SF News Day Around The Bay: Please Date My Friend, Fliers Encourage Strangers Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Mission residents blame homeless encampments for crime, prompting an
Arts & Entertainment San Jose Sharks Player Adopts 'Lucky' Stray Cat Who Wandered Onto Rink The latest photo of Jo PAW-velski. Thanks @hssv for taking care of our kitty #SJSharks #SmashNash #sharksblackcat pic.twitter.com/gjBLiUIUuR— Jim Sparaco (@JimSparaco) May 8, 2016 While they didn't walk away with
SF News Rec & Parks' Capital Committee Votes On Buying SoMa Land For New Park San Francisco's Recreation and Parks Department has struck a deal with Ares Commercial Properties to potentially buy five parcels of prime SoMa land on 11th Street between Minna and Natoma Streets that together
SF News Wiener Rejects Kim's 'Positive Campaign Pledge' In State Senate Campaign Ads In the tight race for the District 11 State Senate seat, current SF Supervisor Jane Kim asked her opponent, Supervisor Scott Wiener, to sign a "positive campaign pledge" last week that would have
SF News New Study Says Pot Could Protect Brain Cells From Alzheimer's Forget everything you think you know about the effects of marijuana. A study published in the journal Nature proposes that THC, the main active ingredient in the devil's weed, may help prevent Alzheimer's
SF News Report Says 280 Between SF and San Jose Is State's Deadliest Road For Animals Of 700,000 traffic crashes in California each year, a report by Fraser Shilling, the co-director of the Road Ecology Center at the UC Davis, Fraser Shilling, says that 6,000 involve wildlife.
SF News Legacy Bar Mr. Bing's Sold To New Owners, Will Close For Renovations Or Overhaul At Mr. Bing's Cocktail Lounge, which was at last inducted into San Francisco Heritage's list of “Legacy Bars & Restaurants” in 2014, cheap drinks and games of liar's dice appear to be coming
SF News Here's The 60-Story Tower Proposed For The Final 'Super-Tall' Transbay Parcel Sitting beside the Transbay Transit Center, 546 Howard Street's Parcel F is the last "super-tall" site zoned for development of greater than 550 feet. Anything that tall has the potential to radically alter
Arts & Entertainment 12 Outdoor Pianos Return To Botanical Garden This Week In 2013, Mauro ffortissimo began wheeling a piano, as covertly as one can, onto the bluffs near his Half Moon Bay home to play the same Schumann Arabesque at sunset each night. Those
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Robot Burger Joint Heads To SoMa, Umami Shutters, Russian River Brewing Expands SFist's food briefings this week included news on Food Hall, a somewhat risible corner grocery store now open 16th and Valencia, word that Jeremy Fox's Oro had gotten the shutter after just 9
SF News Federal Judge: SFPD Shows 'Substantial Evidence Of Racially Selective Enforcement' An SFPD drug sting operation that resulted in the arrests of 37 people, all of whom are African American, shows "substantial evidence" of racially biased law enforcement according to a federal judge. The
SF News Day Around The Bay: Underage Sex Worker In OPD Scandal Claims Involvement With 3 SFPD Officers Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. SF Sounds, a reincarnated Bay Area music publication, is
SF News 24 New Castro Plaque Honorees To Include Maurice Sendak, Sally Ride, And José Sarria Meet the next batch of queer artists, athletes, activists, and more who will dot the Castro sidewalks in an LGBTQ Walk of Fame known officially as the Rainbow Honor Walk. Twenty are already
SF News Oldest US Park Ranger Beaten In Richmond, Robbed Of Commemorative Coin Given To Her By President Obama The country's oldest full-time park ranger, 94-year-old Betty Reid Soskin, was recently robbed of belongings including a coin given to her by President Obama bearing his seal. KTVU reports that Soskin, who serves
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Presidio Social Club Hosting Weekly Fort Point Beer Garden With Barbecue All Summer On Wedesday nights this summer, Presidio Social Club executive chef Wes Shaw becomes pit master Wes Shaw and the patio at his restaurant becomes a beer garden from Fort Point Beer Co. The
SF News After Mission Fires Displace 200, Supervisor Campos Stokes Fears Of Arson 161701875, WF, WORKING FIRE, 4TH ALARM, 3312 MISSION ST, SF, pic.twitter.com/OGpSEDeyOk— SF Firefighters 798 (@SFFFLocal798) June 18, 2016 After a devastating fire at Mission and 29th Streets forced out 58
SF News New Homeless Czar Jeff Kositsky Pens Chronicle Credo As a day of devoted homelessness coverage draws to a close — though there will be more articles to come this this week and for many more to come — heads might naturally turn to
SF News 48% Of SF Homeless Youth Are LGBTQ And More Homeless News Today's the big day more than 70 San Francisco media outlets have been waiting for, and as promised, there's a flood of coverage focused on the homeless people of San Francisco, and beyond.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Hall, The MOMA Of Corner Grocery Stores, Now Open At 16th And Valencia Caleb Pershan/SFist Kitty-corner to an actual corner store, Food Hall (3100 16th Street) has all the sodas and booze and snacks of a typical "bodega" or "convenience store." But it's the presentation,
SF News Second Homeless Navigation Center Opens With 93 Beds In Civic Center Hotel Timed neatly to the crest of homelessness coverage being released this week by local outlets in an effort called the SF Homeless Project a push to shine a brighter media light on an
SF News Department of Public Health Puts Last Year's Homeless Count Closer To 10,000 Starting yesterday with an open letter to the city, more than 70 publications have begun to release focused, extended coverage on the issue of homelessness in San Francisco. While we framed some questions
SF News Latest Of Many Redesigns Revealed For Planned Development At Church And Market Home restaurant once occupied a triangular parcel at the intersection of Market and Church at 2100 Market, but after that closed in 2011, getting someone or something on the premises — other than squatters
SF News We've Been Talking About Homelessness Like It's New And Like It's The 'Worst Ever' For 30 Years "The annual homeless crisis came to San Francisco early this year," the Chronicle's Abe Mellinkoff wrote on October 16th, 1986. "Usually we don't hear much about it until the weather really turns cold.
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From The Premiere Of The <em>Looking</em> Movie At The Castro Theatre "Closing Night: Looking." Jonathan Groff had just managed to snap a cell phone picture of those words on the marquee at the Castro Theatre yesterday evening before he was recognized by a shrieking
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Ep. 3.10: 'The Elephant In The Room' Silicon Valley's first season ends with big success: A huge win for Pied Piper at TechCrunch Disrupt. Its second season ends with serious failure: Richard Hendricks is ousted from his position as CEO
