SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime SoMa Spot Triptych Closes After 11 Years On Folsom Triptych, the brunch and dinner spot that's spent over a decade at 1155 Folsom, is now closed for good after variously having for-lease and for-sale notices up over the past few years. Tablehopper
SF News FBI Hires Israeli Firm Cellebrite To Unlock San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone Though it's probably not news to the hacker world, the rest of the world is learning that the feds may not have ever really needed Apple's help to unlock and/or retrieve data
SF News Video: Substitute Teacher In Antioch Goes Ballistic Over Missing Rubber Bands Though we don't know what the events were leading up to this cell phone video being taken, a substitute teacher in an Antioch middle school was pushed to the brink and basically lost
Arts & Entertainment Openings Of Minnesota Street Project, SFMOMA Cited As Marking Fresh Art World 'Moment' In SF Last weekend marked the official opening festivities for The Minnesota Street Project in Dogpatch a new 100,000-square-foot multi-use space started by local entrepreneurs and collectors Deborah and Andy Rappaport as a kind
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What SF Restaurant Owners Are Saying About The Current Restaurant 'Bubble' Valencia Street probably already hit "peak restaurant" last year, and if you believe chef and restaurateur Dennis Leary (The Sentinel, Golden West, House of Shields), so did the rest of the city. San
SF News Hillary Clinton Emails Show Weirdly Close Relationship Between State Department And Google A new batch of Hillary Clinton's infamous emails have appeared on Wikileaks, and among them there's one name that appears a bunch and that's Jared Cohen, director and founder of Google Ideas and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Farina Owners Appear To Make Sketchy Move To Avoid Paying Debts To Employees Stories about sketchiness surrounding the owners of Farina, that fancy looking but many would say over-priced Italian spot on 18th Street, go back quite a few years now. Back in 2011, several employees
SF News Company Building New BART Cars Has History Of Missed Deadlines Just before chaos erupted and took 50 of BART's super-ancient cars out of service last week due to a still mysterious, roving voltage spike, we had a cheery video to show you of
SF News Former Trans Inmate Michelle-Lael Norsworthy Speaks Out About Her New Transition, To Civilian Life Many of you will recall the plight of trans prisoner Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, who last year became the second trans inmate to be granted state-funded sex reassignment surgery only to be paroled shortly thereafter.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Waxman's, The New Ghirardelli Square Spot From Celebrity Chef Jonathan Waxman, Debuts Tuesday We got early word this past weekend that the expected opening of chef Jonathan Waxman's first SF outpost, originally named Brezza Emporio and Pizzeria but rechristened as simply Waxman's, is due to happen
SF News Weather Report: The Last Dumping Of Rain For A While It may be unwise to call it over, but from the looks of it, today's bout of (at times very heavy!) rain in San Francisco will be the last we'll see of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Dungeness Crab Finally Back In Restaurants Next Week Nearly six weeks after the recreational crab fishing ban was lifted for local waters around the Bay Area, the commercial Dungeness crab fishing ban finally ends on March 26. As the Chronicle reports,
SF News The On-Demand/Shut-In Economy Is Definitely Slowing Down, If Not Dying With the shuttering of SpoonRocket last week, the recent news that Instacart was slashing its fees and commissions to drivers, and the December closure of rideshare also-ran Sidecar, there's been plenty of talk
SF News BART Having Come-To-Jesus Moment About Where It's Been Spending Its Money JUST IN: #BART operator says they've successfully run 5-6 test trains this morning from #Pittsburg to #Concord pic.twitter.com/yU0jE60E14— KTVU (@KTVU) March 21, 2016 BART is continuing to run bus bridges
SF News Desperate BART Riders Wrestle Broken Door Shut To Keep Friday Commute From Being Ruined During the already cramped, slow, and frustrating East Bay-bound commute Friday evening, several BART riders took matters into their own hands after a Pittsburg/Bay Point-bound train was about to be taken out
SF News Day Around The Bay: Peskin Says Tech Companies Should Be Funding Affordable Housing Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. San Francisco police are downplaying suggestions that the devil-worshiping
Arts & Entertainment Local Artist Makes Portrait Of Donald Trump Spewing Actual Bull Manure Hayward-based artist Andrew Kong Knight was painting a portrait of Donald Trump (née Drumpf) when he decided to add a little something extra: actual bull manure he found in the Hayward hills. Kong
SF News Pot Delivery Services Dealt Legal Blow In SoCal; Emeryville Set To Get Its First Dispensary This week in marijuana news, as the state slides toward the inevitable full-scale legalization of cannabis as soon as next year, and a month after California just hired its first "marijuana czar" to
Arts & Entertainment Justin Bieber Is Staying At The Same Luxe Los Altos Airbnb Where Beyoncé Stayed Remember how Beyoncé got hooked up with that fancy Airbnb in Los Altos when she and Jay-Z were here for the Super Bowl back in February? Well it appears Justin Bieber got a
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Season 3 Full-Length Trailer Features Erlich Riding A Unicorn We got the teaser last month, and now as we approach the April 24 premiere of the third season of HBO's Silicon Valley, and today they give us the full 90-second trailer. We
SF News Key Apple Engineers Suggest They'll Quit If Feds Force Them To Unlock iPhone The FBI may face a new hurdle in their eager attempt to get around Apple's encryption technology and unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists, and that would be Apple's
SF News BART Delays, Crowding To Go On Indefinitely As Mystery Voltage Spike Remains Unsolved The problem that began Wednesday when 50 BART cars were jolted out of service due to a voltage spike near the end of the Pittsburg/Bay Point line will not be solved quickly,
Arts & Entertainment 'The Realistic Joneses' Is A Realistic Portrayal Of The Awkwardness Of Illness, And Also Not Just open as of last night at ACT, The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno is a sometimes difficult, awkwardly funny, and starkly modern play that delves into the lives of two couples suffering
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Bagels In The Bay Area, Ranked While many will contend that the very fact that Noah's has become a local institution is proof positive that San Franciscans are a provincial, taste-challenged bunch of heathens who wouldn't know a real
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Boulange Founder Pascal Rigo Departs Munchery After Just Five Months As we learned back in October, La Boulange founder Pascal Rigo who sold his bakery chain and recipes to Starbucks for a cool $100 million only to reopen a few of its original
