Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A New Song From Boy George 80s megastar Boy George is doing a lot of looking back in the new video for his single "King of Everything," from his upcoming album This Is What I Do. He has a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eureka!, A New Coffee Shop, Adds To Castro Coffee Blitz There's not one, not two, but three new coffee concerns descending on the Castro in the coming months, and today's news about Eureka! (451 Castro Street) is the latest. It's going to serve
SF News Another SF Pride CEO Resigns The shakeup and protests over the Bradley/Chelsea Manning grand marshal thing this past spring has resulted, after much tension, in the forced resignation of SF Pride CEO Earl Plante. Plante only came
SF News Wildfire Growing on Mount Diablo; Brush Fire Breaks Out In Sonoma Hot, windy conditions helped fuel two Bay Area fires on Sunday. A wildfire erupted Sunday afternoon on the eastern side of Mount Diablo, burning brush and other vegetation and potentially threatening about 100
Arts & Entertainment Photos From Pioneering Activist Jose Sarria's Grand Drag Funeral at S.F.'s Grace Cathedral Not wanting to leave anything to chance, or to the event planning abilities of others, pioneering LGBT activist Jose Sarria laid out specific instructions for how his funeral would go down. His Imperial
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'The Widow Norton,' The Documentary Given that today is officially, by city proclamation, a day of remembrance for Jose Sarria, Empress I, the Widow Norton, we bring you this ten-minute clip of a 2006 documentary by Billy Clift
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yank Sing Profiling Asian/Non-Asian Customers Thanks to a Redditor who snapped a photo of the order screen at the counter of popular dim sum spot Yank Sing's Stevenson Street operation, we see that restaurant workers have big buttons
SF News Regarding The Cool LED Light System On The New Bay Bridge Span The Bay Lights have gotten plenty of attention on the western span of the Bay Bridge, but the same engineer who got those installed worked on the high-tech, permanent lighting system on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: A Semi-Sexual Clam Digging Excursion Brand new PBS food video series Original Fare premieres this week with this awesome video featuring clam digging and campside clam cooking in Bodega Bay. As they put it, "'Foraging' is too delicate
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina To Open Huge New Japanese Restaurant Downtown Big food news today from the the Michael Mina Group: Chef Mina is teaming up with Rohnert Park-based Ken Tominaga, chef-owner of Hana Japanese Restaurant, to open a new S.F. location of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Hunky Living Anatomy Model A group of Australian anatomy students were treated to a real life male anatomy model last month, care of handsome young Zac O'Brien and a team of artists. O'Brien sat for 18 hours
SF News Elaborate Drag Funeral Tomorrow For Pioneering Activist Jose Sarria Tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen, there will be a drag funeral on Nob Hill the likes of which have perhaps never been seen before in San Francisco, or anywhere. We're talking about the "state
SF News Hunter's Campfire Caused Rim Fire Well, it seems a lone man is responsible for the Rim Fire that has (so far) burned 370 square miles of Northern California forest, and it's all because of an illegal campfire. The
SF News Yachtenfreude No More? America's Cup May Not Be A Wholesale Disaster Just as we learn that Oracle Racing will be docked 2 races as a penalty for that cheating scandal, the Chron is now saying that the whole America's Cup will actually still be
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Gay Christian Mingle The Gay Christian Mingle from Cheyenne Jackson Perhaps you, like us, have been feeling harassed by all the Christian Mingle ads popping up on TV lately. (This may be because we've been watching
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Cocktail Bar, ABV, Coming to Tokyo GoGo Space On 16th Street Three local bar dudes who have worked and/or created bar programs at the city's most notable cocktail establishments are teaming up to open a new spot in the vacant Tokyo GoGo space
SF News Two HIV Infections At Kink.com Temporarily Halt Shooting Kink.com found itself at the center of an industry-wide HIV scare in recent weeks after a female performer tested positive during routine testing. Now a second, male performer who was dating her
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Every Young Man's Battle Pornography! It's the work of the Antichrist! Please enjoy these edits of some churchy teaching videos for teen boys about battling the temptation to watch porn by our friends at Deeper Understanding. "Put
SF News Rim Fire Now 75 Percent Contained There were dire warnings all last week that we could be looking at a two- or three-week containment process for the enormous Rim Fire to our east, and though that may be true
SF News Marin Man Sues Blue Man Group Over 'Injury To His Nervous System' You can't smoke a cigarette on stage in a Berkeley theater without notifying local authorities and posting many a warning placard, so it shouldn't come as a shock that we live in one
SF News Watch a Live Cam Of The New Bay Bridge Span Traffic is rolling smoothly so far on this first full day of operation for the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, and that's a good thing since every news outlet in the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Baby Orangutan Time! Meet Rickina. She's a wee little thing. She was rescued in Indonesia by International Animal Rescue after she was found with a wound on her head in the care of a man who
SF News Burglary Scam Involving Snake Ruse Hits Peninsula The same two suspects appear to be connected to at least three burglaries, one in Burlingame, one in San Mateo, and one in Fremont, in which homeowners were distracted by one suspect in
SF News Pelosi Never Wants To Be Speaker Again We don't know if she's just being coy, but House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi just gave an interview in which she says that she's not interested in being Speaker of the House again,
SF News Obama Administration Backs Off About State Marijuana Laws (Again) It's been a roller coaster ride for marijuana advocates when it comes to the first and second Obama Administrations, but today we are officially, basically, back to where we started in 2009 with
