Arts & Entertainment Check Out The Bizarre Outfits Worn At St. Stupid's Day 2012 Here's one thing we like about April Fool's Day, the lamest day of the year: the St. Stupid's Day Parade. On Sunday, the 32th annual St. Stupid's Day festivities went down at Joe
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From Last Night: Slipping Into The Penthouse Club Opening Last night marked the long-awaited opening of San Francisco's latest den of iniquity and charred meats: The Penthouse Club on Broadway and Montgomery Streets. While San Francisco loves to knock heavily branded chains
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink North Beach Scores New Penthouse Club & Steakhouse Fitting for a neighborhood with a seedy past, North Beach will be the proud recipient of the Penthouse Club & Steakhouse, which we told you about in December. Well, now the location has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed North Beach Pizza Chef Opening Second North Beach Italian Eatery Tony Gemignani, the pizza genius behind Tony's Pizza Napoletana in North Beach which was recently called "America's best pizzeria" by USA Today, is opening up a second North Beach joint, opening in early
SF News Proposed Cab Stands on Broadway Will Help You Vacate North Beach Faster, Possibly Alleviate Crime As part of their ongoing (and some might say misguided) efforts to fix the taxi situation in San Francisco, the Municipal Transportation Agency is fielding proposals for new cab stands spread around town.
SF News SFPD Now Says Broadway Shooting Started With Mistaken Identity Late updates from the SFPD's investigation in to last Sunday's North Beach shooting that put two innocent bystanders in the hospital: The department explained to the Chronicle that the officers' eagerness to make
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anthony Bourdain Also Filmed at Mr. Bing's Today Boy, do we love us some Mr. Bing's in North Beach. In fact, it's where we might or might not have gotten into a heated argument recently with the editor of Inside Scoop
SF News Bystander Hit in North Beach Shooting A 40-year-old woman walking home on Francisco Street near Taylor Street in North Beach ended up in SF General Hospital last night after she was hit in the back during a string of
Arts & Entertainment Celebrate Zoetrope's Summer Issue, July 19 Featuring new fiction from Stuart Dybek, as well as Emily Ruskovich and May-Lan Tan making their literary debuts, the summer issue of Zoetrope features a cover designed by Beck. Yes, that Beck. You
SF News Suspicious Fire Displaces 25 North Beach Residents Late last night around 12:40 a.m. a 2-alarm fire was reported on Powell Street between Vallejo and Green in North Beach. SFFD responders had the fire under control by 12:55
SF News Man Found Dead From Gunshot Wound In North Beach View Larger Map Police are trying to figure out why a man died in North Beach last night. After authorities were called to a Mason Street jewelry store, police found the body dead
Arts & Entertainment Tonight Addendum: Pop-up Dance Party at Cafe Zoetrope We almost forgot! Before cementing any plans for the evening, we strongly suggest you head over to Coppola headquarters in North Beach for a choice pop-up dance party to help celebrate the release
SF News 48 Displaced After North Beach Fire Early New Year's Day A two-alarm fire broke out in a North Beach apartment building early New Year's Day, displacing 48 residents, two-thirds of whom only speak Cantonese and many of them low-income. The fire was reported
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cooler Heads Prevail: Singer Waiter Approved in North Beach Because certainly you were waiting on the edge of your seat to see how this one turned out: a meeting of the Planning Commission last Thursday approved Colosseo's amplified sound permit. None of
SF News Neighbors in North Beach Aren't Keen on Singing Waiter Colosseo, one of those North Beach cucinas, hoped to differentiate themselves from the rest of the Columbus Avenue meatball slingers by serenading diners with some live Opera. According to the Chronicle, one of
SF News NIMBY Watch: Pavement to Parks Program Ends With Parklet Approvals in Noe Valley, North Beach You may recall that brouhaha in Noe Valley over the possibility of a street closure to create a pedestrian plaza? Well, the Pavement to Parks Program sponsored by the City has closed up
SF News Car Rams Tourist Bus In North Beach Unbeknown to them, a gaggle of tourists went through the city's Street of San Francisco live-action experience on Sunday. See, according to ABC 7, their double-decker bus collided with a vehicle in North
SF News North Beach Won't Allow Pot Club On Porn Strip Telegraph Hill resident Bruce Rossignol thought it would be a grand idea to liven things up on North Beach's ho-hum Broadway strip. Bruce Rossignol planned to open up a pot dispensary on near
SF News North Beach 'Investment Consultant' Indicted for Bilking 60 Investors A North Beach 'investment consultant' named Joseph "Giuseppe" Viola was indicted in federal court in S.F. yesterday on multiple counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft after defrauding at
Arts & Entertainment Looking Back at Bimbo's 365 Bimbo's 365 is one of the Bay Area's finest music venues, period. Opened by Agostino Giuntoli, who moved it to its current Columbus spot in 1951, the name of the historically textured joint
misc 7 Scenes From North Beach Festival On Saturday and Sunday, that beatnik neighborhood on the other side of Market Street played host to the 54th annual North Beach Festival. Here are several shots that local photogs snapped up from
