SF News SF Public Defender Seen In Viral Courthouse Video Will Not Be Charged Attorney Jami Tillotson will not be charged with any crime in connection with her brief detention by San Francisco Police at the Hall of Justice on January 27 which was caught on video
SF News Transbay Developers Only Bluffing, Will Not Sue City As it happens, all that noise last fall from several of the big developers involved in the Transbay district over the special assessment taxes they have to pay to the city was just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AL's Place, Chef Aaron London's New Mission Spot, Opens Friday A new restaurant that's been three years in the making is finally making its debut in the Mission this week, and that's former Ubuntu chef Aaron London's solo effort, AL's Place (1499 Valencia
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foie Gras Alert: Attorney General Kamala Harris Is Appealing Federal Judge's Decision That Overturned The Ban Though food people got very excited when California's two-and-a-half-year-old ban on foie gras got struck down in early January, there's a chance the ban could get reinstated albeit a small one. Attorney General
SF News Weather Report: Big Rain Finally Returns There's a decent-sized storm system moving into the Bay Area Thursday and Friday, and for this we should all be extremely grateful. Your rain dances have worked. It is time, once again, to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tech Millionaire Dubbed 'Secret Somm' On Twitter Randomly Gifting Wine To East Bay Diners An anonymous woman who seems to be working on behalf of the Tri-Valley Visitors' Bureau (covering the valleys of Amador, Livermore, and San Ramon) has been roaming restaurants around Danville, Pleasanton, and elsewhere
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Regarding The 'Cruffin' Craze Currently Gripping The Tenderloin We're a little behind on this one, but a quiet storm of food-obsessed tweeting and Instagramming has been drawing cult-like crowds to the door of tiny Tenderloin bakeshop Mr. Holmes Bakehouse (1042 Larkin
SF News Amended Ellis Act Relocation Law Caps Landlord Payouts At $50K Supervisor David Campos has come back to the Board with a new, dialed back version of the Ellis Act payout legislation that was previously passed and took effect last summer only to be
SF News [Update] Suitcase Murder Still Might Not Have Been Murder, Suspect Gets Released Dismembered body suspect Mark Andrus leaves SF County Jail a free man. DA says case lacks of evidence. pic.twitter.com/Sdus0Exz6p— Lilian Kim (@liliankim7) February 4, 2015 SFist just received word from
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Abandoning Housing For A Tent Well, for this edition of Apartment Sadness, I bring you not another Craigslist ad for a ridiculously sad living space, but a tale of sadness from a "full-time employed programmer" on Reddit who
Arts & Entertainment Video: Tesla Testing Their Model X SUV Hybrid In Alameda Attention all car geeks and Tesla fans: A couple of eagle-eyed dudes managed to snap photos and a video of Tesla's Model X last Friday out on a former naval air strip in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Stelline Officially Closed In Hayes Valley, Will Become New Spot From Chef Kim Alter Chef Kim Alter, who's done a lot to impress Bay Area foodinistas the last couple years with her work at Haven and the former Plum in Oakland, is, as promised, getting a chance
Arts & Entertainment Robin Williams' Wife And Children Now Battling Over His Oscar, Other Personal Effects The late actor and comedian Robin Williams appears to have left something a bit vague in the wording of a trust that bequeathed a number of specific personal items, as well as his
SF News Dismembered Body In Suitcase May Have Belonged To Suspect's Friend And Roommate A man who was reported missing prior to the dismembered body being found in that piece of luggage on 11th Street last week may in fact be the victim, as the Chronicle is
SF News Day Around The Bay: Do Not Bring Your Dog To Lake Chabot! Drinking water from Oakland's Lake Chabot has proven deadly for (at least) three dogs. [CBS 5] The radar beacon that guides ships under the Bay Bridge is broken, increasing the chances of a
SF News The 2nd Annual Crappy Awards Will Again Arrive In Protest Outside The Crunchies Just like they did last year, a group of anti-tech protesters will host a mock awards ceremony dubbed The Crappies outside the annual TechCrunch-hosted Crunchies, now in its eighth year. Both the Crunchies
SF News The Toilet Torcher Might Be Back Longtime readers of SFist will remember the on-again, off-again reports of the dreaded Toilet Torcher, who may indeed be more than one person, but who sent many a porta-potty up in flames between
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant Academy Bar & Kitchen Coming To Pizza Inferno Space On Fillmore Ever wondered what Pizza Inferno was still doing open in Lower Pac Heights? Me too! Well, it's on its way out next month as an email today informs us, and in its place
Arts & Entertainment Video: Motorcyclist Knocked Off Bike, Sticks Perfect Landing On His Feet A motorcyclist got very lucky last Wednesday evening after a driver blew a red light near San Francisco's Union Square, collided with the man's motorcycle, and sent him flying through the air, only
SF News Will Uber And Lyft Be Forced To Treat Drivers As Employees? A federal judge struck a blow to the business models of "ride-sharing" companies like Uber and Lyft by suggesting that it's not legal to treat drivers as independent contractors, and the companies may
SF News Murder Suspect Mark Andrus Has Lived In The Tenderloin At Least Five Years, Neighbor Calls Him 'Nice Guy' The prime suspect in what everyone is now calling The Suitcase Murder, Mark Jeffrey Andrus, had been living on and off for about a year in a friend's fourth-floor apartment at the Sala
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Sous Beurre Kitchen Debuts, Chef Shuffle At Game, And More The news around the local food scene has been picking up lately, with openings and closings aplenty this past week. The three big openings, previously mentioned: Hawker Fare, Liholiho Yacht Club, and Mourad.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Charles Phan Shutters Fifth Restaurant In Three Years As The Coachman Calls It Quits Chef-restaurateur Charles Phan, whose restaurant The Slanted Door is one of the highest grossing in the city and the country, is pulling the plug on his British pub-inspired concept The Coachman in SoMa
SF News [Update] Police Release Photos Of Person Of Interest In Suitcase Murder The SFPD just released the photos above and below of the person of interest caught on a surveillance near the scene where that suitcase appeared on Wednesday afternoon containing multiple dismembered body parts.
SF News Once Home To Nudists, Castro Plaza Now Just A Magnet For Unruly Homeless Youths Jane Warner Plaza, the small plaza that began as a temporary parklet in 2009 after the city closed off the intersection where 17th Street meets Market and Castro, is drawing negative attention from
