SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird/Progress Chefs, A16, And Manresa Win Big At James Beard Awards Though San Francisco got shut out of the Outstanding Restaurant and Outstanding Chef categories this year, we still ended up with a pretty decent showing at this years "Oscars of the food world,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Inside The Miss Russian SF Contest Jonathan Kauffman penned a piece about why upscale vegan spot Millennium leaving SF matters (even though they're just moving to Oakland). [Inside Scoop] The Chron's Tony Bravo attended that Miss Russian pageant at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Big New Bon Marché Brasserie May Open By June In Twitter Building AQ restaurateur Matt Semmelhack and chef-partner Mark Liberman have been a major expansion project at the Twitter building (a.k.a. Market Square at Market and 10th) for well over two years now,
Arts & Entertainment Video: Upcoming Doc 'Northwest Passage' Explores One Teenager's Unhealthy Obsession With <em>Twin Peaks</em> Filmmaker Adam Baran (Jackpot) says that when he met Travis Blue back in 2005, at an LGBT film festival, "We quickly bonded over our favorite films and TV shows: Twin Peaks, My Own
SF News Weather Report: Hunker Down For More Fog Until Thursday Our annoying summer weather pattern seems to have hit early this year, with the marine layer thick and slow to burn off in the late afternoon and evening temperatures getting mighty chilly. But
SF News Concord Fault That Caused Sunday Quake Has Major Damage Potential You've heard of the San Andreas Fault, of course, and most of us in the Bay Area have heard the refrain that the Hayward Fault is likely going to be then next to
SF News Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Issues Mea Culpa Following May Day Vandalism Spree Newly elected Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and her police chief Sean Whent admitted in a press conference Saturday that they weren't exactly prepared for the level of destruction that was wrought around downtown
SF News Bernal Heights Woman Who Was Given 400 Percent Rent Hike Moves Out Today Back in March, the story of Bernal Heights resident Deborah Follingstad getting pushed out of her home of ten years went viral around the Bay Area after she posted the notice from her
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Story Behind Those Creepy Door Hangers (It's An Art Project) Yesterday Eve posted a query about these strange, metallic-shiny door hangers that have recently been appearing around the Mission, all bearing the Miranda Rights warning, "Anything you say can and will be used
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Meadowood Welcomes New Chef De Cuisine, Tacorgasmico Opens, And More This past week was marked by a fire that has temporarily shuttered Liverpool Lil's in the Marina, and the announcement of the reopening of the famed, 100-plus-year-old Sam Wo in Chinatown. Also there
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Furnished Hovel With Stripper Pole, No Actual Kitchen, $1785 I don't even know what to make of this Lower Nob Hill sublet that appears to be the current home of of either a) a very messy hooker, or b) a self-employed businesswoman
SF News Charges Dropped Against Man Accused Of Starting The 2013 Rim Fire In Yosemite Remember the massive, devastating, utterly depressing Rim Fire of 2013, the third biggest wildfire in state history that burned 400 square miles of forest including parts of Yosemite National Park? Well the man
SF News [Updated] May Day Protest Grows In Oakland As Hundreds Converge On Downtown Crowd gathering at 40th & MLK, Oakland to protest gentrification by blocking tech busses during the morning commute. pic.twitter.com/LcEgKlye0z— The Outsider (@OutsiderEditors) May 1, 2015 In the wave of marches
SF News Rec & Parks Produces Goofy PSAs To Encourage Proper Trash Disposal, Bathroom Use The Rec & Parks Department hosted a pair of meetings Tuesday to engage concerned neighbors about their new "action plan" for dealing with the park's ongoing popularity, and its trash problem. And as
Arts & Entertainment Mission-Based Sex Toy Startup Seeks Seed Money The blog Capp Street Crap caught this Craigslist ad in which a Mission-based startup is seeking investors for some kind of sex toy business that they're being a bit cagey about. They say
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Best Outdoor And Patio Bars In San Francisco Hey everybody! It's hot out! We're getting some of our special San Francisco summertime, typically scheduled for May, early this year, and today and tomorrow I'm guess you are going to want to
SF News Drought Problems: Have You Seen A Major Uptick In Ants? I bring up the topic of our little six-legged pest-friends, Argentine ants, because I myself, as I type for you every day, have been engaged in a weeks-long battle to maintain a perimeter
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 100-Year-Old Chinatown Restaurant Sam Wo To Return In New Spot After Three-Year Hiatus Way back in 2012, the city mourned the loss of grungy, late-night, iconic Chinatown mainstay Sam Wo, which was shuttered by the Health Department after multiple violations spanning years. There were glimmers of
SF News Oakland Braces For Major May Day Mayhem As we mentioned the other day, some dueling protests are going to converge on Oakland this May Day, tomorrow, possibly reviving some Occupy-level chaos in the city's streets. As ABC 7 reports in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Man Accused Of Attempting To Set Castro Bar On Fire Is Former Gay Web Cam Model A 27-year-old man named Troy Collin McCormick has pleaded not guilty to arson charges in connection with an incident that occurred a week ago Tuesday at Hi Tops in the Castro. As bar
SF News Day Around The Bay: Those Water Usage Fines Might Hit $10,000 The SFPD cites eight times as many black people as they do white people for resisting arrest. [Chron] An iPad app used by pilots in all American Airlines cockpits malfunctioned Tuesday causing widespread
Arts & Entertainment Peeking Inside The Historic, Almost-Open Strand Theater, A.C.T.'s New Second Home On Market Street Now after three years of fundraising and construction, SF's American Conservatory Theater is getting set to show the public its brand new performance space on mid-Market, The Strand Theater (1117 Market at 7th)
Arts & Entertainment This Is Just A Video Of Hunter Pence Shaking His Ass It's all in the hips #InternationalDanceDay A video posted by Hunter Pence (@hunterpence) on Apr 29, 2015 at 12:46pm PDT Everybody's favorite injured outfielder (he's supposed to be back on the field
SF News Yep, Uber Is Getting In The Delivery Game, Big Time As predicted a year and a half ago, Uber has much bigger plans than being just "everyone's private driver." As Tech Crunch is reporting via some leaked training docs, Uber's in the process
SF News Fire Breaks Out In Apartment Building at Guerrero And 18th Huge fire right behind my apartment on Gurrero... @SFist pic.twitter.com/J0g67hrXVG— Jessica Kennedy (@artjcake) April 29, 2015 Welp, I guess we have a fire day on our hands. An apartment fire
