SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Progress Lands Among <i>Food & Wine</i>'s Best New Restaurants Continuing their winning streak of national honors which has kept tables at State Bird Provisions and now The Progress pretty hard to come by chefs Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski just garnered another:
Arts & Entertainment Is That '94110' Series Just An Elaborate Prank? The local media, ourselves included, have been agape at the tech-absurdity and apparent shallowness of the proposed TV series about the Mission titled 94110 that put out an open casting call back in
Arts & Entertainment Video: Singer-Songwriter Spencer Day Covers 'These Boots Are Made For Walkin' Old-school-style crooner Spencer Day, known for vocal stylings in the vein of a Harry Connick Jr. or Meyer Hawthorne, has a new album out titled Daybreak, and he'll be headlining this weekend for
SF News Stop Saying That SF's Median Rent Is $4225 Yes, we know that the rental market in SF is crazy, but figures about what the actual median rent is here have been widely exaggerated, misunderstood, and irresponsibly quoted quite often over the
SF News Good News!: Bay Bridge Rod Failed Because Of Stripping, Not Corrosion Though there's been very little news you could categorize as good when it comes to the one-and-a-half-year-old eastern span of the Bay Bridge, today the Chron reports that a full inspection of the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Rare Footage Of Gray Whale Mother And Two Calves Caught By Drone A guy who runs a dolphin- and whale-watching operation in Southern California recently caught this footage, via a drone camera, of a gray whale with her two twin calves. Captain Dave Anderson of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Gay Bar Truck Closing After Eight Years Sad news! Scrappy, automotive-themed, often very dirty gay bar Truck is shutting its doors later this month, as owner Paul Ringhofer-Miller confirms to SFist today. Ringhofer-Miller says that the bar has been sold
SF News Oakland's New Mayor To Be Faced With Another Big Demonstration Friday Over Her Protest Crackdown If you've been in the Bay Area more than a minute you should already know that Oakland loves a protest or, should I say, protesters really like to shake shit up across the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 14 Best Bars Wherein To Watch The Warriors In The Finals Ugh. Trying to watch NBA Finals/World Series/NFL Playoff games at bars can be a hassle. You have to pick a bar that you know won't be so crowded that you can't
Arts & Entertainment 55-Foot Burning Man Sculpture To Arrive At San Leandro BART Station While sculptor Marco Cochrane is at work on his third monumental female figure for Burning Man 2015, one of his earlier works just landed a new, permanent home. The City of San Leandro
SF News Powell And Civic Center BART Entrances To Get New Glass Canopy Things The concrete-walled entrances to BART stations along Market Street are set to get makeovers over the next decade or so, as the Chron's John King explains in an impatient tone today. He's impatient,
Arts & Entertainment Bob Saget Defends Olsen Twins' Choice To Skip <i>Fuller House</i> As we all learned two weeks ago, sadly, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen will not be reprising the role of Michelle that they shared in the cast of the upcoming Full House revamp,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luna Park Bought By Mission Beach Cafe Owner Big news over in the Mission, where we've known that longtime stalwart Luna Park (694 Valencia Street) has been up for grabs for months now: It's being sold to Mission Beach Cafe owner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission & 16th McDonald's Closes With the Van Ness McDonald's already gone and the Third and Townsend McDonald's highly likely to to disappear soon, Egg McMuffin and Big Mac aficionados are going to be even sadder about the
Arts & Entertainment The Richmond's 4-Star Theatre Now Endangered Outer Richmond fans of the scrappy little 4-Star Theatre at 23rd and Clement are going to be sad about this: The Richmond District Blog is reporting that the 4-Star, which has been a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Metreon Is (Hopefully) Getting Booze Photo by Demetrios Lyras Excellent news on the boozy movie theater front: Along with the Sundance Kabuki, the AMC Bay Street (Emeryville), and the upcoming Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at the New Mission, the
SF News A Few Odd Details Emerge About The Estate Dispute Between Robin Williams' Widow And Kids Robin Williams' kids and his widow Susan Williams (née Schneider), and their attorneys, returned to court yesterday to hash out further details of their ongoing dispute over the late actor's will. The attorney
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Box Truck Edition My apologies for the hiatus. There was Memorial Day weekend and then last Friday rolled around, the tip line was quiet, and there simply wasn't an apartment worthy of my depression as May
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Millennium Reopens In Oakland On Thursday Vegans across the region can rejoice that Millennium is returning this week in the former Box & Bells space in Rockridge. The beloved, high-end, vegan eatery thrived for 21 years, first on McAllister
SF News Local Trans Icon Teresa Sparks On Caitlyn Jenner: 'This Could Be A Movement Shift' Former Police Commission president, one-time candidate for supervisor and now executive director of the SF Human Rights Commission, Teresa Sparks spoke with KRON 4 yesterday as the media was flooded with the images
SF News Day Around The Bay: French Laundry Stays In World's Top 50 A new report released Friday breaks down the housing numbers that would be impacted with a Mission development moratorium. [Examiner] Remember the case of Tom Smith, the BART Police officer who was accidentally
Arts & Entertainment Look Out For This Enormous, Functioning Typewriter At Burning Man Boston-based artist Jason Turgeon, along with a team that includes contractors, a mechanical engineer, and an architect, are at work constructing a giant replica of a 1927 Underwood Portable Typewriter that they plan
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Traci Des Jardins Talks With Adam Savage About Her Work Ethic, Her Restaurants, And Appearing On <em>Top Chef Masters</em> Local celebrity chef and restaurateur Traci Des Jardins, who stepped onto the national TV stage a couple years back making it into the final three on Top Chef Masters, sat down with friend
SF News Supervisors Help Kick Off 22-Day Muni Challenge With Rally At City Hall Fun times at our rally to kick off the 22-day #MuniChallenge. #OnBoardSF pic.twitter.com/1XPqpAg1yU— Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) June 1, 2015 Back in April the SF Transit Riders Union challenged the
Arts & Entertainment The Roxie Theater, SF's Oldest Cinema, Gets A Three-Year Reprieve From Landlord Small, independent, neighborhood movie houses are of course an endangered species pretty much everywhere besides Los Angeles, but San Francisco's oldest continually operating cinema, The Roxie (3117 16th Street) which also bears the
