misc Our Old Friend Zennie: Calvin Klein Display Racist? Our old trekkie pal Zennie Abraham is back on his City Brights blog questioning the display currently in the windows at the Calvin Klein store in the Westfield Centre. A reader wrote in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Green Day's "American Idiot" Musical at Berkeley Rep There probably hasn't been a true rock opera produced for the stage since "The Who's Tommy" -- "Rent" and "Spring Awakening" come from more pop traditions in our book and basically amount to
SF News Jaycee Lee Dugard Misses Her Mini Zoo Kidnapping victim Jaycee Lee Dugard and her two children were not the only residents of the tents and huts in the Garridos' backyard in Antioch: there were also five cats, a Labrador mix,
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser, 420-Style: "When You're Low" Ever wonder what musical theater people do when they move to L.A. to make it big? They smoke/eat a lot of pot and make YouTube videos containing big production numbers about
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wednesday Wine Tasting: Loxton Cellars Just north of the center of Glen Ellen is an unassuming tasting room and winemaking facility, Loxton Wines. It's a large metal shed, essentially, and the place is owned and operated by Australian
SF News SF Fertility Clinic Sued Over Destroyed Embryos Katie Ashcero and her husband Rob are suing doctors at Laurel Fertility Care in San Francisco after the clinic botched an in-vitro fertilization procedure and then proceeded to destroy seven of the couples'
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Noël Coward's "Brief Encounter" at ACT Today's cleanser comes to us via the American Conservatory Theater which has brought to town an acclaimed British production of Noël Coward's "Brief Encounter" directed by Emma Rice, which opened on Friday. We'll
misc The Late Jim Carroll, Nico and a Pile of Cocaine in SF, ca. 1978 Rounding out the Summer of Death (TM), and in addition to yesterday's loss of Patrick Swayze, we shouldn't neglect to mention the death of punk musician, poet and Basketball Diaries scribe Jim Carroll
SF News Mehserle Wants Change of Venue, Other BART Officers Back at Work 80% of black residents surveyed and 33% of white residents already believe Johannes Mehserle is guilty in the case of the New Year's shooting death of Oscar Grant, therefore his attorney Michael Rains
Arts & Entertainment Photos from Opera in the Park Sunday's annual Opera in the Park gathering was well attended by opera lovers both committed and occasional, despite the iffy weather. Whatever some may say about opera being a dying art form, people
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts The week kicks off with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White playing several just-announced all acoustic sets at Yoshi's Oakland. Then on Thursday, jangly French pop band Phoenix is at The Warfield,
SF News Photos from Lightning Strike Some photos from the lightning strikes this morning that took out transformers at Octavia & Grove and at Broderick and Sacramento, as well as the aftermath. And commenter Zac points us to a
SF News Power Exchange Moves Into Crash Club on Mason, Neighborhood Pissed Hold the phone! The infamous Power Exchange, after closing their Otis Street location and getting chased off of Gough Street with pitchforks, has moved into the Crash Club space at 34 Mason without
SF News Things That Go Boom Excuse us if we're a little groggy -- but yeah, how about that thunder this morning! Turns out there was at least one lightning strike (that enormous boom everyone near downtown heard around
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Grape Drink from Blackbird In opening a new bar in the space of the former Expansion (and, briefly, The Metro, 2124 Market Street), owner Shawn Vergara wanted to create an unpretentious neighborhood hangout that nonetheless served good
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dog Playing Pool Object if you must. Call us pandering or lame, but by god it's been at least several days since we posted something adorable-pet-related, and this dog shows some real talent. Clearly higher up
SF News Oldest Lady in the World Dies Gertrude Baines, the 115-year-old woman believed to be the oldest living human being, died this morning in her sleep, likely of a heart attack. Ms. Baines, who was born during the first Cleveland
SF News <i>Trauma</i>, the San Francisco <i>ER</i>, Already Being Panned By Critics San Francisco -- being like that pretty girl who sits by herself in the lunchroom and doesn't get a ton of attention outside her AP classes -- gets excited when she's given a
SF News Market Street to Be Closed to *Most* Vehicle Traffic Starting Sept. 29 Remember that whole idea about shutting part of Market Street to vehicle traffic, kind of like what they've done with sections of Broadway in New York City? Well, it's coming to pass in
SF News Former Pot Club Owner Sentenced to Six Months Of Sitting Home and Getting Stoned Former SF pot club owner Kenneth Hayes (pictured here in 1999), whose Sixth Street dispensary, the Harm Reduction Center, was raided by federal agents in 2002, was sentenced to six months of home
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wednesday Wine Tasting: Hess Collection After admitting our preference for the Sonoma side of things, we'll give a little attention today to Napa, where both a winery and a world-class art gallery sit atop Mount Vedeer at the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Preservationists Still Trying to Save Tonga Room Writing in the Chron, John King examines the current state of the Tonga Room preservation debate, in which preservation architect Chris VerPlanck is preparing a nomination package for saving the Fairmont hotel's pseudo-Polynesian
SF News Bike Messengers a Dying Breed? Now that you can send a million-page document or a full architectural drawing set (well, not quite) via YouSendIt or similar, it seems the bike messenger biz is in steady decline. Maybe it's
SF News Live Re-Posting of Apple Launch Event Liveblogging Five months after a liver transplant, Steve Jobs is alive and on stage at Apple's "It's only rock and roll" event this morning. The focus is on music, and the release of iTunes
SF News Obama to School Kids: "Be Careful What You Post on Facebook" In that *super controversial* address to school children that had conservatives nationwide saying he would turn our kids into an army of health-care-reform-endorsing zombies, President Barack Obama today advised kids to "be careful
