SF News Closing Date For San Francisco American Apparel Stores Unknown When news broke that long-struggling clothing manufacturer American Apparel had been sold, it was a safe assumption that their business would face big changes — changes that will shutter the LA-based company's 110 retail
SF News National Department Store Bloodbath Leads To Closure Of Another San Francisco Macy's After a holiday season that left major retail chains reeling with disappointment, department store giants Macy's, Sears, and Kmart have announced a massive wave of real estate sales, closures and shutdowns, including one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Personal Reasons' Close Dottie's True Blue Cafe Dottie's True Blue Cafe is known as much for its long lines as its epic brunches. But for at least the next week, they won't be offering either, as the Sixth Street joint
SF News Want To Visit Lombard's Crooked Stretch This Weekend? Then Take A Cab So, you have out-of-town guests, but they're too delicate for Fisherman's Wharf's Dungeon and too afraid of ghosts to go to Alcatraz. All they want to do it visit that crooked street they've
SF News San Mateo-Hayward Bridge Closed This Weekend From 10 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Monday, the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge will shutdown completely for maintenance work. Crews will install a new seismic joint and replace a 60-foot span of
SF News SFMOMA Neither Confirms Nor Denies Reports Of Three-Year Closure [Update] When the SFMOMA announced plans to expand last December, reporters rhapsodized over the renovation plans. One question went nearly unaddressed: though the Chron's John King noted in passing that the construction would require
SF News May Day: Demonstration Shuts Down 16th & Mission [Updated] The revolution will be Instagramed, as pictured here by Jen Ackrill, and nowhere else does that sentiment ring truer than in the heart of the city's Mission District. A May Day demonstration at
SF News Heading To Lake Tahoe? Take Alternate Route As I-80 Is Shutdown If you're heading to Lake Tahoe today beware that, as of this morning, the Yolo Causeway has been shutdown, casing a massive backup. Police have closed the stretch of I-80 as they search
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Heartbreaking Hamburger News: Spork, And Their Quirky Burgers, To Disappear Soon Spork, the Valencia Street establishment that has been elevating comfort food for five years now, has reached the end of their lease Ms. Tablehopper reports. Friday, December 23rd will be the restaurant's last
SF News Blue Collar Furious Over Occupy's Port Of Oakland Closure? It's no great shock that blue-collar workers falling outside the esteemed food service industry are as despised by the right as they are they left. They're poor. They lack iconic ¡todos somos! credibility.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hooters SF Closing Down In food and mammary news, the Hooters in Fishermen's Wharf will close its doors for good this month. They're slated to put away the boobage on December 21, the store manager explained to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Café Gratitude Announces NorCal Closures [Updated] Terces Engelhart, owner of Café Gratitude, just posted the following announcement on her Facebook page announcing the closure/sale of all Northern California Café Gratitudes locations. According to Englehart, some "aggressive lawsuits" from
SF News Occupy SF Protesters March in FiDi, Block Wells Fargo HQ [UPDATED] After meeting up with hotel workers at the Hyatt (employees who have been in a union battle years), Occupy SF protesters have marched towards Wells Fargo on Montgomery and California. The general sentiment
SF News Carlos Bar Closes Due to Sexless Cocktail Waitressing Scandal Carlos Bar, one of the few watering holes in the Mission geared towards Latinos, closed its doors on June 30. Its alcohol license was suspended by the Department of Alcohol Beverage Control. Why?
SF News What Went Down At Last Night's Eagle Tavern Rally So here's the deal: During last night's emergency meeting at The Eagle Tavern and estimated 250-300 people convened to mourn/fight the bar's impending closure. Former Supervisor Bevan Dufty, along with a gaggle
SF News The Eagle, Famous Gay SoMa Bar, Set To Close, 4/29 The Eagle -- 30-year-old SoMa gay bar noted worldwide for its Thursday Night Live concerts and spirited Beer Bust Sundays -- will shut operations down on Friday, 4/29. Although, according to a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro's Bagdad Cafe Closes One of the city's best drunk diners (i.e., late-night greasy spoons in which you can get cheap food while tipsy) closed shop last week. According to Paolo Lucchesi at Inside Scoop, "Bagdad
SF News Armed Man Threatens to Blow Up Bay Bridge, Doesn't Around 7:10am during this morning's commute, a heavyset man in a Black SUV called in to the KCBS traffic tipline to alert them to a potential traffic jam: his own vehicle he
SF News Dolores Park Works, Bevan Dufty Put Renovation Rumors to Rest Although Dolores Park will undergo a lengthy renovation process, a plan that's been in the works for quite some time, this hasn't stopped people from losing their collective feces over the park's estimated
SF News Photos: A Day Without A Bay Bridge After a cable rod snapped during last night's commute, the Bay Bridge closed down indefinitely. Here are some images of just how the closure is affecting San Francisco and the Bay Area today.
SF News Abuse of the Mid-Market Street Corridor To Continue Unabated by Chris Jones Today is the first day of the City's ambitious six week experiment to revive the Mid-Market Street corridor by removing eastbound automobile traffic from the City's main drag. City officials
SF News Behold the Empty Bay Bridge Spectacular, isn't it? Although work crews have hit some minor difficulties -- SFGate reports that "crews were having a difficult time setting free pins from the old structure, delaying their ability to slide
SF News Final Notice: Bay Bridge Closes at 8 p.m. As Labor Day Weekend creeps to a dramatic opener, getting over the Bay Bridge will come to a halt in, oh, less than six hours from now. In addition to completing the $6.
SF News Costly Bay Bridge Closure Starting Thursday at 8 p.m., the Bay Bridge will close down until Tuesday at 5 a.m. The cost? Well, according to KCBS, it's a lot "It's about $100,000 per day
SF News The Future of State Parks: Partnerships, Closures & Possibly Corporations California State Parks director Ruth Coleman said that the agency faces a total of about $39 million in cuts after the new budget, which directly states a $14.2 million cut, was signed