Arts & Entertainment Benny Gold Now Open Softly On Valencia As Construction Continues In Former Mission Creek Cafe Space Mission Creek Cafe, which left its storefront at 968 Valencia in January, will be missed for its free wifi, cheap coffee, copious outlets, and fault-finding employees who took every opportunity to scream at
SF News Draymond Green Kicks James Harden In The Face, Drawing Flagrant Foul This game is so good that Draymond thinks it's the playoffs...👟 pic.twitter.com/yKAzbkhQXH— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) December 2, 2016 Draymond Green, the Warriors forward who high-kicks like a Rockette, high-kicked Houston
SF News Unofficial BART Notice Calls Out Racism, Etc., Tells Riders To 'Get Your S**t Together' Several official-looking but clearly unofficial BART notices observed by riders this morning call attention to the national uptick in angry, bigoted attacks since the election of Donald Trump in a campaign whose rhetoric
SF News Tube Job: BART Approves $267 Million Transbay Earthquake Retrofit That Could Disrupt Service For Years Per a BART staff report, the 1974-constructed Transbay Tube that runs for more than 3 miles beneath the San Francisco Bay is in need of an update “in anticipation of a future major
SF News SF's Largest Mental Health Facility? It's The County Jail, Claims Report "Most of the patients I see as a psychiatry resident at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital are very ill," Alison Hwong, a psychiatrist in her residency at UCSF, writes in an op-ed
SF News It's World AIDS Day, And The National AIDS Memorial Grove Has Just Run Out Of Room To Carve Names Today, Facebook users are temporarily changing their profile pictures and celebrities are getting tested to encourage others to do the same. The occasion is World AIDS Day, the 35th anniversary of the first
SF News California DMV Rejects License Plate FURRIES As 'Sexual' Term Yiff, everybody! Wait, did I use that right? According to the meme dictionary website Know Your Meme, "Yiff" is a term among furries — a subculture/fandom of people who claim identities as cuddly,
SF News SF Unified School District Mass-Voicemail Assures Parents It Will Protect Immigrant Students "We are committed to providing a safe space for learning for each and every one of our students including recent immigrants regardless of immigration status," sounded a voicemail message intended to reassure parents
SF News Day Around The Bay: Stop Feeding The Bernal Hill Coyote 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 Bernal Hill coyote is in danger because people
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole / Trou Nourmand Team Plans 24th Street Rum Bar 'Obispo' Thad Vogler, a spirits devotee whose love of craft distilleries and regional variation is on full display at his Bar Agricole and Trou Normand, is preparing a new shrine to rum on 24th
Arts & Entertainment Happy 40th To 'The Last Waltz,' The Greatest Concert In San Francisco History The Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco was the first place that the Band played as "the Band," guitarist Robbie Robertson tells director Martin Scorsese in an interview from his magnificent concert documentary The
SF News Warriors Win! Mission Bay Arena Defeats Umpteenth Last-Ditch Legal Challenge The Golden State Warriors may have vanquished their off-court opponents and appear ready to move forward on a Mission Bay stadium, dubbed the Chase Center, where the Examiner reports pre-construction work on the
SF News Four Small Earthquakes Rumble Through Oakland Early Wednesday Did you feel them? A cluster of four earthquakes centered near Mountain View Cemetery rocked the Oakland area, if gently, last night with the first at 2:05 a.m. That, KRON 4
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nobu, Nobu, Nobu! Famed High-End Sushi Chain Officially Headed To Palo Alto As Future rhapsodizes on his track "Jumpman" with Drake, "Nobu, Nobu, Nobu, Nobu, Nobu, Nobu." A status byword in hip-hop and popular culture generally, the New York-founded sushi chain from chef Nobu Matsuhisa
Arts & Entertainment See How The Bay Area (And The Planet) Changed Over 3 Decades With Google Timelapse Starting in 2013, Google invited us to step right up and "watch the sprouting of Dubai’s artificial Palm Islands, the retreat of Alaska’s Columbia Glacier, and the impressive urban expansion of
SF News Kamala Harris Will Step In To Defend SF Cash Bail System After City Attorney, Sheriff Refuse City Attorney Dennis Herrera has refused to fight a class-action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of San Francisco's bail system because he agrees it unfairly punishes the poor, but whether she agrees with Herrera
Arts & Entertainment Video: Crocker-Amazon Bocce Ball Club, A Slice Of Italy, Keeps Rolling Along Italians may no longer be the dominant ethnic group in San Francisco neighborhoods like Crocker-Amazon and the Excelsior, but they're still well represented on the bocce ball court. In fact, the 120-member Crocker-Amazon
SF News NEMA Apartments' Long-Vacant Retail Space, Once Slated For Massive Restaurant, Now A Corporate Event Space The first floor of the NEMA apartment complex has been vacant, its windows adorned with a variety of marketing slogans, since it opened. Originally intended to become a gigantic restaurant, that's off the
SF News To Bridge The Digital Divide, Tech Companies Need To Act Like People, Not Algorithms If it's the case that technology has divided rather than united the majority of people who rely on it — the popular argument that we're all "Alone Together," hyperconnected but isolated — the problem begins
SF News $20 Million Upgrade Of Big Sur's Esalen Institute Nears Completion Guests paying out the wazoo for retreats at the Esalen Institute will have fewer complaints about rooms and food going forward, aspects of the spiritual center that have heretofore been secondary to majestic
SF News CA Secretary Of State Burns The Hell Out Of Trump's 'Absurd' Voter Fraud Allegations "Serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California," President-Elect Donald Trump fumed on Twitter yesterday, "so why isn't the media reporting on this?" Easy answer: Because it didn't happen. Spreading Trump's statement,
SF News 'Unthanksgiving': Scenes From The Annual Native American Ceremony On Alcatraz A photo posted by 🌍 Artist 🌎 Educator 🌏 Student (@dregs_one) on Nov 24, 2016 at 9:21am PST "Indians Welcome," reads graffiti still visible from the first annual Indigenous Peoples Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz
SF News NorCal Woman Found Safe After Three Weeks Missing In Suspected Kidnapping Sherri Papini, a 34-year old mother of two missing for several weeks, was found safe yesterday along Interstate 5 in Yolo County. Papini was allegedly abducted on November 2 during an early morning
SF News Possibly Computer Illiterate President-Elect Eager To Kill Net Neutrality For a 70-year-old man who may or may not know how to use a computer according to speculation in Gizmodo and elsewhere, Donald Trump appears to be taking a hard line against net-neutrality.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Tea Shop, Katea, Heads To 16th And Valencia For Boba, Snacks, And More A storefront next to Stanza coffee and across from Monk's Kettle on a typically busy strip of 16th Street between Valencia and Guerrero Streets is showing signs of life. In the last few
