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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 >>

Cozy Up With Some Hot Booze This Winter

Recently, a British friend lamented to me about the lack of places in San Francisco to get what is apparently an English staple this time of year: mulled wine. I didn't apologize for our country mostly because I never got an apology for how horrid all the food in England was when I was there -- and ... More >>

Two Sisters Bar and Books: Small Plates, Big Ambiance

"Beloved": Songs Sung Blah

Euro 2012: Why Lunatics Will Be Waking You Up Early in the Coming Weeks

Perhaps it's happened to you. In the comfort of your own home, you switch on the television to watch a high-level soccer match being played on the other side of the world and being broadcast, live, at an ungodly local hour. Due to the darkness and your early morning stupor, it's only at halftime tha ... More >>

Cafe Prague Pre-Valentine Block Party

What: Pre-Valentine Block Party Where: Cafe Prague When: Fri., February 10, 4-7 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: Cafe Prague loves throwing a beer and wieners holiday block party, and this time, it's got a St. Valentine's spin. Because what goes better with romantic love than discounted sausages? S ... More >>

Cafe Prague's Holiday Block Party is the Wurst

Yelp/Nice L.The party block.​What: Cafe Prague's Wurst Holiday Block Party Where: Cafe Prague When: Fri., December 16, 4-8 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: All the party people who are willing to head into the Financial District at 4 p.m. on a Friday afternoon will be rewarded with discounte ... More >>

"Occupy" and "99 Percent" Shortlisted for Word of the Year

​Oxford University Press announced its 2011 Word of the Year on Wednesday. And it is ... drumroll please ... "Squeezed middle." Which brings to mind another word: "Huh?" Probably not the reaction the lexicographers were going for. "Squeezed middle," it turns out, is not what you get after eati ... More >>

Help! That Victoria's Secret Angels Ad Is Ruining M83's "Midnight City" For Me

​ Can there be a button you press somewhere on the Internet that lets advertisers and musicians know that if you see that one ad -- with that one song -- one more time, you are going to hate the song, the ad, and the product ... forever? Judging by their quickly hatched hater-base, the membe ... More >>

A16 Chef David Taylor Blazes His Own Trail of Carpaccio

Photos by Alanna Hale​Eight months ago, executive chef Liza Shaw left the popular Marina restaurant A16. David Taylor, formerly chef de cuisine, has quietly slipped into her place, marking his first time as executive chef. Most recently serving as sous chef at XYZ restaurant in the W Hotel fo ... More >>

Girls, Ladies, Women, and Laughs

Seemen's Kal Spelletich Takes Fire-Shooting Robot Art to Prague

Spelletich with one of his terrifying, fascinating artworks.​America may not have an equivalent to Vaclav Havel, the world-renowned literary artist who led a nation to freedom. But we do have Kal Spelletich, director of the art group The Seemen. He's a leading figure in the global machine art move ... More >>

S.F's Chinese New Year Parade Has Become a Hotbed of Controversy

Google Art Project Snubs Hometown SF Museums

Nothing to see here​Google Art Project, the company's new technology feature that allows you to see street views of museums, is offering 3D tours of galleries in Amsterdam, New York, and 15 other sites -- but not in San Francisco. That's right, Google is snubbing museums in its own backyard, inclu ... More >>

Prague Rock: Free Radiohead Concert DVD Out Now

Been a while since Radiohead came through the Bay Area, and it'll probably be another while before they return. (Thom Yorke played at the Fox in April, but that doesn't count.) Looks like several more months of putting their discography on shuffle and watching 7 Television Commercials on endless loo ... More >>

Jug Shop Lines Up Two Sweet Little Sour Beer Tastings

Brett L./FlickrThe sour beer sessions run Aug. 20 and 27.​Unless you've been living in a lagering cave in the Czech Republic (or the Midwest), or just traveled here from the turn of this century, sour beers are all the rage. Just ask the Paper of Record. In case you couldn't make Stone Brewery ... More >>

Zum Anniversary Show with KIT, High Castle, Core of the Coalman, Dunes, and More

KIT​Zum - Some Kind of Anniversarywith KITHigh CastleCore of the CoalmanDunesMincemeat or TenspeedDalton Bros.HutsAugust 7th, 2010 @ 21 Grand Better than: Massive summer musical festivals teeming with inebriated suburbanites. In the increasingly volatile world of independent record ... More >>

Hog and Rocks Opens, Cafe Prague Closes Its Doors

​Monitoring the past 96 hours of gossip and cold, hard facts about restaurant openings and closings in San Francisco.SFoodie doesn't know what you all did over your three-day weekend, but we spent most of it on the couch, catching up on True Blood episodes and ruing the millions of dollars the cit ... More >>

World Cup Success Not a Mark of Superior National Character

'American spirit' on parade...​Yesterday's 91st-minute goal by Landon Donovan to transform the United States from hapless losers to potential World Cup champions was that rare sports moment that could just make you cry. And not tears of joy -- which are light and spontaneous -- but the tears of ma ... More >>

Nattily Dressed Masturbator Lurks in Park

Apparel like this was just the start of it...​A man with a notable sense of fashion -- and a notable lack of apparel in the one place society demands you cover -- was reported terrorizing passers-by in Crocker Amazon Park. At a shade before 9 a.m. on Tuesday, a woman spotted a man in the following ... More >>

Vegan Fast-Food Loving Hut Opens in San Francisco Centre Food Court

​The Loving Hut, an international vegan fast-food chain with one San Francisco branch in Chinatown, just opened up a stall in the ground-floor food court of the San Francisco Centre on Saturday. Serving less than a dozen East-West dishes in the $5-$9 range ― nuggets of indeterminate provenance, ... More >>

Recently opened dining spots in S.F.

Anvil

New Restaurants

New Restaurants

New Restaurants

Saturday Night: Afrotek Festival at the Dark Room

Afrotek Festival The Dark Room December 20, 2008 Review by Eric K. Arnold; Photos by EKAphotography Better Than: A typically clichéd hip-hop club. Arriving at Club Six's "Dark Room" at around 11 p.m., I overhear a group of about seven people with Eastern European accents. Where are they from, I ... More >>

And the Band Played On

Your Guide to the San Francisco International Film Festival

Bang One Out

I Can See Clearly Now

Repertory Film Listings

Repertory Film Listings

Mystery, He Wrote

The playwright of one of these one-acts seems to have vanished without a trace

Repertory Film Listings

God Save the Queen

A talented rapper narrowly survives another lousy movie

Flight of the Brundibar

A twisted children's performance from the creator of Where the Wild Things Are

Reps Etc.

The Big Joke

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

A Hard Day's Knight

As promised, Brian Helgeland's new movie rocks

House Of Tudor

Day Glo Abortions; Sunshine; Nina Simone

House Of Tudor

Upcoming comedy and music performances

A Tall Cool One

The B Spot

Lose Your Mind

Riff Raff

Foreign-Born Dog Soldiers

U.S. police departments, including the SFPD, shun American-bred recruits for their canine corps

Good Grease

Frankie's Bohemian continues the proud, unpretentious tradition of the beer-and-burger hangout