Arts & Entertainment Now Playing: A New Musical About Primordial Yeasts, From The Quirky Creators of 'Urinetown' When Urinetown co-creator Greg Kotis went to see a production of Antigone at a theater festival in Transylvania, it got him thinking about writing something that was about a story even more ancient.
SF News Ritual Coffee Opening On Mid-Haight Block By Buena Vista Park Nobody talks about Mid-Haight, because there's not much there between the retail corridors of the Upper and Lower Haight, on that stretch between Central and Divisadero. But now Ritual Coffee is opening their
SF News Expert Contends Dead Girl Still Dead A quick update in the ongoing, insane saga of poor, (most probably) brain dead Jahi McMath: A court-appointed medical expert has submitted a new opinion stating that 13-year-old McMath remains brain dead despite
Arts & Entertainment Elderly NIMBY And Her Cats Enraged By Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Angry old people can be so funny sometimes. Please enjoy this letter from an enraged older woman, writing on behalf of herself, her husband, her three cats, and her "85-year old neighbor JF
SF News The Raiders Really Might Move To San Antonio The Oakland Raiders just might become the San Antonio Raiders if the team's recent survey of San Antonio resident opinion wasn't just a tactic in their ongoing negotiations with the City of Oakland.
SF News Pinterest Gives Up On The Design Center Remember how Pinterest wanted to lease 100,000 square feet of office space at 2 Henry Adams Street at Showplace Square in the Design District, forcing the eviction of dozens of small wholesale
SF News Median One-Bedroom Rent In S.F. Is Now $3,200 The "real estate is crazy" angle is getting tired, I know. And remember how a few months ago we were saying, "Oh, maybe there's no real reason to panic about rents?" Well, we're
SF News Facebook To Launch Secret-Esque App For Anonymous Trolling Facebook has been a little too much in the news lately, but here goes: The company that just a couple of weeks ago was insisting that everyone could only use their legal names
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Seriously? Is This What Passes For Nachos Now? I am not joking when I tell you that the above photo was snapped by a trusted tipster over the weekend at Eureka Restaurant and Lounge in the Castro, where these four chips
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Weird Fish Is Closing At The End Of The Year Eight-year-old Mission vegan mainstay Weird Fish, beloved for years for its "Buffalo Girls" and seitan "fish and chips," is shutting its doors at year's end, and this is likely to upset people. The
SF News Airbnb Regulation Passes; Supervisors Let Company Off The Hook For Back Taxes At Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, the much discussed and fairly controversial Airbnb legitimacy law passed by a vote of 7 to 4, along with some new amendments. One amendment that failed to
SF News Ninth Circuit Court Strikes Down Gay Marriage Bans In Idaho and Nevada As predicted yesterday following the Supreme Court's decision not to hear any of the same-sex marriage challenges before them, two more states have seen their same-sex marriage bans fall at the hands of
SF News 29-Year-Old San Francisco Woman Relocates To Oregon To Commit Suicide Legally First off, this is going to make you cry. And it might derail your afternoon. So, fair warning. 29-year-old Brittany Maynard has been diagnosed with stage 4 glioblastoma multiforme, the most lethal and
SF News Ellis Act Payout Foes Vow To Take Case To Supreme Court Lawyers representing a coalition of developers and small-time landlords were in court yesterday arguing this case we previously reported on regarding Ellis Act payouts to tenants. The lawsuit is challenging the City of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Please Go Home,' a Sam Smith Parody Local videographer Adrian Anchando who brought us that Dunkin' Love parody a few months back brings us this funny new parody of Sam Smith's "Stay With Me," featuring singer Daniel Franzese and members
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soylent Reformulated For Fewer Farts Does everyone remember Soylent, that local startup that makes a bland nutritional shake geared toward techies who don't want to leave their computers even to eat? Well, in an amusing recent development, the
SF News Weather Report: The Heat Will Be Back In A Sec "You can always tell who're the Southerners at a party," quipped a friend. "They're the ones standing in front of the fan." Yes, there was a run on fans last week, and if
SF News Getting On BART At Rush Hour A Tighter Squeeze Than Ever Have you been a sweatier, crankier, even more tightly packed sardine during your morning and evening BART commutes lately? Obviously, you're not alone, and part of the problem is BART's aging train fleet,
Arts & Entertainment Tony Bennett Kind Of Botched 'God Bless America' At Yesterday's Giants Game The great Tony Bennett, 88, was brought out to sing "God Bless America" during the seventh inning stretch of yesterday's Game 3 in the Giants-Nationals NLDS playoff series. His voice, honestly, still sounds
SF News Day Around The Bay: Baker and Banker Calls It Quits Five-year-old Pacific Heights restaurant Baker & Banker, which debuted to raves in 2009, is closing on October 19 so its chef-owners can spend more time with their kids. This means that this beautiful
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Heartfelt Goodbye To S.F. Filmmaker/photographer Thomas R. Wood just made this very pretty (and slightly NSFW!) video as a goodbye letter to S.F. as he prepares to move to L.A. From the love in
Arts & Entertainment NSFW: This Is What Foreskin Painting Looks Like, Everyone As I warned you over the weekend, there was indeed live painting happening at Castro Street Fair on Sunday, with one man's penis serving as the only paintbrush. Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project founder
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Chinese Food Shows MSG Pride, Puts Shakers Of It On Tables Following on those angry/funny signs posted on the door of SO in SoMa by that restaurant's disgruntled, MSG-using chef, SF's Mission Chinese Food has decided to come out of the MSG closet
Arts & Entertainment Inner Sunset Church Says 'God Is A Giants Fan' St. Cecilia's Catholic Church on 17th Avenue has taken to posting some secular, pro-Giants messages on their street-facing sign now that the Giants are two games up in their third playoff bid in
SF News Teamsters to Zuckerberg: 'Let Shuttle Drivers Unionize' Fast on the heels of this story last week about the long hours and miserable lives of corporate shuttle bus drivers, the Teamsters decided to reach out to Mark Zuckerberg himself in a
