SF News 'Coffin Girl' May Have Positive ID Within Days The Bay Area was captivated earlier this year with the story of a mysterious coffin containing the well preserved remains of what was believed to be a three-year-old girl underneath a home on
SF News Amazon Completes Drone Delivery Of Package In England In 13 Minutes First-ever #AmazonPrimeAir customer delivery is in the books. 13 min—click to delivery. Check out the video: https://t.co/Xl8HiQMA1S pic.twitter.com/5HGsmHvPlE— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) December 14, 2016 From a
SF News Day Around The Bay: RFK's Family Not Pleased About RFK Democratic Club Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. The family of Robert F. Kennedy isn't too happy
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week The annual slog/joyous crush (depending on how you see it) of holiday parties is upon us, and whether you're boozing it up with friends in annual fashion or drinking to deal with
SF News Second Suspect Arrested, Third Still At Large In Hate-Motivated Murder Of Musician Outside East Bay Bar 28-year-old William Sims was fatally gunned down on November 12 outside a bar and pool hall called the Capri Club in El Sobrante, and four days later authorities apprehended and charged 31-year-old Daniel
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coin-Op Game Room, A New Arcade Bar, Debuts In Former Drake/Orson Space Next Week We heard about it back in April, and it has finally arrived: Coin-Op Game Room, an arcade bar mini-chain launched in San Diego that opened a second location in Sacramento in 2015, will
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Cancels Spring Shows In North Carolina Over Anti-LGBT Law Following in the footsteps of multiple corporations, Bruce Springsteen, and the NBA, the San Francisco Symphony is giving the middle finger to North Carolina and its pro-LGBT-discrimination law known as HB2, and canceling
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe/Park Tavern Team Takes Over Les Clos In SoMa, Will Transform It Into Petit Marlowe After two years in business at 234 Townsend, Les Clos is going to close in January and get a major makeover at the hands of Anna Weinberg and her Big Night Restaurant Group,
SF News [Update] Overloaded Electrical Lines Named As Cause Of Ghost Ship Fire The East Bay Times, which has been doing a bang-up job staying on top of the Oakland fire story and its many narrative branches, has just reported the breaking news that, according to
SF News David Talbot Reveals Notable Bernal Neighbors In First Chronicle Column As announced the other week, noted local scribe David Talbot of Season of the Witch fame is temporarily taking over columnist duties for now retired Chronicle curmudgeon C.W. Nevius. And, as expected,
SF News Letter From The Editor: 2016, You Are Literally Killing Us I've struggled mightily, as most of us have in the Bay Area, with how to address the close of this terrible year, and the aftermath of a suicide-inducing election, and to make some
SF News Ghost Ship Survivors Tell Stories Of Being 'Chased' By Fire, Leaving Friends Behind While we've spent much of the last week following the fire investigation and profiling the 36 dead in Oakland's Ghost Ship fire, there have been notably few first-person accounts to trickle out from
Arts & Entertainment Video: Patti Smith Dedicates Performance To Oakland Fire Victims At an event last week in New York celebrating the 20th birthday of Democracy Now!, Patti Smith sang a stirring rendition of "Peaceable Kingdom," a song that she wrote with Tony Shanahan to
SF News Journalists Try, But Fail To Track Down Ghost Ship Landlord Chor Ng Journalists working for both the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle have spent the last few days with boots on the ground in Oakland, using property records to survey the various
SF News Saturday Rain Leads To Power Outages, Downed Trees, Trapped BART Train Once again proving that SF's infrastructure can't really handle much rain, Saturday's modest rainfall led to some major BART troubles and power outages, as well as some downed trees and branches, and at
SF News Chinese Firm Breaks Ground On What Will Be SF's Second Tallest Building, Oceanwide Center Thursday marked the ceremonial groundbreaking for Oceanwide Center, a complex of two towers and some smaller buildings, the tallest being 910 feet tall, at First and Mission Streets. Designed by London-based Foster + Partners
SF News Friends And Former Friends Paint Conflicting Pictures Of Ghost Ship Founders Derick Almena And Micah Allison In the seven days since the tragic inferno at Oakland artist enclave called Ghost Ship, some of the expected finger-pointing has been aimed at the city and its inspections apparatus, and some has
Arts & Entertainment '946: The Amazing Story Of Adolphus Tips' Brims With Inventive Energy At Berkeley Rep In what's become a welcome, holiday-season tradition at Berkeley Rep, Britain's Kneehigh Theatre company has returned once more for their fourth production on a Berkeley stage, a new piece adapted from a World
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kuleto's To Close After 30 Years, Opening Up Prime Powell Street Location Longtime Union Square tourist trap Kuleto's (221 Powell Street), which opened along with the Villa Florence Hotel in 1986 and was one of the first restaurants in prolific designer and restaurateur Pat Kuleto's
SF News Anti-Trump Demonstrations Planned In SF And Oakland Saturday And Monday Several local demonstrations are planned this weekend and Monday in a show of resistance against President-Elect Donald Trump, and in support of any faithless (or "moral", as they've been recast) electors who would
Arts & Entertainment Emma Stone And Ryan Gosling Appear With 'La La Land' Director Damien Chazelle At Castro Theatre Thursday night marked the first ever SF Honors awards ceremony from the SF Film Society, with the prize for 2016 awarded to La La Land, a new movie musical from Whiplash director Damien
SF News Day Around The Bay: New York Times Delving Deep Into Oakland Tragedy Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. The U.S. House of Representatives engaged in a
SF News Oakland Fire Victims Included These Six Artists And Creative Forces As the names of the missing officially become the names of the dead, SFist is continuing to offer brief remembrances and obituaries as they're being collected from various news sources and friends. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 10 Best Steakhouses In San Francisco 'Tis the season for indulgence and celebratory meals, so here we bring you a curated selection of what many Americans consider to be their prime choice of celebratory venues: steakhouses. San Francisco's long
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley's 20-Year-Old Cafe Rouge Calls It Quits The next in the annual series of end-of-year surprise closures is 20-year-old butchery haven Cafe Rouge, opened by Zuni alum Marsha McBride in 1996. McBride tells the Mercury News, in a familiar refrain
