SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Animal Rights Activists Storm Chez Panisse In Very Berkeley Protest At the end of August, animals rights group Direct Action Everywhere took up their cause at Eat Drink SF, a San Francisco food festival organized by the Golden Gate Restaurant Association. While animal
SF News Pilloried By Fox News For Proposal To Rename SF Schools, Board Of Ed President Backs Down Pretty much immediately after new-ish Board of Education President Matt Haney, who is also running for re-election in November, floated the idea of re-naming local schools in San Francisco for local figures of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Bellota Does Lunch, Casey's Pizza Truck Lands Brick And Mortar, And More This week, SFist's food department reported that the Outer Sunset oasis Riptide was roaring back to life, that the owners of the mini-chain Burma Superstar were named in a class action lawsuit filed
SF News SFPD Gets Its First Body Cameras, Pledges Full Deployment By Thanksgiving Acting police chief Toney Chaplin announced at a Police Commission meeting Wednesday night that officers at all 10 of San Francisco's police stations would be equipped with body cameras by Thanksgiving. Mayor Lee
Arts & Entertainment JCCSF Hosts Daveed Diggs With 'Hamilton' Sing-Along And Youth Poets This Weekend Daveed Diggs, whose Jewish mother in Oakland is certainly very proud of her Tony Award-winning son, arrives in San Francisco this Saturday at JCCSF for a sold-out conversation with another Oakland artist, the
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Places To Run In San Francisco Although running up and down San Francisco's hills may be hard on the knees, the views it affords are easy on the eyes. Another plus: Cool, consistent weather makes for good running conditions
SF News Un-Chill Cottage Row Residents Object To Zen Garden Honoring Japanese Americans As 'Favoritism' With its 22 Victorian houses from the 1860s and 70s, the secluded pedestrian side street known as Cottage Row feels as if from another era. So, too, do area residents currently objecting to
SF News Proposed SoMa Micro-Unit Development Aims To Keep Rents 30% Below City Average Because new development projects seek to recoup investments and pay off construction expenses, they usually hit the market with higher-than-average rents. Therefore it's something of a surprise when a residential development isn't readily
SF News Day Around The Bay: Man, It's A Hot One Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Fans of Star Trek IV may enjoy this piece
SF News Yosemite Announces Largest Expansion In 70 Years Wetlands, a meadow, rolling hills: Those are among the features encompassed in 400 acres of land donated to Yosemite by a nonprofit conservation group who purchased the land from private owners. The tract,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Riptide Is Reborn In The Outer Sunset Boo, the 150-year-old taxidermy caribou head that presided over the Riptide and was reportedly destroyed (along with many other decorative artifacts) by the fire that closed the bar last summer, appears to be
SF News 49ers Player Dropped After Alleged Assault Of 70 Year Old Had Just Been Kicked Out Of Tommy's Joynt 49ers fullback Bruce Miller, 29, was arrested in San Francisco after an altercation with a 70-year-old man and the man's 29-year-old son, in which Miller allegedly assaulted both men, young and old. Miller
SF News Black Lives Matter Now Accepting Donations, Grants Through Bay Area Nonprofit IDEX A newly announced partnership with a Bay Area 501(c)(3) public charity will allow the multifaceted and diffuse Black Lives Matter movement, technically a chapter-based global organization, to receive grants and tax-deductible
SF News Former Mayor Art Agnos Floats Idea For Homeless Shelter Aboard Navy Ship Speaking with SFist in June on the topic of the enduring homelessness crisis in San Francisco, Art Agnos, who served as mayor from 1988 to 1992, classified "the development... of supportive and permanent
SF News 57-Gun Arsenal Seized From Home Of Cow Hollow Man Having 'Psychotic Breakdown' 57 firearms — 40 of them handguns and 17 of them semi-automatic rifles or machine guns — were seized at the Cow Hollow residence of a man reportedly having a "psychotic breakdown." The episode took
SF News BART Tests 'Enzyme Misting System' To Neutralize Persistent Elevator Pee Stank Daily BART riders such as Sunday Parker, who rely on the system's spotty, sometimes unpleasant elevator service had good news last month: The transit agency announced plans to coat elevator floors with a
SF News Group Trying To Reintroduce Grizzlies To California Launches Cheeky Ad Campaign With Gay 'Bear' The few places you'll find grizzly bears in California include the San Francisco zoo and our state flag: Fewer than 75 years after gold was first discovered in California, the bear was eradicated
Arts & Entertainment Self-Appointed BART 'Artist-In-Residence' Installs Subway Swings, Hopscotch Installing swings in public spaces like on Billy Goat Hill is a time-honored San Francisco pastime. Ironically, the emblem for the SF Rec and Parks Department is a child on just such a
SF News Board Of Ed President Calls To Rename SF Schools That Bear Names Of Slaveholders After Colin Kaepernick gained national attention for his sustained refusal to stand during the National Anthem before several pre-season football games in protest of police brutality and systemic racism — “I am not going
SF News Day Around The Bay: San Jose Declares Crime A State Of Emergency Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Crime in San Jose is so bad, they’ve
SF News No Injuries After FiDi Manhole Cover Blows Off An underground explosion beneath in the Financial District this morning resulted in what the Fire Department calls a "PG&E Vault Incident" and what the casual layperson observer might describe as "oh
SF News Oakland Housing Crisis Is Also A Health Crisis, County Health Director Declares Alameda County Public Health Department head Dr. Muntu Davis has declared Oakland's housing crisis a health crisis as well. The East Bay Express writes that Davis is drawing on a new study conducted
Arts & Entertainment Paris Hilton Is Instagramming From Her First Time At Burning Man, You Guys Excited for my first trip to the #Playa! It's going to be #Magical! ✨✨✨ #BurningMan 🔥 pic.twitter.com/0k9mAryGu5— Paris Hilton (@ParisHilton) August 30, 2016 Paris is burning. Radically self-reliant hotel heiress Paris Hilton
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Drink This: Standard Deviant Brewing Extra Pale Ale New brewers on the block Standard Deviant Brewing are so fresh that when you step inside their warehouse space in a former auto-body shop on 14th Street, the first thing you'll smell isn't
SF News Rare Beaked Whale, Likely Killed By Ship Collision, Washes Ashore In Point Reyes Never before in the 41-year history of the Marine Mammal Center have its experts had occasion to examine a Baird's beaked whale. This week they're doing so, but under unfortunate circumstances: A highly
