SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bye Bye, Barleycorn A campaign was started to save it, complete with petitions, a Great Pub Toast, and proposed legislation from Aaron Peskin. But it was all to no avail. In a city filled with mixed
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Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Gay Geeks Saturday Night Social: "Fucking faggots," you scream? Ah, correction: "fucking nerd faggots," is more like it. Queers (not just Marys) who like to "geek out on the arts or science,
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Dude, Dude, Dude, Check It Out....Dude Now we're just picking on the poor guy: in today's edition of the Examiner, the largest-font front page headline screams, "Pot club in Jew family's building is under review," going on to say,
Arts & Entertainment Beirut's Jason Poranski Jason Poranski (he’s in the red t-shirt) plays guitar, ukulele, and mandolin in Beirut and was kind enough to answer some questions for us about the band and tour. Why the name
SF News San Francisco Taxicabs vs. Limos This time the crankypants are concerned about limousines and towncars that illegally -- illegally? oh please -- pick up passengers at hotels, bars, clubs, or wherever to grab extra cash. Makes sense on
SF News Golf Dorks March In all the marches in of the cities in all the world, a march to City Hall is taking place today for one of the most noble causes in San Francisco to date.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox: Ultra-pepperminty "all-purpose" soap -- the one with the the loony, small-font and text-heavy label -- and its titular creator get the biopic treatment from Sara Lamm. Screenings tonight
SF News It's All Star Weekend The festivities surrounding the All Star Game, however, are a whole other matter. We're excited for the parties for which we are not invited, the FanFest and the Home Run Derby. Sadly, baseball's
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, let's say the San Jose Metro. Hillary Clinton is not doing very well fundraising in Silicon Valley. Eco-trendiness is getting kind of old. What exactly does it mean to be a
misc Easy Way to Do Good Tomorrow We just love this cute pic of a mail man loading letters and food. It's the perfect example of a nice canned food drive happening nationwide tomorrow. Some (or is it just us?
SF News NBA Basketball: The Western Conference Playoffs Revel in it Bay Area NBA fans: this year the Western Conference playoffs mean something, because for the first time in 13 years, the hometown Warriors are part of the party. So let's
Arts & Entertainment Closing Time, Time For You to Go Out, Go Out Into the World Anyways, die to recent troubles at two clubs, the Entertainment Commission is looking at possible solutions to the problems. One of them is to have better and more educated owners. The other? Later
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Elka Karl of Kitchen Sink Magazine Before Kitchen Sink's proverbial well runs dry, they will be producing one last issue. But they need your help to do it! Stop on by Edinburgh Castle this Saturday night for their fundraiser,
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Happy Hour And hey, check this out! Looking for a light buzz before heading out for the evening's musical guests? Diesel and Fader Magazine++ are sponsoring a three-hour happy hour tonight, tomorrow, and Friday night
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Ask Me, Don't Tell Me Boing Boing tips us off to this awesome short 1961 film about juvenile delinquency, and how gangs can help curb the trend towards teenage lawlessness. And by "gangs" we mean "clubs," as that's
misc Norman Yee On The Mend Turns out Norman Yee is an avid salsa dancer, and was crossing Bryant and 4th that Tuesday with the light in his favor to get to a local club (maybe the Glas Kat?
SF News Gary Delagnes In The News Man, the San Francisco Police Officers' Association president Gary Delagnes is all over the news these days! We're setting up a Google News Alert for Delagnes even as we speak! --On Heather Fong's
Arts & Entertainment And We Can See Those Fighter Planes Of course, this means there'll be the attendant complaints about noise and from the leftier side of the political spectrum, cries of glorification of the military and this is San Francisco and wasted
SF News Ask Chris A Question! Do you have a burning question you'd like to ask Chris Daly? Post it in the comments! We can't promise you that he'll answer it or anything, but hey -- you never know,
SF News North Beach is Italian For Even Less Fun After cracking down on the North Beach Street Festival and the Jazz Fest, it looks like the Powers that Be are all set to crack down on North Beach itself. At issue is
misc Keep Your Hands to Yourself Testifying for the proposed rules was members of the Commission on the Status of Women, currently residing in the top five of our "Things We'll Slash Out of the Budget for Being a
SF News Wharf Rat While the owner, Kevin Reed, promises everything will be on the up-and-up and that he's learned his lessons from his previous club, neighbors aren't so sure. Among other things, there's the whole fact
misc Unskinny Bopping No Longer Allowed -Smoke (tobacco, that is). -Put left-over food in a Styrofoam container -Go shopping with plastic bags -Stop somebody from taking a dump on the street And now we can add another thing to
