SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina To Open Pop-Up Style 'Test Kitchen' In The Marina Taking over the short-lived second location of Cafe Claude, which closed at 2120 Greenwich Street this past winter after just 18 months, will be the Michael Mina Restaurant Group, which will be quickly
SF News More Weekend Sideshows Screech Across Oakland, No Arrests Made The ongoing spate of doughnut-spinning sideshows on Oakland streets brought at least two separate sideshows in different locations Friday night, and one on Sunday that briefly shutdown the I-880 freeway. No injuries or
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SliderBar In Castro Closed By Health Department For Second Time In Eight Months You know how we've been talking about the Castro's vermin problem? Well, SliderBar, which was previously shut down by city health inspectors last October for a persistent vermin problem that they failed to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Epic Roasthouse Becomes Epic Steak, New Bar The Treasury Debuts, and More Guess who's in town this week? The great Jeremiah Tower has been stopping in to see friends like chef Mark Franz at Farallon, resurfacing after parting ways with Tavern on the Green in
Arts & Entertainment This Artist You've Never Heard of Is Livening Walls All Over SF by Renée Padgham You can’t miss him. He stands a foot above everyone, with sandy blonde hair, paint speckled jeans, and a calmness to his demeanor only acquired through years of intense
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'A Little Night Music' At A.C.T. I'll admit up front that A Little Night Music may be my favorite Sondheim score. It may not have the pop-music bounce of Company or the sweeping sentimentality of Into the Woods, but
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Kicks Off Right Now In Napa; One-Day Passes Still Available The semi-big Napa music and food fest known as BottleRock, now in its third year at the Napa Valley Expo center, is just getting underway in the last hour, and it looks lik
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The Doughgroni At Mr. Holmes Bakehouse Good god. So, next week is Negroni Week, which after launching in 2013 has grown into an international affair with over 1300 bars and restaurants participating. Here in SF you can taste Negroni
SF News Rush Limbaugh Tries To Use SF Arrest Statistics Of Black Women To Say Something Racist Are San Francisco cops just as racist as cops everywhere, or are black people just inherently criminals? That seems to be the question being posed by conservative radio blowhard Rush Limbaugh in a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Bar House Rules Debuts In Former Pesce Spot In Russian Hill There's a new drinking and eating establishment to put on your radar in the Russian Hill environs: House Rules (2227 Polk Street), brought to you by the chef-owner of Hog & Rocks and
SF News [Updated] Austin-Bound Virgin Flight Out Of SFO Returns To Gate After Passenger Threatens Suicide Virgin America flight 218 from SFO to Austin had to turn around while taxiing for takeoff around noon today after a passenger made an apparent suicide threat. Passenger (and angel investor) Erik Berg
SF News [Updated] Highlights From The Google I/O Developer Conference Keynote If you're wondering who all those nerds are in the vicinity of the Moscone Center today, it's a legion of developers who are currently getting a peek at the next version of the
SF News Alleged Serial Zipcar Thief Speaks Nicole Dipo, the 28-year-old trans woman who was arrested in April for stealing potentially dozens of Zipcars around San Francisco, has now given an interview from jail to ABC 7 in which she
SF News Day Around The Bay: Warriors Foes Emerge From Shadows Carly Fiorina called the Chinese “unimaginative.” [HuffPo] That group of super-rich anti-Warriors Arena people met with the Chronicle’s editorial board, and C.W. Nevius is not having it. But at least we
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: One Man, Two Guvnors at Berkeley Rep As the local theater season winds to a close at two of our major companies, Berkeley Rep and A.C.T., there are two fun and splashy productions closing out their mainstage schedules.
SF News Tenderloin SRO To Become Free Housing For Ex-Cons In a pioneering program that came out of a partnership between the SF Superior Court, the Adult Probation Department, and the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, ex-convicts will be getting free, temporary supportive housing in
SF News Skeletal Remains Found In Fremont Turn Up Positive Match For 1982 Cold Case Involving Swedish Student 33 years later, investigators have been able to positively identify some remains that turned up in the vicinity of Morrison Canyon, near Niles and Fremont, and connect them to a cold case involving
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pop-Up Dinner With Juanita MORE! Thursday To Benefit LGBTQ Youth Conference Each year, in preparation for her annual Pride blowout, local drag icon Juanita MORE! chooses a charity to be the beneficiary of proceeds from the party which follows the parade on Pride Sunday
SF News Breaking: Many Tech Workers Are Being Priced Out Of Bay Area A KPIX headline that's getting splashed around social media since last night proclaims "Even Techies Can't Afford the Bay Area Anymore," but there's a bit more to it than that. As Redfin CEO
Arts & Entertainment Eliana Lopez Comedy Opens This Week, Looks As Embarrassing As Expected Sherriff Ross Mirkarimi's actress wife Eliana Lopez will be debuting her all-in-Spanish one-woman comedy this coming weekend, chronicling the year-long 2012 domestic violence scandal that nearly cost Mirkarimi his job. Lopez maintained throughout
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bubble Lounge Shutters After 17 Years In North Beach Bachelorette-party planners across the Bay Area are weeping over the news that Bubble Lounge is ending its 17-year run on Montgomery Street in North Beach. The place was mega-trendy circa the dot-com boom
Arts & Entertainment Trailer For SF-Shot <i>Diary Of A Teenage Girl</i> Arrives And Looks Amazing Based on the autobiographical graphic novel of the same name by Phoebe Gloeckner, Diary of a Teenage Girl was one of the breakout hits of Sundance this year, and will now be hitting
SF News SF Pride Bends To Pressure From Facebook, But Board Vote Was Close Over 'Real Name' Controversy Last week we showed you the vaguely worded joint press release that was issued by the SF Pride board of directors and Facebook in advance of a June 1 protest that's set to
Arts & Entertainment Alamo Drafthouse Cinema To Finally Open This Fall In The Mission The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema project that promised to open by late 2014 is finally taking shape in the old New Mission Theater at Mission and 22nd. They've got a big "COMING 2015" banner
SF News Florida Agency Declares Uber Driver An Employee As we await federal court decisions in San Francisco in two separate class-actions pertaining to this issue against both Uber and Lyft, the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity has ruled in favor of
