Arts & Entertainment Valencia's Clothes Contact Readies For Closure, Starts Half-Off Clearance Sale Many Burners' favorite Mission thrift spot Clothes Contact, which has been selling by-the-pound (sometimes musty) used clothing at Valencia and 16th since the wild days of 1986, is getting ready to close as
SF News Dolores Park Vandalism Gives Nevius New Reason To Call For More Cops Busting Drinkers In Dolores Park You should have seen this coming, especially if you're familiar with the oeuvre of Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius. The case of the late-night vandals who tore up some turf doing donuts in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Return of Big (The Bar), Marlowe Burger Coming To SoMa, and More In addition to the big news about Craftsman & Wolves' expansion to Russian Hill, and Hopscotch's new ramen spot in Oakland, here's what else has been percolating in the food-news realm this week.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Kamala's Still OK With Legal Pot The owner of a Petaluma slaughterhouse has plead guilty to processing diseased cattle. [Consumerist] Would you want to live in a luxury condo on South SF? Because that's happening. [SF Business Times] CA
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New York's Beloved Halal Guys Coming to SF If you haven't heard of the The Halal Guys, then you haven't been out street-food hunting in New York, where halal carts are a longstanding tradition, and where a couple of guys turned
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Residential Hotel Edition There was a time when SROs and "residential hotels" were only for the truly poor, addicted, and downtrodden. Not anymore! Now, some have spiffed up and are advertising on Craigslist along with everyone
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Filet Oscar At Burritt Room + Tavern We're almost at the end of Dungeness crab season here in the Bay Area, but you can still see crab in various forms on menus all over town. One of the more inspired
SF News DeSoto Cab Co. Rebrands Itself As Flywheel The latest chapter in the rideshare-taxi war has San Francisco's oldest cab company, DeSoto, letting go of its entire brand and image in favor of aligning itself with the Flywheel taxi-hailing app. As
SF News David Campos Seeks To Possibly Stop Market-Rate Housing Around 24th Street BART One controversial news item this week is talk by Supervisor David Campos of a moratorium on any more new market-rate housing in the quickly gentrifying Mission district something that a lot of people
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Best Happy Hours With Food In SF We know you all like to drink. (Except for those of you who like it too much and have therefore chosen to voluntarily stop.) And as every professional drinker knows and this town
SF News Former Home Restaurant Has Been Illegal Squat For Homeless At least someone's been putting that empty eyesore to good use! We learn via Hoodline that the Fire Department was called to the former Home restaurant at Church and Market Tuesday afternoon after
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Company That Helps Boost Yelp Pages With Positive Reviews Being Sued By Yelp Well, this is rich. Yelp now has a lawsuit against a company that's been getting paid by businesses to game the Yelp system and flood their pages with positive reviews. Yelp of course
SF News [Update] Burning Man Tickets Sold Out In About An Hour As we explained the other day, those who were properly registered were permitted to purchase individual tickets as noon today. Most then had to sit in a virtual line of anywhere from 20
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lazy Bear, The Progress Both Nominated For 2015 James Beard Award For Best New Restaurant The James Beard Awards semi-finalist "long-list" is out, and as foodinistas in the know will tell you, this is the pat-on-the-back precursor to the actual list of nominees, referred to by the Beard
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA's Giant Richard Serra Sculpture Blocking Traffic On Howard Street Large-scale sculptor Richard Serra is known for his enormous COR-TEN steel installations big enough for dozens of people to walk through and stand within. And now, one of his pieces from the last
SF News Day Around The Bay: Chinatown Seriously Needs Sidewalk Help UC Hastings Law School is looking to build some huge new buildings in the Tenderloin. [Chron] Local woman thought she had the flu. Turned out to be flesh-eating bacteria. [ABC 7] Despite having
Arts & Entertainment Barry Zito Is (Probably) Back On The Oakland A's The big sports news of the day is that former A's pitcher Barry Zito, who pissed off Oakland forever by defecting to the Giants in 2006 after helping make the team into their
Arts & Entertainment Performer Wendy Ho Has 'Drag Bag' Stolen In SF, Seeks Donations Popular underground performer and YouTube artiste Wendy Ho, famous especially among gay fans for her offensive lyrics and faux queen persona, was just a victim of San Francisco's recent spate of robberies. She
Arts & Entertainment 7x7 Ceases Print Operation, Will Become All-Digital In the second stunner piece of news regarding local media outlets of the last four months, 7x7 magazine announced this morning that they are ceasing print publication after their March 2015 issue. They
SF News Patty Hearst's Shih Tzu Just Won The Toy Group At The Westminster Dog Show San Francisco heiress turned bank robber turned John Waters bit player turned cultural icon Patty Hearst can add one more line to her incredible resume this week: prize-winning dog owner. In a scene
SF News Now Uber Drivers Want You To Tip We all knew it was too good to last, right? Well, Uber drivers, now envious that Lyft and regular taxi drivers get nice gratuities from passengers, are pushing to get a gratuity function
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: Richie Is Definitely Maybe Back In The Picture We're at the midpoint of Season 2, and like I said back here, this is about where we should have been, plot-wise, by the end of Season 1. Patrick has completed a journey,
SF News Uh Oh: Unwitting Driver Trapped By Tide Near Bay Bridge CBS 5 shows us this minivan, whose unfortunate driver decided to "take in the views" next to the Bay Bridge toll plaza, only to get trapped for a while today by an extra-high
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hopscotch Expands With New Ramen Spot In Oakland The popular Uptown Oakland restaurant Hopscotch (1915 San Pablo Avenue), and its chef Kyle Itani, are getting a spinoff in the form of Itani Ramen (1738 Telegraph Avenue). As Inside Scoop reports, Itani
SF News Local Official Indicted For Embezzling $1.3 Million From Bay Bridge Fund A finance director for the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) who appears to have used $1.3 million of public funds to buy himself a home in Oregon, has now been indicted
