Arts & Entertainment NSFW: Scenes From Folsom Street Fair 2014 The sun did not make an appearance at the annual bacchanal that is Folsom Street Fair, but there were plenty of full moons! Yes, nudity and general depravity abounded as San Francisco's kink
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SO Chef Posts Another Passive Aggressive Note I guess you could say that the note posted outside SO restaurant in SoMa last Thursday was just flat-out aggressive. But, not content just let things go after a string of unhappy customers,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Chinese-Food Chef Storms Out Of Restaurant, Posts Angry Note To Gluten-Averse Customers A chef at popular Asian wings spot SO (1010 Bryant Street at 8th) apparently stormed out and forced the closure of the restaurant after getting one too many whiny customers Thursday night. Somebody
SF News A Brief History of Folsom Street Fair Yesterday we brought you our beginner's guide and our insider's guide to Folsom Street Fair, which is happening this weekend if you somehow hadn't heard. And today we get some history of the
SF News One Of SoMa's Last Gay Porn Studios Getting Razed To Make Way For Fancy Office Building The former SoMa headquarters of Hot House Entertainment, a popular gay porn brand dating back 21 years, is getting razed to be replaced by a five-story office building, as Curbed reports. The industrial
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Chef and Umami Burger Guy Opening Fast-Casual Chinese Place Whoa. Big, and surprising, news from the food scene today: Acclaimed Saison chef Joshua Skenes is teaming with Umami Burger's Adam Fleischman to open a fast-casual Chinese spot at 2nd & Mission called
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Les Clos, A Wine Bar From Saison's Mark Bright, Opens September 20 Mark Bright, partner and wine director at Saison (178 Townsend), is just about ready to unveil his new, down-the-street wine bar spinoff Les Clos (234 Townsend), which we previously talked about back in
SF News The Next Big Development Battle Site: The Flower Mart Over in white-hot SoMa, another property that could be making a whole lot of money for one developer is set to become the site of the next battle between that developer and a
Arts & Entertainment Celebrity Sightings: <i>Looking</i> Stars Spotted Around S.F. As Shooting For Season 2 Begins As you probably heard, despite a lot of mixed reviews, HBO's S.F.-set gay dramedy Looking was renewed for a second season, and shooting is now starting up again here on location.
SF News Cash-Tossing Carjackers On The Loose In San Francisco A day after a gunpoint carjacking and an impromptu weapon-and-drug giveaway, the San Francisco Police Department continues to seek the three men who led them on a wild chase from Van Ness through
SF News Mayor Lee Launches Pilot Program To Help The Potentially Evicted Stay Put Photo: Dave Golden It may sound like a drop in the bucket (and it kind of is), but Mayor Ed Lee is rolling out a new program today, the first of its kind
SF News New App Provides Valet Parking Service Anywhere In SoMa Being the hub of techie San Francisco, Inner SoMa is the geographical limit of a new app that connects people in cars desperate to park with people who are willing to park them,
SF News Video: SoMa Collision Sends SUV Straight Towards Baby In Stroller A woman's quick reflexes and a baby's sheer luck were the only things that prevented tragedy last Friday, when a traffic collision in SoMa sent an SUV straight into the path of a
SF News Two Cool Skyscrapers By Architect Norman Foster Proposed For First and Mission Architecture critic John King calls plans for two new tall buildings in the Transbay District by starchitect Norman Foster "gasp-inducing," and we don't even have clear renderings yet. Nonetheless, it looks like we
SF News Wave Of Homicides Continues With Early-Morning SoMa Shooting After a 911 call was seemingly victimless and a dead body was brought to San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco Police Department officers are piecing together the city's third homicide in recent days.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DNA Lounge To Host Competition For Cocktail-Making Robots Got some free time this summer because you're not building a Burning Man camp? In September, DNA Lounge will host a competition for robotics nerds who are also cocktail nerds to build the
SF News Pinterest's Move Into San Francisco Design Center Halted By Board Of Supes [Updated] Updated: Pinterest's deal to move into 2 Henry Adams Street is pretty much dead. Today, the Board of Supervisors' Land Use & Economic Development Committee voted to table the building's request for landmark
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe Relocating To Coco500 Space In SoMa You may the earlier reported news that the popular, Caltrain-adjacent bistro Marlowe was facing a developer's wrecking ball in the coming year or so. Well, restaurateur Anna Weinberg, who's gone on to expand
SF News Police Arrest And Identify Arson Suspect [Update] The SFPD says they have caught a man they believe is the SoMa firebug responsible for a string of over a dozen fires, some of them in dumpsters and many around construction sites,
SF News SFPD Releases Photos Of SoMa Arson Suspect The SFPD this morning released photos of a man they're looking for in connection to the dozen or so fires that have been set in the last several weeks. Stills from surveillance cameras
SF News Luxury Vehicle Burns In Parking Garage Of Luxury High-Rise Thursday evening a BMW 3-series, an entry-level luxury vehicle at best, caught fire inside the parking garage at One Rincon Hill, San Francisco's tallest apartment building. According to ABC7, firefighters rushed in while
SF News Pinterest Looks To Move To Design District, Forcing Eviction Of Small Businesses Small design showrooms in the Design District are crying foul as landlords do their best to cash in on the crazy office rents being commanded around SoMa. Pinterest has signed a deal to
SF News 9 Suspicious Fires Strike SoMa and Mission In Past 3 Weeks A series of nine, likely related acts of arson have occurred in less than three weeks, most in SoMa around several highrise construction projects, seemingly the work of a firebug who has not
SF News $3.75 Million Dollar Settlement In The Works For Local Musician Mowed Down By Street Sweeper Local musician Jay Korber was dragged about 41 feet by the San Francisco street sweeper that struck his as he rode his bike in December, 2012. A year and a half later, the
SF News Hugo Hotel's Iconic 'Defenestration' Furniture Is For Sale When the abandoned Hugo Hotel is finally demolished this September, the 35 quirky pieces of furniture that make up artist Brian Goggin's "Defenestration" installation won't be thrown out with it. The leaping tables
