SF News All These California Republican Lawmakers Still Support Trump, Which, Wow As we count down the final 27 days until this other-worldly nightmare of an election is hopefully, sweet Jesus, over and done with and not hampered by some crazy recount or something more
SF News Veteran Fist-Shaking Chronicle Columnist CW Nevius Announces He's Leaving The Paper After 36 Years In the latest in a series of high-profile departures at the San Francisco Chronicle, longtime resident curmudgeon, SFist punching bag, and ostensible common-sense columnist C.W. Nevius has announced his departure from the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iconic 48-Year-Old Pac Heights Bar, The Lion Pub, Is Now Closed [Be warned a couple of images below are NSFW] An iconic fern bar on Divisadero, which for about 30 years was a neighborhood gay bar before becoming more of a straight-people hang in
SF News Owner Of Top-Floor Millennium Tower Penthouse Puts Unit On Market For An Astounding $9 Million Some owners in “The Leaning Tower of San Francisco” say their condos are worthless https://t.co/x0rKRoqBPP— The Real Deal (@trdny) October 9, 2016 Despite a host of bad press and impending
SF News [Update] SFPD Set To Get New Chief Thursday As Feds Release Damning Review Of Department The newly hired chief of the SFPD may be announced as early as tomorrow (Thursday), and the announcement looks to be coming just in time for the release of a 400-page report on
Arts & Entertainment Darren Criss Growing Into Big Heels For 'Hedwig And The Angry Inch' In two decades of performances, John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch has seen many performers, male and female, embody Hedwig, the bawdy, self-assured, third-tier German-American rock goddess
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Francis Ford Coppola Hints Of New Restaurant At His Virginia Dare Winery Francis Ford Coppola, who's become a food-and-wine impresario for the Bay Area in recent decades, hinted this week about his latest restaurant project, deciding to be mysterious about it even though it was
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Bono Bash Donald Trump During Last Night's Dreamforce Concert U2 was the headliner for Dreamforce's big central concert event Wednesday night at the Cow Palace, and Bono took the opportunity to have a conversation of sorts with a video projection of Donald
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Destination Doughnut Spots Around The Bay Area Doughnut lovers likely already know where to get the good stuff here in San Francisco and if you don't, we previously provided lists here and here. Today, for the true doughnut fiends, we
SF News Jury Acquits Man In 2014 Henry Hotel Murder On Sixth Street A 36-year-old man who was accused of murder in the 2014 death of an 18-year-old man in the front lobby of the Henry Hotel on Sixth Street was acquitted of the murder charge
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Blue Bottle Bows Out Of Heath Space As Tartine Prepares To Enter Coffee Business Themselves As Tartine prepared this summer to open their Manufactory in the space adjacent to Heath Ceramics at 18th and Alabama, co-owner Elizabeth Prueitt revealed that they had hired Verve Coffee guy Chris Jordan
SF News Facebook Marketplace Already A Silk Road-Style S**tshow, Shortly After Launch Facebook Marketplace Goes Wrong: Sex, Guns and Baby Hedgehogs https://t.co/BiUSOGz1Wa— Varun Baker (@varunbaker) October 6, 2016 Facebook stepped into Craigslist territory Monday with the launch of Facebook Marketplace, a formal
SF News Local Psychologists Try To Explain Scary Clown Epidemic As Concord Woman Claims Clown Abduction Attempt The baffling and ultimately ridiculous creepy/violent clown trend may be just a twisted hoax gone viral, but it has come to the Bay Area and it's resulted in at least one creepy
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Ring Of Keys' From 'Fun Home' Gets Music Video By Oakland School Of The Arts The inaugural production at the newly renovated and revamped Curran Theater, under the artistic direction of owner and longtime local theater impresario Carole Shorenstein Hays, will be the Tony Award-winning Best New Musical
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Finn Town, Single Thread, And Other New Restaurants To Look Forward To This Fall The refrains about our current restaurant scene are getting a bit repetitive from diners, it's "too expensive" and there seems to be some ongoing fatigue with fine dining; and from restaurant owners it's
SF News Napa Wildfire Likely Culprit In Deaths Of Two Brothers Missing Since 2014 Whose Bodies Were Just ID'd The cause of the Butts Fire in northern Napa County, which grew to over 4000 acres in July 2014 before being contained, remains under investigation two years later, but the remains of two
SF News Site Of Long-Gone Gay Bars Could Stymie Mid-Market Development As Compton's Cafeteria Revival Proposed In New Building As we reported back in April, a couple of people are attempting to block a large mixed-use development on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth by saying that the long-ago sites of a
SF News Millennium Partners Gets Expert To Reiterate That Sinking Tower Is Still Earthquake Safe Millennium Partners, the developer behind Millennium Tower, and the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) exchanged more sharply worded memos this week, with Millennium enlisting their expert to say that the building is still
SF News Day Around The Bay: How To Crash Dreamforce Parties Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Apparently there's some "dark money" going toward funding City
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deli Board Uses Twitter Account To Post Photos Of Homeless, Drug Use What's completely out of control? @mayoredlee pic.twitter.com/HN4SrG0F2R— Deli Board (@deliboard) October 2, 2016 Deli Board owner Adam Mesnick, who last year gave an interview to C.W. Nevius on the
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 13 Cool Things To Check Out This Week With the passing of Hardly Strictly and Castro Street Fair, summer is officially done, and while we shouldn't write off any possibility of hot weather to come and Thursday to Saturday is looking
SF News Former Home Restaurant Might Finally Be Demolished This Fall, Making Way For Condos Just a quick update on the highly visible development site at the flatiron corner of Market Street, Church, and 14th, formerly the home of Home restaurant: Developer Brian Spiers's earlier revealed plans for
Arts & Entertainment Beatbox To Be Reborn As Halcyon, A Nightclub And Multi-Purpose Venue Beatbox, the former gay nightspot on 11th Street that called it quits after five years in July, will get new life under the ownership of longtime SF impresario Gina Milano, formerly of Bambuddha
Arts & Entertainment Now Disney's Talking About Buying Netflix, Which Would Be Good For Both Of Them The latest merger rumor, first floated Friday and continuing into Monday, is that Disney is in discussions to possibly buy Netflix outright, in a deal that would provide the media giant with its
SF News Loma Fire Evacuees Welcomed At Nudist Resort As Containment Date Gets Pushed As the Loma Fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains continues to scorch almost 4500 acres, an 80-year-old clothing-optional resort in the area that has previously provided refuge for earthquake and fire victims and
