SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Mathilde Debuts, Oro Arrives, Sliderbar Rebrands, And More Tablehopper reports on the debut of Mathilde, the replacement for Le Charm that we mentioned was coming a couple months back. Only there was some misinformation it turns out that new owner Mathilde
SF News People In Portland Are Putting 'No Californians' Stickers On Houses For Sale You think Oaklanders are pissed about San Franciscans moving there and driving up housing costs? Observe Portland, where a certain symbol sticker, showing the state of California with a line through it, has
SF News Apartment Sadness: A Box With A View For $3300 (And It's A Share) It used to be that you could save money finding a share in these parts. But not so much in SoMa, and not so much in fancy high-rises. This is an ad that
SF News SoMa Developer Proposes Two-Bedrooms That Are Exactly The Same As One-Bedrooms How's this for shady? A developer looking to put up a seven-story, 274-unit apartment building at 333 12th Street is trying to skirt zoning laws that call for a certain mix of larger
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Palate Cleanser: 'I Can't Feel My Face' Cover Played On Dentist's Equipment This awesome cover of The Weeknd's big summer jam "I Can't Feel My Face" by the very talented Andrew Huang was played entirely on dental equipment in an actual dentist's office. Instruments include
SF News Oaklander Rails Against Gentrification, Tells Newcomers To Stop Moving There A short screed on Craigslist is making the rounds [Ed. Note: The post was removed, but it's screencapped below], posted in the Rooms & Shares section for Oakland, titled "STOP MOVING TO OAKLAND.
Arts & Entertainment Nancy Pelosi's Daughter Airing Documentary About The New SF On HBO On September 28, HBO is airing the new documentary San Francisco 2.0, directed by Alexandra Pelosi, and the film was screened last night here in town (SFist wasn't invited). As the Business
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters To Get Special Medal From President Obama Next Week I am so honored to accept the National Humanities Medal from @POTUS Watch live 9/10 @ 3pm EDT http://t.co/Pw13DCNd70 pic.twitter.com/oT3xyhelKM— Alice Waters (@AliceWaters) September 3, 2015 Food
Arts & Entertainment Justin Vivian Bond Revives First SF Cabaret Act, 'Dixie McCall's Patterns For Living,' In NYC Trans performer Justin Vivian Bond, née Justin Bond, got v's start in San Francisco and v, by the way, is Mx. Bond's preferred pronoun. Bond's first cabaret endeavor in 1990, intended at the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pesce To Close In The Castro On September 13 After just two years in its new location in the Castro, and after more than a decade in smaller digs on Polk Street, Pesce (2223 Market Street) is calling it quits. The restaurant
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Rock Climbers Install Light-Based Art Installation On Yosemite's Half Dome This video, shot on August 29, shows a group of climbers installing 39 solar-powered LED lanterns temporarily up the Snake Dike route on Yosemite's Half Dome. It was an art piece titled Half
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Grubstake Owners Remain Wishy-Washy About Diner's Future Following on Monday's report that the beloved Grubstake diner would likely indeed go the way of the developer's bulldozer under new ownership, the Chronicle circled back to the buyers, who remain in escrow
SF News Three-Year Study In SF Shows No New HIV Infections Among PrEP Users A 32-month study at the Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center found that among sexually active gay men who were taking PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) the HIV-prevention treatment program using the drug Truvada no
Arts & Entertainment The New Apple TV Is Probably The Focus Of Next Week's Civic Center Event Like we surmised earlier, since new iPhones are hardly cause for huge press events at this juncture, that unusually large, splashy Apple event being set up at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium for next
SF News Accused Vallejo Kidnapper Matthew Muller Confessed In Jailhouse Interview, Said He Acted Alone The latest in the case against Matthew Muller, the sole suspect in the March kidnapping and alleged sexual assault of Vallejo resident Denise Huskins, makes this bizarre tale all the richer. As Wired
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Local Theaters In The Bay Area The SF Bay Area may not hold a candle to New York when it comes to theater offerings, but you may not be aware of the rich array of small local and regional
SF News Thank God: It Will Now Be 10 Times More Expensive To Launch A Ballot Initiative Even though in my opinion it ought to cost $200,000, the state has thankfully raised the fee for filing a ballot initiative from $200 to $2,000, making it slightly more difficult
SF News North Bay To Get Actual Functioning Commuter Rail Next Year North Bay residents who rely on the 101 corridor are soon going to have another, less trafficky option for getting to and from the Golden Gate or at least to and from San
SF News Rachel Dolezal Is Pregnant Perhaps not content to let her fifteen minutes of infamy fade out, transracial spokeswoman Rachel Dolezal tells TMZ she's pregnant. The 37-year-old Spokane resident, who last we heard was doing hair to pay
SF News Day Around The Bay: Don't Worry About The Blob At least one Stanford climatologist is saying that the Pacific Ocean "blob" is not going to affect an El Nino pattern in the slightest, and will likely go away this winter anyway. [Bay
SF News Uber Class Action To Make Drivers Employees Moves Forward A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit proceeding in San Francisco against Uber to get drivers reclassified as employees instead of independent contractors can move forward as a class action. This means
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Le Colonial Wants To Be Relevant Again, Hires New Chef Longtime locals will recall the heady latter days of the dot-com boom when Le Colonial was one of the absolute hottest tickets in town. Back then, the Tiki-cool environs of the original Trader
SF News Historic Confluence Of Three Category-4 Pacific Hurricanes Could Spell Trouble Adding to the evidence of this mega-powerful, 'Godzilla' El Niño season coming our way, there was a period between Saturday and early Sunday when, for the first time since we've been observing our
SF News Third Body In Several Months Found In The Same Tenderloin SRO, Investigation Ongoing The Crosby Hotel, a 125-unit SRO building at 516 O'Farrell Street in the Tenderloin, has seen an arguably unusual number of deaths among its residents so far this year, and it made headlines
SF News 'Beast On Bryant' Gets Stalled After Community Pushback A second big proposed development, and the second largest to have brought the ire of Mission activists fighting for more affordable housing, has been stymied in seeking its approvals from the Planning Commission.
