SF News Salesforce Tower Officially Tops Off; Top Floor To Be Event Space Available For Community Use This morning Salesforce Tower had its ceremonial topping off, which included a press conference with the mayor, several supervisors, the developer, and CEO Marc Benioff, and the hoisting of the "final" steel beam
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sunset Sushi Chef Who Advertised His Support Of Trump Now Regrets His Vote The sushi chef and owner at Taraval Okazu Ya (1735 Taraval Street near 28th Avenue) in the Outer Sunset did not care back in 2016 if he alienated some customers by declaring his
SF News Millbrae Murder Suspect Tiffany Li Posts Unprecedented $35 Million Bail Tiffany Li, the 31-year-old woman at the center of an apparent murder-for-hire case in Millbrae almost one year ago, has with the help of her mother and some wealthy friends posted the $35
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: Outside Lands Tickets Go On Sale At 10 AM Just a quick reminder: You can start buying three-day passes for this year's Outside Lands today (Thursday) at 10 a.m. PT. The lineup, as we told you earlier this week, includes Lorde,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing: Passover Seders at Wise Sons Deli Next week is Pesach, i.e. Passover on the Jewish calendar, and even secular Jews who haven't set foot in a temple in decades still like this sacred holiday tradition, and the communal
Arts & Entertainment YouTube Launches $35 Streaming TV Service, But Will Anyone Watch? Entering the fray of hopeful cable-killing streaming services today is YouTube with the launch of YouTube TV. Lots of people, especially younger people, already consume a ton of their TV programming via YouTube
Arts & Entertainment After Winter Storms, New Roofs Needed At Sanctuary For Famed Local Gorilla Koko Famed sign-language-learning gorilla Koko, a onetime friend to Robin Williams, has been living in a private sanctuary down in Woodside for decades under the care of The Gorilla Foundation, alongside her male partner
SF News Whoa: Check Out The $40 Million Spec House That Just Hit The Market On Billionaire's Row Upping the ante in San Francisco's luxury home market and potentially garnering the highest price ever paid for a home in the city, we bring you 2712 Broadway on Pacific Heights' Billionaire's Row
SF News Naked Woman With Webbed Toes Found Wandering Street Outside Fresno, Claims She's A Mermaid Fresno police are seeking the public's help in identifying a woman who was found wet and mostly naked, walking down a road near a lake outside Fresno early Tuesday morning. The woman says
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Hong Kong Lounge II Owner Sentenced To Six Months In A Halfway House The ex-owner of Hong Kong Lounge and Hong Kong Lounge II in the Richmond, 58-year-old Ming Lian Zhou, received a sentence Tuesday of six months in communal confinement in a halfway house, followed
SF News Orlando Shooter's Widow Noor Salman Will Not Fight Extradition To Florida Bay Area native Noor Salman, who is accused of aiding and abetting her husband Omar Mateen in the deadliest mass shooting in US history at Pulse nightclub in Orlando last June, will soon
Arts & Entertainment Neighbor Objections Force Planned Pinball Lounge Out Of Bernal Spot Back in November we heard that a couple of pinball-loving entrepreneurs were hoping to open a pinball parlor/lounge in a former hair salon at 1000 Cortland in Bernal Heights, but that plan
Arts & Entertainment Peninsula School District Issues Warning About Netflix Series '13 Reasons Why' That Deals With Teen's Suicide The just-released, Bay Area-based Netflix show 13 Reasons Why, produced by actress Selena Gomez, has been cause for concern for the San Mateo-Foster City School District, which sent out a letter to parents
Arts & Entertainment Upcoming SHN Season To Include Broadway Hits 'The Color Purple' And 'An American In Paris' It was SHN's turn to announce their upcoming season of theater today, and included among the Broadway-tour offerings are the first national tours of current Broadway hits School of Rock, Alladin, and Waitress,
SF News Prostitute Convicted In Google Exec's Killing Detained By ICE After Release From Prison 30-year-old Alix Tichelman, the high-end call girl who pleaded guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter in 2015 in connection with the fatal heroin overdose of Google X executive Forrest Timothy Hayes in 2013,
SF News Crazy Kidnapping Of 13-Year-Old In Napa Ends With Kidnapper Carving His Name Into Victim's Skin A 13-year-old managed to escape the clutches of a 50-year-old man who kidnapped her, sexually assaulted her, made her smoke weed, injected her with meth, and then scratched his name into her skin
SF News Thrift Town Owners Blame Recology, Minimum Wage Hike For Closure One more follow-up on the closing of Thrift Town, which still has many a Missionite and vintage store trawler reeling: Mission Local speaks with co-owner Wendy Steinmetz who lays out the multiple reasons
Arts & Entertainment Video: James Corden Does Carpool Karaoke With Steph Curry, Plays Mini Golf In Alameda On last night's Late Late Show with James Cordon, Cordon came to the Bay Area to hang out with Steph Curry and play "life coach" for a day, which included a trip to
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2017 Lineup Topped By Metallica, Lorde, The Who, Solange, And Tribe Called Quest Everyone who predicted that Metallica would return to Outside Lands this year was correct, but now that we have the full lineup for the 10th annual edition of this major SF music festival
SF News California Senate Passes 'Sanctuary State' Bill On Monday the California state Senate made good on its bluster in defiance of the Trump administration and passed SB54, a bill that would prohibit local police and sheriff’s deputies throughout the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Farewell, Hate Man Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. A two-alarm fire has just broken out at 1810
Arts & Entertainment '94110', A Mission-Themed Web Series That Seems To Be An Art Piece, Debuts Pilot Remember when we caught wind of a proposed TV series a full two years ago called 94110, via a casting call for actors to play "six leading technology executives living, learning, and loving
Arts & Entertainment Noe Valley B&B Owner Is A Neighborhood Style Icon Sheila Ash, the 69-year-old owner of Noe's Nest Bed & Breakfast in Noe Valley, is one of those characters who epitomizes the colorfulness that San Francisco has always been known for. Born to
SF News Search Of Shasta County Lake Turns Up Body Parts Likely Belonging To Missing 38-Year-Old Woman A mystery involving a recently divorced couple in Shasta County and a wife who went missing three weeks ago led to the discovery of multiple body parts in Whiskeytown Lake over the weekend,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Californios Chef Val Cantu Named One Of Food & Wine's Best New Chefs It's time again for Food & Wine Magazine's annual list of the Best New Chefs in the country, an honor that ranks up there in the industry with the James Beard Awards and
