Arts & Entertainment The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: San Francisco & The Movies At The Old Mint Exhibitions at the Old Mint are always tantalizing, offering just a taste of what could be, were the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society’s operating budget as grand as the building meant
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies with the Tenderloin Geographic Society: Hyde & Ellis Welcome to the latest chapter of Urbane Studies, in which our agents suss out the finer points of city lore by scrutinizing its individual street corners. This week: film-inspired apartment buildings, one-legged prostitutes
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies with the Tenderloin Geographic Society: Hyde & O'Farrell Welcome to a new chapter of Urbane Studies, in which our agents suss out the finer points of city lore by scrutinizing its individual street corners. This week: an examination of Tenderloin housing
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society: Larkin & O'Farrell Welcome to a new chapter of Urbane Studies, in which our agents suss out the finer points of city lore by scrutinizing its individual street corners. This week: Halal pizza, strip clubs, playgrounds
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society: Larkin & Ellis Welcome to a new chapter of Urbane Studies, in which our agents suss out the finer points of city lore by scrutinizing its individual street corners. This week: respectable noodles, women of ill
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society: Larkin & Eddy Welcome to a new chapter of Urbane Studies, in which our agents suss out the finer points of city lore by scrutinizing its individual street corners. Other publications might be aiming to cover
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society: Turk & Larkin Welcome to a new chapter of Urbane Studies, in which our agents suss out the finer points of city lore by scrutinizing its individual street corners. Other publications might be aiming to cover
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With Tenderloin Geographic Society: Larkin & Golden Gate Welcome to a new chapter of Urbane Studies, in which our agents suss out the finer points of city lore by scrutinizing its individual street corners. Streets and boulevards tell stories of their
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, in Oakland If your ride on the Orange & Black rollercoaster is making you ill, consider the bounty our friends to the east have on offer: the Oakland-centric film Moneyball premieres at The Paramount Theatre
SF News Apple Employing Secret Police Force? Because this story could only get stranger, it would now appear that Apple employees impersonated SFPD officials in order to gain access to a Bernal Heights home where, says Apple, a GPS device
Arts & Entertainment How's Burning Man Rapture Treating You? Whether cultural touchstone or long-belated Sophomore year, there's no denying that Burning Man arouses imagination and ire like little else. We're game for the conceit of spending hours creating that which will be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Corner Store Food Critic: Lay's Garden Tomato & Basil Chips Welcome to Corner Store Food Critic, where we select an item typically found at any number of corner stores in San Francisco, bring said item home in a carefully wrapped bag, and then
SF News Green Apple Wants to Be Your New Book Overlord Since coming under fire by cash-strapped state governments and independent retailers, Amazon.com has spent upward of $5.25 million in its fight to remain sales tax-free. If lawmakers and advocacy groups are
Arts & Entertainment Abe's Market Puts a Bird on Itself A new mural went up on Abe's Market at Page and Fillmore Streets and no one complained about it. You're slipping, San Francisco.
SF News SFist Blotter: Mission Shooting, SoMa Drug Robbery, Drunken Panhandle Assault Mission / Shooting: Police today increased efforts to learn more about the daylight killing of 18 year-old Kevin Hall, who was shot near the intersection of Alemany Boulevard and Crescent Avenue on August 25.
Arts & Entertainment Ye Olde Transit Porn This goes out to all of you who get clammy-palmed as soon as you see your favorite F-car rolling up to your stop. Oh Milano, you come on smooth with that designy orange
misc This Day in Pigeon History In our capacity as head of an agency that delivers pertinent pigeon dispatches, allow us to remind you that on this day in 1914, the last known passenger pigeon--named Martha, after George Washington’
Arts & Entertainment 67 Sueños Liven Up 9th Street On a particularly bleak stretch of 9th Street between Mission and Market Streets, the beige monolith of the SoMa Holiday Inn rises to the east, and a barren expanse leads up to what
SF News Over-Capacity Animal Shelters Ask You to "Work it Out" Maybe things just aren't working out between you and Sasha, your snappy little Cockadoodle, but let's just look the other way and pretend that everything's fine. SF Animal Care & Control claims that
SF News More Taxis to Hit the Streets Next Week (But...) Good news, bad news: As we reported previously, the streets should be filled with with the sight of more cheerful chariots ready to take you to or from your favorite bar as of
misc Rabbit, Rabbit Whether one nurses an extreme case of O.C.D. or is prone to walking around ladders and not under them (it’s just good sense), superstitions are mostly benign and rooted in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser There is everything good and nothing bad here. David Enos' "Cryoscape." Because you look like a guy who takes chances.
