SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 17 Best Wine Bars In San Francisco The best wine bars are the ones where either you get to taste things you might not otherwise find anywhere, curated for you by a professional with good taste, or where the atmosphere,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Family Of Woman Killed By Toxic Tea Sues Chinatown Herbalist For Wrongful Death The husband and two sons of 56-year-old Yu-Ping Xie are suing the man they say was responsible for their mother's death by poisoning, which occurred last week following
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Ben Gibbard At Davies Symphony Hall Death Cab For Cutie / Postal Service frontman Ben Gibbard has not been touring a ton, but he'll be coming to San Francisco in June to do a special solo show at
SF News Owner Of Upper Haight Vintage Store Charged With Nine Counts Of Selling Furs From Endangered Species Cicely Hansen, the longtime owner of Decades Of Fashion at the corner of Haight and Belvedere who was "flabbergasted" by a raid on her store last year by California Department of
SF News Day Around The Bay: Rents Are Down Almost 10 Percent In SF Over 2016 * 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 new roundup from apartment rental site Zumper shows
SF News Kidnapping Victim Denise Huskins Gets Engaged As Two CA Counties Mull More Charges Against Matthew Muller In a brighter turn in the life of 2015 kidnapping victim Denise Huskins, she and boyfriend Aaron Quinn got engaged on Saturday news which was posted to Facebook along with photos of them
SF News BART's Warm Springs/South Fremont Station Finally Opens Saturday Commuters to and from South Fremont will finally get their own BART station this weekend after what feels like a decade of delays. Warm Springs / South Fremont Station will no longer be a
Arts & Entertainment 'Roe' At Berkeley Rep Tells The Frustratingly Real Story Behind The Landmark Abortion Case In the world of legal activism, there may be no such thing as a perfect plaintiff. But in the landmark court case that opened the door to legal abortion in the United States,
Arts & Entertainment Select Face-Value 'Hamilton' Tickets Now Available For Entire SF Run A new release of face-value tickets for the San Francisco run of Hamilton, which officially opens Thursday following two weeks of previews and runs through August, has not gotten a ton of
Arts & Entertainment UGH: The Average Person Is Going To Spend Five Years Of Their Life On Social Media Well this is depressing: A new study, albeit one by a marketing agency that may have reason to pump up the numbers, suggests that the average, connected, modern human is going to waste
SF News Uber Board Member Arianna Huffington Says Travis Kalanick Isn't Going Anywhere, OK? Uber offered up a rare conference call for the news media Tuesday with just a few hours notice ahem, SFist was not invited in which board member Arianna Huffington tried to make the
SF News Video: Tent Encampment At 16th And Potrero Frustrates Nearby Workers, Drives Out Company A tent encampment lining the street at 16th and Potrero one of the more consistent locations of a sizable tent city that tends to return quickly following city cleanup efforts has been a
Arts & Entertainment Barry Bonds Returns To The SF Giants This Season As 'Special Advisor' The infamous Barry Bonds, the one-time big-hitting hometown hero who was disgraced by allegations of his use of performance-enhancing drugs and obstruction charges in a case about steroid distribution, is
SF News Lawrence Livermore Lab Posts Previously Classified Nuclear Test Films To YouTube A collection of previously classified nuclear test films, of which Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in the East Bay has an archive of some 6,000, have been posted to YouTube for public viewing. As
Arts & Entertainment 'Angels In America' To Return To The Bay Area Next Season At Berkeley Rep Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play Angels in America, commissioned by and first produced at San Francisco's Eureka Theater in 1991, will be having its first
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shouldn't No-Shows And People Who Cancel Reservations Last-Minute Get Charged? A new debate is being sparked this week following a piece in the Chronicle about a perennial problem for small restaurants that is an especially acute one right now as the local restaurant
Arts & Entertainment Apple Releases Red iPhone 7, And New Slightly Cheaper iPads If you were holding off on buying a new iPhone because the silver/jet black/matte black options weren't doing it for you last year, you can now buy the iPhone
SF News Behold SF's Newest High-Speed Ferry, Hydrus, Christened Today The San Francisco Bay Ferry fleet has just received the first of seven shiny new ferry boats, called Hydrus, which is getting a Champagne christening Tuesday in advance of its first passenger trips
SF News North Beach Neighbors' Anger Grows As More Brawls Spill Out Of Hue Nightclub Hue Lounge & Nightclub, the relatively recent replacement for what was formerly known as Atmosphere at 447 Broadway, has been the site of some unruly sidewalk situations in recent months, most recently a
SF News Muni Metro Delays Create Rush Hour Havoc We may be experiencing a new uptick of Muni Metro troubles and delays something that has been written about extensively on SFist over the years but which had become a bit less of
SF News Day Around The Bay: CHP Busts Sideshow In Oakland Possibly Connected To SF Assault * Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * CHP in Oakland busted a pack of ATV and
Arts & Entertainment YouTube Apologizes To LGBTQ Vloggers After Non-Sensitive Content Gets Filtered For Some Users There's been an LGBTQ vlogger revolt on YouTube that prompted an apology from the video platform Monday, but it's unclear if the issue that upset them has been resolved.
SF News Police In Capitola Investigate Murder-Suicide Involving Father And 7-Year-Old Daughter A tragic event appears to have unfolded in a parking lot outside the Capitola Mall in Santa Cruz County on Sunday afternoon when a father and his seven-year-old daughter were found
Arts & Entertainment C.W. Nevius Resurfaces As Sports Writer For Santa Rosa Press-Democrat When he departed his post as a thrice-weekly columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle last fall, it wasn't clear if Nevius was planning for a semi-retirement, perhaps kicking back
SF News 93-Year-Old Man Dies After Being Struck By Cable Car On Mason Street In the first case of a death by a cable car collision in nearly a decade, a 93-year-old man who was struck by a cable car Sunday afternoon has died from