SF News Post-Ghost Ship, Dwellers At Three SF Warehouses Ordered By City To Vacate The fallout, both legal and logistical, from the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland in early December is going to continue for years to come. But in the initial wave of complaints and inspections
Arts & Entertainment Bill Irwin's 'On Beckett' Is A Sweet If Rambling Tribute To An Actor's Favorite Playwright Most actors pay lip service to the all-important role of playwrights and screenwriters, saying something cliché to the effect of "I'm nothing without his/her words." But most actors are also great egotists
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bristol Farms Calls It Quits After 10 Years At Westfield Mall High-end, SoCal-based grocer Bristol Farms, which was around for the opening of the Westfield Centre back in 2006 and has served downtown lunchers and casual dry-goods shoppers leaving Bloomingdales ever since, is closing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Best Mac & Cheese Dishes In SF and Oakland Cold weather calls for warm comforts, including but not limited to ramen, tater tots, and cioppino. The most classic and satisfying of American comfort foods, though, is obviously macaroni and cheese a dish
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lefty O'Doul's May Be Closing And Relocating In Union Square After 59 Years Union Square dive bar and hofbrau Lefty O'Doul's beloved by many service industry workers, cops, Tenderloin denizens, and San Francisco Chronicle reporters, not to mention a steady stream of tourists seeking a bargain
SF News Storm Took Down 350+ Trees In SF; Tahoe Travelers Told To Wait Until Friday STORM WATCH: #SF Rain & gusty winds continue. Please call in downed trees & clogged storm drains to @SF311.Our crews are ready to respond. pic.twitter.com/1MVJdI5yK8— SF Public Works (@sfpublicworks)
SF News Fatality At Church Street Station Causes Major Muni Snarl At Rush Hour Lots of unhappy #sfmuni riders at WP. Inbound trains backed up to St Francis Cir. Outbound platform packed. @sfmta_muni #MuniMetro #munifail pic.twitter.com/WG1XuCEJm5— Paul Lanzi (@planzi) January 12, 2017 Around
SF News Day Around The Bay: Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Issues Order About Illegal Warehouse Dwellings Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. More rain arrives late tonight, along with cold temperatures.
Arts & Entertainment Rooky Ricardo's Stays Put In New Digs Across Haight, And Owner Rants About Know-It-All Hipsters Beloved vintage record shop Rooky Ricardo's in the Lower Haight had to shut down and temporarily relocate last year, moving from its home of 28 years at 448 Haight Street to a smaller
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Halal Guys Finally Opening Brick-and-Mortar Storefront Near Union Square It's been nine months since the Halal Guys arrived in SF and started doing lunch delivery via Caviar. My personal experience with that lunch delivery wasn't that awesome, but it was OK, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Sushi Ran Chef Brings $120 Omakase Menu To Polk Street The expensive Japanese trend continues with another early-in-the-year opener, Kinjo (2206 Polk Stret), which will be officially open on January 24 serving a $120 omakase menu designed nightly by former Sushi Ran head
SF News Weed May Be Legal In California, But You Can Still Get Busted In Yosemite Or On Ocean Beach You think you can't get busted for smoking or possessing marijuana in California anymore after Prop 64 passed in November? Well, think again. If you're on federal land - which includes all national
SF News In Preparation For Trump Presidency, Dianne Feinstein Gets Pacemaker Senator Dianne Feinstein is said to be "working from home and resting comfortably" after undergoing a voluntary operation to have a pacemaker installed Tuesday afternoon, just hours after the 83-year-old senator was grilling
SF News Trump May Be Helping Kill Twitter's Brand As President-Elect Trump wraps up his first news conference since July, and maybe the last he'll give until we're at war with someone, the San Francisco Chronicle gives us a somewhat speculative piece
SF News Storm Aftermath Update: San Anselmo Evacuated, Multiple Landslides, Guerneville Still Flooded After Tuesday's storm and more scattered showers expected today, the Bay Area has had a more than thorough drenching and the snowpack in the Sierra could rise over 200 percent of normal for
SF News Will New District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy Face An Immediate Special Election This Year? It's a longshot and a rumor at this point, but mayoral appointee Jeff Sheehy, who today is attending his first Board of Supervisors meeting as District 8 supervisor, could face some immediate opposition
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open: New Tenderloin Cocktail Spot Rum & Sugar For your wintertime drinking pleasure, a brand new cocktail bar has just debuted in the former Castle Club (823 Geary Street) space in the heart of the Tenderloin, and it's called Rum &
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alta CA Will Get Second Location In Dogpatch, Alta Cafe & Bar When the ambitious new gallery and arts venue the Minnesota Street Project debuted last spring, we learned that chef-restaurateur Daniel Patterson (Coi, Locol, Aster, Haven, Plum Bar, Alta CA) had signed on to
SF News Video: The Yuba River At Full Gush South Yuba River, Monday, Jan 9th #nevadacity #castorm pic.twitter.com/f0J0mhmfsz— Inn Town Campground (@InnTownCamp) January 9, 2017 Whoa. This is video shot Monday of the south Yuba River near the Inn
Arts & Entertainment Video: Vintage Footage Shows Alcatraz When It Was Still A Prison YouTuber Meghann Cuniff has done a digital transfer of some amateur Super 8 film footage from 1950 showing a trip to San Francisco, including a ride over the Bay Bridge, views of Nob
SF News Update: Downed Power Line Shuts Down I-880 In Oakland Causes Major Afternoon Traffic Snarl The winds are picking up and we're just getting word via CBS 5 that a downed power line has shut down the I-880 freeway in both directions as of 12:30 p.m.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Airbnb Moves Into Restaurant Reservation Game With Resy Investment Airbnb just dropped some serious cash in the lap of restaurant-reservation app Resy, marking Airbnb's first official foray into restaurant booking tied with travel and lodging. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Super Duper Burger Looking To Double In Size In The Castro Ever in expansion mode, Back of the House Restaurant Group a.k.a. prolific local restaurateur Adriano Paganini is looking to expand the footprint of their original, flagship Super Duper location on Market
SF News Storm Brings Blizzard Conditions To Tahoe; Brace For High Winds And More Mudslides Around The Bay Tons of rock & vegetation will take crews all day to clear slide NB 17 just past #ScottsValley. Rain could hamper cleanup. #abc7now pic.twitter.com/3ZYFDeWpDF— David Louie (@abc7david) January 9, 2017
SF News Day Around The Bay: Dead Whale Found Near Port Of Oakland 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 man shot on Monday a block away from
