SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trailer Drops For Jeremiah Tower Documentary, 'The Last Magnificent' Famed San Francisco chef Jeremiah Tower was, arguably, America's first celebrity chef, cooking in an era when food began to figure more and more on television, and presiding over Stars, one of the
SF News Oroville Dam Shutoff Causes Riverbanks To Collapse Downstream Riverbanks collapse after #OrovilleDam spillway shut off. https://t.co/lIkgrn9uZP pic.twitter.com/MIt7Pthckk— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) March 4, 2017 An extreme side effect of the Department of Water Resources' decision to suddenly
Arts & Entertainment Video: LGBT Activist Ken Jones Talks About The Impact Of 'When We Rise' Ken Jones, a longtime activist in SF's LGBT community, is one of the primary characters portrayed in ABC's somewhat fictionalized though mostly based-in-fact miniseries, When We Rise. As we noted the other day
SF News 6,900 People Lost Their Jobs In SF In January Unemployment remains at just 3.2 percent in San Francisco as of the end of January, however that is up from 2.9 percent in December, and a whopping 6,900 lost their
SF News Could The Texas Supreme Court Actually Roll Back Marriage Equality? In a first of its kind challenge to the "settled law" of marriage equality, the Texas Supreme Court this week heard arguments in a case that questions to what extent Texas has to
SF News 42-Year-Old Northern California Woman Accused Of Having Sex With Three High School Football Players A 42-year-old woman in Mount Shasta, in Siskiyou County, is accused of having unlawful sex with three teenage boys, all of them football players at Mount Shasta High School. Mary Frances Fletcher, who
SF News Missing Vallejo Teen Could Have Been Sold Into Sex Trafficking, Say Police Though there has been no substantial update in the case of missing 15-year-old Pearl Pinson who was last seen in May 2016 getting dragged across a pedestrian bridge in Vallejo by a man
Arts & Entertainment Elon Musk Still Dating Amber Heard, Takes Her To Al Gore Movie Screening Back in July there were reports of Amber Heard, fresh from her high-profile divorce from Johnny Depp, being seen bopping in and out of hotel rooms at the Delano in Miami with Tesla
Arts & Entertainment Video: Sacramento-Area Winner Driving Backwards In Heavy Traffic A child might ask "Why is that car driving backwards, Mommy?" And a wise mother would respond, "I don't know but that is a person you don't want to grow up to be,
SF News Florida Judge Halts Oakland Judge's Decision To Free Noor Salman On Bail Prosecutors in the federal case against Orlando shooter Omar Mateen's widow succeeded Thursday in keeping her behind bars for now, filing a motion in federal court in Florida against releasing her on bail.
SF News Day Around The Bay: City Attorney Sues Hertz Over Golden Gate Bridge Toll Scheme Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. City Attorney Dennis Herrera is suing Hertz for bilking
Arts & Entertainment Cleve Jones Talks About The 'Surreal Experience' Of Seeing His Youth Reenacted In 'When We Rise' Local activist and author Cleve Jones first attended an eight-hour premiere screening of the Dustin Lance Black-penned miniseries When We Rise at the Castro Theatre last week. This week he's fielding reactions from
Arts & Entertainment What Was The Summer Of Love?: An Explainer As 50th Anniversary Celebrations Ramp Up When people talk about "the 60s" in San Francisco, they're talking about a period from January 1967 to December 1969 just three short years that would nonetheless forever reshape the population of the
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Shoe Stores In SF In the past SFist has tried to steer you to the city's finest independent booksellers, record shops, and even local fashion labels. Today we bring you a curated list of places to indulge
SF News Pro-Trump Rally In Berkeley Saturday May Not Actually Be Happening A pro-Trump, pro-Yiannopolous, Proud Boys-affiliated rally for the alt-right planned for Berkeley on March 4 may just be a fiction perpetuated by social media, though that may not prevent counter-protesters from showing up
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Grocery Outlet Arrives In The Mission, At Long Last, Next Week After sitting empty for six years, the former DeLano's Market space on South Van Ness near 24th Street if finally coming alive again as a Grocery Outlet, starting next week. Mission Local brings
Arts & Entertainment Rachel Dolezal Has Changed Her Name To Nkechi Amare Diallo 39-year-old white former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal has filed papers in her hometown of Spokane, Washington to legally change her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo. As the New York Daily News notes with
SF News Local Billionaire Donates $5 Million to Flood Relief Effort In San Jose Billionaire donates $5M to aid San Jose flood victims https://t.co/CQFZNXkuYD pic.twitter.com/NTkb8bYDtj— SFGate (@SFGate) March 2, 2017 Though the South Bay is not short on billionaires who could
Arts & Entertainment As Colin Kaepernick Becomes Free Agent, He Says He'll Stand For National Anthem Next Season Perhaps following the advice of his agents, or perhaps truly feeling like his protest has run its course, soon-to-be-former 49ers quarterback intimated Thursday that he will be happy to stand for the national
SF News Local Tech Workers Make New Enemies By Crying Poverty Over Six-Figure Salaries File under: Reasons Middle America and much of the world hates us right now. The Guardian has just published a new piece in the perennially popular genre of Stories About How Stupidly Expensive
Arts & Entertainment Ahead Of 'When We Rise' Part Two, ABC 7 Airs Pioneering AIDS Video Diary By Late Reporter Onetime ABC 7 entertainment reporter Paul Wynne decided in 1990, after being diagnosed with HIV and beginning to show the deterioration signs of AIDS, to document the final period of his life in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open In West Oakland: Old Kan Beer & Co. The brewpub project announced last month in the former Dock at Linden Street space, Old Kan Beer & Co., is now officially open as of today, and partners James Syhabout (Hawker Fare, Commis)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Hotel Under Construction ID'd As Virgin Hotel, With Rooftop Bar Confirmed Back in January, I alerted you to the hotel construction boom that's bringing SF four new hotels this year, three of which appeared to be arriving with rooftop bars an exciting bit of
SF News [Update] New Details Emerge In Case Against Orlando Shooter's Widow Noor Salman As Judge Releases Her On Bail Noor Salman reappeared in federal court Wednesday for a scheduled bail hearing following her arrest in January on charges of aiding and abetting terrorism and obstruction of justice. She's expected to stand trial
SF News Pelosi: Trump 'Speaks Like A Populist' But He's Full Of Sh** House Minority leader and other Bay Area Democrats were predictably unimpressed with President Trump's first speech before a joint session of Congress a sort of mock State of the Union address, six weeks
