SF News Day Around the Bay * Phil Bronstein steps down as editor. Say what? [SFGate] * Julius Castle closes amid allegations of fraud, misrepresentation, and lease issues. [Tablehopper] * 1015 gets a (much-needed) makeover, will feature live bands. Well, it&
misc Ride Muni for Free All Night Long On New Year's Eve Mayor Gavin Newsom says that one of his "top priorities is to ensure that every San Franciscan has a safe and happy New Year. Riding Muni is a smart and green way
misc Sofia Coppola's Dad /Jason Schwartzman's Uncle Makes Movies? When Francis Ford Coppola isn't looking lovingly over his cineaste dynastic family, running a cafe, publishing fiction, or distilling making wine [sorry! we're not a vintner!], we understand that
SF News Late-Night Pizza Ban? That's Crazy Talk! Noted Pizza-Roll fans, we're not one to patronize pizza establishments in order to stifle late-night sodium cravings brought on by binge drinking. (Really, with Pizza Rolls you transition from
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Laura Gibson: We'd hate to genre-ize her lovely sounds, but neo-folk songstress Gibson -- who uses such tools as trumpet, viola, and musical saw in addition to her sublime vocal
misc Blocker: 1300 La Playa Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
SF News RIP: Enrico Banducci Owner of the now-closed hungry i -- which booked such talent as Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Mort Sahl, Bill Cosby, and the Kingston Trio, to name a few -- and the beloved Enrico'
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: The Blue Angels are Done for the Day. Lt. Nathan Miller gazes out his workplace cubicle going 300 miles per above North Beach. The fellow in back is merely along for the ride, just another tourist taking things in. That'
misc Ask SFist -- Bay Area Gay Blogs? A reader would like your help: Can you recommend any popular blogs in San Francisco with a queer voice? thanks, [presumed homosexual's name withheld] Well, we can't recommend any
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Save the Barleycorn! Save the Barleycorn! Seeing as how they have nothing else going on, this week the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote on a city proclamation honoring John Barleycorn Pub, calling for its preservation. The bar
Arts & Entertainment SF Mural With 9/11 Notes Gets Basquiat Treatment Ann Sherry's North Beach mural "Gold Mountain," a work that depicts Chinese influence to San Francisco and American history, fell victim to hooligan defacing. Specifically, the recent addition of
SF News SFist Blotter Bad series of news items for the SFPD -- the rookie cop who accidentally shot himself at a party earlier this month when trying to demonstrate tips on gun safety was legally drunk (just
Arts & Entertainment Savage Jew On July 5, after Savage predictably asked that students undergoing a weeklong fast for immigration reform (and, bonus, to slim down a few sizes) "fast until they starve to death," Sandoval
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- KrOB'S Film Farm -- Faust (1994): Jan Švankmajer's version of Faust, using Goethe's and Christopher Marlowe's tales as well as heaps of surrealism, screens tonight at
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the Bay Guardian. You know why? Because we were voted readers' favorite local blog!!!!!!!! Thank you thank you thank you thank you! We're pleased to be in such
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Slint Every tale about the band Slint begins with retrospect. A couple guys who’d known each other a long time got together in Loo--ville, KY, to make a band named after a
SF News Day Around The Bay --East Bay garbage workers still locked out. [The Trib, the Chron, KTVU, CBS 5] --White supremacists keep writing the SF Weekly about popular SFist topic Harmon Leon's story from two years
misc Blocker: 1400 Montgomery Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. Blocker, No. 7: Montgomery St.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today --LAist Zach is coming to town as part of the CalArtsf alumni art festival: dance, spoken word, world music, animation, paintings, and lots more artistic expression at Cowell Theater and the Herbst Cafe
SF News Day Around The Bay --Beer and wine are okay for the North Beach Festival next week, but no hard alcohol. --More folks are getting laid off from the Chronicle. The Chron has launched a Portraits In Grief-
SF News Day Around The Bay --As you may have heard in the comments to the latest Oh No, Ed Jew! column, MUNI is thinking about having the N go out to the Caltrain station again. Yay! We may
SF News SFist Blotter One person is dead after a dramatic shooting in the Sunset early Monday morning -- the shots were fired at a moving car, which then flipped over and crashed. The Chron has some unsettling
SF News Don't Hate Esther Because She's Beautiful Hwang claims that she was outside the North Beach bar Dolce last week, celebrating the end of her law school finals and waiting for her boyfriend when she saw some police officers. She
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight --Salsa and swing dance lessons at Julie's Supper Club, with burlesque performers on the hour. 8-11 p.m., $6 after 8 p.m. (half hour lesson), $10 by 7 (with
