Arts & Entertainment Killer Whales Continue Putting On Show In Monterey Bay With Multiple Killings A pod of at least nine killer whales, with some other individuals joining in, have had a busy week of feeding in Monterey Bay, all as tourists excitedly watched. On Monday we saw
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Hazel Debuts On Mid-Market, Biig Opening Slowly In the TL, and More The big news for the local food scene this week has to be the release of the new Top 100 from the Chronicle, which is notably a bit more diverse, both in terms
Arts & Entertainment Amazon Put Alexa Inside A Camera So She Can Give You Fashion Advice (And Maybe Spy On You) Behold the Amazon Echo Look, which the company is billing as a "hands-free camera style assistant," but which could, before you know it, end up being a creepy talking robot
SF News Self-Driving Car Guru Anthony Levandowski Steps Aside From Lead Role At Uber Embattled self-driving car division head Anthony Levandowski is stepping back from his role leading Uber's autonomous vehicle efforts pending the outcome of that court battle involving his former employer, Google/
SF News Noted Bad Landlord Anne Kihagi Thrown In Jail In Los Angeles Notorious local landlord Anne Kihagi, who was sued by the SF city attorney two years ago after numerous reports about her shady eviction tactics and unfair treatment of tenants, has now been sentenced
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer Adds La Taqueria, Ju-Ni, And 20 More Restaurants To Chronicle Top 100 It's the big announcement day for the Chronicle Top 100 Restaurants something that the paper, in previous years, took great pains to keep under wraps until the physical Sunday paper arrived
SF News BART 'Fleet Of The Future' Train Breaks Down During Test Causing Major Morning Delays It's another bad PR week for BART, and it's just gotten a bit worse after they were testing a four-car train of those new Fleet of the Future
Arts & Entertainment 'The Encounter' At The Curran Is A Trippy Existential Podcast Come To Life Actor and playwright Simon McBurney probably did not anticipate the explosion of old-fashioned radio theater that's been happening lately via podcasts when he began working on The Encounter several years
Arts & Entertainment The 13 Best Places To People Watch In SF What should you do on a pleasant weekend afternoon in San Francisco when you have an hour or two to kill? You could do the basics like an urban hike or a park-
Arts & Entertainment Here's The First Look At Helen Mirren In 'Winchester' CBS Films just released the first image of actress Helen Mirren in character, and in costume, as Sarah Winchester in the upcoming thriller Winchester. It's directed by Michael and Peter Spierig,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Former Ritz And Michael Mina Chef Ron Siegel Gets His Own Spot In Marin Chef Ron Siegel, who in his time as executive chef at the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton earned four stars from the Chronicle and many other accolades, and who later would take
Arts & Entertainment Video: Salma Hayek Translates Mexican Slang Salma Hayek, who's starring in the new film How to Be A Latin Lover, has just done this cute explainer video for Vanity Fair translating various Mexican slang phrases some of
SF News A Dozen Decomposing Dog Remains Found By Side Of Vallejo Trail She found the carcasses of 12 pets, dumped in plastic bags. No identifications. pic.twitter.com/E8vXx56Exk — Wayne Freedman (@WayneFreedman) April 27, 2017 A woman walking her own dogs stumbled upon a gruesome
SF News Berkeley Chancellor Pens Op Ed: 'We Are Under Attack From Both Sides' UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks took to the New York Times today with an op-ed concerning both the Ann Coulter speech kerfuffle and the ongoing use of the campus as a locale
SF News BART Identifies Some Suspects In Mob Robbery As Woman Comes Forward With Separate Teen Attack Story The swarm robbery by a large group of teenagers that occurred at BART's Coliseum Station Saturday night continues to make the local news as KRON 4, CBS 5, and NBC Bay
SF News Day Around The Bay: Flying Uber Cars? Really? * Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * A court has ruled that Uber must turn over
SF News Gay, HIV-Positive Asylum Seeker From Russia Living In Bay Area Detained By ICE In Florida The stakes are very high for 30-year-old Russian national Denis Davydov, who traveled to the US legally in 2014 and overstayed his visa, requesting asylum as an HIV-positive gay man
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch A Landslide Spill Down Onto Highway 101 In Mendocino One Day After It Reopened A section of Highway 101 in Mendocino County that has been closed twice in the last month by rockslides had just reopened Monday when the hill began giving way again Tuesday night, and
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Mac Returns To SF In September To Perform His Complete 'A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music' Performer and playwright Taylor Mac will, for only the second time, be performing all 24 hours of his epically ambitious A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music this fall at The Curran. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing: Beer Fest Aboard A Submarine San Francisco is a beer-loving town if ever there was one, and this week marks the third annual installment of a smaller-scale beer fest than the annual Beer Week Gala that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Preeti Mistry's Navi Kitchen Debuts In Emeryville, Indian Pizza Coming Soon The second East Bay restaurant from Juhu Beach Club chef Preeti Mistry, Navi Kitchen, opened its doors this morning for limited breakfast service including an awesome looking chai-spiced bacon and egg sandwich
SF News No Arrests Yet As BART Catches Flak For Not Publicizing 'Flash Mob' Robbery Should BART have been faster to alert the public about the mob of 40+ teens who bum-rushed fare gates, stormed the platform, and roughed up and robbed a bunch of people at
SF News Ann Coulter Backs Out Of Berkeley Event After Student Groups Abandon Her Welp, for all those warriors on the alt-right and far left who were dusting off their helmets and makeshift weapons in preparation for a new Battle of Berkeley this week, this should
SF News City Pens Angry Letter To PG&E About Blackout, Says Communication That Day Was 'Nonexistent' City officials are tallying up the economic impacts of Friday's eight-hour blackout which affected some of the densest and busiest parts of San Francisco, shutting down 21 schools and impacting
Arts & Entertainment Photographer Michael Jang Watched The SF Punk Scene Blossom, And Now He's Selling Photos Of It For $20 Well respected SF-based photographer Michael Jang already has plenty of his work in museums, including the permanent collection of SFMOMA, and this year he's been pulling some work out of
