SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Well Loved Bartender Erik Dean Killed In Motorcyle Accident A beloved bartender, recently employed at Absinthe, but with a long history in the S.F. bar and restaurant scene, died last week in a motorcycle accident. His life will be celebrated at
SF News Supervisor John Avalos Admits To Affair With Staffer, Apologizes City Supervisor and onetime mayoral candidate John Avalos went public today with an affair that he's been having with a top aide, Raquel Redondiez, SFGate reports. The affair, while inappropriate in the minds
SF News State Commission Led By Gavin Newsom Suing S.F. Over Waterfront Height Limit Measure Prop B the local ballot measure that will force a public vote for all waterfront height-limit exemptions which passed in the June election that no one voted in might just be illegal under
SF News Exclusive: Kink.com Begins Shooting In Las Vegas Ahead Of Possible Condom Law In advance of the potential passage of a state law that would require condoms on all pornography sets in California, Kink.com (NSFW!) has made good on a threat to leave San Francisco
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Taste An Array Of Great Rosé Wines On Nico's New Rosé Tasting Menu A decidedly sophisticated new neighborhood restaurant cropped up in Laurel Heights last winter from an ambitious young French chef, Nicolas Delaroque and his wife Andrea, after he had stints at Manresa and Luce.
SF News Federal Health Survey Concludes 2.3% Of Population Identifies As Gay Or Bisexual For the first time in its history, the Centers for Disease Control included a question about sexual orientation in its National Health Interview Survey, providing the federal government with its first clear, hard
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lower Haight's Beloved Cuco's Getting Evicted, Again Remember that utterly disreputable, monstrous Lower Haight landlord who circulated a letter to his tenants a couple months back saying there was a new requirement for tenants that they have a minimum annual
SF News New Feces Map Helps City Launch Mobile Toilet Brigade In Tenderloin The Chronicle simply loves to cover the poop beat. After giving us a bunch of handy street-feces statistics back in May, they're back today with a new human-feces map of the Tenderloin that
SF News Mayor Lee's Glen Park Street Is A Hotbed Of Car Theft; Burglaries On The Rise Too The cul de sac where Mayor Ed Lee lives in Glen Park saw three middle-of-the-night car thefts in three months earlier this year, and it's an indicator of an overall uptick in stolen
SF News Exclusive: Hot Cop Of Castro Speaks! As you know, one of the most buzzed-about phenomena of the late spring and summer in the Castro is one Officer Chris Kohrs, age 36, whom the internet has dubbed The Hot Cop
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Weird Al's 'Happy' Parody, 'Tacky' It always brings a smile to my face when I'm reminded that "Weird Al" Yankovic hasn't given up doing his signature parodies of popular songs, thirty years on. And (hooray!) he's got a
SF News State Water Usage Rules To Cause Feces Crisis On S.F. Streets? Will your walk to work this summer become like a fun video game in which you have to side-step and hop over piles of poop and puddles of urine? The city of S.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ex-Outerlands Chef Brett Cooper Taking Over Beast & The Hare Location On Guerrero Ever since Outerlands decided to part ways with the chef who put them on the map, Brett Cooper, everyone's been curious where he might pop up. In May, Cooper signed on to work
SF News Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Was Not Texting During Car Accident, Say Police Shortly after being shamed by Stanley Roberts last month for texting and using her cell phone without a headset while driving, Oakland Mayor Jean got in a fender bender on June 8 during
SF News Neiman-Marcus, Chanel, Other Union Square Stores Flooded After Central Subway Crews Break Water Main A number of high-end shops in the vicinity of Geary and Stockton Streets had their basements flooded Saturday after Central Subway construction crews busted open an eight-inch water main that unleashed thousands of
Arts & Entertainment @SFHiddenBitcoin Is @HiddenCash For Nerds Yep. Someone is hiding bitcoin "wallets" around San Francisco now and giving out clues via Twitter, @SFHiddenBitcoin. The fun started on July 1, and so there have been eleven wallets worth about $20
Arts & Entertainment Adorable Lemonade Stand On Noe Street Doubles As Street Art I've been walking past this abandoned lemonade stand for over a year now, occasionally snapping photos of the clever quips, some of them Peanuts-style (e.g. "Your neighbor's NSA records 5¢"), created by
SF News 98-Year-Old Woman Still Fighting Eviction From Her Home Of 50 Years [Update] We first told you about the pending eviction of 98-year-old Mary Phillips (then 97) back in September. She remains in her home at 55 Dolores Street, where she's spent the last 50 years
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local's Corner And Affiliated Local Mission Market Once Again Targeted For Boycott Remember the controversy and discrimination allegations that erupted over the Local Mission mini-empire earlier this year? Well, embattled owner Yaron Milgrom, who lives within a couple of blocks of his four Mission businesses
SF News Gorgeous New Highrise Proposed For Transbay District By Noted Architect Jeanne Gang Hooray for tall buildings! A beautiful, 400-foot tower has been proposed for a corner on the north side of the Folsom and Spear intersection with a stunning, undulating design by Chicago architect Jeanne
SF News Abandoned Dog Found In Benicia Reunited With Owner, May Have Been Part of Evil Prank An adorable little orange dog was discovered earlier this week outside a Chinese restaurant in Benicia with the words "free" written in black permanent marker on both sides of her body and "I
SF News One More Bay Bridge Flub: $1 Million Repainting Job Required Crews are hard at work blasting away and/or painting over little steel particles which are now causing rust stains on the bright white paint of the one-year-old eastern span of the Bay
SF News Buy That Yacht Where The Google Exec Was Killed The yacht on which 51-year-old Google executive Forrest Hayes was allegedly murdered last November is now for sale in an Alameda marina, and those who don't believe in ghosts can purchase it for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open In the Mission: ABV, A Cocktail Bar From Beretta and Bourbon & Branch Alums Open as of yesterday on 16th Street, in the space formerly occupied by Tokyo Go Go, is new cocktail and bar-bite spot, ABV (3174 16th Street). We told you about the project almost
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Guy Impersonates Over a Dozen <i>Game of Thrones</i> Characters Impressions are all the rage on YouTube lately. Check out British comedian and celebrity impressionist Charlie Hopkinson doing some uncanny impersonations of Game of Thrones characters and some of their most famous lines
