Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Homeland: The Musical' "I've got the guy right here, his name's Abu Nazir, and if the bomb goes off we're all comandeered." Pretty funny. This comes from the mind of NY-based writer and performer Eliot Glazer.
SF News Valencia Merchants, Others, Honestly Surprised Jack Spade Is Not Afraid Of Them The move by Liz Claiborne-owned mini-chain Jack Spade to open on 16th Street has become, for many, a galvanizing symbol of the latest phase in the Mission's gentrification and potential loss of character.
SF News 97-Year-Old West Oakland Church Goes Up In Flames Zion's First Church of God in Christ, which has stood on the same West Oakland corner in different forms for almost 100 years, was largely destroyed in a three-alarm fire Monday afternoon. The
Arts & Entertainment America's Cup Extending Into Tuesday As Oracle Wins Again Oracle/Team USA took another race today, bringing the score to New Zealand 8, U.S.A. 6, and meaning that the America's Cup is still not over. And, had they not cheated,
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Real Siri. [Updated] Almost two years after the world was first introduced to the soothing, mellifluous voice of the iPhone, we meet the woman whose actual voice was used to create Siri. Her name is Allison
SF News Chinatown Is The Next Frontier For Ellis Act Evictions One of the last off-the-real-estate-agents-radar bastions of cheap housing in the city looks primed to be the next frontier in the gentrification wars, and that's Chinatown. A new piece in the Examiner highlights
SF News America's Cup Sailing Postponed Another Day; *Might* Wrap Up Sunday Sailing fans had their hopes frustrated once again today as yet another day of America's Cup sailing was called off due to unfavorable wind conditions. We don't understand the specifics, but basically the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: '1776' at A.C.T. Some musicals survive the test of time because of a few catchy, radio-friendly songs and a farcical book that still feels tight and buoyant decades later Anything Goes is a good example that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Salumeria Expanding to the Hamm's Brewery Building Next Week Salumeria, the popular deli spinoff of Flour + Water that's attached to Central Kitchen (20th and Florida), is getting a second location next week at 1550 Bryant Street (between 16th and Alameda), in the
SF News Sheriff's Lieutenant Vincent Calvarese Back In Jail Remember this guy? Vincent Calvarese, the gay San Francisco Sheriff’s lieutenant who was featured in a 2009 documentary about butch gay guys called The Butch Factor, was arrested again this week for
SF News Convicted Serial Killer Joseph Naso Is So Effing Crazy Convicted serial killer Joseph Naso whined in court today that he was "being pushed out" of court without getting a proper hearing for the various motions he would like to file before he's
Arts & Entertainment Video: Another Preview of 'American Horror Story: Coven' "You girls need to learn to fight," says head witch in charge Jessica Lange in the latest trailer for the upcoming third season of American Horror Story. "When witches don't fight, we burn.
SF News Larry Ellison's House Flag-Bombed By Kiwi Ninjas This is funny. Even though we don't understand how the America's Cup is still going, given the wide lead the New Zealanders had as of Sunday, it is still going. And the other
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Rage' By Hyper Crush There's something just so balls-to-the-wall ridiculous about this video and song, we felt we had to share. Hyper Crush hails from L.A. (obvi), and they're a trio consisting of singer Holly Valentine,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Opening Tonight In The Mission: The Vestry The restaurant attached to The Chapel music venue (777 Valencia Street), dubbed The Vestry, debuts tonight after some lengthy delays. The Chapel, as you may recall, opened last fall around this time in
Arts & Entertainment We Predict Dead Drops Are Going To Be Really Huge With The Dork Set Have you heard about dead drops? Neither had we. Basically it's this "underground" thing where someone sticks a USB flash drive in some concrete sticking out of a building somewhere, and you can
SF News Behold, S.F.'s Most Expensive TIC Ever ... At $100 Million [Heavy sigh] We've got a new record high to share in S.F. evermore ridiculous real estate clusterfuck. It seems that a 33-unit building on Nob Hill is converting from rental to for-sale
SF News Facebook Dating Ad Features Girl Who Committed Suicide Oops. Facebook had another little PR snafu this week when it was discovered that an ad being promoted on the site by an online dating concern featured the image of a dead girl.
SF News CA Porn Industry Lifts HIV-Related Moratorium [Updated] On Friday the porn industry will lift a moratorium on shooting that has now been in effect for two weeks following the announcements of HIV infections of three performers. Two of the performers,
SF News City Audits Muni, Finds That It Indeed Sucks The city conducted an undercover audit of Muni buses and also audited their books to produce a report that, once again, shouts loud and clear that our public transportation system has problems. The
SF News SFPD Shuts Down Sidewalk Chess Games Well, this is a pathetic development in the War on Fun: The SFPD has confiscated all the game tables, chairs, and chess boards that have been used for at least three decades for
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: RuPaul In A Car With Chris Crocker RuPaul and World of Wonder have a new web series in which RuPaul, out of drag, drives people around LA in his Volvo and chats them up. In today's episode, he's driving onetime
Arts & Entertainment A Few Words About Jonathan Franzen, iPhone Gazing, The Death Of Books, And Hating On Technology The arguably great, inarguably astute Jonathan Franzen wrote an essay this past week that has taken even the literarily inclined a few days to get around to, as most good essays should. It's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Blueprint Taproom, A New Beer Spot, Now Open In SoMa Check it out, SoMa workers and Design District denizens: You've got a new after-work beer bar to check out. Blueprint Taproom just debuted in the space at 680 8th Street (near Brannan) that
SF News Marina Boat-Fuel Station Almost Burned Down On Sept. 11 The owner of a boat-fuel dock in the Marina says that an attempted arson at her business could have been tied to September 11. But it also might have been coincidental and just
