SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tourists And Locals Agree: San Francisco Sucks For Barbecue Well, slather us in barbecue sauce and call us Baby Back, a recent poll/listicle thing by leisurely travel glossy, Travel + Leisure Magazine has determined that San Francisco's barbecue options are decidedly subpar.
SF News Fatal Berkeley Shooting Leaves Home "Riddled With Bullet Holes" In Berkeley's first homicide of the year, a man walking to a friend's home was shot multiple times on Shattuck Avenue near Emerson Street. The victim was on his way to watch basketball
SF News Nanny State Law Nabs Another Actual Criminal Yes, we get it — Laws banning cigarette smoking and texting-while-driving are here for our own safety, but in the past week both have managed to bring down a couple of actual criminals and
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Air Hockey Suddenly Hip Missionites are totally over pool tables in bars. Make way for Canadian Billiards, the latest table-based bar game to captivate the neighborhood's short attention spans. [MM] [UptownAlmanac] Brace yourselves, coffee fetishists, for the
Arts & Entertainment Merits Of SFPD, NYPD Patrol Cars Debated In the latest New York vs. San Francisco pissing contest, noted New York startup wunderkind David Karp fired the first shot taking our fair city's choice of police patrol vehicles, "the most busted
SF News Family Of Charles Hill Sues BART, And They've Got Oscar Grant's Attorney The family of Charles Hill, the "wobbly drunk" homeless man shot and killed by BART police last July has filed a civil suit against BART seeking monetary damages for the incident. According to
SF News Muni Bus Strikes Yellow Cab In SoMa San Francisco's most loved/hated forms of public transportation literally collided this morning when an 8X-Bayshore Express sideswiped a Yellow Cab, sending it spinning in to a fire hydrant near the Hall of
Arts & Entertainment Photos: San Francisco International Opens World's First In-Airport Yoga Studio In a press event at San Francisco International Airport this morning, SFist witnessed airport officials announce the grand opening of what they believe is the world's first in-airport free yoga studio. Because, well,
SF News Murder Suspect Busted For Smoking A Cigarette Finally, California's nanny state smoking restrictions have made the world a better place. As the Oakland Tribune reports, murder suspect Franklin Bean, wanted for a December 17th shooting in Fruitvale, was nabbed in
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: SFO's New Yoga Studio SFO's swank Terminal 2 now includes a free Yoga Studio. Which will surely be used only for yoga and nothing else. [CBSLocal] Meet Gordon, the Lower Haight cheesemonger. [Haighteration] Four Barrel coffee kiosk
SF News Day Around the Bay: Medical Marijuana Licensing Program Indefinitely Suspended The Department of Health has indefinitely suspended the marijuana medical licensing program for dispensaries. So don't be expecting any new ones to be opening anytime soon. Five in the city have recently closed
SF News Fisherman's Wharf Sexual Assault Suspect Identified As SoCal Teen SFPD have identified the man wanted for assaulting a young tourist in the bushes near Fisherman's Wharf as 18-year-old Christopher Dutel from Southern California. According to an SFPD spokesman, the girl "voluntarily separated"
SF News America's Cup Will Not Include Giant Floating Jumbotron Screen The Board of Supervisors rejected two appeals of the America's Cup environmental report yesterday, meaning the event has some smooth sailing in front of it on the way to 2013. The vote was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jumbacos Prevail: Richmond District Jack In The Box Approved For Late-Night Food When last we checked in at the with the problematic Jack in the Box in the Richmond, the twofer taco joint had lost it's 24-hour privileges after a drunken altercation at the restaurant
SF News Third Victim Expected To Come Forward In Mirkarimi Domestic Violence Case Yikes. The skeletons in Ross Mirkarimi's closet are starting to pile up in the case against the sheriff accused of domestic violence. In a late breaking report from KTVU yesterday evening, the news
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Crime Reporters Accused Of Going Soft Delightfully old-school Examiner Crime reporters accused of going soft. [SFWeekly] A look at the upcoming Dolores Park improvements. [MissionLocal] Sonoma County has a sewage problem. [CBS] Local newsman Sal Castaneda and others recount
SF News Giants Pitching Ace Tim Lincecum Reportedly Well Compensated Gratuitously coiffed marijuana connoisseur and two-time Cy Young award winner Tim Lincecum has reportedly agreed to a two-year deal with the San Francisco Giants worth $40.5 million, thus validating the hopes and
SF News S.F. Board Of Supervisors To Waste Time Discussing Limited Grammy Categories Now this is rich: Item 40 on the agenda for today's Board of Supervisors meeting [PDF warning], is a non-binding resolution that would formally declare the San Francisco city government's displeasure with the
SF News Deplorable Teens Attempt To Rob S.F. High School Three teenage boys attempting to swipe computer equipment from the International Studies Academy in Potrero Hill were busted after a witness nearby spotted the boys using a chair to scramble through a window
SF News Bystander Became Target In Fatal Richmond Shooting In Richmond, a 22-year-old college student was shot and killed by a gunman while sitting in a parked car not far from the Richmond BART station. The victim, identified as Contra Costa Community
Arts & Entertainment Heavily Sacked Alex Smith Receives Free Condoms Niners Quarterback Alex Smith was sacked a painful 44 times before his season came to an end last Sunday, which means Smith gets the honor of being the Most Sacked Quarterback in the
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Nopa's Hamburger Economics How many Michael Bauer-approved hamburgers did Nopa sell last year? The answer is 22,500. This SFist editor ate at least five of those. [InsideScoop] A suspicious briefcase closed down Turk Street in
SF News Mirkarimi Watch: Mayor Lee Could Bench The Sheriff, If He Felt Like It While the comment sections of local Internet news outlets and one noted anti-progressive former mayor continue to call for Ross Mirkarimi to step down from his post, it turns out Ed Lee could
SF News PG&E Leaves 2,900 SoMa Residents In the Dark Here's your weekly unscheduled PG&E power outage: roughly 2,900 customers are without power along Folsom, Howard and Clementina Streets tonight. City Supervisor Jane Kim, always looking out for her neighborhood,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Washingtonian Adds Butter to Fernet, Creates Hot Buttered Fernet Against everyone's better judgement a bartender at Swing Wine Bar in Olympia, Washington has created an unholy cold weather cocktail that sounds like something out of a Paula Deen fever dream. The concoction
