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
SF News BART Cops Will Now Begin Harassing Homeless People In Powell Station Per a press release from BART police regarding "evacuation safety," BART has launched a policy effective today that will no longer permit anyone to lie down or even sit with feet extended in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry Chef Thomas Keller Quizzed About Doing Actual Laundry On Dorky NPR Show French Laundry and Per Se chef Thomas Keller, who has earned three Michelin stars for both of those restaurants, appeared in a quiz segment on the syndicated NPR show "Wait Wait Don't Tell
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: J-Pop Photographer Bhautik Joshi took this shot, titled "traversable acumen," on Saturday at the 2014 J-Pop Summit Festival in Japantown. Photo submissions for Photo du Jour, Morning Links and Day Around the Bay are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Big Food News: Coi To Be First S.F. Restaurant To Launch Ticketing System Daniel Patterson's North Beach fine-dining flagship, Coi, will be among the first U.S. restaurants, and the first in San Francisco, to begin using a dining-ticketing system pioneered by Chicago restaurants Next and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: James Garner ca. 1964 For your little afternoon break, please appreciate James Garner acting his ass off in this brief scene from The Americanization of Emily (1964), also starring Julie Andrews. He delivers a monologue about war
SF News It Could Now Cost $100 If You Puke In A Cab Some San Francisco cabbies are now invoking a little-known article of the SF Municipal Transportation Code that allows them to charge a $100 vomit clean-up fee should one of their late-night drunken passengers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DNA Lounge To Host Competition For Cocktail-Making Robots Got some free time this summer because you're not building a Burning Man camp? In September, DNA Lounge will host a competition for robotics nerds who are also cocktail nerds to build the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Restaurants File Last-Ditch Suit To Save Drakes Bay Oyster Co. Embattled Point Reyes oyster farm Drakes Bay Oyster Company technically has 10 days left before having to completely shut down and vacate Drakes Estero, but several local restaurants and an oyster distributor have
SF News Airbnb Host Seeks Help In Evicting Squatter From Palm Springs Home Well, this is awful. San Francisco resident Cory Tschogl, 39, decided to purchase a condo in Palm Springs after being priced out of the SF market, and she's been helping to pay the
SF News New Angry Mission Graffiti Targets All Yuppies and Hipsters Mission Local Market and Local's Corner, and their owner Yaron Milgrom, are no longer the only targets for threatening, anti-gentrification graffiti along the 24th Street environs. As NBC Bay Area and others report,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Grant Achatz, Blaine Wetzel Among Star Lineup For Meadowood's Christmas Dinner Series I know it's hard to think about the holidays in July, but the ever popular (and pricey) 12 Days of Christmas dinner series lineup at The Restaurant at Meadowood was announced this week,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open: Natoma Cabana, In the Former John Colins Space Replacing the defunct John Colins at 90 Natoma this week is Natoma Cabana, a new "one-stop vacation spot" from local chef and entrepreneur Dennis Leary. After closing his beloved Canteen last summer after
SF News Billboard Warns Workers They'll Be Replaced With iPads If They Demand Higher Minimum Wage A billboard just appeared in downtown San Francisco, sponsored by conservatives and with the blessing of the restaurant industry, showing an iPad along with copy that says, "San Francisco: Meet your minimum wage
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Uber Delivering On-Demand Ice Cream Today They've done kittens, and tamales, and DeLorean rides. Now once again today, Uber is bringing back their two-year-old ice-cream-truck-hailing promotion for a few hours, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Look
SF News Ha!: Now George Lucas Might Be Sued In Chicago Over New Museum Plan If George Lucas thought he was free of NIMBYism and aesthetic snobbery when he decided to relocate his planned Lucas Museum of Narrative Art to Chicago last month, he was wrong. Open-space advocates
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Big New Brewpub Citizen Fox Headed For 18th and Mission The big former 99-cent store at the corner of 18th and Mission, which was slated to become a grocery store until the owners got caught removing some historic porcelain enamel siding, is now
SF News San Francisco's Population Boom and How It Impacts You By some estimates, at least 30,000 extra people have moved into San Francisco since 2010. Where are we putting them all? That's still being worked out, clearly. But in the meantime, we
SF News Weather Report: (Not) Earthquake Weather Been feeling a little sticky lately? Weird, right? This week's odd, unseasonal mugginess has prompted some talk of "earthquake weather" on Facebook, and has been the result of a not uncommon "monsoonal flow"
SF News Market Street Safeway Still Evicting Recycling Center, People Still Protesting There's been an ongoing fight for several years between neighbors in the vicinity of Dolores, Duboce, and Market Streets and homeless advocates over the eviction of the outdoor, nonprofit recycling center at the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 10 Best Ice Cream Shops In The Bay Area It’s rarely ice cream weather in San Francisco, but is there ever really a bad time to indulge in a scoop (or sundae or pint, depending on the devastation of your most
SF News Everyone Hoping To Avoid a Jane Kim vs. Ed Lee Housing Battle At the Ballot Box As discussed earlier, Supervisor Jane Kim and Mayor Ed Lee have proposed dueling ballot measures to deal with the city's housing crisis which are both set to go on the November ballot. Kim's
Arts & Entertainment New Batkid Documentary Seeks Funding Filmmaker Dana Nachman has just launched an IndieGoGo campaign to fund a feature-length documentary about everyone's favorite Make-a-Wish kid of 2013, Batkid, a.k.a. Miles Scott. The Make-a-Wish Foundation earlier released this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Exclusive: Bacon Bacon Guys Appear On New CNBC Show <i>Restaurant Startup</i> A quartet of Bay Area businesses are vying for investor funding on the first season of a new CNBC show called Restaurant Startup a sort of combination of CNN's Shark Tank and Restaurant
SF News You Will Now Be Fined $500 If You're Caught Hosing Your Driveway As we warned you earlier it would, the California Water Resources Control Board voted Tuesday to impose mandatory water-usage restrictions that come with $500 fines for non-compliance. Cue every tattle-tale neighbor in the
