SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A New Bar With Hard French Roots, Virgil's Sea Room, Coming To the Mission Breaking news today on the Mission booze scene: Hard French DJ and Harvey Milk Club prez Tom Temprano announces that he's opening a new bar next door to El Rio called Virgil's Sea
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Cafe Arrives In Western SOMA: Gaslamp The burgeoning area of western SOMA, which until recently was a wasteland of industrial spaces, nightclubs, Costco, and a few offices with bits of housing scattered around, is coming up in the world.
SF News College Basketball Star Indicted For Murder Of Rapper Lil Phat SF State basketball player Decensae White, who was a standout player this season especially for one well publicized half-court shot, was arrested a month ago and extradited on May 13 to Georgia to
SF News Bike Free-For-All On BART Starting July 1 Hallelujah, say cyclists and all those whose BART commutes leave them not too conveniently close to home when they step off the train. Starting July 1, BART will finally allow bikes on all
SF News SF Pride Agrees to Hold Public Forum on Bradley Manning Debacle Following on a strongly worded letter from Supervisor David Campos, the SF Pride organizing committee has relented at decided to hold a public forum at which to discuss the decision not to allow
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dozens Of Restaurants Settle On Healthy S.F. Surcharge Issue In case you haven't been keeping up, the local restaurant world has been embroiled in a bit of a legal mess over the last year at the hands of City Attorney Dennis Herrera.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: 'Black Watch' At The Armory We gave you a review last week of the new production by A.C.T. and the National Theater of Scotland, Black Watch, happening at the newly christened Armory Community Center. It's a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Real Lesbians Watching Fake Lesbian Porn YouTube professional Davey Wavey has been on a roll lately with his interview montages, namely his wonderful video of gay senior citizens talking about gay sex, and his earlier masterwork of gay men
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Menus: Barbacco's Regional Italian and Bluestem's Regional American A pair of downtown restaurants are offering special menus and menu items this spring and summer, each focusing on specific regional cuisines. First off, to supplement what is already a broad selection of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia' There are too few contemporary plays that are instant classics, but Tom Stoppard's 20-year-old masterwork Arcadia is one of them. It's dense with language yet buoyant in style, speaking to the present as
SF News Muni Meltdown Hobbles Commute This Morning, Last Night Another grand meltdown in a long tradition of grand meltdowns struck Muni's N-Judah and J-Church lines during the evening commute Wednesday, and problems persist system-wide as of this morning, causing many in this
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Disney Vacation, On Acid Another gem from our new favorite YouTube remixers, Deeper Understanding. Here's a look at a Disney Vacation Club promo, featuring an all too cheery and wholesome spokesmodel, and an endorsement from the Lube
SF News Second Bank Robbery In A Month Hits The Sunset On April 19, a Wells Fargo in the Inner Sunset, on Irving between 8th and 9th Avenues, was robbed by three masked, armed men. They did the usual thing of making everyone get
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Tonight: Academy of Art's Spring Show The scrappy kids at the Academy of Art are putting their semester's work on display starting tonight at the Palace of Fine Arts for the 2013 Spring Show. There's an opening reception tonight
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Reopening Delayed Again; Opening Night Starts At $1,000 A Plate Local foodinistas have been eagerly awaiting the rebirth of Chez Panisse from the ashes of the small but destructive electrical fire the restaurant suffered on March 8. It was initially announced that the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The San Francisco Album Project On Sunday, while most of you were either recovering from or still reveling in Bay to Breakers, a gang of drag queens and others were performing the inaugural event in an ongoing series
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Supes To Ease Limits On Beer And Wine Sales In Mission You may recall back in March how we learned of Supervisor David Campos's push to loosen Planning guidelines and the 17-year-old moratorium on certain types of liquor licenses in the Mission. One reason
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nevius Chimes In On Bacon Bacon Controversy He's a little late to this party, but C.W. Nevius weighs in on the Bacon Bacon controversy, following SNL acknowledging that it is, in fact, quite funny. Nevius, ever quick to point
SF News Man Found In Suspicious Marina Hotel Death ID'd The man who was found dead inside a room at the Francisco Bay Inn on Lombard Street last Thursday morning has been identified as 45-year-old Jaisingh Pawar. Police are saying little else about
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Destiny's Child's 'Bug-a-Boo' By I.VII.I.IX. Here's a pretty chill remix of the 1999 Destiny's Child hit, "Bug-a-Boo" by Oakland-based I.VII.I.IX. (pronounced one seven one nine). For those not in the know, it's a song about
SF News Haight: Man Punched, Kicked For Saying He Dislikes Marijuana We know you're supposed to be pro-marijuana just to be allowed to live in this town, but maybe a couple of pot dealers took things a little too far over the weekend. A
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This Tonight: Whole Goat Dinner At Boxing Room If all you ate was pizza and all you drank was Tecate all weekend, between the sunny Sunday and extra-sunny Bay to Breakers, you might be in the mood for something a little
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Black Watch' At The Armory Community Center A.C.T. recently took on the role of being a test case for use of the Armory's enormous Drill Court space. As we discussed earlier in the week, the theater company needed
SF News Highlights From This Week's SFPD Park Station Newsletter It's time once again to check in on Captain Greg Corrales and his cheeky roundup of the week's arrests and citations in and around the Upper Haight. First off, he picks out his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Janelle Monáe At Davies Symphony Hall It's not often that you get to see the symphony crowd, populated as it is by S.F. society types and mostly a bit long in the tooth, get on their feet and
