Arts & Entertainment All The Things That Were Lit Up Purple Last Night In honor of Prince and thanks to the quick suggestion of the citizenry (ahem, Eve Batey), City Hall went purple last night, and some people got down among those rabbits and danced. The
SF News Day Around The Bay: Rain, Not The Purple Kind, Due Tonight More about the death of Prince: CBS 5 looks back at when Prince recorded his first album, For You, at age 19 at Sausalito's Record Plant Studios. Google's doodle has gone purple, with
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Whole Lot Of Pot-Smoking On 4/20, In HD This very pretty and mesmerizing video from yesterday at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park, during the 4/20 festivities, was shot and edited together by someone who sounds like she was named
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Buffalo Theory, A New Craft Beer Spot With 'Creative Comfort Food,' Coming To Polk Last year we had word of a beer bar dubbed Crafthaus headed for the former Quickly space at 1735 Polk Street and owners Quinn Wong, Gil Hoh, and Ted Kim promised Hoodline a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Prince Tribute Parties Planned Tonight In The Mission, Castro, And More No sooner did the news spread this morning that the great Prince was dead at age 57, but local party promoters and DJs were gathering up their Prince records and putting out the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Specs' In North Beach Turns 48 On Sunday; Learn More About The Storied Dive Bar And Mini-Museum The tucked-away, categorically authentic North Beach dive known simply as Specs', the full name of which is Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe, stands nearly alone in its intact, dusty, old-man-bar diveyness despite being
Arts & Entertainment Open Casting Call For LGBT History Series Shot In SF, 'When We Rise' That LGBT documentary mini-series that we told you about a few months back, When We Rise, has been shooting in recent weeks in Vancouver most notably, they just shot parts of the White
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Fans React To Sudden, Inconceivable Death Of Prince How could this happen? Details are still scarce, but the legend that was Prince Rogers Nelson is dead. Many of you are probably saying, "He was just here!" and "Why didn't I go
SF News Roof-Leaping Russian Hill Burglary Suspect Identified, Bail Set For $1.3M If you caught the story about the crazed burglary suspect who led police on a totally cinematic roof-to-roof chase on the Nob/Russian Hill border on Saturday morning, you were probably wondering who
SF News [Update] Three-Alarm Fire Hits Two Apartment Buildings On Guerrero Near 17th WATCH LIVE: Firefighters are battling a 3-alarm fire at 17th and Guerrero in San Francisco: https://t.co/VFCHYJDR4b pic.twitter.com/NWM9Nr3i5p— ABC7 News (@abc7newsBayArea) April 21, 2016 A three-alarm fire is
Arts & Entertainment As Seen In The Skies Over 4/20... Seen high above Golden Gate Park. Good formation, kerning could use work. pic.twitter.com/0PltMrEwnV— Eddie Codel (@ekai) April 21, 2016 During Wednesday's 4/20 celebrations in Golden Gate Park, Pax, the
Arts & Entertainment Video: How 420 (and 4/20) Became A Thing We've given you the history of 420, or 4:20, before, but here, since it's a holiday, is an animated refresher, via Laughing Squid. And yes, it really did all start with a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Confirmed: Cafe Du Nord To Pivot More Into Event Space And Venue, But With Food As SFist reported exclusively last week, the Viking Room at Cafe du Nord, which opened last year with the promise of offering a full dinner menu in a sort of supper club environment
Arts & Entertainment Video: Giants Fans Flee As Seagulls Divebomb Cheap Seats At AT&T Your browser does not support iframes. It was a scene almost right out of The Birds at AT&T Park Monday night as the Giants were in the process of losing to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Best Stoner Foods In San Francisco It's 4/20, y'all, and while hopefully most of you have gotten over the novelty of getting high and won't be joining the throngs at the unsanctioned 4/20 smoke-in on Hippie Hill
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hugh Laurie Spotted At Foreign Cinema; Hillary Swank Sups At Liholiho Short as we mostly are on celebrity sightings here in NorCal, I thought I'd alert you to a couple that happened this week in local restaurants. First off, as we learned last month,
SF News Facebook May Let You Add A Tip Jar To Your Posts In a move that looks like it's both an effort to compete with user-revenue-generating platforms like YouTube and to boost sharing on the platform overall, Facebook appears to be considering options for allowing
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 Fail: Snapchat's Bob Marley Filter Puts Everyone In Blackface UPDATE: Snapchat says Bob Marley blackface filter was approved by his estate to use on 420 https://t.co/6dEoisUIAQ pic.twitter.com/B3CJ2VfeDU— The Next Web (@TheNextWeb) April 20, 2016 Interesting choice,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Beach Cafe Spinoff In Former Luna Park To Be Called Mission Beach Valencia There's still no opening date for the Mission Beach Cafe takeover of the space formerly known as Luna Park (694 Valencia Street at 17th). But, as Tablehopper now reports, via a letter that
Arts & Entertainment Lech Wierzynski Of Bay Area Band The California Honeydrops, On Tour With Bonnie Raitt, Misses Playing In BART Stations The California Honeydrops are a good-time band with an unmistakably Californian style, despite drawing on influences like Delta blues, gospel, and Motown. While frontman and trumpet player Lech Wierzynski sings and plays trumpet,
Arts & Entertainment Whoops! This Giants Fan Possibly Made Team Lose After He Grabbed Fair Ball Your browser does not support iframes. This guy, who was sitting near the left-field line at AT&T Park last night, is sad and ashamed. You see, in the seventh inning, while
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Doing Three Sold Out, Cellphone-Free Shows At The Chapel This Week Just like most of you, probably, we're just now getting word that Dave Chappelle announced a couple of surprise shows as he often does these days Tuesday night at The Chapel in SF
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Check Out The Menu At Fénix, Rising From The Ashes Of TBD In May As we first learned in January, short-lived AQ spinoff TBD, two doors down in SoMa, is going to be reborn as something else entirely, under the same management: a Mexican spot called Fénix
SF News Two Teens Presumed Drowned At Ocean Beach Identified The two teenagers presumed dead after being swept to sea by a rip current on Saturday afternoon have been identified as Wayne Ausa and Grisham Duran of Vallejo. Friends and family are mourning
SF News N-Judah Meltdown Snarls Morning Commute Thankfully, rush-hour meltdowns on Muni aren't quite as frequent as they were in recent years, but they're not yet a thing of the past. This morning saw an "overhead wire issue" near the
