SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Carl's Jr. Targeted By Protesters Who Oppose Labor Secretary Nominee Andrew Puzder As you may have heard, among Donald Trump's atrocious, government-despising cabinet nominees is Carl's Jr./Hardee's CEO Andrew Puzder, a man reportedly opposed to hikes in the minimum wage, and whose company has
Arts & Entertainment 'Hand To God' Is A Raucous, Irreligious Riot At Berkeley Rep Robert Askins's somewhat frightening, wholly hilarious black comedy Hand to God is less likely to scare off too many unsuspecting Christians unclear about its blasphemous premise in its run at Berkeley Rep as
Arts & Entertainment Photos From The 2017 Chinese New Year Parade In Downtown SF On Saturday, the nation's largest annual Chinese Lunar New Year celebration, with one of the only nighttime illuminated parades in the country as well, came down Market Street and circled Union Square, drawing
SF News Lake Oroville Situation Calms Down Temporarily As Officials Assess Damage On Spillways Monday morning is being spent assessing the situation and beginning emergency repairs to the auxiliary spillway at Lake Oroville Dam, which Sunday evening appeared in danger of failure in a situation that could
SF News Alt-Right March Planned In Berkeley March 4 This should go well! A gathering of "patriots" who support "free speech" will be descending on Berkeley on March 4 to show all those silly liberals what America really looks like. The already
SF News 22-Car Freight Train Derailment Creates Spectacle Near Sacramento A major train derailment that thankfully did not injure anyone occurred on Friday afternoon at about 12:45 p.m., sending 22 cars of the Union Pacific freight train into the Cosumnes River,
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF A Great Place For Marriageable Men? Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Legal experts are saying that the Trump administration would
SF News Girl Scout Cookie Stand Robbed At Gunpoint In The East Bay All is not well when a mother and daughter can't sell some Samoas without getting robbed. But that is what happened outside a Union City Safeway on Wednesday night, when a man or
SF News Major Mudslide Shuts Down I-80 Near Auburn In Both Directions A mudslide Friday morning caused the complete shutdown of eastbound and westbound I-80, leading to some serious delays and a detour for those who are Tahoe-bound. As ABC 7 reports, all truck traffic
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink McDonald's Is Testing Out A Crab Sandwich In San Jose Much like they did last year with those Gilroy garlic fries, McDonald's is using the South Bay as a testing ground for a new crab sandwich. But there's no real local angle with
SF News Pro- And Anti-Choice Rallies To Face Off At Mission Planned Parenthood Location Saturday This weekend is going to see another, likely smaller scale protest battle over abortion rights reminiscent of Women's March day when the annual anti-abortion march up Market Street coincided with the more liberal-heavy,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo Du Jour: Goodbye, Home Restaurant Check it out! The long-vacant Home Restaurant building has disappeared at Church and Market, about a week after demolition began. This triangular pile of rubble, bounded on the back side by 14th Street,
SF News Muni Thinks Most Riders Pay Their Fares It's true that a lot of people around SF are good with the honor system and dutifully tag their Clipper cards when boarding Muni buses and light-rail trains. But do the overwhelming majority?
SF News Lake Oroville Hits 98 Percent Capacity, Emergency Spillway May Not Have To Be Used Yesterday there were some false-alarm rumors that there had been a catastrophic failure of the spillway at Oroville Dam, fed by some dramatic photos of a controlled release of water down the damaged
Arts & Entertainment What It's Like To See 'Rent' Again 20 Years Later, 20 Years Older It was a hot August Saturday in 1996 when two college friends and I camped out on West 41st Street to score $20 rush tickets to see Rent, the original Broadway cast still
SF News Trump Denied Stay Of Restraining Order On Travel Ban By Ninth Circuit A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously Thursday afternoon to deny the Trump administration's request for an emergency stay of a restraining order issued last Friday by a
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Adult Toy Stores In San Francisco Spending this Valentine's Day happily single? Maybe you should treat yourself to a self-love aid at one of our city's finest adult toy emporia. Or perhaps you are happily coupled but you're getting
SF News Twitter Ad Revenue Down, Stock Sinks, Talk Of Selling Company Revives Twitter is again in not-great shape following an earnings report and disappointing growth stats, proving at least for now that candidate-turned-Twitterer-in-Chief Trump didn't do a lot to help the 11-year-old social media platform.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pelosi Wants To See More Trump Cabinet Members Played By Women Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. With good reason, Bay Area immigrant tech workers are
SF News California Could Be Overdue For A 100-Year Mega-Flood It may not be in the cards this year, but California has an extended history of mega-floods the likes of which the state has not seen since 1862, when about 40 days of
Arts & Entertainment Steph Curry Weighs In On Under Armour's Trump Support Golden State Warriors MVP Steph Curry has had to wade into the political fray today after Kevin Plank, the CEO of Under Armour, the sportswear company that Curry is a public face of,
SF News Oakland City Records Show Police And Firefighters Had Both Been In Ghost Ship Space; Fire Chief Goes On Leave The City of Oakland released a trove of documents Wednesday pertaining to the December 2 Ghost Ship fire, and as the Chronicle and others are reporting, they reveal what we already mostly knew:
SF News Four SF Strip Clubs Implicated In Alleged Scheme To Overcharge Drunk Patrons The strip club business has made a long tradition of preying upon the horniness and poor judgement of drunk men and business tourists, charging sometimes enormous sums for lap dances and such which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink To Help Cope With The Weather, Iza Ramen Opens SoMa Location Friday When it rains, turn to ramen. Iza Ramen, which grew from a pop-up into a brick-and-mortar with their Fillmore and Haight location in October 2015, is set to open a second outpost just
SF News Free Speech?: Milo Yiannopoulos Planned To Out Undocumented Students By Name In His Berkeley Talk One day before semi-professional provocateur and campaigner for the freedom to be a complete dick Milo Yiannopoulos was set to speak at UC Berkeley on February 1, his sometime employer Breitbart published an
