Arts & Entertainment Dog-Eared Books Announces Castro Location Coming In May Excellent news, book-readers: The Castro will not be short another bookstore come June following the upcoming closure of Books Inc. As SF Weekly reports today, the Mission's own Dog-Eared Books one of SF's
SF News New Stats Say Gun Violence Down In SF, While Car Break-Ins Continue To Skyrocket The SFPD unleashed their official year-end crime statistics for 2015 today, and not at all surprisingly, property crime has gone up again driven especially by car break-ins which we already learned hit a
SF News Day Around The Bay: The Cellar Now Shuttered For Good After Stabbing Here's a video of Dave Eggers' twee bear tricycle, which is part of a bear-themed art exhibit (but that is not Eggers on the tricycle). [Hoodline] Campos submits list of possible Homeless Navigation
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rickybobby Gets Replacement In the Lower Haight: The Lodge The many fans of RickyBobby in the Lower Haight got some terrible news last month when the popular, three-year-old burgers-and-tots spot announced it was closing for good. But the bright side is that
SF News Commuters, SFO-Bound Passengers Told To Leave Early Due To BART Problem BART is experiencing a trackside maintenance problem on the Pittsburg/Bay Point line today that has led to systemwide delays, and BART is now warning passengers to possibly leave early or stay at
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: Recipient Of Contested deYoung Payment Dies, Prompting New Call For Reimbursement The petite society scandal in which longtime deYoung Museum grande dame Dede Wilsey brought some unwanted attention to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's financial controls has taken a new turn. Wilsey
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho Yacht Club Tops SF Finalists For 2016 James Beard Awards The James Beard Award finalists were just announced yesterday following last month's announcements of the semi-finalists or "long list" and low and behold, Liholiho Yacht Club will be competing with four other restaurant
SF News Haight Homeless Guy Who Spotted Escaped Prisoners Gets $100K Reward Here's some actual good news. You'll recall the story of 55-year-old Matthew Hay-Chapman, a down-on-his-luck but nonetheless observant semi-homeless guy in the Upper Haight who, back in late January, spotted one of three
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrity Chef Michael Chiarello Accused Of Sexually Harassing Female And Gay Employees In SF Celebrity chef Michael Chiarello, best known nationally for his Food Network show Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello and known in the Bay Area for his Napa restaurant Bottega and his three-year-old San Francisco
SF News IKEA Opening New Store In Deepest East Bay In 2018 In some excellent news for all those living east of the Caldecott Tunnel, the East Bay will be getting a second IKEA location, in Dublin, which may have the side effect of also
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Do This Week It's a beautiful week with another potentially stormy weekend ahead, but let's just pretend it's spring because it already basically is and get out there doing non-internet things. TUESDAY, MARCH 15 NEW ORLEANS
Arts & Entertainment Another SF Bookstore Bites The Dust: Books Inc. In The Castro Sad news for Castro neighborhood book lovers, and bookstore browsers: Books Inc. has just announced that their Market Street location in the heart of the 'hood will be closing at the end of
Arts & Entertainment Tony-Winning Musical 'Fun Home' To Be Inaugural Production In Newly Redone Curran In conjunction with a discussion with the show's creators and Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom last night, the Curran Theatre announced that Broadway hit and 2015 Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home is on its
SF News Planning Commissioner Loses It On Twitter Over Gawker's SF Housing Scold Last week, here on SFist, I got a little mad at Gawker editor Hamilton Nolan for stepping into a discussion about San Francisco's housing crisis a discussion in which he really does not
SF News Video: First Functioning New BART Car Begins Cross-Country Journey On Flatbed Truck It's happening, everyone. BART's spiffy, modern new rail cars are actually hitting the assembly line in upstate New York, and the very first one was just loaded up onto a flatbed truck to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Eat The Best Irish Food In San Francisco As St. Patrick's Day approaches, we at SFist thought you needed a primer on the best of many places around San Francisco to indulge in traditional Irish pub grub (and baked goods) whilst
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Truly Sad Sleeper Van Going For $800/Month It's not the first van or truck to be in this column, and it won't be the last probably, but this sleeper van picked up by Curbed this week really takes the cake
SF News Day Around The Bay: Did You Get Your Burning Man Ticket Yet? The family of a 65-year-old Oakland amputee who died in jail after being mistakenly arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife lashed out at police on Tuesday. [Mercury-News, ABC 7] Washington-based company founded
SF News Hot Convict Jeremy Meeks Walked Out Of Prison Today, Will Presumably Begin Modeling Remember the heady days of mid-2014 when a Northern California man named Jeremy Meeks, arrested in Stockton on firearms charges and reputed to be a member of the Northside Gangster Crips in that
Arts & Entertainment John Leguizamo To Preview 'Latin History For Dummies' At Berkeley Rep This Summer In what's likely to be the pre-Broadway trial run of his latest one-man show, Obie and Emmy Award winner John Leguizamo is bringing Latin History For Dummies to Berkeley Rep for a world
SF News Now Gawker Scolds San Francisco For Not Building Enough Housing OK, can we all agree that, at the very least, New Yorkers and Angelenos can stop telling us how stupid we've been, collectively, as the city of San Francisco in not preparing for
SF News Key Witness For City Says Alex Nieto Pointed Taser At Him And His Dog The tragic sequence of events that led to the death of Alex Nieto on March 21, 2014 got a new and weird detail added to it with the conclusion of witness testimony on
Arts & Entertainment Artist Protests Facebook Ban After She Reposts 'Baby Dick' Trump Painting Artist Illma Gore has been, like many of us in the anti-Trump camp, amused by the ongoing joke about Donald Trump's penis size spurned in part by John Oliver dredging up an old
Arts & Entertainment Graham Nash: Crosby, Stills & Nash Will Never Perform Together Again Classic rock supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash, a.k.a. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, are fully and completely broken up forevermore, as Graham Nash tells Billboard in a new interview. The reason:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Bagdad Cafe/SliderBar Space Becoming The Castro Republic, Under New Ownership Welp, the story we all knew would end this way has reached its end as Health-Department-closure-afflicted SliderBar (2295 Market Street), which was rechristened OVOK in September with basically the same menu, to not
