SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Original Lori's Diner (On Mason) Is Closing After 32 Years Fans of Lori's Diner (are there any who actually live here?) will be sad to learn of the closing of the mini-chain's OG location at 336 Mason Street after 32 long years in
Arts & Entertainment Seven New Year's Eve Parties For Locals Like so many other holidays these days, New Year's Eve is amateur hour for a remarkable number of people who don't know how to drink. It's also a traditional time when people in
SF News Starting Sunday, You Could Get A Ticket For Holding A Cellphone While Driving A new California law takes effect on January 1 that prohibits all use of a handheld cellphone while driving, including hitting the skip button on a playlist, looking at a map app, texting,
SF News Local Versace Store Accused Of Having Secret Code For Black Customers A Versace retail outlet in the Bay Area is being sued by a former employee who was fired, he says, after just two weeks. What's more, he says he was discriminated against for
SF News Bay Area Native Allegedly Bites Flight Attendant's Ear During Drunken Fit On Transcontinental Flight An American expat from Santa Rosa is in some serious trouble with federal authorities after disrupting the peace aboard an SFO-bound KLM flight last week and allegedly biting a flight attendant on the
Arts & Entertainment Castro Bars Blare George Michael Hits, In Mourning Of A Gay Icon The passing of a gay icon like George Michael, way before his time, will continue to hit hard in the Castro and around the Bay Area for days to come a devastating blow
Arts & Entertainment Precita Park Got Its Annual Christmas Snowman San Francisco snowman. pic.twitter.com/V76XF8owzX— anthony brown (@anthonybrown) December 25, 2016 The anonymous Bernal Heights resident who for several years running has imported some snow to Precita Park and installed a
Arts & Entertainment Warriors Dealt A Painful Christmas Loss By The Cavs, 109-108 With just 3.4 seconds left in the game, the Cleveland Cavaliers' Kyrie Irving took a shot that won a game the Warriors should have had in the bag, by one point. The
SF News Political Consultant Enrique Pearce Pleads Guilty To Child Porn Charges Over a year and a half after his shocking arrest on child pornography charges, local politico Enrique Pearce has pleaded guilty to four counts, and is likely to get a six-month sentence, possibly
SF News Christmas Eve Links: SFO's Therapy Pig Does Holiday Travel Duty Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. SFO's therapy pig, Lilou, has been extra busy helping
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Contrada Debuts Next Week, Chef Khai Duong Returns To SF, and More Most important in our food world this week, SFist brought you our carefully considered Best New Restaurants of 2016. But we also learned of a Sumo Stew pop-up, and a fight by Zeitgeist
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: 'Out Of The Box,' A Sneaker Exhibit At Oakland Museum Over at the Oakland Museum of California, a new exhibit tracks the phenomenon of sneakers as fashion items and design objects. It's called Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture and
SF News Homeless Man Does Video Diary; Another Homeless Man Found Dead In Mission Driveway Police find homeless man dead in Mission driveway Thursday morning after receiving a call for service: https://t.co/y12o2snBK8 pic.twitter.com/DHGIrOBKtF— Mission Local (@MLNow) December 23, 2016 The holidays should
Arts & Entertainment Holiday Palate Cleanser: The Secret Chord Progression That Makes A Song Sound Christmas-y Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" are two of the most popular and beloved Christmas songs of all time. And they share the same chord
SF News BART's Ancient Computer Systems Are Holding Up Opening Of New Warm Springs/South Fremont Station We were led to believe by some optimists at BART that the long-awaited Warm Springs extension, which takes BART's Fremont line 5.4 miles further south toward San Jose, was going to be
Arts & Entertainment Go Hear This: Metallica's Lars Ulrich Reading 'The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas' Part goofily scatological holiday children's book and part parable of Christmas-related greed, The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas is a 2012 work of literature by Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter of pop-punk band McFly.
SF News 13,000 Sign Petition Asking For Fire Inspections That Lead To Artist Evictions To Stop An online petition, which as of Wednesday had garnered 10,000 signatures and is now up to 13,000, was delivered to San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection on Wednesday by 25-year-old SF
SF News Uber Finally Convinced By DMV To Yank Self-Driving Cars Off SF Streets A week after boldly defying California officials and arguing that they had every right to test their self-driving vehicles with paying customers inside, Uber has relented and pulled its self-driving cars off the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Uber Sits Down With The AG, DMV Over Self-Driving Fracas Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. We already knew that Peter Thiel stood to possibly
SF News Epileptic Reporter Comes After Twitter Over Troll Who Sent Him Tweet Designed To Induce A Seizure A new wrinkle in the battle for internet civility has arrived in the form of a legal petition filed this week by reporter and avid Twitterer Kurt Eichenwald asking that Twitter disclose the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 15 Best New SF Restaurants Of 2016 The last couple of years have been heady ones for San Francisco's dining scene, with 2010 kicking off a wave of new ingenuity, talent, and luxury that had yet to crash through the
Arts & Entertainment Pre-Travel Palate Cleanser: What Not To Do On A Plane Most of these words of advice should be no-brainers, but since you may very well be getting on a plane today or tomorrow, or even next week, please let the puppets from Glove
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bacteria Common In Undercooked Meat Identified As Culprit In Antioch Thanksgiving Food Poisonings The mass food poisoning incident at a free Thanksgiving dinner in Antioch that ended in the deaths of three people now has a clinical conclusion. As KRON 4 reports, Contra Costa County health
Arts & Entertainment 'The Speakeasy' Remains An Unpredictable, Immersive Delight In Its New North Beach Digs The first entry point for The Speakeasy is Jack Kerouac Alley, the narrow walking street between Vesuvio and City Lights Books named for an American writer who was himself born too late to
SF News Families Of Three Orlando Shooting Victims File Suit Against Twitter, Google, And Facebook The families of three of the people killed in the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June Tevin Eugene Crosby, Juan Guerrero, and Javier Jorge-Reyes filed suit this week in federal
