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
SF News Mystery Solved: 1950's Telegraph Hill Raccoon Man Identified A few weeks ago, via a fascinating archive of historic SF color photos that I'm still not done with, I posted a few photos of a man only identified as a random "oldster"
Arts & Entertainment Drag Version Of 'Three's Company' Comes To Oasis Next Week Much like they've done with The Golden Girls, Sex and the City, Designing Women, Star Trek, and Absolutely Fabulous over the years, San Francisco's more comedic drag queens are for the first time
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sparky's Diner On Church Closed, Apparently After Health Inspection One of the city's only 24-hour diners, Sparky's on Church Street, was suddenly closed last week and remains closed as of this morning. BrokeAss Stuart got the news via a tipster, and SFist
Arts & Entertainment Vanity, Prince Protege And 'Nasty Girl' Singer, Dies In Fremont Hospital At Age 57 News broke last night during the Grammy Awards that Vanity, a.k.a. Denise Matthews, the singer of one of several female-led groups that were created by Prince or spun off of Prince
SF News Day Around The Bay: NIMBYs Freak Out Over Kezar Stadium Soccer Plan Cole Valley and Upper Haight NIMBYs are worried about traffic headaches and roving, drunk soccer fans if and when Kezar Stadium becomes the home of pro soccer team the San Francisco Deltas. [Hoodline]
SF News Police Seeking Carjacked Yukon Denali Involved In Twin Peaks Shooting The SFPD is on the hunt for a dark gray GMC Yukon Denali with the license plate 5PJU851 which was carjacked at the scene of the Sunday morning's double homicide on Twin Peaks
Arts & Entertainment 'Aubergine' at Berkeley Rep Is A Melancholy, Food-Obsessed Look At Death Julia Cho's new play Aubergine, a world premiere that also marks the first production in the newly rechristened Peet's Theatre, is a thoughtful and fairly traditional play centered on two essential aspects of
SF News High-Speed Rail Plans Change: Bay Area Could Get Trains Ahead Of LA You may be inclined to think that you will never live to see a high-speed rail link between San Francisco and Los Angeles and depending on your age and overall health you may
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bidding Farewell To Quirky, 20-Year-Old Market Street Diner L&M Cafe I was once terrified of L&M Cafe (1081 Market Street). I had moved to mid-Market in the last decade, long before Nema and Twitter got there, and a friend convinced me
Arts & Entertainment Kanye West Says He's $53 Million In Debt, Asks Zuckerberg For $1 Billion Kanye West had another of his seemingly manic, barely coherent Twitter meltdowns over the weekend in which he admitted to having "$53 million in personal debt," and then performed a millionaire's version of
SF News San Francisco, Donald Trump, And Twitter React To The Death Of Justice Antonin Scalia Saturday afternoon, the country ground to a halt as news broke of the death of senior Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Justice Scalia had flown Friday to a luxury hunting resort in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Brasserie St. James Arriving on Valencia, Dat Spot Shutters, And More Earlier this week, Wise Sons Bagel sprang to life via delivery service Caviar, and now we learn via Tablehopper they've set a firm opening date of February 26. Also, Caleb went out and
Arts & Entertainment Mavericks Wrap-Up: Nic Lamb Of Santa Cruz Takes Home Top Surfing Prize It wasn't the biggest, gnarliest, most dramatic Mavericks there ever was, but 2016's Titans of Mavericks big-wave surfing competition wrapped up Friday with more than a few wipeouts and only one winner. Nic
SF News Apartment Sadness: A Tale Of A TIC And An Airbnb Gone Really, Really Bad Since there are, after all, lots of sad housing situations in San Francisco these days that do not appear on Craigslist, I'm taking a little moment in this column to highlight one of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area To Finally Enjoy Some Local Dungeness Crab This Month Get ready to feed on some crab at long last, crab lovers. The health warning that shut down local crab fisheries since November has been lifted, and it looks like the commercial Dungeness
Arts & Entertainment Apple Bankrolls Their First Scripted TV Series, Starring Dr. Dre Apple is, slowly but surely, getting into the TV game, and today we learn from The Hollywood Reporter that the company's first ever original TV series is now in the works. It's called
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Silicon Valley' Season 3 Trailer Drops As we have before, SFist will be recapping HBO's absurdist look at our local tech community, Silicon Valley, when its third season begins on April 24th. In the new trailer, we see our
SF News M-Oceanview Derails Near SF State Whoa!!! This M line derailed. Super scary. @sfmta_muni #Muni #sf pic.twitter.com/493fgz2JWU— Dustin Allen (@dusteallen) February 12, 2016 A Muni M-line light rail train derailed Friday morning at 19th and
SF News Day Around The Bay: More About The Man Who Drowned Saving His Wife From A Pacifica Sneaker Wave Another pleasant side-effect of the rain: Alamere Falls on the Point Reyes National Seashore has water in it again. [ABC 7] We noted in brief yesterday the tragic story of 61-year-old Larry Moore,
Arts & Entertainment Thumb-Sized Monkeys New Status Symbol Pets For Year Of The Monkey? Our colleagues at Shanghaiist just posted about this adorable but slightly alarming trend among elites in China of buying tiny pygmy marmosets, the world's smallest monkeys, to keep as pets in honor of
SF News According To Facebook Likes, Californians Love Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump (And Ben Carson) As we approach this potentially disastrous but no doubt entertaining election this fall, the folks over at FiveThirtyEight the statistics-obsessed blog started by Nate Silver following his huge success in predicting the results
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 18 Best All-Season Outdoor Dining Spots In SF February has been way, way too nice. Nice enough that people are eating and drinking outside everywhere. But for a town that's not always known for its balmy nighttime weather, San Francisco is
Arts & Entertainment February's Prettiest Sunrises And Sunsets, So Far El Niño has been rather kind to us thus far in February, which is bad news for the drought though I hold out hope for a rainy March but good news for those
SF News Apparent Road Rage Incident On Russian Hill Leaves Cyclist Injured An apparent hit-and-run road rage collision between a car and a cyclist this morning left the cyclist injured and bloody, as SFist tipster Devin Wilson tells us. Wilson tells us this happened at
