SF News Assailant In Pacific Heights Attack May Have Attacked Others The suspect in a brutal daylight beating near Lafayette Park may have committed similar crimes before, say police, after the release of surveillance video prompted a wave of tips to the SFPD. According
SF News There's Been An Uptick In Cellphone Snatchings On BART It's uncertain if the same individual or group of individuals can be blamed, but there's been a spate of cellphone thefts on BART the last two weeks, and BART Police are saying riders
SF News Crowdfunding Campaign Launched To Help Elderly Shoeshine Man Injured In Market Street Crash 66-year-old Saleem Bey, who may also spell his name Saleem Bae, was one of three people injured Tuesday in a dramatic taxi crash on Market Street. Now, a customer of his has launched
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The History Of IT'S-IT Ice Cream Sandwiches, Born In San Francisco As the legend has it, one day in 1928, George Whitney decided to sandwich a scoop of ice cream between two oatmeal cookies at his hot dog and ice cream stand at Playland-at-the-Beach,
Arts & Entertainment <i>Stranger Things</i> Soundtrack Composers Playing Elbo Room Show October 7 Good news, Stranger Things fans. If you were as in love with the soundtrack as you were the show, the guys behind the music are putting out a two-volume album of tracks from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Exclusive: Check Out The Menu For Nomica, Possibly Softly Open New Castro spot Nomica (2223 Market Street), which I gathered last week was getting very close to opening, has been open for private test dinners the last couple of nights, and could possibly
Arts & Entertainment 1015 Folsom Cancels Performance By Virulently Anti-Gay Reggae Artist Sizzla Kalonji Notoriously anti-gay reggae artist Sizzla, a.k.a. Sizzla Kalonji, who is nonetheless one of the most prolific and popular contemporary reggae musicians in the world, was set to perform at SoMa nightclub
SF News Drone Footage Of Clayton Fire, Now Fully Contained; Soberanes Fire Slows; Chimney Fire Enters Monterey County Two large wildfires continue burning to our south, though the progress of the largest one has slowed, and meanwhile a smaller but more destructive and swiftly moving fire to our north, allegedly sparked
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Once Again A San Franciscan Is Baffled By How Hard It Is To Make A New York Bagel San Francisco-based New York Times tech writer Brian X. Chen, who admits that it only took two years in New York to turn him into a total snob about bagels and pizza (he
Arts & Entertainment The 14 Best Tattoo Shops In The Bay Area Looking to plunk down some cash on some serious body art that you won't regret? Below we bring you a dozen of the top tattoo parlors the inner Bay Area has to offer,
SF News Many iPhone 6 Owners Complaining Of 'Touch Disease' Rendering Touchscreens Unusable A flaw in the interior workings of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus is creating an epidemic of "Touch Disease" in which the phones stop responding to any touch pressure at all, rendering
SF News Day Around The Bay: Golf Club-Wielding Man Allegedly Smashes Up BART Train, Causes Big Delays 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 last remaining resident of a shrimping village established
SF News Can SF Developers Afford 25 Percent Affordability? City Controller Says No, Others Still Say Yes In a report that is sure to spark debate for the coming months ahead of the November election, City Controller Ben Rosenfield has completed a feasibility analysis requested by the Board of Supervisors
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 19-Year-Old Herbivore Closes Last And Final Location On Valencia Herbivore, the 19-year-old vegan restaurant that at one point had two locations in SF and one in Berkeley, is now officially dunzo as Mission Local reports that Monday was the last day for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Locanda And Pizzeria Delfina Chef Anthony Strong To Break Out On His Own just meditating with a giant #squash #research #zucca #パンプキン #yayoikusama A photo posted by Chef Anthony Strong (@anthonystrong) on Jun 18, 2016 at 6:03pm PDT Longtime Delfina Restaurant Group chef Anthony Strong,
SF News Stanford Cracks Down Further On Hard Alcohol On Campus In Wake Of Rape Case The trend at many top colleges and universities these days is to ban the serving of hard alcohol at on-campus parties, and in the wake of the highly publicized Brock Turner case this
SF News Trial Begins For Pair Accused In Murder Of 66-Year-Old Oakland Woman Who May Have Been Filming Them Testimony began this week in the trial of Mario Floyd and Stephon Lee, two reputed gang members accused in the broad-daylight murder of 66-year-old Judy Salamon, who was shot dead in her car,
SF News Salesforce Tower Throws Shade At Millennium Tower There's been much in the news about downtown's Millennium Tower sinking into the mud and tilting, and a coming wave of lawsuits from homeowners there, and now it looks like reps for their
Arts & Entertainment Regarding The Potentially Dicey Stipulations In SFMOMA's Agreements Surrounding The Fisher Collection As you're likely well aware by now, the newly reopened SFMOMA now has more than half of its expanded gallery space devoted to paintings and sculptures that are part of the Doris and
Arts & Entertainment Upset That Siri Was Mispronouncing Her Name, Barbra Streisand Got Tim Cook To Change It Barbra Streisand, currently on tour despite many earlier threats/promises that she was retiring, went on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon on Saturday to discuss her new album of duets called Encore:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ike's Place And Sweet Inspiration Try To Skirt Formula Retail Rules With 'Mike's Place' Sandwiches A partnership continues between longtime Castro dessert spot Sweet Inspiration (2239 Market Street) and soon-to-be-evicted, uber-popular 16th Street sandwich spot Ike's Place, though in order to avoid the wrath of the Planning Department,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Saha Restaurant Reopens In Original SF Location After Move To Berkeley 2019 Update: Saha Restaurant is back open in the Hotel Carlton at 1075 Sutter Street after a hiatus and three-year relocation to Berkeley. Original post below: A Mediterranean spot especially popular with vegans
SF News Governor Brown's 'By Right' Housing Fast-Track Proposal Dead In The Water A proposal by Governor Jerry Brown to pass sweeping legislation that would speed up residential development across the state by bypassing various local review processes has lost all momentum and appears fully dead,
SF News Peter Thiel Has 'No Plans' To Donate To Trump Campaign Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, though he served as a local delegate for Donald Trump and spoke in support of him at the Republican National Convention last month, apparently has "no plans to
SF News Wildfire Threatens Hearst Castle, Forces Closure Of Tourist Attraction The nine-day-old Chimney Fire in San Luis Obispo County has forced the closure of Hearst Castle, arguably the central coast's biggest tourist attraction. As CBS 5 reports, flames came as close as three
