SF News Again, Don't Try Driving Through SoMa: Dreamforce Kicks Off Today Salesforce's answer to Oracle's Openworld conference, which itself recently shut down/effed up traffic in part of SoMa as it annually does, happens all this week, and given all the rest of the
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Jane Kim Does Drag Juanita MORE!, Polly Tickle (a.k.a. Jane Kim), and Glamamore. Photo via Shot In the City At the Powerblouse party at Powerhouse (link semi-NSFW) on Saturday night in which drag mothers Juanita
SF News Muni Bus Collides With Parked Truck, Catches Fire, Injuries Reported Several people injured when #Muni bus plows into parked truck in Pacific Heights neighborhood of SF , @Artguy1 https://t.co/gdGDUzh1kU— Bill Hutchinson (@bill_hutchinson) October 3, 2016 A 3-Jackson bus plowed into
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Market & Fourth Trader Joe's Delayed Until 2017 We spoke too soon in August in relaying the news that Trader Joe's earlier announced plan to move into a below-ground space at Fourth and Market Streets, underneath Old Navy, would be seeing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Find Luke's Diner-Styled 'Gilmore Girls' Pop-Ups This Wednesday In SF, SJ, And Oakland While a legion of die-hard Gilmore Girls fans are going to tell you emphatically that Luke is the worst, the Gilmore Girls marketing team at Netflix are using his fictional Stars Hollow diner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tales Of Shooting Threats, Harassment, And Safety Hazards At Blue Apron's Richmond Warehouse With over 4,000 employees now and 8 million meals delivered each month, Blue Apron is by most accounts a runaway success story in the fledgling $5 billion meal-kit delivery industry. But a
SF News As Bus Rapid Transit Construction Begins, Prepare For Van Ness To Become A Daily Nightmare Construction kicks off this month on the long-awaited, much-debated Van Ness BRT (bus rapid transit) project, in which the heavily trafficked boulevard is going to lose the two center lanes of traffic to
Arts & Entertainment In Even-Year Fashion, Giants Roar Back To Life And Clinch Wild Card Spot Many, many fans had written off the Giants weeks ago that is until they swept the top-ranked LA Dodgers in their final regular season series Sunday. Continuing a tradition of even-year nail-biters that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco To Get First New Liquor Licenses Issued By State In 77 Years Thanks to a bill sponsored by state senator Mark Leno, San Francisco is about to get its first new liquor licenses in almost 80 years but only five of them. They're earmarked for
SF News Two-Alarm Fire In The Mission Displaces Nine Big fire at 26th at Harrison in the Mission. Firefighters on scene. pic.twitter.com/apkZ2qRmYv— Veronica Belmont (@Veronica) October 1, 2016 A two-alarm fire Saturday afternoon damaged an apartment building and a
Arts & Entertainment 'It Can't Happen Here' At Berkeley Rep Is A Timely If Heavy-Handed Political Cautionary Tale Frightened and dismayed by this dumpster fire of an election year, the creative team at Berkeley Rep decided to fast-track the adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's scarily prescient 1935 novel It Can't Happen Here,
SF News Robin Williams's Widow Opens Up About His Final Days, Dementia Susan Schneider Williams, widow of Robin Williams, opened up this week about the late comedian's confusing final year as he suffered the effects of Lewy body disease and was several times misdiagnosed. In
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sadly, Merigan Sub Shop Is Saying Goodbye October 8 After three years in business on Second Street, near AT&T Park, Merigan Sub Shop is calling it quits on October 8, and this is a sad thing. As Tablehopper puts it,
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Man Runs Onto Field During Giants Game, Angel Pagan Tackles Him Epic footage of the night. @SFGiants #respectPagan pic.twitter.com/s3taWXuUiJ— Eric OConnor (@ericoconnor22) October 1, 2016 Don't. Mess. With. Pagan. A young man went running onto the field during the Giants-Dodgers game
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Morris Delayed, Bauer Revisits AsiaSF, And More This week saw the surprising and abrupt closings of Volta and Citizen's Band, brought news of The Mill aiming to do nightly dinner, and we found out that popular New York Indian spot
Arts & Entertainment 16 Things San Franciscans Are Nostalgic For In 2016 As we wrap up San Francisco Appreciation Week, it's time to get sentimental. If you've only been here a short time, most of what's listed below will make little sense to you. But
Arts & Entertainment 'LightRail' LED Installation On Market Street Begins Raising Funds The cool, transit-centric light installation unveiled two years ago by the non-profit behind the Bay Lights remains a project in motion, though an initial plan to break ground on it in 2016 appears
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Absurd USA Today List Of Best Local Food Scenes Includes Oakland, Ignores SF And LA The only West Coast city to make the Top 10 in a USA Today readers poll about the best local food scenes in the country is Oakland, and Minneapolis-St. Paul is Number One
Arts & Entertainment A Quick And Not-So-Strict Guide To Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Kicking Off At Noon Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the annual celebration of roots music and a lot of other stuff in Golden Gate Park, is happening now, with the first acts taking the stage at noon and as
SF News Autopsy For Luis Gongora Reveals He Was Shot Six Times, Had Meth In His System Luis Gongora, the second of three people fatally shot by San Francisco police in a six-month span that began with the killing of Mario Woods last December, was shot a total of six
SF News Day Around The Bay: Trump Blaming Google For Bias Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. 100-year-old Iris Canada has just gotten the 11th stay
Arts & Entertainment Real-Life Feminist Bookstore From 'Portlandia' Cuts Ties With Show, Says It's Anti-Feminist, Transphobic Depicted as humorless on the IFC show Portlandia, Portland's real-life feminist bookstore In Other Words the basis of the show's Women and Women First, and also its shooting location has lost its sense
Arts & Entertainment Fun Facts From San Francisco History That You've Probably Never Heard Before As we continue San Francisco Appreciation Week, we thought we could dig back into some of the lesser known fun facts about the city, a few of which are likely to surprise even
SF News Investigation Into Hayes Valley Quadruple Homicide Stymied By Gang Silence, Fear An investigation into the fatal shooting of four men on Page Street in January 2015 has been slowed by the fact that witnesses have been afraid to come forward, and some of those
SF News You May Soon Be Served Ads On Your Phone During Uber Rides Kind of like those TV screens in the back of taxis only more insidious, Uber is set to begin serving ads to your cell phone during trips via a new partnership that makes
