SF News Day Around The Bay: Santa Clara 49ers Stadium Could Open For 2014 Season Santa Clara officially approves the plans for their new Niners stadium. Construction kicks off in July and the stadium could be finished earlier than expected in time for pre-season exhibition games in 2014.
SF News Wave Of Knife Crime Continues With Tenderloin Stabbing While it's not as disturbing as Sunday's incident on Julian Avenue or the too-common occurrence on Sixth Street, we are now duty-bound to document the wave of knife-involved crime that has been sweeping
SF News How Much Did Zynga Save With The Payroll Tax Break? Based off of the $510 million in employee stock compensation the Cityville maker reported to the SEC last week, the company would have owed the city upwards of $6 million in funds that
Arts & Entertainment Lindsay Lohan To Play Liz Taylor For Lifetime Biopic Ex-Con and Playboy photoshop victim Lindsay Lohan may have lost her last role in the reportedly controversial Linda Lovelace biopic, but her next turn sounds like it could actually be a smarter (or
SF News Video: Here's Our Favorite Porsche Driver Becoming Unstuck From Wet Cement Last week we all had a good laugh on the Internet when one bumbling driver of a fine German automobile found himself stuck in wet cement. But the laughs don't end there — today,
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: "It's a Trap!" Admiral Ackbar Interviewed "It's a trap!" - The Chronicle's Peter Hartlaub interviews the Berkeley man behind Star Wars' beloved Admiral Ackbar. [Chron] The building damaged in the 4-Alarm fire in the Lower Haight a couple months
SF News Day Around The Bay: Police Seek Details In Mission Homicide Police are seeking details in a Mission District homicide that occurred early Sunday morning on Julian Avenue. [Mission Mission] Where to dine on Mardi Gras tomorrow. [GrubSF] Why would anyone ever want to
Arts & Entertainment The SFist Day-By-Day Guide To The 2012 Noise Pop Festival The 20th anniversary edition of San Francisco's citywide celebration of independent music, art and film officially kicks off tomorrow, Tuesday, February 21st with two marquee events vying for your attention. With so many
SF News Bruce Bochy To Buster Posey: Don't Block The Plate Remember that time Buster Posey broke his leg? We all do. It was harrowing. We cringed for days. Now with a new season on the horizon and spring training already underway down in
SF News Man Beaten To Death Outside Berkeley Hills Home In an "insulated" neighborhood near Tilden Park in the Berkeley hills, a local man was left dead Saturday night after confronting a trespasser with a history of mental illness. The victim, 67-year-old Peter
SF News Presidential Morning Links: Drunk Driver Falls Asleep Rose Cliver, the oldest remaining survivor of the 1906 earthquake passed away over in Novato the weekend. She was 109. [Chron] [BCN/Appeal] Chuck Nevius wonders: "Does anyone care about ranked choice voting?
SF News Day Around the Bay: Parking Woes Deter Potential San Franciscan Parking woes make man abandon plan to move to San Francisco [Bernalwood] Handy reminder: The Westbound Bay Bridge will be closed this weekend and other traffic disruptions. [SFAppeal] The Niners' move to Santa
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The $5 Whiskey Of The Month At The Page The Page has been a neighborhood staple at the crux of Divisadero and the Lower Haight since around the same time both neighborhoods started their well-publicized turnarounds. While the lovely neon sign out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food in Scenic Places: A Ground-To-Order Hamburger In Sight Of Beck's Motor Lodge We here at SFist are raising the stakes for food porn by infusing our food photos with unadulterated city porn. Gratuitously indulgent food items, photographed (and eaten) in front of iconic San Francisco
SF News Porsche Driver Makes Wrong Turn, Ends Up Buried In Snow For Three Days After yesterday's mishap in the Marina, we learn another local rear-engine aficionado recently made a wrong turn and ended up stuck in a tough spot. This time, it was 55-year-old Mark Schroeder of
SF News Bakersfield Man Arrested For Allegedly Eating Cats In the central valley wasteland of suburban Bakersfield, California, 35-year-old Jason Wilmert stands accused of decapitating and cooking cats. According to AP reports, Wilmert's neighbors in Oildale called the Sheriff after hearing "sounds
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Inside The New Mission Theater Tim League, the founder of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, takes us inside the New Mission Theater, which (as you know) will become a 5-screen cinema under the Alamo Drafthouse banner. [Drafthouse] via
SF News Reminder: This Weekend Only, BART Runs 24 Hours Thanks to this weekend's scheduled closure on the East Span of the Bay Bridge, BART will be running trains at all hours for three days over the upcoming long holiday. While the trains
SF News Mirkarimi-Inspired, Anti-Domestic Violence Billboard Goes Up On Tenth Street The previously mentioned anti-domestic violence message, inspired in part by Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's remarks that his ongoing domestic abuse case was a "a private matter" went up on Tenth Street at Harrison yesterday.
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Porsche Drives Into Construction Site Down by the Marina Green and the tony Marina Yacht Harbor, an inattentive Porsche driver has driven his penis extension fine German automobile in to some roadwork along Marina Boulevard. According to eyewitness
SF News Tenderloin Security Camera Films Shuttle Bus Running Over Pedestrian [Video] On Tuesday afternoon, a pedestrian crossing Eddy Street at Leavenworth in the Tenderloin was struck by a shuttle bus in the intersection. The accident, which left the victim, pinned under the shuttle for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Squaw Valley Debuts World's First Ski-Thru Starbucks At Lake Tahoe's Squaw Valley, the ski resort and the ubiquitous latte purveyor have streamlined skiers and riders' caffeine-grabbing process with the world's first Starbucks location to feature a ski-up to-go window. Now
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Penthouse Club To Feature Slightly Dimmer Porn Stars The Penthouse Club opening in March will (sadly) not include mega-porn star Jenna Jameson, but will include several other, slightly dimmer porn stars. [GrubSF] Celebrated local chef Charles Phan (he of Slanted Door
SF News Did You Feel It? 3.7 Magnitude Earthquake Rumbles Near Vallejo USGS reports a 3.7 magnitude temblor just shook the earth a few miles south of Vallejo around 6:10 p.m. this evening. We didn't feel it down near Union Square where
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bay Bridge Closure This Weekend It's official: Caltrans is closing the Bay Bridge over the holiday weekend, so find an alternate route to get back to the city from the East Bay. [BCN/Appeal] The Cup Runneth Over:
