SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Napa Restaurateur Eiko Nakamura Murdered By Ex-Husband Eiko Nakamura, the owner of three-year-old Japanese restaurant Eiko's in downtown Napa and the former sushi spot Fujiya at the Napa Premium Outlets, was murdered in her home on Saturday. Her ex-husband, whom
SF News DeSoto Cab Head Says S.F. Cab Industry Could Collapse In 18 Months At the hands of Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar, yellow (and other color) taxis could be kaput in San Francisco in a year and a half, at least according to the president of one
SF News Oakland Student In Wheelchair Smacked By Security Guard Was Known Troublemaker Despite having cerebral palsy and being confined to a wheelchair, 17-year-old Oakland high school freshman Francisco Martinez was known to fellow students as a troublemaker, and a number of them have come out
SF News Hidden Cash Guy Returns To Bay Area, Promises 'EPIC' Weekend Of Cash Drops Eager, attention-grabbing benefactor @HiddenCash, who started making headlines two weekends ago with his anonymous stashings of cash-stuffed envelopes and Twitter scavenger hunt in San Francisco, is back in the Bay Area after setting
SF News Former SF Politico Wanted By FBI Appears To Have Posted Suicide Note Online [Update] Ryan Chamberlain, a public-relations executive and former Gavin Newsom associate whose apartment was raided by the FBI on Saturday on suspicion of possessing explosives, seems to have posted a suicide note on a
SF News Nationwide Alert For S.F. Man Wanted By FBI For Possessing Explosives [Update] The FBI is on a manhunt for this 42-year-old man, pictured at right, Ryan Kelly Chamberlain II, whose San Francisco apartment was found to have explosives and bomb-making material in it on Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment Prison-Themed Pride Party At Armory Causes Stir Among The Easily Offended A prison-themed circuit party geared toward gay men, organized by national big gay party promoters Masterbeat at the Kink.com Armory, is causing panties to be wadded in certain LGBT circles. Why? Because
SF News DEA Can't Go After Medical Marijuana, Says Congress The House voted late Thursday night to stop allowing the Drug Enforcement Administration to spend money going after medical marijuana producers and sellers in states where medicinal mary jane is legal. An appropriations
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Grand Café To Close After Two Decades, Transform Into Something More Casual Going the way of almost every hotel restaurant in San Francisco, Union Square's Grand Café is closing its doors July 31 for a renovation and casual-ization. It will reopen later this year under
SF News In Historic Decision, Medicare Lifts Ban On Sex-Change Surgery A staunch 74-year-old trans woman and Army veteran went toe to toe with Medicare over their denying her coverage of her sex reassignment surgery, and won. In a major decision today, the Department
SF News Christian Hate Group Urges People Not To Accept Mail With Harvey Milk Stamp As you may have heard, the first Harvey Milk commemorative stamps were released for sale by the US Postal Service last week. Now, a group that can always be counted on to say
SF News Last-Minute Negotiations Save Leno's Ellis Act Bill, Maybe As mentioned this morning, Senator Mark Leno hoped to keep his revisions to the 28-year-old Ellis Act alive, and as of late this afternoon it looks like he's done it. The bill that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Red Dog, An Il Cane Rosso Spinoff, Opens In SoMa Chef Lauren Kiino, who departed the Daniel Patterson Group a couple years ago and took their Ferry Building takeout venture, Il Cane Rosso (which she was a partner in) with her, has been
Arts & Entertainment RuPaul, Justin Vivian Bond, And Lady Bunny React To Trannygate Last week's revelation that SF drag queen Heklina was changing the name of her famous Trannyshack party has set off a second whirlwind of infighting in the LGBT community second only after the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Regarding Soylent, The Nutritional Shake Invented By S.F.-Based Brogrammers With No Time To Eat Soylent, the unfortunately named food substitute named after the fictional Soylent Green, which was made out of human flesh is now available for online sale, and it is just as depressing and redundant
SF News Realtors' Lobby Helps Quash Anti-Ellis Act Legislation It may not be dead yet, but Senator Mark Leno's bill in the California legislature, which would have required building owners to own a building for at least five years before invoking the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chino, The New Dumpling Spot In The Former Andalu, Opens Tonight The much anticipated pan-Asian spinoff of Tacolicious, Chino, in the former Andalu space at the busy corner of 16th and Guerrero, opens today at 4 p.m. for cocktails, and 5:30 p.
SF News Sergey Brin Regrets Involvement In Google+, Admits He's Kind Of Anti-Social This is funny: Google's mostly failed attempt at creating a Facebook-killing social network may not have been done any favors by having co-founder Sergey Brin involved in the project. As Brin told an
SF News How Maya Angelou Became San Francisco's First African-American Female Streetcar Conductor In 1944, at the age of 16, Maya Angelou walked into Muni's personnel department to ask for an application to become a streetcar conductor. She had moved to San Francisco from St. Louis
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Smoked Fondue at Dirty Habit I can't think of a kitsch 1960s hors d'oeuvre that's been most in need of a makeover as much as fondue, and though I've seen a few versions pop up here and there
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Evil Elmo Sings! It's not the Evil Elmo, the one who harasses tourists at Fisherman's Wharf and makes frequent anti-Semitic remarks. But this is DC-based funny man Stuart Dryden performing with an Elmo puppet as part
SF News Pedestrian Struck By J-Church Sunday Night In Glen Park An unidentified man in his 30s sustained serious injuries Sunday night when he was struck by an inbound J-Church train near San Jose and St. Mary's Avenues, in Glen Park. The man was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open: Gaspar Brasserie Downtown in the space once occupied by Perry's and Midi on Sutter and Kearny (more recently by the short-lived tequila-and-sushi concept Hecho), Gaspar Brasserie just made its public debut before the holiday weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: SFist Talks With Heklina About The Rebranding Of Trannyshack This week, the S.F. nightlife community was rocked by the news that legendary nightclub Trannyshack was going to rebrand itself, in the interest of not offending the trans community. Yesterday I spoke
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures</i> at Berkeley Rep I could quip that even the title of playwright Tony Kushner's latest work needs editing. But in reviewing such a sprawling, gut-punching, morbid, hilarious, and ridiculously dense and reference-packed work of theater by
