Entries from SFist tagged with 'innerrichmond'
September 19, 2007
This 4-bedroom, 5-bathroom house helped to land 94123 on Forbes’ Most Expensive Zip Codes list - #55 to be exact. At 2500 Lyon Street, you can live right down the street from Gordon Getty and Larry Ellison. How fun! The property lies at the entrance to the Lyon Street steps and boasts “abundant with rich and opulent architectural detailing and superb Bay views.” Not expensive enough for you? Coldwell Banker lists another 94123 gem......
Continue Reading "Got $9.8 Million to Spare?"August 13, 2007
Hey, everyone -- once again, it's your contributions that have put the sheen on the apple that is SFist. Check out your editors' picks for Top 5 comments of the week -- and enjoy!...
Continue Reading "Top 5 Comments of the Week"August 6, 2007
-- Will Harper has it that Chris Daly might run for mayor now that Gonzalez is out. Whoa, a real contender! Interesting. [The Snitch (SF Weekly)] -- Proposed designs for the new Transbay Terminal revealed, each one niftier than the next. Compared to what we have now, anyway. [Chron] -- Neighborhood group in the Inner Richmond might stop Starbucks from setting up shop. Amazing job, you guys. [Examiner] -- Train accidently kills a pedestrian......
Continue Reading "Day Around The Bay"August 6, 2007
Hey, have you seen all those annoying "Let's meet at Starbucks" adverts? Quite irritating. Well, SBUX is indeed bringing folks together -- in a way they may not be too happy about. many businesses and residents in the Inner Richmond are protesting via petition an invasion of one of Starbuck's nigh ubiquitous stores....
Continue Reading "Starbucks -- Bringing People Together"April 4, 2007
We love when people send us little things that are going on in the city. It's that whole citizen journalism thing at it's best. Today, we have somebody who saw a recent development in a story in today's Examiner. Hey, and if you got something you think we'd find interesting, drop us a line at editor at sfist.com ...
Continue Reading "From the Editor's Inbox"January 22, 2007
Remember that day when there was a weird smell in New York and all those dead birds in Austin? Feel left out? Wish we could go have some sort of gaseous anamoly? Well, we had one today as a gas leak in the Inner Richmond caused the evacuation of residents and students in a local middle school. ...
Continue Reading "Gas Leak in the Inner Richmond"December 2, 2005
Relaxed from spending a week off in order to spike the Thanksgiving gravy with enough bourbon to kill Dennis Hopper, Barrespondent Drew dives right back into the San Francisco bar scene just in time for the peak drinking season. Alas, yet another old familiar bar has changed hands, been gutted of everything but the support beams and been completely redone. Following in the footsteps of places like Doctor Bombay’s, The Albion and Hush Hush......
Continue Reading "Staggering Through Fog"November 23, 2005
In which SFist eats our way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order... Do you know how many eating establishments there are in San Francisco that begin with the letter Q? The answer is not many. You could probably count them all on three fingers. Our first thought, and choice, was to try out the renowned Michael Tusk-owned restaurant, Quince, in Pacific Heights. Rumour has it he offers a wonderful chef's table and as......
Continue Reading "Q to Zed"January 31, 2005
A bright flash; the lights dimmed; and then the loudest explosion we've ever heard. A transformer at the corner of Fulton and Stanyan just blew up, and there's a six-block chunk of city that's completely dark. Good thing we're compelled to buy the jumbo bag of tea lights every time we visit Ikea! We hope you like the accompanying JPEG we managed to get of PG&E assessing the damage about 5 minutes ago; you......
Continue Reading "It's Only Exciting Until Your Laptop's Battery Dies"November 3, 2004
Because SFist is ready for simpler times, when perhaps the country wasn't shrill shades of read and blue, but rather a more velvety purple, we're quite excited about this weekend's Sing-a-Long Purple Rain in celebration of the film's 20th anniversary. Things get all Lake Minnetoka this Saturday at midnight, at the Bridge Theatre (3010 Geary at Blake, Inner Richmond). It's the last showing of the Midnight Mass movie series, a favorite of SFist Watches, and......
Continue Reading "A 'Purple' America"