SF News Teeny Hayes Valley Studios With No Parking Hitting Market For $500K One of those "micro unit" buildings we've heard so much about has been completed at 388 Fulton Street (at Gough), and one of its itty bitty, 350-square-foot studios could be yours starting at
SF News Will The Remaining Tent City Homeless Get Arrested On Friday? In a pair of competing pieces this morning, the Chronicle is saying both that the tent-dwellers on Division Street are all packing up and leaving, as demanded by the city with a deadline
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Someone Launches 'Impeach Michael Bauer' Campaign, Offers $2K For New Chronicle Critic 7. Hell ya @californiossf keep it posted and spread the word that #thisdudesucks #whostakinblameforthestormyweather A photo posted by I'd Pay $2000 For A New Critic (@impeach.michael.bauer) on Feb 8, 2016 at
SF News Day Around The Bay: Carol Burnett Is Coming To Town! Supervisor Jane Kim and other city leaders are crying foul after it appears that UCSF fired a group of subcontracted, Chinese-speaking janitors who had worked for the hospital for years after they organized
SF News City Hall Gets Lazy With Board Of Supes Class Photo, Photoshops Peskin In Something mildly amusing making the rounds on Facebook this afternoon: The official Board of Supervisors class photo for 2016, the full size version of which can be found here and linked from this
Arts & Entertainment Violent Femmes Announce Two Dates At The Fillmore If you've been watching late-night TV this week, you might have caught that the Violent Femmes are back together and touring to promote their first album of new music in 15 years, titled
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Piano Bars In San Francisco And Oakland San Francisco is a great town for live music, but when it comes to the grand tradition of the piano bar where amateurs and semi-pros get up and sing, we only really have
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lower Haight Loses Beloved Bean There Cafe After 21 Years In yet another sign of the times, a very well loved and financially stable neighborhood coffeeshop, Bean There at the corner of Waller and Steiner, is now gone for good. As owners Susi
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Note To Yelp: Stop Trying To Make 'DivCo' Happen Back in the heyday of the Bold Italic, the website and its events team tried to do a "micro-hoods" thing where they rechristened familiar sections of the city with their own, non-realtor-approved monikers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Tiki Bar Pagan Idol, From Bourbon & Branch Team, Debuts Downtown The ever growing Future Bars empire is growing again as Eater brings word that they've surprised us with a brand new addition, Pagan Idol (375 Bush Street at Belden Place). It's a Tiki
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shhh! House Of Prime Rib Has A Secret Menu (Including A Vegetarian Plate) Somehow, we've made it to 2016 without knowing that House of Prime Rib had anything on offer besides four cuts of rib roast, baked or mashed potato, and creamed spinach and the house
SF News SoMa Corner Billboard Becomes Oracle Of Tech Bubbles Past And Present This billboard advertising space at the corner of 9th and Folsom has, it seems, been a kind of harbinger of a bubble ready to burst in the past or, at the very least,
Arts & Entertainment Prince Announces Surprise Shows At Oakland's Paramount Theater Sunday As he's done a bunch of times in recent years, Prince announced late Tuesday that he'd be doing some surprise concerts on very short notice this time the kickoff to a solo piano
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Once again we bring you some ideas for things to do off the internet this sunny and lovely week in our fair city. You do know it's really nice outside, right? And there
SF News Silicon Valley Billionaire Wants $30 Million For His Beach Access, National Media Shames Him The saga of Sun Microsystems founder and local billionaire Vinod Khosla and his beachfront property south of Half Moon Bay came up in the news again in the past week after Khosla laid
SF News Alameda Man Implicated In Get-Rich-Quick Scam Remains Missing; Brother Believes He 'Sacrificed Himself' Two weeks ago SFist put out the early word of the disappearance of John Beck, a 73-year-old Alameda resident last seen boarding a BART train in downtown Oakland, and whose family hasn't heard
SF News Major Proposal To Remove I-280 Overpass And Caltrain Rail Yard Moves Forward A proposed (extremely expensive) plan, first floated last May, to remove the existing Caltrain rail yard as well as parts of the I-280 overpass and off-ramp in SoMa/Potrero in anticipation of electrified
SF News DA Gascon Denounces 'Old Boys' Club' In SFPD As Department Announces New Community-Oriented Bureau In an effort to restore trust in the San Francisco Police Department in the wake of the killing of Mario Woods, Police Chief Greg Suhr and Mayor Ed Lee announced Monday that some
SF News Day Around The Bay: Where Is The California Powerball Winner?!? Two winners of that $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot last month have both come forward, but whoever bought the other winning ticket in Chino Hills, California has yet to show their face or
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The Chef's Menu At Cadence, Now Open On Mid-Market Things on mid-Market are certainly worlds different than they were just a few years ago. With the arrival of restaurants like Alta CA, Bon Marché, and The Perennial, the era when all you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho Yacht Club, Cala Among Best New Restaurant Semi-Finalists For 2016 James Beard Awards The James Beard Foundation Awards long-list arrived today, which is the list of semi-finalist restaurants, bars, and chefs which will ultimately be whittled down to a list of finalist nominees next month. And
Arts & Entertainment Courtney Love To Discuss And Perform From Her Musical Collaboration 'Kansas City Choir Boy' With Todd Almond March 7 Love her or despise her, onetime SF resident Courtney Love is swinging back through town next month to give us a one-night sneak peek at a musical theater collaboration she's been working on
SF News Ryan Chamberlain Pleads Guilty To Deadly Toxin Charge, May Get 10 Years Former SF political consultant and accused potential domestic terrorist Ryan Chamberlain has, as was expected last week, taken a plea deal in a case dating back to the spring of 2014 in which
SF News Historic El Rey Theatre Threatened As Property Gets Sold At Auction Though it hasn't been a grand movie palace or even a crumbling but in-use movie house for more than a generation, residents in the Ingleside and Balboa Park neighborhoods have long hoped and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alfred's Steakhouse Reopens Thursday Under Daniel Patterson's Management Back in October we learned the news that the Daniel Patterson Group was getting into the steakhouse business with the purchase of SF's oldest example, Alfred's (659 Merchant Street near Kearny). Tucked away
