Arts & Entertainment Kiri, San Francisco's Tiny Japanese Fire Truck, Is Not Owned By the SFFD, But It Can Fight a Fire If Need Be Have you had a chance to see Kiri, the most adorable, cartoonish little Japanese fire truck that lives most of the time in Bernal Heights? Well, you should know that this pandemic-year addition to the city is not an official San Francisco Fire Department vehicle. But it is a functioning fire truck.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anchor Brewing Sold To Sapporo Holdings; Pier 48 Expansion Plan Likely Dead Breaking news in the craft beer world: 121-year-old San Francisco brewery Anchor Brewing was sold to the Japanese beer company, Sapporo Holdings. (Clinking of frosty opaque mugs of beer.) In a sweet exclusive
Arts & Entertainment Inspired By Japan, Oakland Artist Installs 'Wind Telephone' For Mourners Of Ghost Ship Victims On the porch of a community arts space in Oakland stands a new phone booth built by local artist Jordan Stern. In it is an antique telephone that is not connected to anything,
SF News 6.9 Magnitude Offshore Earthquake In Japan Triggers Tsunami Warning For Fukushima An early morning earthquake struck off the Japanese coast Monday near Honshu triggering a tsunami warning for Fukushima prefecture, the same place that suffered devastating tsunami damage in the March 2011 earthquake there.
SF News Osaka Mayor Continues Feud With SF, Objects To Proposed 'Comfort Women' Memorial Last year, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors fought back against the mayor of an SF sister city in Japan who appeared to excuse wartime atrocities. Now that fight is entering another round. In
Arts & Entertainment Artist Midori And Day-Glo Geishas Hold Court At Asian Art Museum The Asian Art Museum got its ‘M for Mature’ rating on Thursday night as celebrated local artist Midori brought a crew of day-glo geishas and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to turn the
SF News Japanese Tsunami Survivor's Soccer Ball Washes Up In Alaska Remember how we talked about all that free-floating debris from last year's tsunami floating out in the Pacific and gradually making it onto our shores? Well, in case you doubted us, here's a
SF News Massive Amount of Japanese Tsunami Trash Headed Our Way Nearly a year after a major earthquake and tsunami shook and doused Japan, some 25 million tons of debris that washed out to sea when the tsunami receded is headed toward the California
SF News 5.2 Quake Jiggles Japan Well, since the earth has taken to shaking a bit the past five days, including those several in the East Bay late last week and the one in Turkey on Sunday that they
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: James Brown's Cup-O-Noodle Commercials Inside Scoop's masterful Paolo Lucchesi brings us crucial entertainment this afternoon: James Brown's two long-lost Cup-O-Noodle commercials. They're beautiful. Lucchesi notes: "Sometimes there are no words. This is not one of those times.
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Tsunami Dog' Reunion Footage Owner and the 'tsunami dog' reunited. If you recall, the pooch survived three weeks at sea on a roof after being swept away by the earthquake-generated tsunami in Japan. Also: sob, sniff, bawl.
SF News Fundraising Event at Café Cocomo Ends in Bar Fight, Injures Five The folks at Café Cocomo can't seem catch a break: according to the Examiner, the club on the edge of Potrero Hill and the Dogpatch was hosting a fundraising event yesterday evening when
Arts & Entertainment Saturday Night: Rise Japan Art Fundraiser at Gallery Heist and Kokoru Studio Here's a fantastic opportunity to buy super affordable art by local artists while benefiting disaster relief in Japan. The kind folks at SIR, Gallery Heist, and Kokoru Studio have organized Rise Japan, a
Arts & Entertainment Wednesday: S.F. Board of Supervisors Host Fundraiser for Japan Have you ever wanted to have an intimate dinner with Supervisor Jane Kim? Ride your bike alongside Supervisor David Chiu? Sup with Supervisor David Campos at Moki's? Well then, head over to to
SF News A Whiff of Radiation Arrives, Psychological Impact Deemed Worse Than Anything Else Be prepared for a ton of radiation news, if not an actual "plume" of harmful radiation, in the coming days and weeks. For now, President Obama, Berkeley scientists, and everyone who knows anything
SF News Do Not Freak Out Over This Radiation Plume from Japan Moving Towards California, Say Officials It is a scientific fact: The plume of radiation generated from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant in Japan is moving towards the U.S. West Coast. That plume is expected to reach California by
SF News Apple Supports Hundreds In Tokyo During Earthquake, Aftermath A tipster let us know about this remarkable email that was sent to Digg's Kevin Rose from a friend and Apple employee in Tokyo detailing Apple's swift and ample support during the Tohoku
SF News Watch this Video Featuring a Little Girl Screaming in Horror During Japan Tsunami, Then Donate $10 Using Your Phone By now most of you have seen ample footage of the tsunami that followed Friday's massive earthquake in Japan. We want you to look at one more, please. According to RussianToday: "[the footage
SF News Videos: Tsunami Waves Hitting Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Sausalito, and... Emeryville Here are some videos of this morning's tsunami action shot by people along various Bay Area coastlines ranging from Santa Cruz to San Francisco to Emeryville. (Outside of Santa Cruz and Crescent City
SF News Great Highway, Beaches Closed After Tsunami Waves Hit California Today's massive earthquake in Japan released a tsunami wave that, among other things, closed most California beaches and the Great Highway today. As of 8:00 a.m., the Chronicle reports: "The tide
SF News Massive Earthquake And Tsunami Hit Japan; Tsunami Warning Declared For SF Coast [UPDATED] A harrowing 8.9 earthquake hit Japan tonight. The New York Times reports: "A tsunami hit the coast of northeast Japan on Friday in the aftermath of an 8.9 magnitude earthquake about
SF News Google to Reshoot Japan's 'Street View' After receiving numerous complaints in Japan, "where personal privacy is highly valued," according to SF Business Times, Google will reshoot the country's street scenes. It seems that some of the shots in Japan,
SF News Around the Sports Dial The Dubs beat the Nets last night, 121-119 in a game featuring a 22-0 run by the Warriors and another furious comeback. The big news, however, is the possibility of Chris Webber saddling
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink $20,000 Coffee at Blue Bottle Cafe In addition to finding such high-end breakfast items as "pancetta souffle ($9.50), porcini flan ($11), egg and potato torte with warm bread ($5.50) and morel poached eggs ($8)" on Blue Bottle
misc Contest: Melee @ Slim's 01/18/08 Until June, from sunny Phoenix, traveled to Los Angeles in hopes of a record deal. Obviously, at first, they got lost in the mix, but promised themselves that if they didn't have a
