SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Chef David Kinch Wins Emmy Award For <i>The Mind Of A Chef</i> The Anthony Bourdain-produced PBS series The Mind of a Chef, which already has a James Beard Award, just took home a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Culinary Host, which went
SF News Counterfeit Painkillers And Xanax Laced With Fentanyl Linked To More Deaths (And Hundreds Of Near-Deaths) Last year we reported on the spate of counterfeit Xanax hitting the streets of San Francisco which was actually fentanyl and led to the deaths of three friends in one house, aged 20
Arts & Entertainment Local Artist Adds Fun Dog Stencils To Duboce Park Local street artist fnnch (pronounced like the bird) has just committed one of his "random acts of art" in Duboce Park, adding fun dog stencils including the Jeff Koons tribute above to the
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Mill Valley Addiction Specialist Was Scheduled To Treat Prince Before His Death Though the toxicology report has yet to be completed in the untimely death of Prince two weeks ago, a new source is confirming that the singer did in fact have a serious opioid
SF News Video: Helmet Cam Footage Shows Firefighter Rescuing Several Kittens And in your heart-warming pet video of the day, we bring you this helmet-cam footage, courtesy of the Turlock Fire Department, in which you can see several kittens being plucked out of a
SF News Many Of California's Trees Are In Serious Danger Of Sudden Death If you haven't heard about Sudden Oak Death, it's a fungal disease that can wipe out a variety of California's tree species, it's spread by wind and rain, and after first becoming an
SF News [Update] Hunger Strikers March To City Hall, In Wheelchairs, Interrupt Board Of Supervisors' Meeting The political theater on both sides continues today as five activists who have been on hunger strike outside Mission Police Station for nearly two weeks led a procession of protesters to City Hall
SF News Federal Prosecutors Drop Lawsuit Against Oakland's Harborside Pot Dispensary After four years of fighting back and forth, with the City of Oakland, Congresswoman Barbara Lee and many others on the side of the dispensary, the federal government has apparently dropped its lawsuit
Arts & Entertainment 92-Foot-Tall Stainless Steel 'Venus' Sculpture Coming To Mid-Market's Trinity Place Though he didn't live to see the thing become a reality, longtime SF developer and landlord Angelo Sangiacomo commissioned a grand, gleaming, polished steel statue by artist Lawrence Argent called "Venus" that will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Gets Fully Snubbed At 2016 James Beard Awards The "Oscars of the Food World" happened last night as the chef and restaurant portion of the annual James Beard Foundation Awards took place in Chicago on the traditional night off for chefs,
SF News Most Bay Area Homeowners Saw 50 to 100 Percent Increases In Home Value Since 2004 A new interactive map from the Washington Post, illustrating a story about how the nation's economic recovery over the last decade has been far from complete, and heavily weighted toward wealthy areas, is
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Zuckerbergs' Dog Blends Perfectly With Rug You know that new parents Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan also have a dog, their first born, a five-year-old Puli named Beast. Pulis are Hungarian sheepdogs whose white hair naturally forms dreadlocks
Arts & Entertainment Watch A Stray Cat Slip And Slide On The Ice Before Sharks Game In San Jose You know we have a local hockey team, right? Yes, the San Jose Sharks, and evidently a stray black cat snuck his way into their arena, the SAP Center, and made his way
Arts & Entertainment Photos: 2016's How Weird Street Faire Gets Weird Once More Wigs, goofy costumes, stilts, rave wear, dogs dyed pink, house music, day drinking, day rolling, and plenty of sunshine were all major parts of this year's How Weird Street Faire. This was the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Nashville Hot Chicken At WesBurger 'n' More At the Mission's newest burger spot, the first brick-and-mortar location for Wes Rowe's longtime burger pop-up WesBurger, burgers are of course front and center on the menu are all well worth trying when
Arts & Entertainment Oh Dear, Dede: Two More Museum Board Members, Including Former City Attorney, Resign Over Wilsey Dustup The drama continues at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco i.e. the joint board that oversees the deYoung and Legion of Honor as ongoing infighting persists over a "disability severance" payment
SF News Weather Report: May Greets Us With More Rain, Colder Temps You thought maybe the rain was over I definitely did! but then there was that surprise mini-downpour early in the morning last Friday and there's still more rain coming this first week in
SF News Nevius Attacks Avalos's Homeless Tent Protection Plan As you know, there have been various small battles being waged following the mayor's announced plan to tackle "hot spots" among homeless encampments citywide and systematically "clear" them, which typically just leads to
SF News Kasich Comes To San Francisco To Admit Gay People Are 'Probably' Born That Way Republican presidential non-hopeful John Kasich was in the Bay Area along with the rest of his compadres this weekend for the state Republican convention, and he spoke Friday at an event at the
SF News Bicyclist Fatally Shot Next To Lake Merritt In Oakland A 29-year-old man was shot and killed while riding his bike around Oakland's Lake Merritt late Friday night/early Saturday. As the Chronicle reports, Oakland police responded to reports of gunshots at 12:
Arts & Entertainment Mary Zimmerman's <i>Treasure Island</i> At Berkeley Rep Is A Dazzling And Smart Adventure Ride Director and playwright Mary Zimmerman is something of a legend at Berkeley Rep, having brought her stunning Metamorphoses there in 1999 before going on to win a Tony Award for direction after taking
SF News Five Arrested, One Injured At Anti-Trump Protest; Stanley Roberts Does Segment About It In the wake of Friday's big protest outside the state Republican convention in Burlingame where Donald Trump made an appearance, we're getting word via ABC 7 that a total of five protesters were
SF News Here Are All Of The Ridiculously Racist And Offensive Texts Recently Uncovered In Latest SFPD Probe On Friday, embattled SFPD Chief Greg Suhr released a new, or expanded batch of offensive text messages sent between officers that were uncovered in a recent sexual assault investigation of one former officer,
SF News Uber Insists It Will Not Add Tipping Function To App In response to reactions like SFist's this week to the growing idea that Uber drivers want passengers to tip them in cash, Uber has just put up a new official statement on Medium
SF News Day Around The Bay: Photos From Ponch's Adoption Party Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. You know how Bay Bridge runner Ponch the Chihuahua
