SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Barman And Booze Scribe Duggan McDonnell On SF's Cocktail Legacy And <i>Drinking the Devil's Acre</i> Bar owner, spirits writer, pisco brand owner, and longtime friend of SFist Duggan McDonnell has just published his first book, which is titled Drinking the Devil's Acre: A Love Letter from San Francisco
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: State Opens Inquiry Into Wilsey's Apparent Financial Misconduct Well, since it looks like this scandal at the deYoung involving Dede Wilsey won't be going away, I guess it's time she gets her own tag along the lines of Oh No, Ed
SF News At Least 10 Tech Campuses Threatened By El Niño Flooding First El Niño took your Dungeness crabs, then it brought you thunderstorms in November, and now it threatens to turn the Googleplex into a swamp. According to a new report in the SF
SF News Tour Bus Driver Involved In Friday Crash Says He Was 'Powerless' To Stop It UPDATE: Tour bus with up to 30 on board crashes in Union Square; multiple injuries reported. https://t.co/jIbBWgVwRN pic.twitter.com/peN2z4rkC0— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) November 13, 2015 The driver
SF News Pilot Tech Shuttle Program Has Become Permanent As Wired rightly puts it, "Few things have come to epitomize San Francisco gentrification anxiety more than private Silicon Valley shuttle buses," and today we can announce that all those hulking, white "Google
SF News Now Aldon Smith's Been Suspended From The Raiders For Substance Abuse Former 49er Aldon Smith, who got suspended from that team last year and ultimately released from his contract following a gun charge and a couple of DUIs and who's been arrested a total
SF News First Look Inside The New Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg SF General Hospital Peek inside new SF General Hospital: 2x emergency beds, more trauma, operating rooms, roof garden. Opens spring 2016 pic.twitter.com/B5RLVyCvSH— Juan Carlos Guerrero (@JuanCarlosABC7) November 17, 2015 Even though it won't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Step Inside Del Popolo, Opening Tonight On Nob Hill As reported last week, along with the menu, Del Popolo's first brick-and-mortar pizzeria makes its debut this evening at 855 Bush Street, and this is very exciting news for pizza fans, i.e.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drug Use, General Mayhem Getting Worse In Mid-SoMa According To Deli Board Owner There has been a lot of chatter, especially among Chronicle columnists this year, about how much worse the overall homelessness situation has been feeling near their offices around Mission and Fifth. Now columnist
Arts & Entertainment In A Move To Compete Directly With Spotify, Pandora Buys Rdio Oakland-based Pandora just announced that it's purchasing the assets of San Francisco-based Rdio for $75 million, contingent on the latter company getting bankruptcy protection. As shouldn't be surprising given the rapid rise of
Arts & Entertainment Oxford Dictionaries Chooses A F***ing Emoji As Word Of The Year It's either the end of civilization as we know it or a terrific step in the academic recognition of the evolving importance of the visual language of emoji, depending on your perspective. But
SF News Tour Bus Crash Exposes Inspection, Permitting Failure On Part Of Tour Company The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which oversees all vehicles in California with capacities greater than 11 people, says that based on a preliminary review of its records, the tour bus that crashed
SF News Day Around The Bay: Diane Whipple Dog Mauling Murderer Appeals Her Conviction Again Marjorie Knoller (yes, the Whipple dog maul case lady) was back in court today in a final appeal of her second-degree murder conviction in the 15-year-old case. Knoller is serving a 15-year sentence
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jay's Cheesesteak Closing On Divis, Namu Gaji Spinoff On Its Way The latest development in the Valencia-fi-cation of Divisadero: A Namu Gaji spinoff called Namu Claypot is headed for the space currently occupied by a very non-gentrifier spot, Jay's Cheesesteak & Burgers (553 Divisadero)
Arts & Entertainment Dede Wilsey's de Young Museum Scandal Continues After Whistle-Blower Gets Fired SF grand dame and gossip column centerpiece Dede Wilsey has been making news recently for things that don't involve museum balls, fired curators, or her stepson. Last month we heard the first rumbling
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The Vegetarian 'Pancake' At Old Bus Tavern Old Bus Tavern is not so much a tavern as it is a food-centric brewpub whose food transcends brewpub standards though there is a stellar example of beef chili on the menu, if
SF News Sunday Sideshows Lead To Oakland Officers Killing One Man Holding Replica Handgun There was some mayhem involving an army of vehicles and multiple separate sideshows in Oakland over the weekend. In addition to the police cars and helicopter that got shot at near a sideshow
SF News A Dozen Muni Lines Will Be Disrupted By Super Bowl Fan Village As more details arrive about preparations for the eight-day Super Bowl 50 celebration in SF, we learn that "about a dozen" Muni bus lines, including the F-Market streetcar, will be disrupted by the
SF News Local Couple On Paris Honeymoon Were Dining Two Blocks From Bataclan Concert Hall During Attack As stories continue to trickle back from ex-pats and American travelers who had scary brushes with death during Friday's terrorist attack in Paris, ABC 7 reports on a Santa Rosa couple, Jamie and
SF News Brake Failure Possibly To Blame In Union Square Tour Bus Crash Friday's tour bus crash in Union Square, which has left six people still hospitalized and four of those in critical condition, may have been the result of substandard maintenance and a mechanical failure
SF News Alice Waters Posts About Daughter Dining 'Down the Street' From Paris Shooting Fanny Singer, Alice Waters's daughter for whom longtime Berkeley eatery Café Fanny was named, was in Paris and out having dinner in the neighborhood of one of the shootings on Friday, but Waters
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Gratitude Closing Its Last Bay Area Location In Berkeley After years of simultaneously serving organic vegan dinners and allegedly indoctrinating staff into a creepy cult, Cafe Gratitude is closing its Berkeley location marking a final exit from the Bay Area where they
SF News [Update] Tour Bus Collides With New Apple Store At Union Square, Five People Critically Injured A double-decker tour bus with an open-air top reportedly lost control and crashed into the construction site of the new Apple flagship store, at the corner of Post and Stockton, just before 3
SF News Apartment Sadness: $3800 For Studio... In Sausalito We're at the point where I don't balk at $3800 a month for a studio. There are definitely studios going for that and more, with views, in The Jasper. But that's SoMa. That's
SF News Drug Dealer 'Fat Joe' Finishes Testifying Against Shrimp Boy, Defense Attempts To Discredit Him The trial of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow continues today, and yesterday one of prosecutors' first witnesses who was a former Chow associate who struck a plea bargain in exchange for his testimony finished
