Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: SFist Talks With Heklina About The Rebranding Of Trannyshack This week, the S.F. nightlife community was rocked by the news that legendary nightclub Trannyshack was going to rebrand itself, in the interest of not offending the trans community. Yesterday I spoke
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures</i> at Berkeley Rep I could quip that even the title of playwright Tony Kushner's latest work needs editing. But in reviewing such a sprawling, gut-punching, morbid, hilarious, and ridiculously dense and reference-packed work of theater by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Rolling Out Video Reviews, Because It's Not Self-Indulgent Enough Next month, to augment user-uploaded photos of restaurants and dishes on their reviews, Yelp will be offering the ability to upload videos of businesses as well, presumably with audio comment. I'm looking forward
SF News One-Hour Battery Life And Other Reasons Google Glass Might Suck One of the first tech writers to be balls-out honest instead of sycophantically, droolingly gaga about the functionality of Google Glass is Computer World's Matt Lake. In a piece titled "Why I'm Sending
Arts & Entertainment SF Institution Trannyshack Changing Name Amid PC Pressure It's the end of an era, and a triumph for trans activists, as SF-based drag queen Heklina (a.k.a. Stefan Grygelko) announced this week that she'll be taking the "tranny" out of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Palm House Opens Tonight In The Former Nettie's In Cow Hollow Taking over the former Nettie's Crab Shack space at 2032 Union Street is a new island-themed concept, Palm House, which debuts tonight after some considerable renovations. The team behind it includes Gayle Pirie,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe May Have To Move As Developer Aims To Build High-Rise There The popular four-year-old SoMa restaurant Marlowe, which sits across the street from the CalTrain station, is in danger of having to move or close as an LA-based developer has bought the building with
SF News The Coming El Niño Could Lead To Warmest Year On Record Climate scientists are all pretty well on board with the prediction that this coming winter is going to be a severe El Niño season. And for those who did not live in Northern
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink We May Be Headed For A Fancy Coffee Shortage Just as bartenders and margarita-addicts were reeling the last couple months over the lime shortage, we're getting word that baristas and artisanal latte addicts are about to have their own shortage to squawk
SF News Ugh: Once Again Science Says Big Quakes Are Coming To The Bay Area The well-worn phrase "it could be tomorrow, it could be years from now" is about the least comforting phrase there is to any Bay Area resident. But yet another study has come out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Finally Gives Saison Four Stars Though many in the food world have been raving about Saison and chef Joshua Skenes' cooking for years, local critic Michael Bauer was slow to come around to it in the beginning, and
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Recap: 'You're Gay For My Code' In last night's Silicon Valley, the gang comes to San Francisco for the TechCrunch Disrupt conference and many jokes are made about how few women there are in tech. Also, Erlich proves himself
SF News Noted Nudist Gypsy Taub Taunts Cops At Bay To Breakers, Gets Citation [Updated] After Police Chief Greg Suhr decided last week to ban nudity from Bay to Breakers, even though the event was one of the specific exceptions made in the ordinance that officially banned nudity
SF News Bay Bridge Traffic Bad As Ever, Despite Peak-Hour Toll Hike That $6 toll for crossing the Bay Bridge during morning rush hour has done mostly nothing to lessen traffic congestion during the morning commute. As the mustache boys report, since it was implemented
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outerlands Has Reopened, Everyone One of the trendiest (and most delicious) restaurants of 2013 has finally made it back online after a five-month hiatus, and that would be Outerlands (Judah and 45th Avenue). Owners Dave Muller and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Check, Please!' Gets Down With Food Trucks Though food trucks and street food in general have been a foodinista trend going back almost a decade now, you kinda know it's jumped the shark when they're reviewing food trucks on Check,
SF News Another Day, Another Bay Bridge Engineering Flaw There's something else wrong with steel rods that could ultimately cause massive destruction and death on the new span of the Bay Bridge, and it's going to take a few more million dollars
Arts & Entertainment A Guide to Bay to Breakers, For Various Types Of Stereotypical Racers Once again it's time to gear up for Bay to Breakers, the annual shitshow/foot race/straight pride parade that everyone loves to prepare costumes for, and no one likes to clean up
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Drag Comedienne Dina Martina At Rebel This Weekend Seattle-based drag performer/comedienne/performance artist Dina Martina, who's also well known to Provincetown and New York audiences, is making a rare appearance in S.F. this weekend. She's been called "the most
SF News Armistead Maupin Returns To San Francisco For Good Famed chronicler of a semi-fictitious San Francisco of the late 70s and 80s, Armistead Maupin, has moved back to the city with husband Christopher Turner after two years of trying to make a
SF News Lucas Museum Could Snag Piers Or Embarcadero Lot Warriors Gave Up Mayor Lee and billionaire Ron Conway are pulling out whatever stops they can to keep George Lucas from decamping to Chicago with his illustration (and whatever) museum, as he's threatened to do, and
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Needs This Hot Tub Cinema Party Right Now! Because nothing is too hipster for our fair town, and because we feel left out when Brooklyn gets things that we don't, I'm starting a campaign right now to get Hot Tub Cinema,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Great Big New Restaurant & Distillery Coming To Dogpatch A Portland-based restaurateur is bringing a big new restaurant and event-space concept to a former boiler factory at Third and 19th Streets. The unnamed, 12,300-square-foot project will include a 100-seat restaurant and
Arts & Entertainment YouTube-Famous Diva Impressionist Christina Bianco Coming to S.F. If you're gay or have a gay friend (or if you read this website), chances are you saw this video last year. It has 6 million views and counting, and it features New
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sea Ranch-Based Bakery Coming To South Beach Twofish Baking Company, much loved for their sticky buns in their hometown of Sea Ranch on the northern Sonoma coast, was just featured in Saveur magazine this month and they've just announced an
