When it's done wrong it's shameful, but done right, it's amazing: French onion soup at Chez Maman. PHOTO BY YELP USER FANCYPANTS X Check out this week's Feast food and drink supplement for the best in hidden Bay bites The bowl, the cradle of sustenance... »
Two Flux Foundation founders, Rebecca Anders and Jessica Hobbs, with a model of their funded Zoa project. Guardian photo by Steven T. Jones It's been a tough year for Black Rock City LLC (aka the Borg), the SF-based company that stages Burning Man, par... »
Gay coming out novels are a dime a dozen. But The World of Normal Boys is something else. It’s a detailed, play-by-play exploration into the consciousness of a 13-year-old boy as he struggles to figure out who he is meant to be. K.M. Soehnlein's book e... »
Courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories As I sat in a hallway at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, waiting for director Lynne Ramsay to finish a photo shoot with We Need to Talk About Kevin star Tilda Swinton, I realized that Kirsten Dunst wa... »
“Everyone you meet here in San Francisco has some anecdote about 'the wild night I ended up in SoMa,’” author Kemble Scott said back in 2007. Sure, the neighborhood has experienced a gentrified taming since then. The outdoor orgies of yesteryear have b... »
Almanac brewer Damian Fagan pours at his fruit-focused brewery's first SF Beer Week opening celebration. ALL PHOTOS BY CAITLIN DONOHUE The first drinkers to make it into the SF Beer Week opening celebration on Friday, January 10 had the run of the taps... »
“Ganache is proof that God loves us,” exclaimed a student with pink and purple hair, as Neo Cocoa founder Christine Doerr rapidly whisked a bowl of melted chocolate and poured it into a metal frame for cooling. We all stood around a huge table at La Co... »
Magnolia Brewery hopshot David McLean has the lowdown on SF Beer Week 2012. PHOTO BY JENNIFER YIN Now that Drynuary has basically curled up into a ball and died (take that, seasonal sobriety!), it's time to turn our gaze to SF Beer Week. 10 days of hea... »
Fact: Comedian Frankie Quinones takes great care of his nails. PHOTO BY AMANDA LOPEZ Common knowledge states that if you're serious about becoming a stand-up comedian on the West Coast, you move to Los Angeles. But Frankie Quinones created the diversit... »
Going balls out for Berlin-style ping-pong with American Tripps The only thing lacking is a haze of cigarette smoke curling over the lone ping-pong table bogarting the cosy dance floor of Project One. A polite jostle of players, perhaps 25 strong, ring... »
Green Street circa 1927, named for a fraudulent Talbot Green. PHOTO COURTESY SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY Guardian history writer Lucy Schiller is exploring the city street-by-street in the slow week inter-holiday weekends. Today, learn about a newspap... »
Bargain Basement Mondays and Amoebapalooza The upside to living in a city as notoriously pricey as San Francisco is that despite the myriad opportunities to blow too much cash on a mediocre time out, there are plenty of options for cheaper entertainmen... »
