SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Post-Midnight, Late-Night Eats In San Francisco Sadly, San Francisco has never been a 24-hour dining town, and late-night eats are neither easy to come by, nor often all that great. But that is changing (slowly!) In the past we've
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Westfield-Adjacent Brasserie From Perbacco Team Gets A Name: Volta The much anticipated spinoff project from the Perbacco/Barbacco team of Staffan Terje and Umberto Gibin finally has a name and an opening timeframe. We first learned about their brasserie plans for the
SF News Godzilla El Niño Plus The 'Blob' Could Mean Rain For Northern California, Or It Still Could Not Though chances remain fairly high that the strengthening El Niño will mean a lot of wetness (and possible flooding) for the Bay Area, there is a chance the majority of the rain will
Arts & Entertainment Alexander Skarsgard Explains The Drag Thing Monday night, Alexander Skarsgard inexplicably showed up at the Diary of a Teenage Girl premiere in SF in full, rather excellent drag. While some might say he didn't need a reason for this,
SF News Shrimp Boy Fallout: DA's Office Investigating... Someone The fallout from Tuesday's court filing on behalf of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow continues as reporters have swarmed City Hall, Mayor Lee has issued multiple denials and outright dismissals of the allegations, and
SF News Troubles At SF Weekly Make National Headlines Though we don't make a habit of covering the Inside Baseball tedium of the local media scene, given that this is a year that's seen multiple publication shutdowns in SF, it seems noteworthy
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Swastika Chalice Found On Market Street Perhaps leftover from some homeless person's Raiders of the Lost Ark-style ritual last night, Corey Thrace captured this swastika chalice under a tree on Market Street. Update: Commenters have noted that swastikas like
Arts & Entertainment Video: Looking Back On '90s Mission School Artist Margaret Kilgallen A piece in this week's New Yorker tells the powerful story of San Francisco artists Margaret Kilgallen, Barry McGee, and Clare Rojas a love triangle of sorts with a tragic twist in that
SF News David Chiu Wore A Wire To Talk To Shrimp Boy Because He Feared For His Life Another detail to come out of the release yesterday of a court filing in the case against Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow is that former Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, who's now a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Peek At The Menu At Petit Crenn, Opening Next Week Last night there was one of the first preview events for Dominique Crenn's Petit Crenn in Hayes Valley, for industry friends and media, and I can tell you right now that this thing
SF News Stolen Dog Found Inside SUV A Few Blocks From Where It Was Stolen Yesterday's story about the pair of dental students from the East Coast whose car was stolen near the Castro Safeway with their dog inside already has a relatively happy ending. KRON 4's coverage
SF News Day Around the Bay: Every Bay Area UFO Sighting, Mapped Female engineer used in BART ads recruiting for her company spurs #iLookLikeAnEngineer campaign. [Medium] Mapping every Bay Area UFO sighting since 1905. [Curbed] Facebook now claims it’s streaming more video than YouTube.
SF News New Study: Climate Change Could Turn SF Into San Diego, Temperature-Wise? We've heard various predictions before, but a new study based on climate-change models as they would stand today (assuming nothing more is done to curb emissions and temperatures continue to fluctuate as they
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meadowood Announces 12 Days Of Christmas Celeb Chef Lineup For 2015 I know, I know. It's August. But as is now traditional, this is the time of year when The Restaurant at Meadowood up in St. Helena finalizes their star chef lineup for their
SF News New Filing In Shrimp Boy Case Says Mayor Ed Lee Took 'Substantial Bribes,' Learned The Game From Willie Brown A potentially damning new filing on behalf of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow in federal court today says that, in discovery, the defense found that the prosecution had significant evidence of corruption by multiple
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Six New SF Restaurants Make <em>Bon Appetit</em> Short List Every August, Bon Appétit releases their highly influential Best New Restaurants list, which is always 10 names long and generally comes with the promise of immediate tourist crowds as it did three years
SF News Young Tourists' Car Stolen From Castro Safeway With Dog Inside Well this is upsetting. While car break-ins and such petty crimes have been exploding citywide, we have a case of a brazen car theft from the Safeway at Church and Duboce in which
Arts & Entertainment Scott Wiener Saved Robot Dance Party A little over a month after he was unceremoniously booted from Dolores Park by some killjoy park rangers, Robot Dance Party came back to the party on Saturday, now fully sanctioned and permitted
Arts & Entertainment Alexander Skarsgard Went In Drag To The <em>Diary Of A Teenage Girl</em> Premiere Monday night marked the official premiere of Diary of a Teenage Girl at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, and for some reason one of the film's stars, Alexander Skarsgard, decided to attend
Arts & Entertainment Trans Women Of Asia SF To Star In New Reality Series 'Transcendent' In the era of Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner, Asia SF may seems kind of exploitative, anachronistic, and a little uncomfortable. But the proud, very pretty performers at the trans nightclub/dinner theater
Arts & Entertainment Woody Allen And His Jazz Band Are Also In Town This Week In addition to Jeff Goldblum breezing through town performing with his band, another famed writer/director and musician, Woody Allen, will be making a rare Bay Area appearance with his New Orleans Jazz
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurants Still Annoyed About Postmates, And Not Being Able To Opt Out It makes perfect sense that some restaurants would never offer delivery of their food because their food doesn't travel well, and they know this. But in the era of Postmates and Caviar, restaurants
SF News Mother Of Madyson Middleton Says She Doesn't Blame Mother Of Accused Murderer Laura Jordan, mother of slain eight-year-old Madyson "Maddy" Middleton in Santa Cruz, gave her first media interview over the weekend, one week after her daughter's death. The Chronicle tailed her for a bit
Arts & Entertainment Google And Gap Employees Send Messages Between Folsom Street Offices Via Post-Its Gap Inc. is headquartered on the Embarcadero, with some offices in the building facing Folsom Street. Google also has offices directly across Folsom Street. Employees at the two companies have started posting messages
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Weather Forecast Looking Typically Cloudy, With Possible Rain It's time once again to prepare yourself for Outside Lands, which is happening this weekend (I know, it sneaks up on you), August 7-9, in Golden Gate Park. As usual for this time
