Labor Day

Brett Olson: Family Continues Search for East Bay Student Missing Since Sunday

A Lafayette family and community continue their search for Brett Olson after he disappeared while tubing down the Sacramento River over Labor Day Weekend.Brett Olson, 20, a rising Junior at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, was last seen around 1 p.m. Sunday when he arrived at Beer Can Beach along the Sacra ... More >>

Daniel Williams Identified as Man Killed in Motorcycle Crash

Medical authorities identified the man who was killed in a solo crash over Labor Day weekend as 39-year-old Daniel Williams of San Francisco. Williams was riding his motorcycle through Golden Gate Park on Saturday night when he hit a light pole and crashed, police said. He died at the scene.

Dub Mission Turns 16 With Good Vibes and Heavy Bass

Dub Mission's 16th Anniversary with Mista Chatman Elbo Room Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012 Better than: Your "Listen to Bob Marley" T shirt. "Look George, you're not listening to what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that I don't just think Romney's going to lose, I know it." The sharp twang of an elderly Te ... More >>

Jonathan Bullock Killed in Lower Pac Heights Shooting

Medical authorities have identified the 38-year-old man who was shot to death over Labor Day weekend as Jonathan Bullock of San Francisco. Officer Gordon Shyy says Bullock was on the 1500 block of Broderick at about 4:20 a.m. on Saturday when two men fired multiple shots at the victim. The suspects ... More >>

Sobriety Checkpoints in North Beach This Weekend

Cops will be on the prowl for drunk drivers again tonight as they finish the last leg of their 18-day DUI crackdown through Labor Day weekend.The police really hope that you don't go overboard with the booze to celebrate the long weekend, which Capt. Denis O'Leary ranks third most dangerous date for ... More >>

DJ Apollo on DJ Contests and the Positive Vibes of the Free Doin' It In The Park Party This Weekend

As a pioneer of the turntablism movement, which in the '90s redefined what it means to be a disc jockey, DJ Apollo's numerous accolades include membership in the first DJ team to ever win the 1992 DMC world DJ championships, as well as founding the famous turntable-band Invisibl Skratch Piklz with f ... More >>

Labor Day Traffic Forecast: Your Roadtrip Won't Be That Congested

If ever there was a silver lining to high gas prices, this just might be it: No traffic. Well, okay, that might be hyperbolic, but we can at least assure you that this Labor Day Weekend the roads won't be any more clogged than what you've grown accustomed to in San Francisco. While San Francisco has ... More >>

Another Yosemite Camper Dies From Hantavirus

Sadly, another adventurer who visited Yosemite this summer has reportedly died from a rare, rodent-borne disease otherwise known as the hantavirus. Health officials issued an alert yesterday, warning anyone who visited the national park this summer to watch out for flu-like symptoms -- and see a doc ... More >>

Cops to Roundup Local Drunks on the Roads

Starting Friday, you can expect to see cops, cops, and more cops on the roads for a planned 18-day crackdown on wasted drivers.Cops are really hoping you all stay sober through the end of the month -- or at least don't drive if you aren't. But just in case, there will be four sobriety checkpoints ov ... More >>

SPCA Is Giving Away Kittens This Weekend

After watching these zany acrocats, we can only assume you want a litter of your own. Well, you are in luck. Turns out, cats like to fuck like bunnies in late spring.early summer, which means the SPCA has more kitty offspring than they have space for. This is where you come in. Please adopt one of t ... More >>

No Tickets? Nine Ways You Can Still Get Into Burning Man 2012

Whatever else history might say of the Burning Man Ticket Fiasco of 2012, it offers the community that puts on the festival one more brute lesson in market economics. For attendees at the longtime countercultural arts festival held annually in the desert near Reno, news that four-fifths of the ticke ... More >>

Fire in the Sky

Thanksgiving: A Deadly Day on the Road

​I don't know about you, but at our Thanksgiving dinners there's always that one person who consumes more Wild Turkey than turkey. And thinking of this made us wonder: Why hasn't the San Francisco Police Department made any plans for DUI checkpoints this Thursday?San Francisco Police Captain Al Ca ... More >>

