SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Woman Seeks Birthday Dinner Date In Tokyo This semi-tragic SF woman seeks date for her 39th birthday dinner in Tokyo at the super exclusive Noma pop-up. Also, she's paying. And you should be a straight male from SF between the
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Creators Discuss How The Russian River Got Gay, And Why They Shot The First Episode Of Season Two There As I mentioned yesterday in my recap/review of the opening of Looking's second season, the new episodes get off to a fun start with a trip up north to the Russian River
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Pop-Up Beer Garden Next To AT&T Park To Feature Anchor Steam, 4505 Burgers A Proxy-esque food-and-retail development in the parking lot behind AT&T Park called The Yard will greet baseball fans in the 2015 season, as the Chronicle is reporting. Like Proxy in Hayes
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Divisadero Time-Lapse Artist Sadie Mellerio has installed this site-specific video installation for the window of hip kid magnet Madrone Art Bar which shows a time-lapse of the view outside Madrone Art Bar, at Divisadero and
SF News Study Proves You Can Never Survive Without Your Phone Again A new study shows that iPhone separation anxiety is not only real, but it negatively affects cognitive ability. Yes, sadly, as Consumerist reports, just putting your phone in the next room may now
SF News Kamala Harris Will Go After Boxer's Senate Seat California's newly reelected Attorney General and former SF District Attorney Kamala Harris will, as predicted, be vying for the Senate seat being vacated by Barbara Boxer in 2016. She has succeeded in brokering
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant Trestle, From The Fat Angel/Stones Throw Team, Coming To Jackson Square Today we get news of a cozy new spot coming to a former Chinese restaurant in the Jackson Square/Chinatown vicinity from Hi Neighbor, the newly formed restaurant group that's behind Fat Angel
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Parks & Rec' As An 8-Bit Video Game (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=
SF News Another Sideshow Shut Down I-880 In Oakland On Sunday Oakland's grand tradition of sideshows continued Sunday with another freeway-closing doughnut rally that stopped traffic on I-880 for an indeterminate amount of time. As KRON4 reports, the driver of red Mustang you see
SF News [Update] Two People Possibly Shot At Turk And Leavenworth SFist is getting a report from former editor Brock Keeling, in fact that a shooting has just occurred this afternoon at Turk and Leavenworth in the Tenderloin. SFPD officers are on the scene
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Season Two Opens With Fantastic Party In The Woods, Quickly Slows Back Down To Snail's Pace Looking began its sophomore season on HBO last night, and the first episode is a rollicking, sexy good time set amongst the redwoods. But having watched five of the new episodes, I'll just
SF News Gavin Announces He Won't Run For Senate; Willie Brown Thinks Jerry Brown Should Run Kamala Harris is most definitely going after outgoing Senator Barbara Boxer's seat in the 2016 election as this morning SF's very own favorite hair model Gavin Newsom announced he would not be chasing
Arts & Entertainment New Doc Suggests The Silk Road Case Could Set Lasting Precedent For Fourth Amendment The federal prosecution of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged deep-web black marketeer known as Dread Pirate Roberts of The Silk Road, may have some major flaws when it comes to how the FBI built
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: 280-Square-Foot Sunset 1-Bedroom For $1280, Or Is It a Studio? As of today, I'm moving our Apartment Sadness column out of the News category and into Arts & Entertainment, because I'm pretty sure these posts are just being enjoyed for a dose of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Charin Lands In Old Saison Space, The Market On Market Opens This Month, and More Following the BIG NEWS about the return of foie gras this week, it's been a somewhat quiet week in the local food world. We know that Luna Park is staying put for now,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Did Valencia Street Already Hit Peak Restaurant Density? Two years ago, when the Valencia corridor saw a spate of new restaurant openings several in spaces that had not previously been home to restaurants retail merchants in the neighborhood started crying foul
Arts & Entertainment Bronze Tortoises Stolen Again From Nob Hill Fountain Back in May of 2007, two cast bronze tortoises were removed and stolen off of the beloved Fountain of the Tortoises in Huntington Park, atop Nob Hill. As photographer Sergio Ruiz shows us
SF News Stay Classy, SF: Paris Tragedy Coverage Marred By 'F**k Her Right In The Pussy' Meme Really? I might expect this of the populace in the hinterlands where this annoying meme got its hoax start, but here in San Francisco? During a goddamn vigil for the Charlie Hebdo massacre?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gestalt On 16th Shut Down For Selling Weed Mission beer and bicyclist bar Gestalt Haus has had their liquor license suspended for 30 days after a doorman was caught selling marijuana. California Alcoholic Beverage Control spokesman John Carr issued a statement
SF News Day Around The Bay: Culprit Sought In Raccoon Cruelty Incident There's a $5000 reward for the head of whoever shot an Oakland raccoon with a crossbow on Sunday. [SFGate, SF Weekly] A Fiat convertible smashed into Olea restaurant in Nob Hill yesterday. No
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Celebrates Two Years, Launches Menu #5 With Chinese Restaurant Theme As they have every six months since opening, Trick Dog has just overhauled the whole menu along another clever theme, and this time it's Chinese Restaurant. As Alcademics reports, each cocktail's got a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Spots For Classic Tiki Drinks In The Bay Area The American Tiki bar wasn't exactly born in the Bay Area, but it almost was the iconic Trader Vic's opened in Oakland in 1936, just three short years after the first Tiki bar,
Arts & Entertainment BuzzFeed Lands In San Francisco, Pens First SF vs. NY Photo Listicle The media powerhouse that is BuzzFeed a.k.a. the breaking news, humor, quiz, and GIF-listicle engine that began monopolizing your Facebook feed in the last three years has just opened a San
SF News Local French Community Reacts To Charlie Hebdo Massacre You may not have realized that San Francisco is home to a sizable community of French ex-pats, and the tragic events in Paris yesterday have obviously rippled across their ranks. Hundreds gathered Wednesday
SF News United Airlines Crew Fired For Refusing To Fly On Aircraft With Threat Scrawled On It A 13-person crew of United Airlines flight attendants based at San Francisco International Airport were fired last year following an incident in which they refused to fly aboard an aircraft that had a
