SF News Marin Judge In Drifter Slaying Case Reluctantly Allows Media At Hearing Marin judge rejects barring reporters in murder case https://t.co/tjrn3nQWzn— SFGate (@SFGate) September 13, 2016 Two of the young drifters charged in the murders of two people in the Bay Area
Arts & Entertainment Naturally, <i>South Park</i> Is Mocking Kaepernick Taking the cynical if sometimes accurate stance that it's easy to hate the cops until you're the victim of a crime, South Park's creators just released this teaser for their new season, which
Arts & Entertainment Castro Rainbow Crosswalks Getting Replaced Next Week The crosswalks at 18th and Castro, installed with bright rainbow stripes made of inlaid colored asphalt two years ago this month, are getting regraded and repaved tonight in preparation for a re-rainbowing next
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bon Marché To Become Venue For Multiple Market Stalls, Possibly Starting Next Week The interim plan for the big restaurant space at Bon Marché Brasserie, closed since last month, is to become an extension of sorts to The Market next door, according to owner Matt Semmelhack.
SF News Celeste Guap Offered Plea Deal On Battery Charge In Florida; Richmond Police Deny Criminal Wrongdoing By Officers The young woman at the center of a wide-reaching sexual exploitation case involving local law enforcement, Celeste Guap, was charged with misdemeanor battery in a Florida court Monday after her alleged altercation with
Arts & Entertainment The iPhone 7 And 7 Plus Reviews Are In, And They're Mostly Good With the embargo lifted this morning, all the tech writers who got first crack at playing around with the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus models announced last week have let loose
SF News Day Around The Bay: Tech Bro Figures Out Hack To Dodge Parking Tickets, Meter Maids Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. One of Friday night's vegan protesters at Chez Panisse
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller Opens Up About Terrible NYT Review, And His Upcoming New Project French Laundry chef and one of the fathers of the Bay Area's current fine dining boom, Thomas Keller, admits in a new profile in Town & Country that he was "devastated" by New
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Valencia & Kebab Closed After Just 10 Months Valencia & Kebab (525 Valencia Street), the relocated business formerly known as Hayes & Kebab that opened in the Mission last November, is fully papered over and appears closed as of today, though
SF News In New Renter Confidence Survey, SF Gets An A-Minus, Oakland Gets An F Let's all read this with healthy skepticism with its presumed biases and unexplained sample size, but a new survey of local renters from the site ApartmentList.com gives San Francisco an overall satisfaction
Arts & Entertainment Writers And Celebrities Upset That Recorded Phone Calls With JT LeRoy Were Included In New Doc A new documentary film, Author: The JT LeRoy Story, released last week from Amazon Studios and Magnolia Pictures (review possibly coming here) has drawn the ire of several authors and celebrities who figure
Arts & Entertainment Harbin Hot Springs Continues To Rebuild, Aims To Partly Reopen New Year's Eve Today is the one-year anniversary of the devastating wildfire that burned Harbin Hot Springs to the ground. As they promised earlier this year, the Harbin community in Middletown is trying to reopen its
SF News Soberanes Fire Reaches 105,642 Acres, New Evacuation Orders Issued The slow-moving, seven-week-old Soberanes Fire in and around Big Sur continues to burn through Los Padres National Forest to the south, and remains 60 percent contained. As of 6 p.m. Saturday, federal
SF News 'Native Son' Carl Nolte Weighs In On Whether San Francisco Has 'Lost Its Soul' Longtime "Native Son" Chronicle columnist Carl Nolte, who you might expect would be one of the first to decry the ways in which San Francisco has changed for the worse, penned a column
SF News Livermore Officer Charged In Celeste Guap Case Speaks Out, Says He Didn't Pay For Sex Livermore police officer Dan Black, who's one of seven East Bay law enforcement officers being charged by the Alameda County district attorney in connection with the Celeste Guap scandal, spoke via Facebook Messenger
Arts & Entertainment iPhone 7 Parody Video Mocks Apple For Making The Phone Worse College Humor brings us this delightful parody of the latest Apple launch video in which Chief Design Officer Jony Ive is recast as a kind of psychotic HAL (from 2001), and Tim Cook
SF News Fatality Involving Train Shut Down 16th Street BART Station Friday Night A man was struck and killed by a BART train Friday evening, leading to some service delays and a two-hour shutdown of 16th Street Station. As Mission Local reports, the incident happened at
Arts & Entertainment David Bowie's Ashes Scattered At Burning Man Temple? Plus 'Playa Elvis' And One More Video If you were at Burning Man this year, you're probably still getting your default-world bearings back and crying over your laptop every day looking at photos and video. If you weren't at Burning
Arts & Entertainment Apple's 'This Is 7' Ad Campaign Translates As 'This Is Penis' In Cantonese, Causing Much Laughter In China After this week's unveiling of the new water-resistant, headphone jack-free iPhone 7, Apple kicked off an ad campaign with the phrase "This is 7," apparently not knowing that directly translating that to Cantonese
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Souvla To Open Third Location On Valencia, In Former Grub Spot Rapidly expanding fast-casual Greek sandwich spot Souvla, which just opened its second location on Divisadero in June, has snapped up the recently vacated Grub space at 758 Valencia. As Eater reports, owner Charles
SF News Seven East Bay Law Enforcement Officers Charged In Celeste Guap Scandal Alameda County District Attorney Nancy E. O'Malley announced Friday that her office would be pursuing multiple charges, including including sex offenses and obstruction of justice, against seven members of three different law enforcement
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burma Superstar Owners Sued In Class Action By Kitchen Workers The Bay Area Burmese mini-chain Burma Superstar is the subject of a class-action lawsuit filed this week in Alameda County by three of the chain's employees on behalf of about 100 "similarly situated"
SF News 49er Bruce Miller In Court Today Facing Charges For Hotel Attack 29-year-old former 49ers fullback Bruce Miller, as we learned earlier this week, was dropped from the team following a violent incident early on the morning of Labor Day at a Fisherman's Wharf hotel.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Own Pat Montandon's Cole Valley House For $3.5M Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Famed local socialite Pat Montandon one of the central
Arts & Entertainment Stevie Nicks To Play San Jose Show In December With Openers The Pretenders Fans of Stevie Nicks, I have good news for you: The white witch herself is doing a solo tour this fall, and she'll be playing San Jose's SAP Center on December 14, as
