Arts & Entertainment 'SF Is a Drag' Organizers Issue Apology After Performers Say They Were Harassed The two-day, guerrilla drag extravaganza two weekends ago in San Francisco went off mostly without a hitch, though we're now hearing about a situation in which two performers were harangued by a man on the street who didn't appreciate their form of protest.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hapa Ramen Owners Say No One Was Fired, New Concept In The Works Here's a brief update on the Hapa Ramen upheaval story which rocked the local food world over the weekend. While chef Richie Nakano gave more of his side of the story yesterday to
SF News Activists Seeking Legal Action Against Racist Tour Guide This of story the ranting, Chinatown-hating former City Sightseeing tour guide, and the overall public outcry against her, may have almost run its course. Late last week we got to hear her speak
SF News Racist Chinatown Tour Guide Speaks! ABC 7 got an exclusive interview with the woman herself, the one and only racist ranting tour guide who really hates Chinatown, and who has many things about it she would like to
SF News Racist Ranting Tour Guide Possibly ID'd; David Chiu Demands Apology, Holds Rally [Updated] Since the video of the disgruntled tour guide shouting "f**k everything" about Chinatown started going around yesterday, SFist has seen a whole lot of comments both defending and castigating this unidentified woman.
SF News Mission Soccer Field Reservations Getting Nixed; Protest Still On This Morning Following the past week's uproar over the reservations-vs-pickup-game debate surrounding Mission Playground's soccer field, Rec and Park general manager Phil Ginsburg gave in last night and told members of the Latino Democratic Club
SF News BREAKING: Facebook Issues Mea Culpa To Drag Queens And Others Over 'Real Name' Policy [Updated] Three weeks after SFist broke the story about Facebook's "real-name" crackdown on drag queens and performers a story that made headlines literally everywhere, because the internet loves drag queens it appears that the
SF News Drag Queens, David Campos Meet With Facebook Over Real-Name Controversy [Updated] A group of San Francisco drag queens have arrived in Menlo Park and are currently sitting down with Facebook executives to discuss the controversy over forcing them to use their legal names a
SF News Chelsea Manning Speaks Out From Jail Against Airstrikes On ISIS Chelsea Manning, the woman who very nearly derailed all of SF Pride last year, has just spoken out from her military prison cell for the first time on the topic of ISIS, denouncing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bandidos In The Castro Changes Name To Hecho Amid Controversy The owners of one-week-old Castro restaurant Bandidos have bent to criticism that their choice of name has ethnically offensive connotations. Today they announced that they're going with the name Hecho, which is Spanish
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bandidos Mulling Name Change Amid Controversy From Mexican-American Community New Castro Mexican spot Bandidos, which just finished its first week in business, is facing some San Francisco-style backlash from the Mexican-American community who say that the name "bandido" is a historically derogatory
SF News Kink.com CEO Peter Acworth Admits He Skirted Cocaine Charge Because He's Rich and White Remember that whole sordid story from last year with the guns and the cocaine that Kink.com CEO Peter Acworth hasn't been able to live down? Well, never one to keep quiet about
SF News AIDS Healthcare Foundation Suing City Over Castro Pharmacy Snub The Los Angeles-based non-profit AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is suing the City of San Francisco, as they announced Monday, over what they see as their right to relocate and consolidate their two local
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Groupon Salesman Threatens Restaurateur Because He Hung Up On Him, Gets Canned Oh, Groupon. So annoying. But if you thought all those emails about knitting classes you don't want were getting excessive, get a load of this story of a frustrated Groupon sales guy who
SF News SF Pride Agrees to Hold Public Forum on Bradley Manning Debacle Following on a strongly worded letter from Supervisor David Campos, the SF Pride organizing committee has relented at decided to hold a public forum at which to discuss the decision not to allow
SF News Web Designer Strikes Back at Fitness SF, Hijacks Their Site [Update] Local gym outfit Fitness SF - which last year switched from being a Gold's Gym franchisee due to a certain 2010 donation to a conservative, anti-gay cause made by the parent company's CEO
Arts & Entertainment Many People Annoyed That Unionmade Clothing Is Neither Union-Made, Nor Affordable Local clothier Unionmade, which has been establishing itself as a growing brand of old-timey, hipster-Americana clothing and accessories since opening a little shop on Sanchez and 18th just a couple years ago, has
Arts & Entertainment There Have Always Been A**Holes In S.F. Who Don't Want Anything Pretty to Be Built Architecture critic John King brings us a delightful look back at the vocal opposition to the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge a class of people who should be grouped amongst the greatest
