SF News Day Around The Bay: Soberanes Fire Hits 69,000 Acres Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. [Curbed SF] brings architecture nerds a handy map of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Inner Richmond's Tiny Arsicault Named Top Bakery In the Nation The honors are flowing in from national food authority Bon Appétit, and as we await the release of their annual Best New Restaurants issue, today in addition to garnering a design award for
SF News Gay Widower Of Former KRON 4 Employee Sues After Being Denied Pension Benefit A pending legal case was brought to our attention this week by LGBT civil rights group the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) in which SF resident David Reed is suing the parent
Arts & Entertainment 10 Great Bay Area Staycation Ideas For Late Summer Or Fall It's already mid-August (I know, it was May like three minutes ago, right?), and it's highly possible that if you're like me, you haven't managed to plan a real vacation yet this year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <i>Bon Appétit</i> Names Leo's Oyster Bar The Best Designed New Restaurant In The Country Leading up to the big unveiling of their annual Best New Restaurants issue, Bon Appétit did what they did last year and first gave us a Top 50 last week, just so that
Arts & Entertainment Local Artist Puts A Bunch Of Bart Simpsons On BART Because Why Not In a public art project that is more delightfully random than meaningful, local artist Elissa Patel decided to put a bunch of people in Bart Simpson masks and have them ride BART for
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week The sun is out, at least for now, and if you didn't go to Outside Lands or do anything similarly strenuous last weekend, you're probably itching for some stuff to do outside the
Arts & Entertainment Shepard Fairey Painting Two New Murals In SF This Week The man who famously created the Obama "Hope" poster (and those ubiquitous Andre the Giant stickers), artist Shepard Fairey, is in San Francisco this week executing two new murals as part of a
SF News One Of Upper Market's Most Confusing Intersections To Be Improved, No Less Confusing The intersection of Noe Street, Market Street, and 16th Street, for those familiar with it as a pedestrian, driver, or cyclist, is the worst. Is it objectively worse or more dangerous than a
Arts & Entertainment Guns N' Roses Hit AT&T Park Tonight, And There Are Still Tickets Arriving tonight in our very own "Paradise City" in the coldest month of the summer, the recently reunited Guns N' Roses are set to rock AT&T Park tonight, probably sometime after
Arts & Entertainment Steph Curry Golfed With President Obama (Again) On Martha's Vineyard 🏌Steph Curry and President Barack Obama had Round 2 on the golf course today 🏌VIDEO: https://t.co/ELT6PXQrJy pic.twitter.com/5Al13MlR8r— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) August 9, 2016 The Obamas are officially
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Lone Star Saloon Clears Legacy Business Hurdle, Potentially Thwarting Building Sale We learned a year ago that SoMa's Lone Star Saloon (1354 Harrison Street), a popular gay bear refuge since it opened back in 1989, was potentially in danger of being displaced as owner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food-Wise, Outside Lands Once Again Puts All Other Music Festivals To Shame Every year I talk it up in advance, and every year I'm consistently delighted and amazed by the variety and quality of the food and drink concessions at Outside Lands. Festival organizers Another
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Is Yelping Mad That Google Is Boosting Zagat Links Over Theirs Reviews from Google-owned Zagat are, predictably enough, going to be popping up in your restaurant searches above those from Yelp (and Trip Advisor), as a new mobile search function highlighting the best food
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Tartine Chefs Nick Balla And Cortney Burns Plot Japanese-Inspired Spinoff Called Motze The talented couple behind the soon-to-be-renamed Bar Tartine are already plotting a second project, even though the deal to buy Bar Tartine from the Tartine Bakery folks still hasn't been fully finalized. As
Arts & Entertainment Video: Muppets Band Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem Killed It At Outside Lands A major highlight for many of us at this year's Outside Lands fest in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park was a chance to see, live on stage, the Muppets' famed house band Dr.
SF News Millennium Tower May End Up Sinking Almost Three Feet, Says Expert In what could end up becoming the most expensive real estate legal battle in SF history, the Millennium Tower sink-and-tilt debacle deepens with a further look by the Chron's Matier & Ross, who
SF News Naked Man In 'Altered Mental Status' Runs Around Hayes Valley Sadly the video's been yanked off Instagram, but a possibly unstable and/or extraordinarily high young white man went streaking through Hayes Valley, in the vicinity of Octavia, on Friday afternoon. As Hoodline
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Regarding The SF Restaurant Economy, Where $500 Dinners Proliferate And Mid-Range Spots Struggle A national restaurant consultant, in the last decade, once said that "San Francisco gives great middle," referring to the fact that the city had not, for many years, been much of a fine
SF News Video: Stanley Roberts Returns To Outside Lands To Shame Cars Stopping In Bus Zones KRON 4's Stanley Roberts can't resist getting up to his same tricks every time we have a big event or festival in San Francisco, and since last year's Outside Lands that's meant shaming
Arts & Entertainment J. Cole, Big Boi, Miike Snow And More: Outside Lands 2016 Day One, In Photos Opening day of Outside Lands 2016 was predictably raucous, dusty, chilly, and filling. Crowds drifted into Golden Gate Park, where the sun broke through the fog for approximately 20 minutes around 4 p.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] One-Alarm Fire Temporarily Closes Lolinda In The Mission Working fire now at Lolinda Barat 21st and Mission, firefighters on scene, whole street smoky pic.twitter.com/M50p9ZGl2W— Joe Rivano Barros (@jrivanob) August 6, 2016 A fire that broke out Friday night
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The Okonomiyaki Waffle At Louie's Gen Gen Room Whoa, guys. The food at the new Liholiho Yacht Club downstairs cocktail outpost, Louie's Gen Gen Room, is seriously goddamn delicious. As I talked about before, the cocktail and food menus for the
SF News San Jose Police Face Legal Battle Over Gay Cruising Bathroom Sting Harkening back to the 1950s, the San Jose Police Department conducted a sting operation between 2014 and 2015 in which an undercover decoy officer was used to lure unsuspecting gay men into a
SF News Brooklyn Man Fatally Shot After Retrieving Son's Oakland Raiders Cap From Bully In Brooklyn, some high school bullies carry guns, and one just killed a man over an Oakland Raiders cap. Our friends at Gothamist just relayed the story of 38-year-old Gerald Cummings, who was
