Arts & Entertainment Life-Size Gingerbread House Has Returned to Fairmont Hotel, So Gumdrop It Like It's Hot The two-story, walk-in, 7,750-brick gingerbread house is back to spice up San Francisco’s holiday season, and the icing on the cake is that you can book a dinner inside of it.
SF News Biden and Chinese President Xi Both In SF for APEC, Will Meet at Mansion From 80s TV Show ‘Dynasty’ It’s getting real for high-stakes APEC summit talks, as President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping both touched down in San Francisco Tuesday afternoon, and they’ll meet Wednesday at the Woodside mansion Filoli, which served as a setting on the old prime-time soap opera ‘Dynasty.’
SF News Area Around Fairmont Hotel Closed to Cable Car and Vehicle Traffic Through Wednesday, Because Biden There will be some street closures and Muni interruptions on SF's Nob Hill through Wednesday due to a "VIP visit" which is obviously President Biden.
Arts & Entertainment Life-Size Gingerbread House Back At Fairmont Hotel, And You Can Book A Dinner Inside It The 22-foot-tall, 3,300-brick life-size gingerbread house is back at the Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill, and you too can make a dinner reservation to eat inside of it, for what shakes down to about a $1,500 minimum.
SF News One Dead and Multiple Sickened After 'Chemical Suicide' At Fairmont San Jose The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose was the center of all manner of chaos yesterday morning: A woman took her own life in a “chemical suicide” with an unknown substance, sickening at least nine others in the process.
Arts & Entertainment Kardashian Sisters Have Girls' Weekend At Fairmont Hotel, Go To Alcatraz, Step Out In SF Kim Kardashian rocks sheer thigh-high stockings in SF https://t.co/hXwhzRpS16 pic.twitter.com/CjUfakCsLF— Zesty Celebrity News (@zesty_celebrity) October 15, 2017 Against the backdrop of a fire-ravaged wine country, the
Arts & Entertainment As Tony Bennett Statue Unveiled On Nob Hill, Willie Brown Says 'I Hope It's Not Trump!' Ex-Mayor Willie Brown jokes to crowd before unveiling of Tony Bennett statue on Nob Hill: "It better not be Trump!" pic.twitter.com/uNnvgb4FmW— Doug Sovern (@SovernNation) August 19, 2016 A statue honoring
Arts & Entertainment Multiple Big Events Planned In SF To Celebrate Tony Bennett's 90th Birthday "Tony Bennett and San Francisco are inseparable," writes Willie Brown. "A statue of a great American performing artist usually happens in the birthplace of the artist. Throughout the world, people associate San Francisco
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink I Drank Every Drink On The Tonga Room's Cocktail Menu (For Journalism) A couple months back, San Francisco's legendary Tiki bar the Tonga Room announced it would be ditching their syrupy mixers that made Anthony Bourdain so sticky in favor of fresher goods and a
SF News Tonga Room Gets Another Reprieve as Fairmont Condo Project Falls Apart For Real Matier & Ross reported this morning on the demise of the planned condo tower on the Fairmont Hotel property -- essentially because they wanted to raze the existing hotel tower, built in the
SF News Tonga Room's Fate to Be (Possibly) Decided Today The fate of the Tonga Room, that beloved but not often crowded Tiki bar in the bowels of the Fairmont Hotel, is on the docket at the Historic Preservation Commission's meeting today. Though
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Preservationists Still Trying to Save Tonga Room Writing in the Chron, John King examines the current state of the Tonga Room preservation debate, in which preservation architect Chris VerPlanck is preparing a nomination package for saving the Fairmont hotel's pseudo-Polynesian
SF News Tonga Room No More? While the news is a few weeks old, it stings fresh as this morning's rain. See, word has it that the new plan to turn part of Nob Hill's Fairmont Hotel (which, oh
SF News Madeleine Albright Speaketh in Nob Hill Tonight Madeleine Albright, it seems, "will also share her recommendations for the next president." There will be more than one recommendation? Oh joy. Part of her tour to promote her new literary effort, Memo
misc Ban Ki-moon and His Gays The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, gave a speech to the World Affairs Council at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel yesterday, but was upstaged by a few gay (or bear) activists.
Arts & Entertainment The Jewish/African Diaspora It's black history month and we're ashamed to admit that all we've done is buy James Baldwin stamps and curse Condoleezza Rice. So we were glad to receive a tip from a reader
Arts & Entertainment All You Need Are Yellow and Green Earbuds for the Burning Spear Edition [] Yesterday afternoon, Apple introduced a special edition iPod - we figured Steve Jobs might have iPod news hiding up his sleeve. The black and red U2 Special Edition comes with a poster and
