SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The Doughgroni At Mr. Holmes Bakehouse Good god. So, next week is Negroni Week, which after launching in 2013 has grown into an international affair with over 1300 bars and restaurants participating. Here in SF you can taste Negroni
SF News Rush Limbaugh Tries To Use SF Arrest Statistics Of Black Women To Say Something Racist Are San Francisco cops just as racist as cops everywhere, or are black people just inherently criminals? That seems to be the question being posed by conservative radio blowhard Rush Limbaugh in a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Bar House Rules Debuts In Former Pesce Spot In Russian Hill There's a new drinking and eating establishment to put on your radar in the Russian Hill environs: House Rules (2227 Polk Street), brought to you by the chef-owner of Hog & Rocks and
SF News [Updated] Austin-Bound Virgin Flight Out Of SFO Returns To Gate After Passenger Threatens Suicide Virgin America flight 218 from SFO to Austin had to turn around while taxiing for takeoff around noon today after a passenger made an apparent suicide threat. Passenger (and angel investor) Erik Berg
SF News [Updated] Highlights From The Google I/O Developer Conference Keynote If you're wondering who all those nerds are in the vicinity of the Moscone Center today, it's a legion of developers who are currently getting a peek at the next version of the
SF News Alleged Serial Zipcar Thief Speaks Nicole Dipo, the 28-year-old trans woman who was arrested in April for stealing potentially dozens of Zipcars around San Francisco, has now given an interview from jail to ABC 7 in which she
SF News Day Around The Bay: Warriors Foes Emerge From Shadows Carly Fiorina called the Chinese “unimaginative.” [HuffPo] That group of super-rich anti-Warriors Arena people met with the Chronicle’s editorial board, and C.W. Nevius is not having it. But at least we
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: One Man, Two Guvnors at Berkeley Rep As the local theater season winds to a close at two of our major companies, Berkeley Rep and A.C.T., there are two fun and splashy productions closing out their mainstage schedules.
SF News Tenderloin SRO To Become Free Housing For Ex-Cons In a pioneering program that came out of a partnership between the SF Superior Court, the Adult Probation Department, and the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, ex-convicts will be getting free, temporary supportive housing in
SF News Skeletal Remains Found In Fremont Turn Up Positive Match For 1982 Cold Case Involving Swedish Student 33 years later, investigators have been able to positively identify some remains that turned up in the vicinity of Morrison Canyon, near Niles and Fremont, and connect them to a cold case involving
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pop-Up Dinner With Juanita MORE! Thursday To Benefit LGBTQ Youth Conference Each year, in preparation for her annual Pride blowout, local drag icon Juanita MORE! chooses a charity to be the beneficiary of proceeds from the party which follows the parade on Pride Sunday
SF News Breaking: Many Tech Workers Are Being Priced Out Of Bay Area A KPIX headline that's getting splashed around social media since last night proclaims "Even Techies Can't Afford the Bay Area Anymore," but there's a bit more to it than that. As Redfin CEO
Arts & Entertainment Eliana Lopez Comedy Opens This Week, Looks As Embarrassing As Expected Sherriff Ross Mirkarimi's actress wife Eliana Lopez will be debuting her all-in-Spanish one-woman comedy this coming weekend, chronicling the year-long 2012 domestic violence scandal that nearly cost Mirkarimi his job. Lopez maintained throughout
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bubble Lounge Shutters After 17 Years In North Beach Bachelorette-party planners across the Bay Area are weeping over the news that Bubble Lounge is ending its 17-year run on Montgomery Street in North Beach. The place was mega-trendy circa the dot-com boom
Arts & Entertainment Trailer For SF-Shot <i>Diary Of A Teenage Girl</i> Arrives And Looks Amazing Based on the autobiographical graphic novel of the same name by Phoebe Gloeckner, Diary of a Teenage Girl was one of the breakout hits of Sundance this year, and will now be hitting
SF News SF Pride Bends To Pressure From Facebook, But Board Vote Was Close Over 'Real Name' Controversy Last week we showed you the vaguely worded joint press release that was issued by the SF Pride board of directors and Facebook in advance of a June 1 protest that's set to
Arts & Entertainment Alamo Drafthouse Cinema To Finally Open This Fall In The Mission The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema project that promised to open by late 2014 is finally taking shape in the old New Mission Theater at Mission and 22nd. They've got a big "COMING 2015" banner
SF News Florida Agency Declares Uber Driver An Employee As we await federal court decisions in San Francisco in two separate class-actions pertaining to this issue against both Uber and Lyft, the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity has ruled in favor of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison's Josh Skenes To Open New Restaurant With Sushi Chef Jiro Lin In addition to the aforementioned Asian fast-casual project Fat Noodle, Saison chef Joshua Skenes has got another, as-yet-unnamed side project in the works. As Eater reports, Skenes is on the hunt for a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oh No!!: Dottie's True Blue Cafe Up For Sale Many people were panicked when brunch-time favorite Dottie's True Blue Café abruptly, temporarily closed back in February it turned out to be due to one of the employees suffering a severe burn and
SF News Day Around The Bay: Rapper And Warriors Fan Lil B Puts Feared Curse On Rockets Bay Area rapper and Twitter thought leader Lil B aka The Based God has put what is known as The Lil B Curse on the Rockets James Harden for allegedly stealing his dance
Arts & Entertainment Olsen Twins Confirm They Want Nothing To Do With <em>Full House</em> Revamp When Uncle Jesse, D.J., Kimmy Gibbler and the gang return with Fuller House on Netflix, there will be one conspicuously absent member of the family: Michelle. The role shared by child actresses
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: A Night Out With Vice And Pink Zebra Chef Jesse Koide In case you aren't familiar, Pink Zebra is a “Mediterrasian perma-pop-up" that popped up last year inside Tao Yin restaurant in the Mission. Its chef, Jesse Koide, cut his teeth in the kitchen
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink There's A Canadian Food Pop-Up This Weekend, And It's Called Mooseknuckle It's true that Lazy Bear chef-owner David Barzelay Googled his chosen name for the restaurant (an anagram of his last name) and decided that an annual local summertime celebration of hirsute gay men
SF News Retail Survey Says: Castro Getting Less Gay, But Remains Very Gay For the past year, a consulting firm has been working on a retail strategy for the Castro and Upper Market, helping to solve the question of why certain retail vacancies in the neighborhood
