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
SF News <i>Times</i> Weighs In On SF's Crazy Local Election; Yes On F People Vow To Bring Measure Back In 2016 As SFist has been trying to tell anyone who'll listen, despite the fact that we aren't even reelecting Nancy Pelosi in this one and the mayor pretty much has it in the bag,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Crab Season Possibly Delayed By Toxic Algae Bloom It's a Bay Area tradition to find Dungeness crab starting to appear on local menus this month, and on Thanksgiving tables in a few weeks, but the crabbing season may not start on
Arts & Entertainment Daisy Does The Niners: SF Looks Horrendous In 27-6 Loss To St. Louis It’s pretty clear the 49ers have some major issues to address. by Daisy Barringer While you were all out hiking and brunching and having morning sex or whatever it is normal, happy
SF News Willie Brown Just Invited The Whole Town To An Open Bar Tomorrow If you happened to miss the politically tinged, folksy charm of Willie Brown's Willie's World column in the Chronicle on Sunday, you may have missed an important invitation. Brown casually notes, as if
SF News Ferry Building Missed Daylight Saving Memo, Clock Stays Wrong #DaylightSavingTime has ended but San Francisco’s Ferry Building didn’t get the memo: https://t.co/o89QUonOcf pic.twitter.com/LFEhBNnjfD— ABC7 News (@abc7newsBayArea) November 1, 2015 The clock tower at the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: A Taker For The Bay Wolf Space, Barcha Debuts In SoMa, And More This week saw the opening of Iza Ramen in the Lower Haight, and brought news of former Poleng Lounge guy Tim Luym doing the food for a new bar in the Polk, Ho's
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Room With No Walls, $1300/Mo I'm back! Did you miss me and this sad, sad column last week while I was on vacation, far away from the sadness? Well, buck up, because there are a lot more rental
SF News Mission House Selling For Eight Times What It Sold For Three Years Ago Today in house sadness, a formerly dilapidated three-story house on Treat Avenue in the Mission was fully fixed up by some new owners in the last couple years, and it's now selling for
Arts & Entertainment Lyft Is Delivering Free Zombies Today For a little Halloween promotional fun, Lyft is delivering zombies to your door today, for free. "Liven up a dead party! Activate a sluggish meeting!" says the promo. Yes, you can have a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink High-End Sausalito Spot Sushi Ran Expands To The Castro Well, we now have word of who's taking the vacant Pesce space. As Inside Scoop reports, it's Sushi Ran, the acclaimed Sausalito Japanese spot, which will now be giving Castro neighborhood sushi places
SF News Alamo And Danville Deserve All The Drought-Shaming Because of public information requests from the media, the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) continues to publish lists of their biggest water wasters since they began penalizing customers for overuse in July.
SF News Here's Why You Need To Vote In Tuesday's Election (And Why Many Of You Won't) A lot of you are probably sick of reading stories about affordable housing, moratoriums on building, Airbnb, and a bizarrely contentious fight over something called District 3, wherever that might be. For those
SF News First Snow Fell In Tahoe Yesterday The first snows of what could be a very snowy El Niño winter fell at high altitudes in Lake Tahoe on Wednesday afternoon, and skiers and ski resorts are getting very excited. As
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tadich Grill Owner Responds, Says Disowning His Daughter Wasn't About Racism Whether you believe him or not, longtime owner of Tadich Grill Steve Buich, who says he retired from the business 20 years ago, has spoken out via email to the Chronicle's C.W.
SF News Landlord Trying To Evict Duboce Triangle Artist Says His Family Really Is Just Trying To Move In Despite skepticism from anti-eviction activists, the owner of the building at 53-55 Walter Street where longtime tenant David Brenkus is facing an Ellis Act eviction has reached out to SFist to explain that
Arts & Entertainment Sportscasters Pretended The Warriors Were Already In SF During Last Night's NBA Opener As the Chronicle and the Business Times reported, there was a day-long fan event celebrating the Warriors Tuesday, who helped the cable station TNT to kick off the opening of basketball season last
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iza Ramen Opens Thursday In The Lower Haight We learned a couple months back that Iza Ramen had closed a deal to take over the former Squat & Gobble at 237 Fillmore Street, which shut its doors over the summer after
SF News [Update] Should Living In An Apartment For 34 Years Give You The Right To Stay There? The story of artist David Brenkus, a Duboce Triangle resident since 1981, getting evicted by the family of deYoung Museum curator Emma Harshawat (née Acker) is obviously an irresistible one for both sides
SF News Counterfeit Xanax Has Now Killed At Least Three People In SF Pills imprinted with the name Xanax that are being sold on the streets of SF have now been blamed for the deaths of three people, and there may be more to come. We
SF News Day Around The Bay: First Pics From The 'Looking' Movie Set A European-based company called SigFox has already installed a small, inexpensive, low-bandwidth cell network in cooperation with San Francisco which will ultimately allow for "the internet of things" to happen, with stuff like
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Daughter Of Tadich Grill Family Talks About Being Disowned For Marrying A Black Man, Yelpers Respond En Masse A story with local implications broke on Sunday via the Washington Post, and it's already spelling some trouble for a storied local restaurant, via Yelp. Terri Upshaw, born Terri Buich into the family
SF News Mayor Says He'd Be 'Open' To Letting Gay Bathhouses Back In SF, But Will That Happen? Mayor Ed Lee has been making the rounds of local publications, allowing himself to be interviewed by editorial boards in preparation for an election he's all but guaranteed to win (see the Chronicle's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Poleng Lounge Chef Tim Luym Involved In New Spot In Russian Hill Fans of the long gone, pan-Asian-street-food spot Poleng Lounge perhaps some of whom have traveled down to San Mateo a few times to sample the ongoing work of chef Tim Luym at Attic
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Dixie Chicks Cover Lana Del Rey's 'Video Games' At The Bridge School Benefit The 29th annual Bridge School Benefit, founded by Neil Young and his ex-wife Pegi down at Shoreline Amphitheater, happened over the weekend, drawing Baby Boomers and Ryan Adams fans from across the Bay
