SF News Millennium Tower Update: Outside Consultant Finds Gaps In Walls That Could Indicate Fire Risk You may remember how earlier this year, piling on top of the many troubles facing the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower, several residents were complaining of odors drifting into their units from elsewhere
SF News Kate Steinle's Father Once Again Asks That Her Case Not Be Used For Political Ends After the House of Representatives passed a pair of bills related to immigration two weeks ago, one of them dubbed Kate's Law for the woman, Kathryn Steinle, allegedly shot in San Francisco two
SF News Is The Same Bicycling Arsonist Responsible For Four East Bay Construction Fires? Three fires in the last year, all at partially completed residential construction sites in Oakland and Emeryville, have all been ruled as acts of arson, and a fourth, which occurred in the early
SF News CHP Nabs Carpool Cheat With Creepy Lady Mannequin A carpool cheater in Santa Rosa was pulled over during rush hour Friday and caught with a lady mannequin in his passenger seat. As CHP officers described via the Facebook post above, "At
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Nobu Debuts In Palo Alto, Almanac Beer Co. Comes To Alameda, And More Over the last holiday week things were somewhat quiet in the food world, but not entirely silent. We just heard the good news that Julius' Castle will be coming to life again, Mister
SF News Oakland Fire Was So Hot It Was Detected In Space The massive blaze at a seven-story construction site in Oakland Friday morning was so hot that it was picked up by a satellite in space. The National Weather Service tweeted the news, noting
SF News Day Around The Bay: Postal Worker Shot In East Oakland A female US Postal Service worker was shot while on the job Friday in East Oakland, and was hospitalized in stable condition. A USPS spokesman said it appeared the shooting was unrelated to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hoorah! Julius' Castle Approved To Reopen On Telegraph Hill Despite a reported "litany" of complaints and letters of objection from the always cantankerous dwellers of Telegraph Hill, the Planning Commission unanimously approved a developer's plans to revive 93-year-old Julius' Castle for a
SF News Exclusive Photos: The Progression Of The Friday Morning Fire In Oakland Oakland-based photographer Jonathan Goody captured these images this morning just as the sun was rising on that massive construction fire near Lake Merritt. The seven-story Alta Waverly complex, which spans several blocks and
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Adorable Gray Wolf Pups Are Some Of The First Seen In California In A Century Driven nearly to extinction a century ago, gray wolves, also known as timber wolves, are slowly coming back into California and brand new wildlife camera images show a family of three pups, which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Seven Most Expensive Steaks, Ranked What's more American than a huge, juicy, cast-iron seared, wood roasted, or charcoal grilled steak? In this week of celebrating American independence and all things "red-blooded," SFist brings you a roundup of the
SF News Planning Commissioner Compares Salesforce Tower Lighting Scheme To 'A Carnival' We just heard this week that the architect team behind Salesforce Tower had nixed a planned redwood grove that was to be a feature of what will be called Mission Square the public
SF News You'll Now Be Charged For Making An Uber Driver Wait Two Minutes, And Tipping Goes Live In NY, SF & LA The promised addition of an in-app tipping option for Uber rolls out today in a few dozen American and Canadian cities, and will be live nationwide by the end of July. Also today,
SF News [Update] Huge Construction Fire Near Oakland's Lake Merritt Causes Mass Evacuation A large mixed-use complex under construction near the Whole Foods and Lake Merritt in Oakland's Uptown neighborhood caught fire early Friday morning, reaching four alarms and leading to the evacuations of hundreds of
SF News Day Around The Bay: 4 A.M. Last Call Bill Clears Another Hurdle Testing out potential new commutes. Always take the boat. ⛴ A post shared by Andrew Dalton (@dolfapedia) on Jul 6, 2017 at 4:01pm PDT OMG, you guys! That bill proposed by state Senator
SF News Jury Convicts Man In 2013 Double Murder At SF Gift Center The trial has come to a close in a shocking case involving a dispute over jewelry at the SoMa wholesale mart known as the Gift Center. Despite defense attorneys efforts to argue that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Phase Two, In Historic Upstairs Banquet Hall Space, To Open By Year-End If you haven't been to Mister Jiu's yet, you're missing out on one of the best new restaurants to hit SF in the last two years. (Read some more about it here.) Chef
SF News New Footage Of Asiana Flight 214 Crash Shows Long Delayed Evacuation Four years ago today, on July 6, 2013, Asiana Airlines flight 214 crash landed and caught fire at SFO, killing three teenage girls and injuring scores of others. Newly surfaced footage, zoomed in
Arts & Entertainment Replacement Banksy Rat Mural Pops Up At Red Vic, Was Not Done By Banksy In a defiant move that is totally in keeping with guerrilla muralist Banksy's MO, the mural of a rat that first appeared seven years ago on the side of The Red Victorian bed
SF News Day Around The Bay: No One's Using The Millbrae BART Station Ridership to the Millbrae BART station is very, very low. [Chronicle] Hate crimes in California are increasing, particularly attacks on Muslims and gay men. [Chronicle] After all SF homeless shelters refuse them, SFPD
Arts & Entertainment Catching Up With Five Surviving Members Of the Beat Generation In Northern California Writing for the Washington Post, writer Jeff Weiss has just done a moving and thorough job of tracking down five people in their 80s and 90s, all members of the Beat Generation who
SF News Newly Discovered Photo Suggests Amelia Earhart Survived Plane Crash In Marshall Islands A recently discovered photograph, found in the National Archives among previously top-secret documents, may be a major new piece in the 80-year-old mystery of what happened to pioneering airwoman Amelia Earhart. The story
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Survey Says Millennials Eat Out Or Go To A Bar At Least Four Times A Week Millennials don't like staying home at night! That's the basic take-away from a new survey from a site called Bankrate and their fairly judgey-sounding Millennial blogger nicknamed The Cashelorette, and picked up by
SF News Lunchtime Links: Cable Car Collision Causes Rush-Hour Delays A 48-year-old man who was attempting to intervene in a fight at Sixth and Mission Streets was beaten with a cane for his efforts on Tuesday afternoon, and sent to the hospital with
SF News 10 Arrested For Starting Fights At Alameda County Fair The Alameda County Fair, usually a pretty peaceful holiday weekend event, was almost ruined by a troupe of ne'er-do-wells on the Fourth. 10 people ranging in age from 15 to 20 entered the