Pension Wars: This Was No 'Backroom Deal'

Charlie PowellEd Lee will shuffle the cards right in front of you. No tricks. ​It's a scientific fact: Attempt to comprehend the fetid relationship between pensions and politics in this city and a substance resembling guacamole will begin oozing from your ears. Finally, a tangible reason not to we ... More >>

Castagnola's Kitchen Walkout, Ryan Scott's New Place, and Groceries by Boat

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. A packed restaurant with a kitchen staff walkout is among a manager's worst nightmares. Inside Scoop reports that Castagnola's kitchen staff walked out on the Fisherman's Wharf restaurant on Saturday at 7 ... More >>

Weekend Parties: Virgo Four at No Way Back, Paul Devro at Tormenta Tropical, and More

araabMUZIK is at Lights Down Low this Friday​ With the passing of Labor Day, we've finally moved through summer and hit fall. Now that the agony of that realization is over, we can finally look back and appreciate just how good Summer 2011 was for San Francisco nightlife, with huge bookings, r ... More >>

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong Expelled from Southwest Flight for Sagging His Pants

Christopher VictorioGreen Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, in better-belted times.​ Safe to say your Labor Day weekend is off to a better start than Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong's: On Thursday night, Armstrong was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight for sagging his pants.

Devices That Will Help Women Pee Standing Up

If you can't hack this, you can resort to some cheating devices.​Ms. Georgia returned this morning with another query from the vanguard of women's alternative peeing. Yesterday, she e-mailed us for advice on peeing standing up, a subject we are uniquely experts in after having reported on "Stand2P ... More >>

Gone Fishing: Have a Good Holiday

We gave you plenty of news to chew on over the weekend -- the iPhone 5 saga, a finger-snapping show gone bad, and a quick lesson on how to pee standing up if you are a woman. So we're taking off for the weekend and we won't be around to inform or entertain you Monday, because we don't want to do lab ... More >>

Sandwiches Are Hot, and People's Catches Fire

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Sandwich lovers rejoice! Three new spots will be serving up anything but the hum-drum PB&J. Eater SF shares that Hot Press will be toasting paninis at 2966 Mission (at 26th St.), but no word yet on an ope ... More >>

Gay Blogger Calls for Boycott of Retail Stores Supporting Christian Values Network

Now gays are really going to be bad for business​It wasn't enough that Apple pulled its iTunes store from the Christian Values Network, which is decidedly antigay. A San Francisco blogger is now asking people everywhere to boycott those retailers that are still enrolled in the Christian shopping w ... More >>

It's All About Meat: A Bacon Truck, Beef Sandwiches, and Pig and Pie

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. The smell of bacon is wafting through the city air today, as Bacon Bacon Truck, which we mentioned earlier, parks in SOMA for its first day. SFist shares the news that bacon lovers can pick up lunch this ... More >>

Take the Best G-Rated Cock Ride This Weekend

What a ride ​It's Friday, and judging by the last five days, who knows what the weather will bring this weekend. But while tossing around some ideas of what to do this weekend, we came across one idea that seems like something every San Franciscan -- young and old -- should try:The G-rated cock ri ... More >>

Two Haters, a Home-Burner and a Skyscraper Climber in Court Today

Not above the law in SF​Say what you want about District Attorney Kamala Harris -- the Attorney General candidate is a "different kind of prosecutor," according to a lengthy profile published in today's Los Angeles Times, and true to form, her office prosecutes different kinds of cases. And how. F ... More >>

Head Case

Experts say ex-football players with head injuries often end up in the criminal justice system. Former USC lineman Chris Brymer is exhibit A.

