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
Arts & Entertainment 'New York Magazine' Officially Bitter It's Not In San Francisco After a blistering, snowy winter on the East Coast and a year in which San Francisco has captured a lot of the national spotlight for its booming economy, Instagram-filtered gay people, and enduring
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tamale Lady's 16th Street Shop Due Open By Late Spring As we learned just before the new year, Virginia "Tamale Lady" Ramos is finally going to get her own brick-and-mortar storefront in the Mission which will soon become a go-to tamale destination. Today
SF News Two Big New Condo Buildings Headed To Market & Sixth A 186-unit condo building has been proposed for 1028 Market Street, the site currently occupied by the long-shuttered Hollywood Billiards, and another 301-unit building is headed in next door at 1066 Market Street.
SF News Brace: This Could Be Another El Niño Year We haven't had a ton of weather these past two winters here in Northern California, which has meant we haven't had much rain. But that all could change as meteorological experts have officially
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chris Cosentino Closing Incanto, Reopening It As Something More Family-Friendly Some pretty big news out of Noe Valley this week: Top Chef Master Chris Cosentino is shuttering his 12-year-old restaurant Incanto this month, and he and partner Mark Pastore will transform it into
Arts & Entertainment Batkid NOT Snubbed By 'Spider-Man' Star At The Oscars [Updated] Update: According to Andrew Garfield, the Oscars are to blame for crushing the hopes of Batkid. "The reps say Garfield DID contribute to the presentation script, but he had nothing to do with
Arts & Entertainment Regarding Polyamory, Why Polyamorists Are Mostly White, And How Their Kids Cope There's a new book out called The Polyamorists Next Door by academic and sometime polyamorist Elisabeth Sheff, which explores the complexities of multi-partner sex and living arrangements in our oh-so-modern times. And, naturally,
SF News Two Bitcoin Banks Close After E-Heists; Bitcoin Exchange CEO Commits Suicide In Singapore Though these three incidents are not necessarily interrelated, there has been some major drama in the bitcoin world this past week. First, Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, recently the largest of the existing
SF News Gold Coin Stash May Have Been Stolen From U.S. Mint In 1899 Heist, Maybe Not A heist at the San Francisco Mint that occurred right around the new year at the turn of the last century and one that may have been an inside job is likely the
Arts & Entertainment Wet Underwear Contest Roommate Search Returns! Remember this? It looks like that same group of slutty gays in the Tenderloin with that $400 room for rent have some high turnover, and they were back on Craigslist as of last
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Turns Non-Profit, Will Expand Beyond A Single Playa The organization that produces Burning Man has now fully transitioned to non-profit status, with the corporation Black Rock City LLC becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the non-profit Burning Man Project, established in
SF News Watch Out For Stabbings On Polk Street There's a suspect still on the loose in a potentially fatal stabbing that occurred near Polk and Post Streets late Friday night/early Saturday. The victim, a 30-year-old male, got into some sort
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Episode Seven: Get Me To The Church On Time I was talking to a friend last week who does some TV writing of his own and we were saying that while Looking remains full of promise and is beautifully shot, its holes
SF News Hipster Half Of Dolores Park Closes In T-Minus 10 Days Hear ye, hear ye: There's only one more weekend left of a fully open and operational Dolores Park, with the northern half of the park (Hipster Hill, Fixie Flats, tennis courts) closing for
SF News Weather Report: We Still Need More That was a nice serving of rain we just had, huh? And the drizzles will continue today and Wednesday, followed by a dry and balmy early spring weekend and the inevitable repetition by
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Swirling Reindeer This lovely aerial footage, shot in northern Norway by Jan Helmer Olsen using a drone "hexacopter" camera, shows reindeer being herded into separate enclosures by ethnic Sami herders. As you can see, reindeer
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Napa 2014 Will Still Happen, Despite Everything I just got a press release in my inbox that gave me a double-take: It appears that BottleRock Napa Valley is in fact going to have a second year this Memorial Day weekend
SF News Seattle Votes To Curb Number Of Ride-Share Drivers Following in the footsteps of places like Paris, where taxi unions have a stronger foothold, the Seattle City Council voted last night to cap the number of Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar drivers in
SF News Shooting On I-580 Shuts Down Freeway At Rush Hour A shooting with an unknown motive (possibly road rage) prompted the CHP to shut down the westbound I-580 freeway at around 4:45 p.m. Thursday, putting traffic at a standstill near Castro
Arts & Entertainment Nicholas Cage To Be Subject Of Local Hipster Art Show Academy Award-winning actor turned sellout turned meme Nicholas Cage has inspired one local would-be curator to do a whole show around him. As the Weekly is reporting, "DJ and event planner" Ezra Croft
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Dunkin' Love,' A Beyoncé Parody This little parody of (obvi) Beyoncé's "Drunk In Love" was created by SF's own Reggie White and Adrian Anchondo, and as the SFBG notes, it was shot over on Ocean Beach. And for
Arts & Entertainment 'Real World: Ex-Plosion' Cast Gets Education On Trans Identities The cast of this final season of The Real World, which was shot last year in San Francisco, got schooled in the varieties of trans identity and what it means to be genderqueer,
Arts & Entertainment 9 Ideas For Rainy Day Activities In San Francisco Does everyone remember what rain is like? It's back for a return, so we thought we'd remind you what people do in the event that it's really wet outside. There shall be no
SF News Dudes Now Paying For Beard Implants Are you a male urban freelancer/professional with $7,000 to burn, an endless capacity for dressing hiply, and an inability to grow a proper, manly beard? Stop your fretting! Plastic surgeons are
