SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 4505 Burgers & BBQ Expands To Oakland, And Its Chicharrones Go National Though Oakland has a strong tradition of barbecue already, lots of Oakland's old-timey BBQ joints have either closed or lost their luster in recent years. So it should come as welcome news for
SF News People Lose 40 Pounds Worth Of Keys Every Month On BART, And Other Fun Facts You may think it's the end of the world if you lose your cellphone or wallet on BART, but you may not realize that they actually have a functioning Lost and Found department
SF News On This Day In 1989 The Loma Prieta Earthquake Struck And ABC 7's Cheryl Jennings Was Live On The Air Today marks the 27th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, a 6.9 magnitude temblor that struck the Bay Area during a World Series game on October 17, 1989, killing 63 people and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa's Lone Star Saloon Being Sold To Two Of Its Longtime Bartenders It appears that the once endangered Lone Star Saloon on Harrison Street is in the process of changing hands just months after the 27-year-old gay bar was granted Legacy Business status by the
SF News Escaped Inmate From Vacaville Prison On Loose An inmate went missing from a minimum-security correctional facility in Vacaville late Sunday night, and he remains at large, as CBS 5 is reporting. It's unclear if 29-year-old Jarvis Brown poses any sort
SF News Silicon Valley Donates Nearly $8 Million To Clinton Campaign Out Of Fear Of Trump Facing the unfathomable possibility of a President Donald Trump, Silicon Valley donors have spent nearly $8 million helping Hillary Clinton to get elected this year still far shy of the $21 million reportedly
Arts & Entertainment Video: New Short 'Borrowed Time' By Pixar Animators Is Lovely, Sad, Not For Kids Made during their spare time at Pixar over the course of five years, animators Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj's "Borrowed Time," a tragic but poignant six-minute short, was just released to the public,
SF News Peter Thiel Decides To Throw Away $1.25 Million On Trump Campaign Perhaps because it's the equivalent of what he pays his dog-walker, Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel decided to write a last-minute $1.25 million check to Donald Trump's losing presidential campaign, instead of
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Island Music Festival Goers Suffer Rain, Wind, Delays, No Flight Facilities "Treasure Island Music Festival and Moon" #timf2016 #sanfrancisco A photo posted by Ben Kremer (@benkremer) on Oct 15, 2016 at 9:57pm PDT As expected, Treasure Island Music Festival's tenth anniversary faced some
SF News Video: Watch The Latest Bay Bridge Pier Implosion Caltrans is one step closer to removing the last remnants of the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge today as another in a series of underwater implosions took place at 12:40
SF News Santa Clara University Students Caught On Camera Painting Swastika With Their Own Blood What is going on with Santa Clara University? The Jesuit college to our south has been host to two incidents of hateful vandalism recently, the latest a particularly disturbing one in which a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Coastal Italian Takes Over Mina Test Kitchen, Sweetgreen Arrives, And More This week we saw the debut of Rambler in the Hotel Zeppelin, the shuttering of iconic 48-year-old former gay spot The Lion Pub, and the death of longtime North Beach bar owner Richard
Arts & Entertainment TIMF Preview: Christine And The Queens On Fallon Coming this weekend to the Treasure Island Music Festival are the amazing Christine and the Queens, which is the stage moniker for French solo artist Héloïse Letissier and her male backup dancers. Christine/
Arts & Entertainment The Quote Marquee At Turk & Larkin Continues Trolling Trump Just to take a quick break from today's avalanche of atrocious press about Trump, and the candidate's continued, baffling idiocy and grossness, here's a look at how the famed sign outside Kahn &
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Introducing Rambler, Now Open At The Hotel Zeppelin We first brought you news of Rambler last month, and now as of last night the restaurant at the new Hotel Zeppelin near Union Square is open to the public. The restaurant is
SF News Flights Delayed Through Friday Night At SFO Due To Weather The rain is picking up as we cross into Friday afternoon here, and the heaviest of our weekend wetness is supposed to occur in the next few hours. And, predictably, the rain has
SF News Bernie Sanders Lands In SF Saturday, Will Stump For Jane Kim And Prop 61 While he doesn't really need to convince anyone in San Francisco not to vote for Donald Trump that contrarian libertarian IT guy at your office notwithstanding Bernie Sanders will be back in town
SF News Emerald Fire Breaks Out Overnight In South Lake Tahoe, Forces Evacuation Of 500 Homes A wildfire that has already scorched 200 acres broke out overnight in the area of Camp Richardson, near Cascade Lake and Emerald Bay in South Lake Tahoe. As the Associated Press reports, the
SF News BART Experiencing Systemwide Delays Due To Equipment Problems In Daly City And Richmond Blame it on the rain, maybe, but a power outage and subsequent equipment problem between Colma and Daly City stations is causing systemwide delays on the BART system. BART spokesperson Alicia Trost explains
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Chicken Liver Toasts At Bluestem Brasserie Now in business five years on Yerba Buena Lane, just off Market Street, Bluestem Brasserie has come through a couple of incarnations already under three different chefs. The latest, chef John Griffiths, came
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Coolest Niche Museums In San Francisco The Barbra Streisand Museum may be long gone, but SF has a great tradition of small, neighborhood-focused and niche museums, some zanier than others, dating back to the late 1960's when physicist and
SF News Soberanes Fire And Loma Fire Now Fully Contained After 83 days and the scorching of 132,127 acres of mostly remote, forested mountains, the Soberanes Fire is finally 100 percent contained. And after two and a half weeks and nearly 4,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Tartine Team Takes Over Former Valencia Herbivore To Open Motze, An 18-Month Pop-Up The chef-couple of Nick Balla and Cortney Burns who are still in the process of taking full ownership of the restaurant they've helmed for the past five years, Bar Tartine are already in
SF News Small Fire At Castro Building Believed Caused By Homeless Encampment #10012WF1 FIRE CONTAINED NO INJURY NO DISPLACED 1229 Hrs pic.twitter.com/iVRwCHQ9CW— San Francisco Fire (@sffdpio) October 12, 2016 Fresh concerns about homeless campers in the Castro are being raised after one
SF News Day Around The Bay: Square Is Trying Hard To Sell Off Caviar Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Gallup ranks SF and Boston as cities that have
