SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Braised Lamb At Mason Pacific Nob Hill bistro Mason Pacific just reopened last week after a four-month closure following an unfortunate fire in March, and now the kitchen is being run by James Beard Award-nominated Max Mackinnon, who
SF News Soberanes Fire Nears Big Sur, Almost 20,000 Acres Burned, 300 Evacuated, 10 Percent Contained A fire burning since Friday in rough terrain south of Carmel-by-the-sea, north of Big Sur has crossed the 19,000 acre mark as of Tuesday morning, and it remains only 10 percent contained
Arts & Entertainment Where To Catch All The Most Muni-Accessible Pokémon Spotted a Pokémon waiting for a Muni Bus this morning in San Francisco. Man this Pokémon Go thing is out of control. pic.twitter.com/vU2e98XdDH— Yiying Lu (@YiyingLu) July 12, 2016 For
Arts & Entertainment Say Goodbye To Fifteen-Year-Old Mission Mural, <i>Generator</i>, But It Will Be Replaced A well loved mural that has graced the side of a residential building at Lexington and 18th since 2002 has reached the end of its life. According to a release sent out Monday
SF News Oakland Officer's Suicide, And His Wife's Earlier Suicide, Confirmed In DA's Probe Officer Brendan O'Brien, who committed suicide in September 2015 at the age of 30, has been cleared in the death of his wife a year earlier, who also committed suicide but whose death
SF News California Delegates At DNC Boo Nancy Pelosi And Scream 'Lock Her Up' On Day One Hoo boy. Despite the popular belief that the Republican National Convention was going to be an historic mess because of some fairly widespread dislike among delegates for Donald Trump, Day One of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Monterey-Based Marijuana Edible Company Sued For Fraud By Investor A Northern California medical marijuana edibles maker, Altai Brands, is being sued for securities fraud by one of its investors. BuzzFeed has the news about the July 18 lawsuit, which accuses CEO Robert
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Mag Raises New Questions About Chronicle Food Critic Michael Bauer's Boyfriend Great night (last nite)at the @FlavorNapa 'Young Guns' dinner - paired with beautiful wines of @inglenook1879 with my pal @angela_jackson84 + MB A photo posted by Michael Murphy (@curiousmikie) on Mar 19,
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: Wilsey Stepping Down As Board President Amid Museums Scandal Major news in the museum world as local socialite and longtime board president of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco which include the deYoung and the Legion of Honor Dede Wilsey is
SF News Video: Willie Brown Talks 56 Years Of Democratic National Conventions Willie Brown is front and center on the New York Times' homepage today in a Times-produced video all about his roles at the Democratic National Conventions going back six decades. Brown, best known
SF News Big Sur Wildfire Grows To 10,000 Acres, 1,650 Structures Now Threatened #SoberanesFire [update] 5 miles south of Carmel Garrapata State Park (Monterey County) is now 900 acres. pic.twitter.com/yPvDy3ZIjj— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) July 23, 2016 What began as a brush fire
SF News Oakland Police Officer Shot At By Armed Suspect After Car Crash A female Oakland police officer who was involved in a major collision in her vehicle in East Oakland Saturday night was shot at by a male suspect while still stuck in the vehicle.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch A Dachshund Go Surfing You know that doggy surfing competition I told you about earlier? Well it happened on Friday at the Coliseum in Oakland, with the help of that huge portable wave machine on a tractor
SF News Teacher Evicted In The Mission For Use Of Appliances In Illegal In-Law Reaches Settlement With Owners One of several recent, notable eviction cases to reach the media the case of local teacher Michelle Malliet who is being evicted by the new owners of her building in the Mission whose
SF News Drought Future Unclear As Climatologists Say La Niña Might Not Happen A cooling of ocean temperatures that often comes in the aftermath of an El Niño season, known as La Niña, may not be taking shape as forecasters were predicting in recent months. A
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Anyone Need An $8000 Four-Bedroom (That's Not Really A Four-Bedroom)? This week, Apartment Sadness takes you to tony Pacific Heights, where apparently the address alone should be enough for you to want to share a four-bedroom, two-bath flat with three to seven of
SF News Hillary Clinton Visits Pulse Nightclub In Orlando, Meets With Victims' Families Clinton speaking to first responders at Pulse nightclub memorial in Orlando. Laid white roses at the memorial. pic.twitter.com/ozmhAClfVW— Tamara Keith (@tamarakeithNPR) July 22, 2016 One day following the Republicans' scary
SF News Fun Fact: The Muni Metro Runs Through The Hull Of A Sunken Ship Directly underneath the bocce ball courts on the southern end of Justin Herman Plaza, at the foot of Market Street, there lay the remains of a large, three-masted ship called the Rome that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Mid-Market Restaurant, Bon Marché, May Be Giving Up After Just A Year Another one of several splashy 2015 restaurant openings in the Mid-Market vicinity, Bon Marché, looks like it's not long for this world as we predicted just a few weeks ago. The high profile,
Arts & Entertainment Johnny Depp Visits Alcatraz And Meanwhile His Ex Amber Heard Hangs With Elon Musk Inside the lighthouse on #Alcatraz, the city of #SanFrancisco in the background. It was so windy up here that you could feel the lighthouse shifting and swaying. Yikes!! But what a view! _______________________________________________________ #tourism
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gilroy Garlic Fries Roll Out At McDonald's Throughout The Bay Area Next Week Yes. They're here.Gilroy. Garlic. Fries.#garlicfries #mcdonalds #garlic #createyourtastesf pic.twitter.com/aKaYcmoJGh— McDonald's (@McD_SF) July 21, 2016 Previously available only at a couple locations down in the South Bay, those
SF News Day Around The Bay: Moon Cycles May Affect Earthquakes 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 New York Times just published a good piece
Arts & Entertainment Documentary Celebrates The 50th Anniversary Of The Compton's Cafeteria Riot 50 years ago next month, a group of pissed off trans women and hustlers who frequented Gene Compton's Cafeteria at the corner of Turk and Taylor Streets in the Tenderloin revolted against police
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Orbit Room Gets A New Drink List, And New Drinking Snacks The Orbit Room, the charming and beloved Upper Market bar which reopened under new owners Courtney Ross and Nic DeLillo last fall after a brief closure, now has a revamped cocktail menu and
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Independent Bookstores In SF Bookstores may be becoming things of the past in many parts of the world, but San Francisco is still home to a bevy of wonderful, stalwart neighborhood bookshops that are quietly thriving and
