SF News Widow Of Orlando Nightclub Shooter Files Petition In East Bay Court To Change Son's Name Noor Zahi Salman, the widow of the man who murdered 49 people at Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June, grew up in the East Bay, in Rodeo. As CBS 5 reports, she is
SF News Downed Trees, Power Outages, Minor Floods Came With Pre-Winter Storm Can you see them? 2 cars on Beech St. in East Palo Alto were damaged by a huge tree. pic.twitter.com/TInLqkkDtP— Matt Keller (@MattKellerABC7) December 16, 2016 All in all, that
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Kelly Clarkson Sings 'It's Quiet Uptown' From the Hamilton Mixtape Just to help get you through here, in the rain, this week before Christmas when we're all a little frazzled and hungover, I bring you this moving, fairly stunning rendition of the song
Arts & Entertainment The Strand Theater Welcomes The Skivvies With Their Underwear-Clad 'Holiday Roadkill' Bringing some saucy (and pretty gay sounding) fun to The Strand next week are The Skivvies, the Broadway duo of Nick Cearley and Lauren Molina, and their holiday revue of classics, covers, and
SF News Alaska Airlines Still Being Cagey About Plans For Virgin Brand Following news in April that Virgin America was being acquired by Alaska Air Group, fans of Virgin and its purple-lit cabins have been pretty sad some of them litigiously so about the prospect
Arts & Entertainment Southwest Pilot Congratulates Flight Full Of Raiders Fans For Drinking All The Plane's Liquor Passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Kansas City last week, the day of a football game between the Raiders and the Chiefs, managed a rare and thirsty feat of cleaning
SF News Castro Stabbing Deemed A Suicide A disturbing fatal stabbing Monday afternoon outside the post office on 18th Street in the Castro is now being treated by police as a suicide. As the Bay Area Reporter reports, the victim
SF News Two Years To The Day Of The 2014 Rainpocalypse, Here Comes Another On Thursday Remember that crazy storm that flooded Muni, blew up a transformer in the Tenderloin, and nearly shut down the city in December 2014? Well, two years to the day, basically, on Thursday (the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Best New SF Bars Of 2016 That time has come when every website on the World Wide Web makes their end-of-year listicles, and for us these are limited to San Francisco and the Bay Area, and the things that
SF News SF Is 'Spot-Checking' 10 Warehouses That Could Be Illegal Residences While Oakland Is Avoiding Such 'Witch Hunts' In the aftermath of the deadly Ghost Ship fire in East Oakland 12 days ago, it was assumed by many that other similar warehouses that had been converted into illegal live-work spaces or
SF News 'Coffin Girl' May Have Positive ID Within Days The Bay Area was captivated earlier this year with the story of a mysterious coffin containing the well preserved remains of what was believed to be a three-year-old girl underneath a home on
SF News Amazon Completes Drone Delivery Of Package In England In 13 Minutes First-ever #AmazonPrimeAir customer delivery is in the books. 13 min—click to delivery. Check out the video: https://t.co/Xl8HiQMA1S pic.twitter.com/5HGsmHvPlE— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) December 14, 2016 From a
SF News Day Around The Bay: RFK's Family Not Pleased About RFK Democratic Club Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. The family of Robert F. Kennedy isn't too happy
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week The annual slog/joyous crush (depending on how you see it) of holiday parties is upon us, and whether you're boozing it up with friends in annual fashion or drinking to deal with
SF News Second Suspect Arrested, Third Still At Large In Hate-Motivated Murder Of Musician Outside East Bay Bar 28-year-old William Sims was fatally gunned down on November 12 outside a bar and pool hall called the Capri Club in El Sobrante, and four days later authorities apprehended and charged 31-year-old Daniel
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coin-Op Game Room, A New Arcade Bar, Debuts In Former Drake/Orson Space Next Week We heard about it back in April, and it has finally arrived: Coin-Op Game Room, an arcade bar mini-chain launched in San Diego that opened a second location in Sacramento in 2015, will
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Cancels Spring Shows In North Carolina Over Anti-LGBT Law Following in the footsteps of multiple corporations, Bruce Springsteen, and the NBA, the San Francisco Symphony is giving the middle finger to North Carolina and its pro-LGBT-discrimination law known as HB2, and canceling
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe/Park Tavern Team Takes Over Les Clos In SoMa, Will Transform It Into Petit Marlowe After two years in business at 234 Townsend, Les Clos is going to close in January and get a major makeover at the hands of Anna Weinberg and her Big Night Restaurant Group,
SF News [Update] Overloaded Electrical Lines Named As Cause Of Ghost Ship Fire The East Bay Times, which has been doing a bang-up job staying on top of the Oakland fire story and its many narrative branches, has just reported the breaking news that, according to
SF News David Talbot Reveals Notable Bernal Neighbors In First Chronicle Column As announced the other week, noted local scribe David Talbot of Season of the Witch fame is temporarily taking over columnist duties for now retired Chronicle curmudgeon C.W. Nevius. And, as expected,
SF News Letter From The Editor: 2016, You Are Literally Killing Us I've struggled mightily, as most of us have in the Bay Area, with how to address the close of this terrible year, and the aftermath of a suicide-inducing election, and to make some
SF News Ghost Ship Survivors Tell Stories Of Being 'Chased' By Fire, Leaving Friends Behind While we've spent much of the last week following the fire investigation and profiling the 36 dead in Oakland's Ghost Ship fire, there have been notably few first-person accounts to trickle out from
Arts & Entertainment Video: Patti Smith Dedicates Performance To Oakland Fire Victims At an event last week in New York celebrating the 20th birthday of Democracy Now!, Patti Smith sang a stirring rendition of "Peaceable Kingdom," a song that she wrote with Tony Shanahan to
SF News Journalists Try, But Fail To Track Down Ghost Ship Landlord Chor Ng Journalists working for both the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle have spent the last few days with boots on the ground in Oakland, using property records to survey the various
SF News Saturday Rain Leads To Power Outages, Downed Trees, Trapped BART Train Once again proving that SF's infrastructure can't really handle much rain, Saturday's modest rainfall led to some major BART troubles and power outages, as well as some downed trees and branches, and at
