Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Bubbles Recorded This Love Letter Track To San Francisco Two Months Before He Was Killed As we learned right after he was fatally shot in the Tenderloin two weeks ago, local character, artist, DJ, and nightlife personality Bubbles was planning to leave San Francisco for good to move
SF News Earthquake Early Warning System Still Isn't Ready, $26M And 11 Years Later In yet another example of how America can't seem to fund projects that are actually important or finish them in any reasonable amount of time, the West Coast earthquake warning system known as
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: A New (Gay) Billboard For SoMa Just in time for Folsom Weekend, Oasis co-owners and drag powerhouses Heklina and D'Arcy Drollinger have unveiled a new billboard on top of their SoMa nightclub which you can see above. Lately they've
SF News Why Forecasters Were Surprised By SF's September 1 Heat Spike While meteorologists had widely predicted a heatwave for all of California over the Labor Day weekend, beginning on Friday September 1, the predicted high temperature for San Francisco was about 20 degrees off
SF News Ex-Google Guy James Damore Says He Wasn't Asked To Speak At Free Speech Week, Will Not Be There In further evidence that Milo Yiannopolous was at the very least padding his list of "confirmed" speakers for Free Speech Week with names of people he'd like to see there but whom he
SF News Day Around The Bay: Lucky 13's Got A Year Lucky 13's current owners are predicting the bar has "at least a year" before its forced to close due to condo development. [Eater] Uber is in an ugly legal battle with ad company
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week The weird weather (for September) is over, and it's a warm and sunny week ahead. In addition to this weekend's Folsom Street Fair and all the attending gay and BDSM parties that come
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California's Foie Gras Ban May Be Back On, Pending An Appeal Following a brief, two-and-a-half-year period in which it was illegal to produce or sell foie gras in California, following the implementation of a law that dated back to 2004 in the California banning
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Safeway, Five Others, Back To Being Open 24 Hours After an apparent outcry from customers in the neighborhood and perhaps continuing their quest to compete with the newer Whole Foods across the street the Church and Market Safeway has returned to being
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Proper Hotel And Its Mid-Market Restaurant Villon Are Open For Business A new, long-awaited, high-end boutique hotel at Seventh and Market is officially open for guests, bringing another potential catalyst for change in the always colorful environs of Mid-Market. Proper Hotel, from the newish
SF News Latest On Free Speech Week: Coulter And Bannon Not On Schedule; And Who Is 'The Berkeley Patriot'? Well what do you know! The headlining acts, so to speak, of Milo Yiannopoulos's stunt of a speaking event next week, former chief strategist Steve Bannon and former Comedy Central Roast punching bag
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Mac: A Joyfully Liberal Carnival Barker To Get Us Through These Terrible Times I've been thinking how best to talk about what I experienced Sunday at Chapter II of Taylor Mac's irreverently epic, hard-to-describe, "performance art concert" called A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music. It is
Arts & Entertainment Facebook Censors Reject Completely Tame Folsom Street Fair Ad, Then Reverse Themselves Some more anti-Facebook LGBTQ outrage erupted late last week when the GLBT Historical Society had a totally safe-for-work, entirely tame ad they wanted to post seeking volunteers for their booth at this weekend's
Arts & Entertainment Video: Warriors Help Stranded Hurricane Irma Shelter Pets Much like there were thousands of shelter pets that needed to be relocated following the massive flooding with Hurricane Harvey in and around Houston, there are tons of four-legged friends that needed relocation
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jardiniere To Host Benefit Dinner To Pay DACA Recipients' Renewal Fees A benefit dinner happening next Monday, September 25 at Jardiniere in San Francisco will be a first-of-its kind fundraiser for the local area with proceeds directly going to pay registration renewal fees for
SF News Milo Yiannopoulos Insists 'Free Speech Week' Is On, And That He's Paid $65K For Venue Rentals Relentless alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, who along with some alleged conservative/alt-right financial backing is dead-set on taking UC Berkeley to task for trying to stymie or cancel the Free Speech Week he
SF News Berkeley Police Fight Fake News Regarding Stabbing At Shapiro Protest A rumored story that was being perpetuated last week by Kyle "Based Stickman" Chapman regarding a Ben Shapiro supporter getting stabbed in the neck by "Antifa terrorists," and which was subsequently spread around
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Waxman's Gone For Good, City Beer Store Grows, And More The big food-world news of the week was the majority-stake acquisition of Blue Bottle by food giant Nestle, which is sure to turn off many a coffee snob. But we also saw the
Arts & Entertainment The Temptations Get The Biographical Jukebox Treatment They Needed With 'Ain't Too Proud' Berkeley Rep appears set to send another world-premiere hit to Broadway (the short-lived Amelie musical notwithstanding) with Ain't Too Proud, a biographical jukebox musical that traces the history of famed Motown quintet The
SF News Recent SF Murder Seems Certain To Figure Into Sanctuary City Debate This week we learned more about the murder of 23-year-old Abel Enrique Esquivel, Jr., which happened on August 15 near the intersection of South Van Ness and 26th Street, and which involved a
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Officially Becomes America's Wealthiest Urban Area Though SF has a decades-old “heat plan” for conditions like two weekends ago, the city inexplicably ignored it, refused to follow long-established recommendations. [NBC Bay Area] A proposal for a Poets Plaza is
SF News Full Speaker List For 'Free Speech Week' Includes Ex-Googler James Damore, InfoWars Radio Host Mike Cernovich The Milo Yiannopoulos-organized, mysteriously funded, very possibly still-to-be-cancelled "Free Speech Week" at Berkeley, which is set to begin a week from Sunday, has quite a roster of controversial names on its full schedule
Arts & Entertainment 'An American In Paris' Brings Gershwin Tunes To Vivid Life At The Orpheum When the cheery new Roman Holiday musical made its San Francisco debut in June, I noted that this out-of-town tryout destined for Broadway was part of a trend of mid-century nostalgia that's been
SF News Facebook And Google AdWords Allow 'Jew Hating' Target Categories For Advertisers Yet again this week Silicon Valley PR people are being roiled by news that some of their un-monitored algorithms have allowed for the spread of hate, and in this case, overt anti-Semitism. The
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Half-Constructed Loft In Outer Sunset, $1600/Mo If you're looking for an apartment deal in San Francisco, especially out in the Avenues, you are likely to stumble across more than one half-baked in-law unit or half-finished basement that might be
