Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Car Wash Porn Since you really shouldn't be washing your car, like, ever, during this drought (unless you have access to grey water!), it makes sense that you might need a calming video like this remind
Arts & Entertainment Rex Ray's Former Lofts Up For Sale, Could Include Art And Furniture The late artist Rex Ray, who passed away in February at age 58, purchased two lofts in the Allied Box Factory building (2169 Folsom near 18th) back in 2001, one of which was
Arts & Entertainment Don't Call It Pink Saturday (This Year) As hinted at earlier, the traditional organizers/gatekeepers of Pink Saturday on Pride Weekend in the Castro, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, are holding onto their rights to the name "Pink Saturday," even
SF News Forecasters Promise El Niño Really Might Come Around For Real This Time, Really We all got burned last year after weather people got us all psyched up for a wet El Niño winter to alleviate some of the drought, and then it never came. (Well, it
SF News Yemeni-American Man From SF Sues State Department For Revoking His Passport, Stranding Him In Yemen According to the Asian Law Caucus, dozens of American citizens who may have been born in Yemen are being held in the war-torn country, stranded, and unable to return to the U.S.
SF News Multi-Year Battle Over Castro & Market Gas Station Site To Be Settled Soon Plans for a 24-unit building at the prime corner of Castro and Market Streets currently occupied by an ARCO gas station have been stymied for the past decade by various factors, not the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe Burger Now Open In Former Marlowe Space Offering a good new to-go option coming from or heading to AT&T Park, Marlowe Burger has just opened in what had been Marlowe at Townsend and Fourth. As you probably recall,
SF News Five Arrested, And Only A Few Severely Debilitated By Edibles At This Year's 4/20 At least 10,000 people arrived at Hippie Hill to get stoned together for 4/20 yesterday, despite it being a chilly Monday, and once again a huge pile of trash was left
SF News Mayor And Supervisors Challenged To Ride Muni Themselves Much like the citizenry did almost ten years ago with then mayor Gavin Newsom, a citizens' group is challenging the current mayor and Board of Supervisors to ride Muni themselves for 22 days
SF News Day Around The Bay: Port-a-Potty Lands In Lake Merritt This portable toilet appears to have fallen, or was tossed, into the cleanly waters of Oakland's Lake Merritt over the weekend. [JesseBudlong/Twitter] Season of the Witch author David Talbot contemplated running against
SF News Ross Mirkarimi Got His Domestic Violence Conviction Expunged In a symbolic and expected turn of legal events, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has gotten his 2012 misdemeanor conviction on a false imprisonment charge involving his wife, expunged from his permanent record. He did
Arts & Entertainment KPFA Radio Personality Killed In Oakland Hit-And-Run Wesley Burton, a regular host and DJ on Berkeley-based KPFA, was killed early Saturday morning in a violent hit-and-run collision in North Oakland. He was on his way home from a shift, hosting
SF News SFPD Already Putting A Damper On 4/20 Chaos, Confiscating Popcorn Machines 4-20 celebration at Golden Gate Park. Smoke and munchies easy to find. Parking is not. pic.twitter.com/RVcpSF033F— Michelle Roberts (@Michelle_NBC) April 20, 2015 San Francisco police want the public to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine And Blue Bottle Merge; Bar Tartine Sold To Chefs, Will Get New Name BIG NEWS in the local food world today as Tartine Bakery, which already had vague plans to expand to New York, announces that it will be joining forces with Blue Bottle Coffee, and
Arts & Entertainment The Real Dope Behind 420 (Which Was Coined By A Group Of California Teens) Today is basically St. Patrick's Day for stoners, the high holiday known as 4/20, and the date does not have anything to with the fact that it's Hitler's birthday. As most educated
SF News Drought Rules Revised Based On Feedback, SF In Most Lenient Water Usage Tier On Saturday, state water regulators issued a revised plan based on Governor Jerry Brown's April 1 mandate that everyone statewide cut back on water usage by 25 percent. The new plan takes into
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Empire Room Arrives This Month, <em>Top Chef</em> Is Coming, And More Besides this week's big openings of Aatxe and Octavia, and the big news that Del Popolo is getting a brick-and-mortar spot on Nob Hill, here's what else has been going on, food-wise, around
Arts & Entertainment Tiny Goat Petting Event At Ferry Building Possibly Drawing Thousands Saturday The annual Goat Festival thrown by Ferry Plaza farmers' market organizers CUESA became the stuff of viral sharing insanity this year, and what's typically a very small event geared at kids now sounds
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Live With 13 People And A Dog For $1500 It is definitely the case that communal living has made a big comeback in modern-day SF, out of necessity, as the housing market tightens and legions of bushy-tailed twentysomethings arrive here none too
Arts & Entertainment Watch Local Mythbuster Adam Savage Build A <i>Battlestar Galactica</i> Model With Actor Aaron Douglas OK, Battlestar dorks, get ready to dork out. SF-based Mythbusters guy Adam Savage just invited Battlestar Galactica actor Aaron Douglas (he played Chief Tyrol) over to his One Day Builds workshop to build
SF News This May Be San Francisco's Most Disgusting Apartment Building That seedy looking apartment building you see on the right as you're coming off the Central Freeway off-ramp at Octavia is actually more terrible inside than you already imagined. Some 40 tenants are
SF News Day Around The Bay: Woman Punched Over Muffin A Mission thief actually punched a woman in the face over a muffin. [Examiner] If you pony up enough dough, you can have lunch with Tim Cook. [Chron] Museum head in charge of
SF News 100,000 San Franciscans Don't Have Internet? Perhaps reinforcing the idea that the divide between the haves and have-nots of San Francisco is very stark and wide these days, a new report by the city estimates that about an eighth
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Spanish Spot Aatxe Opens Upstairs From Cafe Du Nord Friday The next project from the Ne Timeas Restaurant Group (Flour + Water, Central Kitchen) is Aatxe (2174 Market Street, pronounced aah-CHAY), a Basque restaurant on the street level of the Swedish American Hall building
Arts & Entertainment Winchester Mystery House In San Jose To Begin Overnight Sleepovers Serving Booze Arguably San Jose's biggest tourist attraction, the 160-room, allegedly haunted Winchester Mystery House has recently gotten a permit to allow for overnight stays on the property, as well as a full-service restaurant with
