Arts & Entertainment Drag Queens, Other Performers Outraged As Facebook Forces Them To Use Their Real Names [Updated] Facebook has recently launched a new crackdown on people using stage names, adopted nicknames, or drag names as their primary profile names, forcing local drag queens and Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to suffer
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Taqueria Makes The Best Burrito In America? [Updated] Had Five-Thirty-Eight's burrito bracket done what it was expected to do and crowned Taqueria Cancun the winner, no one would object, but as I said earlier this week, this whole business with La
Arts & Entertainment Here Are The Single-Day Lineups For Treasure Island Music Fest 2014 Hey everybody! The Treasure Island Music Festival is coming up on October 18 and 19, and as most music fans know, this is a cooler and way more manageable music festival than most
SF News Was It Useful To Protest Evictions At The TechCrunch Disrupt Conference? A group of protesters gathered Wednesday to disrupt, as it were, the final day of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on Pier 48 and bring attention to the issues of eviction and gentrification that
SF News City Cuts Deal With Transbay District Developers For Downtown Rail Extension On Monday we talked about the rumblings from developers about how they didn't want to pony up the increasingly large sums they were on the hook for as part of a special assessment
Arts & Entertainment Way More Details Arrive About <i>American Horror Story: Freak Show</i> We're now less than a month away from the October 8 premiere of American Horror Story's fourth season, about which I've been collecting the most important purposely and not purposely leaked details over
Arts & Entertainment A.C.T. Seeks Donations For The Final Phase Of Strand Theater Construction The much anticipated opening of The Strand Theater (1127 Market Street at 7th), the American Conservatory Theater's's new, smaller, more boundary-pushing second theater space on Mid-Market, is coming next spring, and the theater
SF News First Death From Napa Earthquake Was Woman Whose TV Fell On Her The first official earthquake-related death has just been reported as the Napa County Sheriff's Department confirms the passing of 65-year-old Laurie Anne Thompson, who was struck in the head when her television fell
SF News People Keep Losing Their Drones All Over Town Remember how that $1200 drone appeared, apparently disabled, in the middle of Fulton Street a couple months back and some people decided to take it inside and post it on Craigslist? Well, situations
Arts & Entertainment The Guy Who Walked Into That Volcano Works For S.F. Startup [Updated] A video of a thrill-seeker who traveled to remote Vanatu, to the island of Ambrym, to get up close and personal with the rim of one of the world's most remote active volcanos,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Instagram Intervention We all know someone like this. Someone who has bought in so fully to our social media-driven world that they're barely even alive anymore, unless they're documenting and posting it. Not enough likes
Arts & Entertainment If <i>Full House</i> Happened Today, The Tanners Couldn't Afford That House You know how Full House might be getting a revamp? Yeah, well, in today's real estate market, could any of those lovable characters actually afford that lovely Victorian they shared with their adorable
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Chef and Umami Burger Guy Opening Fast-Casual Chinese Place Whoa. Big, and surprising, news from the food scene today: Acclaimed Saison chef Joshua Skenes is teaming with Umami Burger's Adam Fleischman to open a fast-casual Chinese spot at 2nd & Mission called
SF News Oikos University Shooter Indicted, But He Remains Mentally Incompetent For Trial There's a minor update in the still-yet-to-be-tried case of accused multiple murderer One Goh, the sole suspect in the killing of seven people at Oakland's Oikos University in 2012. Goh, 45, was indicted
SF News Apple Unveils Watch, New Larger iPhones [Live-Blog] Apple's biggest and most anticipated unveiling in at least two years is happening this morning in Cupertino, and news correspondents from the East Coast have been standing outside the large, mysterious white cube
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bandidos Mulling Name Change Amid Controversy From Mexican-American Community New Castro Mexican spot Bandidos, which just finished its first week in business, is facing some San Francisco-style backlash from the Mexican-American community who say that the name "bandido" is a historically derogatory
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Death of S.F. Dive Bars Foretold Chuck Nevius is sounding downright gloomy about the state of San Francisco dive bars. But don't worry, a number of them are likely to still be there when you are an old alcoholic.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Things That Will Kill You, After Edward Gorey Remember Edward Gorey, the illustrator and goth-kid hero behind macabre children's books like The Gashlycrumb Tinies in which an entire alphabet of children's names is paired with untimely demises. Well, here's a video
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Could Taqueria Cancun Be Closing? Also, They Got Dropped From The Burrito Bracket Here's an important tidbit that came via Five-Thirty-Eight's ongoing Burrito Bracket coverage late last week: Taqueria Cancun's Mission location has a new landlord, and co-owner Gerardo Rico sounds very nervous about this. He
SF News Developers Attempting To Skip Out On Paying For Downtown High Speed Rail Extension Remember how Supervisors Scott Wiener and Jane Kim were expressing some concern a couple months ago about the Mayor's Office's assurances that the rooftop park at the new Transbay Transit Center would be
SF News De Young Museum's 'Neptune's Daughter' Statue Loses, Regains An Arm "Neptune's Daughter," a bronze sculpture that stood prominently in the Garden of Enchantment to the right of the de Young Museum until 2011, was vandalized that year and quietly removed from the garden
SF News Pleasant Side Effect of Napa Quake: Surprise Water Showing Up Everywhere As is common in the aftermath of earthquakes, though perhaps not widely known, new fissures in the earth can cause groundwater to come bubbling up in new places, and that's been happening all
SF News Uber Building Global Headquarters In Mission Bay On Former Salesforce Parcels News broke on Friday that the Bay Area's arguably fastest-growing enterprise, Uber, has inked a deal for a huge new global headquarters in Mission Bay, on land that was formerly part of the
SF News What We Know About The iWatch, Allegedly Debuting Tomorrow As we warned you a couple weeks ago, Apple is having one of their big media unveilings tomorrow in San Francisco, and it's likely to include both the iPhone 6, and the long-awaited
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: The Return of Cyrus, Tartine Goes to Tokyo, and More This past week brought the opening of Bandidos and Doc Ricketts, as well as some big news about an upcoming development in Sonoma: Cyrus, which closed two years ago after a lengthy battle
