SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Fleur de Pepin at Era Art Bar in Oakland Era Art Bar and Lounge is a truly beautiful and HUGE new cocktail venue that just opened a few weeks ago on Grand & Broadway in Oakland about four blocks from the Fox
SF News Oakland Day of Action Protesters Shut Down 980/880 Freeway You saw the photos of the Civic Center rally protesting education cuts, but across the Bay they weren't fucking around. A group of a few hundred protesters who had gathered at Frank Ogawa
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Vampire Weekend's New Vid (ALSO 2nd Show Added in April!) Attention all ye fans of Vampire Weekend's catchy, preppy, articulate musical stylings: They've added a second show at the Fox in Oakland on April 20th, following on a quick sellout of their April
SF News Bisexual Sex Worker Starchild Running for Supervisor Again It wouldn't be an election year in SF without perennial underdog candidate Starchild in the race. Starchild is among a gaggle of candidates vying for Bevan Defty's seat on the Board of Supervisors
SF News Mad Groper Terrorizes SJSU Females San Jose police are investigating three separate incidents of sexual battery on the San Jose State campus yesterday morning involving a Hispanic male who approached female students from behind and began groping them
misc Just Sayin': <em>SF Weekly</em> Is Looking Dangerously Thin We know it's a shit time for media in general, and we're all chasing after the same few advertising dollars, but the latest issue of SF Weekly, with the glossy purple cover and
SF News VIDEO: AC Transit Bus Smashed in By Amtrak Train An Amtrak passenger train collided with a stalled AC Transit bus near the Oakland Coliseum early this morning. Above is some raw video of the scene from ABC 7. The Appeal reports that
SF News Um, the Earth Sped Up Because of That Quake, Guys File under news that freaks us out: The enormous Chilean earthquake, like all big earthquakes apparently, had a minute affect on the speed of Earth's rotation. Our days just got 1.26 millionths
SF News Fashionista Cat Burgler Steals $4,000 Raincoats and Such Oh, how we love stories like this. A cat burgler by the name of Pooja Ghandi has been terrorizing San Francisco's trendier boutiques and cleaning out the closets of wealthy ladies, stealing thousands
SF News Fifth Graders Share a Medical Marijuana Snack Clearly the abundance of pot-butter baked goods in the Bay Area has a trickle-down affect, especially when the baked goods in question are so colorful and enticing: A fifth grader at Stoneman Elementary
Arts & Entertainment Evening Palate Cleanser: Magnetic Fields' "Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin" If you're going to the Magnetic Fields' show tonight at the Herbst (it's sold out, but there'll probably be Noise-Pop-exhausted scalpers outside), you may not hear this song, but you can expect lead
SF News Bay Area Chileans Discuss Quake Relief Fundraising A couple dozen members of the local Chilean community met yesterday in Berkeley to discuss some upcoming fundraising efforts and how to contact loved ones back in the earthquake-ravaged country. The damage and
SF News Local Beaches Close Due to Tsunami Warning Following Chilean Quake You might have heard, if you turned on a media-broadcasting appliance today, about this little temblor down in Chile. 8.8. Holy shit, right? Well, concern for the Chilean people has moved quickly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Balsamic'tini at Joe DiMaggio's Tiffany Maleshefski over at The Examiner has been doing a charming series where she interviews local mixologists and prints one of their recipes. Last week she talked to Elmer Mejicanos, the Nicaraguan-born bartender
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>The Caucasian Chalk Circle</em> at A.C.T. What do you think of when you think of Bertolt Brecht? Dreary, austere, Marxist, unemotional theater built around fable-like premises. Maybe you've heard some of the Threepenny Opera with the score by Kurt
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NIMBYs Freak Out Over Crowds at Ike's Place We figure most of you have tried a sandwich at one of SF's latest sandwich meccas, Ike's Place (but OMG if you haven't you need to try, like at 11 a.m. on
SF News Drunk Protestors Invade UC Berkeley Building, Spill Out Into Streets In another nod to their Boomer parents, a gang of tuition-hike protesters at Berkeley turned their political act into a rowdy party last night, invading a building that's under renovation with spray-paint cans,
SF News Day Around the Bay The Mission National Bank on 16th Street loses its sign. [Mission Mission] Listen up, Austinist: Facebook is discussing opening a 200-person office in Austin. [Business Times] Fuck this: State Assemblyman Anthony Portantino has
SF News Suspect Arrested in South SF Home Invasion What's up with all the home invasions lately? A suspect by the name of Juan Carlos Vasquez was arrested in the Mission yesterday in connection with a five-hour (!) home invasion robbery in South
SF News Those Kooky Pants on Norway's Curling Team? They're From the Bay Area. Let's hear it for curling, huh? Every four years the world once again remembers, and simultaneously mocks and watches in awe as teams of men slide enormous rocks down the ice and frantically
SF News Day Around the Bay Sean Lennon, following a great concert with mom Yoko Ono last night, talks to KQED's Forum. [KQED] Rec & Parks has now hired a PR firm to deal with all your griping about
SF News Newsom Says We've Reached Halfway Mark On Homelessness For the first time in 30 years, says Gavin, the chronically homeless population has decreased for the first time. Over 1,600 units of permanent housing for the chronically homeless have been created
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink House of Shields Is Saved! ...Well, almost. Chef Dennis Leary (Canteen, The Sentinel) is in talks to take over the beloved, century-old, downtown watering hole, The House of Shields, and he plans to do little to the space
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Toast to Don the Beachcomber's Bday In addition to that bunny boil, you may want to consider a little celebration happening at Smuggler's Cove tonight in honor of Don the Beachcomber's birthday. Don's pioneering Tiki chain once had an
SF News $70M in Stimulus Funds Will NOT Be Going to BART's OAK Connector You'll recall how BART was recently under threat of effing themselves out of that $70M in federal stimulus funds if they didn't come up with a better report regarding potential discrimination in their
