SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After Mediocre Bauer Review, Hutong Becomes Betelnut Again Well, now here's something you don't see happen with Yelpers: after receiving a middle of the road, two-star review from Chronicle Food Critic Michael Bauer, Asian street fare newcomer Hutong will quietly be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fire Temporarily Shutters Marina's Castagna Castagna, a bistro serving American, French, and Italian fare, suffered minor fire damage on Saturday. Via their Facebook page, they write: Due to a fire [on Saturday], Castagna is closed for business until
SF News Luxury Sedan Plows Into Marina Safeway One person is suffering from minor injuries after running what appears to be a luxury sedan (or at least a Nissan with upgrades) over the a cement barrier and into the shopping cart
Arts & Entertainment Waldo Alley Street Sign Given 'Where's Waldo' Makeover A clever prankster dolled up the street sign at Waldo Alley in the Marina Russian Hill with much-needed Where's Waldo flair, replete with red and white cap and stripes. Ingenious. [Photo:Rick Haelig
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Let's All Guess Who This Rude Bravo Reality Star Is, And Then Shun Her Tacolicious spilled dirt on a godawful customer who came into their Marina location and tried flashing their Bravo reality-star card to get a seat in lieu of waiting in line. Which: haha. Idiot.
Arts & Entertainment Marina Bar Hosts 90s Night 'Every F***ing Thursday' We don't generally help promote your average bar nights, however we thought this flyer/tagline was a little better than average. The HiFi Lounge in the Marina (2125 Lombard Street) is doing a
Arts & Entertainment Please Do Not Drive To America's Cup World Series If you plan on going to the America's Cup World Series, which starts today, please do not drive there. You won't find parking. You just won't. Instead, "walk, bus, bike or take a
SF News Marina Garbage Trashes Fort Mason...Again [Updated] The flaccid fratboys and aging sorority girls of the Marina have done it again. Not learning their lesson from in April of this year, San Francisco's most troublesome social strata layer trashed the
Arts & Entertainment Emo Marina Dude Writes Angry Graffiti To Ex-Girlfriend Rare is the Marina man (we're going to assume these were penned by a dude) who can bare his soul. But this guy did. And how. We're not sure who he is, exactly,
Arts & Entertainment Here Are Five Videos Of Marina Dudes Stripping [NSFW] Now that we have had a day to process the overwhelming machismo present at the inaugural Mr. Marina Competition, we'd like to present this brief and entertaining follow-up in the form of our
Arts & Entertainment Mr. Marina Competition: Aggressive Alcoholism In The Name Of Charity Last night in SOMA, fourteen of the Marina District's finest 20- and 30-something male specimens took the stage at Mezzanine to sing, drink, and charm their way to the title of the district's
SF News Fight Erupts at Democratic Womens' Gathering There weren't any Louboutins flying, but there was an upturned chair, accusations of living in the Marina, and references to 'Mean Girls' following a recent gathering of the eighteen women who are all
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Police Identify Marina Louboutin Skullcrusher; She Might Claim Self-Defense Call us silly, but we are intrigued by the Marina Louboutin Skullcrusher. Who is she? What's her deal? And what's with that delightfully mischevious glint in her eye? So bad. And yet so
SF News Video: Here's Our Favorite Porsche Driver Becoming Unstuck From Wet Cement Last week we all had a good laugh on the Internet when one bumbling driver of a fine German automobile found himself stuck in wet cement. But the laughs don't end there — today,
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Porsche Drives Into Construction Site Down by the Marina Green and the tony Marina Yacht Harbor, an inattentive Porsche driver has driven his penis extension fine German automobile in to some roadwork along Marina Boulevard. According to eyewitness
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Historic Marina Bar La Barca to Close After 50 Year Run La Barca, the proto-Marina Bar on Lombard Street that saw many a Herb Caen mention and maybe even more Gavin Newsom cameos over its nearly 50 year run, has been sold to a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Important Marina Bar News: They Finally Named One "Campus" As reported by Inside Scoop, the post-collegiate neverland ranch in the Marina just got a little more self-effacing as the former Delaney's Bar on Chestnut Street suddenly becomes Campus. Scoop reports that the
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, at Fort Mason... This massive puffer fish (bird? angry bird?) kite readied for launch at Family Kite Day this past weekend.
misc Run With The Bus: Race The 22-Fillmore Bus Next Week According to Muni, the 22-Fillmore route from the Marina Green to Geary takes anywhere between 22 just 17 minutes. You'll need strong legs if you want to run beat that time. See, on
SF News Dennis Knowlton Identified as Body Found Floating in Bay Police identified the body of the man who was discovered in the Marina on Tuesday as 20-year-old Dennis Knowlton. According to reports, police "have not released a cause of death, however police are
Arts & Entertainment Molly Ringwald Coming to the Marina, 6/14 Tomorrow night, Samantha Baker (AKA Molly Ringwald) will make a guest appearance in the city's Marina district. Why? Well, according to SFGate, "Molly Ringwald has partnered with San Francisco's Benefit Cosmetics to promote
Arts & Entertainment SFist Remembers: Pacific Stock Exchange [Video] Way back in the 1990s, San Francisco was revered (sort of) as a city with which to be reckoned. Why? Because we had a stock exchange, that's why. Back in 1997, you see,
SF News Pedestrian Killed by Car in the Marina A 22-year-old male pedestrian was struck and killed by a car at around 1:20 a.m. this morning in the city's Marina district. The incident occurred at Lombard and Pierce. "The vehicle
SF News Eight People in the Marina Don't Want SmartMeters Either After PG&E's new wireless-equipped SmartMeters became the target of protests from both the freedom-loving far right in the North Bay and the don't-harsh-on-my-brainwaves far left from West Marin, we thought there
SF News Palace of Fine Arts Reopens Today After a long restoration process, the Palace of Fine Arts will reopen today. The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department and the Maybeck Foundation plan on throwing a grand celebration at 10 a.
