SF News Citing 'Structural Damage' Berkeley Indefinitely Closes Historic Pier Due to “considerable structural damage,” the city of Berkeley has announced the indefinite closure of its 89-year-old historic municipal fishing pier. Berkeleyside, the Chronicle, and others report that the pier has been closed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The Derbie Pie Shake At ShakeDown Ice Cream In a town where ice cream flavors tend toward the simple and seasonal, "Pennsyl-tucky," an offering from relative newcomers ShakeDown Ice Cream, skews more toward wacky Ben & Jerry's than Bi-Rite. Williams-Sonoma's blog
SF News Homeless Navigation Center To Become 165-Unit Affordable Building; Will There Be More Navigation Centers? Affordable housing advocates in the Mission District have something to celebrate: The development rights for what's currently the temporary Homeless Navigation Center at the former Phoenix Continuation High School site have been awarded
SF News Startup Showers Dolores Park With Confetti To Celebrate Acquisition [Updated] Twice, a fashion resale startup based in the Mission District, has a lot to celebrate. After raising over $20 million from the likes of Andreessen Horowitz and IA Ventures, they've recently announced a
SF News Retail Report On Castro District Says No More Coffee, Maybe Enough With The 'Adult' Stores With over 30 vacant retail spaces along the Castro and Upper Market retail corridor, the area's vacancy rate — 8% — is nearly twice the city’s overall average. That's prompted a new 200 page
SF News [Update] Wind-Whipped Fire South Of Lake Berryessa Now 80% Contained #WraggFire pic.twitter.com/lsAnhWlSD7— Elizabeth Rogers (@Shescountry_86) July 23, 2015 A fire ignited yesterday and spread quickly in the area south of Lake Berryessa in Napa and Solano Counties, and it
SF News Day Around The Bay: Hayward Cop Shot And Killed During Traffic Stop San Francisco wants luxury condo developments and private universities to pay for Muni upgrades. [Business Times] Supervisor Farrell proposes reforms following the Pier 14 murder of Kathryn Steinle, says Fox News and Donald
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ping-Pong Bar/Restaurant From Susan Sarandon Coming To SoMa A photo posted by SPiN New York (@spinnewyork) on Mar 15, 2015 at 3:50pm PDT Spin — the popular chain of ping-pong "social club" bar/restaurants — is at last coming to San Francisco,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Reno-Based Brasserie St. James Poised To Take On Former Abbot's Cellar Space The former location of Abbot's Cellar has lain dormant since the owners, Monk's Kettle, shut down their high-end spinoff in January, gesturing to the minimum wage hike. But betting on the viability of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vandal With Vocabulary Tags Twee New Business In Bernal Heights Shocking news from pleasant Cortland Street on the south side of Bernal — or should I say "Banal"— Hill. A vigilante with a vocabulary has tagged a new business, Epicurean Trader — or per the
SF News Twitter's Frat-Themed Office Party Totally 'Not Reflective' Of Fratty Tech Company Culture Despite holding an office party with Twitter-branded beer pong tables and a sign in Greek- style lettering that read “Twitter Frat House,” Twitter's male-dominated culture is nothing like that of an American college
SF News US Mint Cop Shoots Pit Bull Puppy Dog bites man. It's a tale as old as time. But in this telling, something different took place. The man was a cop at the US Mint, and as Hoodline and the Chronicle
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week See and be seen at these select San Francisco shows, parties, and events. You know, because you can't read the Internet all the time. TUESDAY, JULY 21 BRASS: The Chapel hosts the High
Arts & Entertainment Video: Meet The Man Who Invented The Wave At A 1981 A's Game Like it does when performed at a ballgame, the wave has to start somewhere. And so it did in Oakland with "Krazy George," the professional fan and cheerleader who concocted the move for
SF News Will Somebody Please Buy This Entire City Block For $10 Million And Do Something With It Already? While San Franciscans fight desperately for more housing in some neighborhoods, an entire Portola District city block zoned for development has languished for roughly two years on the market. Socketsite reports that there's
SF News Day Around The Bay: Russian Billionaire Gives Berkeley $100 Million In Search For Extraterrestrial Life A judge has ruled that CA taxi companies can sue Uber for false advertising. [Chron] A permitting issue at the Castro Starbucks has led to the removal of outdoor seating. [Hoodline] An argument
Arts & Entertainment 'Kid Charlemagne': A Close Reading Of Steely Dan's Ode To Haight Street's LSD King "Oh Owsley, can you hear me now" Jimi Hendrix says on a BBC sessions recording of "Day Tripper just before he starts his solo. It's an appropriate reference, and one of very many
SF News Apple Can't Get Developers To Build Apps For Watch, Could Introduce Chintzy Gold One At Lower Price The Apple Watch — the new must-have device from the makers of the iPhone, a device you literally must have in order to work the Watch — might not be selling so great. While we
Arts & Entertainment Daniel Radcliffe Shows Off Karaoke Rap Wizardry In 'Real Slim Shady' Rendition Daniel Radcliffe may be a muggle, but as he's hinted at on Fallon appearances, he does have some tricks up his sleeve. As Vulture informs us, the actor who probably doesn't love the
SF News Dirty Streets Require Potable Water For City Cleaning, Are Still So So Gross San Francisco, California, the City by the Bay where thousands of gallons of drinking water are poured onto the streets and you totally can't tell. “We have to use potable water for steam
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink With Craft Beer And Chili, Old Bus Tavern Quietly Opens On Mission Street A new brewpub and yet another trendy neighborhood spot on Mission Street in Bernal Heights, Old Bus Tavern has softly opened its doors in the former El Patio restaurant space. Beer made in
SF News Day Around The Bay: Wanna Buy A Watch? A startup called Building Snitch hopes to help landlords nail tenants who Airbnb their places. [Weekly] Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is calling for a hearing to clarify what his department’s legal obligations are
SF News This Week In SF Food: Trestle Team Signs On For Mid-Market, And Basically Everyone Quits At BDK This week, the SFist food desk had news on Tsk/Tsk, an interim bar takeover from the Bourbon and Branch team, debuting tonight on Divisadero. Meanwhile on Market Street, there was word of
SF News Video: Techie Newlyweds Spend Miserable Honeymoon Living On Bitcoin Alone One pioneering couple who can bravely afford to treat money as a fun little experiment is ready to premier their revolutionary new documentary, Life on Bitcoin, next week at the Internet Archive. Bitcoin,
SF News UC Berkeley Sleep Study: You Perceive Friends As Enemies When You're Tired For the song "People Are Strange," certified creepy dude and Doors lyricist Jim Morrison wrote that "faces look ugly, when you're alone." Though the band's frontman was musing on his experience of foreignness
