SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Would Like You To Know He Lost 11 Pounds Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer, about twice a year, has to remind his readers that he does not, in fact, weigh 300 pounds, and that despite his occupation, he maintains a svelte figure.
SF News Video: Saving Water Gets A Sexy New Campaign Since the Bay Area seems to be doing a terrible job of conserving water during this 100-year drought we're in right now, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has sponsored a series
SF News Stanley Roberts Stalks Evil Elmo At Stern Grove You may recall that KRON 4's Stanley Roberts and multiple other reporters have repeatedly chased down Adam Sandler, a.k.a. Dan Sandler, a.k.a. Evil Elmo, who most recently has been
SF News SFPD Releases Photos Of SoMa Arson Suspect The SFPD this morning released photos of a man they're looking for in connection to the dozen or so fires that have been set in the last several weeks. Stills from surveillance cameras
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Internet Arguer "We really can't continue until you read this article I just Googled." Please enjoy this video from games journalist Nick Douglas of Slacktory imitating the various rhetorical tactics of your average, flame-happy, commenting
SF News New Photos Reveal Hot Mugshot Guy's Non-Hot Past Jeremy Meeks, the man whose unusually hot mugshot lit up a million feeds last week, who turns out to be married and claims he's "no kingpin," has indeed been arrested before, and his
SF News Arsonist Strikes Four More Times In SoMa And Mission That series of suspicious fires, likely all started by the same individual and typically centering around construction sites in SoMa, continued over the weekend with four fires on Sunday including three in SoMa
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Year's S.F. Street Food Festival Might Be The Last La Cocina, the nonprofit food-business incubator that spearheaded the first San Francisco Street Food Festival in 2009, has announced that this year's fest may be the last and at the very least it's
SF News Fools Spent $600 In Order To Take Break From Cell Phones It sounds like an Onion headline. But it's not! There was just another one of those digital detox things happening nearby, for all those people who have a hard time separating from their
Arts & Entertainment Horror Fans Get To Have Live-Action Horror Campout In Pleasanton Next Month The Great Horror Campout, a "high scare, high startle content experience" that's traveling the country this summer, is coming to the Alameda County Fairgrounds July 11 and 12. And it sounds kind of
SF News There Was A Giant Slip-N-Slide On Potrero Hill On Saturday Bear Naked Granola decided to do some guerrilla advertising on Saturday by way of an enormous adult Slip-N-Slide on Potrero Hill and a way nicer one than the slipshod one that occasionally used
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Memorial For The Beloved Red Vic Resident Cat Dashiell, the long-lived resident feline of the defunct Red Vic Theater, has died. Friends and admires are invited to a memorial that's being held at the Second Act Marketplace at 6 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Once' at the Curran Theater The idea of the musical has changed dramatically in the last decade, between the brilliant re-stagings of Sweeney Todd and Company by director John Doyle, to the Latin-inflected, many-peopled production of In the
SF News Mayor Lee Introduces Counter Measure To Kim's 30-Percent Affordable Measure In response to Supervisor Jane Kim's pledge to either pass a 30-percent affordability threshold for new development in the city, or to get such a measure put on the November ballot, Mayor Ed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Urban Putt Now Has Booze Good news for all you cocktail fans who are also putt-putt fans: Urban Putt finally has their full liquor license, and therefore the cocktail menu has launched. As Eater reports, Elixir vet Colin
SF News Settle Down, Everyone: Hot Mugshot Guy Is Married Jeremy Meeks, the very attractive, wolf-eyed felon who was picked up by Stockton police on weapons charges this week and whose mugshot subsequently got shared by every straight woman and gay man you
Arts & Entertainment Backers Seek To Keep Bay Lights Up For 12 More Years, Install LED Sculpture Up Market Street Too Illuminate the Arts, the organization that raised the funds to install The Bay Lights, held an event Wednesday night to mark the launch of a new fundraising drive with Crowdtilt, with a goal
SF News Pinterest Looks To Move To Design District, Forcing Eviction Of Small Businesses Small design showrooms in the Design District are crying foul as landlords do their best to cash in on the crazy office rents being commanded around SoMa. Pinterest has signed a deal to
SF News Allegedly Drunk Mom Plows Car Into Swamp, With Kid Inside An apparently very drunk 25-year-old San Francisco woman is in a Marin County jail after taking her 7-year-old son on a ride to San Rafael, getting lost, losing control of her car, and
SF News Day Around the Bay: Yelp's Fancy New Digs Yelp's new offices at 140 New Montgomery include a "coffee shop" and a "general store." [Business Insider] Beloved ten-year-old Tenderloin martini bar Olive is closing, possibly this weekend. [Eater] How to stop Facebook's
Arts & Entertainment Hard French Throws Pride Party Dedicated To Six Iconic Queer Artists This year's fourth annual Hard French Hearts Los Homos party, which happens on Sunday after the big Pride parade at Mezzanine, is dedicated to "Los Idolos," a half dozen icons of recent queer
SF News If You're Not Reading The Richmond Standard, Perhaps You Should Start A curious thing came across my feed last week. It turns out that former Examiner crime reporter Mike Aldax, whose saucy use of words like "thug" and "goon" always livened up my morning
SF News 9 Suspicious Fires Strike SoMa and Mission In Past 3 Weeks A series of nine, likely related acts of arson have occurred in less than three weeks, most in SoMa around several highrise construction projects, seemingly the work of a firebug who has not
SF News Here's What The Archbishop Said At That Anti-Gay Marriage Rally Today; Also, S.F. Church Giving Away Free Weddings Today in D.C., San Francisco's Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone took part in a march organized by the National Organization for Marriage, an anti-gay group that does everything in its rhetorical power to
SF News Don't Ask Why: Amazon Unveils New Fire Phone Amazon has entered the smart-phone market, everyone. Please don't all yawn at once. The company unveiled their Fire Phone to journalists yesterday, most of whom went "Oh, cool," to a couple of the
