Transamerica Pyramid

Sydney Town Tavern Sticks to Basics Done Well in the FiDi

Just around the corner from the Transamerica Pyramid comes the new Sydney Town Tavern, a reference to Barbary Coast days when exiles from Australian penal colonies populated San Francisco. It's hardly a wretched hive of scum and villainy in there, though. In fact, it's a fairly ordinary sports bar ... More >>

Jason Moran Brings Live Skateboarders into the Fold at SFJAZZ, 5/5/13

Jason Moran Sunday, May 5, 2013 SFJAZZ Center Better than: A skate video soundtrack, especially one that isn't jazzy. Midway through the final night of his residency at SFJAZZ Center, pianist and composer Jason Moran stood before a crowd of well-heeled San Francisco and North Bay Boomers and waxed ... More >>

Christopher Stender: Court Upholds Injunction Against Attorney Accused of Scamming Immigrants

Martin Guajardo, the former San Francisco immigration lawyer accused of scamming his clients, remains at large since City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed suit against him in November 2010. In the meantime, Christopher Stender, an attorney whom the city has accused of aiding and abetting Guarardo's all ... More >>

Number 30: Custard Buns from City View

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Regulars at City View know that there is a reason to make it there before the rush: The dim sum restaurant bakes a limited number of custard buns every day and runs out of them long before service is over. After noon, ... More >>

We're With Stupid

"Tyler Perry's Good Deeds": The Only Novelty Is the Setting

No. 74: Comstock Saloon's Pisco Punch

Lou BustamantePisco Punch at Comstock Saloon, a cocktail with a lineage.​SFoodie's countdown of the 92 best things to eat and drink in San Francisco, 2011 edition. ​The one issue all cocktail historians can agree on is this: Determining the origin of a drink is imprecise work. Like most ... More >>

Willie's World: The wisdom of S.F.'s ex-mayor

Your Rundown on the Week in S.F. Government

A Tea Party slogan unknown in San Franciso government​Should be a fun week -- the Board of Supervisors is weighing in on the fiasco involving narcotics analysis at the San Francisco Police Department crime lab, the Police Commission is trying to reform its process for disciplining wayward officers ... More >>

Weekly Ink: A Rose By Any Other Name

​Spotted: Strolling in Washington Square ParkVital Statistics: Thom McClusky, retired, lives right by the Transamerica Pyramid.When: May 6 1978, the night before my niece's wedding.What: It's hard to tell now, but if you look at this half, it's a crescent moon. There's the eye, the nose the mouth ... More >>

Pisco Punch, a Butt-Kicking Sip of S.F. History

Kenn Wilson/FlickrThe version at Pisco Latin Lounge: From the Monkey Block to your lips.​The mind can touch on all sorts of topics when allowed to wander unimpeded. So it was that as we reflected on Chinatown's annual Double 10 celebration commemorating the overthrow of the Xing Dynasty on Oct ... More >>

Pisco Latin Lounge's Self-Styled 'Cocktail Historian' Curates an Indigenous Guzzler

Jason via FlickrThe Pisco Punch at Pisco Latin Lounge: The real deal, for better or worseGuillermo Toro-Lira is pretty much obsessed. It's no coincidence that the Peruvian-born, self-styled "cocktail historian" once wrote a novel about a couple who were (surprise) obsessed with sussing out the origi ... More >>

Room with a View — and Heat

A well-known S.F. chef amps up the menu at Sutro's at the Cliff House.

My 12-Year-Old Nephew Could Write a Better Restaurant Review Than That

By Meredith Brody I love eating out with the kiddies. I have six godchildren, aged between early 20s and three, and I must admit I have a weakness for the one who is the best eater. At the age of 9, Chester was so appreciative of a multi-course tasting menu we were enjoying at Redwood Park, George ... More >>

If it's Noon This Must be Vesuvio

By Matthew Stafford Last week I took it upon myself to show a visitor around San Francisco. The visitor in question, a New Zealander, was on the initial leg of a year-long circumnavigation of the globe, and as a native San Franciscan I wanted her to get home several months from now and say to herse ... More >>

X-Factor

How comic book heroes could play a part in local politics.

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Dream Makers

How teachers, parents, and a young white principal have taken plans for a Dream School in the Bayview and made them a dream of their own

The Raw and the Cooked

Curious George, of Aqua and Fifth Floor, opens his quirky new jewel box

Monster Mash

Deep inside, don't you really think Monster Park is a cooler name than Candlestick? Take the quiz and find out!

The Rockets' Red Glare

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Collaborator

A retrospective of a profoundly influential career

Two Heads Are Better Than One

An hour of dick tricks and other "genital gesticulations" with Puppetry of the Penis

The Midnight Story

Wishing for rain-slicked streets during the S.F. Film Noir Festival

Four Best Skyscrapers

Seedling

Redwood Park

A Temple to High Living

Elisabeth Daniel

Laugh Tracks

You can learn a lot about the city's history with a comedian as your tour guide

Dog Bites

When Cloudy Was the Weather; or, Pyramid Schemes; Warmth: A Contrarian View

When Cesar Reigned

An aging journalist remembers 1999, when an election became a revolution, and the city changed forever

Dog Bites

Letters

Night Crawler

Evening at the Oasis

From Russia With Diamonds

In 1995, Golden ADA Inc., a San Francisco diamond-importing firm, collapsed, unveiling an international trail of theft and betrayal that embarrassed San Francisco luminaries involved with the company. Now, newly unsealed court files show that high-level m

Miller's Crossing

Totems Are Taboo

But if the court's crucifixation is overblown, let a thousand icons bloom

Stone Cold

Jade masquerades as an erotic thriller

S.F.s 10 Tiniest Conspiracies

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