Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Renewed For Season 2 HBO-loving gays across America, as well as the cast and creators of Looking, have been waiting with bated breath to see if the network was going to renew their quiet, slowly paced show
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Hey, Human!' Aww. Cats are never this enthusiastic about anything. Look at him waving his little arms to get let inside. [via Laughing Squid]
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Charles Phan's Heaven's Dog Replacement, The Coachman, Sounds An Awful Lot Like The Cavalier Chef and restaurateur Charles Phan (Slanted Door, Hard Water) has been playing it pretty close to the vest with his revamp plans at Heaven's Dog (1148 Mission Street bet. 7th and 8th), which
SF News Polio-Like Illness Appears In Several California Children, Including Berkeley Girl File under: the last thing we need right now. A mysterious virus whose onset, complete with paralysis and respiratory problems, mimics that of polio, has infected a small group of California children in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Assemblyman Who Introduced Glove-Wearing Bill For Bartenders Now Proposing Emergency Repeal Dr. Richard Pan, the pediatrician and Democratic Assemblyman who introduced and passed a law last year in the California Assembly that will force all chefs, sushi chefs, and bartenders to wear rubber gloves
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Episode Six: The Gang Hits Dolores Park In getting our full Instagram-filtered view of gay San Francisco, the debut season of Looking would not be complete without somebody having a birthday picnic in Dolores Park. Also, it wouldn't be complete
SF News Weather Report: Big Rain Coming You're probably as tired as I am of reading and hearing the by now rote statement of "rain storm coming, but it won't be enough!" Well, you'll be getting a lot more of
SF News Accused Public Library Chair Thrower Gets Off In a victory for the Public Defender's Office but not necessarily for the safety of the populus, a 26-year-old man who was identified by eyewitnesses as the attacker in that bloody assault-by-chair last
SF News Kaepernick Confirms 49ers Would Be Cool With Gay Teammate Following on a rumor last week that a San Francisco 49er was set to the come out of the closet very soon, quarterback Colin Kaepernick just made a public statement saying he and
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Writers Say The Slow And Boring Thing Is Intentional I like Looking. I would like to see it get another season. But I hope the writers didn't just put another nail in the coffin of this show by saying in a panel
SF News Study Says: S.F.'s Highest Incomes Get Higher, Income Gap Gets Wider A new study by the Brookings Institute highlights many of the perceived changes to San Francisco's economic landscape since the Great Recession, including the fact that out of all the nation's cities, we
SF News Mid-Market Tenants Win Another Reprieve From Eviction Last we heard about the embattled tenants of 1049 Market Street, the remaining group of them who have not moved of their own accord (it remains unclear just how many there are, but
SF News Bay Bridge Contractor Gets Their Bonuses Anyway, In Spite of Everything Guess what? If you have a multi-billion-dollar contract with CalTrans and you commit several phenomenal fuckups while building a hugely important piece of infrastructure but still manage to basically finish on time even
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pearl's Deluxe Burgers to Close Sixth Street Location One of the many harbingers of Mid-Market's ongoing transformation, and one that got a boost via a big loan from the City, Pearl's Deluxe Burgers, is calling it quits on their 6th and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Hard French Winter Ball, The Promo You may recall the positively inspired, elaborate, excellently executed short film by Aron Kantor (a.k.a. DirtyGlitter) that was made last year to promote Hard French's annual Winter Ball in Santa Cruz.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The 'Bunny's Pleasure' Piroshki at Anda Piroshki Over at the new Second Act Marketplace (1727 Haight Street), which is part of an actual second act for the former Red Vic Theater owned by a couple of the original proprietors of
SF News Young Tech Worker Who Called 911 On Behalf Of Injured Cyclist Arrested, Roughed Up, Jailed [Updated] A man calling himself a "good Samaritan" who called 911 after finding a girl injured in a bicycling accident late one weekend night in SoMa has taken to the internet to describe what
Arts & Entertainment David Crosby Averts Heart Attack With Emergency Surgery, Postpones Concert Dates Beloved folk rocker David Crosby, 72, underwent emergency heart surgery Friday to correct a blocked artery, and though he's expected to make a full recovery he has had to postpone tour dates he
SF News Is San Francisco Destined To Get More Conservative? This is the question being posed in a new piece from Salon: Will the influx of tech wealth and the construction of more and more condos inevitably lead to the fraying of San
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Episode Five: Patrick & Richie 4Evah Once again Patrick says the wrong thing, several times, but not only do we get our first bare ass shot in this episode, we also get to see a very sweet day-long date
SF News Man Struck And Killed By Muni Train At Powell Station A 55-year-old transient who was struck and killed by an outbound Muni train Saturday afternoon has been identified as Michael Mendez. Mendez may have fallen off the platform at Powell Station at around
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Women Reading Grindr And Scruff Messages Thank you to Second City for giving us these dramatic readings from women using actual message threads from gay men on the apps Grindr and Scruff. Yes, they are full of misspellings, both
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Speakeasy' From The Boxcar Theatre As immersive, progressive performance experiences go, you aren't going to find much that isn't fun and cool about the Boxcar Theatre's latest, highly ambitious offsite project, The Speakeasy. It's a fully realized, choose-your-own
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French President Visits S.F., Dines At La Folie With Business Leaders As part of a three-day state visit, and following on Tuesday night's White House state dinner in his honor, President Francois Hollande was in San Francisco yesterday and attended a lunch at La
SF News World's Largest Solar Power Plant Opens On CA-Nevada Border Have you heard about the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System? It's a totally innovative project backed by Google, NRG Energy, and Brightsource Energy, located across five square miles of desert on the California-Nevada
