SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shhh! House Of Prime Rib Has A Secret Menu (Including A Vegetarian Plate) Somehow, we've made it to 2016 without knowing that House of Prime Rib had anything on offer besides four cuts of rib roast, baked or mashed potato, and creamed spinach and the house
SF News SoMa Corner Billboard Becomes Oracle Of Tech Bubbles Past And Present This billboard advertising space at the corner of 9th and Folsom has, it seems, been a kind of harbinger of a bubble ready to burst in the past or, at the very least,
Arts & Entertainment Prince Announces Surprise Shows At Oakland's Paramount Theater Sunday As he's done a bunch of times in recent years, Prince announced late Tuesday that he'd be doing some surprise concerts on very short notice this time the kickoff to a solo piano
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Once again we bring you some ideas for things to do off the internet this sunny and lovely week in our fair city. You do know it's really nice outside, right? And there
SF News Silicon Valley Billionaire Wants $30 Million For His Beach Access, National Media Shames Him The saga of Sun Microsystems founder and local billionaire Vinod Khosla and his beachfront property south of Half Moon Bay came up in the news again in the past week after Khosla laid
SF News Alameda Man Implicated In Get-Rich-Quick Scam Remains Missing; Brother Believes He 'Sacrificed Himself' Two weeks ago SFist put out the early word of the disappearance of John Beck, a 73-year-old Alameda resident last seen boarding a BART train in downtown Oakland, and whose family hasn't heard
SF News Major Proposal To Remove I-280 Overpass And Caltrain Rail Yard Moves Forward A proposed (extremely expensive) plan, first floated last May, to remove the existing Caltrain rail yard as well as parts of the I-280 overpass and off-ramp in SoMa/Potrero in anticipation of electrified
SF News DA Gascon Denounces 'Old Boys' Club' In SFPD As Department Announces New Community-Oriented Bureau In an effort to restore trust in the San Francisco Police Department in the wake of the killing of Mario Woods, Police Chief Greg Suhr and Mayor Ed Lee announced Monday that some
SF News Day Around The Bay: Where Is The California Powerball Winner?!? Two winners of that $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot last month have both come forward, but whoever bought the other winning ticket in Chino Hills, California has yet to show their face or
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The Chef's Menu At Cadence, Now Open On Mid-Market Things on mid-Market are certainly worlds different than they were just a few years ago. With the arrival of restaurants like Alta CA, Bon Marché, and The Perennial, the era when all you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho Yacht Club, Cala Among Best New Restaurant Semi-Finalists For 2016 James Beard Awards The James Beard Foundation Awards long-list arrived today, which is the list of semi-finalist restaurants, bars, and chefs which will ultimately be whittled down to a list of finalist nominees next month. And
Arts & Entertainment Courtney Love To Discuss And Perform From Her Musical Collaboration 'Kansas City Choir Boy' With Todd Almond March 7 Love her or despise her, onetime SF resident Courtney Love is swinging back through town next month to give us a one-night sneak peek at a musical theater collaboration she's been working on
SF News Ryan Chamberlain Pleads Guilty To Deadly Toxin Charge, May Get 10 Years Former SF political consultant and accused potential domestic terrorist Ryan Chamberlain has, as was expected last week, taken a plea deal in a case dating back to the spring of 2014 in which
SF News Historic El Rey Theatre Threatened As Property Gets Sold At Auction Though it hasn't been a grand movie palace or even a crumbling but in-use movie house for more than a generation, residents in the Ingleside and Balboa Park neighborhoods have long hoped and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alfred's Steakhouse Reopens Thursday Under Daniel Patterson's Management Back in October we learned the news that the Daniel Patterson Group was getting into the steakhouse business with the purchase of SF's oldest example, Alfred's (659 Merchant Street near Kearny). Tucked away
SF News Mystery Solved: 1950's Telegraph Hill Raccoon Man Identified A few weeks ago, via a fascinating archive of historic SF color photos that I'm still not done with, I posted a few photos of a man only identified as a random "oldster"
Arts & Entertainment Drag Version Of 'Three's Company' Comes To Oasis Next Week Much like they've done with The Golden Girls, Sex and the City, Designing Women, Star Trek, and Absolutely Fabulous over the years, San Francisco's more comedic drag queens are for the first time
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sparky's Diner On Church Closed, Apparently After Health Inspection One of the city's only 24-hour diners, Sparky's on Church Street, was suddenly closed last week and remains closed as of this morning. BrokeAss Stuart got the news via a tipster, and SFist
Arts & Entertainment Vanity, Prince Protege And 'Nasty Girl' Singer, Dies In Fremont Hospital At Age 57 News broke last night during the Grammy Awards that Vanity, a.k.a. Denise Matthews, the singer of one of several female-led groups that were created by Prince or spun off of Prince
SF News Day Around The Bay: NIMBYs Freak Out Over Kezar Stadium Soccer Plan Cole Valley and Upper Haight NIMBYs are worried about traffic headaches and roving, drunk soccer fans if and when Kezar Stadium becomes the home of pro soccer team the San Francisco Deltas. [Hoodline]
SF News Police Seeking Carjacked Yukon Denali Involved In Twin Peaks Shooting The SFPD is on the hunt for a dark gray GMC Yukon Denali with the license plate 5PJU851 which was carjacked at the scene of the Sunday morning's double homicide on Twin Peaks
Arts & Entertainment 'Aubergine' at Berkeley Rep Is A Melancholy, Food-Obsessed Look At Death Julia Cho's new play Aubergine, a world premiere that also marks the first production in the newly rechristened Peet's Theatre, is a thoughtful and fairly traditional play centered on two essential aspects of
SF News High-Speed Rail Plans Change: Bay Area Could Get Trains Ahead Of LA You may be inclined to think that you will never live to see a high-speed rail link between San Francisco and Los Angeles and depending on your age and overall health you may
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bidding Farewell To Quirky, 20-Year-Old Market Street Diner L&M Cafe I was once terrified of L&M Cafe (1081 Market Street). I had moved to mid-Market in the last decade, long before Nema and Twitter got there, and a friend convinced me
Arts & Entertainment Kanye West Says He's $53 Million In Debt, Asks Zuckerberg For $1 Billion Kanye West had another of his seemingly manic, barely coherent Twitter meltdowns over the weekend in which he admitted to having "$53 million in personal debt," and then performed a millionaire's version of
