SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Chinese-Food Chef Storms Out Of Restaurant, Posts Angry Note To Gluten-Averse Customers A chef at popular Asian wings spot SO (1010 Bryant Street at 8th) apparently stormed out and forced the closure of the restaurant after getting one too many whiny customers Thursday night. Somebody
SF News Weather Report: Leather and Sun The rain clouds have basically passed, and so has most of the muggy stickiness that kept you from needing layers the last couple nights. You're in for a pretty pleasant weekend with typical
Arts & Entertainment There's A Dance Party Happening At U.N. Plaza This Afternoon/Evening Friday Night Market at UN Plaza from Julian Pham on Vimeo. The music will not be like this today. At the weekly Night Market event tonight at U.N. Plaza, the organizers are
SF News A Brief History of Folsom Street Fair Yesterday we brought you our beginner's guide and our insider's guide to Folsom Street Fair, which is happening this weekend if you somehow hadn't heard. And today we get some history of the
SF News Zuckerberg Has Always Believed That We're Only Entitled To One Identity Whether you accept that Facebook's "real name" policy is vital to them doing business or not, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it clear years ago that he has no patience or sympathy for people
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Plans Expansions In London, L.A., and Maybe New York We learned just a couple weeks back that Tartine Bakery was opening a second location in Tokyo next year, and now baker Chad Robertson reveals in an interview with Grub Street that the
SF News Dolores Park Construction Gets A Four-Month Delay Completion of the first phase of the Dolores Park renovation project, the northern (hipster) half, has been delayed by about four months, as Dolores Park Works reports. This means that all hope is
Arts & Entertainment An Insider's Guide to Folsom Street Fair You've been here. You've done it. You've got the leather harness in the back of your closet waiting to get dusted off. Allow me to join you in the jaded parade to San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Begs Loyal Customers To Post Bad Reviews In F-You To Yelp Botto Bistro, an Italian spot across the Bay in Richmond, has been using Yelp's own notoriously aggressive (some say extortionist) sales tactics as an excuse to discredit the site completely. As the Richmond
SF News Larry Ellison Steps Down As Oracle CEO Perhaps because he has his own island in Hawaii and another America's Cup to concentrate on now, Larry Ellison announced today that he's stepping down as CEO to take on a smaller role
SF News Here Are The Neighborhoods With The Most Burners Not that you probably needed this, but Fortune has made a map, via data from Square, that illustrates the "Playa Effect" on various S.F. neighborhood during the week of Burning Man this
SF News Incomes Up All Over San Francisco, Says Census New data for 2013 from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (the mini-sample census they do every year to gather detailed pictures in between censuses) shows that San Francisco households, and
SF News Scott Wiener Jumps On Truvada Train, Tells The World He Is On It Sometimes our gay Supervisors have to battle it out for who's courting the gay vote better, and this week it's all about Truvada the HIV-prevention pill that Supervisor David Campos says more people
SF News Macy's And Bloomingdale's To Offer Same-Day Delivery In S.F. In move that helps them go head-to-head with big-shot Amazon (and, potentially, Uber) in the same-day delivery space, Macy's and Bloomingdale's have just announced partnerships with Palo Alto-based Deliv. The startup delivery service
SF News Has Your Building Been Earthquake-Shamed? The City of San Francisco has begun publicly shaming building owners who have not made necessary retrofits to their soft-story or wood-framed apartment buildings, or submitted a city questionnaire regarding their building's earthquake
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'An Audience With Meow Meow' At Berkeley Rep Now in its world premiere at Berkeley Rep is a show that defies easy categories, but here it goes: It's part post-modern cabaret, part meta performance art, part satire of cabaret cliches, and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dachshund Plays Fetch, With Himself Please enjoy watching dachshund play with an iFetch, a device that apparently was made for smarter canines who would like an electronic hand to throw a ball for them all day long. You
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foreign Cinema Rings In Fifteen Years With Big Quinceañera Party Thursday It's hard to believe that Mission mainstay Foreign Cinema (2534 Mission Street) is already fifteen years old, having debuted at the height of the last big tech boom and survived the slumps that
SF News Apple Recommends Pre-Ordering iPhone 6, Still Has A Few Models Left For In-Store Pickup; Also, The Reviews Are In We don't yet know how rabid the on-the-ground eagerness will be come Thursday night/Friday morning at the downtown S.F. Apple Store (or at Apple Stores around the Bay Area). But Apple
SF News Drag Queens, David Campos Meet With Facebook Over Real-Name Controversy [Updated] A group of San Francisco drag queens have arrived in Menlo Park and are currently sitting down with Facebook executives to discuss the controversy over forcing them to use their legal names a
SF News Investor Peter Thiel Thinks There's 'A Lot Of Pot Smoking' Going On At Twitter, Twitter Responds [Updated] Eccentric billionaire angel investor Peter Thiel who was used as the basis for the eccentric billionaire investor character Peter Gregory on HBO's Silicon Valley appeared on CNBC to talk about how he feels
SF News Five More Jonestown Victims Identified Among Ashes Found In Delaware In an update to the sad and morbid story about the trove of labeled and unlabeled cremains from Jonestown victims, five more of the nine unidentified remains have now been ID'd. As USA
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe Has Closed In Preparation For Move One Block Away You will find the popular SoMa spot Marlowe closed this week as the restaurant prepares for its previously announced move to the former Coco500 space at Brannan and Fourth. Yes, the restaurant is
SF News Chelsea Manning Speaks Out From Jail Against Airstrikes On ISIS Chelsea Manning, the woman who very nearly derailed all of SF Pride last year, has just spoken out from her military prison cell for the first time on the topic of ISIS, denouncing
SF News Big New Condo Building To Tower Over The Grubstake On Pine A twelve-story condo building is slated for approval by Planning in the coming weeks, and it will loom large over the tiny, historic Grubstake though the diner itself is safe for now. As
