Arts & Entertainment Phish Fans Petition Band To Play One Last Concert At Candlestick To 'Honor' Seattle Seahawks Phish fans (you may know some... I do) have been abuzz with the news that the band repeatedly encouraged the Seattle Seahawks and their fans to adopt their song "Wilson" as a chant
SF News Familiar Neighborhood Homeless Man Mourned In Castro A familiar face on the streets of the Castro over the years has died. His name was Barry LeBlanc, and you may know him as the gray-bearded guy who would often pull up
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Reviews Very Mixed; But One Writer At 'Esquire' Gets It All Wrong The reviews are in, and HBO's new, indie-film-paced dramedy about contemporary gaydom, Looking, has been declared both a quiet triumph and a bore. Among the adjectives frequently employed on both sides of the
SF News Protesters Blockade Single Google Employee's Commute In Berkeley In a further muddying of the anti-gentrification, anti-eviction message surrounding local blockades of corporate shuttles, a group of protesters yesterday descended on the Berkeley home of a single Google X developer, and "chose
SF News First BART Cop Ever Killed In Line Of Duty Shot Tuesday In Friendly Fire Incident A BART police sergeant was shot and killed by a fellow officer Tuesday during a routine search of a suspect's apartment in Dublin. The incident marked the first time ever that a BART
Arts & Entertainment Here Are Some Historic Photos Of SoMa, Before Yerba Buena Existed Photographer Janet Delaney moved into SoMa as a student at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1978. At the time, the place she found at 62 Langton was some of the cheapest rent
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mama's Expands Their Brunch Empire In North Beach Ever-popular breakfast and brunch spot Mama's (one of SFist's top ten) is finally going to expand beyond their cozy 35-seat establishment in North Beach with a second location not that far away, at
SF News Driver Of Stolen SUV Leads CHP On Chase In Oakland, Gets Shot And Killed A car chase through the streets of East Oakland early Tuesday morning ended with the armed car thief getting shot and killed by CHP officers. It's unclear if the man posed a threat
SF News Ross Ulbricht, Accused Silk Road Founder, Was An Eagle Scout And Avowed Libertarian The New York Times has just done the most in-depth piece we've seen so far about the case against Ross Ulbricht, the man accused of being the founder of illegal drug-trade site The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Some Fresh Guacamole Delivered For The Super Bowl, If You Still Care NOT THAT IT MATTERS, but if you for some reason still have an interest in watching the Super Bowl and you haven't canceled your Super Bowl party, Rosa Mexicano would like to sell
Arts & Entertainment Armistead Maupin Thinks We Should All Ease Off On The Techies In a new interview, novelist and chronicler of the San Francisco we all think was way cooler than it is now, Armistead Maupin, gives some choice quotes about how lame it is to
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Episode One: On 'Becoming One Of Those Gays...' As soon as we all figured out what was happening in the opening moments of Looking, I suspect that most San Francisco gay men between the ages of 20 and 50 quietly thought
SF News Two People Shot Sunday Near Turk And Taylor On Sunday night, about two hours after the Niners' crushing loss in Seattle, two people were shot and injured on Turk Street between Market and Taylor. Those familiar with this colorful block may
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Major Barbara' at A.C.T. "Funny" is the last adjective that you might expect would apply to a philosophical play from 1905 that centers on a major in the Salvation Army and her estranged, munitions manufacturer father. But
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Bialys At Alta CA What's a bialy? You must not be from New York or L.A. A bialy is an Eastern European yeasted bread product, akin to but not quite like a bagel, that has an
SF News Teens In Audrie Pott Sexual Assault Case Received Really Light Sentences The three unidentified teen boys involved in the September 2012 rape of 15-year-old Audrie Pott, who later took her own life, admitted their guilt in the case and received sentences of 30 to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Really Drunk Russian Dude Falls Asleep Bent Over Backwards Wow. Just. Yeah. This Russian guy pounded so much vodka that he disappeared to the toilet for a while and when his friends went to check on him. Well, just watch. Yeesh. That's
SF News Oops: Apple Forced To Refund Purchases Made By Kids For Second Time In a first-of-its-kind settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, Apple. Inc. has agreed to pay out $32.5 million in refunds to parents who say they were not properly informed that their children
SF News Three Shot at Fillmore And McAllister Three people were shot and wounded near the corner of Fillmore and McAllister Streets Wednesday evening around 7 p.m. The SFPD is currently seeking suspects. As Bay City News reports, two were
Arts & Entertainment Dispatches From Last Night's 'Looking' Premiere At The Castro Theater I wasn't around for HBO's big premiere event for the new show Looking at the Castro Theatre last night, and it's totally because I want to have the experience of watching the show
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Weird New Sexual Equinox Ads Do you go to Equinox gym? Does this ad have anything to do with you? I doubt it! It's their new campaign, shot by photographer Terry Richardson Robert Wyatt, which is meant to
SF News Not Guilty Pleas In 2011 Fatal SOMA Nightclub Beating The case of a medical student who was severely beaten and killed at Temple Nightclub (540 Howard Street) three years ago is finally nearing some possible resolution with two arrests in the last
SF News State Senate Committee Kills Proposed BART Strike Ban The on-again off-again nightmare of last year's BART strikes and BART strike threats have come to an end as the final and largest union gave their sign-off on the contract this week. Also
SF News Twitter: Most Powerful Social Medium Ever, Or Endless Stream Of Drivel? Discuss. In the wake of Sunday's Twitter dust-up involving Woody Allen and comments that Mia Farrow and their son Ronan made regarding Allen's alleged pedophiliac tendencies, it's gotten people talking (again) about how powerful
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Chinese Food Has Its Own Beer Now Danish brewer Mikkel Borg Bjergsø — who has a cult following among American beer geeks for his various small-production beer experiments and who opened his first American outpost, Mikkeller Bar, in San Francisco last
