SF News Day Around The Bay: Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Issues Order About Illegal Warehouse Dwellings Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. More rain arrives late tonight, along with cold temperatures.
Arts & Entertainment Rooky Ricardo's Stays Put In New Digs Across Haight, And Owner Rants About Know-It-All Hipsters Beloved vintage record shop Rooky Ricardo's in the Lower Haight had to shut down and temporarily relocate last year, moving from its home of 28 years at 448 Haight Street to a smaller
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Halal Guys Finally Opening Brick-and-Mortar Storefront Near Union Square It's been nine months since the Halal Guys arrived in SF and started doing lunch delivery via Caviar. My personal experience with that lunch delivery wasn't that awesome, but it was OK, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Sushi Ran Chef Brings $120 Omakase Menu To Polk Street The expensive Japanese trend continues with another early-in-the-year opener, Kinjo (2206 Polk Stret), which will be officially open on January 24 serving a $120 omakase menu designed nightly by former Sushi Ran head
SF News Weed May Be Legal In California, But You Can Still Get Busted In Yosemite Or On Ocean Beach You think you can't get busted for smoking or possessing marijuana in California anymore after Prop 64 passed in November? Well, think again. If you're on federal land - which includes all national
SF News In Preparation For Trump Presidency, Dianne Feinstein Gets Pacemaker Senator Dianne Feinstein is said to be "working from home and resting comfortably" after undergoing a voluntary operation to have a pacemaker installed Tuesday afternoon, just hours after the 83-year-old senator was grilling
SF News Trump May Be Helping Kill Twitter's Brand As President-Elect Trump wraps up his first news conference since July, and maybe the last he'll give until we're at war with someone, the San Francisco Chronicle gives us a somewhat speculative piece
SF News Storm Aftermath Update: San Anselmo Evacuated, Multiple Landslides, Guerneville Still Flooded After Tuesday's storm and more scattered showers expected today, the Bay Area has had a more than thorough drenching and the snowpack in the Sierra could rise over 200 percent of normal for
SF News Will New District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy Face An Immediate Special Election This Year? It's a longshot and a rumor at this point, but mayoral appointee Jeff Sheehy, who today is attending his first Board of Supervisors meeting as District 8 supervisor, could face some immediate opposition
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open: New Tenderloin Cocktail Spot Rum & Sugar For your wintertime drinking pleasure, a brand new cocktail bar has just debuted in the former Castle Club (823 Geary Street) space in the heart of the Tenderloin, and it's called Rum &
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alta CA Will Get Second Location In Dogpatch, Alta Cafe & Bar When the ambitious new gallery and arts venue the Minnesota Street Project debuted last spring, we learned that chef-restaurateur Daniel Patterson (Coi, Locol, Aster, Haven, Plum Bar, Alta CA) had signed on to
SF News Video: The Yuba River At Full Gush South Yuba River, Monday, Jan 9th #nevadacity #castorm pic.twitter.com/f0J0mhmfsz— Inn Town Campground (@InnTownCamp) January 9, 2017 Whoa. This is video shot Monday of the south Yuba River near the Inn
Arts & Entertainment Video: Vintage Footage Shows Alcatraz When It Was Still A Prison YouTuber Meghann Cuniff has done a digital transfer of some amateur Super 8 film footage from 1950 showing a trip to San Francisco, including a ride over the Bay Bridge, views of Nob
SF News Update: Downed Power Line Shuts Down I-880 In Oakland Causes Major Afternoon Traffic Snarl The winds are picking up and we're just getting word via CBS 5 that a downed power line has shut down the I-880 freeway in both directions as of 12:30 p.m.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Airbnb Moves Into Restaurant Reservation Game With Resy Investment Airbnb just dropped some serious cash in the lap of restaurant-reservation app Resy, marking Airbnb's first official foray into restaurant booking tied with travel and lodging. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Super Duper Burger Looking To Double In Size In The Castro Ever in expansion mode, Back of the House Restaurant Group a.k.a. prolific local restaurateur Adriano Paganini is looking to expand the footprint of their original, flagship Super Duper location on Market
SF News Storm Brings Blizzard Conditions To Tahoe; Brace For High Winds And More Mudslides Around The Bay Tons of rock & vegetation will take crews all day to clear slide NB 17 just past #ScottsValley. Rain could hamper cleanup. #abc7now pic.twitter.com/3ZYFDeWpDF— David Louie (@abc7david) January 9, 2017
SF News Day Around The Bay: Dead Whale Found Near Port Of Oakland 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 man shot on Monday a block away from
Arts & Entertainment Future Of Thrillpeddlers Theater Company In Question As Hypnodrome Venue Is Sold In SOMA Sad news in the local theater world this weekend as we learned that The Hypnodrome, the tucked-away SoMa home to the zany, drag- and horror-obsessed theater company known as Thrillpeddlers, has been sold
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog's New Menu Is Out, And It's All About Murals It's time again for Trick Dog, one of SF's premiere cocktail temples, to do one of their semi-annual menu changes, and this time around they're doing something charitable with it, and helping to
Arts & Entertainment 10 Years Ago Today Apple Showed Us The First iPhone, And Steve Jobs's Hastiness Could Have Actually Been A Disaster Do you still have your original first-generation iPhone, just for the sake of tech nostalgia? They're so cute and tiny, right? Today in history, January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs stepped out onto the
SF News Pictures And Video From A Flooded Guerneville Flooding in #Guerneville 😮 #NorthBay #Workfromhome ☔️💧☔️ A video posted by KTVU Channel 2 News (@ktvu2) on Jan 9, 2017 at 9:53am PST Getting some of the worst of the storm-related flooding today and
SF News Martin Shkreli Trolls Female Journalist, Gets Suspended From Twitter Consistently awful person and pharma-bro Martin Shkreli continued his relentless campaign of awfulness last week by coming after freelance reporter Lauren Duca, who recently made a name for herself with this barn-burning op-ed
SF News Video: Upper Yosemite Fall Raging During Weekend Storm While a major weekend rainstorm brought minor to significant flooding to parts of the Bay Area, Reno, and in Yosemite National Park, it was not as severe or destructive as was feared in
SF News Storm Topples Trees, Scaffolding, Leaves Part Of Mission In The Dark (But Otherwise Wasn't So Bad) Tree blocking 280 at Millbrae, southbound... pic.twitter.com/HcaO7lp2wq— Jeffrey Greenberg (@jeffgreenberg) January 8, 2017 The weekend's big winter storm was not, as many of your friends scoffed on social media, the
