SF News Day Around The Bay: The Warriors Arena Shall Be Called The Chase Center JP Morgan Chase "won" the naming rights to the upcoming, albeit delayed, Warriors Arena, and so it will be called The Chase Center, or just The Chase. [KRON 4, Business Times, ABC 7]
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P. Paul Kantner, Jefferson Airplane's Last Remaining SF Resident News arrived late Thursday that Paul Kantner, one of the three vocalists in legendary San Francisco psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane, has died at age 74 of multiple organ failure. Kantner was the
Arts & Entertainment Now Martin Shkreli Is Beefing With Ghostface Killah, And It Is Insanely Stupid When he's not mocking Congress and pretending that he's not in very deep sh*t these days, arguable sociopath and formerly SF-based pharma bro Martin Shkreli is keeping busy by having an online
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 14 Best Beer Bars In SF And Oakland A beer bar needs just a few things to make it great: an easy-going, come-as-you-are vibe; a solid selection of beers hopefully running the gamut from old- to new-school; and a minimum of
Arts & Entertainment You Can Rent This Guy's North Beach Pad For Super Bowl Weekend For $43K I know you didn't need one more thing to make you hate the Super Bowl, but here's one more anyway. This guy, Cal, is renting his three-bedroom North Beach apartment on Airbnb for
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Fuller House' Gets A Featurette The promo blitz continues for Netflix's Full House reboot, and now you can Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, John Stamos and the gang talking about how they really are sort of a family
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Taylor Mac's 'A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music' At The Curran To call the art of Taylor Mac ambitious is an understatement, and maybe even an insult. In one of his last outings as a performer in SF in 2011, Mac brought his extravagant
SF News Which Are More Dangerous: Scofflaw Cyclists, Or Bad-Mannered Drone Flyers? Yesterday's post about the drone crashing into the Clement Street farmers' market which thankfully didn't hurt anyone but easily could have has got me thinking about one of our city's other hot-button arguments,
SF News HA! That Big Verizon Wrap Ad At Embarcadero Center Is Illegal, City Demands Its Removal You know how Verizon and Super Bowl 50 were doing that huge wrap of Four Embarcadero Center over the last two weeks the one that ran into a humorous snafu last week? Some
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Of SF's Best Burgers Under Threat As Bourbon Steak Prepares To Close Indefinitely Listen up, burger fans: If you haven't plunked down the $24 for the Bourbon Steak burger, available only on the bar menu, you may want to get over there in the next two
SF News Cops Bust Huge Civic Center Drug Ring, Arrest 48 The open-air drug market that is UN Plaza just got a bit less druggy after a joint task force consisting of the SFPD, Alameda County Narcotics Task Force, and the DEA made 48
Arts & Entertainment Who Was This Man With A Pet Raccoon On Telegraph Hill In The 1950's? Among the trove of historic photos SFist has been sharing from the Charles W. Cushman Collection at the Indiana University Archives, there are several that Cushman took on an afternoon stroll up Telegraph
SF News Anti-Deportation Activists Arrested After Blocking Downtown Streets #Relief4Refugees action in SF, shutting down the intersection! #StopTheRaids #Not1More pic.twitter.com/ax4uaY0oSc— Imagine 2050 (@Imagine2050) January 26, 2016 A simultaneous protest in San Francisco and Los Angeles was happening today to
SF News Man Crashes Drone Into Farmers' Market, Then Gets Mad About Being Photographed Only in SF? Here's an alternate headline: Man Surreptitiously Photographing People At Farmers' Market Suddenly Has Privacy Concerns About Being Photographed. You've got tech, farmers' markets, inconsiderate drone behavior, and privacy paranoia all
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: If You Lose Your Clipper Card, You'll Be Stuck With One Of These I'm going to keep asking: Are you sick of the Super Bowl news yet? Well you'll have so many more chances to be sick of the Super Bowl over the next few months
Arts & Entertainment 'Hamilton' Comes To SF For Five Months Starting In March 2017, LA After We heard a couple weeks ago that the first national tour of the wildly popular Broadway musical Hamilton would be kicking off this fall in Chicago, with definite stops in San Francisco and
SF News Day Around The Bay: Get Even More Paranoid About Super Bowl Terrorism! [BuzzFeed] is still trying to make 'Frisco' happen. [Earlier] As discussed last week, the FBI is gearing up for various kinds of potential terrorist threats during Super Bowl Week. And while there will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink (Semi-)New Bagel Alert: Shegetz Bagel Pops Up Occasional Weekends In La Lengua On the Mission/Bernal border, within PizzaHacker's space at 3299 Mission Street, there is now a new bagel pop-up making occasional weekend appearances: Shegetz Bagel. Eater noted them briefly back in December, and
Arts & Entertainment Ballers Encouraged To Rent Lamborghinis, Maseratis For The Purpose Of Super Bowl Frontin' If you're tired of Super Bowl 50 news, too bad! Today we got a notice from Enterprise and their Exotic Car Collection informing us that we should let baller travelers to SF or
SF News [Update] Public Utilities Commission Told SF General It's OK To Flush Tons Of Pills Down Toilets At least one veteran nurse at SF General is sounding the alarm bell about a recent policy change at the hospital pushed by the Drug Enforcement Administration that has all leftover pills and
Arts & Entertainment Radiohead Rumored To Be Outside Lands 2016 Headliner Following Thursday's BIG NEWS that everyone's favorite genre-blending geniuses Radiohead have a new album set for release and the band is heading out on tour this spring and summer, we get a fresh
Arts & Entertainment Take In The Views Of SF From Telegraph Hill, Chinatown, And Ocean Beach In 1952 Last week I brought you the first in a series of posts on the treasure trove of San Francisco images of the last century from the archive of Indiana University, and the collection
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Ame Is Closing, Okane Debuts, And More It's the slow season in restaurant land, which is why they have Restaurant Week with all those (sometimes worthwhile) discounts. It's also the kickoff of Beer Week starting with tonight's gala at Fort
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Awesome Free Room Available If You Will Be This Engineer's Girlfriend There's a longstanding cliché about engineers of all stripes being socially awkward and/or inept, and that probably holds true with a guy who's posted an ad on Craigslist that ought to be
Arts & Entertainment Red Hot Chili Peppers Doing A Concert You Can't Go To The Night Before The Super Bowl A late edition to the Super Bowl Week concert lineup just arrived and it's 90's alterna-rock gods The Red Hot Chili Peppers. But unlike the previously announced Dave Matthews and Pharrell Williams shows,
