SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Namu Stonepot Nears, Grub Closes, And More This week saw the possible permanent closure of Bon Marché on mid-Market, the opening of Mission/Bernal beer spot Old Devil Moon, and news of the renaming of Marina restaurant Spaghetti Bros. to
Arts & Entertainment Video: SFMOMA Does MTV 'Cribs'-Style Short With SF Photographer Michael Jang The revamped SFMOMA has a newly revived YouTube presence, the best part of which is a new series called "Artist Cribs" featuring well edited, MTV-style tours of artists' homes. The latest was shot
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved North Beach Dive Specs' Gets Legacy Status, New 10-Year Lease Hoorah! I wasn't even aware that crusty, well loved, 48-year-old North Beach watering hole Specs' was in any danger of closing, but it turns out it may have been, as the Chronicle's Esther
SF News Day Around The Bay: Shotwell's Owner Threatens To Close Over Uptick In Prostitution Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Angry Mission residents grilled a police caption at a
Arts & Entertainment Ginger, Artist Behind Trump Statues, Arrives In SF As expected, Joshua "Ginger" Monroe has come to SF ahead of a planned Friday event celebrating his Trump statue at Lefty O'Doul's in Union Square. Fans shouldn't be too disappointed, though, despite the
Arts & Entertainment This Year We Get To See All The Burning Man Art Early Because Instagram We showed you previews and renderings of nine of the bigger pieces of art out on the playa this year, but now, thanks to fully functioning cell signal and wi-fi out in the
SF News Labor Day Weekend Weather To Suck, And August Was Officially A Record-Setting Cold One Those who have only lived in SF for a couple of years might have been kind of shocked and depressed by the monotony of the wind, fog, and grayness for the entire month
Arts & Entertainment Video: Meet Thelma The Singing Housekeeper At Kaiser Hospital Leah Garchik's latest Chronicle column includes a great little tidbit about local character Esperanza Thelma Paumboy, a housekeeper at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in SF who wanders the halls alternately mopping and serenading
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Places In SF To Bring Out-Of-Town Family Are your folks headed here for the holiday weekend? Are they staying for like a whole week? Have you run out of ideas for places to take them that they haven't been? Some
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bon Marché May Be Officially Kaput On Mid-Market We heard in July that Bon Marché was likely not long for this world, having been put up for sale after only a year in business at the Twitter building. Now, as Inside
Arts & Entertainment Abandoned Presidio Gun Batteries To Become New Art Installation From People Behind Ai Weiwei Show The organization behind 2014's Ai Weiwei @Large installation at Alcatraz now has its sights set on the long vacant army gun batteries that were part of what was once known as Fort Scott,
SF News Trump Promises Immigration Law Named For Kate Steinle In Wednesday Speech Presidential unhopeful Donald Trump worked the story of Kate Steinle's July 2015 shooting into his speech on immigration on Wednesday in Phoenix, which seems predictable enough given how Fox News has previously taken
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marina's Spaghetti Bros. Decides To Drop Confusing Name, Pivots To Maybeck's Believing, probably correctly, that the name Spaghetti Bros. had pigeonholed them into being a spaghetti restaurant, the owners of the ten-month-old Marina restaurant in the former Republic space are rebranding themselves with a
SF News If You Used Dropbox In 2012, Your Password May Have Been Compromised The extent of a previously announced breach of Dropbox user data back in 2012 is now coming to light, and as Motherboard reports, in addition to users' email addresses, passwords were obtained and
SF News Protests Planned For Friday Release Of Brock Turner Convicted Stanford rapist Brock Turner is less than 48 hours away from his scheduled release, as reported earlier this week, after serving half his sentence just three months in a Santa Clara County
SF News Scandal! Jane Kim Maybe Came Between Clinton Advisor Ann O'Leary And Her Husband, Kim's Former Law Professor A little bit of potential scandal news has entered the otherwise boring race for the state senate seat being fought by Supervisors Jane Kim and Scott Wiener: Kim has been implicated, according to
SF News It May Be Too Late To Keep Tahoe Blue As we speak, President Obama is arriving in South Lake Tahoe preparing to deliver the keynote address at this year's Lake Tahoe Summit, an annual gathering since 1997 of federal, state, and local
SF News Former CTO Of Newly Notorious Startup Confirms Details About CEO's Allegedly Shady Behavior The Silicon Valley company we now know to be WrkRiot, formerly known as both 1for.one and JobSonic, has now been publicly outed following a Startup Grind/Medium post earlier this week by
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Summer is here! No, really! The shift in weather was most evident this past weekend and with last night's sunset, especially, so get ready for everybody's energy level to go up and for
Arts & Entertainment What George Lucas Means By 'Narrative Art': Chronicle Gets First Glimpse Of His Collection For years now there's been all this public back-and-forth about George Lucas and his plans for a big museum, named for himself, that would house a collection of what's alternately been referred to
SF News Custody Battle Ensues Over Castro Trump Statue As The Man Himself Lands In Bay Area For Fundraisers This seems really, really stupid, but the SFPD is now investigating the August 18 appearance of that Trump statue in the Castro and several other locations around the nation as a case of
Arts & Entertainment As Another Burning Man Kicks Off, The Tiny Town Of Gerlach Remains Half-Angry About It As another Labor Day approaches, so do tens of thousands of Burners to Gerlach, Nevada, the last stop, so to speak, before entering the Black Rock Desert and the temporary, though exponentially larger
SF News It's Official: European Union Says Apple Owes Them $14.5B In Back Taxes European Union regulators announced today that following a two-year investigation into Ireland's treatment of two corporate entities operated by Apple in Cork, they've concluded that Ireland illegally offered tax breaks to Apple dating
SF News Day Around The Bay: President Obama Lands In Tahoe 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 man is responsible for 28 percent of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vegan Protest Group Attempts To Disrupt SF Food Fest Where Foie Gras Was Being Served Vegan protest loudly interrupts Eat Drink SF 2016 merriment https://t.co/xd0GAE00Gv pic.twitter.com/7i5ElRqig4— Eater SF (@eatersf) August 29, 2016 An animal rights group called Direct Action Everywhere staged a
