SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foreign Cinema's Next-Door Bar Laszlo Reopens May 12 With New DJ Booth "So much has changed in San Francisco since we first opened the bar in 2000," says chef-owner Gayle Pirie of Laszlo, the interconnected sibling bar that faces the street next to the entrance
SF News The Ultra-Green $200M SFPUC Headquarters Has Had A Few Technical Difficulties Being Green The glass-clad, 13-story headquarters of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission that overlooks Civic Center from Golden Gate Avenue, completed in 2012 and touted as the greenest urban office building in North America,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Genova Delicatessen Closing After 90 Years Sad news for fans of one of the cornerstone businesses of Oakland's Temescal neighborhood: Genova Delicatessen is packing it in and closing up shop later this week, on April 30. The Italian deli
Arts & Entertainment Bonnie Raitt Proves Just How Much She's Still Got It At The Fox Theater I knew going in that I was at the lower end of the demographic age bracket going to see Bonnie Raitt, and indeed the floor seats at the Fox on Saturday were well
SF News Has Twitter's Slowed Growth (And Layoffs) Brought Apartment Rents Down? Many of us not in the tech industry saw Twitter's small round of layoffs last fall, and their decision in January to sublet some of their office space in their Mid-Market headquarters as
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: Beyoncé Plays Levi's Stadium May 16, And There Are Still Tickets As the rave reviews and gushing Facebook posts continue to pour in over Beyoncé's new album Lemonade which, by the way, just arrived on iTunes last night at midnight because, ahem, Tidal sucks
SF News SF Now Has Highest Per Capita Property Crime Rate In The US We've been talking about the smash-and-grab epidemic in San Francisco for a while now, and now the New York Times has picked up the story of this wealthy city's wave of car burglaries
SF News Now Tony Robbins Is Stepping In To Help Evicted Roommate Of Deceased 97-Year-Old In Burlingame In a second high-profile philanthropic effort in a month, multimillionaire motivational speaker Tony Robbins has offered to pay for a long-term home for an 85-year-old woman who was being evicted from her home
SF News Solar Powered Plane Completes Trip From Hawaii To San Francisco, Does Golden Gate Fly-By In a mission to promote clean energy, the entirely solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 plane arrived in San Francisco Friday and took a couple hours to circle around the city and get some photo
Arts & Entertainment <i>The Lion</i> At ACT's Strand Theater Is A Deeply Moving Musical Marvel Ben Scheuer is a natural born storyteller who was given a traumatic story to tell: his own. He lost his father at the age of 13, and at 28 he was diagnosed with
SF News Everything Rainbow: Castro Muni Escalators Getting Rainbow Lights Now In addition to rainbow crosswalks and a giant rainbow flag, the Castro will be getting one more reminder that it is the gay neighborhood: rainbow lighting up and down its Muni station escalators.
SF News New BART Car Overshoots Test Track, Plows Into Dirt PHOTOS: Crews work to dig out new #BART train stuck in dirt during testing crash in Hayward: https://t.co/58uJUenn2v pic.twitter.com/APAEn7Jpzb— ABC7 News (@abc7newsBayArea) April 22, 2016 The first
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Caputo Closes Quickly, Bauer Adores Original Joe's Westlake, And More This week we heard about a new beer bar called Buffalo Theory headed to Polk Street, found out that Mission Beach Cafe's new spot will be called Mission Beach Valencia, and explored SF's
Arts & Entertainment Shotgun Players' <i>Hamlet</i> (With Roulette Casting) Is A Meta Dive Into Shakespeare's Most Lyrical Tragedy If I describe to you the premise of Berkeley-based Shotgun Players' new season-opening production of Hamlet, you're likely going to write it off as some sort of stunt, and the Shakespeare purists might
SF News Uber Paying Off Drivers To The Tune Of $100M So They Can Keep Them As Contractors Welp, that big class-action lawsuit we've been talking about for over a year has been settled, along with a similar suit in Massachusetts, that we and a number of legal experts thought was
Arts & Entertainment All The Things That Were Lit Up Purple Last Night In honor of Prince and thanks to the quick suggestion of the citizenry (ahem, Eve Batey), City Hall went purple last night, and some people got down among those rabbits and danced. The
SF News Day Around The Bay: Rain, Not The Purple Kind, Due Tonight More about the death of Prince: CBS 5 looks back at when Prince recorded his first album, For You, at age 19 at Sausalito's Record Plant Studios. Google's doodle has gone purple, with
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Whole Lot Of Pot-Smoking On 4/20, In HD This very pretty and mesmerizing video from yesterday at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park, during the 4/20 festivities, was shot and edited together by someone who sounds like she was named
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Buffalo Theory, A New Craft Beer Spot With 'Creative Comfort Food,' Coming To Polk Last year we had word of a beer bar dubbed Crafthaus headed for the former Quickly space at 1735 Polk Street and owners Quinn Wong, Gil Hoh, and Ted Kim promised Hoodline a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Prince Tribute Parties Planned Tonight In The Mission, Castro, And More No sooner did the news spread this morning that the great Prince was dead at age 57, but local party promoters and DJs were gathering up their Prince records and putting out the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Specs' In North Beach Turns 48 On Sunday; Learn More About The Storied Dive Bar And Mini-Museum The tucked-away, categorically authentic North Beach dive known simply as Specs', the full name of which is Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe, stands nearly alone in its intact, dusty, old-man-bar diveyness despite being
Arts & Entertainment Open Casting Call For LGBT History Series Shot In SF, 'When We Rise' That LGBT documentary mini-series that we told you about a few months back, When We Rise, has been shooting in recent weeks in Vancouver most notably, they just shot parts of the White
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Fans React To Sudden, Inconceivable Death Of Prince How could this happen? Details are still scarce, but the legend that was Prince Rogers Nelson is dead. Many of you are probably saying, "He was just here!" and "Why didn't I go
SF News Roof-Leaping Russian Hill Burglary Suspect Identified, Bail Set For $1.3M If you caught the story about the crazed burglary suspect who led police on a totally cinematic roof-to-roof chase on the Nob/Russian Hill border on Saturday morning, you were probably wondering who
SF News [Update] Three-Alarm Fire Hits Two Apartment Buildings On Guerrero Near 17th WATCH LIVE: Firefighters are battling a 3-alarm fire at 17th and Guerrero in San Francisco: https://t.co/VFCHYJDR4b pic.twitter.com/NWM9Nr3i5p— ABC7 News (@abc7newsBayArea) April 21, 2016 A three-alarm fire is
