SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Journeymen, A New Oakland Pop-Up, Finds Monthly Home Like many young, creatively ambitious chefs these days, Jonathan Tu, 32, and Chris Wolff, 29, have already roamed the world's culinary capitals and honed their skills, like journeymen craftsmen of yore, in multiply
SF News Suitcase Murder Case Closed With Few New Details, Andrus Responsible, Says SFPD It appears that the SFPD is closing the case file on last year's "suitcase murder," almost exactly a year after it occurred, despite the fact that a couple of key aspects of the
SF News Tahoe Skiers Held Up By 44-Car Pileup In Snowy Mess On I-80 Sunday People trying to get back to the Bay Area from Tahoe on Sunday afternoon may have been stuck in a massive, chain-reaction pileup of big rigs and cars on I-80 near Truckee which
SF News SF PUC Might Be On Hook For Sliding Hillside After Broken Water Main Discovered Following the news last week about a $2+ million house that had to be demolished immediately, by order of the city, because the hill it was sitting on in SF's Sherwood Forest neighborhood
SF News Twitter Getting Sold To Marc Andreessen? Shares of Twitter are up over nine percent as of this writing Monday morning all over a rumor that investor Marc Andreessen is going to step in and save the day, along with
Arts & Entertainment After Repeated Vandalism, Super Bowl 50 Statue Quietly Removed From Alamo Square Good riddance. Toppled twice, now headed for Ed Lee's backyard. #sb50 @hoodline @SFCitizen pic.twitter.com/NoANGiMDq2— LZ (@lz) January 31, 2016 That fairly annoying Super Bowl 50 statue smack in the line
SF News SF's First Open-Air Urinal Makes National Headlines You know that pissoir they installed at Dolores Park that we first heard was coming last year? Well, ever since that first photo hit the internet last week, the nation has been abuzz
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Another Bedbuggy, Syringe-Strewn SRO, $1450/Mo How would you like a furnished, 300-square-foot hotel room in which to live out your meager existence in San Francisco alongside some substance-prone regulars who pay a daily rate and keep some odd
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Lexington Club Space Will Become A Cocktail Bar Called Wildhawk Well, ladies and gentlemen and genderqueer fans of the former Lexington Club, the worst thing you may have expected would happen to the onetime lesbian bar is happening: It's becoming a high-end cocktail
Arts & Entertainment Go Watch This: Chelsea Handler Marches Topless Into Meeting At Twitter HQ In her newly released docu-series on Netflix, Chelsea Does, comedian Chelsea Handler tried to get a meeting with then Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, only she walked into the Twitter building topless in order
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Don Pistos/Chubby Noodle Guy Opening A Marina Tequila Bar, And More Local restaurateur Pete Mrabe, who opened Don Pisto's in North Beach in 2010, is now in major expansion mode this year, with four new projects in the works to add to the three
SF News House In Sherwood Forest Gets Demolished As Sliding Hillside Threatens Several Homes Demolition work along Casitas Avenue has stopped for the day. Crews will return tomorrow. @kron4news pic.twitter.com/4hqNgz1P4C— Chuck Clifford (@chuckclifford) January 29, 2016 El Nino rains appear to be the culprit
SF News Day Around The Bay: The Warriors Arena Shall Be Called The Chase Center JP Morgan Chase "won" the naming rights to the upcoming, albeit delayed, Warriors Arena, and so it will be called The Chase Center, or just The Chase. [KRON 4, Business Times, ABC 7]
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P. Paul Kantner, Jefferson Airplane's Last Remaining SF Resident News arrived late Thursday that Paul Kantner, one of the three vocalists in legendary San Francisco psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane, has died at age 74 of multiple organ failure. Kantner was the
Arts & Entertainment Now Martin Shkreli Is Beefing With Ghostface Killah, And It Is Insanely Stupid When he's not mocking Congress and pretending that he's not in very deep sh*t these days, arguable sociopath and formerly SF-based pharma bro Martin Shkreli is keeping busy by having an online
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 14 Best Beer Bars In SF And Oakland A beer bar needs just a few things to make it great: an easy-going, come-as-you-are vibe; a solid selection of beers hopefully running the gamut from old- to new-school; and a minimum of
Arts & Entertainment You Can Rent This Guy's North Beach Pad For Super Bowl Weekend For $43K I know you didn't need one more thing to make you hate the Super Bowl, but here's one more anyway. This guy, Cal, is renting his three-bedroom North Beach apartment on Airbnb for
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Fuller House' Gets A Featurette The promo blitz continues for Netflix's Full House reboot, and now you can Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, John Stamos and the gang talking about how they really are sort of a family
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Taylor Mac's 'A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music' At The Curran To call the art of Taylor Mac ambitious is an understatement, and maybe even an insult. In one of his last outings as a performer in SF in 2011, Mac brought his extravagant
SF News Which Are More Dangerous: Scofflaw Cyclists, Or Bad-Mannered Drone Flyers? Yesterday's post about the drone crashing into the Clement Street farmers' market which thankfully didn't hurt anyone but easily could have has got me thinking about one of our city's other hot-button arguments,
SF News HA! That Big Verizon Wrap Ad At Embarcadero Center Is Illegal, City Demands Its Removal You know how Verizon and Super Bowl 50 were doing that huge wrap of Four Embarcadero Center over the last two weeks the one that ran into a humorous snafu last week? Some
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Of SF's Best Burgers Under Threat As Bourbon Steak Prepares To Close Indefinitely Listen up, burger fans: If you haven't plunked down the $24 for the Bourbon Steak burger, available only on the bar menu, you may want to get over there in the next two
SF News Cops Bust Huge Civic Center Drug Ring, Arrest 48 The open-air drug market that is UN Plaza just got a bit less druggy after a joint task force consisting of the SFPD, Alameda County Narcotics Task Force, and the DEA made 48
Arts & Entertainment Who Was This Man With A Pet Raccoon On Telegraph Hill In The 1950's? Among the trove of historic photos SFist has been sharing from the Charles W. Cushman Collection at the Indiana University Archives, there are several that Cushman took on an afternoon stroll up Telegraph
SF News Anti-Deportation Activists Arrested After Blocking Downtown Streets #Relief4Refugees action in SF, shutting down the intersection! #StopTheRaids #Not1More pic.twitter.com/ax4uaY0oSc— Imagine 2050 (@Imagine2050) January 26, 2016 A simultaneous protest in San Francisco and Los Angeles was happening today to