Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Rep's Renovated Thrust Stage Getting Named After Peet's Coffee Berkeley Repertory Theater has been undergoing a major renovation project in their original, three-quarter round Thrust Stage space, which is set to be unveiled to the public with a grand opening celebration on
SF News Video: Local Legend Country Joe McDonald Lobbies To Clean And Relocate Vietnam Memorial Plaque Did you know there was a Vietnam memorial in San Francisco? Neither, really, did Stanley Roberts, but he got called in to do a "People Behaving Badly" segment for KRON 4 by local
SF News Warriors Arena Appeal Fails, Opponents Still Vowing To Throw Fits And Sue Everyone Another blow was dealt to the deep-pocketed, semi-shadowy coalition that vociferously opposes the new Warriors Arena project in Mission Bay as the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday night to reject their
Arts & Entertainment Years Later, Hibernia Bank Still Might Become A Nightclub, Or A Tech Office We've been following the rumors about what is to become of the grand Hibernia Bank building at Jones and Market for years now. The historic, Beaux-Arts structure from 1892 is one of the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Oakland Man Makes Hundreds Renting Out Literal Shack Apartment Sadness arrives early this week! Sort of... This is less an apartment than it is a decrepit shack that may be a plywood-walled, converted garage. As part of a stunt of some
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Souvla Coming To Divisadero Fans of popular Hayes Valley Greek-inspired wrap spot Souvla should be glad to know that it's getting a second location, this time on Divisadero, in just the latest of a string of new
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Because you should probably get off the internet and off Candy Crush at some point, and you will need to do something besides holiday parties this week. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8 TIKI BIRTHDAY: Venerable
SF News The First Of Many Zuckerbaby Photos Arrives To Annoy Us On Facebook (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=
Arts & Entertainment Dave Matthews Band, Pharrell Announce Super Bowl Week Shows At Pier 70 Don't date yourselves, but for those who went to high school or college in mid- to late 1990s in the US, you likely endured a lot of Dave Matthews either blaring out a
Arts & Entertainment Supervisors Already Annoyed About Super Bowl, Still Don't Know What It Will Cost City Echoing some of the back-and-forth that happened leading up to the 2013 America's Cup, several of SF's Board of Supervisors are continuing to voice concerns about how much of the bill for the
SF News In Ongoing Battle With Catholic Hospital, ACLU Moves To Sue Over Refused Tubal Ligations Mercy Medical Center in Redding, California, which is part of the SF-based, mostly Catholic Dignity Health network, has come under fire from the ACLU of Northern California after refusing to perform tubal ligations
Arts & Entertainment Behold: Portland's 'Hipster Santa' Yes, Virginia, in Portlandia, even Santa has a man bun. Portland, Oregon's KOIN dubbed the guy the Hipster Santa when they put him on TV last week, and this particular unidentified Kris Kringle
SF News El Niño Rainfall Totals So Far Disappointing, Way Lower Than '97 Another storm is headed for the Bay Area this week, but according to rainfall totals for the second half of the year so far, this El Nino will not be the drought-buster many
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Keurig Now Part Of The Peet's Coffee Family Vermont-based Keurig Green Mountain, a pioneer in the coffee-pod business, will now become part of the same conglomerate that owns Peet's Coffee & Tea and, as of recently, Stumptown Coffee Roasters and Intelligentsia
SF News Uber Launches In Tahoe, Says It's Getting More Female Drivers Every Month Solving a slightly complicated issue involving the state line, Uber has announced it will officially be launching in the Lake Tahoe area, north and south, before the new year. The news comes as
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: An SRO In An Actual Retirement Home In The 'Loin The trend of trying to fill SRO units that would previously have only been marketable to people on fixed incomes or the relatively indigent/substance dependent with well off newcomers to town has
SF News SFPD Still Trying To Justify Killing Knife-Wielding Mario Woods As Community Outrage Grows Gwendolyn Woods said SFPD executed her son, the youngest of three boys. Here's a picture of mom and #MarioWoods pic.twitter.com/vyniRQsgGn— Michael Barba (@mdbarba) December 4, 2015 Tensions are rising and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Surprise!: Blue Bottle And Tartine Aren't Merging After All It may have made a certain kind of San Francisco sense when you heard the announcement in April that two of the city's most successful food brands of the last decade, Tartine Bakery
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder</i> New this week via the Broadway tour producers SHNSF is the 2014 Tony Award winner for Best New Musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. It's a thoroughly English, darkly comic, and
Arts & Entertainment Hunter Pence Got Engaged, Everybody In a video direct from Disneyland, where he popped the question, popular and enigmatic San Francisco Giant Hunter Pence just proposed to girlfriend Alexis Cozombolidis, and it's real cute. In the video posted
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jedi Chef Jonathan Waxman Will Open Brezza Emporio And Pizzeria In Ghirardelli Square Next Year We heard earlier this year about star chef Jonathan Waxman's plans to open his first San Francisco venture, originally slated for the fall, in Ghirardelli Square. As it goes with these things, it's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 22 Best Cheap Eats In SF For $10 Or Less (That Aren't Burgers, Pizza, Tacos, Or Burritos) All together now: San Francisco is really goddamn expensive. But, like any decent culinary capital, we are still home to plenty of cheap food options that still put other cities' food to shame.
SF News Oikos University Shooter May Be Too Insane For Trial, But Wants Death Penalty Anyway As we learned in October, three and a half years on since the mass shooing at Oakland's Oikos University that claimed seven lives, confessed shooter One Goh might finally be ready to face
SF News Day Around The Bay: Hot Cop Pleads Not Guilty The SF Police Commission is set to vote tonight on rules governing body cameras, which officers will be issued next year. [SF Weekly, Chronicle] Yesterday the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an ordinance
SF News Batsh*t 'Witch Killer' From 1980s Suzan Carson Denied Parole As briefly noted last week, a notorious local serial killer from the 1980s, one of a husband-and-wife pair known as the San Francisco Witch Killers, was up for parole this week, and as
