SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien Swings Through Town, Revamps Menu Many have noted that Mission Chinese Food really hasn't been as awesome as it once was, specifically back when founding chef and now James Beard Award winner Danny Bowien still lived in San
SF News Man Named Phuc Dat Bich Repeatedly Banned From Facebook Is it juvenile to laugh at the story of a Vietnamese-Australian man named Phuc Dat Bich (pronounced like foo da beak, sort of) who's been repeatedly banned from Facebook for what the social
SF News The Palace Of Fine Arts Will Not Become A Gym, Will Likely Be A Hotel/Event Space And Restaurant Despite some public outcry over what's been perceived as the potential commercialization of the iconic Palace of Fine Arts, the Rec and Parks Commission voted this week to go forward with three of
SF News Oakland Teen Wanted In Three Homicides Kills Himself In Police Standoff An 18-year-old who was a suspect in three separate homicides one in Livermore, one in Sacramento, and one in Fresno was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound late Thursday night after a
SF News Day Around The Bay: Allegedly Murderous Drifters Plead Not Guilty Those three drifters who are accused of two October murders, one in SF and one in Marin, were arraigned in a Marin County court today and all three entered not guilty pleas. [KTVU]
SF News Facebook Disables SF Woman's Account Because Her Name Is Isis Isis Anchalee, the female platform engineer who was at the center of the #ILookLikeAnEngineer campaign earlier this year, made a public outcry via Twitter this week about the fact that Facebook had locked
SF News SF Bicycle Coalition Director Steps Down After Eight Months Amid Some Board Election Turmoil Longtime bike advocate Noah Budnick, who came from New York City's Transportation Alternatives to take the exec director job at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition just over eight months ago, is leaving his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco's Best Booze Stores Whether you just need some decent whisky to put in your hip flask or you're in the market for a bottle of Carpano Antica to mix your Negronis with, San Francisco has a
SF News Man Beaten In Mission By Alameda Deputies May Suffer Permanent Damage To His Arms And Hands Man beaten in SF by Alameda Co. sheriff's deputies had surgery for extensive injuries https://t.co/ugeSMkObb9 pic.twitter.com/CFrg5zim09— KQED News (@KQEDnews) November 19, 2015 The man seen receiving a
SF News Tinder CEO Sean Rad: A Case Study In Why 29-Year-Old CEOs Shouldn't Run Their Mouths A hilarious profile published Wednesday in London's Evening Standard raises a lot of questions about Tinder CEO Sean Rad's intelligence, and his fitness to be a CEO not to mention their PR person's
SF News Video: Careening Tour Bus And Crash Caught On Multiple Surveillance Cameras If you were still confused about how the double-decker tour bus ended up smashed against the Apple store construction site on Friday, there's now video of the incident from multiple different angles. The
SF News Muni Wires Won't Come Down, Super Bowl Fan Village Being Reconfigured It appears that the Super Bowl Host Committee sensed the growing public furor over a proposal to remove the overhead Muni wires and disrupt a bunch of surface transit on Market Street, and
SF News After Hours And Hours Of Public Comment, Board Of Supes OKs 5M Development In SoMa The somewhat controversial (for some) 5M development in the heart of SoMa, at Fifth and Mission, is the kind of dense in-fill development the city is going need to build over the next
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Barman And Booze Scribe Duggan McDonnell On SF's Cocktail Legacy And <i>Drinking the Devil's Acre</i> Bar owner, spirits writer, pisco brand owner, and longtime friend of SFist Duggan McDonnell has just published his first book, which is titled Drinking the Devil's Acre: A Love Letter from San Francisco
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: State Opens Inquiry Into Wilsey's Apparent Financial Misconduct Well, since it looks like this scandal at the deYoung involving Dede Wilsey won't be going away, I guess it's time she gets her own tag along the lines of Oh No, Ed
SF News At Least 10 Tech Campuses Threatened By El Niño Flooding First El Niño took your Dungeness crabs, then it brought you thunderstorms in November, and now it threatens to turn the Googleplex into a swamp. According to a new report in the SF
SF News Tour Bus Driver Involved In Friday Crash Says He Was 'Powerless' To Stop It UPDATE: Tour bus with up to 30 on board crashes in Union Square; multiple injuries reported. https://t.co/jIbBWgVwRN pic.twitter.com/peN2z4rkC0— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) November 13, 2015 The driver
SF News Pilot Tech Shuttle Program Has Become Permanent As Wired rightly puts it, "Few things have come to epitomize San Francisco gentrification anxiety more than private Silicon Valley shuttle buses," and today we can announce that all those hulking, white "Google
SF News Now Aldon Smith's Been Suspended From The Raiders For Substance Abuse Former 49er Aldon Smith, who got suspended from that team last year and ultimately released from his contract following a gun charge and a couple of DUIs and who's been arrested a total
SF News First Look Inside The New Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg SF General Hospital Peek inside new SF General Hospital: 2x emergency beds, more trauma, operating rooms, roof garden. Opens spring 2016 pic.twitter.com/B5RLVyCvSH— Juan Carlos Guerrero (@JuanCarlosABC7) November 17, 2015 Even though it won't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Step Inside Del Popolo, Opening Tonight On Nob Hill As reported last week, along with the menu, Del Popolo's first brick-and-mortar pizzeria makes its debut this evening at 855 Bush Street, and this is very exciting news for pizza fans, i.e.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drug Use, General Mayhem Getting Worse In Mid-SoMa According To Deli Board Owner There has been a lot of chatter, especially among Chronicle columnists this year, about how much worse the overall homelessness situation has been feeling near their offices around Mission and Fifth. Now columnist
Arts & Entertainment In A Move To Compete Directly With Spotify, Pandora Buys Rdio Oakland-based Pandora just announced that it's purchasing the assets of San Francisco-based Rdio for $75 million, contingent on the latter company getting bankruptcy protection. As shouldn't be surprising given the rapid rise of
Arts & Entertainment Oxford Dictionaries Chooses A F***ing Emoji As Word Of The Year It's either the end of civilization as we know it or a terrific step in the academic recognition of the evolving importance of the visual language of emoji, depending on your perspective. But
SF News Tour Bus Crash Exposes Inspection, Permitting Failure On Part Of Tour Company The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which oversees all vehicles in California with capacities greater than 11 people, says that based on a preliminary review of its records, the tour bus that crashed
