Arts & Entertainment Video: Trailer For 'The Batkid Rises' It's been a week since we all got to vicariously live out our own childhood superhero fantasies through Miles the Batkid and the Make-a-Wish Foundation. And now we bring you the trailer for
SF News BART Strike: Commuter Forced To Ride His Boat To Work While some of you kowtowed to AC Transit, the ferry system, or, far worse, casual carpooling (the horror), Wayne Phillips managed to get across the Bay the right way. After waiting in a
SF News $167 Million: Buster Posey To Stay With Giants For 9 More Years King of San Francisco Buster Posey will remain with the Giants for at least another 9 years. To which we say: Praise Jesus. According to SFGate: The Giants will announce Buster Posey’s
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Glorious, Elaborate, Almodovar-Inspired Trailer for the Hard French Winter Ball Please enjoy this lengthy (10 minute) but totally worth it tribute to Almodovar created by Aron Kantor (a.k.a. DirtyGlitter), and starring Ambrosia Salad and Stanley Frank. It's a promotional trailer, of
Arts & Entertainment 1973 Social Media Terminal Is A Thing Of Wonder Way before Instagram, before Yelp, before Prodigy, and even before your local BBS (Waveline 4 life!), there was the Community Memory Terminal. Gorgeous, isn't it? You can almost picture Dave Eggers and his
Arts & Entertainment Could This Be The Greatest Photo Ever Taken In San Francisco? Well, we sure think it is. A bunch of kids (in school uniforms no less!) giving high fives to passing cyclists on Market Street? Call it a red-letter day, folks. Snapped on a
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Punk Rock Cat Boards Train, Doesn't Care What You Or Society Think Eugenia at Muni Diaries brightens our day year with this photo of an unapologetic punk rock cat sitting atop its equally rad owner boarding a Muni train. "[T]he cat that looks absolutely
SF News Photo: SpaceX Dragon Capsule Floating Off The Pacific After spending a week in orbit, the SpaceX Dragon returned to Earth and was found floating in the Pacific near California. "Reentry scorch marks visible on the heat shield," notes SpaceX CEO Elon
Arts & Entertainment Behold The Magic Cube, A Full-Sized Laser Keyboard If only for the fact that it brings lasers into the game, we are more than intrigued by The Magic Cube, an operational QWERTY keyboard that works by using really bitchin' lasers. Made
Arts & Entertainment Gavin Newsom Gets His Own Talk Show On Current TV Proven to be such a shoot-from-the-hip, anything-goes, oh-my-god-did-he-really-just-say-that kind of guy, former San Francisco Mayor and now Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom landed his very own talk show on Current TV, reports Ms. Carla
Arts & Entertainment GrafRank Ranks Global Graffiti Statistics In SF And Oakland... And Beyond! Created by Gothamist cofounder and noted street art aficionado Jake Dobkin, GrafRank shows which graffiti artists are going up in San Francisco and Oakland, and which areas are popular for their work. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drunk & Sticky: Best Bits Of Anthony Bourdain's S.F. 'Layover' We've done a 180-degree turn on Mr. Anthony Bourdain after viewing last night's San Francisco The Layover on The Travel Channel. Bourdain calls Swan Oyster Depot one of his favorite places in San
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Glow-In-The-Dark Night Surfing Like a clash between Tron and Endless Summer, these surfers zipped up electroluminescent wetsuits and hit some tasty waves in Bondi Beach in Australia this past November. According to Laughing Squid, the night
SF News How To Catch Today's Giants Game If you're not lucky enough to have the day off and tickets to today's home opener, you can catch the game at any number of sports bars in the city, by radio on
