SF News Supervisor Farrell Proposes FasTrak System, Reservations For Famous Lombard Street Block Living at a tourist attraction continues to takes its toll on Russian Hill neighbors with houses along the famous one-way crooked section of Lombard Street, and so they continue to demand that something,
SF News Leaning Boom And Concrete Walls Atop Under-Construction Skyscraper Prompt SoMa Scare, Evacuations A 2,000-pound concrete slab was reported loose and at risk of failure on top of a skyscraper that's under construction in the Rincon Hill area of SoMa. The building, at an address
SF News Amazon Files Patent For Parachute-Drop Delivery, Perfect For End Times via GIPHY Amazon's plans for widespread, mainstream drone delivery are — please forgive me — up in the air. Still, the company continues to tantalize news media with demonstrations — here's the Verge on their first
SF News Sikh Temples Give Shelter To Hundreds Of Oroville Dam Area Evacuees When 188,000 people, their lives and property endangered by the possible collapse or otherwise dangerous erosion of an Oroville Dam spillway, were ordered to evacuate their homes on Sunday, the West Sacramento
SF News Party On: New Bill Could Extend Last Call To 4 a.m. "California currently has a one-size-fits-all 2 a.m. end to alcohol service, regardless of circumstances," State Senator and former SF Supervisor Scott Wiener writes to his Facebook page — with "circumstances" referring to situations
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here Are The Very Many 2017 James Beard Awards Semifinalists From The Bay Area The lengthy list of semifinalists for the James Beard Foundation Awards is out, and there's plenty for the Bay Area to root for in nearly every category of these so-called food world Oscars.
SF News Pet Kangaroos Left Behind During Oroville Dam Crisis Are Rescued, Adorable When 188,000 residents in the vicinity of the Oroville Dam were ordered to leave their property on Sunday fearing spillway collapse and flooding, some were forced to abandon animals and pets. "Loading
SF News Mandatory Evacuation Order Around Lake Oroville Lifted An 188,000-person evacuation order of two days ago in the vicinity of the Lake Oroville dam, where homes and the safety of their occupants in the low-lying parts of Oroville and downstream
SF News Veterinarians See Uptick In Deadly Dog Infection As Bacteria May Spread In Wet Weather An increased number of cases of a dangerous and potentially deadly infection in dogs has VCA San Francisco Veterinary Specialists telling NBC Bay Area that dog owners should be particularly vigilant as wet
Arts & Entertainment 11 Of The Best Romance Films And Rom-Coms Set In SF San Francisco, a popular place to leave one's heart, has played the backdrop to many a romance and romantic comedy. Here, a roundup of 11 of them that are varying degrees of charming,
SF News To Shut Down Alleged FiDi Brothel, City Attorney Uses Red Light Abatement Law For 'First Time In Recent History' California's Red Light Abatement Law, a classic early 1900s vice law, has been used as recently as 2015 to shut down illegal gambling dens, but it's been a long time since the City
SF News Great! Injured Great Horned Owl Rescued In Vallejo A Great Horned Owl having a very bad day was rescued by Animal Control Officers in Solano County according to the Solano County Sheriff's Office and is going to be just fine. Officers
SF News Day Around The Bay: Oroville Dam Has Run On Temporary Licenses Since 2007 "Off to work we go." #HamilTour #Regram: @frankdswann pic.twitter.com/LZkwj5IUKX— Hamilton (@HamiltonMusical) February 13, 2017 Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the
Arts & Entertainment Fantastic Negrito Wins Grammy For His Album 'The Last Days Of Oakland' In a banner year for Bay Area Grammy Award nominations — 18 local artists and producers got the nod according to the Chronicle — one who walked away with a little gold phonograph was Fantastic
SF News SF Homeless Czar Apologizes For Remarks Overheard, Publicized By Lyft Driver Kevin Ebach, a 25-year-old San Francisco Lyft driver and educator who overheard comments from two male passengers that he considered to be harsh and disparaging toward others, including homeless people, posted about the
SF News Video: Santa Cruz Mudslide Becoming 'Disaster Tourism' Attraction, Locals Fear SR-35 near Las Cumbres Rd closed indefinitely due to a wash out pic.twitter.com/MdFwO4iLDA— CHP San Jose (@CHPSanJose) February 10, 2017 A mudslide that left a gaping hole in Highway 35,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Roadside Caboose Restaurant From Former Saison Chef To Open Thursday New parents Alexis Liu, a co-owner of Beacon Coffee and Pantry in North Beach, and Scott Clark, a former chef at San Francisco fine dining spots like Benu and Saison, are taking an
SF News Now Elon Musk Says To Compete With Computers, People Must Merge With Them If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Elon Musk, the reliably quotable Tesla CEO, gave the media something relatively new to chew on at a World Government Summit in Dubai where he arrived
SF News Thousands Spell 'Resist' On San Francisco Beach Crowds of incontestable size spelled out "Resist!!" with their bodies this morning while sitting and standing on the sands of Ocean Beach. The message, aimed at what many perceive to be an increasingly
SF News Bracing For Cuts, Jane Kim Drafting Legislation To Ensure Local Birth Control Access "We are committed to join you to be a wall against hate and we will legislate Trump the hell out of San Francisco!" Jane Kim addressed the crowd at the Women's March in
SF News City Denies Permit For Free Summer Of Love 50th Anniversary Concert A second "Human Be-In" is perhaps not to be. The event promoter who had planned a free 50th anniversary concert to mark the fateful 1967 "Summer of Love" with its massive crowd in
Arts & Entertainment Hermione Works At Google In New, Full Trailer For 'The Circle' Okay, so maybe Emma Watson didn't really go to Hogwarts like her famous Harry Potter character, but she did get her degree from prestigious muggle school Brown University and could totally work at
SF News BART Directors Propose Sanctuary In Transit Policy In an Oakland meeting of the BART Board yesterday, two BART directors took the stance that the regional transit system should investigate and perhaps adopt a "Sanctuary in Transit Policy." That policy, those
SF News Day Around The Bay: Contra Costa County Residents Protest As Sheriff Meets With Jeff Sessions Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. 49ers new GM John Lynch and Coach Kyle Shanahan
Arts & Entertainment 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' At ACT Is Powerful If Painful The Afghanistan of A Thousand Splendid Suns is not one of splendor. The play's title is a reference to brighter, long past moments in Kabul's history — when women were once freer than they
