SF News Day Around The Bay: Neal Cassady Letter Finds Home An 18-page letter from Neal Cassady to his friend Jack Kerouac in 1950 that was discovered in an Oakland home three years ago, which supposedly inspired Kerouac's soon-to-be adopted stream-of-consciousness style and which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trevor The Truffle Man From Dolores Park Goes Legit ☀️☀️☀️ rg @cchikandkushy A post shared by Truffle Man (@truffle.man) on Jul 15, 2017 at 9:51am PDT After years of roaming Dolores Park most every sunny day with his signature, umbrella-protected copper
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Robin Song's Gibson Debuts Thursday In The Hotel Bijou Chef Robin Song, who earned accolades for some of his earlier work at Hog & Rocks several years back, now has a new stage from which to display his talents, and that's the
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Nothing makes sense. The world is pretty awful. Nevertheless it's another pretty Indian Summer week in San Francisco, and we are muddling through. Should you need to get out of the house and/
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Steve Martin Is One Serious Banjo Player Comedian and actor turned playwright Steve Martin also plays banjo on the side, because as he and Stephen Colbert recently discussed, he's a polymath and apparently never sleeps. He's got a new album
SF News Yahoo Hack From 2013 Actually Impacted All 3 Billion Accounts Highlighting just how complicated it's apparently been, even internally, to sort out the major breach of Yahoo from 2013 that was only first revealed to the public 10 months ago, Yahoo's new parent
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Healdsburg Fine-Dining Destination Cyrus, Closed Since 2012, Confirms 2019 Rebirth Thanks @peoplemag for the feature! http://greatideas.people.com/2013/09/26/the-new-top-chef-masters-winner-sounds-off-on-skydiving-and-more/ A post shared by Douglas Keane (@douglaskeane) on Oct 1, 2013 at 10:23am PDT Five years after Michelin two-star
SF News At Least Three Bay Area Women Among Those Shot In Las Vegas, Two Fatally The first reports on some of the identities of the victims in Sunday's mass shooting in Las Vegas began trickling in late Monday, and we now have confirmation that 50-year-old Stacee Etcheber, a
Arts & Entertainment Check Out The Rainbow Light Installation Coming To Harvey Milk Plaza Next Month As the 40th anniversary of Harvey Milk's election to the Board of Supervisors approaches next month, local nonprofit Illuminate the folks behind the Bay Lights on the Bay Bridge and the Summer of
SF News [Update] SFPD Officer's Wife Among The Dead After Vegas Shooting The local impacts of the mass shooting in Las Vegas Sunday are continuing to reveal themselves, and this afternoon we learn that one of the victims could be the wife of an SFPD
Arts & Entertainment Pictures Show Two iPhone 8 Pluses That Split Open, Possibly From Swollen Batteries 届いたiPhone8plus、開けたら既に膨らんでた pic.twitter.com/eX3XprSzqv— まごころ (@Magokoro0511) September 24, 2017 A couple of photos are circulating showing two iPhone 8 Pluses bought in two different countries that spontaneously split open at the
Arts & Entertainment Regarding The Heart Skywriting Over The Golden Gate Bridge Sunday In case you missed it, there were sky hearts over the Golden Gate Bridge today to celebrate the Summer of Love ❤️✈️ #LovePlaneExperience pic.twitter.com/lWHTpdZDpa— Hornblower NorCal (@HornblowerNoCa) October 2, 2017 If
SF News Bevan Dufty Tries To Make Point To BART Management By Cleaning Station Himself In defiance of BART management, BART board member Bevan Dufty has been picking up a broom and helping clean 16th Street Station himself. Dufty has been arguing that the station, one of the
SF News [Update] Bay Area Residents Recount Terrifying Experiences During Las Vegas Shooting Sunday night's mass shooting in Las Vegas, which claimed the lives of 58 people and counting and injured over 500 others, will continue to yield many horrifying accounts from witnesses as the days
SF News SF's Cable Cars See Drop In Ridership Possibly Due To Long Lines Ridership on SF's historic cable cars, which are considered a must for many tourists, seems to be on the decline, and the Chronicle's Matier & Ross surmise this may be because fares went
SF News Two People Found Dead Of Gunshot Wounds In Dolores Heights Two people were found shot to death in a parked car in Dolores Heights Saturday morning, and the crime is roiling the usually quiet, tony neighborhood where such crimes don't typically occur. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Waxman's Unpaid Bills, Saison Sues Former Employees, And More This week around the Bay we learned of a new Austrian-style wine bar in North Beach called The Salsburg, saw a bit of controversy over the Museum of Ice Cream and its ice
SF News Travis Kalanick Moves To Undercut New Uber CEO, Appoints Two New Board Members By Surprise The Uber drama continues after a late Friday "surprise" by former CEO and current board member Travis Kalanick that is being characterized by sources as a blatant move to undercut new CEO Dara
SF News Day Around The Bay: Steel Derrick Dangles Precariously Off Salesforce Tower Baby tower grew too fast! #sanfrancisco #salesforcetower #architecturephotography A post shared by Myrto Grigori (@myrtogrigori) on Sep 29, 2017 at 7:38am PDT A massive steel derrick that was being used as part
Arts & Entertainment Castro Street Fair Returns Sunday, With Smaller Footprint, Fewer Stages The recently embattled Castro Street Fair, which had kind of a bad go of it last year, has retooled itself for 2017 as a slightly smaller fair, removing itself from Market Street for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland To Get New All-Day Deli-Bakery Thing Inspired By Venice Beach's Gjusta, Via Charlie Hallowell One of Oakland's most successful chef-restaurateurs, Charlie Hallowell (Pizzaiolo, Boot & Shoe Service, Penrose) is taking over the former Grand Fare space, which is in the same Grand Avenue building that he co-owns
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Hour-By-Hour Schedule For Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2017 We're a week away from Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2017, and the full schedule has now been released, so you can begin your planning ahead. We had the lineup already a couple weeks back,
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: An In-Law Studio For $1800 (Plus Mandatory Full-Time Nanny Position) Want to live in Saint Francis Wood in someone's 600-square-foot in-law studio for a relatively reasonable rent that comes with a major catch? Well, someone over there is seeking an unheard-of deal on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Lard Butt 1K' Run Comes To San Francisco, Complete With Doughnut Stations And Beer Garden A fun run that originated in Seattle is debuting in SF in November, and it's basically Bay to Breakers for the less ambitious, minus the people who actually run, with the addition of
SF News ICE Conducts Sweep Of Bay Area Sanctuary Cities, Makes 27 Arrests As part of a nationwide gesture to highlight crime by immigrants in sanctuary cities, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) conducted a sweep this week arresting some 487 undocumented immigrants.
