Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Preview 'Mascots' With Christopher Guest Live On Stage! Lovers of the oeuvre of writer-director Christopher Guest and his brilliant mockumentary/comedy ensemble (like myself) are getting Busy Bee-level excited about the upcoming Netflix release of Guest's latest work, Mascots, coming on
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Jasmine Abuslin's Dad Speaks Out Google just launched a new messaging app called Allo, to mixed reviews. [Google] [Wired] [CNet] [Verge] Jasmine Abuslin’s dad spoke out last night for the first time publicly saying, "If those officers
SF News Millennium Tower Developer Now Blames 'Reckless Behavior' Of Transit Center Developers On Sinking Tower The blame game continues in the saga of Millennium Tower, which we learned last month had sunk 16 inches into the ground since it was completed seven years ago, and is also tilting
SF News Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan Resigns, The Third Bay Area Police Chief To So In Four Months We're getting breaking news via KTVU that Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan has resigned, and Captain Andrew Greenwood is now going to be serving as Acting Chief. Meehan, who came to Berkeley after
SF News More Upsetting Details Emerge In Double Murder As Drifters Appear For Hearing In Marin Painful details released in preliminary hearing of 2 drifters accused in #SF, #MarinCounty murders. https://t.co/bS8ATevBtj— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) September 21, 2016 We are now getting some better detail about what
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Praise the lord, the sun came out. And if you haven't simply lined up a series of deck-cocktail or park-beer-and-wine gatherings every evening this week, below we bring you a few more culturally
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nine Places To Get A Frozen Cocktail Or Boozy Slushy In SF Right Now Our required Indian Summer has finally thank god come to SF as of Sunday, and while it's a bit cooler today, the warmth is expected to spike back up to 80 this weekend
SF News New Mid-Market Shopping Mall Decides To Embrace Sixth Street Connotations, Rebrands As 6X6 After multiple delays, the six-story shopping center that once intended to be value-oriented, and previously going by the names CityPlace and Market Street Place, will no open as soon as November under the
SF News Three More Officers Formally Charged In Oakland Scandal, Including One Who Tipped Off Sex Worker To Sting Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley continues filing the formal criminal charges already promised against seven East Bay law enforcement officers, with three more officers charged on Monday. As KQED reports, those include
SF News Soberanes Fire Officially Becomes Costliest Firefight In US History, Topping $200 Million As we reach the two-month mark on the Soberanes Fire, burning just inland of Big Sur and sparked miles to the north on July 22, the Associated Press reports that the fire has
SF News Micro-Unit Developer Suggests Shipping Container-Based Supportive Housing For SF Homeless Patrick Kennedy, the developer of micro-unit apartment complexes like this one we just wrote about the other week, now has his sights set on developing inexpensive, modular supportive housing for the homeless which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Exciting Fall Opener, The Morris, Arriving Soon In Former Slow Club Space Just over a year ago we heard the first word about The Morris, the new elevated neighborhood spot from Frances/Octavia wine guy Paul Einbund and chef Gavin Schmidt (Coi) in the former
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lazy Bear Team To Open Cocktail-Centric Spot In Former Tradesman Space Highly successful, high-end communal dining spot Lazy Bear, now two and a half years into its mostly sold-out run in the Mission, is expanding with a new, casual cocktail-focused spot a few blocks
SF News Don't Try Driving Through SoMa: Oracle OpenWorld Is Here We're just making sure you're aware that the annual SoMa traffic clusterf**k known as Oracle OpenWorld in which Oracle gets to shut down a whole block of Howard Street for the city's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fire Hits Sausalito's Poggio And Casa Madrona Breaking: Sausalito’s Poggio Trattoria is on fire https://t.co/lFQqXJKU7g pic.twitter.com/4w1goJpq1F— Eater SF (@eatersf) September 19, 2016 Popular Sausalito Italian spot Poggio Trattoria, as well as possibly the
SF News Identity Of 'Coffin Girl' Remains A Mystery I was just thinking the other day about the investigation into the long lost identity of the deceased three-year-old girl found mostly preserved, 140 years later, underneath a house on Lone Mountain in
SF News Van Ness BRT Threatened By Preservationists Who Want To Keep Historic Streetlamps, Poles The Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project is facing what appears to be an end run opposition by preservationists and Supervisor Aaron Peskin, just ahead what should be the project's groundbreaking this
SF News Chinatown Power Broker Rose Pak Dead At 68 Breaking news Sunday afternoon is that longtime Chinatown community leader and City Hall power player Rose Pak has died. The Examiner has word via Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who was at Pak's home this
Arts & Entertainment Flying Lotus Makes Misogynistic Joke About Hillary Clinton At Oakland Show, Outrage Ensues So @flyinglotus starts talking about he don't like @realDonaldTrump then says this about @HillaryClinton 😳 pic.twitter.com/aeOoRIPiVo— Mariecar Mendoza (@SFMarMendoza) September 17, 2016 Flying Lotus, a.k.a. LA-based producer/musician Steven
SF News NYT Writer Living Abroad For Decades Describes How Crazy San Francisco In 2016 Seems To Him New York Times foreign correspondent Thomas Fuller, who's spent the last 27 years living abroad primarily in Asia, has moved back to States, to the San Francisco of 2016 that we inhabit, and
SF News Attorneys File $66 Million Civil Suit In Oakland Police Scandal; DA Formally Charges Two Attorneys for Jasmine Abuslin a.k.a. Celeste Guap filed the first of what may be several lawsuits Friday in Oakland, a $66 million civil damages claim. As KQED reports, this is likely
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A $1000/Mo Backyard Toolshed In Oakland Hey everybody, Apartment Sadness returns today after a brief hiatus to show you this gem of a property in someone's backyard in North Oakland. It's a trick we've seen before, sadly a presumably
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Hotel Zeppelin To Get Restaurant From Brixton Team Called Rambler The recently opened, Viceroy-operated Hotel Zeppelin (545 Post Street) near Union Square will soon be home to a new restaurant from the team that brought you The Brixton in the Marina, and Tenderloin
SF News Three News Organizations File Suit Against Feds To Find Out How They Hacked San Bernardino Attacker's iPhone Three news organizations the Associated Press, Gannett, and Vice Media together filed a lawsuit in federal court Friday against the FBI seeking to have access to the agency's records pertaining to its contract
SF News A Brief History Of How San Francisco Ended Up With Electric Trolly Buses Long before the environmental movement took off or anyone understood a thing about carbon emissions, a full 81 years ago, SF got its first emission-free electric trolly bus powered by overhead wires. As
