Arts & Entertainment Seven Easy Date-Night Ideas Around SF, Oakland, And Berkeley Last year, SFist brought you a list of nine easy ideas for nights out on the town, with a friend or a date, organized by neighborhood so you don't have to be ordering
SF News Video: Drone Shows Devastation Of Bark Beetles On Drought-Stricken Yosemite Forest Bark beetles. They are not a new phenomenon for California's pine forests, however our ongoing drought, now in its fourth or fifth year depending on who you ask, has stressed the trees to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Grubstake Diner To Close In 2017, But Retain 'Railcar-Themed' Location In New Condo Building Last we heard, back in September, some new owners of the property that houses the beloved Grubstake, off Polk Street on Pine, were being a bit vague about the future of the 40+
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Halal Guys In SF: An Admittedly Early Review A lot of people, but especially recent New York transplants, are pretty psyched about the arrival of The Halal Guys in San Francisco something we've known about for a year now, but which
SF News Uber Passenger In SF Reveals Road Rage Chase That Killed Pedestrian; Also, Judge Compares Uber To Silk Road The ride-hailing app that everyone loves to use and loves to hate, Uber, is once again in the news today for several reasons. First off, the company has just released its first ever
SF News Feds Paid 'Gray Hat' Hackers, Not Israeli Firm, To Crack That iPhone Contrary to earlier reports that Israeli mobile forensics firm Cellebrite had been the ones paid by the FBI to crack the iPhone left behind in the San Bernardino terrorism case, the successful hacking
SF News Day Around The Bay: Another Witness Comes Forward In Shotwell Shooting Some eyewitnesses to last week's officer-involved shooting on Shotwell Street claim police have been harassing them. Also, some of those whose camps were cleared late Saturday night have already returned to the street.
SF News The Embarcadero, And SF's Seawall, Could Cost $3 Billion To Shore Up Against An Earthquake File under one more thing to worry about: Parts of the Embarcadero and the man-made seawall that rings the Bayfront could present a "greater than expected risk" of failure in a major earthquake.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Check Out The Menu At Mister Jiu's, Opening Tonight In Chinatown The opening date was set and announced last week, and tonight, Tuesday, April 12, marks the public debut of Brandon Jew's first solo restaurant, Mister Jiu's. For the SF native, it marks a
SF News You Could Be Arrested For Bringing Your Child To 4/20 The SFPD has issued a warning to any stoner parents who were considering letting their kids tag along to the annual smoke-out at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park on 4/20: You
SF News Key Witness Takes Stand In Trial Of Man Accused In 2013 Killing Of 8-Year-Old Girl In Oakland A major murder trial is ongoing in Alameda County in the case of Darnell Williams Jr., 25, who stands accused of the fatal shooting of eight-year-old Alaysha Carradine in East Oakland in 2013
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Du Nord Temporarily Closes Viking Room, Switches To Lounge Menu Ten months in, the team at Ne Timeas Restaurant Group (Aatxe, Flour + Water, Central Kitchen, Salumeria) has decided to pivot a bit with the menu offerings and format at the downstairs Cafe du
SF News BART And Workers' Unions Reach Tentative Labor Deal Ahead Of 2017 Contract Anyone who was here in 2013 and relied on BART to commute to and from the East Bay knows how painful a BART strike can be. That strike only lasted four days, but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Halal Guys Arrive In SF, Begin Lunch Delivery Via Caviar April 12 The wait is over, all ye hungry New York expats. The Halal Guys' promised arrival in San Francisco is happening, and starting this week they're offering a sneak preview of their food via
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yet Another Arcade Bar Heading For Former Orson/Drake Space On Fourth Once an elegant, buzzed-about restaurant with an industrial-chic aesthetic and headed by a celebrity chef, the space at 508 4th Street that was formerly Elizabeth Falkner's Orson will soon become Coin-Op Game Room,
SF News Guess What! The Transbay Terminal Project Has Run Out Of Money Again Budget shortfalls and funding drama have been the name of the game in the construction of the $2.25 billion Transbay Transit Center project going back several years. And now, the six-story, four-block-long
SF News Following Shooting By Police, Mayor Lee Announces Plan To Clear All Homeless Camps Citywide In a move that is certain to anger homeless advocates even further in a year when conspicuous homelessness has become a primary topic of debate in SF Mayor Ed Lee announced this weekend
SF News Father Of Fremont Terror Suspect Regrets Turning Him In To The FBI Sal Shafi, the father of 22-year-old Adam Shafi who was detained by federal authorities last year for attempting to fly to Turkey out of SFO with the alleged intention of joining a terrorist
SF News [Update] SFPD Seeking Missing Two-Year-Old Girl Whose Mother Was Murdered On Friday, April 8, the body of a missing woman was found in San Francisco. Details about the victim, Nicole Fitts, are slim, and the SFPD, citing the sensitivity of its ongoing investigation,
SF News Wayne Huntsman, Culprit In The 2014 King Fire, Admits Guilt As Selfie Video Emerges Wayne Allen Huntsman, the 37-year-old accused of starting the devastating King Fire in September 2014 that ultimately burned over 100,000 acres in the Sierra Nevada mountains and caused untold economic and environmental
SF News President Obama Uses SF Fundraiser To Hammer Back At Republicans Ignoring His SCOTUS Nominee Security is tight in Pac Heights for @POTUS visit. Obama on way to Getty house for a dinner. #abc7now #SanFrancisco pic.twitter.com/smOk5C41WT— ElissaABC7 (@ElissaABC7) April 9, 2016 If you were anywhere
SF News Apartment Sadness: Small Bedroom, With A Big Catch I share this week's piece of shared-apartment schadenfreude not because it's especially expensive (it's not!), but because to get cheap rent in these crazy times, there's always a catch. And this one kind
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Rediscovers The LA Dining Scene, Checks In On Some Former SF Chefs In lieu of a Sunday review, Michael Bauer has written a larger piece about dining in Los Angeles for this Sunday's paper, which you can read online now. He writes generally about the
SF News Video: Hear The New BART Horn, And Get An Up-Close Look At The New Car's Interior Following that big press event on Wednesday, we now have video footage inside the first of the new Fleet of the Future BART car, currently undergoing testing at BART's Hayward facility. The video
Arts & Entertainment Transbay District Likely To Get A Renzo Piano-Designed Highrise In some more excellent news for architecture and tall buildings in SF, we learned this week that starchitect Renzo Piano, the man behind one of the best-loved new buildings of the last decade
