Arts & Entertainment Renowned Sculptor Sarah Sze Withdraws Chinatown Public Art Project Where Space Was Promised To Different Entities The renowned Chinese-American artist Sarah Sze has withdrawn her proposal for a public artwork in Chinatown, a clear favorite among a hundred that were considered. The problem: two groups were at odds over
SF News Fire At Tahoe Ski Resort Destroys Lodge, Closes Mountain Just after 3 a.m. this morning, North Tahoe Fire engines and a Battalion Chief responded to a structure fire at the south lodge of the Homewood Mountain Resort, which in the light
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Show's Over For Show Dogs, Foreign Cinema Sibling Business The curtain's come down at Show Dogs and next-door sibling business Machine Coffee: A call to the restaurant confirms that their last day of operation was the 23rd and that a remodel is
SF News *Cough Cough* Sick Muni Drivers Absenteeism Costs City $42 Million Per Year A recent report on San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency conducted by the Controller's Office points to the $42 million cost of absenteeism at the agency and cites a culture of leave-taking and lack
SF News BART Bolts Swinging Doors Shut To Stump Fare Evaders, Unimpressed Fire Inspector Says Stop A quick fix to the problem of fare evaders on BART has been shut down just as fast as it was implemented. That was a decision by the transit agency to bolt closed
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 6 Cool Things To Check Out This Week If you have a spare moment or two as we careen toward 2017, you may want to relax with one of these events this week, although perhaps you're a bit preoccupied or maybe
SF News Proposed Embarcadero Fire Station On Floating Pier Could Rise With Sea Levels, Withstand Earthquakes A recently floated plan to replace aging facilities at Pier 22 1/2 on the Embarcadero would put a crucial fire station on a barge or buoyant pier, a floating facility to support
SF News Hillsborough Millionaires Sue Town Over Fines To Promote Water Conservation All is not well in Hillsborough, a suburb of 11,500 people west of San Mateo that's among the nation's wealthiest towns. There, nine unhappy residents are suing the municipality to recoup fines
SF News Day Around The Bay: Warriors' Coach Kerr Discusses Upbringing, Father's Assassination Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. The City Controller’s Office has issued a report
SF News Future Unclear For Sundance Kabuki Theater As Megachain AMC Approved To Buy Its Owner Sundance Kabuki Theater and its pleasant moviegoing experience — aided by the beer, wine, and cocktails available at certain of its screens — is potentially due for changes as the owner of the Sundance mini-chain,
SF News NYE Concert Supposedly Benefiting Food Bank With K-Ci & JoJo Is Bogus Internet Scam What more fitting way to conclude 2016, a year full of surprise horrors and tragedies, than by getting scammed out of $100 or more for admission to a New Year's Eve benefit concert
SF News State Supreme Court Will Hear Case That Could Decide Future Of Local 5G Networks And Laws About City Aesthetics Do cities in California have the right to adopt ordinances for aesthetic reasons? The answer to that question regarding the definition of public use will be decided by the state Supreme Court, who
Arts & Entertainment Video: Projectionists Keep On Rolling At The Roxie "It feels like a secret performance" Isaac Sherman, a projectionist at the Mission's Roxie Theater tells KQED. Their lovely video, shot by Claudia Escobar, takes us inside the projection booth at the Roxie
SF News Fear Not, Bay Area: Ivanka Trump And Family Are Just At SFO On A Layover A JetBlue flight to San Francisco from New York's JFK airport is about an hour late this afternoon, a delay presumably tied to the hubbub in the plane's cabin this morning: A Hunter
SF News At Mission Meeting, SF Homeless Czar Declares 'We Have Completed Our Work Here And I Realize It May Not Look Like That' A meeting of neighbors in the Mission District joined by city leaders such as incoming supervisor Hillary Ronen, who replaces David Campos, and Jeff Kositsky, director of the new Department of Homelessness and
Arts & Entertainment Muggles Unite For Harry Potter Trivia, Returning (With Butterbeer) To SF A photo posted by Harry Potter Trivia (@hptrivia) on Jun 16, 2016 at 2:24pm PDT If you're a regular Hermione Granger when it comes to factoids about the Harry Potter series, you
SF News In First Interview, New SFPD Chief Acknowledges Officers' Apprehension Alluding to calls she'd made to vet incoming SFPD chief Bill Scott, who comes from 27 years with the LAPD, Board of Supervisors President London Breed said yesterday that ''they're sad to lose
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Sumo Stew' Event Brings Sumo Wrestler-Inspired Eating, Sumo Wrestling Match Livestream To SF Inspired by their travels to Japan, New York photographer Michael Harlan Turkell and cooking store owner Harry Rosenblum have been putting on bi-monthly events they call "Sumo Stew," highlighted in the past by
SF News Oracle Senior Staffer Resigns In Protest After CEO Joins Trump Transition Team, Invites Others To Join Petition In a scathing email posted publicly on LinkedIn, Oracle senior staff member George Polisner announced his resignation in protest of co-CEO Safra Catz's decision to join the Trump transition team after meeting with
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Is Home To 3 Of The State's 10 Most Dangerous Intersections Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Judge Aaron Persky, whose lenient sentence for Brock Turner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink As Nearby Valencia Development Looms, Zeitgeist Files Review To Protect Beer Garden From Shadow Zeitgeist, among San Francisco's best known bars and choice few beer gardens, celebrates its 40th anniversary next month, having recently attained Legacy Business status in its wizened, grizzly old age. But just as
SF News Lawsuit Says Google's Confidentiality Policy Is So Ridiculous Staffers Can't Write Novels About People In Tech A lawsuit filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco on Tuesday on behalf of a former Google employee identified as a "John Doe" alleges that the Mountain View-based tech company insists upon
SF News As Outsider, New SFPD Chief Bill Scott Will Have 'Fresh Eyes' The selection of a new SFPD Chief was not, Mayor Lee assured a packed City Hall press conference this morning, a choice between "insider and outsider," but instead a measured decision based on
SF News RayKo Photo Center, Largest Such Operation In The West, Plans To Shutter For Good In May The darkrooms at RayKo Photo Center, a 26-year-old photography institution that's spanned the medium's major transition from film to digital with copious resources in each discipline, will go proverbially dark at the end
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: 55-Hour Pastrami At Duchess In Rockridge A photo posted by Duchess Oakland (@duchessoakland) on Dec 1, 2016 at 2:24pm PST A new all-day cafe and pub with low-key gourmet food, Duchess opened in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood this month.