'Bait Car' comes to San Francisco

Una Pizza Napoletana Spins Its Pies, Citizen's Band Strikes Up Lunch and Brunch Service

​ ​The past 96 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.It looks like all the local paid bloggers (including SFoodie's staffers) took Labor Day off, an acknowledgment that blogging is real work. Congratulations to all of you, and may the afterglow ... 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 >>

Skylite Snowballs, a Taste of Baltimore in the East Bay

Tracey Taylor​Berkeleyside reports on the Labor Day weekend debut of the Skylite Snowballs truck, which parked in front of Berkeley's Star Grocery on Sunday and hit up Oakland's Lake Merritt on Monday with Baltimore's answer to syrup-drenched shaved ice. Though the name is a nod to an artific ... More >>

The Week in Event Names: YouTube Bestiary Edition

Well, that's it. The week in music has been overrun by creatures great and small. Even on Labor Day, that hallowed sabbath of secular holidays, we were forced to contend with Panda Bear at the Fox. Is nothing sacred?But press on we must. To prepare you for the faunal frenzy in performance spaces acr ... More >>

Magic Kids, ZineFest, Prince vs. Michael, Doin' It in the Park, and More

Magic Kids plays Bottom of the Hill this Sunday​It's Labor Day! Meaning: an extra day to your weekend, 10 percent more texts than usual and even more chances to nurse epic hangovers. Have fun San Francisco, you deserve it. Here's our list of fun things to do this weekend for less than a ticket to ... More >>

Fitz and the Tantrums Play to a Tame Crowd at Popscene

​Fitz & The Tantrums @ PopsceneSeptember 2, 2010 Better than: Refusing to allow Thursday to function as the new Friday. Fitz and the Tantrums are an anomaly in the indie music scene. All the super-serious Canadian post-rock bands, shy-spoken Midwestern pretty boys, and unmovable ... More >>

Beer Truck Overturns, Ruins Morning Commute

When beer trucks lose their load during commute hours, we all lose​Tragedy has enveloped both beer-drinkers and commuters today in the Bay Area. A truck carrying a purported 43,000 pounds of beer has hit an embankment and overturned on Highway 17. Its precious, precious payload is now leaking alon ... More >>

Nopa, Spire, Maverick: Labor Day Weekend's New Brunch Options

alisa g./YelpNopa fires up the French toast griddle this weekend.​Three brunch newcomers for those of you already making plans for the holiday weekend: Nopa enters the brunch column Saturday, with an opening menu that lists house-made granola, smoked trout with a house-baked bagel, pain de mi ... More >>

Hapa Ramen Adds Tuesday Ferry Plaza Market

John BirdsallBeginning next week, Hapa Ramen is expanding exponentially.​Hapa Ramen doubles its cumulative presence at Ferry Plaza next week. Starting Sept. 7, Richie Nakano's traveling noodle shop will sell at the Ferry Plaza Tuesday market, in addition to Nakano's regular Thursday slot. Knif ... More >>

Chairman Bao Throwdown Is On; Le Truc to Host Pissed-Off Baohaus NYC Owner

Hugh Schick's Le Truc bustaurant expects to host New York's Eddie Huang on or around Labor Day.The above is a mockup.​Eater SF reported Tuesday that pissed-off Manhattan baoman Eddie Huang was proposing a throwdown with Chairman Bao, the Mobi Munch-operated S.F. truck Huang had accused of name ... More >>

Mission Beach Cafe Brings Back Tuesday Smokers, Part of S.F.'s Upscale BBQ Trend

ifoodufood/FlickrMission Beach Cafe and Town Hall BBQ (pictured) are part of the seasonal pop-up trend.​We don't know if Mission Beach Cafe's Bill Clarke and Alan Carter hold to the no-white-shoes-before-Memorial-Day rule, but they do believe the holiday marks the beginning of barbecue season. For ... More >>

Bridge Expert: I'll Still Drive Bay Bridge -- But Break Is Baffling

​Whenever something goes wrong with a bridge here or elsewhere, one of the first people we call is Mark Ketchum -- one of the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California's designated experts on bridges. So, for what it's worth, Ketchum said he will unhesitatingly drive his car across t ... More >>

Feed the World

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Discovering the delights of DeLessio while searching for a good sandwich to take to a movie

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After a quarter of a century, S.F.'s venerable vegetarian restaurant is still leading by example

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