SF News Bernie Sanders Lands In SF Saturday, Will Stump For Jane Kim And Prop 61 While he doesn't really need to convince anyone in San Francisco not to vote for Donald Trump that contrarian libertarian IT guy at your office notwithstanding Bernie Sanders will be back in town
SF News Emerald Fire Breaks Out Overnight In South Lake Tahoe, Forces Evacuation Of 500 Homes A wildfire that has already scorched 200 acres broke out overnight in the area of Camp Richardson, near Cascade Lake and Emerald Bay in South Lake Tahoe. As the Associated Press reports, the
SF News BART Experiencing Systemwide Delays Due To Equipment Problems In Daly City And Richmond Blame it on the rain, maybe, but a power outage and subsequent equipment problem between Colma and Daly City stations is causing systemwide delays on the BART system. BART spokesperson Alicia Trost explains
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Chicken Liver Toasts At Bluestem Brasserie Now in business five years on Yerba Buena Lane, just off Market Street, Bluestem Brasserie has come through a couple of incarnations already under three different chefs. The latest, chef John Griffiths, came
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Coolest Niche Museums In San Francisco The Barbra Streisand Museum may be long gone, but SF has a great tradition of small, neighborhood-focused and niche museums, some zanier than others, dating back to the late 1960's when physicist and
SF News Soberanes Fire And Loma Fire Now Fully Contained After 83 days and the scorching of 132,127 acres of mostly remote, forested mountains, the Soberanes Fire is finally 100 percent contained. And after two and a half weeks and nearly 4,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Tartine Team Takes Over Former Valencia Herbivore To Open Motze, An 18-Month Pop-Up The chef-couple of Nick Balla and Cortney Burns who are still in the process of taking full ownership of the restaurant they've helmed for the past five years, Bar Tartine are already in
SF News Small Fire At Castro Building Believed Caused By Homeless Encampment #10012WF1 FIRE CONTAINED NO INJURY NO DISPLACED 1229 Hrs pic.twitter.com/iVRwCHQ9CW— San Francisco Fire (@sffdpio) October 12, 2016 Fresh concerns about homeless campers in the Castro are being raised after one
SF News Day Around The Bay: Square Is Trying Hard To Sell Off Caviar Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Gallup ranks SF and Boston as cities that have
SF News All These California Republican Lawmakers Still Support Trump, Which, Wow As we count down the final 27 days until this other-worldly nightmare of an election is hopefully, sweet Jesus, over and done with and not hampered by some crazy recount or something more
SF News Veteran Fist-Shaking Chronicle Columnist CW Nevius Announces He's Leaving The Paper After 36 Years In the latest in a series of high-profile departures at the San Francisco Chronicle, longtime resident curmudgeon, SFist punching bag, and ostensible common-sense columnist C.W. Nevius has announced his departure from the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iconic 48-Year-Old Pac Heights Bar, The Lion Pub, Is Now Closed [Be warned a couple of images below are NSFW] An iconic fern bar on Divisadero, which for about 30 years was a neighborhood gay bar before becoming more of a straight-people hang in
SF News Owner Of Top-Floor Millennium Tower Penthouse Puts Unit On Market For An Astounding $9 Million Some owners in “The Leaning Tower of San Francisco” say their condos are worthless https://t.co/x0rKRoqBPP— The Real Deal (@trdny) October 9, 2016 Despite a host of bad press and impending
SF News [Update] SFPD Set To Get New Chief Thursday As Feds Release Damning Review Of Department The newly hired chief of the SFPD may be announced as early as tomorrow (Thursday), and the announcement looks to be coming just in time for the release of a 400-page report on
Arts & Entertainment Darren Criss Growing Into Big Heels For 'Hedwig And The Angry Inch' In two decades of performances, John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch has seen many performers, male and female, embody Hedwig, the bawdy, self-assured, third-tier German-American rock goddess
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Francis Ford Coppola Hints Of New Restaurant At His Virginia Dare Winery Francis Ford Coppola, who's become a food-and-wine impresario for the Bay Area in recent decades, hinted this week about his latest restaurant project, deciding to be mysterious about it even though it was
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Bono Bash Donald Trump During Last Night's Dreamforce Concert U2 was the headliner for Dreamforce's big central concert event Wednesday night at the Cow Palace, and Bono took the opportunity to have a conversation of sorts with a video projection of Donald
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Destination Doughnut Spots Around The Bay Area Doughnut lovers likely already know where to get the good stuff here in San Francisco and if you don't, we previously provided lists here and here. Today, for the true doughnut fiends, we
SF News Jury Acquits Man In 2014 Henry Hotel Murder On Sixth Street A 36-year-old man who was accused of murder in the 2014 death of an 18-year-old man in the front lobby of the Henry Hotel on Sixth Street was acquitted of the murder charge
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Blue Bottle Bows Out Of Heath Space As Tartine Prepares To Enter Coffee Business Themselves As Tartine prepared this summer to open their Manufactory in the space adjacent to Heath Ceramics at 18th and Alabama, co-owner Elizabeth Prueitt revealed that they had hired Verve Coffee guy Chris Jordan
SF News Facebook Marketplace Already A Silk Road-Style S**tshow, Shortly After Launch Facebook Marketplace Goes Wrong: Sex, Guns and Baby Hedgehogs https://t.co/BiUSOGz1Wa— Varun Baker (@varunbaker) October 6, 2016 Facebook stepped into Craigslist territory Monday with the launch of Facebook Marketplace, a formal
SF News Local Psychologists Try To Explain Scary Clown Epidemic As Concord Woman Claims Clown Abduction Attempt The baffling and ultimately ridiculous creepy/violent clown trend may be just a twisted hoax gone viral, but it has come to the Bay Area and it's resulted in at least one creepy
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Ring Of Keys' From 'Fun Home' Gets Music Video By Oakland School Of The Arts The inaugural production at the newly renovated and revamped Curran Theater, under the artistic direction of owner and longtime local theater impresario Carole Shorenstein Hays, will be the Tony Award-winning Best New Musical
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Finn Town, Single Thread, And Other New Restaurants To Look Forward To This Fall The refrains about our current restaurant scene are getting a bit repetitive from diners, it's "too expensive" and there seems to be some ongoing fatigue with fine dining; and from restaurant owners it's
SF News Napa Wildfire Likely Culprit In Deaths Of Two Brothers Missing Since 2014 Whose Bodies Were Just ID'd The cause of the Butts Fire in northern Napa County, which grew to over 4000 acres in July 2014 before being contained, remains under investigation two years later, but the remains of two
