SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chow Space On Church To Become Cook Shoppe, From Owner Behind Upcoming Gramercy Park Brasserie Across The Street The recently shuttered Chow already has a taker who has plans to reopen the restaurant with as much of the same staff as he can, a similarly neighborhood-centric spot called Cook Shoppe.
Arts & Entertainment ACT's 'The Great Leap' Tells A Very San Francisco Tale With Global Reach Lauren Yee's The Great Leap tells a story with so much connection to San Francisco, it seems odd that the play actually premiered last year in Denver before moving on to a six-week run in New York.
SF News Facebook Says It Removed 1.5 Million Copies Of The New Zealand Shooting Video The horrifying 17-minute Facebook Live video made by the accused New Zealand shooter proliferated on social media in the first 24 hours, and Facebook says it removed 1.5 million copies in that first day alone — 1.2 million of which were caught on upload.
Arts & Entertainment Metallica and SF Symphony Team Up For Inaugural Concert at Warriors Arena The first concert at the Chase Center on September 6 was just announced, and it's going to be a 20th anniversary reunion concert for SF's own Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony, who last played together in 1999.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Julius' Castle Might Reopen This Year Following Multi-Year Battle With Neighbors Telegraph Hill landmark Julius' Castle may finally be seeing the light at the end of a years-long tunnel that included a lengthy Planning review, and a lawsuit by NIMBY neighbors paranoid about traffic.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Lyft Releases Revenue Numbers, Launches Roadshow Lyft is seeking a pre-market valuation somewhat lower than the $25 billion that was expected. Also, two people were shot in two days on East Bay freeways.
SF News Sunday Links: Missing Snowboarder Found Dead A 40-year-old Vallejo man was found dead at North Star, an elderly man survived a leap out of his car on 280, and Pelosi is calling for an override vote.
SF News Man Arrested After Puppy Was Thrown Down Garbage Chute A San Francisco man has been charged with felony animal cruelty after a four-month-old Chihuahua puppy was found alive but badly injured in a dumpster.
SF News Infamous SF Power Broker Florence Fang Sued Over Flintstones House Lawn Ornaments Florence Fang, the former publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, is being sued by the town of Hillsborough over what they say are some unsightly lawn fixtures.
SF News Saturday Links: Teen Girl Struck By Car Near Lake Merced A 14-year-old girl was hit by a car while walking her dog Friday, authorities bust up a credit card skimming ring, and WhatsApp's founder tells Stanford students to delete Facebook.
SF News Day Around The Bay: It's Effing Gorgeous Out In case you haven't looked or been outside, it is beautiful, and it's going to be beautiful and warm through Monday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Critic Soleil Ho Gives Thumbs Up To Creator's Robot Burgers, Makes Playlist About Them The latest review from the Chronicle's new food critic brings her to new robotic burger outfit Creator in SoMa, where she finds some tasty, moist (if well done) burgers at a very attractive price point.
SF News You'll Soon Be Able To Use Credit Cards At BART 'Add Fare' Machines The cash-only Add Fare machines inside the BART fare gates are soon going to be a thing of the past, as BART has decided, at long last, to catch up with the last century.
Arts & Entertainment Amy Poehler Added To Standup Lineup At SF's Clusterfest In June The great and marvelous Amy Poehler was just added to the lineup of the third annual Clusterfest, which comes to Civic Center June 21-23. And SFist has been told she "and friends" will be doing a mix of improv, variety, and standup.
SF News Hundreds Of Bay Area Students March Through Downtown SF As Part of the Youth Climate Strike Hundreds, if not over a thousand, of Bay Area middle school and high school students walked out of class Friday and showed up for a "Youth vs. Apocalypse" climate protest on Market Street in San Francisco.
SF News Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter Scramble to Remove New Zealand Terrorist Video A terrorist attack conceived and designed to go viral in Christchurch New Zealand on Friday was captured in part in a horrifying 17-minute helmet cam video that was broadcast live on Facebook, and continues to proliferate online.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Area Mosques On Alert SFPD steps up patrols on local mosques after shooting in New Zealand, local racetrack makes changes after CA horse deaths, and Joe Montana paid for college consulting services from Rick Singer.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Nudists To Parade Again This Sunday The nudists are protesting the nudity ban for the umpteenth time this Sunday, SFO passengers react to Boeing 737 groundings, and there's an update about the Transbay Transit Center.
SF News Infamous SoMa Gay Sex Club Blow Buddies May Be Endangered As Building Goes Up For Sale Blow Buddies, which has operated for decades in semi-secret with no street signage at 933 Harrison Street, could be in danger if the building it's housed in sells to owners who don't want a sex club there.
SF News Stanford Students Sue Over Admissions Fraud Scandal; Atherton Teen's Georgetown Diploma In Jeopardy A pair of Stanford students have filed a class action lawsuit against the university — and multiple others — in connection with the wide-ranging admissions fraud scandal revealed this week by the FBI.
SF News Congrats, San Francisco! You Win At Getting Syphilis A new report finds that San Francisco leads the nation in syphilis infections, and we come in third for gonorrhea. Yay.
SF News Butterfly Swarm Heading For NorCal Within Days An unusually large population of migrating painted lady butterflies has been swarming over the Los Angeles area in recent days, and they're headed our direction.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Beto's Running The window for the Mavericks surf competition is closing, Kamala supports Newsom's death penalty moratorium, and Facebook still hasn't said what caused Wednesday's outage.
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Gets Its First Lesbian Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson, a 25-year veteran of the SFFD, will step into Joanne Hayes-White's shoes as chief in May, and that Facebook/Instagram outage lasted pretty much all day.
Arts & Entertainment Bill Graham To Light Up With New Conceptual Art Piece Tonight A new public art piece by renowned conceptual art master Joseph Kosuth is getting flicked on officially for the first time tonight, on the previously unsightly Polk Street facade of Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.
