SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Redd In Yountville Settles Wrongful Death Suit Over Scallop Last month we learned of a wrongful death lawsuit against the Napa Valley restaurant Redd, in Yountville, stemming from the August 2014 death of 61-year-old man a death which his family said came
Arts & Entertainment Did You Know That Every 100 Years We Have To Skip Doing Leap Year? Most of you probably know that the earth's orbit around the sun takes 365 and a quarter days, thus necessitating this extra day in February called Leap Day, every four years. It's kind
SF News Weather Report: El Niño Maybe Not Quite Finished With Us Yet After a wet January and wet early February, the Bay Area settled into a familiar early spring that often graces us in February, with beach days aplenty and some really pretty sunsets along
Arts & Entertainment Of Course, Pixar Won Another Oscar, For 'Inside Out' In case you hadn't heard or didn't watch the 88th annual Academy Awards last night, you should know that odds-on favorite Pixar won the award for Best Animated Feature for the eighth time
SF News A 'Few Dozen' Tent City Homeless Remain, Some Trickling Back It appears that the city's strategy of issuing a 72-hour notice to vacate last week around the tent city that had ballooned in January and February under the freeway viaduct along Division Street
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Brasserie Saint James Debuts, Poke Bar Comes To Church Street, And More This week we brought you the sad news that Liverpool Lil's is gone and never coming back, we learned there's a campaign to "Impeach Michael Bauer" that may or may not go anywhere,
Arts & Entertainment Local Artist Merkley Puts His 'Ugly' Haight 'Dump' On Airbnb Artist and erotic photographer Merkley (who at one time had his name printed as Merkley??? but I'm not going to do that), has put his pretty rad Upper Haight studio on Airbnb, and
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Share A SoMa Two-Bedroom With Three Others, Wall Partitions Here's one way to make your expensive SoMa rental a lot less expensive: Fill it with three more people and charge them $1,350 apiece! This particular Craigslist ad caught my eye because
SF News Convicted Silk Road Kingpin Ross Ulbricht Launches Art-Based Fundraiser For His Federal Appeal It appears that while in prison, convicted dark web purveyor and Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, a.k.a. Dread Pirate Roberts, has been making some art. We got an email, possibly from
SF News Single Unit In Former Church By Dolores Park Hits Rental Market For $28,000/Month Remember those renderings we showed you last month of The Light House, the converted and luxuriously renovated former Second Church of Christ Scientist that has long laid vacant and condemned next to Dolores
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink I Got In Line And Tried Wise Sons Bagel, And It's Good The time has come, everyone, and the stakes are high for the long-delayed, much discussed, hotly anticipated opening day of Wise Sons Bagel & Bakery (1520 Fillmore Street near Geary). Not being a
SF News Video: Regarding The Ongoing Rent Strike At The Western Addition's Midtown Apartments Download videosavingmidtown_indybay.mp4 (398.2MB) The case of the ongoing rent strike and enormous deferred maintenance bill at the Fillmore-adjacent Midtown Park Apartments dates back to last August, when renters in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Franciscans Are Ramen Mad That Ramen line... #menshotokyo #menshoramen #openingnight A photo posted by David Lee (@dale3d3r) on Feb 6, 2016 at 5:27pm PST More than ten years after the ramen craze swept through New York
Arts & Entertainment 'The Unfortunates' At A.C.T.'s Strand Theater Is A Brash, Messy, Genre-Bending Musical For A New Age In what's arguably the first piece of gutsy, experimental theater to hit the stage at A.C.T.'s Strand Theater the ostensible mission of which is to provide space for more experimental
SF News Teeny Hayes Valley Studios With No Parking Hitting Market For $500K One of those "micro unit" buildings we've heard so much about has been completed at 388 Fulton Street (at Gough), and one of its itty bitty, 350-square-foot studios could be yours starting at
SF News Will The Remaining Tent City Homeless Get Arrested On Friday? In a pair of competing pieces this morning, the Chronicle is saying both that the tent-dwellers on Division Street are all packing up and leaving, as demanded by the city with a deadline
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Someone Launches 'Impeach Michael Bauer' Campaign, Offers $2K For New Chronicle Critic 7. Hell ya @californiossf keep it posted and spread the word that #thisdudesucks #whostakinblameforthestormyweather A photo posted by I'd Pay $2000 For A New Critic (@impeach.michael.bauer) on Feb 8, 2016 at
SF News Day Around The Bay: Carol Burnett Is Coming To Town! Supervisor Jane Kim and other city leaders are crying foul after it appears that UCSF fired a group of subcontracted, Chinese-speaking janitors who had worked for the hospital for years after they organized
SF News City Hall Gets Lazy With Board Of Supes Class Photo, Photoshops Peskin In Something mildly amusing making the rounds on Facebook this afternoon: The official Board of Supervisors class photo for 2016, the full size version of which can be found here and linked from this
Arts & Entertainment Violent Femmes Announce Two Dates At The Fillmore If you've been watching late-night TV this week, you might have caught that the Violent Femmes are back together and touring to promote their first album of new music in 15 years, titled
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Piano Bars In San Francisco And Oakland San Francisco is a great town for live music, but when it comes to the grand tradition of the piano bar where amateurs and semi-pros get up and sing, we only really have
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lower Haight Loses Beloved Bean There Cafe After 21 Years In yet another sign of the times, a very well loved and financially stable neighborhood coffeeshop, Bean There at the corner of Waller and Steiner, is now gone for good. As owners Susi
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Note To Yelp: Stop Trying To Make 'DivCo' Happen Back in the heyday of the Bold Italic, the website and its events team tried to do a "micro-hoods" thing where they rechristened familiar sections of the city with their own, non-realtor-approved monikers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Tiki Bar Pagan Idol, From Bourbon & Branch Team, Debuts Downtown The ever growing Future Bars empire is growing again as Eater brings word that they've surprised us with a brand new addition, Pagan Idol (375 Bush Street at Belden Place). It's a Tiki
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shhh! House Of Prime Rib Has A Secret Menu (Including A Vegetarian Plate) Somehow, we've made it to 2016 without knowing that House of Prime Rib had anything on offer besides four cuts of rib roast, baked or mashed potato, and creamed spinach and the house
