SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Tiny Sushi Bar, Ino Sushi, Closing Next Week After 37 Years Japantown mainstay Ino Sushi, famous in part for its fantastically fresh fish and in part for the gruff temperament of chef-owner Noboru Inoue, is closing its doors forever next week as Ino-san and
SF News Nevius Loves The Mayor's Super Bowl Plan For The Homeless There have been a lot of eyebrow raises amongst the media regarding the mayor's as-yet unexplained plan to clear all the homeless out of the vicinity of the Super Bowl fan village at
SF News New Sheriff Overseeing Burning Man Playa Might Be More Hardassed About Drugs There's a new sheriff in town at Black Rock City well, Pershing County, Nevada to be precise. Former sheriff's deputy Jerry Allen was elected to replace former sheriff Richard Machado, and he took
Arts & Entertainment Director Talks About <i>Amélie</i> The Musical, Premiering Soon At Berkeley Rep The beloved French film Amélie (2001) has been turned into a musical which will be having its world premiere in September at Berkeley Rep. The book is by acclaimed playwright Craig Lucas (Prelude
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Name Your Own Price For Scoops Of Three Twins Ice Cream Today In celebration of their 10th anniversary, quirky local ice cream company Three Twins is doing a “Name Your Price” special all day today at all four of its Bay Area locations, including the
SF News Oakland Childhood Friends Say Virginia Shooter Vester Flanagan Was 'Respectable,' But Also Once Was A Male Escort The man known as Bryce Williams, born Vester Flanagan II, who was responsible for yesterday's shooting of two Virginia journalists, grew up in Oakland, as we noted yesterday. And now CBS 5 tracked
SF News Former 49er Ray McDonald Indicted For Rape; Ahmad Brooks Charged As Well Last we heard, former 49er Ray McDonald and his attorneys were attempting to level a defamation lawsuit against the 22-year-old woman who accused McDonald of sexually assaulting on December 14, 2014 at his
SF News [UPDATE] Womp Womp: Big Mystery Event At Bill Graham Just Another Apple Unveiling It's still not exactly confirmed or elevated beyond well substantiated rumor, but Hoodline claims to have a 'trusted source" who says that the big-deal event taking shape at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium the
SF News Day Around The Bay: A Trump Tower Coming To SF?? The Chron's John King paints a totally plausible scenario in which Donald Trump could end up being the highest bidder for a site that's going up for auction, in the Transby District, that's
Arts & Entertainment Mark Rucker, Associate Artistic Director Of A.C.T., Dies at 56 There was some tragic and unexpected news today in the local theater community. Talented and acclaimed theater director Mark Rucker, who has served as Associate Artistic Director at American Conservatory Theater here in
Arts & Entertainment Seven Fun And Easy Weekend Staycation Ideas In SF Sometimes, there just isn't time or money for a real vacation. But you do realize that the city you live in happens to be one of the highest ranked domestic tourist destinations in
SF News Advocates Want 16th And Mission Site To Become 100 Percent Affordable, But It Probably Won't Following on last week's news that the so-called 'Monster in the Mission' could be doomed due to a legal dispute between the landowner and the developer, opponents of the project jumped for joy,
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Burning Man' The Musical It seems inevitable, given that the internet is the internet, that someone would do a satirical take on Burning Man in the form of musical theater. And that very thing has arrived! It's
SF News Would Joe Biden Pick San Francisco To Announce His Presidential Bid? So here's a rumor I'm going to float, and before I reveal the source, hear me out: Vice-President Joe Biden, who's all but expected to throw his hat in the ring for the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] PR Fixer Sam Singer Brought In To Help Napa Wine Train, Issues Apology To Black Women's Book Club Now that the Napa Valley Wine Train's unceremonious treatment of eleven women on Saturday has made national headlines and even landed on CBS This Morning, the train company's hired none other than notorious
SF News Suicide Shutters Embarcadero Station For Several Hours Monday Afternoon Montgomery station right now after a @SFBART train hits, kills person at Embarcadero http://t.co/Um3ZmyceCq pic.twitter.com/p5UvlxVoXt— Todd Johnson (@SFBizTodd) August 24, 2015 A man reportedly jumped in front
SF News Day Around The Bay: State Bird Has Some Advice For AL's Place State Bird Provisions executive chef/owner Stuart Brioza spoke to San Francisco Magazine to offer a few words of advice to AL's Place, given that he has some experience with being named Bon
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bidding War Over A Totally Sub-Par, Illegal Mission Apartment The satirical web series Tech Boom!, which I reviewed here last fall, has just come out with a second "season" of five brief episodes, of which the one above may be the funniest
Arts & Entertainment Every Film Shoot In SF Since 2013, Mapped A site called Metrocosm gathered every shoot notice posted or distributed to San Francisco city residents since early 2013 to create this interactive map. The map is an interesting snapshot of just how
SF News One Year Ago Today, The Napa Earthquake Rocked The Bay Area Officially dubbed the 2014 South Napa Earthquake, the quake that struck at 3:20 a.m. last August 24th officially marks its one-year anniversary today. The quake only caused minor shaking in San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Group Of Black Women Say They Were 'Humiliated' By Removal From Napa Wine Train A group of 10 African American women and one white woman whose book club goes on an annual wine-tasting excursion to Napa were reportedly treated unfairly aboard the Napa Valley Wine Train on
SF News Once Again, Go Topless Day Kind Of Fizzles In Dolores Park Go Topless Day in San Francisco http://t.co/KxnBye1hDI #gotoplessday #SF pic.twitter.com/m4WfwVXK0B— Kat Duncan (@KatDuncanSF) August 24, 2015 Several years in a row, organizers have tried to galvanize breast-baring
SF News Janelle Monáe And Wondaland Crew Draw Hundreds To Black Lives Matter Protest In Mission @JanelleMonae & Wanderland crew blessed SF with song, protest and march today #hellutalkingabout #blacklivesmatter pic.twitter.com/R0nJycQTh1— Portia Elder (@PortiaElder) August 24, 2015 About 300 people showed up for the rally and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Keystone Debuts, The Alembic Gets A New Chef, And More In addition to the big news this week that AL's Place got named the number one best new restaurant in the country by Bon Appetit, Bon App also named ABV the country's best
SF News Entire Gray Wolf Pack Sighted In NorCal Woods, Including Five Pups Thought to be endangered and not seen in California in 90 years, gray wolf sightings have been happening this year with some frequency via remote, motion-activated, wildlife trail cameras. Only up until now,
