SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Octopus At Petit Crenn At Dominique Crenn's three-month-old casual prix fixe spot in Hayes Valley, Petit Crenn, the star of the show is always a whole roasted fish. The restaurant is Crenn's homage to her homeland, specifically
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Date Rape Joke On Kozy Kar's Box Wine Is Probably In Poor Taste At the already seedy, boozy, and porn-themed Kozy Kar on Polk Street, where the slippery slope to muddled consent can come any night of the week by way of a few too many
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] San Jose Seafood Restaurant Sickens 93 People With Shigella A restaurant in San Jose, Mariscos San Juan, appears to be the source of a Shigella outbreak that has "acutely" sickened more than 40 people in the last few days, as the Mercury-News
SF News Day Around The Bay: Dede Wilsey Accused Of Financial Misconduct A jilted Sacramento bride decided to throw the reception anyway and feed the homeless, and multiple local TV stations covered it. [ABC 7, CBS 5] Among several other incidents in the Mission over
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yes, Bourdain Had A Beer At Sinbad's, Ate At A Bunch Of Other Places On <i>Parts Unknown</i> There's a whole lot about Brazilian jiu-jitsu in the Bay Area episode of Parts Unknown, because this is something that Anthony Bourdain is really into, besides eating and drinking that is. He says
SF News Brace: First El Niño Storm Could Arrive In Two Weeks You know how Southern California got that drenching last week? Well, it may be our turn as soon as two weeks from now, according to a climate scientist at the National Oceanic and
Arts & Entertainment Hooray! Alamo Drafthouse Cinema To Open In December With <i>Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i> Excellent news, kids: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is on target to be open on December 17 in the historic, totally refurbished New Mission Theater, right on schedule. And, as a release tells us, the
SF News Raised Bike Lanes Arrive On Market Street Finally, after first hearing about the plan three years ago to add raised "cycle tracks" along Market Street, the Department of Public Works began construction on them today, with the first to arrive
SF News People To Annoy Us All In These Tiny Scoot Two-Seaters Now Scoot Networks, the company that rents those little red electric scooters by the hour, have just launched a fleet of ten four-wheel, two-seater vehicles that you will be seeing a lot of in
SF News Local Software Engineer Lives In A Van Because She's Too Frugal To Pay High Rent An employed tech worker who recently moved to the Bay Area decided that rents were too high and her housing options were on the lower end of the spectrum were too depressing, so
SF News Alleged Killer Drifters Spark Heightened Outrage Against Haight Street Vagrants A community meeting last week in the Upper Haight may have marked just the beginning of a new wave of anger about the homeless youth who have been a constant sight in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Finn Town Coming To Castro, Causwells Launches Burger Place On Mid-Market, and More You've hopefully heard the good news about The Orbit Room's return, and about WesBurger finding a permanent home in The Mission. Then there's the ridiculous Sinbad's saga that won't end, and St. Vincent
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Island Music Fest Has A Comedy Tent This Year In case you missed it, Treasure Island Music Fest returns this weekend for two pretty mellow days of shows on two stages that don't overlap thus, no running around or stressing about what
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Guide Update Arrives Next Week; 12 New Restaurants Become Bib Gourmand Picks For what it's worth, the Michelin Guide is the most respected and comprehensive guide to local dining curated and edited by a non-local entity, and the go-to source for restaurant picks for globe-trotting
SF News A Huge Number Of Americans Have Come Out As LGBT On Facebook This Year Maybe because of June's Supreme Court ruling on marriage, or maybe because of Caitlyn Jenner, or just because of the tidal wave of mainstream support in general for the LGBT cause, nearly a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Orbit Room Will Live Again! Fans of its craft cocktails and surprisingly excellent pizzas were devastated this past spring when The Orbit Room shut its doors abruptly after 20 years. Now we get the welcome news that some
SF News Twitter Layoffs Affect At Least 240 In SF In a letter to the California Employment Development Department, Twitter's Human Resources Department clarified that their current mass layoff a layoff is considered "mass" in CA if it's 50 or more people will
Arts & Entertainment Seven Things You Should Know Before Entering This Year's Armory Haunted House This year's Hell In the Armory Presents: Inferno is similar to last year's inaugural Hell In the Armory in a few ways, but very few. And, as I found out last night, it's
Arts & Entertainment Trailer: 'All Things Must Pass: The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records' Hitting theaters this weekend is a new documentary directed by Colin Hanks (son of Tom, star of CBS's Life in Pieces) titled All Things Must Pass, all about the phenomenal success and rapid
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Porn Audio Plays Over Target PA Systems In Northern California Target shopper Gina Young was with her twins in the chain's Campbell, California store Wednesday when someone began playing the audio from a porno over the store's PA system. She recorded it for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink WesBurger Snags Permanent Spot In The Mission Popular burger pop-up WesBurger, from chef Wes Rowe, will now be getting its very own brick-and-mortar location at 2240 Mission Street (at 18th), in the former Palacio Latino space, to be called WesBurger
SF News SF Values?: Dede Wilsey's Son Trevor Traina Hosting Fundraiser For Jeb Bush If you think all the Republicans have been run out of San Francisco, you're wrong. And though he may have been an Obama supporter in '08, Trevor Traina is apparently leaning more to
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Better View Of That Shark Feasting On A Seal By Alcatraz After seeing a fairly fuzzy view of the bloody aftermath of a shark preying on a seal next to Alcatraz Island last weekend, via a tourist's cell phone camera, we now get a
SF News Day Around The Bay: Warriors Reporter Suspended From Chronicle It turns out that a lot of the Chronicle pieces about the Warriors, and their semi-controversial arena plans in Mission Bay, have been copy-and-pasted from Warriors press releases. In response, the reporter's been
SF News Facebook Will Now Stop Showing You Photos Of Your Exes And Dead Pets, If You Tell It Not To In addition to testing six new reaction buttons that will let you at least show your empathy for a friend who's in the hospital without using a thumbs-up button, Facebook is finally rolling
