Arts & Entertainment Video: All About The Rad Video Art Scene In SF In The 1970s KQED and SFMOMA on the Go have just made this great documentary short about pioneering video artists in San Francisco in the 1970s people like Skip Sweeney, who started making abstract "feedback" videos;
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Aster Opening Shortly, Horsefeather Headed To Divisadero This week saw the opening of the new, Proxy-esque beer garden and pre-game venue next to AT&T Park, The Yard, as well as the announcement of the closure of Cafe Claude
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Your Very Own Walk-In Closet. No Really. For some reason, these people wanted a roommate by March 15th, and they couldn't find one! I can't figure it out! There's another open house tonight, you guys. Get on this. This spacious
SF News New Poll Confirms What Everyone Knows: SF Is Way Gay You know how we're always making fun of The Advocate when they pump out that click-bait list every year where they try to say some city like Dayton, Ohio is gayer than San
Arts & Entertainment <i>Game Of Thrones</i> Season Five Premiere Happening Monday At SF Opera House, And Live On Facebook We'd heard a tip recently that a permit application had been filed for parking limos on Grove Street in Civic Center on Monday March 23, in connection with the arrival of the cast
SF News Weather Report: Spring Showers Winter is officially over today today is in fact the vernal equinox, and it also happens to coincide with a black supermoon (a super close new moon) and a solar eclipse (that we
SF News Nema Developer Already Looking To Sell? The developer of the mid-Market apartment building everyone loves to hate, Nema, looks to be selling a "minority stake" in the complex just two years after it was completed (and before parts of
Arts & Entertainment Pink Saturday Will End At 8 PM, Will Have More Music And Stuff In the ongoing negotiations over how to move forward with Pink Saturday the traditional Saturday night sh*tshow in the Castro post-Dyke March, pre-Pride parade day the LGBT Center has stepped up to
Arts & Entertainment How To Do The Fox Theater This is the first in a series of pieces in which SFist is going to school you at least those of you who don't already know how best to do certain important activities
SF News East Bay BART Riders Traveling Past Fruitvale Will Be Screwed Through Spring And Summer BART is planning some major track repair work on weekends starting April 5 that will shut down service completely between Coliseum and Fruitvale stations. This means a "bus bridge" will be necessary to
SF News [Update] Lawyer Behind Egregious Bernal Heights Rent Increase Gives Snide Statement Denouncing Rent Control The story that broke earlier this week about the longtime tenant in a Bernal Heights rent-controlled unit has continued to churn, despite the fact that the tenant herself seems to have no legal
SF News Suspect In 2012 Quintuple Homicide Finally Going To Trial A truly horrible, grisly multiple murder occurred on a quiet street near City College in March 2012, and it was called one of the worst mass slayings in SF's history. The main suspect
SF News What Is Going On In Napa?: Body Found In Freezer, Also More Details About Vineyard Shooting Though mentioned in brief yesterday in Day Around the Bay, it's time to turn our full attention to the fact that Napa seems to have gone from quiet to crazy in the span
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Bay Area Food Folks Featured On New 'Victory Garden' Series PBS has revived their defunct Victory Garden series with the help of The Perennial Plate and Edible magazine, and the result is The Victory Garden: Edible Feast. The newly released episode 5 of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Claude Already Closed In The Marina In a pretty fast turn of events, local restaurateur Franck LeClerc is shutting down his Greenwich Street outpost of Cafe Claude after just 18 months. As Inside Scoop reports, following a January hiatus,
SF News [Update] Evil Archbishop Now Dumping Water On Homeless People To Roust Them From Cathedral Doorways The San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese is not doing themselves any favors, PR-wise, lately, and now we get a story via CBS 5 that they have a policy of showering homeless people with water
SF News Here's What The State Wants You To Do To Conserve Water, And Here's What You Actually Should Do Debates are starting to rage across social media, and among actual live humans at cocktail and dinner parties, about how poorly or adequately California has been addressing our drought catastrophe particularly after that
Arts & Entertainment Not A Joke: Eliana Lopez Is Doing A Comedic Play, In Spanish, About The Mirkarimi Domestic Abuse Scandal Well, who saw this coming? Venezuelan-born actress Eliana Lopez, who remains married to Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and is the mother of his child, is now putting on a play, in Spanish, titled "Cuál
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bizarre Shooting At Napa Vineyard All this evening, in honor of St. Patrick's Day, AAA is offering free "tipsy tows" to anyone who's too drunk to drive. Just call 800-222-4357 and they'll pick up you and your car.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: 100 Square Feet Of Beauty In Portola More and more on the cheaper end of things on Craigslist I'm seeing listings like this one, and that last one, that are illegal dwelling units if anyone cared to enforce the law.
Arts & Entertainment Ashley Judd Determined To Sue Her Twitter Bullies Calling recent rashes of bullying on social media "gender violence," actress Ashley Judd is pressing charges against multiple Twitter users who came after her in the wake of some comments she made about
SF News Landlords Now Suing Over Tenant Buyout Law As the Board of Supervisors tries valiantly to push back against the market forces that are displacing many tenants in rent-controlled apartments across the city, landlords and the industry group the San Francisco
SF News 49ers Rookie Linebacker Chris Borland Retires At Age 24 Over Fears Of Head Injury Controversy in the NFL over the risks of traumatic head injuries is reaching new heights today as one of the youngest promising players, 24-year-old 49er Chris Borland, has announced he's stepping away from
Arts & Entertainment Murder Victim Susan Berman Launched Writing Career In SF, Wrote About Dating Woes For City Magazine We noted briefly yesterday that The Jinx subject Robert Durst and his suspected victim Susan Berman had ties to the Bay Area in the 1970s, with Berman writing for the Examiner and working
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: Julia Duffy Returns As Patrick's WASPy Mom There are a couple of big revelations in this week's episode of Looking, not the least of which is that Patrick's sister Megan (Kelli Garner) is kind of a mega-bitch. (But we already
