SF News A Dozen Russian Diplomats In SF Are Part Of Obama's Ouster; Reporters Shooed Away At Local Consulate San Francisco has one of four Russian consulates in the US, but only ours can claim to have intelligence operatives included on a list of 35 that President Obama ordered out of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hecho To Shut Down Temporarily In The Castro, Reopen As Hecho Cantina A little over two years in, sit-down Mexican spot Hecho in the Castro the second venture from Hi Tops partners Jesse Woodward and Dana Gleim is closing Monday for a brief remodel and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Paradise Lounge Replacement Calle 11 To Open Within Weeks, Along With Rooftop Restaurant A year and a half after we saw Paradise Lounge's interior get the wrecking ball treatment at the corner of 11th and Folsom, it's time for the debut of new salsa club and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Quince Chef Michael Tusk Discusses Why He Started Using iPads As Dishes Earlier this week we caught wind that Quince had started serving a truffle dish atop iPads displaying a video of the dogs used for truffle hunting in Italy. Though this was not the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pasta Pomodoro Suddenly Shutters All 15 Bay Area Locations The last-week-of-the-year surprise restaurant shutterings are here, and this one, while not a huge surprise, is definitely surprisingly abrupt. Pasta Pomodoro, the once ubiquitous local Italian chain, ceased operations over the Christmas weekend
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dada Bar Triumphs, Reopens In New Larger Post Street Spot Back in the summer there was a NIMBY kerfuffle downtown in which some three dozen residents of the Ritz-Carlton Residences were trying to block the liquor license transfer of Dada Bar, the 10-year-old
SF News Sales Of Semi-Automatic Rifles More Than Doubled Ahead Of New California Gun Laws If you've been maintaining the fantasy of the Left Coast being immune from the gun-toting scariness of the more Trump-friendly regions of the country, you may be surprised to learn that gun sales
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Humphry Slocombe Giving Out Free Ice Cream Today (For Their Anniversary) This awful year is almost (almost!) over, and one thing you can do to alleviate the pain is head over to Humphry Slocombe's original Mission location and get yourself a free scoop of
SF News Fox News Gloats That San Francisco Is Going Down The Toilet With Higher Crime, Etc. As they enjoy doing about once every six months, Fox News has done a piece about how San Francisco's "liberal policies" are going to be the city's undoing, and how they're directly to
Arts & Entertainment Carrie Fisher Tributes Pop Up Around San Francisco Castro street memorial to Carrie #princessleia #generalleiaorgana #castrostreet #sanfrancisco #youremyonlyhope A photo posted by rachaelschafer (@rachaelschaferdesigns) on Dec 27, 2016 at 3:15pm PST The late, great Carrie Fisher whom some of us
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Original Lori's Diner (On Mason) Is Closing After 32 Years Fans of Lori's Diner (are there any who actually live here?) will be sad to learn of the closing of the mini-chain's OG location at 336 Mason Street after 32 long years in
Arts & Entertainment Seven New Year's Eve Parties For Locals Like so many other holidays these days, New Year's Eve is amateur hour for a remarkable number of people who don't know how to drink. It's also a traditional time when people in
SF News Starting Sunday, You Could Get A Ticket For Holding A Cellphone While Driving A new California law takes effect on January 1 that prohibits all use of a handheld cellphone while driving, including hitting the skip button on a playlist, looking at a map app, texting,
SF News Local Versace Store Accused Of Having Secret Code For Black Customers A Versace retail outlet in the Bay Area is being sued by a former employee who was fired, he says, after just two weeks. What's more, he says he was discriminated against for
SF News Bay Area Native Allegedly Bites Flight Attendant's Ear During Drunken Fit On Transcontinental Flight An American expat from Santa Rosa is in some serious trouble with federal authorities after disrupting the peace aboard an SFO-bound KLM flight last week and allegedly biting a flight attendant on the
Arts & Entertainment Castro Bars Blare George Michael Hits, In Mourning Of A Gay Icon The passing of a gay icon like George Michael, way before his time, will continue to hit hard in the Castro and around the Bay Area for days to come a devastating blow
Arts & Entertainment Precita Park Got Its Annual Christmas Snowman San Francisco snowman. pic.twitter.com/V76XF8owzX— anthony brown (@anthonybrown) December 25, 2016 The anonymous Bernal Heights resident who for several years running has imported some snow to Precita Park and installed a
Arts & Entertainment Warriors Dealt A Painful Christmas Loss By The Cavs, 109-108 With just 3.4 seconds left in the game, the Cleveland Cavaliers' Kyrie Irving took a shot that won a game the Warriors should have had in the bag, by one point. The
SF News Political Consultant Enrique Pearce Pleads Guilty To Child Porn Charges Over a year and a half after his shocking arrest on child pornography charges, local politico Enrique Pearce has pleaded guilty to four counts, and is likely to get a six-month sentence, possibly
SF News Christmas Eve Links: SFO's Therapy Pig Does Holiday Travel Duty Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. SFO's therapy pig, Lilou, has been extra busy helping
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Contrada Debuts Next Week, Chef Khai Duong Returns To SF, and More Most important in our food world this week, SFist brought you our carefully considered Best New Restaurants of 2016. But we also learned of a Sumo Stew pop-up, and a fight by Zeitgeist
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: 'Out Of The Box,' A Sneaker Exhibit At Oakland Museum Over at the Oakland Museum of California, a new exhibit tracks the phenomenon of sneakers as fashion items and design objects. It's called Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture and
SF News Homeless Man Does Video Diary; Another Homeless Man Found Dead In Mission Driveway Police find homeless man dead in Mission driveway Thursday morning after receiving a call for service: https://t.co/y12o2snBK8 pic.twitter.com/DHGIrOBKtF— Mission Local (@MLNow) December 23, 2016 The holidays should
Arts & Entertainment Holiday Palate Cleanser: The Secret Chord Progression That Makes A Song Sound Christmas-y Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" are two of the most popular and beloved Christmas songs of all time. And they share the same chord
SF News BART's Ancient Computer Systems Are Holding Up Opening Of New Warm Springs/South Fremont Station We were led to believe by some optimists at BART that the long-awaited Warm Springs extension, which takes BART's Fremont line 5.4 miles further south toward San Jose, was going to be
