SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ame Honors Anniversary Of Japanese Tsunami-Quake With Prix Fixe Benefit From now until March 18th, St. Regis' Michelin-starred food joint Ame honors the one-year anniversary of the tsunami and earthquake in Miyagi, Japan, with a special prix fixe dinner option. Dishes inspired by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fight For Fat Liver: Foie Gras Dinner Benefit For Humane And Ethical Farming Standards We've got a small rain-on-your-wedding-day quandary for you: Are you conflicted about humane and ethical farming standards yet love the taste of soon-to-be-banned foie gras? We sure are. Which is why we love
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On Brannan Street... Colorful t-shirts deck out this Gap building on Brannan (between Second and Third Streets), brightening up an otherwise dreary block.
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Blue On Blue "Blue on blue at Folsom & 10th streets in South of Market" by Troy Holden.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Fantastic Post-It Mural Welcomes Game Developers Conference It's that time of year again when GameSpot, located at 235 Second Street in San Francisco, creates a nifty Post-It mural in honor of the Game Developers Conference now in progress. In all
SF News Victim Snatched Off SOMA Street Now Safe From Kidnapping Pimp Last week near 10th and Mission in SOMA, a woman was kidnapped and tossed into a car while walking with a pal in broad daylight. The incident, which happened on February 28 at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fluffy Grilled Cheese At Darwin Cafe For lunch today, we had intended on eating the Roast Beef Sandwich at Darwin Cafe — SoMa's not-so-best-kept secret, a small cafe/sandwich shop tucked away on Ritch and Bryant — but we were either
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Brainwash's New Colors "Brainwash's New Colors" by Demetrios Lyras.
SF News Two Roof Shooters Busted In Overnight SoMa Standoff San Francisco Police closed off streets around the intersection of Ninth and Brannan in SoMa around 11:10 p.m. last night after responding to reports of shots fired in the area. Officers
SF News Woman Escapes Would-Be Kidnappers In New Year's Eve Abduction A 26-year-old woman who was jumped by two men in broad daylight while walking in SoMa managed to escape her abductors in a New Year's Eve incident that ended after the two suspects
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Bowling Updates: Pete's Tavern To Become Ballpark-Adjacent Gaming Mecca In a bit of year-end bar news this week, we learn that Peter Osborne, the man behind such crowded Giants pre-game drinking spots as MoMo's, Pete's Tavern and Pedro's Cantina, has plans to
SF News San Francisco's NYE Sobriety Checkpoint Revealed Billed "Avoid the 8" by SFPD, police will check for lushes behind the wheel this New Year's Eve at 8th and Folsom Streets. It will begin at 8:30 p.m. and end
SF News Folsom Street Fair Date Changed For First Time In 20 Years Typically held on the last weekend in September, milquetoast sex and fetish fete Folsom Street Fair will move its date for the first time in 20 years. Next year's butt blowout will take
Arts & Entertainment Video: 8-Bit Post-It Mural Time-Lapse At GameSpot Gamers at the GameSpot headquarters in San Francisco spent last night creating an 8-bit Post-It mural on the office windows, which you can see via this nifty time-lapse video. Don't ask. Just enjoy
Arts & Entertainment 7x7 Magazine Moving to SOMA After almost a decade in Union Square, local lifestyle magazine 7x7 will pack up their staplers and Post-Its and move to SOMA—glorious, rad, joyous, dirty, homelessy, wealthy South of Market. The publication(
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Releases New Details on Planned Expansion Behold: a new look at SFMOMA's expansion. We've caught earlier glimpses of the overall design for the new space that will add 100,000 square feet of gallery space and house the Doris
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Ed Lee & 1% Attend Fortune's '40 Under 40' Party At Zynga In fancypants news, a gaggle of tech ilk, public relations birds, and assorted media-ish types attended Fortune Magazine's 2011 "40 Under 40" fete at the Zynga headquarters in SOMA. (Think Out Magazine's OUT
SF News Development Company Ready to Turn the Chronicle Building in to Something Useful At Fifth and Mission, the development company behind the 5M project that has helped the Chronicle lease out the unused square footage of their offices is ready to move to the next phase
SF News Zynga Temp Employee Arrested for Swiping $100K in Company Equipment Keith Brown, 21, was arrested on Tuesday at gaming company Zynga's after allegedly stealing an estimated $100,000 worth of equipment. Brown stands accused of taking company laptops, desktop computers and software. His
Arts & Entertainment Locally-Sourced Calendar Features Adorable Pooches, SOMA Landmarks Behold, the city's first hyperlocal pet-centric paper-based calendar. Created by the bloggers behind the sprawling, formerly industrial neighborhood blog LiveSOMA and benefiting a local charity, the calendar features 12 months of bridges, puppies,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer Trounces W Hotel's Trace The Chronicle's Michael Bauer used his Sunday column to throw some light shade at the W hotel's new dining experience, Trace. And what an experience it is. Taking over the old XYZ spot
