SF News Archaic Law Limiting Arcade Games To Maybe Get Repealed [Update] Because this is San Francisco, and because we've legislated everything from the satchels you carry your beer and tampons home in to the number of Chipotles allowed in a neighborhood, there is a
SF News 28th Oakland Homicide Means Rate On Track With Last Year A Monday night homicide in Oakland, near the San Leandro border, marks the 28th in the city so far this year, putting it almost exactly on par with last year which saw the
SF News New SoMa Gay Sex Club Threatened By Gentrification A two-month-old, jail-themed sex club at 960-962 Folsom, as well as the adult store downstairs from it, may have to close or move after the building they're housed in was just sold. The
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Episode 3 Recap: Small Is The New Big "Because if we can make your audio and video files smaller, we can make cancer smaller. And hunger. And AIDS." This week's episode opens with those words, from Hooli's evil overlord Gavin Belson,
Arts & Entertainment Photos: The 2014 'Hunky Jesus' Contest Bares Holy Man Flesh By all accounts, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence managed to get at least a thousand people over to Hellman Hollow in Golden Gate Park for their annual Hunky Jesus Contest an event which
SF News PG&E In Federal Court Today Over San Bruno Disaster The aftermath of the 2010 gas pipe explosion in San Bruno that took the lives of 8 people continues today as PG&E officials appear in federal court this morning to face
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brace Yourselves For A Flood Of New Restaurants & Bars Spring is usually a season for new stuff in the San Francisco food scene, and this year is no exception. As our local economy continues to boom, 2014 is shaping up to be
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Chloe Sevigny's 'Easter' All around funny man Drew Droege (and director Jim Hansen) are back with a brand new installment in their Chloe Sevigny drag series. “I have whagonloads of childhood mammaries of E-asters past," says
SF News Park Station Police Captain Greg Corrales Still Very Anti-Weed While simultaneously touting the impending crackdown by city leaders on this year's 4/20 craziness, Park Station police captain Greg Corrales included in his typically amusing Park Station Newsletter this week an Associated
Arts & Entertainment Legendary Trans Performer Vicki Marlane Gets Tenderloin Block Named For Her Local legend and Aunt Charlie's fixture Vicki Marlane, who was a pioneering drag performer going back five decades in San Francisco before her 2011 death, will make history again as the city is
SF News UberX Rides Get $1 More Expensive Just last night I noticed that UberX wanted to charge me a new $1 "Safe Rides Fee" on top of the usual fare. I clicked OK, because I needed to get home, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Knife at the Fox I try to reserve my concert reviews for when something truly notable happens, and that was definitely the case at last night's show by The Knife at the Fox Theater in Oakland. The
SF News Marc Benioff Has A Few Things To Say About Tech Companies Who Don't Give Back, And Zuckerberg's 'Philanthropy' Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, whose company just inked a deal that includes naming rights for what's going to be the tallest building west of the Mississippi, has no patience for his peers who
SF News The A's Probably Stuck In Oakland For Good Over the past five years there's been a lot of grumbling over at the Oakland Coliseum and rumblings from the owners of the Oakland A's that they were going to high-tail it to
SF News Google Has Now Patented A Contact Lens Camera Oh, for god's sake. The overlords at the Googleplex, not satisfied to have everyone wearing face computers that can easily attract shaming and be snatched off their faces, are at work on a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Schroeder's Will Reopen In May With New, 'Upscale' German Fare Ardent fans of the FiDi's oldest old-school German beer hall, Schroeder's (121 years old, to be exact), are either going to be excited or filled with dread to hear that it's reopening next
SF News No Cats Injured, Nine People Displaced After Fire At 14th & Dolores Residents of the six-story building that suffered that two-alarm fire yesterday at 87 Dolores Street will likely be allowed back in their homes today after power is restored to the building all but
SF News Chiu's AirBnB Compromise Goes Before Supes Today At today's Board of Supervisors meeting, David Chiu's new proposed law will go to a vote, solidifying AirBnB as a legit business, but also keeping too much of San Francisco's precious housing stock
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Lana Del Rey's 'West Coast' Lana Del Rey just debuted her new single "West Coast" at Coachella over the weekend, and via YouTube with this repetitive, black-and-white loop of a video of a walk on a SoCal beach.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Home Restaurant Site In Castro Could Maybe Become 7-Story Condo [Updated] Many denizens of the Castro and Lower Haight have bemoaned the now blighted, three-years-vacant former Home restaurant property, which lost the chance to become a Chipotle last year and has languished ever since.
SF News Airport Super Shuttle Carjacked With Passengers On Board If you ever thought twice about the money-saving you were doing by hiring a Super Shuttle for that 4 a.m. airport trip instead of just getting a cab, get this: An SFO-bound
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: AT&True Detective For the last week, spot-on Matthew McConaughey impressionist Ross Marquand has been putting out this web series, which is a mashup of those AT&T "It's Not Complicated" ads, with the free-associative
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Episode 2 Recap: How To Become An A**hole To kick off the second episode of the new HBO comedy from Office Space/King of the Kill genius Mike Judge, we have a very sad five-person "launch party" in the Palo Alto
SF News Beware Of Bed Bugs On BART While BART insists that reports of bed bugs on its trains are very rare, a BART train was taken out of service last Thursday for cleaning after a passenger reported finding bed bugs
SF News Don't Worry: Tonight's Blood Moon Definitely Won't Spell Doom For Us All Have you heard about this lunar eclipse that's happening tonight? It's freaking some people out. But everyone just needs to calm down and pretend they have totally rational minds and we'll all get
