SF News Oakland's New Mayor To Be Faced With Another Big Demonstration Friday Over Her Protest Crackdown If you've been in the Bay Area more than a minute you should already know that Oakland loves a protest or, should I say, protesters really like to shake shit up across the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 14 Best Bars Wherein To Watch The Warriors In The Finals Ugh. Trying to watch NBA Finals/World Series/NFL Playoff games at bars can be a hassle. You have to pick a bar that you know won't be so crowded that you can't
Arts & Entertainment 55-Foot Burning Man Sculpture To Arrive At San Leandro BART Station While sculptor Marco Cochrane is at work on his third monumental female figure for Burning Man 2015, one of his earlier works just landed a new, permanent home. The City of San Leandro
SF News Powell And Civic Center BART Entrances To Get New Glass Canopy Things The concrete-walled entrances to BART stations along Market Street are set to get makeovers over the next decade or so, as the Chron's John King explains in an impatient tone today. He's impatient,
Arts & Entertainment Bob Saget Defends Olsen Twins' Choice To Skip <i>Fuller House</i> As we all learned two weeks ago, sadly, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen will not be reprising the role of Michelle that they shared in the cast of the upcoming Full House revamp,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luna Park Bought By Mission Beach Cafe Owner Big news over in the Mission, where we've known that longtime stalwart Luna Park (694 Valencia Street) has been up for grabs for months now: It's being sold to Mission Beach Cafe owner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission & 16th McDonald's Closes With the Van Ness McDonald's already gone and the Third and Townsend McDonald's highly likely to to disappear soon, Egg McMuffin and Big Mac aficionados are going to be even sadder about the
Arts & Entertainment The Richmond's 4-Star Theatre Now Endangered Outer Richmond fans of the scrappy little 4-Star Theatre at 23rd and Clement are going to be sad about this: The Richmond District Blog is reporting that the 4-Star, which has been a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Metreon Is (Hopefully) Getting Booze Photo by Demetrios Lyras Excellent news on the boozy movie theater front: Along with the Sundance Kabuki, the AMC Bay Street (Emeryville), and the upcoming Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at the New Mission, the
SF News A Few Odd Details Emerge About The Estate Dispute Between Robin Williams' Widow And Kids Robin Williams' kids and his widow Susan Williams (née Schneider), and their attorneys, returned to court yesterday to hash out further details of their ongoing dispute over the late actor's will. The attorney
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Box Truck Edition My apologies for the hiatus. There was Memorial Day weekend and then last Friday rolled around, the tip line was quiet, and there simply wasn't an apartment worthy of my depression as May
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Millennium Reopens In Oakland On Thursday Vegans across the region can rejoice that Millennium is returning this week in the former Box & Bells space in Rockridge. The beloved, high-end, vegan eatery thrived for 21 years, first on McAllister
SF News Local Trans Icon Teresa Sparks On Caitlyn Jenner: 'This Could Be A Movement Shift' Former Police Commission president, one-time candidate for supervisor and now executive director of the SF Human Rights Commission, Teresa Sparks spoke with KRON 4 yesterday as the media was flooded with the images
SF News Day Around The Bay: French Laundry Stays In World's Top 50 A new report released Friday breaks down the housing numbers that would be impacted with a Mission development moratorium. [Examiner] Remember the case of Tom Smith, the BART Police officer who was accidentally
Arts & Entertainment Look Out For This Enormous, Functioning Typewriter At Burning Man Boston-based artist Jason Turgeon, along with a team that includes contractors, a mechanical engineer, and an architect, are at work constructing a giant replica of a 1927 Underwood Portable Typewriter that they plan
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Traci Des Jardins Talks With Adam Savage About Her Work Ethic, Her Restaurants, And Appearing On <em>Top Chef Masters</em> Local celebrity chef and restaurateur Traci Des Jardins, who stepped onto the national TV stage a couple years back making it into the final three on Top Chef Masters, sat down with friend
SF News Supervisors Help Kick Off 22-Day Muni Challenge With Rally At City Hall Fun times at our rally to kick off the 22-day #MuniChallenge. #OnBoardSF pic.twitter.com/1XPqpAg1yU— Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) June 1, 2015 Back in April the SF Transit Riders Union challenged the
Arts & Entertainment The Roxie Theater, SF's Oldest Cinema, Gets A Three-Year Reprieve From Landlord Small, independent, neighborhood movie houses are of course an endangered species pretty much everywhere besides Los Angeles, but San Francisco's oldest continually operating cinema, The Roxie (3117 16th Street) which also bears the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina To Open Pop-Up Style 'Test Kitchen' In The Marina Taking over the short-lived second location of Cafe Claude, which closed at 2120 Greenwich Street this past winter after just 18 months, will be the Michael Mina Restaurant Group, which will be quickly
SF News More Weekend Sideshows Screech Across Oakland, No Arrests Made The ongoing spate of doughnut-spinning sideshows on Oakland streets brought at least two separate sideshows in different locations Friday night, and one on Sunday that briefly shutdown the I-880 freeway. No injuries or
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SliderBar In Castro Closed By Health Department For Second Time In Eight Months You know how we've been talking about the Castro's vermin problem? Well, SliderBar, which was previously shut down by city health inspectors last October for a persistent vermin problem that they failed to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Epic Roasthouse Becomes Epic Steak, New Bar The Treasury Debuts, and More Guess who's in town this week? The great Jeremiah Tower has been stopping in to see friends like chef Mark Franz at Farallon, resurfacing after parting ways with Tavern on the Green in
Arts & Entertainment This Artist You've Never Heard of Is Livening Walls All Over SF by Renée Padgham You can’t miss him. He stands a foot above everyone, with sandy blonde hair, paint speckled jeans, and a calmness to his demeanor only acquired through years of intense
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'A Little Night Music' At A.C.T. I'll admit up front that A Little Night Music may be my favorite Sondheim score. It may not have the pop-music bounce of Company or the sweeping sentimentality of Into the Woods, but
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Kicks Off Right Now In Napa; One-Day Passes Still Available The semi-big Napa music and food fest known as BottleRock, now in its third year at the Napa Valley Expo center, is just getting underway in the last hour, and it looks lik
