SF News Facebook Embraces Gender Spectrum In a coup for all Ts, Qs, Is, and everyone else on the non-gender-normative spectrum, Facebook has finally decided that one is allowed to be more than just "Other." The site has just
SF News HA! Amber Alert Canceled. Guy Totally Knew Those People He 'Kidnapped' It turns out that Tuesday's regional Amber Alert was all the result of a big misunderstanding. First of all, accused shoplifter Roy McCamey, 54, was known to employees at the Safeway on Redwood
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Very Liberace Valentine's The geniuses over at Deeper Understanding have just dug up and re-edited Liberace's Valentine's Special from 1979. It's just as bizarre and slightly depressing as you might imagine, but look! Sandy Duncan and
Arts & Entertainment Balboa Theater Celebrates 88 Years, And Brand New Projectors, With Party Next Sunday One of S.F.'s few remaining old neighborhood movie houses, the Balboa Theater, is ringing in another year next Sunday and they have plenty to celebrate. Thanks to crowd funding from its
SF News Amber Alert Issued After Oakland Carjacking On Tuesday just before 1 p.m., a man in his 40s who had just shoplifted lobsters and steak was seen entering a red or burgundy sedan in the parking lot of a
SF News SF Pride's Call For Grand Marshall Nominees Ends Today It's been a rocky ten months for SF Pride since the controversy first erupted among board members and others over the appointment of Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning to be an honorary Grand Marshall
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo: The Mill Gets A Parklet Parklet construction is underway outside The Mill on Divisadero, so that it may join sister coffeehouse Four Barrel in providing fixie parking and adequate outdoor navel-gazing space. Haighteration earlier revealed the design for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Hir' At Magic Theatre Hir, the latest new work to premiere at San Francisco's Magic Theatre comes from New York playwright, artist, and drag performer Taylor Mac, and though he doesn't appear in it, it shows him
SF News Trial Begins For Crazed Right-Winger In 2010 Freeway Shootout Those who've been with us for a few years will recall the dramatic shootout with police that happened in the summer of 2010, around midnight on a July Saturday, in the middle of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Places To Taste Great Beer This Beer Week Friday marked the kickoff of S.F. Beer Week, and things really kick into gear today and through the weekend with special tap takeover events, beer dinners, and mini-festivals throughout the Bay Area.
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Episode Four: That's It For Folsom? I know that not everyone enjoys or attends Folsom Street Fair, but HBO and Looking creator Michael Lannan teased us for months with images of Jonathan Groff in his leather vest only to
SF News Now The Bay Bridge Has Sprung Leaks No sooner did we get a rain storm for the first time in forever, the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge now has a leak problem. It seems that water is seeping
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The House That Will Not Stand' at Berkeley Rep Plays about race are often tough sells, especially when the play has a didactic motive around a racially relevant moment in history. But even though The House That Will Not Stand, in a
SF News California Judges Possibly Banned From Being Boy Scout Leaders Because Of Discriminatory Policies A proposal from an ethics advisory committee to the California Supreme Court will potentially ban California judges from belonging to the Boy Scouts of America because of the organization's discrimination against gays. 47
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing This Weekend: Arty Party Join members of Post:Ballet for a dance party cum fashion show Sunday at Raven in SoMa. It's called Arty Party, it starts at 4 p.m., and it's not just a party.
SF News New Apple Store In Union Square Gets Approved Unsurprisingly, the Planning Commissioned voted overwhelmingly in favor of a new flagship Apple store that's headed for the prominent northeast corner of Union Square currently occupied by the former Levi's flagship store. The
SF News Holy God, 950-974 Market Street Is Going To Be Huge A development project that kind of dropped off our radar reappears via some new renderings today, via Curbed, and dear god it's another enormous hotel and arts center that will help to completely
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Street Food Alerts: Brass Knuckle, Rice Paper Scissors, & Hapa Ramen Get New Homes Three mobile food operations are getting brick-and-mortar homes at last. First off, the fine folks at Brass Knuckle they of the clever band-inspired sandwich names like Fryin' Maiden (buttermilk fried-chicken sandwich) and Pork
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Belcampo Meat Company Opening Polk Street Location Good news for you cooks out there: A new, local and sustainable butcher shop is headed to Polk and Pacific with some serious Slow Food cred. It's called Belcampo Meat Company, and they
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Suspected Drunkard Crashes SUV Into Cliff House A man suspected of driving under the influence lost control of his BMW SUV at around 3:30 this morning as he came around the bend in front of the historic Cliff House
SF News Former News Anchor, Noted Penis Sculptress Dana King To Run For Oakland City Council Though it sounded like she was retiring from her news career two years ago in order to pursue art full time, former KPIX news anchor Dana King wants back in the fast lane.
SF News Large Illegal Nightclub (And Brothel?) Busted In San Jose In that larger, sprawling city to our south, a sizeable illegal nightlife operation featuring 30 waitresses and "eight locked, private VIP rooms" was raided early Friday after police received a report of a
SF News Another Pedestrian Down: SUV Hit-Run In Front Of City Hall In yet another incident of driver-on-pedestrian violence, an SUV driver rolling down Van Ness Avenue early this morning struck and injured a man in his 50s at a crosswalk in front of City
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Not Looking' Not Looking - watch more funny videos Oh yes. Please take in this marvelous parody of Looking, recast in L.A. with the help of funny man Drew Droege, and actors Jason Looney,
SF News Video: Naked Activist Violently Wrestled To Ground By SFPD At Nude-In [NSFW] Well, this is ridiculous: At the aforementioned nude-in on Saturday in the Castro's Jane Warner Plaza, marking the one-year anniversary of San Francisco's ban on public nudity, several arrests were made, and in
