Pull up a stool to enjoy this week's cocktail, kids, from Jardinière's bar manager Brian MacGregor, and its name is a play on both the neighborhood the restaurant calls home, The Western Addition, and Ed Burns, creator of The Wire. From Brian: more ›

We're always sad to hear such stories -- a tipster let us know yesterday that Ceba, an 18-month-old Cattle dog/Pit Bull mix, was stolen from in front of Rainbow Grocery on Tuesday. Ceba's owners are offering a hefty reward for his return. more ›

by Rachel Brodsky For those of you not celebrating Resurrection-Chocolate-Bunny Day, think about indulging your inner John Cusack/Empire Records fanatic with the SF Mixtape Society's second go around at the Make-Out Room... more ›

Blick Art Supplies is moving from their current location on Van Ness into a much bigger spot along the "liveliest" stretch of Market Street this summer, just a couple of doors down from the former Pearl Art & Craft Supplies (RIP). It will now be a Blick Arts and Crafts Superstore, so fortunately there will still be a convenient and more affordable alternative to Flax. We haven't been to Flax in a long time though -- so what do you all think, how do their prices hold up? more ›

Tourists at Fisherman's Wharf watch as master baker Fernando Padilla makes holiday sourdough bread shaped like a bunny for Easter at Boudin at the Wharf in San Francisco. The historic bakery will be making the bunny sculpted bread through Sunday.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg) more ›

The superlative British mezzo-soprano Alice Coote will give her first solo recital in San Francisco tonight at Herbst theater, for SF Performances 30th anniversary season. The theme of the evening: English art songs. She impressed everyone in her SF debut at SF Opera in Alcina, and returned to great acclaim in Idomeneo, where the worst one could tell about her was that she impersonated her male character so well, she looked like Nicolas Sarkozy. Did we write that? Oops. She'll be back in September as Charlotte in Massenet's opera, Werther. more ›

In what could very well be the most exhilarating to happen to San Francisco since the Presidio trampoline park, a bushel of Canadians are setting up a 600-footer in Justin Herman Plaza. Our friends to the north... more ›

ART: SF artist Ian Johnson will be exhibiting his latest drawings and paintings in his solo show, Of The Living Sky, featuring "realistic and highly detailed portraits of great jazz musicians, with the confident abstraction of color and shape as a constantly shifting background rhythm." The show runs through May 1. more ›

Oh, we are starved for celebrity around here, aren't we... so much so that the A.C.T. will probably see a great turnout for their latest play Vigil, despite word probably already getting around that star Olympia Dukakis only has about twelve speaking lines. more ›

Yesterday, the 32nd annual St. Stupid's Day Parade bumbled and stumbled starting in Justin Herman Plaza, expertly spreading "annoyance to several financial institutions throughout the financial district more ›