SF News Chinese Firm Breaks Ground On What Will Be SF's Second Tallest Building, Oceanwide Center Thursday marked the ceremonial groundbreaking for Oceanwide Center, a complex of two towers and some smaller buildings, the tallest being 910 feet tall, at First and Mission Streets. Designed by London-based Foster + Partners
SF News Friends And Former Friends Paint Conflicting Pictures Of Ghost Ship Founders Derick Almena And Micah Allison In the seven days since the tragic inferno at Oakland artist enclave called Ghost Ship, some of the expected finger-pointing has been aimed at the city and its inspections apparatus, and some has
Arts & Entertainment '946: The Amazing Story Of Adolphus Tips' Brims With Inventive Energy At Berkeley Rep In what's become a welcome, holiday-season tradition at Berkeley Rep, Britain's Kneehigh Theatre company has returned once more for their fourth production on a Berkeley stage, a new piece adapted from a World
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kuleto's To Close After 30 Years, Opening Up Prime Powell Street Location Longtime Union Square tourist trap Kuleto's (221 Powell Street), which opened along with the Villa Florence Hotel in 1986 and was one of the first restaurants in prolific designer and restaurateur Pat Kuleto's
SF News Anti-Trump Demonstrations Planned In SF And Oakland Saturday And Monday Several local demonstrations are planned this weekend and Monday in a show of resistance against President-Elect Donald Trump, and in support of any faithless (or "moral", as they've been recast) electors who would
Arts & Entertainment Emma Stone And Ryan Gosling Appear With 'La La Land' Director Damien Chazelle At Castro Theatre Thursday night marked the first ever SF Honors awards ceremony from the SF Film Society, with the prize for 2016 awarded to La La Land, a new movie musical from Whiplash director Damien
SF News Day Around The Bay: New York Times Delving Deep Into Oakland Tragedy 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 U.S. House of Representatives engaged in a
SF News Oakland Fire Victims Included These Six Artists And Creative Forces As the names of the missing officially become the names of the dead, SFist is continuing to offer brief remembrances and obituaries as they're being collected from various news sources and friends. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 10 Best Steakhouses In San Francisco 'Tis the season for indulgence and celebratory meals, so here we bring you a curated selection of what many Americans consider to be their prime choice of celebratory venues: steakhouses. San Francisco's long
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley's 20-Year-Old Cafe Rouge Calls It Quits The next in the annual series of end-of-year surprise closures is 20-year-old butchery haven Cafe Rouge, opened by Zuni alum Marsha McBride in 1996. McBride tells the Mercury News, in a familiar refrain
Arts & Entertainment Film Premiere Of 'Fences' Starring Denzel Washington And Viola Davis To Mark Reopening Of Curran Theater The local theatergoing community has been awaiting the grand reopening of The Curran theater since late last year, when it was announced that local producer and SHN co-founder Carole Shorentstein Hays was renovating
SF News 5 Of 7 Division Street Campers Profiled By Chronicle Still Homeless 9 Months After Camp Clearing Though it's been overshadowed this week by the flood of news connected to the Oakland's Ghost Ship fire, a number of news outlets this week are circling back to the SF Homeless Project
SF News Officials Confirm Ghost Ship Fire Started On First Floor, No Evidence Of Arson As the investigation moves forward into the cause of the deadly Ghost Ship fire last Friday which has been deemed the deadliest structure fire in the US since the 2003 Station nightclub fire
SF News Proprietors Of Downtown Oakland Venue Salt Lick Strike Back At 'Witch Hunt' Seeking To Shut Them Down In the wake of Friday's deadly warehouse fire in Oakland, cities across the country are on high alert hoping to avoid any similar tragedies occurring in illegal or unsafe living spaces or venues
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Salt & Straw Ice Cream Pops Up In SF With $1 Scoops Friday and Saturday Hello, San Francisco! We're heading to YOU this weekend (12/9 & 12/10) for a series of ice cream pop-ups to celebrate our upcoming Bay Area scoop shops in 2017. Join us
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After 11 Years, Range Is Closing On Valencia It's the end of an era for one of the defining restaurants of Valencia's restaurant boom of the last two decades, as Range will be closing its doors after New Year's Eve. This
SF News Video Emerges From Inside Ghost Ship One Hour Before Fire The death toll in Friday's warehouse fire in Oakland stands at 36 with 100 percent of the premises now searched, as KRON 4 reports, and a local state of emergency has been declared
SF News Six More Profiles Of Those Lost In Oakland's 'Ghost Ship' Fire As the names of the missing officially become the names of the dead, SFist is continuing to offer brief remembrances and obituaries as they're being collected from various news sources and friends. Here
SF News Cause Of Oakland Fire May Have Been Refrigerator; Death Toll Stands At 36; Some Victims Texted Loved Ones In Final Moments With approximately 15 percent of the burned-out structure left to search, Oakland officials say the official number of the dead remains at 36, and as of Monday the coroner believed all the victims
SF News John Avalos Likens Current Board Of Supervisors Intrigue To 'Game Of Thrones' If you enjoy the chess game of Supervisorial politics in City Hall, you're maybe waiting with bated breath to find out who will get picked to replace Scott Wiener in District 8, and
SF News Day Around The Bay: Oakland Police Visited Ghost Ship Party In Jan. 2015 These weird Blair Witchy archways made out of willow branches have appeared in Kezar Park. [Hoodline] Here's a lengthy history of Mt. Davidson Park, which will be having a 20-year plan for it
SF News The BART Connection To SFO Is Losing Riders Fast As Uber/Lyft Airport Rides Skyrocket In some not so surprising news, ever since Uber and Lyft have been given free rein to pick up and drop off passengers at SFO, ridership on BART's SFO line has been steadily
SF News Facebook Pledges $20 Million To Build Affordable Housing On Peninsula Facebook is trying to show up other big tech companies once again in terms of corporate citizenship as the company announces the creation of a fund to back the building of affordable housing
SF News Video: 'Ghost Ship' Founder Derick Almena Speaks About Fatalities, 'They're My Children, My Family' San Francisco ABC affiliate KGO appears to be the first news outlet to have tracked down the founder/proprietor of the Oakland artists' collective and live-work space known as Ghost Ship, or the
SF News Cold Snap Will Chill The Bay Area Down As Much As 30 Degrees On Wednesday Brace for this early December chill to get a fair bit chillier, albeit temporarily, as a cold front moves into the Bay Area Wednesday morning and drops things into freezing territory pretty much
