Arts & Entertainment <i>This American Life</i> Highlights SF After-School Program That Put On A Children's Musical About Gentrification The theme of this week's episode of NPR's This American Life, which premieres Friday, is "The Poetry of Propaganda," and one of the stories centers on a unique after-school program in San Francisco
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Stanley Roberts Again Calls Out Asian Ladies Who Take Food From Glide Giveaways And Sell It Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco is a uniquely generous and inclusive institution that has hosted food giveaways for the needy for many years now. In addition to their daily free meal program
SF News Man Refuses To Buy Weed In Dolores Park, Gets Stabbed Multiple Times A 22-year-old man was with a female friend in Dolores Park Tuesday evening when the pair was approached by a group of male suspects, one of whom asked if they wanted to buy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brandon Jew's Long-Awaited Chinatown Restaurant Mister Jiu's Due In New Year It's been well over two years that we've known about the approach of chef Brandon Jew's ambitious Chinatown project, named for the more proper spelling of his ancestral name, Mister Jiu's. As Eater
Arts & Entertainment You'll See The Bay Lights Back On This Week For Testing Ahead Of January Unveiling Fans of the Bay Lights, rejoice! and detractors like the Chron's John King, shake your fists in the air for this week, artist Leo Villareal will be camped out on Pier 14 after
SF News Idaho Stop Legislation Passes First Vote, Barely; Bike Coalition Tweets At Supervisors Throughout Vote As we noted on Monday, the contentious issue of legalizing the rolling "Idaho stop" for cyclists came for a vote at the Board of Supervisors meeting yesterday, and as predicted it came up
SF News Prepare For A Wet Christmas Around The Bay, And A White Christmas In Tahoe A new set of rainstorms will descend on the Bay Area by the end of this week, setting the stage for consecutive days of wet weather extending until after Christmas. These will be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Union Square-Adjacent Bar Cantina Sold To Press Club Owners, Will Get Revamp Big news from the local bar scene: Well known local barkeep turned booze writer Duggan McDonnell and his original partner have sold their bar Cantina (580 Sutter Street) to a new regime. As
SF News Woman Arrested In Dead Toddler Case Is Sister Of Guy Jailed For Starting Huge NorCal Wildfire Last Year Well I didn't see this coming: Potential accused child murderer Tami Joy Huntsman, arrested Monday in Northern California in connection to the abuse of a nine-year-old girl and the deaths of her two
Arts & Entertainment The Irony!: Three Big Tech Companies All Had <i>Great Gatsby</i>-Themed Holiday Parties This Year A lot of people, including SFist, were quick to call 2014's bubble-riffic round of tech company holiday parties "excessive," which has perhaps prompted them to be a little more low-key about talking about
SF News [Updated] Two Arrested In Connection With The Murder Of Two Toddlers Found In Northern California Storage Locker A 39-year-old woman and her 17-year-old companion, both living in the tiny Northern California town of Quincy in the Plumas National Forest, were arrested Thursday on charges of felony child abuse, torture, and
SF News Campos On Mario Woods Shooting: 'We Need Fundamental Change Around De-Escalation' Both Martin Halloran, the president of the S.F. Police Officers Association, and Supervisor David Campos went on Phil Matier's Sunday morning program on CBS 5, Matier in the Morning, to have an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After Six Years, Local Mission Eatery Will Call It Quits On Saturday Back in early 2010, Local Mission Eatery debuted as a new sort of idealistic, hybrid, business a high-end sandwich shop with well sourced, local ingredients, with a bakery in back, and with cooking
SF News City Cracks Down On Airbnb/VRBO Law Violators, Issues $400,000 In Penalties Though many critics have called the "Airbnb law" that the SF Board of Supervisors passed last year unenforceable, enforcement appears to be ramping up, especially after this past election in which short-term rentals
Arts & Entertainment Adele Announces Three Bay Area Concert Dates Next Summer Hello? Can you hear me? In addition to doing six nights at Madison Square Garden in New York and six nights at L.A.'s Staples Center, Adele announced a North American tour
SF News Weekend Storm Leads To Downed Trees, Flash Floods, Two Deaths Downpour in Russian Hill. Haven't seen rain like this in San Francisco for a while @LiveDoppler7HD #abc7now pic.twitter.com/4WsOJvy8dX— Martin Ortiz (@newsortiz) December 13, 2015 A brief, passing storm Sunday morning
Arts & Entertainment Video Du Jour: SantaCon Via Hoverboard I'll just let the video-taker and uploader, Eric, summarize this one with his title: "King Dick of Douche Mountain." As seen Saturday, December 12, in Union Square, San Francisco. Previously: SantaCon Disputes Death
SF News Day Around The Bay: Transbay District Developer Backs Out An alleged vandal with some scary face tattoos wreaked some havoc at a tony salon in Jackson Square Thursday morning. [Hoodline] Previously committed Transbay residential developer Crescent Heights has backed out of a
SF News City Marijuana Task Force Named Ahead Of Probable State Legalization This week, the Board of Supervisors' Rules Committee, which consists of Supervisors Scott Wiener, Malia Cohen, and John Avalos, voted to appoint 11 out of 48 applicants to a task force that will
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Two Bunk-Bed 'Hacker' Dorms Described As 'Luxe,' And 'High-End' While it's not every week I see a retirement home hitting the open market, seeking all ages of renters for its SROs and three squares a day, it is every week that I
SF News In Response To Class Action, Uber Sends New Agreement For All Drivers To Sign Barring Class Actions On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that an arbitration clause Uber had included in its agreement signed by all drivers was unenforceable, and that therefore a class-action lawsuit in California to rule that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best New Bars Of 2015 San Francisco has had a fantastic year for new food and drink, topping even the last couple (which were nothing to scoff at, either). While 2014 brought us a dozen cool new bars
SF News Uh Oh, Uber: Judge Rules Class Action About Drivers Being Employees Can Expand A debate has been raging all year surrounding class-action lawsuits against sharing-economy companies like Uber, Lyft, Instacart, Postmates, and others about whether their drivers/personal shoppers should be considered employees rather than independent
SF News Police Commission Meeting About Mario Woods Shooting Erupts In Chaos Healthy showing of protesters outside #SF city hall calling for consequences to killing of #mariowoods pic.twitter.com/SF4yINHJqs— Jonah Owen Lamb (@jonahowenlamb) December 10, 2015 A meeting of the police commission Wednesday
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bracing For The Strongest El Niño On Record Yes, rains so far up here have been brief and disappointing. But there could still be a whole lot of wet coming our way in January and February in what's officially being called
