A 7-11 VP says in a press release that "July is the biggest
SF News Naked Woman Armed with Gun and High on Drugs Threatens Super 8 Motel Staff Early Sunday morning, a nude woman armed with a gun and high on marijuana and ecstasy confronted a motel clerk at the Super 8 in Vacaville. The lunacy started around 2:40 a.
SF News Threatening Sticker Diverts SFO Flight to Germany A United Airlines flight from SFO to Frankfurt, Germany needed to make an emergency stop in Chicago on Sunday. It seems that a crew member discovered a "sticker with a threatening message in
SF News Day Around the Bay Pizza Orgasmica agrees to change its paint color to appease Orange County-like mentality in San Rafael . [Inside Scoop] 5 reasons Californians aren't as fat as the rest of America. [SF Weekly] Major SOMA
SF News Downed Bus Wires Reroute Muni Lines Eight major Muni lines are affected tonight after power lines went down at Mission and Front in downtown San Francisco. The following Muni lines were rerouted due to the downed lines: F-Market, 6-Parnassus,
Arts & Entertainment Celebrate Zoetrope's Summer Issue, July 19 Featuring new fiction from Stuart Dybek, as well as Emily Ruskovich and May-Lan Tan making their literary debuts, the summer issue of Zoetrope features a cover designed by Beck. Yes, that Beck. You
