SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chefs Nick Balla And Cortney Burns Leaving Bar Tartine, Which Closes As We Know It December 31 Last we checked — just a few weeks back — Nick Balla and Cortney Burns, who have run Bar Tartine for more than five years, were still in the process of buying the restaurant from
Arts & Entertainment [Video] Very Outer Sunset Man Lives In Replica Starship Enterprise Any Trekkie knows that in the fictional world of Star Trek San Francisco is home to Star Fleet Academy, but fewer may realize that in our own universe, a real-life Starship Enterprise docks
Arts & Entertainment Warriors Fall To Spurs In Season Opener It won't be the league record start of last year, 24-0, but predictions beyond that are likely premature. “I thought our guys were embarrassed,” head Coach Steve Kerr said at a press conference
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Vegetarian And An Omnivore Try The Plant-Based, Fake-Bleeding 'Impossible Burger' Last week, Jardinière chef/owner Traci Des Jardin introduced diners at her Hayes Valley restaurant to a plant-based burger from Impossible Foods, a company for which she is a consultant. Due to its
SF News EMT Sued For Posting Graphic Photos, Snide Hashtags Of Patient On Instagram Keyano, 21, nearly lost his life in a Vallejo motorcycle accident. He did lose his leg, which was amputated, and his family adds that he lost a bit of his dignity due to
SF News [Update] CHP Officer Shoots Vehicle Theft Suspect Following Pursuit In SF Police are telling drivers to avoid the Ocean View area entirely according to KTVU: There, at Capitol Avenue and Montana Street around 3:30 p.m., a suspect was shot and a California
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 13 Spooky Things To Check Out This Week Halloween is just around the corner, ready to jump out at you and scream "boo!" This week, along with the usual odd events and curious affairs are some notably spooky ones, such as
SF News Report: SF Has Capacity To Add 70,500 Units Under Current Zoning Paying more for housing in California than you can afford? You're not alone. A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute says that state residents pay $50 billion more for housing per year
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Stars Are Out, And SF Has As Many 3-Star Restaurants As NYC The "congrats" tweets are pouring in to Bay Area restaurants blessed with Michelin stars today, and, one imagines, the champagne and tears are flowing readily. Observe: Yes!!!! 4 years of Michelin stars!!! Congrats
SF News To Get Tenants To Leave Rent-Controlled Apartments, East Palo Alto Landlord Allegedly Shot Their Cars With A BB Gun John Small didn't think too much of it when his car was damaged last year in East Palo Alto in the parking garage of Stanford Garden Apartments, the complex where he's lived for
SF News Hot New Neighborhood 'Union Square West' Sounds A Lot Like The Tenderloin Because It Is If "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet," the Tenderloin is going to smell exactly the same regardless of the latest realtor-fabricated renaming, in this case "Union Square West." In
SF News Amber Alert: Infant Reported Abducted In Guerneville Regarding an Amber Alert with the cryptic message "refer to local media" received by some San Franciscans today and this evening: The concern comes from Guerneville, where a grandmother with custody over her
SF News Day Around The Bay: Kevin Durant Wants Your Bay Area Recommendations 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 Black Horse Pub, perhaps the smallest bar in
SF News 50 Fatal Shootings By CA Police Went Unreported To Department Of Justice In 2015 Police fatally shot six people in San Francisco last year, but you wouldn't know that from looking at Open Justice, a website created at the behest of California Attorney General Kamala Harris to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: An Ice Cream Cone At Tartine's Cookies And Cream When Tartine Manufactory opened two months back as a larger offshoot of 18th Street's original Tartine, something was missing. That something was ice cream. I mean, we were told there would be ice
Arts & Entertainment David Byrne Gets In Your Head With Immersive Neuroscience Theater Show The first attendees of David Byrne's strange brand of immersive theater were audiences at Talking Heads shows who came to see him bop and flippy-flop onstage. More recently, he's performed for an audience
SF News Fashion Dreams And Style Nightmares From Silicon Valley Fashion Week 2016 It's a Silicon Valley stereotype that putting on pants to go to work is considered a fashion statement. Though that assumption is at odds with the plenty of stylish San Franciscans you probably
SF News Revised Plans Released For 39-Story Housing Development At SoMa Goodwill Site Some refined designs for two connected buildings on a highly visible parcel at 1500 Mission, the intersection of Mission Street and South Van Ness Avenue where Goodwill currently sits, are going to be
SF News Dismembered Brisbane Woman's Death Deemed Murder-Suicide When 57-year-old Shelly Titchener was reported missing in February her husband, Paul Titchener, invited KRON4 to interview him at their home. The two had gone through their share of marital troubles, filing once
Arts & Entertainment The Totally Preposterous History Of Cliff House You'd be forgiven for assuming that Cliff House, a building that's super casually very precariously perched on some rocks at the edge of a continent, was built on a dare, or maybe as
Arts & Entertainment Booksmith Opens New Chapter With Legacy Business Status And Expansion To Second Act Space The Booksmith, which rang in its 40th anniversary in July, has more to celebrate this week: It's been granted Legacy Business status and will expand across Haight Street to the former Red Vic
SF News UC Berkeley Fraternity, Sorority Parties On Hold Following Reports Of Sexual Assault There will be none of the usual tailgates on frat row today before UC Berkeley takes on Oregon in football this weekend: Following two reports of sexual assaults at separate off-campus fraternity events
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Bon Iver Shines In Shadow At The Fox To emphasize that I like Bon Iver, I would say that I know all the words to his songs, but that's not possible and nobody does. His lyrics, if they can be called
Arts & Entertainment Video: Oakland Woman Embraces Career As Professional 'Cuddlist' For $80/hr Some people are so closed-minded. "Cuddling is not recognized by most people as a legitimate profession like law or medicine, or even dog-walking," Oakland North writes in presenting Nikki Huiras. Huiras is indeed
SF News Dog Lost For A Decade Found In Fort Funston, Identified By Microchip Erika Slovikoski, who is not-so-coincidentally a dog trainer, made a rescue this past weekend while walking her pup Orion at Fort Funston. There, she heard a distress call from what would turn out
