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
Arts & Entertainment SPF 7 at the Purple Onion Sure, local funny-guy comedy troupe busts out great live shows, but they're also getting a well-deserved reputation for their video-produced comic stylings. Check out Alex Aschinger, Bob Brindley, Chris Yule, Jay Starr, Justin
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 8 p.m. at Chez Poulet,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight --Audacia Ray, the editor of the sex worker zine $pread and a Fleshbot [nsfw] contributor, talks at Modern Times about the commodification of sex on the Internet. 7:30 p.m., 888 Valencia
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Love Edition If you haven't booked your Valentine's Day restaurant reservations yet, you're in trouble. Lucky for you, our local theater companies have shows much more unique than prix fixe menus anyway. From improv to
Arts & Entertainment Stand Up Guys Okay, we see why Gothamist loves Todd Barry. But local boys Ryan Stout and Jim Short made good last night, too. If you haven't been to the Purple Onion yet, it really is
Arts & Entertainment Todd Barry at the Purple Onion One of Gothamist's favorite comedians, Todd Barry, will be performing six shows starting tonight at eight at the Purple Onion and running through Sunday. Who is Todd Barry? Well, find out for yourself
Arts & Entertainment Comedy Equals Time Plus Haircuts Tomorrow night, Bell hosts his second show, "The Kamau Bell Gets a Haircut Show". We don’t know for sure, but maybe this will mean that part of the act is him getting
Arts & Entertainment Kamau's Going to Yuk It Up Like It's His Birthday Kamau has been working it on the local scene, performing his own stand-up, writing his own plays, creating an internet cartoon, and being a notarized public (apparently, he's got the notarized skills to