SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Bars: Dogpatch Saloon, Driftwood, And Mikkeller All Open Three new bars debuted in the last week. First up there's the highbrow beer-focused Mikkeller Bar (34 Mason Street), in the former Crash Club space at Mason and Market. It's a co-production of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Blurred Lines,' Reimagined Everyone and their redheaded stepsister has covered "Get Lucky" at this point, or at least used it as a soundtrack for a video. And now another summer jam, Robin Thicke's wildly popular "Blurred
SF News Another America's Cup Problem: Lawsuit From Disqualified African-American Team Presenting yet another (probably minor) hurdle for Larry Ellison's moment of yachting glory, a lawsuit has bubbled up for the second or third time from a North Carolina-based sailing team that sought to
SF News Villain Cyclist In Castro Crosswalk Death Pleads Guilty, Will Not Get Jail Time Chris Bucchere, the guy who brazenly "plowed through" a crowded crosswalk at Castro and Market one morning last year and ended up killing a 71-year-old man in the process, has plead guilty to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: French Dudes In Heels Yanis Marshall is a 22-year-old dancer and choreographer who specializes in teaching men and women to dance in high heels. Here he is, with a couple of his friends, showing off some routines
SF News Fireman Who Injured Motorcyclist While Allegedly Driving Drunk May Be Fired 20-year SFFD veteran Michael Quinn may be getting terminated as a result of a June 29 accident in which he was suspected of drinking and driving, and a motorcyclist was severely injured. Quinn
SF News Four Seniors Hurt When Tourist Bus Hits Power Lines On Friday, an open-air, double-decker tour bus in the Richmond District struck some low-hanging power lines and caused serious injuries to four tourists in their 60s. One of the victims is said to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fire Set By Vandals Closes Popular Oakland Spot Hawker Fare [Update] A fire set by possibly anarchist vandals in trash cans outside of Oakland's Hawker Fare has led to the indefinite closure of the restaurant. As the Inside Scoop reports, owner James Syhabout (who
SF News Disgraced SFPD Lab Tech Deborah Madden Avoids Jail Former SFPD crime lab technician Deborah Madden, who plead guilty in March to misdemeanor cocaine possession after two federal trials on greater charges ended with hung juries, has skirted jail time and was
SF News New Detail In Limo Fire: Driver Was Distracted On Phone That May 5 limousine fire on the San Mateo Bridge that killed five women remains a tragic mystery to many. How did the driver not pull over and immediately get the doors open?
SF News Muni Caves to Corporate Shuttle Bus Pressure In an effort to appear that they have any control whatsoever over the growing swarm of corporate shuttle buses clogging neighborhood streets and bogarting their bus stops, the SFMTA has proposed a new
SF News Prop 8 Folk File New Suit On Behalf Of San Diego Clerk Refusing to accept that courts or the attorney general have any say in the matter or that the momentum of support for gay marriage is going to win out in the end over
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Post:Ballet at YBCA You've probably heard that famous chestnut, "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." Well, experimental dance company Post:Ballet, now finishing up a residency at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SF News Shirtless Man Steals AC Transit Bus, Drives It 100 Miles Out Of Town A shirtless (maybe high?) gentleman hopped aboard an empty AC Transit bus this morning at the temporary Transbay Terminal in San Francisco and took it for a joyride all the way to Escalon,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Will Sasso, Master of Vine Comedian Will Sasso has taken to the medium of Vine like a dog to cat poop. And his vines are full of fart jokes, Hulk Hogan, DeNiro impressions, and lemons that pop out
SF News BottleRock Organizers Accused Of Writing Bad Checks If all the post-show bad press and obvious mismanagement were not enough for the fledgling BottleRock music festival, now a couple of vendors say that organizers wrote them bad checks. As reported earlier,
SF News Four Seasons Residents Threaten Ballot Initiative Against Tall Buildings You may know this already, but we here at SFist like tall buildings. And we think that people who bitch about tall buildings are aesthetically-challenged, provincially-minded sticks in the mud who should, perhaps,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Huge New Bar And Arcade Opens By Union Square We've been curious what was going on in the second floor of the former Press Club building just above Union Square (across Powell from the Sir Francis Drake), and now this week we
SF News Weather Report: Actual Summer In July While the rest of the country swelters and dies in their heat waves, San Franciscans typically settle in for a wintry chill and foggy blanket each July. But thanks to global weirding, or
Arts & Entertainment And Now, A Quiet Moment With Some Wild Parrots The wild parrots of San Francisco aren't confined just to Telegraph Hill anymore, as featured in that 2003 documentary. There's a flock of them down in Brisbane now, and one around Alamo Square,
SF News West Nile Virus Is Here Again Not that we want to start a local-news-style panic, but everyone should be aware that West Nile Virus is back again and has now been found in dead animals in four Bay Area
SF News Slight Good News: Rents Not Rising So Fast This Year After San Francisco has been decrying the outrageous sums that landlords are now commanding for rental units over the past two years, things finally seem to be simmering down. According to new rental
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Brighter Than Gold' By The Cat Empire There are a ton of Aussies in San Francisco, and they all should be pleased to know that Melbourne-based band The Cat Empire is playing The Fillmore tonight. The genre-mixing group are on
SF News Unions Have Big Leverage If BART Strike Resumes BART workers are threatening an even longer strike if contract negotiations can't be settled by the early August extended deadline, and they've got a major piece of leverage in their back pocket, codified
SF News Missing Oakland Toddler Maybe Went Missing Weeks Earlier 21-month-old Daphne Viola-Webb had not been seen by any of her closest relatives except, presumably, her father for two weeks prior to the day her father said she was abducted from a store
