Arts & Entertainment Adele Cancels Tour Due to Illness British singer Adele, scheduled to perform at the Greek Theatre at U.C. Berkeley on Saturday, June 4, has canceled the North American leg of her tour. Citing laryngitis, Adele explains on her
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pork Competition Cochon 555 Returns This Sunday This year's annual bacchanalia of pork and wine, Cochon 555, rears its savory head on Sunday, June 5. Will you be there? Well, you should. "Officially, the event is all about promoting heritage
SF News Giants General Manager Slams Scott Cousins Buster Posey's collision with Marlins rookie Scott Cousins still has fans and teammaktes alike livid. And rightfully so. The crash yanked the noted Rookie of the Year out for the rest of the
SF News K-T Morning Commuters Get Stuck on Barfy Train A morning Muni nightmare occurred Thursday when a passenger lost his breakfast (or Wednesday night's dinner, we don't know what kind of morning meal habits you people have) on an outbound K-T train.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Happy National Doughnut Day! Today, June 3, is National Doughnut Day. If pressed, one can get a free sweet treat at your nearest Dunkin Donut or Krispy Kreme. Or, better yet, you can get a free donut
SF News Kid Serve's Founder Charged With Child Porn Anthony Josef Norris, 46, the founder and director of Kid Serve Youth Mural, was charged with possession of child pornography. He surrendered to FBI agents yesterday morning, who "reportedly traced Norris’ log-on name
SF News Day Around the Bay Cabbies can be horrible, even outside their insane stance on medallions. Here's one lunatic driver who freaked out over a credit card payment. [SF Appeal] Garrido 'monsters' get long jail sentences. [Chron] Sick
Arts & Entertainment Tonight Addendum: Benefit for Capp Street Fire Victims On May 13, if you recall, a fire displaced residents of 506 Capp Street. A fundraiser will be held at Tope in North Beach to help them reclaim their lives. Head over to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Divis Bi-Rite Opening Pushed Back to 2012 The city's happening -- yes, happening -- Divis/NOPA/Western Addition arrondissement must wait to get their hands on artisan Bi-Rite products. Why? Because they're delaying their Divisaadero store's opening date to 2012,
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour As many of you know by now, local designer Joshua Kaufman had his laptop stolen from his Oakland apartment on March 21. Several months (and many instances of MSM breathlessly overusing the term
Arts & Entertainment Ask SFist: Parties Showing National Spelling Bee Finals? We've long since given up expecting San Francisco bars to know how to use their expensive flatscreen TVs to their full advantage. Venues in Castro District, for example, seem woefully unaware of the
Arts & Entertainment Here's a Rock That Looks Like San Francisco Photographer Ariel Dovas spotted this rock that looks like the city of San Francisco. Ta-da.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold the New USDA Food Plate Against the wishes of some knee-jerk conservatives, the USDA food pyramid is now a thing of the past. Good riddance. That construct was a terror on our nation. With that, First Lady Michelle
SF News Sunset Sex Attack Suspect At-Large A woman was groped and sexually assaulted on the N-Judah and on the street this past Sunday. The victim, who described her attacker as "an Asian man in his 20s," boarded an outbound
SF News Day Around the Bay Rejected Giants 'It Gets Better' video idea too hot for YouTube. [djhexhector] A confused public official -- a politician's spokesperson, paid for with your tax dollars -- childishly refuses to talk to media.
SF News Former California Treasurer Matt Fong Dies Matt Fong, California State Treasurer from 1995 through 1999, died today. Current Treasurer Bill Lockyer released the following statement: "Our state has lost a fine leader and a great example of the Asian-Pacific
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Melted Cheese, Turtle Brains, Tapas Galore Flip Camera creator Jonathan Kaplan, along with the gastronomic prowess of Michael Mina, plans to launch a chain of 500 grilled cheese shops called The Melt. (Yikes. We do not like that name.
Arts & Entertainment Mayoral Candidate Appearances: Queers for Avalos, Chiu's Tech Chat, Launching Herrera John Avalos: Queers for Avalos will host a happy hour / meet-and-greet with Supervisor Avalos in Dolores Park Cafe on Friday, June 10 from 5:30-7:30pm. At this gathering you'll have the opportunity
SF News Video: Giants and the 'It Gets Better' Project Barry Zito, Sergio Romo, and Matt Cain are just a few of the San Francisco Giants who took part in the "It Gets Better" campaign, a LGBT anti-suicide project spearheaded by Dan Savage.
SF News Two Children Plunge from Second-Story Window in Bayview On Tuesday afternoon, a 5-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl where whisked to San Francisco General Hospital after tumbling out of a second-story window on the 2600 block of Newhall Street. While their exact
SF News Cable Car Lines Shut Down This Week The Powell-Mason, Powell-Hyde, and California cable car lines will be shut down today through Sunday for "repairs and upgrades" as part of the SFMTA Cable Car Improvement Project. SF Appeal notes: "Muni shuttle
SF News Day Around the Bay Larry Bush's nasty rumors about L. Julius M. Turman, a gay lawyer looking to fill a Police Commission seat, could derail his bid to serve San Francisco. [Queerty] James Durbin, crowned California Idol
SF News Car Accident Outside DNA Lounge Injures Two Pedestrians We're hearing word that somebody drove a car into two pedestrians outside DNA Lounge after Trannyshack on Sunday night. One bystander at the scene told SFist that "[t]he driver just took off.
