Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: RuPaul In A Car With Chris Crocker RuPaul and World of Wonder have a new web series in which RuPaul, out of drag, drives people around LA in his Volvo and chats them up. In today's episode, he's driving onetime
Arts & Entertainment A Few Words About Jonathan Franzen, iPhone Gazing, The Death Of Books, And Hating On Technology The arguably great, inarguably astute Jonathan Franzen wrote an essay this past week that has taken even the literarily inclined a few days to get around to, as most good essays should. It's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Blueprint Taproom, A New Beer Spot, Now Open In SoMa Check it out, SoMa workers and Design District denizens: You've got a new after-work beer bar to check out. Blueprint Taproom just debuted in the space at 680 8th Street (near Brannan) that
SF News Marina Boat-Fuel Station Almost Burned Down On Sept. 11 The owner of a boat-fuel dock in the Marina says that an attempted arson at her business could have been tied to September 11. But it also might have been coincidental and just
Arts & Entertainment If George Lucas Doesn't Get To Build His Illustration Museum In the Presidio He's Taking It To Chicago [Updated] Beginning tomorrow, the Presidio Trust is going to be letting the public weigh in on whether billionaire George Lucas can build a museum to house his collection of illustrations and graphic art in
SF News New Zealand Still Closer To Clinching America's Cup, But U.S. Scores One It was a beautiful but windy day on the Bay yesterday, though not as windy as Saturday when Team New Zealand almost toppled their boat and the second race had to get called
SF News More Oakland Neighborhoods Hiring Private Security Firms To Reduce Crime If the cops don't show up, what's a worried neighborhood to do? As cash-strapped, crime-challenged cities like Detroit, L.A., Atlanta, and Oakland face continually dwindling budgets and smaller police forces, there's been
SF News Gardener Didn't Know He Struck Woman In Holly Park 57-year-old Thomas Burnoski, who's been employed by the San Francisco Rec and Parks Department since 2006, has been identified as the man responsible for the September 5 death of 35-year-old Christine Svanemyr, who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant From Traci Des Jardins Coming To The Presidio Top Chef Masters finalist, James Beard Award-winner, and well loved local chef Traci Des Jardins just won a bid with the Presidio Trust to open a new restaurant in one of the former
SF News MacArthur BART Transit Village Breaks Ground (Again) Next Week It's finally happening, Oaklanders. The long-awaited, two-decades-in-the-making MacArthur Transit Village, adjacent to the MacArthur BART station, is finally starting residential construction next week. The developer of the first, affordable phase of the construction
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Allegedly There Is Much Great Ice Cream In Walnut Creek As they are wont to do on their homepage, SFGate has spotlighted a fluff piece about a far-flung corner of the Bay Area, namely that shining bastion of suburban dystopia known as Walnut
SF News The S.F. Public Library Remains A Dangerous Place In case you doubted that the public library, in particular the Main Library at Civic Center, is an awful place with a clientele akin to the dreaded Walgreen's at 9th and Market, we
Arts & Entertainment Tall Building Alert: New 31-Story Tower Proposed For Howard And Embarcadero Today at the Planning Commission they'll be hearing all about 75 Howard, a new proposed residential tower that would join this beauty and this other beauty in the ever denser Transit Center District
SF News Twitter Announces IPO ... Via Twitter Twitter has formally submitted their paperwork today for that rumored, inevitable IPO. In a tweet posted just minutes ago, the company writes, "We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a
SF News Sean Sidi, Other Missing Men To Be Recognized At Vigil A few months back we brought you the news of 19-year-old Sean Sidi, missing since May 21 when he was last thought to be headed to Golden Gate Park. He remains missing, and
SF News Another Fire Burned Up 68 Homes In Shasta This Week You knew it was going to be a bad fire season after that gloriously dry winter. And, it is. There was another wildfire this week up in Shasta County that is currently at
SF News Mount Diablo Fire Now 90 Percent Contained; Obviously Caused By A Human [Updated] The good news is that the Morgan Fire over on Mount Diablo is pretty well under control as of today, and firefighters are saying they should have it all snuffed out by the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Freaky 'Dancing Queen' This thing is going around, and it's rather clever. It's either a man or a woman dressed as a Tim Burton-esque Queen of Hearts, with four doll dancer attached, doing an old-timey dance-puppetry
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hog's Apothecary, A Big New Beer Hall, Opens In Oakland Beer has been like the thing over in the East Bay in the last couple of years, with a veritable explosion of beer gardens and beer bars just in the last six months.
SF News Firehouse Robbed While Firemen Were Putting Out Mount Diablo Goddammit, people. This is just sad. A Walnut Creek fire station was burgled on Sunday while all the firemen were out fighting the Morgan Fire at Mount Diablo. It was a crime of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fog City (No Diner) Returns With Big Party September 19 As you may have noticed or heard, the 28-year-old Fog City Diner on the Embarcadero decided to close for a major revamp this past spring. Once upon a time it was a shiny,
SF News The Rim Fire Is Still Burning, Will Cost City $30 Million You may have wanted to forget about it as containment news last week sounded promising, but the massive Rim Fire over at Yosemite is still burning and smoldering, with about 20 percent of
Arts & Entertainment Watch All The 'American Horror Story' Season 3 Teasers Now It's been hard to concentrate on all the fantastically creepy teasers that have been rolling out this summer for the third season of American Horror Story. But now that the Halloween candy has
Arts & Entertainment You Ever Wanted To Be In 'Beach Blanket Babylon'? Now's Your Chance Get out your sheet music, all ye showpeople. It's audition time for S.F.'s ever so long-running, ever-changing, pop-culture- and political-referencing revue Beach Blanket Babylon, so now's your chance to become a
SF News Morgan Fire On Mount Diablo Now 45 Percent Contained Thankfully the wildfire burning on the back side of Mount Diablo appears to be somewhat under control as of this morning, with a total of 3,243 acres having been burned. It's now
