SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Specs' In North Beach Turns 48 On Sunday; Learn More About The Storied Dive Bar And Mini-Museum The tucked-away, categorically authentic North Beach dive known simply as Specs', the full name of which is Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe, stands nearly alone in its intact, dusty, old-
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ask A San Francisco Native: On North Beach And Italian Food Dear Rain, Best Italian restaurant in North Beach? Signed, Hungry Dear Hungry, Until you asked me that question I hadn't really realized that when I'm looking to get some
Arts & Entertainment You Can Rent This Guy's North Beach Pad For Super Bowl Weekend For $43K I know you didn't need one more thing to make you hate the Super Bowl, but here's one more anyway. This guy, Cal, is renting his three-bedroom North
SF News Fatal Beating Of North Beach Artist Takes SF To 49 Homicides For 2015 @HoodlineSF @gerikoeppel So upsetting. Stu was such a kind person, a real gentleman. He captured me more than once. pic.twitter.com/aQ1iUpxXWU — The Dregs (@DeanVolker) December 16, 2015 The San Francisco Police
SF News Hot Cop Of The Castro Officially Charged With Two Felonies, Had Two Passengers As expected, the District Attorney's Office officially charged Officer Chris Kohrs with two felony counts of hit-and-run late Tuesday, per the Chronicle and ABC 7, and one new detail
SF News Surveillance Video From North Beach Crash Scene May Show 'Hot Cop' Running Away A brief, blurry, far-away snippet of surveillance video from a parking lot beside which Sunday's pedestrian hit-and-run occurred may show the Hot Cop of Castro Christopher Kohrs fleeing
SF News 'Hot Cop Of The Castro' Reportedly On Leave For Medical Condition The SFPD sent out an update statement Monday regarding the status of Officer Chris Kohrs, who stands accused of two counts of felony hit-and-run after his car plowed into two pedestrians
SF News Video: Vandals Tag Francis Ford Coppola's Dome San Francisco's historic Sentinel Building is one of North Beach's most iconic structures, a great green tower owned by director Francis Ford Coppola. Now home to (among other tenants)
Arts & Entertainment Feminism And Carol Doda, 'The Susan B. Anthony' Of Stripping By the time Carol Doda died from complications of kidney failure in San Francisco on Monday, the woman who described herself as having "started a sexual revolution that spun as fast as
SF News Carol Doda, '60s Stripping Sensation And Cultural Icon, Dead At 78 San Francisco grand dame and larger-than-life '60s cultural figure Carol Doda has died. The 78 year old was beloved and revered for her bare, entrepreneurial spirit not to mention her
SF News 'Canned Parrot/Sky Rat' For Sale In North Beach, Neighbors Get Mad 'Canned Parrot' Display Baffles, Angers Some North Beach Neighbors: http://t.co/ebofFoD9CN by @gerikoeppel pic.twitter.com/4sYBvDH2DE — Hoodline (@HoodlineSF) October 19, 2015 In a somewhat clever, overall harmless joke
SF News Proposed Condos At Pagoda Theater Site Could Stymie Central Subway Extension Plan With the goal of expanding the Central Subway project from Chinatown to Fisherman's Wharf, an oft-cited item on the SFMTA's future project "wish list," Supervisor Julie
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Barbarossa (In The Old Bubble Lounge) Opening In October by Betty Wang Barbarossa, the new concept from former Bubble Lounge owner Eric Benn and his new business partner Arash Ghanadan, who is also the co-owner of Novela, is planning for a
SF News Hit-And-Run Driver Ditches Dodge Durango, Flees On Foot Saturday's Mission Street hit-and-run wasn't the only such crime last weekend — Sunday night, two more people fell victim to a driver that struck them, then took off.
SF News Photo Du Jour: A Tree Falls In North Beach A question to tips, which can always be reached at [email protected] "Coming to work this morning about 8:30 am, police had blocked off a part of Columbus St. at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Giordano Bros. Closes Their North Beach Bar After Over A Decade Sports bar/sandwich spot Giordano Bros., which first opened on Columbus Avenue in North Beach in 2004 serving up their signature, Pittsburgh-style "all-in-one" sandwiches and catering especially to
Arts & Entertainment Caitlyn Jenner Number Added To <i>Beach Blanket Babylon</i> San Francisco's, and the world's, longest running musical revue Beach Blanket Babylon, which always tries to revise the show to reflect, and mock, current events, has just added a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bubble Lounge Shutters After 17 Years In North Beach Bachelorette-party planners across the Bay Area are weeping over the news that Bubble Lounge is ending its 17-year run on Montgomery Street in North Beach. The place was mega-trendy circa
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acquolina Opens In North Beach New Tuscan-inspired Italian spot Acquolina (which means "mouth-watering" in Italian) has just quietly swung open its doors in North Beach as SFist can exclusively report. The restaurant is an
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: 'Fifty Years of San Francisco Street Photography' You ever come across a vintage San Francisco photograph that gives you gasps, goosebumps and throbs of nostalgic fascination? There will be an entire gallery of photographs like that at the upcoming exhibit
SF News Couple Unwittingly Swipes $5500 Artwork From North Beach Alley Everyone knows the laws of the street score, right? If you see something — furniture, books, art, even clothing — sitting unattended out by the curb and it's not someone moving or a
SF News SF's Third Fatal Fire This Year: Elderly Man Killed In North Beach Blaze An elderly man was killed in a North Beach fire Thursday night, the third fatal blaze in San Francisco this year. According to the San Francisco Fire Department, crews were called to 1050
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] North Beach's Beloved Capp's Corner To Close Resident Chronicle old-timer Carl Nolte reported over the weekend on a threat to longtime North Beach spot Capp's Corner, originally named for former owner Joe Caporale. The place isn'
Arts & Entertainment Lawrence Ferlinghetti Reflects On How SF Has Changed Over His 64 Years Here Beat poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti has seen San Francisco through many eras of change. Arriving here in 1951 at the age of 31, the 95-year-old North Beach resident knew the
SF News Violent Morning: Head And Back Stabbings In North Beach, Knife Attack On Muni Bus It's been a stabby week in San Francisco, and it's only Wednesday. In addition to a knife attack over the weekend and a slashing on Tuesday, three more men
