SF News Video: This Is What a Mosquito Looks Like, San Francisco (In Case You Forgot) I realized this was not an average July when last night, sitting in the living room with the windows open and having opened the windows in my bedroom, I had a minor freakout
SF News Vintage Clothes Hunters Weep As Mission Mainstay Clothes Contact Appears To Be Closing Longtime Mission vintage shop Clothes Contact, which was the only remaining spot selling clothes by the pound, looks to be closing within 60 days or so, as Mission Mission reports. An ad for
SF News Affordable Housing Compromise Reached For November Ballot The battle that had been predicted on the November ballot between competing proposals by Jane Kim and Mayor Ed Lee on the affordable-housing question has been averted. And it sounds like Kim made
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bouli Bar Launches Happy Hour, Wishes More People Would Come To Their End Of The Ferry Building The owners of Boulettes Larder and its companion dinner spot Bouli Bar, in the Ferry Building, made the unusual move this week of admitting that business isn't going so well, as Eater notes.
SF News John Avalos Affair Makes City Hall Rethink Its Employee Handbook Approximately 12 San Franciscans, including his wife, cared about the revelation last week that Supervisor John Avalos had an extended affair with one of his close aides. That aide, Raquel Redondiez, has since
Arts & Entertainment Local Writer Launches Campaign For Non-Profit Artist Housing In San Francisco Fact: It used to be much cheaper to live in San Francisco. The eras of our city's greatest cultural output (say the 1940s to the 70s) were also eras when rent was relatively
SF News Landlord Advocates Sue City Over Ellis Act Legislation Tenant advocates scored a big win this year when a new local ordinance, sponsored by Supervisor David Campos, passed the Board of Supervisors with a veto-proof 9-2 vote, guaranteeing that tenants could no
Arts & Entertainment Everything We Know So Far About <i>American Horror Story: Freak Show</i>, Including Neil Patrick Harris And The Return Of Pepper Superfans and the TV press alike have stayed on top of each minute, painful detail that's been leaked about the upcoming fourth season of American Horror Story, dubbed Freak Show, and we at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Chef Community Mourns Loss Of Chris L'Hommedieu The local chef community lost one of its own at far too young an age this week. Chris L'Hommedieu, a chef's chef and often-cited mentor, died at the age of 44 of a
Arts & Entertainment Video: Kristin Bell As Minimum-Wage Mary Poppins Funny or Die returns with another Disney parody (remember Princess Ke$ha?), this time with Kristin Bell as a disgruntled Mary Poppins, quitting her nanny gig because she's living below the poverty line.
SF News Weather Report: From Sticky To Hot Haven't you been complaining to all your friends about needing to leave windows open when you sleep and change undershirts twice a day? It's that monsoonal flow we told you about last week,
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour: Love Birds? Here's a photo shot on Gay Pride Sunday by local photographer Bruce Alexander, titled "Love Birds." Judging by the symbol on the guy's tank top, I think they might just be platonic friends.
SF News 80-Year-Old Woman Injured During Crazy Violent Day In Bayview Bullets flying through windows and a double hit-and-run resulted in the injuries of four people on Tuesday in the Bayview, one of whom is an 80-year-old woman. The woman initially believed she'd been
Arts & Entertainment Earthquake Disaster Flick <em>San Andreas</em> Is Shooting At The Armory Today What might Kink.com be able to do with all their real estate if they high-tail it to Las Vegas as they're threatening to? Well, one income stream may come from letting Hollywood
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Square One' by Jay Brannan To cleanse your news-weary palates today, please enjoy this great new song by singer-songwriter Jay Brannan, whom some you may recognize from the film Shortbus, in which he got naked and also sang
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Still Thinks Restaurants Need To Listen To Old People And Quiet It Down This week Michael Bauer returned to one of his most favorite pet peeves (and therefore favorite blog topics): noisy restaurants. Regular readers of his columns will know that in recent years, Mr. Bauer's
SF News Two Cool Skyscrapers By Architect Norman Foster Proposed For First and Mission Architecture critic John King calls plans for two new tall buildings in the Transbay District by starchitect Norman Foster "gasp-inducing," and we don't even have clear renderings yet. Nonetheless, it looks like we
Arts & Entertainment Video: Kayaking Onto A Whale A couple in a kayak, in the waters off Puerto Madryn, Argentina, paddled up to a family of whales sunning themselves, and got them on video. This might not be so remarkable, except
Arts & Entertainment Video: 1980s High School Kids Really Sounded Like John Hughes Characters This marvelous video surfaced today thanks to BuzzFeed (despite being uploaded seven years ago), and it's a fashion survey of seven students at Antioch High School in Northern California in 1984, made by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Watch Coi Chef Daniel Patterson Do The Town With <i>Vice</i> "Have you guys seen some of these episodes?" asks Benu chef Corey Lee when chef Daniel Patterson and his wife Alexandra make their first stop on a Vice tour at his restaurant. "You
SF News Uptick In Office Burglaries Includes Video-Surveilled Incidents In SoMa, Mission Do you recognize any of these thieves? SFist has gotten a couple of direct reports in recent days, as have other news media, about separate incidents of office burglaries in different neighborhoods, involving
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Bay Area's Best Pizzerias (Depending On What You're After) A Forbes contributor who claims to know pizza has just declared that Tony's Pizza Napoletana in North Beach is the best pizzeria in the nation, because of its impressive array of pizza styles.
Arts & Entertainment Pink Saturday Once Again On Chopping Block The annual pre-Pride celebration in the Castro known as Pink Saturday, much like Halloween in the Castro did several years ago, has outgrown its more innocently festive, neighborhood roots and is threatened with
SF News Ryan Chamberlain Reappears In Court, Judge To Rule On Move To Mental Health Facility [Updated] There is still no date set for the federal trial of accused bomb-builder and potential domestic terrorist Ryan Kelly Chamberlain II, but he appeared in court Monday while his public defender once again
SF News Day Around The Bay: Superhero Street Fair Returns The 5th Annual Superhero Street Fair returns this September to the Waterfront Boardwalk Oasis (Indiana St. at Cesar Chavez), and early bird tix are just $10. [Laughing Squid] Infamous local eviction lawyers Bornstein
