SF News Campos On Mario Woods Shooting: 'We Need Fundamental Change Around De-Escalation' Both Martin Halloran, the president of the S.F. Police Officers Association, and Supervisor David Campos went on Phil Matier's Sunday morning program on CBS 5, Matier in the Morning, to have an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After Six Years, Local Mission Eatery Will Call It Quits On Saturday Back in early 2010, Local Mission Eatery debuted as a new sort of idealistic, hybrid, business a high-end sandwich shop with well sourced, local ingredients, with a bakery in back, and with cooking
SF News City Cracks Down On Airbnb/VRBO Law Violators, Issues $400,000 In Penalties Though many critics have called the "Airbnb law" that the SF Board of Supervisors passed last year unenforceable, enforcement appears to be ramping up, especially after this past election in which short-term rentals
Arts & Entertainment Adele Announces Three Bay Area Concert Dates Next Summer Hello? Can you hear me? In addition to doing six nights at Madison Square Garden in New York and six nights at L.A.'s Staples Center, Adele announced a North American tour
SF News Weekend Storm Leads To Downed Trees, Flash Floods, Two Deaths Downpour in Russian Hill. Haven't seen rain like this in San Francisco for a while @LiveDoppler7HD #abc7now pic.twitter.com/4WsOJvy8dX— Martin Ortiz (@newsortiz) December 13, 2015 A brief, passing storm Sunday morning
Arts & Entertainment Video Du Jour: SantaCon Via Hoverboard I'll just let the video-taker and uploader, Eric, summarize this one with his title: "King Dick of Douche Mountain." As seen Saturday, December 12, in Union Square, San Francisco. Previously: SantaCon Disputes Death
SF News Day Around The Bay: Transbay District Developer Backs Out An alleged vandal with some scary face tattoos wreaked some havoc at a tony salon in Jackson Square Thursday morning. [Hoodline] Previously committed Transbay residential developer Crescent Heights has backed out of a
SF News City Marijuana Task Force Named Ahead Of Probable State Legalization This week, the Board of Supervisors' Rules Committee, which consists of Supervisors Scott Wiener, Malia Cohen, and John Avalos, voted to appoint 11 out of 48 applicants to a task force that will
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Two Bunk-Bed 'Hacker' Dorms Described As 'Luxe,' And 'High-End' While it's not every week I see a retirement home hitting the open market, seeking all ages of renters for its SROs and three squares a day, it is every week that I
SF News In Response To Class Action, Uber Sends New Agreement For All Drivers To Sign Barring Class Actions On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that an arbitration clause Uber had included in its agreement signed by all drivers was unenforceable, and that therefore a class-action lawsuit in California to rule that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best New Bars Of 2015 San Francisco has had a fantastic year for new food and drink, topping even the last couple (which were nothing to scoff at, either). While 2014 brought us a dozen cool new bars
SF News Uh Oh, Uber: Judge Rules Class Action About Drivers Being Employees Can Expand A debate has been raging all year surrounding class-action lawsuits against sharing-economy companies like Uber, Lyft, Instacart, Postmates, and others about whether their drivers/personal shoppers should be considered employees rather than independent
SF News Police Commission Meeting About Mario Woods Shooting Erupts In Chaos Healthy showing of protesters outside #SF city hall calling for consequences to killing of #mariowoods pic.twitter.com/SF4yINHJqs— Jonah Owen Lamb (@jonahowenlamb) December 10, 2015 A meeting of the police commission Wednesday
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bracing For The Strongest El Niño On Record Yes, rains so far up here have been brief and disappointing. But there could still be a whole lot of wet coming our way in January and February in what's officially being called
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Rep's Renovated Thrust Stage Getting Named After Peet's Coffee Berkeley Repertory Theater has been undergoing a major renovation project in their original, three-quarter round Thrust Stage space, which is set to be unveiled to the public with a grand opening celebration on
SF News Video: Local Legend Country Joe McDonald Lobbies To Clean And Relocate Vietnam Memorial Plaque Did you know there was a Vietnam memorial in San Francisco? Neither, really, did Stanley Roberts, but he got called in to do a "People Behaving Badly" segment for KRON 4 by local
SF News Warriors Arena Appeal Fails, Opponents Still Vowing To Throw Fits And Sue Everyone Another blow was dealt to the deep-pocketed, semi-shadowy coalition that vociferously opposes the new Warriors Arena project in Mission Bay as the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday night to reject their
Arts & Entertainment Years Later, Hibernia Bank Still Might Become A Nightclub, Or A Tech Office We've been following the rumors about what is to become of the grand Hibernia Bank building at Jones and Market for years now. The historic, Beaux-Arts structure from 1892 is one of the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Oakland Man Makes Hundreds Renting Out Literal Shack Apartment Sadness arrives early this week! Sort of... This is less an apartment than it is a decrepit shack that may be a plywood-walled, converted garage. As part of a stunt of some
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Souvla Coming To Divisadero Fans of popular Hayes Valley Greek-inspired wrap spot Souvla should be glad to know that it's getting a second location, this time on Divisadero, in just the latest of a string of new
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Because you should probably get off the internet and off Candy Crush at some point, and you will need to do something besides holiday parties this week. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8 TIKI BIRTHDAY: Venerable
SF News The First Of Many Zuckerbaby Photos Arrives To Annoy Us On Facebook (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=
Arts & Entertainment Dave Matthews Band, Pharrell Announce Super Bowl Week Shows At Pier 70 Don't date yourselves, but for those who went to high school or college in mid- to late 1990s in the US, you likely endured a lot of Dave Matthews either blaring out a
Arts & Entertainment Supervisors Already Annoyed About Super Bowl, Still Don't Know What It Will Cost City Echoing some of the back-and-forth that happened leading up to the 2013 America's Cup, several of SF's Board of Supervisors are continuing to voice concerns about how much of the bill for the
SF News In Ongoing Battle With Catholic Hospital, ACLU Moves To Sue Over Refused Tubal Ligations Mercy Medical Center in Redding, California, which is part of the SF-based, mostly Catholic Dignity Health network, has come under fire from the ACLU of Northern California after refusing to perform tubal ligations
