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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: 'Arroz con Pollo' at La Urbana Eight-month-old modern Mexican restaurant La Urbana has won over a diverse clientele on the Divisadero corridor, both for its casual but lively atmosphere and its inventive spins on Mexican flavors. The food is,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Japantown Bar Shut Down For Having Flirty Waitresses Solicit Drinks From Lonely Men You travel to certain Asian and Latin American countries and it's kind of standard procedure to find waitresses in bars who solicit drinks from male tourists in exchange for both kickbacks from the
SF News Chances Now Higher That This Will Be A Severe El Niño Year Some early predictors a month ago are getting solidified, and a new report now says the chances of the upcoming winter bringing with it a potentially severe El Niño are 66%. A warming
SF News More HIV-Negative Gay Men Should Consider Taking Truvada, Say SF Porn Stars This new documentary short/PSA from Fusion TV has just come out featuring San Francisco-based gay porn models Max Cameron and Drew Sebastian. Max is HIV-negative, while Drew, his boyfriend of a year
Arts & Entertainment If Christopher Guest Made A Musical About Facebook, It Would Contain This Song Sweet mother of all that is holy, we are in trouble. At the recent 2014 Social Media Marketing World convention in San Diego, this guy wrote this song. It's about social media. Audience
SF News Female Designer Tells Secret App That Google Acquired Everyone At Her Startup But Her Is it just because she's a woman? Is it because she has "soft skills" like design and marketing that Google doesn't necessarily need? In any event, the saga of "Amy" has the tech
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Urban Putt Opens In The Mission May 5! We've told you about Urban Putt, and it was supposed to open this month, but with just a slight delay, this is really happening, people. The new 14-hole minuature golf course with its
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Expands To Mission/Potrero Border Tartine Bakery fans should delight in this: The much lauded and loved bakery will be getting a second location next year at the Heath Ceramics showroom at 18th and Alabama. As Tablehopper reports,
SF News Ellis Act Evictions Will Now Cost Landlords A Whole Lot More, Thanks To David Campos The Board of Supervisors last night passed some new legislation, originally proposed by David Campos, that's going to make evicting a tenant under the Ellis Act way more expensive than it previously was.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Corporate Shuttle Roadkill' Local bluegrass musician and banjo teacher Marilyn Vogel has penned a little ditty about the Google buses (and Genentech buses and Apple buses and Facebook buses, etc.), and even though you might not
SF News Tenants At 1049 Market Win Again, Eviction Notices Revoked The saga of 1049 Market Street continues this week as those new eviction notices we discussed a few weeks ago have been revoked by the landlord, clearly under pressure from the city. Lawyers
Arts & Entertainment VICE Chimes In On The Many Ways San Francisco Sucks Not content to let New York Magazine have the last word on the topic, VICE has jumped on the SF-hating bandwagon. The points they cover? Nothing to see here, really. Tech bros are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This: Meet Chronicle Wine Scribe Jon Bonné Wednesday At Camino Longtime Chronicle wine columnist Jon Bonné has a new coffeetable book called The New California Wine, in which he profiles the latest generation of growers and winemakers who have drawn new sophistication and
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Episode 1 Recap: Welcome To Palo Alto The Bay Area's starring role in the zeitgeist was boosted again last night with the premiere of HBO's Silicon Valley, the second new HBO show this season to take place here. But unlike
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Boy Killed, Chef Cindy Pawlcyn And Others Injured In Head-On Collision West of Napa St. Helena-based chef Cindy Pawlcyn was among those injured in a head-on collision on highway 12/121 west of Napa on Sunday afternoon. The crash also took the life of a 4-year-old boy.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Pie Cart Shuts Down; Local Newspaper Laments Let me tell you the story of Pie Fridays. It was one of those ever so precious San Francisco food phenomena that sprung up near the corner of 19th and Linda Streets in
SF News Gay Sailor Sues America's Cup For Wrongful Termination Openly gay boat captain Larry Jacobson, who was employed by the America's Cup from June to September of last year, is suing the Cup's organizers for discriminatory treatment and wrongful termination. Jacobson, who
SF News Alamo Square Residents Creeped Out By Fallen Drone Last Saturday on Fulton Street, a man stepped out to smoke and noticed a blinking machine in the middle of the street. He approached it, examined it, found that it was a rather
SF News Here's Why You Should Fight Your Muni Fare Evasion Ticket Though Muni fare inspectors tend to be miserable, grumpy people who do not want to hear your stories, there is in fact reason to argue that Clipper Card-based tickets might not be valid.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Big 'Game Of Thrones'-Themed Benefit Bash At Kink.com Armory Get out your sabers and dragon puppets, nerds: They're throwing a big Game of Thrones-themed party at the Armory on Saturday, April 5, and it's for a good cause. It's called Game of
SF News Tiny Earthquake Jiggles Stemware In Woodside A wee 1.1-magnitude earthquake rumbled on the peninsula at 5:30 a.m. this morning beneath Woodside and Belmont, likely waking no one. I bring it up only because earthquakes have been
SF News We're Probably In Tech Bubble Territory, Says Everyone Everyone's been talking about it for over a year, but the chatter is turning into a rumble among business pundit types just as the S&P Index hits another record high. Yes,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'In N Out Mission' (A Beyoncé Parody) Remember "Dunkin' Love"? Well, local artists Reggie White and Adrian Anchondo might be working their way through Beyoncé's entire recent album, and they've got another parody video featuring S.F. drag queens Honey
SF News Weather Report: Sun! (Then More Rain, and Sun Again) That was some rain, huh? Trees and stuff fell down. I heard of some random intermittent power outages. And I, for one, was duped by a lull in the rain around 7:15
