Arts & Entertainment Letter To The Editor: A Sober January Rebuttal Last week I told of my personal travails and discoveries during this month of booze-fasting, and while reactions were highly mixed and mostly positive, a number of people have noted that my friends
Arts & Entertainment Drought Be Damned, Giant Slip-N-Slide Coming To SF And Oakland Streets This Summer Remember the massive Slip-n-Slide that appeared on Potrero Hill last June? Well, Slide the City, a new Salt Lake City-based operation that was not behind the SF event last year is now planning
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wines From December French Laundry Heist Recovered In North Carolina The huge cache of pricy wine that was stolen from The French Laundry on Christmas Day has mostly been recovered according to a new statement by the Napa County Sheriff's Department. As the
SF News Day Around The Bay: New Barrier Makes People Speed More On Golden Gate A new manufacturing center that could provide space for local makers of all stripes, run by the non-profit SFMade, may be headed for the Design District. [Chron] The Civic Center Hotel on mid-Market
SF News Hidden Cash Guy Wrote A Book The Hidden Cash Guy, a.k.a. real estate investor Jason Buzi, burst into Twitter and web fame last spring when he began hiding envelopes of money (as well as Pez dispensers stuffed
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Blithe Spirit' Starring Angela Lansbury A new production of Noel Coward's classic occult farce, Blithe Spirit, opened in San Francisco last night by way of London, where star Angela Lansbury earned nightly standing ovations at the Gielgud Theater
Arts & Entertainment Local Drag Queen Cookie Dough In A Coma In Mexico Local drag queen and party hostess Cookie Dough has fallen into a coma while staying in Puerto Vallarta this week, and her prognosis is unclear. Cookie was in Mexico along with the cast
SF News Right-to-Die Legislation Introduced In Sacramento In Wake Of Brittany Maynard Case The tragic case of 29-year-old Brittany Maynard, the Bay Area newlywed who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer and moved to Oregon in order to commit assisted suicide with dignity,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Let's Not Get Hysterical About Guy Not Falling Out Of Wheelchair We saw this video yesterday, but now Vice has published a different video that does not show the lead-up, and only shows SFPD officers appearing to push a disabled guy off the sidewalk
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brace Yourselves For More $40 Main Courses At SF Restaurants While some restaurants are throwing in the towel due to the combination of high rents, mediocre business, and the hike in the minimum wage, others are going to have to suck it up
Arts & Entertainment Band That Cried Poverty After Tour Makes Cool Stevie Wonder-Herbie Hancock Mashup When local band Pomplamoose publicized what appeared to be just a sincere plea to fans to continue their support following an alleged $11K loss on tour, many people responded to the struggle of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beretta/Starbelly/Super Duper Owner Adriano Paganini Snags Huge Cafe Des Amis Space In Cow Hollow In what will be his largest restaurant venture to date, local restaurateur Adriano Paganini has inked a deal to take on the 200-seat, recently vacated Cafe Des Amis (2000 Union Street at Buchanan)
Arts & Entertainment Moscone Center Losing Forever Broken Video Art Piece Many of you may recognize the always black, powered-down, street-facing video panel on the side of Moscone Center West. But most of you probably have never seen it turned on and were not
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Millennium Restaurant To Close After 21 Years Fans of the organic, vegan fine dining experience at Millennium in the Tenderloin are going to weep over this one: The restaurant announced this morning that they're being forced to close after 21
Arts & Entertainment Billy Joel To Play AT&T Park In September The Piano Man himself, Billy Joel, is set to play his first show in San Francisco proper in 40 years on Saturday, September 5, as Another Planet Entertainment announces today, and he'll be
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Cable Car Nymphomaniac' from The FOGG Theatre We don't often get to see world-premiere musicals in San Francisco, let alone ones set in San Francisco A.C.T.'s Tales of the City in 2011 being one major exception. So
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Kanpachi Crudo at Californios Brand new Mission restaurant Californios is a truly tucked-away, romantic little spot that could end up being a runaway hit. After opening just after the new year, former Sons & Daughters line cook
Arts & Entertainment Meet The Adorable San Jose Twins Featured In 'American Sniper' If you haven't yet seen American Sniper, you might be the only one of your friends after the film made some serious box office bucks in the usually slow movie month of January.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New-Age-y SoMa Vegetarian Spot Source Closes Citing Labor Costs Almost four-year-old vegetarian/vegan restaurant Source, which offered ionized air and color therapy along with many a gluten-free pizza and vegan entree, has called it quits after almost four years on Division Street.
SF News Extra Warm Weather And Extra High Tides Arriving This Week Does everyone remember last January when it didn't rain at all and half the month was sunny and 70 degrees? Yeah, well, we're having a repeat of that pattern which is terrible news
SF News Rental Car Used In Hayes Valley Drive-By Traced To Walnut Creek The SFPD tracked the car that was used in the quadruple homicide on Page Street ten days ago, which witnesses had suggested was a rental car, to a Hertz rental dealership in Walnut
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Episode Two: Doris Gets A Boyfriend And Kevin Does A Boy Band Dance The second episode of the new season of Looking, "Looking for Results," opens with Patrick (Jonathan Groff) and Kevin (Russell Tovey) finally waking up together in a real bed. Or does it? It
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Savages New Embarcadero Chinese Spot Crystal Jade Following on a fairly terrible review by SF Weekly critic Anna Roth, the massive new multi-million-dollar Crystal Jade at Embarcadero Center gets an even worse and snarkier review from the Chron's Michael Bauer,
SF News A 5 A.M. Protest At Oakland Mayor's Doorstep And Monday March Cap Off Weekend Of Protests Newly inaugurated Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and her family were not permitted to sleep in this morning since a group of about 50 protesters gathered at her home to scream at her to
SF News Rep. Barbara Lee Is Angling To Be Ambassador To Cuba Alameda County Congresswoman and hero to Bay Area liberals Barbara Lee is said to have a "gentlewoman's agreement" with President Obama to become our new ambassador to Cuba, should that actually become an
