Arts & Entertainment 'Warplay' Is A Spare, Moving Riff On A Great Greek Love Story The two men portrayed in Warplay, while ostensibly based on Achilles and his best friend and lover Patroclus, are as much foils for each other as they are romantic partners. Named just A
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Sushi Spot Robin Close To Opening In Hayes Valley Adam Tortosa's previously announced Hayes Valley sushi spot Robin (whose original name was Starling before he got served with a cease and desist order by a bar with that name in Sonoma) is
Arts & Entertainment Photo(s) Du Jour: The Stud's Rad New Mural The Stud is looking especially spiffy this Pride week thanks to this new mural by Xara Thustra, created with collaborators Monica Caniao and You Go Girl. The vibrant work wraps around all three
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dosa To Bring Upscale Indian To Oakland's Uptown The latest of several announcements about new restaurant projects headed for Oakland's Uptown neighborhood comes from SF's Dosa, which is planning to open their third location there this fall. As Inside Scoop explains,
SF News Hot Cop Of The Castro Ordered To Stand Trial In Hit-And-Run The SFPD officer once dubbed the Hot Cop of the Castro has been ordered to stand trial on two felony counts of hit-and-run connected to an incident in North Beach in November 2015.
SF News Motorcyclist Who Allegedly Drove Through Protest Is Head Of 'White Privilege Club' A man who was detained by police Wednesday for allegedly driving his motorcycle into a group of protesters lying down on Seventh Street has been identified in the media as Jeffery Dillon of
SF News Today Expected To Be Another Scorcher Currently 50s and 60s at the coast with much warmer readings inland. #Livermore already 82! #heatwave #bayarea #cawx pic.twitter.com/wIhJvqiszZ— NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) June 22, 2017 PG&E's in-house
SF News Day Around The Bay: Health Bill Protest Disrupted By Rogue Motorcyclist A protest today against the Republican health plan, actually a "die-in," outside the federal building at Seventh and Mission was disrupted by a man on a motorcycle who sped the wrong way down
Arts & Entertainment The Best Gay And Lesbian Clubs And Parties In SF It's been a minute since SFist has run down the coolest lesbigay clubs and parties around town, and a few things have closed and ended and some others have popped up since we
SF News Small Hayward Fault Earthquake Jiggles East Bay Felt two quick jolts in Berkeley from #earthquake Here's the feed of @BerkeleySeismo stations recording motion. Seems largest in SF pic.twitter.com/5QBWjJZkSK— Christopher Milliner (@Geo_GIF) June 21, 2017 A magnitude
SF News Video: Cool NASA Video Shows Before And After Images Of California's Drought We got through a historic drought and have come out the other side after the atmospheric rivers and steady rains of this past winter in California. Especially in Northern California and around the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Is Farina Finally Closed? A certain exorbitantly priced, marginally well liked Italian spot on 18th Street has been mysteriously closed for about a month, and this could signal the final demise of a polarizing restaurant that has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Pens Idealistic Note To Jeff Bezos About The Future Of Whole Foods Never one to miss an opportunity to proselytize, local-sustainable evangelist Alice Waters took to Twitter over the weekend to pen the note below, signed "with hopefulness," asking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to please
SF News BART Cars' Semi-Functional Air Conditioning Making Many Miserable During Heatwave Given that summer in SF (and to some extent Oakland and Berkeley too) is usually pretty cool, we don't tend to have the same sweaty public transit woes of our friends in, say,
SF News Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Resigns Under Pressure From Key Investors After some Tuesday night drama in Silicon Valley involving Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and several key investor in the embattled ride-hailing company all worthy of Silicon Valley the HBO show Kalanick has resigned
SF News Day Around The Bay: Suspect Who Caused Massive Bay Bridge Backup In Jail A post shared by Erik Flatmo (@erikflatmo) on Jun 20, 2017 at 12:27pm PDT The guy who's accused of driving his Cadillac at some CHP officers on the Bay Bridge early Sunday
Arts & Entertainment The SFist Guide To Pride 2017 No doubt, this year's SF Pride is going to be one for the books, if only because as the nation remains bitterly divided about its identity and its future. So in some part
SF News New Oakland Fire Department Report Reveals Details Of Ghost Ship Victim Recovery A new, 50-page "Origin and Cause" report by the Oakland Fire Department has been released for the Ghost Ship disaster, though the report concludes, as the earlier investigation by the ATF did, that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cult Beer Favorite Pliny The Elder Loses Number One Spot On Cult Beer Ranking Russian River Brewing's Pliny the Elder is no longer tops among the beer aficionados and homebrew cultists who vote in the annual Zymurgy Magazine poll on the Best Beers in America. As SFGate
SF News Uber Finally Adds Tips For Drivers Signaling that possibly only one man has been standing in the way of Uber drivers being able to receive tips from passengers as they can with ride-hailing rival Lyft, the company announced Tuesday
SF News UPS Coworkers Remain Confused About Shooter's Motives; Vigil Held For Victims Two UPS coworkers who witnessed last Thursday's shooting in Potrero Hill, one of whom was shot in the leg during the ordeal, remain confused about what drove 38-year-old Jimmy Lam to kill three
SF News Early Morning Power Outage Hits East Bay In Midst Of Statewide Flex Alert Flex Alert: Californians Urged To Conserve Electricity Amid Heat Wave « CBS San Francisco - https://t.co/Gwh5kayTwH (In triple digit temps.)— Blue Beach Song™ (@BlueBeachSong) June 20, 2017 Thousands of PG&
SF News Day Around The Bay: Road Rage Motorcyclists Plead Not Guilty Those three motorcycle guys accused in the March beating of that Lyft driver on 101 who were arrested last week, all entered not-guilty pleas in court Monday, and will return next week for
SF News SF Pride Parade To Officially Look More Like A Protest This Year, Will Lead With 'Resistance' Contingent At least in 2017, the annual Pride parade and Civic Center celebration on Sunday isn't going to be just about straight teens and allies wearing rainbow socks. SF Pride announced Monday that this
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queen Juanita More! Kicks Off Pride 2017 With Three New Murals In SF "2017 marks my 25th year in drag in San Francisco, so these murals are very special to me," says local drag icon Juanita More!, a performer and fundraiser who is equally at home