SF News At High End, SF's Housing Market Finally Cooling Off While doomsayers have believed there was no end in sight to the white-hot home sale market in San Francisco, at least at the luxury end of the spectrum, the market appears to finally
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zazie Owner 'Not Sorry' About Her Anti-Toddler Comments; Business Booming At Restaurant Nonetheless Just a quick update on what Hoodline has now dubbed "Toddlergate" the dustup this past week over some off-the-cuff comments by the owner of Zazie, posted to a Cole Valley neighborhood Facebook group,
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Jerk In San Mateo Will Rent You Studio For $1400 If You Work For Him This week's listing really made me angry for a few reasons. First of all, it's basically a job listing tucked in under the apartment listings. Second of all, the person listing it, who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sneaky's BBQ Moves In With Southpaw On Mission Ongoing pop-up Sneaky's BBQ, which for a time had a home at Rebel on Market Street, has a new permanent home in the kitchen of Southpaw BBQ (2170 Mission Street between 17th and
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Neighborhoods Portrayed As Dog Breeds, In Costumes This brief video by Videopixie's Libby Cooper shows some animated dog breeds representing each of eleven neighborhoods. It should be noted that pitbulls make it on here twice (for The Mission and the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink No Local Dungeness Crab Likely Until January, If Then As was suggested earlier this week, the local Dungeness season may not even happen at all this year because of a toxic red algae bloom along the Pacific Coast. The recreational crab season,
SF News Day Around The Bay: When Will The Warriors Arena Opponents Give Up? What will it take for the Mission Bay Alliance, the foes of the Warriors Arena, to give up the fight now that the arena's EIR was approved? It's unclear. But the lawyers are
SF News The Mission And Bernal Voted For Props F And I, But Not So Much Elsewhere It turns out that the majority of Yes on F and Yes on I votes in Tuesday's election came, perhaps not surprisingly, from District 9, which includes most of the Mission and all
SF News SF's First Female Sheriff Says She Won't Be An Activist Like Mirkarimi Perhaps we should have made more of a big deal about this yesterday, but San Francisco just elected its first ever female sheriff, Vicki Hennessy which is more of a big deal to
Arts & Entertainment Video: James Franco Talks About Growing Up And Stealing Stuff In Palo Alto Palo Alto native James Franco just told the story of his California upbringing for an animated piece from Google Play. He reveals that his dad, like him, kind of had attention deficit disorder
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Zazie Owner Vents Frustration About Small Children In Restaurants The controversy over children in restaurants is not new and in a city with so few children as San Francisco, tension over the topic is pretty inevitable. But a kerfuffle has erupted via
Arts & Entertainment Famed Cat Painting (From San Francisco) Sells For $826,000 A 19th Century painting of 42 cats, well known to art-loving cat lovers, has been sold at auction at Sotheby's to a new cat lover for $826,000. As the San Francisco Chronicle
SF News [Update] UC Merced Attacker Identified; Victim Who Was Construction Worker Hailed As Hero The 18-year-old freshman responsible for yesterday's stabbing spree at UC Merced has been identified as Faisal Mohammad of Santa Clara. Mohammad was a Computer Science and Engineering major at the school, and he's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Academy Bar & Kitchen Debuts On Fillmore In the former Pizza Inferno space at the edge of Japantown, already open, is Academy Bar & Kitchen (1800 Fillmore Street at Sutter), which SFist first learned about back in February. The restaurant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 14 Best Coffee Shops In San Francisco (A Definitive List) Beans can be over-roasted. Your pour-over could arrive lukewarm. And lack of functioning, speedy wi-fi can kind of ruin your day. But across town there are a smattering of welcoming, amazing little coffee
SF News [Update] Four People Stabbed At UC Merced, Suspect Shot And Killed In a bizarre incident of college campus violence this morning, five students were apparently stabbed by a single suspect at UC Merced. The university tweeted about the incident, as shown below, announcing that
SF News Is Mayor Peskin Next? Even though he won last night, lots of people are saying that Ed Lee symbolically lost. And it's certainly the case that despite low voter turnout, Tuesday's election showed that a large swath
SF News 2015 Election Wrap-up: Peskin In, Mirkarimi Out, Props F And I Go Down Congratulations to my new colleague @AaronPeskin! https://t.co/vihBWT3lNF— Jane Kim (@SupeJaneKim) November 4, 2015 Last night was a rollercoaster for political wonks and hardcore progressives in San Francisco, and for everyone
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Once Upon A Time, The Nopa Space Almost Became A Blockbuster Video It's kind of amazing the way neighborhoods morph and change over time, some for better and some for worse, sometimes incrementally and sometimes pretty quickly. The last five years, for instance, has seen
Arts & Entertainment Video: Stanley Roberts Returns To Work After Stroke! Remember back in August when beloved local finger-wagger Stanley Roberts suffered a series of small strokes and went abruptly off the air at KRON 4? Well, happily, he received treatment in time, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deranged Maniacs With Green Thumbs Actively Adding Random Fruit Tree Branches To Trees Near You Just kidding. This is fun! A group called Guerrilla Grafters are doing something that's illegal but nonetheless kind of rad: They're going around town and grafting baby fruit-tree branches onto existing street trees,
SF News The Ballad Of Terence Faulkner, Local Republican Gadfly And Professional Ballot Measure Opponent Another election day has arrived, and for those who actually read their voter guides carefully, I commend you for your patience and your civic due diligence. I would joke that there are only
SF News Robin Williams' Widow Gives Interview, Says She Forgives Him It's been over a year since Robin Williams took his own life in the Tiburon home they shared, and now his wife of three years, Susan Williams (née Schneider), has spoken out to
SF News Day Around The Bay: Illicit Sunnyside Parking Space Dude Prevails You know that guy who decided that getting a permit was going to take too long so he just started excavating a small hillside on his property in Sunnyside to create an off-street
SF News Big Empty Parking Lot At Balboa Park Station To Become Affordable Housing In a move that should never have taken this long, a sizable, city-owned parking lot next to the Balboa Park BART station in the Excelsior is moving forward to be developed as 80
