Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Community Mourns Death Of Cookie Dough A beloved drag queen has died, and all too soon. Cookie Dough, a.k.a. Eddie Bell, succumbed to complications from meningitis at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco Thursday night. She was 52.
SF News [Update] Man Killed In Mission Fire Identified Though there's been no official word on the identity of the one fatality in Wednesday night's fire at 22nd and Mission, reporters have honed in on a couple who is already mourning their
SF News Vast Space Underneath Civic Center Plaza Might Actually Become Something Useful KTVU - A massive piece of real estate, albeit 26 feet below ground under Civic Center Plaza, might be turning into something fun someday, as KTVU is reporting. The 90,000-square-foot, city-owned storage
Arts & Entertainment The 13 Coolest Dance Parties In The Bay Area Some people may bemoan the fact that nightlife in SF isn't what it used to be. Others will probably tell you that there's never been any decent nightlife in this town unless you
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Jose Gonzalez's 'Leaf Off/The Cave' Singer-songwriter Jose Gonzalez has got a new album coming out February 17th called Vestiges & Claws, and the first video, for the single "Leaf Off/The Cave" is now out. The video starts
Arts & Entertainment Is The Addition Refusing To Refund Tickets Sold Before They Abruptly Shut Down? It looks like the story of The Addition abruptly closing its doors this month may be getting a bit more messy. A tipster wrote into SFist telling us that Fillmore Live Entertainment, the
SF News More Details, Photos Emerge From Deadly Mission Fire At least 40 people were displaced in Wednesday night's big fire at 22nd and Mission, including several Latino families, and reports are emerging that no fire alarms sounded and fire escapes were either
SF News Comcast Changes Customer's Name To 'A**hole,' Now Says They're Sorry Someone inside the evil empire that is Comcast at least a sense of humor. A story's emerged via Wired that a Spokane, Washington man's Comcast bill arrived with his first name changed to
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Apple Watch Arrives In April The NYT just put out an opinion documentary about a 24-hour bus line in Silicon Valley that’s become a homeless refuge, because of the lack of adequate shelters. [NYT] Services for homeless
SF News SF Public Defender Detained By Police After Trying To Intervene With Questioning Of Client SF deputy public defender Jami Tillotson says she was only trying to protect her client's constitutional right to counsel on Tuesday when she was handcuffed and arrested by SFPD officers at the Hall
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Rent A $1500 Closet In A House Shared By 60 People Wow. So, this room in SoMa just popped up on Craigslist in a "co-ed community house" which, if I had to guess, has a A LOT of turnover. Why do I say that?
Arts & Entertainment Salon Founder Goes Off About Bernal Gentrifiers, 'Stanford Douchebags', And The Destruction Of SF In a new, rather angry op-ed published on 48 Hills, which is actually a speech that Salon founder David Talbot recently delivered at Stanford, Talbot has no shortage of bad things to say
Arts & Entertainment There's Now A Petition To Stop The Giant Slip-N-Slide From Coming Back To California, For Drought Reasons Yep, as predicted, some concerned citizens have lined up to sign a petition to prevent the Utah-based startup Slide the City from bringing its 1,000-foot Slip-n-Slide to multiple California cities this summer
SF News Stanford Freshman Arrested For Raping Woman In Public A 19-year-old Stanford University student has been arrested and charged with sexual assault connected to a disturbing incident that happened in the early morning hours of January 18, on the university campus, according
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'X's and O's' at Berkeley Rep The latest production at Berkeley Rep, the second commission this season to come out of their new incubator program The Ground Floor, is subtitled "A football love story." But the play, X's and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Mistakenly Tweets Dining Destination, Continues To Insist He Can Be Anonymous In the wake of the big announcement last week that LA Times food critic Jonathan Gold was giving up the ruse of being anonymous after years of maintaining it both at that paper
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Step Inside Liholiho Yacht Club, Opening Wednesday On Sutter Street As we noted in last weekend's Week in Food, our most anticipated restaurant of the new year, Liholiho Yacht Club, is very close to its debut, and we now have confirmation that opening
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Check Out The Menu At Mourad, Now Open Downtown Just before the new year we had hints that Mourad Lahlou's new restaurant at 140 New Montgomery, named Mourad, was getting close to opening, and a few weeks later it has happened. Last
SF News Bay Area Woman With Measles Visits Costco, Dave & Busters, Prompts Outbreak Warnings A woman who was apparently never vaccinated for measles and subsequently came down with the disease has prompted scary warnings on the doors of a Milpitas Dave & Busters, and both a Walmart
Arts & Entertainment CNN Explores The Druggy, Trippy, And Poly Side Of Silicon Valley Geekdom "Polyamory is a form of optimization," says product manager Miju Han in what is just one of many words of disruptive wisdom shared in a new CNN mini-doc web series titled "Sex, Drugs
SF News Day Around The Bay: There Will Be No Vaping On BART The BART Board has agreed to ban e-cigs, vaping, system-wide. [BART] The NY Attorney General says he's keeping a close watch on Uber today as the state gets hit with a huge blizzard
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Weird Fish Closure Delayed Until Summer, New Restaurant To Retain Dishes To Placate Vegans It's been a disappointing month for vegans after the announcement of the closure of their beloved Millennium, not to mention Source. But now there's a bit of good news: Weird Fish, the vegan-friendly
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF From 10,000 Feet, Shot In 4K This video, shot by some guys in a Cessna in 4K (better than HD), shows some dramatic top-down views of the city on a clear day. Santa Rosa-based pilot and videographer Andrew Leonard,
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Episode Three: The Gang Goes To A Gay Rugby Match Everybody has hot sex in this week's episode of Looking, including Doris and her apparently well endowed new boyfriend Malik ("Did I do that?" she exclaims, seeing his member in the daylight. "Good
SF News Depressing Graph Shows How Little Rain There's Been Each January For 15 Years January will be over on Saturday, and there isn't even a speck of rain in the forecast before then, which will mean that this January 0.00 inches fell in San Francisco. This
