Latest posts by Peter Lawrence Kane

It’s not quite a clone of The Max from Saved by the Bell, but it’s got a small and growing shrine to Spike Lee among the curlicues and PoMo patterns of the fun and often unfairly despised Memphis Group. What is such a place? It’s Elda, the cocktail bar whose owners have worked at heavy-hitters […]

For the seventh year running, Noise Pop will expand outside the confines of its Mission offices and into the streets. The 20th Street Block Party returns on Saturday, Aug. 17, with Australian indie rockers Alex Cameron & Roy Molloy, Philly quartet Speedy Ortiz, ex-Cherry Glazerr singer-songwriter SASAMI, Oakland’s own Hello Yello and Shutups, ZOLA, and many others performing on two […]

As one half of house supergroup Silk City — Mark Ronson being the remainder — Diplo studded his set at the revived Treasure Island Music Festival last fall with some choice remixes. As something of a titanic figure in electronic music, he commands high rates to perform. But S.F.’s own indoor-outdoor venue The Midway has […]

It’s not an eviction. It’s not a forced displacement. It’s not the owner cashing out to turn the building into a glass-and-chrome wonderland for crypto guys. Ali Baba’s Cave is just closing, is all. Mission Local reports that the 36-year-old Mission Mediterranean restaurant will shutter this Saturday, June 29, as longtime owner Husein Dawah retires. There […]

As we have written in the past, Howard Street is remarkable for having very little on it that’s remarkable. There are several exceptions — Cellarmaker, Tank18, Tin — but considering its relative location and length, it’s mostly the street you pass by on your way elsewhere. Well, as local super-historian Burrito Justice has informed us, […]

I’ve never had coffee with activated charcoal before. It always struck me as a pseudoscientific add-on with a high Goop quotient, plus it’s what the vet used to save my dog’s life after he ate most of a Trader Joe’s 72-percent cacao Pound Plus bar.  And the buzzy, marketing term “activated” gets under my skin […]

The Castro is the world’s most recognized gayborhood, and while the giant rainbow flag snapping in the wind over Harvey Milk Plaza seems as as though it will stay that way forever, that’s not necessarily the case. Terry Beswick, executive director of the GLBT Historical Society on 18th Street, fears that the neighborhood could go […]

Because this June is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising — and because Pride Sunday falls on the 30th — it feels as though Pride Weekend was really two weekends. Then again, that could also be because rainbow rebranding reached an all-time high this year. But here are our choices for the main event, […]

More than 45 years on, Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells has wrapped itself like an epiphytic orchid around the history of art rock. At the age of 19, the multi-instrumentalist released the two-track 1973 album (whose eeriest passages went on to serve as theme music for The Exorcist) that also just so happened to be Virgin […]

For a big, round birthday six years ago, I took my boyfriend to the House of Prime Rib. It was December, and the entire experience was glorious, from the formal Xmas interior to the King Henry VIII cut to the martinis that made us feel like Henrys IX and X. When my parents visited last […]