SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Alba Ray's Jambalaya Trading the Mission District for the Garden District, NoLa-inspired Alba Ray's is now open in the space built out for Hapa Ramen and most recently occupied by Citizen Fox at 2293 Mission Street.
SF News Sheryl Sandberg Will Wait And See On Trump As Facebook And Others Draft Open Letter Against Immigration Policy Facebook COO and Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg is not ready to throw a shoulder into the resistance movement against President Donald Trump, as it's "early" to see how his policies will take
SF News [Update] UC Berkeley Cancels Breitbart Editor Milo Yiannopoulos Event Amid Protests, Trump Pens Angry Tweet Orders have been given for crowd to disperse after violent protests force cancellation of #MiloYiannopoulos event at #UCBerkeley pic.twitter.com/3IMQ34TP1a— KTVU (@KTVU) February 2, 2017 An event hosted by the Berkeley
SF News Day Around The Bay: Santa Clara Votes To Sue Over Immigration Ban, Too Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Facebook-owned VR company Oculus was ordered to pay $500
SF News Off-Duty Sheriff's Deputy Shoots, Kills Alleged Home Burglar In Alameda Off-duty officer shoots & critically wounds burglary suspect on Buena Vista, per @AlamedaPD. @SanLeandroPD brought K-9. Officer OK pic.twitter.com/T9JsGiAJej— Henry K. Lee (@henrykleeKTVU) February 1, 2017 A Contra Costa County
Arts & Entertainment This Twitter Bot Will Send You The Current View From Twin Peaks Whenever You @-Mention It You know what would brighten up the Twitter landscape and provide a distraction from the eggs and trolls? Photos of the current view from Twin Peaks. Now, to get those in real time,
SF News Former SRO Damaged In Bernal Heights Fire Now Marketed As Developer 'Cash Cow' A Bernal Heights fire last June displaced 58 people when it destroyed the Cole Hardware building at 3312 Mission Street and badly damaged neighboring buildings including the Graywood Hotel, an SRO at 3308
SF News Former 49ers, Raiders Cheerleader Sues NFL Alleging Minimum Wage Violations Although their squad is known as the Gold Rush, the cheerleaders of the San Francisco 49ers football team are allegedly making just dirt in pay. ABC 7 reports that a lawsuit was filed
SF News Wipeout: Mavericks Surf Contest Organizers File For Bankruptcy Conditions have to be just right for Titans of Mavericks, the world-famous, 1999-founded surf competition at Pillar Point Harbor near Half Moon Bay. There's no fixed date or guarantee the contest will go
SF News SF To Designate Nation's First Transgender Historic District In The Tenderloin After a complicated back-and-forth process between local activists, politicians, and the developer of a large hotel and condo complex on Market Street, San Francisco will designate the nation's first transgender historic district located
Arts & Entertainment Monterey Bay Aquarium Calms Us With Jellyfish, Throws Shade At Other Unnamed 'Brainless Spineless Animals' Ouch — It stings! A social media manager at the Monterey Bay Aquarium with a sense of humor and nothing to lose decided to make a splash with a Facebook Live caption calling out
Arts & Entertainment Instagram Account For Tesla Factory Parking Lot Shows Tesla Workers Probably Shouldn't Drive A photo posted by Tesla Parking Lot (@teslaparkinglot) on Nov 8, 2016 at 9:03am PST Tesla workers at the electric car company's Fremont factory clearly know how to make a car, but
SF News ACLU Joins Incubator Y Combinator To Help Manage Its New Influx Of Wealth Y Combinator president Sam Altman's heart grew three sizes today as he announced the American Civil Liberties Union would join his startup incubator in order to manage its massive influx of funding. The
SF News Bamboo Lanterns Light Up Civic Center For Lunar New Year Although the sixteen 20-foot bamboo lanterns that now stand outside Civic Center in an art installation called "Peace All Year Round" will last only through March, the spirit of the artist's message, we
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Orders Archdiocese To Pay $3 Million For Health Care Law Violation Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here As thousands of Google employees protested Trump's immigration policies
SF News SF's Homeless Census Is Literally, At Times, A Drive-By Operation Last Thursday night, January 26, from the passenger seat of a friend's Prius, I examined a paper map of Russian Hill and Fisherman's Wharf, giving sometimes confusing and wrong directions to her while
SF News Pacifica Drone Enthusiast Arrested For Interfering With Helicopter Rescue Pacifica police investigators tell CBS 5 that 55-year-old Gerald Destremps was arrested after allegedly piloting his personal drone near a helicopter, causing an interruption to a rescue attempt on Friday morning. Destremps's drone,
SF News Lyft Surpasses Uber In App Store Downloads As #DeleteUber Trend Continues Uber's loss is Lyft's gain as the long-running battle between the two San Francisco-based ride-hailing companies takes on a political valence. Reports (possibly spurious) that Uber had continued to operate to-and-from New York's
SF News All SFO Detainees Released After Second Day Of Immigration Ban Protests After two days of protests at San Francisco International Airport in response to detentions under President Trump's executive order imposing a federal travel ban on seven majority-Muslim countries, all five detainees at the
SF News Protesters Pack SFO To Decry Detentions Under Trump's Immigration Ban Protesting an immigration ban ordered by President Donald Trump, signs at SFO announce "We Want You Here" and "Give Us Your Huddled Masses." Demonstrators gathered at the airport this afternoon as similar actions
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Khai Vietnamese Nouveau Debuts, Curry Up Now In Oakland, And More In case you had the impression this might be a normal week in at least some sphere, sorry, but no: Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer wrote a love letter review to a Taco
Arts & Entertainment SF Artist Slaptop Drops Dance-Worthy New Track, Music Video San Francisco's Slaptop, who had his first hit with the 2014 release of "Sunrise," has dropped a steady stream of songs and official remixes, for artists like Zhu and Bob Moses, since then.
SF News Native American Tribe, National Park Service Planning To Reintroduce California Condors To Wild 15 agencies including the National Park Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Yurok tribe who for centuries has inhabited the areas surrounding the Klamath River in California signed a deal
SF News Provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos Gets All-Clear To Appear On Berkeley Campus In a letter sent to students Thursday, Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks affirmed that alt-right Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos would be granted the right to appear on campus at a planned engagement on February
SF News Planning Hits 'Millennial Commune' Chateau Ubuntu With Violation Notice Chateau Ubuntu, an intentional living community at 860 Fell Street, has been informed by the Planning Department that it's operating illegally, as the space is considered a three-family dwelling by the city, and