SF News Longshot Campaigns Launch To Recall Both Mayors Ed Lee And Libby Schaaf Discontented voters in both San Francisco and Oakland are gathering support for recall campaigns for the mayors in both cities, largely due to what is seen as their inaction or lack of leadership
SF News Day Around The Bay: Would The Proposed Tech Tax 'Devastate' SF's Economy? Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. It's not on the November ballot yet, but a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tip For Restaurant And Bar Owners: Buy A Pokémon Go Lure Module, Get Instant Customers In case you needed another reason to stop by for lunch, RTM is swarming with Pokemon! #loveRTM #EatMorePork #PokemonGo #PokemonGoPhilly A photo posted by Tommy DiNic's Pork & Beef (@tommydinics) on Jul 11,
Arts & Entertainment Sharing Your Netflix Or HBO GO Password May Now Be A Federal Crime Though there are likely to be future decisions that limit the ramifications of this one, a three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last week ruled that without specific authorization from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink At El Paseo In Mill Valley, Owner Sammy Hagar Parts Ways With Tyler Florence, New Menu In The Works On the Inside-Baseball track of the local food world today, it seems that there was a quiet parting of the ways in the last year (or more) between partners Sammy Hagar and Tyler
Arts & Entertainment Pokemon Go App Can Access Your Email And Contacts On iPhones Posing Major Privacy Problem A little privacy, please?#PokemonGO pic.twitter.com/7eqPmstl90— ENTJ Probs (@entj_probs) July 10, 2016 Now that the world and your social media feed has been overtaken with Pokemon Go news, it
SF News Atherton Wealthy Will Still Maybe Try To Block High-Speed Rail NIMBYs throughout the state of California have been crying foul for years about the gigantic and decades-long high-speed rail project that will, someday, connect Los Angeles and San Francisco and ultimately San Diego
Arts & Entertainment Video: Buster Posey Lands Ball In Peavy's Glove When He's Not Looking During Saturday's Giants game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, MVP catcher Buster Posey went to toss a ball back to pitcher Jakey Peavy on the mound while Peavey was distracted arguing with third base
SF News Woman Remains Missing In Bizarre Kidnapping For Ransom Case In Vallejo In Vallejo the Florida of the Bay Area we have another bizarre crime story that may end up having a tragic ending. A 57-year-old woman was apparently kidnapped on or around June 29,
SF News Skateboard Flashmob Takes Over Dolores Street A group of what appears to be at least 100 to 150 skaters commandeered Dolores Street Thursday evening and turned the hill between 21st and 19th into their own skate ramp for a
SF News Hundreds Of Black Lives Matter Protesters March Through Downtown SF, Attempt To Get On Freeway A group of several hundred Black Lives Matter protesters attempted all Saturday afternoon and into the early evening to get onto several freeway on-ramps and disrupt traffic going to and from the Bay
SF News Uber's In-App Response To Gun Violence Is Weird And Tone Deaf Following on their kind and mildly helpful response in the wake of the mass shooting of LGBT people in Orlando they were giving free rides all the following weekend to and from various
SF News Jaycee Lee Dugard Returns To Spotlight With New Book, Diane Sawyer Interview It's been seven years since the Bay Area, and the world, were stunned by the story of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who emerged from captivity in an Antioch backyard after being kept there for
SF News Peaceful March Against Police Killings Culminates In Rally At City Hall At least 1000 people (the Chronicle put it at 500) gathered Friday evening at the foot of Market Street to protest this week's deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile at the hands
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Zazie Gets A Spinoff, Dabba Debuts Downtown, And More This week we got the news that Adriano Paganini, the prolific restaurateur behind Starbelly, Beretta, Super Duper, and Belga, among others, is taking over the Betelnut space on Union Street. We also learned
Arts & Entertainment 'Guerrilla Gardener' Gets Ousted From Patch Of Land By Spoilsports At DMV Guerrilla Garden Booted From DMV, Moved To Oak Street https://t.co/xw0dPH1xOQ by @LightExposures pic.twitter.com/aKjOCCQVUW— Hoodline (@HoodlineSF) July 7, 2016 Calling to mind those Guerrilla Grafters, a self-styled "guerilla
SF News Rally And Protest Against Racist Police Shootings Planned Tonight In SF, Likely To Snarl Market Street An anti-police-violence protest planned for Friday evening by the Answer Coalition, beginning at Justin Herman Plaza which they are still calling Chelsea Manning Plaza is likely to shut down Market Street for a
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bear And Feral Cat Are Friends At Folsom Zoo .mcclatchy-embed{position:relative;padding:42px 0 56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%}.mcclatchy-embed iframe{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%} At the Folsom City Zoo Sanctuary outside
SF News Suspect From Market Street Standoff In Critical Condition The suspect at the center of the near four-hour standoff with police at Market and Jones Street on Wednesday remains hospitalized in critical condition and requires surgery for some of the injuries he
Arts & Entertainment <i>John Leguizamo: Latin History For Morons</i> Is A Funny, If Rough, Sketch Of Colonial History Veteran comedian and performer John Leguizamo is back at Berkeley Rep this summer performing a world premiere of his latest one-man show, a comical history class on Latin America titled Latin History for
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Rapper MC Zumbi Shoots Video For His Song 'Tech $' As His Family Moves Out Of Their House Oakland rapper MC Zumbi, a.k.a. Steven Gaines and part of hip hop group Zion I, cut a track earlier this year in which he raps about being a victim of gentrification
SF News [Update] Exploding Firework Leads To Chaos, Partial Evacuation At SF General An official alert and multiple tweets went out announcing major police activity at SF General Thursday afternoon, and an anonymous tipster wrote to SFist saying, "My friend works at SF General and says
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 20 Best French Fries In San Francisco French fries are a near ubiquitous item on SF restaurant menus in all but the most high-end, Michelin-starred establishments and even newly Michelin starred AL's Place has their own unique and delicious version,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Napa Chef Swears By Deep-Frying His In-N-Out Burgers, But He's Not Serving Them The only way to make an In-N-Out burger better is to deep-fry it. https://t.co/huZoB7FJ27 pic.twitter.com/VfVTMn01J0— MUNCHIES (@munchies) July 6, 2016 Sean O'Toole, chef at three-year-old Napa restaurant
SF News Nevius Solves SF's Homeless Problem: Limit The Number We Help Following last week's blitz of coverage as part of the SF Homeless Project, Chron columnist C.W. Nevius is finally, predictably chiming in with his common-sense, let's-stop-the-nonsense take on what's arguably the city's
