SF News What Went Down At Last Night's Eagle Tavern Rally So here's the deal: During last night's emergency meeting at The Eagle Tavern and estimated 250-300 people convened to mourn/fight the bar's impending closure. Former Supervisor Bevan Dufty, along with a gaggle
SF News Supe. Kim: Eagle Closure "Really Unfortunate," But S.F. Helpless To Stop It After it was announced Sunday that the Eagle, historic SoMa gay leather bar, would shut operations down on Friday, 4/29, some locals jumped into action. The Eagle will hold a community meeting
SF News The Eagle, Famous Gay SoMa Bar, Set To Close, 4/29 The Eagle -- 30-year-old SoMa gay bar noted worldwide for its Thursday Night Live concerts and spirited Beer Bust Sundays -- will shut operations down on Friday, 4/29. Although, according to a
Arts & Entertainment Sunday: Free Yoga At SOMArts Frazzled? Chakras out of whack? New yoga pants? Then, by all means, head sover to SOMArts on Sunday for two free yoga meditations. SOMArts tells us: "Drop by the All Access Open house
SF News Evan Williams to Leave Twitter (Sorta) Via his personal blog, Nebraska farmboy turned Twitter co-founder Evan Williams (that's @ev to you) announced plans to leave the, ahem, microblogging service. He writes: After stepping down from CEO six months ago,
Arts & Entertainment Photo Show Tomorrow Night: #Thankyou Hey, you know Travis Jensen? He's a regularly featured photographer on SFist. In fact, this image was today's Photo du Jour. (Psst, tag your photos with "sfist" in Flickr for consideration on the
SF News Two Fires Spark in S.F. Early This Morning Two smallish fires erupted this morning in San Francisco. First, "San Francisco firefighters responded to a one-alarm fire in the Sunset District this morning...at around 3:30 a.m. to a building
Arts & Entertainment Alice Street Community Garden Lays Disco Eggs Over the weekend, these mirror ball eggs turned up at the Alice Street Community Garden in SoMa, which you can find here. Also, do you know the name of the artist(s)? If
SF News Sunday Morning SoMa Dispute Prompts Fatal Shooting Two men from the city of Richmond were shot on Sunday night during a dispute in a SoMa parking lot. One of the victims succumbed to his injures. The incident happened on Jessie
SF News That's One Cold Game of Cityville "[Zynga] let us know there is no way in the world that they can go public and pay payroll tax on all their employee stock options. They mostly just dropped that in our
SF News Supe. Jane Kim to Make South Park Appearance Tonight We've come to admire District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim. Mainly for lightning rod reasons - as of late, she has certain wonk sects in a tizzy over only God knows what; being an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fourth Street Bar & Grill Uses Tsunami Tragedy for Happy Hour Deal SoMa's Fourth Street Bar & Grill wants you to celebrate today's tsunami and its survivors with a (humorous?) happy hour. Thoughts?
SF News Patti LuPone Dissed at Twitter Headquarters? We refuse to believe that the fine folks at Twitter have never heard of Patti LuPone, who, among many other indefatigable accomplishments, was Corky's mom and the first American Evita Peron However, Leah
misc Deal of the Day: $2 Beer, Any Beer, Mondays at Lone Star Last Monday, we tried to get inside SoMa's Bloodhouse bar, which proved a fruitless endeavor. Alas, the popular Folsom watering hole was far too packed. Defeated, we instead headed down to Lone Star
SF News SFist Has A New Neighbor, Gavin Newsom Founders Den, a "private clubhouse" (see: workspace) for entrepreneurs in SoMa founded by Marissa Mayer's husband, has a new resident, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom. TechCrunch coos: Yes, the Lieutenant Governor of California (and
SF News AT&T Park Signs Only Take 5 Months To Reflect Giants Championship Glory As your editor took his daily parasol stroll around AT&T Park ground today, we noticed that they finally updated the O'Doul Gate side of the ballpark to reflect the San Francisco
SF News (UPDATED) Infamous Kenneth Cole Egypt Tweet Emblazoned on SOMA Store Window Just as soon as Kenneth Cole posted this Twitter update that used the crisis in Egypt to sell shoes, he quickly erased it and followed up with an apology. “I’ve dedicated my
SF News More Bike Lanes On Folsom? Good news for San Francisco’s downtrodden biking class: soon you may be able to ride directly from Rainbow Grocery to Philz Coffee with complete vehicular impunity. The SFMTA’s Sustainable Streets Division
SF News Agitated Muni Riders Hurl Rocks, Insults at Buses Down in the city's China Basin arrondissement on Thursday afternoon, SF Weekly employees Muni passengers reached the boiling point after being left "stranded for hours." Yikes. Stones and curse words, it seems, were
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fly Trap, Circa 1911 Hoss Zaré, owner and chef at Zaré at Flytrap at 606 Folsom, posted this image of the same restaurant back in 1911, when it was at its former address, 515 Golden Gate Avenue.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: Savory Brioche at Pinkie's Bakery A portable, savory baked good is our Achilles' heel. We're all yours if you give us a shock of salt and grease within a pastry framework. Which is why we were elated to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink More Hapa SF at Bar Basic Tonight Chef William Pilz and his Hapa SF truck will park outside Bar Basic in SOMA tonight. And, yes, we know, this is a regular weekly thing. Tonight, however, he will cook for patrons
SF News Photo Du Jour Snoop Dogg stopped by Twitter headquarters yesterday. Nick Fisher snapped this pic of the hip hop crooner in action.
SF News Twitter To Leave S.F.? Currently residing on Harrison and Fourth above a Subway and next to a Whole Foods, Twitter headquarters is appropriately nestled in SoMa's tech-industry neighborhood. For now, anyway. "Media reports say that Twitter Inc.
