SF News Day Around The Bay: Baker and Banker Calls It Quits Five-year-old Pacific Heights restaurant Baker & Banker, which debuted to raves in 2009, is closing on October 19 so its chef-owners can spend more time with their kids. This means that this beautiful
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Heartfelt Goodbye To S.F. Filmmaker/photographer Thomas R. Wood just made this very pretty (and slightly NSFW!) video as a goodbye letter to S.F. as he prepares to move to L.A. From the love in
Arts & Entertainment NSFW: This Is What Foreskin Painting Looks Like, Everyone As I warned you over the weekend, there was indeed live painting happening at Castro Street Fair on Sunday, with one man's penis serving as the only paintbrush. Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project founder
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Chinese Food Shows MSG Pride, Puts Shakers Of It On Tables Following on those angry/funny signs posted on the door of SO in SoMa by that restaurant's disgruntled, MSG-using chef, SF's Mission Chinese Food has decided to come out of the MSG closet
Arts & Entertainment Inner Sunset Church Says 'God Is A Giants Fan' St. Cecilia's Catholic Church on 17th Avenue has taken to posting some secular, pro-Giants messages on their street-facing sign now that the Giants are two games up in their third playoff bid in
SF News Teamsters to Zuckerberg: 'Let Shuttle Drivers Unionize' Fast on the heels of this story last week about the long hours and miserable lives of corporate shuttle bus drivers, the Teamsters decided to reach out to Mark Zuckerberg himself in a
SF News Live Foreskin Painting Will Happen At Castro Street Fair Sunday [NSFW] Anyone who's been to Castro Street Fair in recent years knows that there are always at least two booths there devoted to denouncing circumcision and celebrating "foreskin pride" and foreskin mutilation awareness. Well,
Arts & Entertainment Teaser Arrives For Pixar's 'Inside Out' It's not due in theaters until June 2015, but here's the first teaser trailer for Pixar's seriously conceptual new animated movie, Inside Out. It tells the story of the five emotions living inside
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Les Clos Opens Its Doors, Zella's Opens In Oakland, and More Apart from the big debut of The Hall, and the ongoing, completely baffling bracket thing they're doing at the Business Times a baldfaced bid for traffic following on the success of The Five
Arts & Entertainment Giants Win First Playoff Against Nationals 3-2 In the Giants' first post-season game in Washington, D.C., which may have led to a $15 million loss in productivity citywide today, our boys triumphed. Things got a little tense in 6th,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Great Dane Learns How To Open Baby Gate This clever Great Dane, named Bambi, quickly taught herself how to unlatch a baby gate that her humans were using to keep her off the living room couch. The most amazing part comes
SF News Drought To Make Your Halloween Pumpkins Way Smaller Another unconsidered consequence of our intractable drought: smaller pumpkins! As CBS 5 reports, local farmers are reporting a shortage of medium- and large-format pumpkins as a result of there being less water to
SF News Former KPIX Reporter Getting Quarantined After Possible Ebola Contact With NBC Cameraman A former KPIX 5 medical correspondent, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, now working for NBC News, is being flown back to the U.S. from Liberia to be placed in quarantine after she and several
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Watch The Giants' Playoff Games LET'S GO GIANTS!! It's time, everyone, to bask in the October glow of the post-season, and to watch our boys in orange do what they do best in even-numbered years only. Today's first
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe Reopens In New Space at 4th And Brannan Marlowe has successfully reopened one block away, as planned, just about two weeks after closing in its former digs on Townsend Street. Following a handsome remodel by designer Ken Fulk, the place is
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Starts Tomorrow, And Here's What You Should See Friday marks the start of the 14th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, the beloved, home-grown, roots-music-and-everything-else fest generously underwritten in perpetuity by late SF billionaire Warren Hellman. Things kick off in Hellman Hollow
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Noodle Spot Slurp Opens In The Castro Fork Cafe in the Castro quietly closed last week, and today they are softly reopen as Slurp (469 Castro Street), a non-denominational noodle bar. It appears to be a quick concept shuffle by
Arts & Entertainment Legless 'American Horror Story: Freak Show' Actress Discusses Her Role As Legless Suzy You must watch this interview with badass actress Rose Siggins who portrays Legless Suzy on American Horror Story: Freak Show, which premieres next Wednesday. Siggins, like her character, had both her legs amputated
SF News Facebook Changes How It Will Experiment On You Two apologies in one week! Crazytown. Fast on the heels of apologizing to the LGBT community and everyone else for their "real-name" policy, Facebook has issued a statement apologizing for that debacle over
SF News And Now There's A Heat Advisory Because heat is such a strange thing to have around here, the National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for today and tomorrow. In other words, go the beach. No seriously. Why
SF News Bay Area Hospitals Preparing For Ebola The presence of another Ebola patient in the continental United States this one, in Texas, being a man who contracted the disease in Liberia, got on a plane to Dallas without showing symptoms,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Empress of China Is Closing Very sad news: Dusty old sixth-story date spot Empress of China is closing at the end of the year. The Chinatown view bar with its fishtanks, Naugahyde-upholstered stools, and mediocre drinks is being
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Pippin' at the Golden Gate Theater If you didn't once end up as a background player in a high school production of Pippin, you're probably in the minority. But the once popular often maligned 1972 musical by Stephen Schwartz
SF News Second Nude Olympics Happening Saturday At Baker Beach [NSFW] One of SFist's favorite local characters, nudism activist Gypsy Taub, announces today that on Saturday, October 4, a round of "nude Olympics" will be held at Baker Beach, starting promptly at noon ("registration"
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Chris Cosentino Hates Who He Became For The Sake Of Food Network Fame Mad props to San Francisco chef Chris Cosentino who, at this year's MAD Symposium in Copenhagen, gave an impassioned talk about how deeply he regrets his years as a Food Network celebrity, and
