SF News Oroville Dam Spillway Reconstruction Could Begin In 10 Days; Gov. Brown Waives Some Permitting Requirements Work to redesign and replace the heavily damaged main spillway at Oroville Dam is underway, with officials saying that design work is about 60 percent complete on this rush job, which could begin
SF News Windy Storm Topples Big Rig On Bay Bridge, Knocks Out Power For Thousands In East Bay After weeks without one of these, we bring you another round up of storm-aftermath news, after Thursday's weather system brought wind gusts of up to 70 miles per hour in
SF News Day Around The Bay: Hibernia Bank Can't Find A Tenant * Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * Check out some drone footage of the early progress
Arts & Entertainment Video: Joan Baez Releases 'Nasty Man,' Her Song About Trump Famed folk singer and Woodside resident Joan Baez has written a new protest song, this one about President Trump, and it's titled "Nasty Man." At 76, her voice may
SF News Dog Believed Drowned In Fatal Capsizing Turns Up Alive Here's a heartwarming follow-up from Monday's very sad fatal boat capsizing incident on #TomalesBay. https://t.co/CymIyckd9B #DogRescue pic.twitter.com/iuOvsorqqn — Marin County Fire (@marincountyfire) April
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hello Kitty Cafe Truck Returns To SF This Weekend OMGGGG yet again, my friends. Just as it did last year and the year before that, the bright pink Hello Kitty Cafe truck is rolling on back into San Francisco in time for
SF News West Oakland Landlord Hires PR Guy Sam Singer, Says He Is 'Heartbroken' Over Fire Deaths San Pablo Avenue open to traffic at the site of deadly apartment fire in Oakland @kron4news pic.twitter.com/168dgEKdbn — Haaziq Madyun (@KRON4HMadyun) March 29, 2017 Renowned local PR fixer Sam Singer has
SF News Salesforce Tower Officially Tops Off; Top Floor To Be Event Space Available For Community Use This morning Salesforce Tower had its ceremonial topping off, which included a press conference with the mayor, several supervisors, the developer, and CEO Marc Benioff, and the hoisting of the "final"
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sunset Sushi Chef Who Advertised His Support Of Trump Now Regrets His Vote The sushi chef and owner at Taraval Okazu Ya (1735 Taraval Street near 28th Avenue) in the Outer Sunset did not care back in 2016 if he alienated some customers by declaring his
SF News Millbrae Murder Suspect Tiffany Li Posts Unprecedented $35 Million Bail Tiffany Li, the 31-year-old woman at the center of an apparent murder-for-hire case in Millbrae almost one year ago, has with the help of her mother and some wealthy
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: Outside Lands Tickets Go On Sale At 10 AM Just a quick reminder: You can start buying three-day passes for this year's Outside Lands today (Thursday) at 10 a.m. PT. The lineup, as we told you earlier this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing: Passover Seders at Wise Sons Deli Next week is Pesach, i.e. Passover on the Jewish calendar, and even secular Jews who haven't set foot in a temple in decades still like this sacred holiday tradition, and
Arts & Entertainment YouTube Launches $35 Streaming TV Service, But Will Anyone Watch? Entering the fray of hopeful cable-killing streaming services today is YouTube with the launch of YouTube TV. Lots of people, especially younger people, already consume a ton of their TV programming via
Arts & Entertainment After Winter Storms, New Roofs Needed At Sanctuary For Famed Local Gorilla Koko Famed sign-language-learning gorilla Koko, a onetime friend to Robin Williams, has been living in a private sanctuary down in Woodside for decades under the care of The Gorilla Foundation, alongside her
SF News Whoa: Check Out The $40 Million Spec House That Just Hit The Market On Billionaire's Row Upping the ante in San Francisco's luxury home market and potentially garnering the highest price ever paid for a home in the city, we bring you 2712 Broadway on Pacific Heights&
SF News Naked Woman With Webbed Toes Found Wandering Street Outside Fresno, Claims She's A Mermaid Fresno police are seeking the public's help in identifying a woman who was found wet and mostly naked, walking down a road near a lake outside Fresno early Tuesday morning. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Hong Kong Lounge II Owner Sentenced To Six Months In A Halfway House The ex-owner of Hong Kong Lounge and Hong Kong Lounge II in the Richmond, 58-year-old Ming Lian Zhou, received a sentence Tuesday of six months in communal confinement in a
SF News Orlando Shooter's Widow Noor Salman Will Not Fight Extradition To Florida Bay Area native Noor Salman, who is accused of aiding and abetting her husband Omar Mateen in the deadliest mass shooting in US history at Pulse nightclub in Orlando last June, will soon
Arts & Entertainment Neighbor Objections Force Planned Pinball Lounge Out Of Bernal Spot Back in November we heard that a couple of pinball-loving entrepreneurs were hoping to open a pinball parlor/lounge in a former hair salon at 1000 Cortland in Bernal Heights, but that
Arts & Entertainment Peninsula School District Issues Warning About Netflix Series '13 Reasons Why' That Deals With Teen's Suicide The just-released, Bay Area-based Netflix show 13 Reasons Why, produced by actress Selena Gomez, has been cause for concern for the San Mateo-Foster City School District, which sent out a
Arts & Entertainment Upcoming SHN Season To Include Broadway Hits 'The Color Purple' And 'An American In Paris' It was SHN's turn to announce their upcoming season of theater today, and included among the Broadway-tour offerings are the first national tours of current Broadway hits School of Rock,
SF News Prostitute Convicted In Google Exec's Killing Detained By ICE After Release From Prison 30-year-old Alix Tichelman, the high-end call girl who pleaded guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter in 2015 in connection with the fatal heroin overdose of Google X executive Forrest Timothy
SF News Crazy Kidnapping Of 13-Year-Old In Napa Ends With Kidnapper Carving His Name Into Victim's Skin A 13-year-old managed to escape the clutches of a 50-year-old man who kidnapped her, sexually assaulted her, made her smoke weed, injected her with meth, and then scratched his
SF News Thrift Town Owners Blame Recology, Minimum Wage Hike For Closure One more follow-up on the closing of Thrift Town, which still has many a Missionite and vintage store trawler reeling: Mission Local speaks with co-owner Wendy Steinmetz who lays out the
Arts & Entertainment Video: James Corden Does Carpool Karaoke With Steph Curry, Plays Mini Golf In Alameda On last night's Late Late Show with James Cordon, Cordon came to the Bay Area to hang out with Steph Curry and play "life coach" for a day, which
