Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: North Beach Bohemian Chic bohemian in North Beach, shot by Travis Jensen.
SF News Legendary North Beach Stripper Carol Doda Arrested For Alleged DUI Storied stripper and living legend Carol Doda, who single-handedly defined North Beach's red light district of the 1960s, was arrested Saturday night on suspicion of drunk driving after her car
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Take A Look At The New Tosca, Its New Chef, And New Food We've all been waiting the last five months to see what New Yorkers Ken Friedman and April Bloomfield have done to the inside of the well loved, and elegantly decayed Tosca
Arts & Entertainment You Ever Wanted To Be In 'Beach Blanket Babylon'? Now's Your Chance Get out your sheet music, all ye showpeople. It's audition time for S.F.'s ever so long-running, ever-changing, pop-culture- and political-referencing revue Beach Blanket Babylon,
Arts & Entertainment Tim Burton Transforms North Beach Into 1950s San Francisco This morning crews on the set of Big Eyes, a forthcoming film from director Tim Burton, transformed Grant Avenue into a scene right out of 1950s San Francisco. The film, tentatively set to
Arts & Entertainment Video: Romolo Claims Another Victim For your late-afternoon, slow-news-day amusement, this delivery truck done got itself stuck on Romolo Place in North Beach. According to Chad Fox, who caught the footage above, the siren song
SF News The Lusty Lady To Close In Two Weeks San Francisco's celebrated, unionized and worker-owned peep show the Lusty Lady will close its doors in just two weeks on September 2nd. According to the co-op, which broke the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant And Bar Coming To Old Purple Onion Space Legendary North Beach comedy venue The Purple Onion closed last fall after 60 years in business, and in its place, this fall, will be a new restaurant on the main level (above the
SF News Elderly Man Attacked In North Beach An older man was found just after midnight last night in an alcove on Columbus Avenue suffering from severe head trauma. This was on the 900 block of Columbus, between Chestnut and Lombard,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Do This Tonight: Boozy Gelato Happy Hour Mondays can be rough, and sometimes it takes a stiff drink or a creamy pint of ice cream to shake off the beginning-of-the-week blues. Tonight, you won't have
Arts & Entertainment Go Hear This Tonight: Sandra Bernhard Although an LA Times review recently (and somewhat oddly) described Sandra Bernhard as "a walking-talking blogger before blogs were invented," you won't find any cat GIFs or food
SF News Homeless Man Les Rowe, Former North Beach Fixture, Returning To Georgia A homeless man known to many North Beach residents just as Les will finally be heading back home to friends and family in Georgia after spending a year hospitalized following a hit-and-
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Eric Ross' Award-Winning Pizza Acrobatics This past weekend in Las Vegas at the annual World Pizza Games, Eric Ross from Tony's Coal Fired Pizza & Slice House took top honors. Ross won first place in his
SF News Video: Massive Brawl Breaks Out In North Beach The trash that collects in North Beach on weekend nights is a sight to behold. Take, for example, the fight that broke out early Sunday morning after the clubs closed. While no one
SF News Check Out This Awesome '60s Sign Unearthed Beneath Awning In North Beach Friend of SFist Chad Fox just snapped this photo of a ca. 1968 sign for a hippie women's clothing boutique called Middle Earth at 1317 Grant Avenue in North Beach. Middle
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sean Penn Saves Tosca (Sort Of) Big, wonderful news in the bar world today, folks. Business Times reports today that iconic North Beach bar Tosca (242 Columbus) will receive new owners. Furthermore, a Michelin-starred chef will be in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Important Sandwich News: HRD Coffee Shop Expanding To North Beach HRD Coffee Shop, the home of one life-altering Mongolian Beef Cheesesteak, is expanding beyond their tiny dive-diner space at Third and Bryant Streets in SoMa. Inside Scoop reports the second iteration,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Txoko To Close At Year's End Alas. The nearly unpronounceable Txoko, which took over the historic Enrico's spot in North Beach, announced that it will close this week. Though they did unfurl some damn noteworthy grub -- we
SF News Central Subway to Extend to North Beach? Amid lawsuit threats and much hemming and hawing from local businesses, Muni chief Ed Reiskin has a new proposal for the Central Subway. Rather than opening up the subway tunnel at the Chinatown
SF News High Heels Cause Beat Down In North Beach Early Monday morning, around 1 a.m. in the lap of North Beach's carnal corner at Columbus and Broadway, two ladythugs assaulted a woman with her own high-heeled shoes. The
Arts & Entertainment Everything's Happening This Weekend: Anti-Colonialism, Columbus Day Parade Can you hear them? Shhhh. Hear that? They're coming. No, they're coming. Damn tourists. And there's nowhere to hide. Quick review SFist's "How To
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Here Tonight: Park Tavern With visions of a crystalline diamond-cut iPhone 5 dancing in your head, a food truck or (vile) taqueria won't do. They just won't do. You need something chic
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca Landlord Just Wants A Less Surly Bar Owner Tosca Café, the classic North Beach watering hole threatened with eviction after allegedly not paying rent for the past decade or so, was officially served an eviction notice by landlord and strip club
