SF News San Francisco, Donald Trump, And Twitter React To The Death Of Justice Antonin Scalia Saturday afternoon, the country ground to a halt as news broke of the death of senior Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Justice Scalia had flown Friday to a luxury hunting resort in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Brasserie St. James Arriving on Valencia, Dat Spot Shutters, And More Earlier this week, Wise Sons Bagel sprang to life via delivery service Caviar, and now we learn via Tablehopper they've set a firm opening date of February 26. Also, Caleb went out and
Arts & Entertainment Mavericks Wrap-Up: Nic Lamb Of Santa Cruz Takes Home Top Surfing Prize It wasn't the biggest, gnarliest, most dramatic Mavericks there ever was, but 2016's Titans of Mavericks big-wave surfing competition wrapped up Friday with more than a few wipeouts and only one winner. Nic
SF News Apartment Sadness: A Tale Of A TIC And An Airbnb Gone Really, Really Bad Since there are, after all, lots of sad housing situations in San Francisco these days that do not appear on Craigslist, I'm taking a little moment in this column to highlight one of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area To Finally Enjoy Some Local Dungeness Crab This Month Get ready to feed on some crab at long last, crab lovers. The health warning that shut down local crab fisheries since November has been lifted, and it looks like the commercial Dungeness
Arts & Entertainment Apple Bankrolls Their First Scripted TV Series, Starring Dr. Dre Apple is, slowly but surely, getting into the TV game, and today we learn from The Hollywood Reporter that the company's first ever original TV series is now in the works. It's called
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Silicon Valley' Season 3 Trailer Drops As we have before, SFist will be recapping HBO's absurdist look at our local tech community, Silicon Valley, when its third season begins on April 24th. In the new trailer, we see our
SF News M-Oceanview Derails Near SF State Whoa!!! This M line derailed. Super scary. @sfmta_muni #Muni #sf pic.twitter.com/493fgz2JWU— Dustin Allen (@dusteallen) February 12, 2016 A Muni M-line light rail train derailed Friday morning at 19th and
SF News Day Around The Bay: More About The Man Who Drowned Saving His Wife From A Pacifica Sneaker Wave Another pleasant side-effect of the rain: Alamere Falls on the Point Reyes National Seashore has water in it again. [ABC 7] We noted in brief yesterday the tragic story of 61-year-old Larry Moore,
Arts & Entertainment Thumb-Sized Monkeys New Status Symbol Pets For Year Of The Monkey? Our colleagues at Shanghaiist just posted about this adorable but slightly alarming trend among elites in China of buying tiny pygmy marmosets, the world's smallest monkeys, to keep as pets in honor of
SF News According To Facebook Likes, Californians Love Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump (And Ben Carson) As we approach this potentially disastrous but no doubt entertaining election this fall, the folks over at FiveThirtyEight the statistics-obsessed blog started by Nate Silver following his huge success in predicting the results
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 18 Best All-Season Outdoor Dining Spots In SF February has been way, way too nice. Nice enough that people are eating and drinking outside everywhere. But for a town that's not always known for its balmy nighttime weather, San Francisco is
Arts & Entertainment February's Prettiest Sunrises And Sunsets, So Far El Niño has been rather kind to us thus far in February, which is bad news for the drought though I hold out hope for a rainy March but good news for those
SF News Apparent Road Rage Incident On Russian Hill Leaves Cyclist Injured An apparent hit-and-run road rage collision between a car and a cyclist this morning left the cyclist injured and bloody, as SFist tipster Devin Wilson tells us. Wilson tells us this happened at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meadowood's New Casual Spot Will Be Called The Charter Oak Back in November we learned that the very fancy, Michelin three-star Restaurant at Meadowood in St. Helena was preparing to open a casual spinoff in downtown St. Helena, in the space long occupied
SF News As Trial Was Set To Begin, Alleged Potential Domestic Terrorist Ryan Chamberlain May Take Plea Deal In the spring of 2014, former local political consultant and onetime Gavin Newsom campaigner Ryan Chamberlain appeared to have spiraled into some kind of psychological abyss. Some forays into the deep web led
SF News SFPD To Finally Get Body Cameras Via Taser Contract It's been two years since SFPD chief Greg Suhr said that the beginning of the department's body camera program was just two weeks away, as KQED reports in the 2015 explantory video above.
Arts & Entertainment James Franco, Helena Bonham Carter, Kristen Stewart Sign On For JT LeRoy Film The story of JT LeRoy, the fictional persona and nom de plume of San Francisco kook Laura Albert, feels vaguely embarrassing now, even more than it did when local writer Stephen Beachy first
SF News President Obama Lands In The Bay Area Tonight To Fundraise For Democrats Obama is coming, yet again, to the Bay Area, and will be touching down at Moffett Field near Mountain View at 7:30 p.m. Googlers be warned: There will be extra motorcade-related
SF News Bizarre Lawsuit Over Western Addition Housing Complex Settled Out Of Court Last summer, SFist broke news about a Section 8 housing project on Golden Gate Avenue in the Western Addition, built in the 1970s by a prominent black church in the neighborhood, that was
SF News Confirmed: Gay Bashing Took Place In The Marina, Outside Hi Fi Lounge The story of 28-year-old Jeffery Lafayette's beating by a group of guys on the Saturday before the Super Bowl went viral after he posted a video on Facebook in which he was trying
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wise Sons Bagel Goes On Caviar, Sells Out In 40 Minutes; Shop Opening Soon Order now and get your bagels in 15 min this am with @fastbitesf A photo posted by Wise Sons Jewish Delicatessen (@wisesons) on Feb 10, 2016 at 8:36am PST San Francisco's bagel
SF News Cleve Jones: We Have To Preserve Gayborhoods Because They Save Lives Outspoken human rights activist Cleve Jones has been on the front lines of LGBT liberation and equality fights since the early 1970s, when he arrived in San Francisco as a young man and
SF News Mavericks Is On This Friday The "call alert" on the Titans of Mavericks official site has been upgraded to green for "Event On", and CBS 5 that organizers made a final decision this afternoon to issue the call
SF News Tech Shuttle Protest Blockades 24th Street Activists hold signs in front of tech shuttle buses that read "Save Our Homes" in protest of high rents in SF. pic.twitter.com/QflNcewYM8— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) February 9, 2016 A
