SF News There Will Probably Be Lots Of Delays At SFO This Summer San Francisco International Airport is closing 2 of its 4 runways this summer, right at the height of vacation season, in order to complete some federally mandated safety upgrades. Good luck getting anywhere
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Idiot's Guide to Talking to Smart People About Music The funny folks at Above Average (the web-based side project of Lorne Michaels and Broadway Video), have been doing these Idiot's Guide to Smart People videos. This one's all about music, and how
SF News One Of Two Convicted Gang Members Sentenced To Life In 2011 Jack London Square Restaurant Shooting 25-year-old Clem Thompkins, one of two convicted co-defendants in a highly publicized 2011 double-murder in an Oakland restaurant, was sentenced today to life in prison without parole. He and fellow reputed gang member
SF News Will Someone Please Buy This Woman a Ticket To Hawaii? A 62-year-old woman who may or may not have cancer but who seriously wants to get to Hawaii has now been nabbed four times at SFO either boarding planes or attempting to board
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outerlands To Reopen Soon, But With A New Chef For those of you ardent fans of cult favorite, critically raved-about, Outer Sunset restaurant Outerlands, it's been a very impatient couple of months. They closed for renovations after the new year in order
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This: Roller Disco In An Old Church! Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, there will be a gay roller disco in an old church at Fillmore and Fell Streets. Are you going? Somehow I had not heard about the Church of 8
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coqueta, Benu, And (Again) State Bird Among 21 Bay Area James Beard Award Nominees The last couple of years have brought a serious uptick in the national attention being given to Bay Area restaurants. And last year at the annual "food Oscars," the James Beard Foundation Awards,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Yum Yai Salad At Kin Khao Kin Khao has been quietly earning some early raves since opening three weeks ago in the base of the Parc 55 hotel (the restaurant is in the former Smooth Thai space at Mason
SF News Person Struck, Killed By Freight Train In Berkeley This Morning An unidentified man was struck and killed by a southbound freight train crossing into Berkeley from Albany this morning just after 9 a.m. The accident happened in an area not near a
SF News Woman Recovers Stolen Bike Via Sting With Help Of BART Police A woman whose $900 bike was stolen from one of the racks outside Macarthur Station in Oakland managed to get it back with some help from BART police, and get the thief arrested.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Off The Grid Fort Mason Center Returns Tonight, With Games The biggest food-truck market in the Bay Area, Off the Grid Fort Mason Center, comes back from its winter hiatus tonight, just in time for this fantastic weather we're having. (Though the weather
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Accidental Death Of An Anarchist' At Berkeley Rep There is more to the art of clowning than just makeup and slapstick, and no one can teach that lesson better than actor and professional stage devourer Steven Epp and his director and
SF News Art Agnos Not Happy About Being Called Out By 'San Francisco Magazine' Former mayor Art Agnos sat down for an interview with San Francisco Magazine editor-in-chief Jon Steinberg for the upcoming April issue, and Steinberg tries to take Agnos to task for being such a
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Napa Valley Announces 2014 Lineup Including OutKast, Spin Doctors, And A Slew Of '90s Acts As we mentioned the other week, in spite of the bankruptcy of its inaugural-year organizers and tensions with the city of Napa, BottleRock Napa Valley is proceeding with a second year, and the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fifth Floor To Become Something Called Dirty Habit As we reported back in December, the 14-year-old restaurant known as Fifth Floor had to go the way of so many other formal dining destinations of the last few years and succumb to
SF News Firefighters Talk About Battling Tuesday's Mission Bay Blaze "We don't get this type of fire every day," said fire chief Joanne Hayes-White in a news conference on Wednesday. "But we train for this type of conflagration, and we were up to
SF News Should San Francisco Be Spending More Money On Homeless Services? According to a new report requested by Supervisor Mark Farrell, there are (at least) 915 homeless youths on the streets of San Francisco these days, and that number may very well be higher
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fruit, Vegetable, And Wine Prices Likely Going Up Due To Drought Central Valley farmers are already leaving at least a half-million acres unplanted this growing season due to the drought and lack of water being allocated to their farms, and you can count on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole Spinoff Trou Normand Opens Next Week The long-awaited sister restaurant to Bar Agricole is finally going to have its debut next Monday, and it's called Trou Normand (140 New Montgomery Street). The name refers to a traditional northern-French palate
SF News DiFi Totally Pissed That The CIA Was Spying On Her Committee California Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate intelligence committee, has come out swinging over an ongoing, years-long conflict her committee has been having with the CIA over their attempts to oversee and
SF News Weather Report: It Gets Springier I have a few favorite spring songs. There's Nina Simone's "Another Spring." Jobim's "The Waters of March." And there's the little known musical theater number, "I Feel So Much Spring," which is the
SF News Three Pedestrians, One Cyclist Struck By Drivers Since Monday Watch out, folks. A five-year-old boy and his babysitter were struck by a vehicle Monday evening at 5:15 p.m. at Fulton Street and 37th Avenue. Both were taken to the hospital
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Not Looking' Episode 1 NOT LOOKING - Season 1 - Episode 1 of 5 - watch more funny videos Remember how we shared the hilarious trailer for the L.A.-based web spoof "Not Looking" last month?
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Episode Eight: Going Out With A Bang, On The Office Floor [SPOILERS AHEAD] Last night's first-season finale of HBO's Looking brought us a heaping pile of peri-peri chicken, a nice helping of inappropriate office sex, some teary moments, and some quick and dirty plot
SF News SFFD And SFPD Feuded During Asiana Crash Investigation Fire Department officials and at least one firefighter stand accused of being evasive and dishonest throughout the investigation into the death of 15-year-old Ye Meng Yuan following last summer's Asiana Airlines crash at
