Arts & Entertainment Photos: Tour To the Top of Oakland's Tribune Tower One of Northern California's most glorious buildings is the Tribune Tower in Oakland, which has been through many hands in the past century and is now undergoing a slow-but-swanky renovation. As part of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Few Photos From The Fancy Food Show It's that time of year, when the foodie industry fills the aisles at Moscone Center for the Fancy Food Show. Hot trends include an array of jerkies for Paleo dieters, previously obscure grains
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Behind the Scenes at the SFO Museum It's the time of year when many of us are racing through SFO, either eager or reluctant to see those benighted family members who don't live here in paradise. One of the few
SF News Photos: A View From The New Bay Bridge After years of political battles, and then years more of construction, the new east span of the Bay Bridge will finally open early next week. Before the entire bridge closes to allow Caltrans
Arts & Entertainment Psst: Hyde Street Pier Is The Best Place To Watch America's Cup Thanks to a friend, we've discovered perhaps the best place to view the America's Cup sailing competition, and despite his fervent objections we hereby share it with you: the Hyde Street Pier. A
Arts & Entertainment Friday: 'Call Me Home' At Gallery Carte Blanche It only seems as if every storefront in the Mission is becoming a trendy restaurant as gentle waves of VC and IPO money continue to lap upon our shores. In fact a new
SF News It's Showtime: Go Vote After seemingly decades of campaigning, it all comes down to these last few hours. If you haven't yet sent in an absentee ballot or voted early at City Hall, get to your polling
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Sunday Streets In The Mission Can a San Francisco afternoon be any more perfect? Here's hoping you spent the day outside, maybe at this weekend's edition of Sunday Streets in the Mission along 24th Street and Valencia. There
Arts & Entertainment 1-2-3-4-5 Senses Working Overtime: Buddhist Science at the Exploratorium East meets West in a fascinating exhibit at the Exploratorium for just a few more days. "The World of Your Senses" delves into the surprising parallels in how traditional Buddhism and modern Western
Arts & Entertainment Norway Day Festival This Weekend Featured guests will include the brewmaster for Norwegian microbrew Nøgne-Ø (found at The Trappist and Mill Valley Aleworks) and Olympic curling silver medalist Christoffer Svae, the guy who got his team hooked on
SF News A Tree Grows In Noe: Friends of the Urban Forest It was Earth Day this weekend and Saturday's gorgeous weather meant spring smacked us all in the face. All over town folks fired up their hoes, rakes and hoses to start the year's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Cuckoo For Cocoa At San Francisco Chocolate Salon It's a forlorn time of year for chocolate lovers: that heart-shaped box from Valentine's Day has nothing but a dented caramel-raspberry-pistachio truffle left in it, while it's too early to break in to
Arts & Entertainment Modern Bronze Age: Robert Arneson's Self-Portraits Why bronze your baby shoes when you can bronze yourself, or at least sculpt yourself in that magical copper-tin alloy first melded more than six thousands years ago? Bay Area sculptor and clown
Arts & Entertainment Art and Science Collide at The Lab Saturday night was the showcase for Hypothesis: An Art/ Science Fair, hosted by The Lab. Presented in a classic science fair format, artists and scientists demonstrated their hypotheses, their experiments, and the final
Arts & Entertainment Taking It to the Streets: Neighborhood Festivals Global capitals were filled with street protests, but San Franciscans took advantage of the last of the warm weather for a big weekend of street fairs, including the Noe Valley Harvest Festival and
Arts & Entertainment Art by the Ocean at Sanchez Art Center While we have at least a few more days of real summer weather, it's a good time to head down the coast to catch some fantastic art in Pacifica. The Sanchez Art Center
Arts & Entertainment I am (Not) a Camera: Photo Exhibits The Haines Gallery is showing work by a wide range of alt-photographers, including images by Abelardo Morell, who converts full-sized rooms into camera obscuras, photograms by Shi Guorui and Wendy Small, pinhole pictures
Arts & Entertainment 140 New Montgomery: Inside an Art Deco Masterpiece One of San Francisco's cultural gems is John King, the San Francisco Chronicle's Pulitzer-finalist urban design critic. He just published a book, Cityscapes: San Francisco and Its Buildings, that showcases fifty buildings representing
Arts & Entertainment Modern Vermeers: Photo Exhibit A particular highlight of this week's First Thursday open galleries at 49 Geary (and elsewhere around town) is a show of exquisite, large-scale color photo portraits by Richard Learoyd at the Fraenkel Gallery.
Arts & Entertainment Meet the Artists: Mission Open Studios It's a gorgeous Spring weekend so get out there and visit the Mission Open Studios, continuing through Sunday. Admire some art, stroll around the Mission in the sun (here's a helpful map of
SF News To the Barricades! Labor Protest on Second Street They haven't started any "Hey hey, Ho ho" chants yet, but a group of protesters from the News Media Guild is staging a lunchtime protest today in front of the Associated Press offices
SF News Tick Tock, It's Tax Time The ideas of April approacheth, which means it's time to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, otherwise known as filing your taxes. This year the ides are even pushed back three days, giving
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week in Booze: Whiskies of the World Expo Is the cold, wet weather getting you down? Think a dram or two of restorative whiskey might warm you up? Well a couple of booze-oriented events this week might do the trick. Saturday
Arts & Entertainment That's Life in the Big City: Photo Exhibit If you thought Muni was crowded, check out superstar photographer (and UC Berkeley alum) Michael Wolf's latest exhibition Metropolis, opening Thursday night at the Robert Koch Gallery. His street pictures of Paris are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fancy Food Frenzy At Moscone Center Lentils for breakfast? Boozed up juice boxes for adults? Jelly bean mosaics? A wicker basket filled with TEN GRAND of fresh black truffles? Various food TV celebrities left, right and center? Yup, it's
