SF News Non-Binary NYC Marathon Winner from SF Denied Prize Money Over Eligibility Rules SF-based runner Cal Calamia says that they were denied the $5,000 NYC marathon prize over an eligibility rule that was posted late, and now there's some drama.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Art-Inspired Cakes At New MOMA Have Blue Bottle Pastry Chef Crying 'Forgery' "Remember those modern art style desserts?" SFist wondered in April 2015 when we learned that MOMA had not renewed its contract with the coffee shop Blue Bottle. "What will become of them!?" You
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Danny Scheie In 'House Tour' At Z Space This, dear readers, is not a review. Rather, it is an exhortation: Go see Z Space's new comedy by playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb starring the arrestingly funny Danny Scheie. Titled A House Tour
SF News Fainting, Open Bar, Clusterf**k: Scenes From SF Pride's Election Seeing as how San Francisco Pride sits in a state of confusion and flux (look no further than the Chelsea Manning SNAFU and the brutal Pink Saturday attacks to see how far the
Arts & Entertainment London Breed Is The Amanda Bynes Of S.F. Supervisors [Update] We have a new favorite crazy cannon on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. And her name is London Breed. For whatever reason, Ms. Breed will only respond to a constituent with respect
SF News Regarding Last Week's Strange Explosive Incident at Civic Center BART They say it was really nothing. Really. It happens about once a year. But somehow, some sort of "metallic debris" ended up on the BART tracks at Civic Center on September 16 and
SF News Meteorologist Roberta Gonzales Out At CBS5? Say it ain't so, KPIX! Rich Lieberman has word that our favorite meteorologist and color-blocking fashion icon, Roberta Gonzales, is out at CBS 5. And she's going to be replaced (after 16 years!
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Official Bête Wants France To Boycott Calif. Wines Because we aren't the only people silly enough to boycott other regions, an official in the land of baguettes poking through wicker bike baskets has urged his country to boycott California wines in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foie Gras Ban Still Happening, Sort Of While the food press has turned the benign foie gras ban into the gastronomic Brown v. Board of Education of our lifetime, you won't likely see the fattened liver off too many menus
SF News Say Hello To The Palace Lagoon's New Baby Swans After last summer saw months of drama in the lagoon at the Palace of Fine Arts, we were beginning to wonder if the game of swans in the Marina would ever rebuild their
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Brutal Condiment Fight Proves Dolores Park Playground Needs Fence A harrowing scene was captured on tape recently as ranch dressing and ketchup duked it out on the Dolores Park playground. Ranch, the clear winner since it's the superior condiment, was minding its
SF News Awkward Tweet Alert: Jed York Welcomes Back Alex Smith Huh. This is awkward. Now that no other team wanted to sign Alex Smith, just like SFist's own Daisy Barringer predicted, and the 49ers tried (unsuccessfully) to woo Peyton Manning, Smith resigned from
SF News Swan Drama Continues: Bella Booted from Palace Lagoon In the ongoing saga swiming around the lagoon at the Palace of Fine Arts: Bella, the orphaned, injured and recently rehabbed Palace swan has been ousted from the lagoon. Bella's brother and sister-in-law
SF News Swan Drama in the Palace Lagoon: Bella Returns From Rehab, Blue Boy Gets Territorial Yesterday Chron's City Insider waded in to the lagoon at the Palace of Fine Arts where Bella, the injured mute swan who spent the last month and a half in rehab up in
SF News <em>SF Weekly</em> Accuses <em>SF Examiner</em> of Sexist Hiring Practices Adding a pinch of media drama to your Wednesday, SF Weekly scribe Erin Sherbert goes after her former employer, SF Examiner, accusing the editorial staff of sexism. It seems that the last nine
SF News Famous Pastor Tells Harold Camping to 'Go Away' Billed as one of the youngest (and refreshingly stylish) megachurch pastors in the country, Steven Furtick of Elevation Church in Charlotte, N.C. sent out the following Twitter message for disgraced Family Radio
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anti-SF Chef David Chang Charges $5 for a Coke; Fury Ensues Momofuku chef David Chang is in hot water again. This time for taking to Twitter with his sassy ways to rail against Serious Eats scribe J. Kenji Lopez-Alt who bemoaned the chef for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Perbacco's Staffan Terje Slams Willie Brown's If-I-Wait-You-Pay-For-My-Meal Article Yesterday, onetime San Francisco mayor and bon vivant Willie Brown penned his most (in)famous article yet, "If diners have to wait, the restaurant should pay." That he's so blunt and Willie Brown-ish
SF News McCovey Cove 'Oscar Grant' v. 'Johannes Mehserle' Battle Continues At last night's victorious playoff game, a mini brouhaha went down in McCovey Cove, drama that started in September after a pro-Johannes Mersherle hoisted up during a Giants game. SFist commenter hillarys_quivering_
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Fight: Local Chef v. Michael Bauer's Boyfriend Aside from a few vague Facebook messages sent to us that went nowhere, we do not know much about Michael Murphy, SF Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer's boyfriend. However, according to Grub Street,
SF News Quote du Jour: Accurate Newsom Statement Burns Bridges Dude. When asked recently about the future of SF Chronicle, or lack thereof, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom told The Economist the following: People under 30 won’t even notice. Chortle. Also: true. But
SF News Newsom Takes Aim at Brown During this weekend's state Democratic convention in Sacramento, Gavin Newsom took aim at 71-year-old attorney general Jerry Brown. Newsom, who officially tossed his hat into the gubernatorial ring last week, told the crowd
SF News Even More Yelp Drama Another day, another bit of Yelp drama for you to chew on. This most recent morsel comes to us care of Timothy Holt, owner of Weird Fish and The Corner, claims he's "done
SF News Chronicle Refuses to use Digital Communication, Prefers Phone Seeing as how the entire American Apparel-on-Valencia brouhaha was traffic gold -- and the Gate/Chron is on no financial position to turn down traffic -- it seemed like writing about the AA
SF News House of Shields Responds to Yelpers Unfortunate Night Out Goodness, it's been quite an enthralling day, hasn't it? The tale of the cheap patrons versus the cranky House of Shield bartender got many of us hot and bothered. And in an effort
