SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Spencer To Relocate In The Mission After May Fire The big food news of last week, besides the opening of The Cavalier and SF Chefs, is that much loved, 11-year-old French bistro Chez Spencer is going to reopen in a new location,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mumford & Sons 'Hopeless Wanderer,' Starring Jason Bateman and Ed Helms Earnest British folkster-rockers Mumford & Sons decided to do a little self-mockery in their latest video for the song "Hopeless Wanderer." Rather than perform in the video themselves, they enlisted funny men Jason
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gays To Dump Russian Vodka Down The Sewer At City Hall Tuesday The controversial boycott of Russian vodka, in response to recent civil rights violations by the Putin regime and reports of violent treatment of LGBT Russians, comes to San Francisco City Hall on Tuesday
SF News BART Strike Averted This Week; Governor Brown Takes Charge Late Sunday evening, BART management asked Governor Jerry Brown to step in to stop a strike from happening by its employee unions. He did, and the unions are pissed. Brown appointed a three-person
Arts & Entertainment Video: James Baldwin In The Bayview, ca. 1963 We just came across this film, recently remastered and digitized, which was shot as part of a public television series called "Take This Hammer" for KQED back in 1963, exploring race relations and
Arts & Entertainment Zynga Is Pissed About Bang With Friends The latest invention catering to Generation Slut, Bang With Friends, is now the subject of a lawsuit from Zynga. The company claims its trademark on the "With Friends" thing has been infringed upon,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Fallon Does 'Blurred Lines' With Robin Thicke, The Roots, Children's Instruments Last week we had these amusing riffs on Robin Thicke's ubiquitous summer hit "Blurred Lines," and this week we have Jimmy Fallon joining Thicke on a rendition, featuring The Roots, with everyone playing
Arts & Entertainment Details Emerge About The Costuming Of Sean Parker's 364 Wedding Guests It's a slow news Friday, and thus we remain obsessed with Sean Parker's ridiculous, over-the-top, Lord of the Rings-themed wedding in the woods in Big Sur, which happened on June 1 but the
SF News Obama Nominates San Francisco Lawyer To 9th Circuit San Francisco lawyer Michelle Friedland is one of three people whom President Obama just nominated to fill vacancies on the Ninth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals. Friedland is a Berkeley native and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Wolverine' By Woody Allen Behold the spoof of today from Official Comedy. It's a pretty funny parody, we have to say, using the tropes of Woody Allen's late 70s work (conversations on the street, in the park,
Arts & Entertainment 'GQ' Profiles Lower Haight Record Store Icon Dick Vivian If you haven't been to Rooky Ricardo's Records (448 Haight Street), that's a shame. It is one of the retail gems of the city, and an expertly curated flea market of mid-century music
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Teenage Girls Crying, Puking Over One Direction's Mall Appearance Teen boy band One Direction played Oakland's Oracle Arena last night, and by all accounts they were OMG so awesome and Harry's hair looked amazing and every tween and teenage girl in the
Arts & Entertainment Breakup Leads To Craigslist Mattress Gold In San Francisco If you don't know how many budding, under-appreciated writers there are out there in the world, simply turn to Craigslist on any given day, and you might stumble on a few gems like
SF News BART 72-Hour Strike Notice Could Come Today BART's unions have indicated that they could announce a 72-hour strike warning today if talks with BART negotiators don't markedly improve this afternoon. The unions also have a rally and march planned in
Arts & Entertainment 17 Signs You're Too Old For Music Festivals It's music festival season right now all over the country, and all you pros out there are probably debating how excited you are to go to, like, every day of Lollapalooza/Outside Lands/
SF News Sup. Katy Tang Not a Fan of Naughty Massage Parlors Supervisor Katy Tang, who succeeded Carmen Chu to head up District 4 in February by mayoral appointment, proposed some tougher legislation today to crack down on brothels/handjob parlors fronting as massage parlors
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week's Internet Star: Crazy Rhubarb Lady (Note: It looks like there's a battle to pull the video down, and copies of it that have spread everywhere. We'll do our best to keep up.) Sure to make millions of appearances
Arts & Entertainment 2013 Treasure Island Music Fest Lineup Announced Today we get the full lineup for this year's Treasure Island Music Festival, the cozy, low-stress event with just two stages that's happening October 19 and 20. Headliners this year are Atoms for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Cavalier Opens Friday At the Hotel Zetta The much anticipated spinoff off Park Tavern and Marlowe, The Cavalier (360 Jessie Street), has set an opening date for Friday, August 2. The British-inspired brasserie at the newly launched Hotel Zetta (5th
SF News Facebook Stock Climbs Back Up to Its IPO Price Well, listen up now, all ye who delighted in the tumbling share price of Facebook stock after it hit the open market in May 2012 at $38 per share: It took a little
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Just Text Me' This brilliant new song and video from Keisha (a.k.a. YouTuber soundlyawake a.k.a. New Jersey-based comedian Nicola Foti) reflects everything we've been trying to teach our friends for the last
SF News Airline Employee Accused Of Stealing Luggage During Post-Asiana Chaos A United Airlines customer service rep at SFO and his wife are accused of a scheme to steal the luggage of passengers whose flights were diverted following the July 6 crash of Asiana
Arts & Entertainment John McAfee Biopic In The Works A script following the antics of eccentric millionaire John McAfee, who may or may not have been doing some illicit substances while holed up in Central America and who may or may not
SF News Bradley Manning Verdict Arrives [Updated] The verdict in the court-martial of former Army intelligence analyst Pfc. Bradley Manning was expected today from the military judge hearing the case at Fort Meade, Maryland, and it all hinges on whether
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Happy Birthday, Tim Gunn! Today, designers, is Tim Gunn's 60th birthday. The universally loved mentor on all twelve seasons of Project Runway has become a celebrity and fashion icon in his own right, and is probably the
