SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rickhouse Brings Back Ginger's Trois, The FiDi Gay Bar That Closed When It Opened The Future Bars group, a team of cocktail bar trendsetters with ventures like Tradition, Bourbon and Branch, and Local Addition, are resurrecting the gay dive bar of yesteryear Ginger's Trois, which once stood
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Showdown, 6th Street Dive Bar And DJ Hangout, To Shut Down Show's over at Showdown, the popular dive bar and DJ spot on 6th Street just off Market, Hoodline reports. In eight years of business, Showdown built a reputation for its steady stream of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dolores Outpost, The Bi-Rite Of Corner Stores, Opens Within Park-Stumbling Distance Where you could once buy cigarettes and 40s, now shoppers on their way to Dolores Park may purchase kombucha on tap and mochi muffins to go, and I don't make that factual statement
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Aatxe Also Axed In Swedish American Hall Following Cafe Du Nord Changes The other shoe in the Swedish American Hall space on Market Street is about ready to drop. In past weeks, we learned that Cafe du Nord's run as a swanky cocktail lounge was
Arts & Entertainment BROMG! The Chainsmokers Open SF Pop-Up Store This Weekend Only at the SF Pop up this weekend! One of a kind TCS jackets pic.twitter.com/WemLSRaDIv— THE CHAINSMOKERS (@TheChainsmokers) May 1, 2017 Chainsmokers fans — a group the EDM-influenced pop duo refers
SF News Grassroots? Apothecarium Is Behind Protest Of Anti-LGBT Group That Also Opposes The Dispensary Marc's Corner, an art gallery inside the Market Street medical marijuana dispensary the Apothecarium, is named for Daniel Bergerac's late husband. It's a signifier of how, for Bergerac, who owns Mudpuppy's dog grooming
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week The hot weather may be giving way, according to the forecast, but cross your fingers for a decent weekend, weather-wise, as there are a few outdoor events that will be great if the
SF News Facebook: Gender Bias Allegations Hurt 'Recruiting Brand', Makes It Harder To Hire Women According to an internal message shared with the Guardian, Facebook's head of HR is telling employees that a public allegation of gender bias against female coders at the company is part of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lucky 13 Won't Be Demolished For Condos Anytime Soon, But Long-Term Odds Are Bad San Franciscans who love dive bars (which is most of us!), and San Franciscans who think the city needs to build more housing ASAP, which, come on, should definitely be all of us,
SF News New CA Marijuana Rules Would Raise Cost Of Pot, Eliminate Free Samples The cost of smoking pot is about to get higher, at least in the near term, if draft rules for California's medical marijuana industry move forward, as appears likely. The proposed rules, which
Arts & Entertainment Stern Grove's 80th Free Festival Lineup Features Fantastic Negrito, Kool & The Gang, Mavis Staples Better start staking out that prime spot for your blanket and picnic basket: Stern Grove has announced its full lineup for another summer of free concerts. Every Sunday for 10 weeks, from June
SF News Day Around The Bay: Ann Coulter Absent, Berkeley Protesters Arrive Anyway, 2 Arrested Peter Murphy cancels a planned Chapel residency for health reasons. [CBS 5] In SF court, Wells Fargo employees are alleging that they were pressured to target undocumented immigrants to open accounts. [ABC7] Did
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle And John Mayer Perform At The Fillmore This Friday And Saturday Dave Chappelle and John Mayer, entertainers and friends both known to be occasionally offensive, present a surprise set of two performances this weekend: "Chappelle & John Mayer: Controlled Danger," as Live Nation revealed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Henry Chung Of Henry's Hunan Restaurants Dies At 99 Henry Chung, namesake of Henry's Hunan chain of restaurants, died last weekend in the Richmond District at age 99. Chung's empire of restaurants helped popularize regional Chinese cuisine marked by heavy use of
SF News Marshawn Lynch's Oakland Store Denies Rumor Of Raiders Block Party With E-40, Michael B. Jordan The Raiders may not be long for the Bay Area, but there's cause for celebration today with the return of prodigal Oakland son Marshawn Lynch. Born and raised in Oakland, Lynch rose to
SF News Valet App Luxe Is Shutting Down Existing Door-to-Door Service Current users of Luxe are out of luck: The San Francisco-based parking service known for its blue-jacket clad, scooter-toting valets, is shutting down its door-to-door service. But CEO Curtis Lee is pushing back
SF News Self-Driving Car Tests Without Human Backup Drivers One Step Closer After Tense Meeting The California DMV stands to further ease its regulations on autonomous vehicles at the urging of automakers, Reuters reports following a heated public hearing in Sacramento Tuesday. Representatives from the Association for Global
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ivanka Trump Once Shilled For Juicero Daily cold-pressed juice we can make at home? Yes, please: https://t.co/jFgquzX3OU #Healthy @Juicero #Juicero— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) March 31, 2016 It seemed that every drop of humor had already been
SF News Intoxicated Mountain View Man Attacks 300-Pound Security Robot, Is Arrested It's an only-in-Silicon Valley story that has NBC Bay Area making "Rage Against the Machine" dad jokes: Knightscope, the maker of a line of rolling security robots, apparently trusts its own product enough
SF News Uber Now Shows You Your Rider Rating More Prominently Uber riders with good luck, decent hygiene, and few interpersonal deficiencies can afford to forget that they're not just rating drivers: Their drivers are rating them, too. But with Uber's latest app update
SF News Day Around The Bay: Rainbow Flag Is Now A Font A font and typeface maker has created a font in homage to the late Gilbert Baker, creator of gay pride symbol the rainbow flag. [KQED] Researchers in the Netherlands are obsessed with solving
SF News Berkeley Braces For Ann Coulter Speech Thursday, Which She Insists On Doing Outdoors For Maximum Mayhem Ann Coulter pledges to be in UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza, a central outdoor gathering place on campus, sometime this Thursday — not indoors on campus next week, as is formally planned — and that means
SF News Family Of Uber Engineer Who Committed Suicide Blames Job Stress, Seeks Workers Comp Benefits The wife and children of a 33-year-old Uber engineer who committed suicide last summer are seeking worker's compensation benefits from the ride-hailing company where he worked. The Chronicle had the story, although the
Arts & Entertainment New Gallery And Mural Brighten Up Vacant Valencia Volvo Dealership The front of a vacant industrial building on Valencia Street that was last used as a Volvo dealership is seeing new life with a colorful mural and a temporary tenant in a gallery,
SF News Federally Owned Parking Lot Behind Ninth Circuit Could Become Housing For Homeless Mayor Lee has introduced plans to convert a federally owned surface parking lot, so owned because it's behind a federal courthouse, into the city's largest supportive housing development for formerly homeless people. That
