Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Super Mario BART (Redux) Speaking of vintage arcade games... remember when somebody last year made a rudimentary BART map in the 8-bit style of Super Mario Bros.? Well, now Super Mario enthusiast Robert Bacon, who's made something
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Opening Today: Brewcade, The Castro's New Arcade/Beer Bar You may need to sit down for this: The long-awaited vintage video arcade bar of your dreams opens in the Castro tonight, ushering in a new era in which you will have to
Arts & Entertainment Chronicle Critic John King Hates The Bay Lights, Says They Should Go Away Already Maybe I should commend architecture critic John King for being brave and confident enough in his own aesthetic opinion to come out denouncing the Bay Lights as underwhelming and unworthy of future funding.
SF News Evil Meatball Poisoner Back Out There Terrorizing Dog Owners? Two separate reports one of a potentially poisoned meatball found by a dog owner on the street near Potrero Hill and another of an alleged "eight pounds" of chopped onions found scattered in
SF News Day Around The Bay: Gary Danko Dethroned Zagat’s latest guidebook is out, and for the first time in forever Gary Danko has lost its #1 spot, to Kokkari. [Zagat, Eater] If Uber didn't already have enough problems today, the
SF News Rents In The Mission Went Up 20 Percent This Year My wish for 2015 is that we won't all spend whole minutes of every single day bemoaning the latest horrifying figures about the SF rental market, but perhaps the only way that wish
SF News Are Gavin Newsom And Kamala Harris Headed For A Political 'Demolition Derby'? Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris are both well known and respected California Democrats with designs on higher offices, but are they going to come to some sort of gentleman's agreement about who's going
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Restaurant Reservation/Concierge App Enters The SF Market Called Reserve Reserve, a new app that has recently launched in New York, Boston, and LA, launches today in SF offering the chance of last-minute reservations at places like Foreign Cinema and flour + water for
SF News Another Large Protest In Berkeley Shuts Down Freeway, 150 Arrested Following on a violent and chaotic Saturday and Sunday in Berkeley where at least 400 people were protesting police violence against unarmed civilians, about 1000 to 1500 protesters gathered again on Monday to
SF News Apartment Sadness: 216-Square-Foot Mini-Studio Hits Market For $1425/Month If you would like to live alone in Noe Valley, you have no furniture besides a bed, and you're a relatively tiny person who does not cook and owns no clothes, I've got
SF News BART And AC Transit Launch New And More Frequent Overnight Bus Service This Weekend Good news, all you East Bay party people who enjoy cavorting in the Mission: At a press conference on Tuesday morning BART and AC Transit officials are unveiling the final details of a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Dog That Can Operate Appliances Meet Allie, a 12-year-old yellow labrador who clearly causes headaches for her human guardians whenever they leave the house. The dog is adept at opening both the refrigerator and freezer and having her
SF News Biblical Rain Is Headed Our Way Wednesday Night Another significant deluge of rain, "the likes of which only hit[s] Northern California once every few years" is headed through town in the second half of this week, making me wonder again
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird Spinoff The Progress Opens This Week Much like they did to incredible success on New Year's Eve 2011, married chef-partners Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski have chosen the end of the year to debut their second restaurant, The Progress,
SF News Only Six Percent Of New Housing Units In Immediate Pipeline Will Be Affordable To Middle Class Mayor Ed Lee has been making a point this year of addressing the dearth of new housing that's actually affordable to people who make average incomes as opposed to the wealthy or the
SF News Two SF Cops Convicted In Corruption Trial Involving Stolen Drugs And Cash In the first of two trials involving a group of five SFPD officers federally indicted on multiple counts of theft, misconduct, and overall bad behavior, two currently suspended SF cops were found guilty
SF News Hot Cop Of The Castro Chris Kohrs Says In New Video Interview That He's Not Allowed In The Castro Anymore The love for the Hot Cop Of the Castro who isn't even a Castro beat cop at all but is just a hot San Francisco police officer, Chris Kohrs has yet to die
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Kinky Boots</i> at the Orpheum The Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2013, Kinky Boots, is currently in a four-week run at the Orpheum Theater, and it's a show that's guaranteed to attract the adoration of drag fans everywhere.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Remembering Judy Rodgers, Troya Closes Its Original Location, And More Did our sandwich roundup make you hungry? Because I'm pretty full. Anyhow, in addition to the openings of Cockscomb and Indochine this week, here's what else has been going on about town, food-and-beverage-wise.
Arts & Entertainment Kerouac Estate Now Fighting Over Ownership Of Cassady Letter, Possibly Worth Millions That famed, recently rediscovered "Joan Anderson letter" written by Neal Cassady is now the subject of a battle between the estates of Jack Kerouac and Cassady and the woman who found the letter
Arts & Entertainment Man Loses Fantasy Football Bet, Has To Recreate 'Chandelier' Video Shot For Shot Local man Chuck Jose lost a bet in his fantasy football league, and with that bet, as ABC 7 reports, he lost a little bit of his dignity. His fellow fantasy leaguers made
SF News New SoMa Micro-Apartment Complex, The Panoramic, Already Mostly Leased As Student Dorm Space A new batch of micro-apartments in SoMa (remember those?) will be hitting the market around June 2015, called The Panoramic. Located at 9th and Mission, the building has already been largely leased out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hamburger Mary's And SoulCycle Are Both Coming To The Castro Clearing the final major hurdle of the Planning Commission, both the proposed Hamburger Mary's in the former Patio Cafe space (531 Castro) and a proposed location of popular spin class church (or whatever)
SF News Day Around The Bay: Thomas Keller Gets Dissed Meet Jirayut Latthivongskorn, a Thai national who is UCSF's first undocumented med student. [National Journal] Ten years in, Eater NY says, Thomas Keller's Per Se is “showing its age” and its “luxuries have
SF News City May Cut The Number Of Businesses Allowed To Sell Tobacco Products In an effort that began six years ago and came up for debate again today in the Board of Supes' Neighborhood Services and Safety Committee, the City may limit the number of businesses
