Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Burning Man' The Musical It seems inevitable, given that the internet is the internet, that someone would do a satirical take on Burning Man in the form of musical theater. And that very thing has arrived! It's
SF News Would Joe Biden Pick San Francisco To Announce His Presidential Bid? So here's a rumor I'm going to float, and before I reveal the source, hear me out: Vice-President Joe Biden, who's all but expected to throw his hat in the ring for the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] PR Fixer Sam Singer Brought In To Help Napa Wine Train, Issues Apology To Black Women's Book Club Now that the Napa Valley Wine Train's unceremonious treatment of eleven women on Saturday has made national headlines and even landed on CBS This Morning, the train company's hired none other than notorious
SF News Suicide Shutters Embarcadero Station For Several Hours Monday Afternoon Montgomery station right now after a @SFBART train hits, kills person at Embarcadero http://t.co/Um3ZmyceCq pic.twitter.com/p5UvlxVoXt— Todd Johnson (@SFBizTodd) August 24, 2015 A man reportedly jumped in front
SF News Day Around The Bay: State Bird Has Some Advice For AL's Place State Bird Provisions executive chef/owner Stuart Brioza spoke to San Francisco Magazine to offer a few words of advice to AL's Place, given that he has some experience with being named Bon
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bidding War Over A Totally Sub-Par, Illegal Mission Apartment The satirical web series Tech Boom!, which I reviewed here last fall, has just come out with a second "season" of five brief episodes, of which the one above may be the funniest
Arts & Entertainment Every Film Shoot In SF Since 2013, Mapped A site called Metrocosm gathered every shoot notice posted or distributed to San Francisco city residents since early 2013 to create this interactive map. The map is an interesting snapshot of just how
SF News One Year Ago Today, The Napa Earthquake Rocked The Bay Area Officially dubbed the 2014 South Napa Earthquake, the quake that struck at 3:20 a.m. last August 24th officially marks its one-year anniversary today. The quake only caused minor shaking in San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Group Of Black Women Say They Were 'Humiliated' By Removal From Napa Wine Train A group of 10 African American women and one white woman whose book club goes on an annual wine-tasting excursion to Napa were reportedly treated unfairly aboard the Napa Valley Wine Train on
SF News Once Again, Go Topless Day Kind Of Fizzles In Dolores Park Go Topless Day in San Francisco http://t.co/KxnBye1hDI #gotoplessday #SF pic.twitter.com/m4WfwVXK0B— Kat Duncan (@KatDuncanSF) August 24, 2015 Several years in a row, organizers have tried to galvanize breast-baring
SF News Janelle Monáe And Wondaland Crew Draw Hundreds To Black Lives Matter Protest In Mission @JanelleMonae & Wanderland crew blessed SF with song, protest and march today #hellutalkingabout #blacklivesmatter pic.twitter.com/R0nJycQTh1— Portia Elder (@PortiaElder) August 24, 2015 About 300 people showed up for the rally and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Keystone Debuts, The Alembic Gets A New Chef, And More In addition to the big news this week that AL's Place got named the number one best new restaurant in the country by Bon Appetit, Bon App also named ABV the country's best
SF News Entire Gray Wolf Pack Sighted In NorCal Woods, Including Five Pups Thought to be endangered and not seen in California in 90 years, gray wolf sightings have been happening this year with some frequency via remote, motion-activated, wildlife trail cameras. Only up until now,
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: An SRO That Calls Itself An SRO For the second week in a row we have a spiffed-up SRO that some owners are trying to fill with a better class of tenant than they've likely previously had, given the location
SF News Medical Examiner Rules Feather Lynn Death A Homicide, Person Of Interest To Be Pursued Just a week after we were marking the one-year anniversary of the troublesome death of Feather Lynn a.k.a. Bryan Higgins, the Bay Area Reporter reveals that the city medical examiner has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe Burger Shuts Down After Four Months Marlowe Burger, the temporary fast-casual burger spot from the Marlowe team (in the former Marlowe digs), turns out to have been even more temporary than originally intended. While the building is slated for
SF News Three-Alarm Warehouse Fire In Vallejo Raises Toxic Smoke Concerns #update: #vallejo fire says no more concern of wall falling on 5-600 gal propane tank. Still putting out hotspots pic.twitter.com/RJAWP2ZtLB— Stephanie Chuang (@StephChuang) August 21, 2015 A big fire at
SF News Day Around The Bay: Another High-Speed Chase Ends In A Crash A woman spotted weaving in a silver Infinity in the East Bay took off at speeds up to 120 miles per hour and led CHP officers on a 3 a.m. chase from
SF News Larger iPad With Stylus Rumored To Be Coming Soon Amongst the Apple nerderati, there's talk that a new, larger iPad, clocking in at 12.9 inches, is on the way this fall, perhaps to be announced at Apple's upcoming September event. As
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Reporter Seeks Out Food Poisoning, Gets Food Poisoning Over at the revamped, back-from-the-dead Bold Italic, food correspondent Hana Nobel decided to search Yelp for the lowest-rated restaurants in town, specifically seeking out keywords such as “worst,” “food poisoning.” She ate at
SF News 16th And Mission Developer Suing Land Owner, Project Could Be Doomed This is interesting, and may spell doom for the project that many a Mission activist would love to see doomed: The developer behind that massive, 330-unit building proposed for 16th and Mission is
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Jonathan Groff Singing 'Spring Awakening' Song While Wearing Warriors T-Shirt Looking star Jonathan Groff, who's currently on Broadway in the much ballyhoo'd and likely-to-win-every-Tony new musical Hamilton, appears to have taken at least one souvenir of the Bay Area back to New York
SF News Rose Pak Suffering From Kidney Failure, Calls Mayor Lee 'The Biggest Disappointment' Legendary local power broker Rose Pak, who's graced our pages many, many times over the years as she asserted her influence on city politics at every important turn, is gravely ill, as San
SF News SF And LA District Attorneys: 'Some Uber Drivers Are Murderers And Felons' According to a new amended complaint by the district attorneys of San Francisco and Los Angeles, Uber's background-check method is inferior to that of regular taxi companies, and it failed to catch the
Arts & Entertainment SF Zoo Rhino's Twitter Account Is Trending Ever the masters of social media, some staffers at the San Francisco Zoo started a Twitter account for their "most popular herbivore," Boone the rhinoceros a few months back, which SFist noted back
