Betabrand, Valencia's latest--and probably not last--purveyor of $225 smoking jackets, hosted their opening party last night. This morning, the critics branded it "retarded" and a "scam."They also found a piece of chalk for some les...

That's it, right there. Just take off all your clothes, start doing some yoga, and watch the crowds back away.Thank God it's illegal now.[Photo via SFist, who also dish up a non-Pabst-vision photo for the curious]Categorized: Do...

In 15 seconds, 200 white people in banana suits dancing like they're at a Limp Bizkit concert will suddenly appear.After all the hoorah about Carnaval's troubles a couple months back, I decided to poke around their website to see...

Famed Latino queer bar (and all-around fantastic comedy venue) Esta Noche is in danger of closing. As they put it, "Last year the Board of Supervisors made changes to laws that can make it harder for small businesses to afford their per...

Grief not included.We know Kickstarter burn out and mistrust is at an all-time high, with Zach Braff and other doubtfully desperate artists pleading for money they already have. But this isn't that; this is The Secret Alley--the eve...

KQED's News Fix just published a killer profile on Mike Brodie, who spent years hopping freight trains and photographing others doing the same:Brodie would spend months traveling, often sleeping on the side of railroad tracks or in t...

Because the San Francisco rental market is the fucking worst, one would-be mobile slumlord is hawking her sleeper van on Airbnb.That's right, for just $520 a month (or $92 a night, if that's your sort of thing), you can call this...

I do feel a little bad for picking on the Dodgers, with their getting swept by the Giants, backsliding into last place and what not. Plus, I'm pretty certain they didn't win the World Series last year. Alas, this wonderful old ...

Everyone in San Francisco knows Chipotle is the worst. They took the Mission Burrito, dumbed it down to a Mission-inspired burrito, and then made it acceptable to the flavor palette of New Englanders. Now Chipotle's founder is rich...

After much hype from the neighborhood's anti-capitalist sect, I expected the so-called anti-gentrification block party to be somewhat of a show. Instead, all that could be found around 2:30 in the afternoon were roughly 30-40 people...