SF News SF Bay Guardian Returns! (In Digital Form) Fans of the San Francisco Bay Guardian remain frustrated and sore over the abrupt 2014 shutdown of the once venerable progressive paper. But, as staffers at the time promised it would, the SFBG
SF News San Francisco Metro Area Population Grew By 60,000 Last Year It's been said often enough that San Francisco has been in the midst of a population boom the likes of which it hasn't seen in decades, something to the tune of 10,000
Arts & Entertainment Big, Spooky, Legendary Alamo Square Mansion Is Getting The Documentary Treatment Anyone who's wandered around Alamo Square has wondered about the big, looming, elaborately painted Victorian at the corner of Fulton and Scott, known by the name of its original owner as The Westerfeld
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 25 Best Dive Bars In San Francisco Whether drowning sorrows on your lonesome or slumming it with friends, dive bars are good for a lot of occasions. Firstly, they're often cheaper than their mixology-obsessed counterparts in tonier parts of town.
SF News Vallejo Is Whack: Police Seriously Botched Huskins's Sexual Assault Investigation If you thought the allegations about the Vallejo Police Department's mishandling of the kidnapping of Denise Huskins last March couldn't get any worse, you were incorrect. As ABC 7 reports after reading the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Sea Lion Pup Found In Fremont Is Not Having It With The Cameras Today Lost CA sea lion found in #Fremont on Osgood Rd this morning. @TMMC responding to the #TriCityAnimalShelter #Ozzie pic.twitter.com/2QziGnVtQI— Fremont Police Dept (@FremontPD) March 24, 2016 A perhaps confused, definitely
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink OpenTable Believes SF's Hottest Restaurant Is... Asia SF Yesterday at SFist HQ we got an email from the OpenTable team letting us know that their hotly anticipated (JK) list of the nation's 100 "hottest" restaurants for 2016 had just been revealed.
SF News San Francisco Now Has Official Tweeter Who Gets Paid $130,000/Year Ugh. "Social Media Strategist" remains a real job, and even city governments like San Francisco think they need one. Per SF Weekly we learn that the city's Department of Technology had a job
SF News Day Around The Bay: Teatro ZinZanni Plan Sent Back To Drawing Board Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Some opinion via [Jacobin Magazine]: Sharing economy companies like
SF News 95-Year-Old Lost Tugboat Found Near Farallones A nearly century-old mystery has been solved after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed this week that a shipwreck discovered on the ocean floor seven years ago is in fact the long
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Peninsula Restaurant Owner Accused Of Tax Evasion Found With $600K Stashed In Home Russell Deutsch, the 57-year-old owner of Old Port Lobster Shack restaurants in Redwood City and Portola Valley and the Old Port Lobster Grill in San Jose, appears to be in some hot water
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Silicon Valley' Cast Guesses At What Actual Startups Do By Their Dumb Names Watch this on The Scene. Anaplan? Twilio? Klarna? These are all real companies that we will not link to, but feel free to Google them. The hilarious cast of HBO's Silicon Valley, who
Arts & Entertainment Video: New iPhone SE Mocked As 'A Phone From Three Years Ago' As quickly as Apple announced the release of a new, cheaper and smaller model of the iPhone that is basically the same as the iPhone 5S with a bit more speed, dubbed the
Arts & Entertainment Pre-Broadway Premiere Of 'Roman Holiday' Comes To SF, Along With Acclaimed Revamp Of 'Into The Woods' Today SHN announced their full regular season of shows, following their earlier announcement in January that Hamilton would be part of the 2016-2017 season along with the Tony Award-winning play The Curious Incident
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime SoMa Spot Triptych Closes After 11 Years On Folsom Triptych, the brunch and dinner spot that's spent over a decade at 1155 Folsom, is now closed for good after variously having for-lease and for-sale notices up over the past few years. Tablehopper
SF News FBI Hires Israeli Firm Cellebrite To Unlock San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone Though it's probably not news to the hacker world, the rest of the world is learning that the feds may not have ever really needed Apple's help to unlock and/or retrieve data
SF News Video: Substitute Teacher In Antioch Goes Ballistic Over Missing Rubber Bands Though we don't know what the events were leading up to this cell phone video being taken, a substitute teacher in an Antioch middle school was pushed to the brink and basically lost
Arts & Entertainment Openings Of Minnesota Street Project, SFMOMA Cited As Marking Fresh Art World 'Moment' In SF Last weekend marked the official opening festivities for The Minnesota Street Project in Dogpatch a new 100,000-square-foot multi-use space started by local entrepreneurs and collectors Deborah and Andy Rappaport as a kind
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What SF Restaurant Owners Are Saying About The Current Restaurant 'Bubble' Valencia Street probably already hit "peak restaurant" last year, and if you believe chef and restaurateur Dennis Leary (The Sentinel, Golden West, House of Shields), so did the rest of the city. San
SF News Hillary Clinton Emails Show Weirdly Close Relationship Between State Department And Google A new batch of Hillary Clinton's infamous emails have appeared on Wikileaks, and among them there's one name that appears a bunch and that's Jared Cohen, director and founder of Google Ideas and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Farina Owners Appear To Make Sketchy Move To Avoid Paying Debts To Employees Stories about sketchiness surrounding the owners of Farina, that fancy looking but many would say over-priced Italian spot on 18th Street, go back quite a few years now. Back in 2011, several employees
SF News Company Building New BART Cars Has History Of Missed Deadlines Just before chaos erupted and took 50 of BART's super-ancient cars out of service last week due to a still mysterious, roving voltage spike, we had a cheery video to show you of
SF News Former Trans Inmate Michelle-Lael Norsworthy Speaks Out About Her New Transition, To Civilian Life Many of you will recall the plight of trans prisoner Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, who last year became the second trans inmate to be granted state-funded sex reassignment surgery only to be paroled shortly thereafter.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Waxman's, The New Ghirardelli Square Spot From Celebrity Chef Jonathan Waxman, Debuts Tuesday We got early word this past weekend that the expected opening of chef Jonathan Waxman's first SF outpost, originally named Brezza Emporio and Pizzeria but rechristened as simply Waxman's, is due to happen
SF News Weather Report: The Last Dumping Of Rain For A While It may be unwise to call it over, but from the looks of it, today's bout of (at times very heavy!) rain in San Francisco will be the last we'll see of the
