SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drakes Bay Oyster Company Will Be Forced To Close [Update: Maybe Not] In the ongoing legal troubles of Drakes Bay, the company responsible for about 40% of California's oysters was denied an appeal that would have allowed the 2,500 acre oyster farm to stay
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: That Red Bridge Alright, International Orange, technically. Shot by Christian Arballo.
SF News Oakland Man Convicted Of First Degree Murder For Weed- and Coke-Fueled Argument Over God 33-year-old Douglas Yim is currently looking at 126 years to life in prison for the murder of his friend 25-year-old Dzuy Duhn Phan. The two started arguing over the existence of a higher
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Tech Burners Burning Man's founder is totally cool with capitalism and tech billionaires. [TechCrunch] Noted literary-foodie magazine Lucky Peach is splitting off from Mission-based McSweeney's publishing house. [Eater] Indian Summer happy hours. [7x7] And then
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sam Wo Won't Return To Washington Street Forget sleeping in your car, startup entrepreneurs are now living out of parked RVs. [Chron] Puppies on Muni? Puppies on Muni. [MuniDiaries] The last day of the Lusty Lady ended in protests, a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burma Superstar Closes Due To E. Coli Outbreak, Re-Opens To Hour Waits Noted Inner Richmond Burmese joint Burma Superstar closed their doors over the weekend after the city's public health officials connected 14 local cases of E. Coli infections to people who had eaten at
SF News Visiting Baseball Club Forced To Take BART, Expensive Cabs To Oakland While most of us were well aware of last weekend's big Bay Bridge closure and unveiling, the Tampa Bay Rays — who were in the Bay Area for a series against the A's — apparently
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Calling B.S. The Chronicle has a new feature: "We Call B.S.!" in which they call people on their bullshit. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan is their first target. [Chron] New iPhones will be announced next
SF News Deplorable Teen Attempts To Hide Handgun Under Innocent Muni Rider We've dodged some weird stuff on Muni seats before, but one unlucky rider recently got stuck with something potentially more dangerous than mystery stains. Around 7 p.m. on Monday, SFPD officers stopped
Arts & Entertainment New Komodo Dragon Proves There Is Ugly Stuff At The Zoo Too When it comes to Zoo life in San Francisco we here at SFist admittedly have an adorable bias. So, in the interest of fairness to non-mammal, non-bird animals (sorry invertebrates; you're still gross)
SF News SFPD Officer Claims Relationship With Teen Boy Was Consensual An attorney for 37-year-old Richard Hastings III, the San Francisco officer arrested last week on suspicion of molesting a 15-year-old boy, claims the relationship was consensual and that his client "was told and
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Bridge Eulogized Here is another eulogy for the boxy Bay Bridge. [Chron] High school journalists in Saratoga test the limits of California's shield law during Audrie Pott cyber-bulling and sexual assault case. [Buzzfeed] Where to
SF News San Francisco Bike Share Finally Launched: The Pros And Cons Bay Area Bike Share — a.k.a. "Babs," a.k.a. "rental cars for bikes" — launched in San Francisco today, in case you hadn't noticed all the missing parking spots and bike racks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Fast Food Workers Strike For Better Pay Although potentially less debilitating than a BART strike, hundreds fast food workers walked out of their low-paying jobs at McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken locations in Oakland today to demand better pay and
Arts & Entertainment Tim Burton Transforms North Beach Into 1950s San Francisco This morning crews on the set of Big Eyes, a forthcoming film from director Tim Burton, transformed Grant Avenue into a scene right out of 1950s San Francisco. The film, tentatively set to
Arts & Entertainment Bay Bridge Closure Confounds Bad Drivers, Delights Stanley Roberts Always on the hunt for People Behaving Badly, local treasure newsman Stanley Roberts set up shop at the foot of the Bay Bridge yesterday where drivers scrambling to get out of the city
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Bike Thief Of The Day Friendly reminder: you will never drive on the old East span of the Bay Bridge again. Bauer hands out Golden Hearing Aid award for loudest restaurant. [Inside Scoop] Two arrested for mugging a
Arts & Entertainment Look What You're Missing At Burning Man! Here in San Francisco, we're a couple of days into the Burning Man rapture, but that doesn't mean we're not occasionally the tiniest bit Burning Man-curious. Here now: a few shots from the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 4505 Meats Bringing Burgers And Barbecue To Divisadero [Update] The Valencia-fication of Divisadero continues with today's news that local celebrity butcher (and one of our favorites) Ryan Farr and 4505 Meats will be moving into the former home of Da Pitt BBQ
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Becoming a Smokavore Sure we eat and drink locally sourced goods, but what about weed? Here is one local man's quest to become a smokavore by growing pot in his closet. [ModernFarmer] For this week's cover,
Arts & Entertainment And Now, Hunter Pence And Pablo Sandoval Ballroom Dancing Forever Sometimes there are a lot of things to be sad about around here: the Giants' season has come undone, the Lusty Lady is closing, Yosemite is on fire, we still can't afford dinner
Arts & Entertainment Pippi Longstocking Sex Tape Being Shopped Around Because Your Childhood Was A Lie And People Are Gross Dampening the good spirits of nostalgic gingers everywhere today is news that actress Tami Erin, who played plucky ponytailed redhead Pippi Longstocking at age 14, has apparently appeared in a sex tape. Even
Arts & Entertainment Photos: One Last Peep At The Lusty Lady [NSFW] This weekend on September 2, the country's first worker-owned cooperative peep show will shutter for good. While the performers promised to give the club a proper sendoff, over the weekend we sent photographer
SF News Man Fatally Shot While Parked On Troubled Sunnydale Block On Friday evening around 7 p.m., 33-year-old Shawnte Otis was shot while sitting in a parked car on the 100 block of Blythedale Avenue in Sunnydale. Over the past six months, the
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Your Crooked Instagrams The Chronicle Food section finally found a use for SFChronicle.com with this nicely designed piece on the Bar Stars of 2013. [SFChronicle] SFPD Officers will be getting chest-mounted cameras to keep things
