SF News Cyclist Struck By Tour Bus Is Tourist From Brazil, And He's Doing Just Fine I was wondering when the first story first broke about the out-of-control double-decker tour bus that struck multiple cars, pedestrians, and a cyclist before crashing into the new Apple store construction site at
SF News Day Around The Bay: You Can Still Rent Brian Chesky's Couch For $50 [People Magazine] is surprised to learn what we've known for quite some time: You can still rent Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky's couch on Rausch Street for $50. (Up from $40 as of last
Arts & Entertainment Curran Theatre Breaks Off From SHN, Will Produce Its Own Edgier Shows In 2016 I missed the memo about this when it first went around this fall, but the historic Curran Theatre, in addition to undergoing a major renovation right now, is no longer going to be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing: Tamale Party At Hecho For many in the Latino community, Christmas is all about tamales. And tonight you can either hop in to Hecho in the Castro for a prix fixe tamale feast, or take a dozen
SF News VC Guy Incites Twitter Ire By Saying There Is Nothing To Do Or See In San Francisco In yet another example of the ways in which the newer denizens of New San Francisco don't exactly appreciate the place, local tech jerk Benedict Evans took to Twitter last night to vent
SF News Facebook Offers Employees $10K Incentive To Stop Taking Shuttles, Move Closer To Office Trying to stem the tide of its workforce fleeing the Peninsula to live in SF, Facebook is offering its employees a one-time bonus of $10,000 to $15,000 to move closer to
SF News Gascon On Mario Woods Shooting: 'This Is Not A Conversation About Tasers' As District Attorney George Gascon prepares to potentially file criminal charges against the five SFPD officers involved in the shooting of Mario Woods, he's assured protesters that the investigation into the incident will
Arts & Entertainment Video: Friday's Rainy Lightsaber Battle In an attempt to break a world record for the largest ever faux-lightsaber battle (7,000 people, San Diego ComiCon, 2015), a legion of dorks gathered in a park by the Embarcadero Friday
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SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Little Gem Debuts In Hayes Valley, Dance Club Love + Propaganda Opens, and More This past week on the local food scene we said goodbye to Local Mission Eatery (tomorrow's its last night), and hello to the upcoming Mister Jiu's in Chinatown, due early next year. And,
SF News Remaining Harbin Hot Springs Staff Talk Rebuilding, El Niño Mudslides, A Possible Reopening Next Spring Harbin Hot Springs was one of the most visibly dramatic losses from September's Valley Fire for those in the Bay Area who did not live in or know Lake County too well the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whole Foods To Open One Of The First Of Its Cheaper 365 Market Concepts On Polk Whole Foods is rolling out the first of its slimmed down, less expensive 365 By Whole Foods markets in 2016, beginning with one in LA's Silverlake neighborhood, and another now proposed for the
SF News Oikos University Shooter One Goh Ruled Incompetent To Stand Trial For Second Time Though it does not preclude the possibility of a trial in the future, accused and confessed Oikos University shooting suspect One Goh has once again been ruled mentally incompetent by an Alameda County
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 17 Best New Restaurants Of 2015 Last week we brought you our picks for the best new bars to arrive in town this past year, and now we bring you their restaurant brethren. This has been a truly terrific
Arts & Entertainment <i>This American Life</i> Highlights SF After-School Program That Put On A Children's Musical About Gentrification The theme of this week's episode of NPR's This American Life, which premieres Friday, is "The Poetry of Propaganda," and one of the stories centers on a unique after-school program in San Francisco
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Stanley Roberts Again Calls Out Asian Ladies Who Take Food From Glide Giveaways And Sell It Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco is a uniquely generous and inclusive institution that has hosted food giveaways for the needy for many years now. In addition to their daily free meal program
SF News Man Refuses To Buy Weed In Dolores Park, Gets Stabbed Multiple Times A 22-year-old man was with a female friend in Dolores Park Tuesday evening when the pair was approached by a group of male suspects, one of whom asked if they wanted to buy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brandon Jew's Long-Awaited Chinatown Restaurant Mister Jiu's Due In New Year It's been well over two years that we've known about the approach of chef Brandon Jew's ambitious Chinatown project, named for the more proper spelling of his ancestral name, Mister Jiu's. As Eater
Arts & Entertainment You'll See The Bay Lights Back On This Week For Testing Ahead Of January Unveiling Fans of the Bay Lights, rejoice! and detractors like the Chron's John King, shake your fists in the air for this week, artist Leo Villareal will be camped out on Pier 14 after
SF News Idaho Stop Legislation Passes First Vote, Barely; Bike Coalition Tweets At Supervisors Throughout Vote As we noted on Monday, the contentious issue of legalizing the rolling "Idaho stop" for cyclists came for a vote at the Board of Supervisors meeting yesterday, and as predicted it came up
SF News Prepare For A Wet Christmas Around The Bay, And A White Christmas In Tahoe A new set of rainstorms will descend on the Bay Area by the end of this week, setting the stage for consecutive days of wet weather extending until after Christmas. These will be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Union Square-Adjacent Bar Cantina Sold To Press Club Owners, Will Get Revamp Big news from the local bar scene: Well known local barkeep turned booze writer Duggan McDonnell and his original partner have sold their bar Cantina (580 Sutter Street) to a new regime. As
SF News Woman Arrested In Dead Toddler Case Is Sister Of Guy Jailed For Starting Huge NorCal Wildfire Last Year Well I didn't see this coming: Potential accused child murderer Tami Joy Huntsman, arrested Monday in Northern California in connection to the abuse of a nine-year-old girl and the deaths of her two
Arts & Entertainment The Irony!: Three Big Tech Companies All Had <i>Great Gatsby</i>-Themed Holiday Parties This Year A lot of people, including SFist, were quick to call 2014's bubble-riffic round of tech company holiday parties "excessive," which has perhaps prompted them to be a little more low-key about talking about
SF News [Updated] Two Arrested In Connection With The Murder Of Two Toddlers Found In Northern California Storage Locker A 39-year-old woman and her 17-year-old companion, both living in the tiny Northern California town of Quincy in the Plumas National Forest, were arrested Thursday on charges of felony child abuse, torture, and
