SF News 21-Year-Old Gets DUI, Much Internet Shame For Crashing Maserati Into Muni Maintenance Yard A rich man's $138,000 Maserati GranTurismo plowed into Muni's Potrero Division maintenance facility on the morning of May 20, getting stuck in a trench, and details are now emerging about how this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink There Is Now Another, Even Fancier Way To Eat At Saison Today Saison announced the launch of a chef's Test Kitchen series, utilizing a new, undisclosed space for exclusive, 8-person dinners on Saturdays, starting August 2. The test-kitchen/think-tank experience will feature an exclusive
Arts & Entertainment Kink.com CEO Reacts To Flack Over Prison-Themed Pride Party You may recall a couple weeks back there was some hubbub on the gay webs over a prison-themed circuit party for gay men that's happening on the Saturday of Pride weekend at the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFPD Back Busting People For Booze In Dolores Park Today We've heard tell of recent occasional pass-throughs by Mission police busting people with open containers of beer and wine, and of course this useless harassment of tipsy sunbathers goes back several years. But
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'First Moon Party' "Do you know how hard it is to find a uterus pinata?" Please enjoy this amazing long-form commercial from Hello Flo, a new menstruation-related subscription service for ladies and teens (tagline: "Like Santa
SF News Gang War?: Shooting This Morning At 16th And Dolores An unidentified man in his 30s was shot early this morning at the normally quiet corner of 16th and Dolores Streets, and this is starting to freak everyone out. As Mission Local reports,
SF News Hibernia Bank Building Finally Under Renovation, Rumored To Be Becoming A Nightclub The long long dormant Hibernia Bank building at the corner of Jones and Market/McAllister, which for over a decade has been no more than a neo-classical pigeon roost, is finally seeing some
SF News Extra-Wide Castro Sidewalks Now Open For Strolling, Busking Right in time for Pride, and Pink Saturday crowds (even though the traditional Pink Saturday block party isn't allowed anymore), blocks of Castro Street between 17th and 19th Streets now have extra-wide sidewalks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This: Spike TV's Frankenfood, The All-Gimmick Food Truck Faster than you can say "grilled-cheese cake," there's a food truck breezing through town tonight that is all mashups, all the time. It's called the Frankenfood truck, and it comes to us via
Arts & Entertainment Elaborate, Dark, Disney-Esque Tourist Attraction, The Dungeon, Opens At Fisherman's Wharf Next Week In space formerly occupied by the The Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf, something called The Dungeon is opening on June 26, bringing a popular European tourist attraction to our shores for the first
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: OK Go's Latest Amazing Video Feat, 'The Writing's On the Wall' For those not living under YouTube-free rocks the last half-decade, you should know that OK Go specializes in the type of music video that goes crazy viral because of its sheer awesomeness and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold, The Grilled-Cheese Cake From American Grilled Cheese Kitchen Amidst all the ramen burgers, cronuts, and cake fries, we obviously were missing a vitally important and obvious food mashup: the grilled-cheese cake. Leave it to the fine people of The American Grilled
SF News AirBnB's Impact On S.F., By The Numbers There's no doubt that AirBnB has had a significant impact on tourism in San Francisco, allowing a bevy of young, corporate-hotel-eschewing tourists to "borrow" the apartments of actual San Franciscans and live life
Arts & Entertainment 2014 Treasure Island Music Festival Lineup Includes Outkast, Washed Out, Massive Attack Here's the preliminary 2014 Treasure Island Music Festival lineup, according to Ticketmaster, which appears to have thrown a (now dead) page up a little ahead of the official announcement by Another Planet Entertainment.
SF News Jane Kim Proposing 30% Affordable Housing In New Developments Supervisor Jane Kim, while open to compromises, is proposing that the city mandate a threshold of 30% below-market-rate housing in all new developments starting next year. The proposal, which we first heard about
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Wolf Pup Hiccups I mean... This comes to us via the Wolf Conservation Center in New York State, and they inform us that wee wittle wolf babies like this can hiccup when they're excited. That is
SF News S.F.'s Catholic Archbishop Defends His Choice To Attend Anti-Gay-Marriage Rally Catholic archbishop and occasional drunk driver Salvatore Cordileone has written an open letter in response to the open letter sent to him last week by Mayor Lee, Gavin Newsom and dozens of others
SF News Mehserle Back In Court: "I Felt Sick" As we mentioned last week, the Bay Area's most headline-grabbing BART cop of 2009 and 2010, is back in court and once again showing remorse over the killing of Oscar Grant III on
SF News TechCrunch Writer Has Another Solution To Our Housing Crisis TechCrunch writer Kim-Mai Cutler, who was responsible for the widely shared April piece "How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained)," is back with a new piece that's
Arts & Entertainment Keeping San Francisco Weird: Irene Cara's 'What A Feeling' Performed In The Castro Many have been lamenting, as more and more tech nerds clog our streets and apartment buildings, and as San Francisco gets dubbed "the nation's new success theater," that San Francisco is losing its
SF News Video: Maya Angelou Memorialized In Public Service In San Francisco In her will, Dr. Maya Angelou had requested that her public memorial service be held at a church, and in a city, that she loved: Glide Memorial in San Francisco. The service happened
SF News 22-Year-Old Shot In Oakland Marks City's 40th Homicide; S.F. at 11 Oakland's homicide rate is creeping up for 2014 but remains lower, and slower to grow, than at this time last year. Four separate shooting incidents yesterday resulted in four injured men, one of
SF News Girl Goes Missing In Marin Park, Prompts Massive Search And Rescue Operation A 9-year-old New Mexico girl wandered away from her family's campsite on Friday in Samuel P. Taylor State Park in Marin, and the report of her going missing prompted a 200-person search-and-rescue effort.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Wild Flounder Grenobloise at Gaspar Brasserie Gaspar is the new, Paris-inspired, old-school brasserie that opened a few weeks back in the space formerly home to Midi, Hecho, and long ago, Perry's, at the Galleria Park Hotel (185 Sutter Street)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wo Hing Space On Valencia To Become Urchin, From Ame Team The husband-and-wife team of Hiro Sone and Lissa Doumani, who own Ame at the St. Regis and Terra/Bar Terra in St. Helena, have inked a deal to take over the former Wo
