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20th Century Cafe Launches Kickstarter Campaign With Adorable Old-Timey Video

Pastry chef Michelle Polzine has been trying to open 20th Century Café in a converted laundromat at Oak and Gough (across the street from Rich Table) for a while -- we wrote recently about the pop-up bake sales she was holding at State Bird Provisions every Sunday. Now she's looking for Kickstarter ... More >>

Game On

Bar Tartine Sandwich Shop: Worth Some Time in Line

Bottles Up

"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy": An Atmospheric Return to the Cold War

Graphic: How Does Outside Lands Compare to the World's Biggest Music Festivals?

​ Lots of people, including us, think that this past year's Outside Lands Music Festival was the best one yet. But how does the four-year-old event in S.F.'s Golden Gate Park compare to the world's biggest music festivals? Hint: We have much better wine, and we care about Foursquare a lot mor ... More >>

Nick Balla: 'I'd been planning for years on doing a Hungarian restaurant'

Chad RobertsonNick Balla, now of Bar Tartine.​ Nicolaus (Nick) Balla made his reputation in San Francisco cooking in Japanese restaurants. The CIA grad ran a restaurant in Michigan before moving out to San Francisco, where he worked in Ozumo before becoming the opening chef of O Izakaya Lounge an ... More >>

Bar Tartine: Under New Chef Nick Balla, a Turn Toward Cal-Hungarian

Nick Balla Reveals His Hungarian History, the Edge Folds

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Inside Scoop talks to Nick Balla, the former Nombe chef who's taking over the kitchen at Bar Tartine when Chris Kronner leaves, and finds out that under his direction the classically Califo ... More >>

San Francycle: How SF's Impending Bikeshare Will Work

​Bikesharing: crazy, right? The expense, the hills, the repairs, the theft -- it seems like it would never, in a million years, work. Except it does, in plenty of cities from Montreal to Budapest to Washington, D.C. And it's getting a little embarrassing that San Francisco isn't one of them. ... More >>

Panda Bear Previews 'Tomboy' at the Fox Theater

Richard Haick​Panda Bear@ The Fox Theater, OaklandSeptember 6, 2010 Better than: Camp counselor-ing on shrooms, which could be cool. It's becoming increasingly clear that Noah Lennox, known to animals and hipsters as Panda Bear, is to experitronica champions Animal Collective what Jonny ... More >>

Will SFPark Encourage Earth to Rise Up Against Its Human Foe?

Mother Nature Fights Back​As noted earlier on this page, San Francisco today launches a large-scale test of a new parking system whereby pavement-embedded sensors communicate with each other, a central computer, and parking meters in order to be able to raise prices when empty spaces become scarce ... More >>

Hungarian Rhapsody

The 12th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival: Day three

Pollution Absolution

A company is dumping questionable materials into the ocean so that you can buy forgiveness in the form of carbon credits

S.F. International Film Fest

The festival offers lots to choose from in its second week. A guide to the good, the bad, and the so-so.

Love Shack

Find excellent New England seafood in a little place on Market

Beauty Amid the Horror

Fateless paints a stunning portrait of a Jewish teen's death camp survival

Pure Bull

The Matador helps Pierce Brosnan shatter his Bond mold

Remote Controlled

Will a new generation of curbside sensors end our parking problems -- or help the government monitor our every move?

Underground Hit

The subways of Budapest provide a rich setting for Kontroll

Film Capsule Reviews

Speak to Me

You don't need to know Chinese to enjoy a tasty chive dumpling

Talking With Angels

A Hungarian athlete's efforts to save Jews during WWII – and the spirits who helped her

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Insane Clown Posse

Opera, fun? Golden Gate Opera takes the stuffing out of I Pagliacci

Eye Spy

The man behind the lens

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Readings and Eatings

Literary events lead us to the perfect neighborhood restaurant

Letters to the Editor

Week of January 1, 2003

Expatriate Games

Arthur Phillips reads from his debut novel, Prague, a tale of four Americans searching for adventure in Eastern Europe

American Without Tears

Éva Gardos delivers an autobiographical culture clash in her debut feature, An American Rhapsody

I Married an Angel

42nd Street Moon's staging is a small-scale gem

Hear This

Garrick Ohlsson and the San Francisco Symphony perform Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2

The Cyberpostman Always Writes Twice

Zoom Lens

Riff Raff

Hear This

Stage

Sometimes You Eat the Bear

Andre the Giant

Recordings