SF News 62-Year-Old Man Arrested For Spray-Painting 'NO MORE CHINESE' All Over Bayview The SFPD is thanking the public for their help after an arrest was made Tuesday in a vandalism case that is being considered a hate crime. 62-year-old John Schenone of San Francisco has
SF News Sangiacomo And Trinity Properties Subpeonaed By City In Allegedly Shady Rentals Case Following on a lawsuit filed in August by City Attorney Dennis Herrera against Trinity Properties, Herrera has now subpeonaed documents from Trinity and its leaseholder Lumi Worldwide concerning a block of 16 units
SF News Right-To-Die Legislation May Pass In California Legislature After All A bill that would allow terminally ill patients in California to end their own lives with help from their doctors has just passed through the state Assembly on its way to a state
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three More Castro Restaurants Shutter: Zapata, Chile Pies, And Janchi In the case of one Castro neighborhood restaurant that announced it would close soon, it was a landlord squabble that did them in. In the case of another, it was probably poor business
SF News San Francisco's Twitterati Hate Tourists Not surprisingly to anyone who lives here, San Franciscans seem by and large to hate dealing with tourists even though our fair city is considered one of the top, if not the top,
SF News Video: Watch An Entire Burglary In Progress At Monterey Deli A burglary took place at Monterey Deli (499 Monterey Boulevard), in the Sunnyside neighborhood, on the morning of August 29, and the entire thing was caught on surveillance video, both outside and inside
SF News Day Around The Bay: Airbnb's Vagina Logo Was Actually Designed In The 70s A Redditor spotted Airbnb's logo in a book of trademarked corporate logos from 1988, and it turns out it was once used as the logo for a Japanese drive-in called Azuma. Just further
Arts & Entertainment Video: Steve Wozniak Says Steve Jobs 'Did Not Know Technology' True to form, Steve Wozniak sat down for a lengthy interview with a 9th grader in Florida and was decidedly candid about his former business partner and colleague Steve Jobs, and the early
SF News SF City Departments Bracing For El Niño Floods It's kind of hard to think about winter right now as the city is SWELTERING. But we must. We've gotten plenty of mixed messages when it comes to this coming "Godzilla El Niño"
SF News Google To Take On Amazon And Instacart With Expanded Grocery Delivery In SF Later This Year In a fairly predictable move, Google Express will be trying to expand into the delivery-from-Whole Foods market by testing the service in SF later this year, according to a Google Express manager who
Arts & Entertainment Dust, Wind, More Dust, And Katy Perry: Photos From Burning Man 2015 Burning Man 2015 wrapped up on Sunday, and while we don't yet have a tally of how many dust-caked bicycles got left behind this year (last year it was 2,000), we have
SF News 39-Year-Old Cyclist Arrested In Critical Mass Rage Incident The man police believe was responsible for $2,000 in damages to a Zipcar in this road rage incident during a Critical Mass event in the Marina last month has been found. As
SF News Day Around The Bay: Governor To Tax All Drivers C.W. Nevius gives us the long view on Critical Mass, its former relationship with the Bicycle Coalition, and the "bad old days" of the 90s, when cyclists used to slash cops' tires.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Mathilde Debuts, Oro Arrives, Sliderbar Rebrands, And More Tablehopper reports on the debut of Mathilde, the replacement for Le Charm that we mentioned was coming a couple months back. Only there was some misinformation it turns out that new owner Mathilde
SF News People In Portland Are Putting 'No Californians' Stickers On Houses For Sale You think Oaklanders are pissed about San Franciscans moving there and driving up housing costs? Observe Portland, where a certain symbol sticker, showing the state of California with a line through it, has
SF News Apartment Sadness: A Box With A View For $3300 (And It's A Share) It used to be that you could save money finding a share in these parts. But not so much in SoMa, and not so much in fancy high-rises. This is an ad that
SF News SoMa Developer Proposes Two-Bedrooms That Are Exactly The Same As One-Bedrooms How's this for shady? A developer looking to put up a seven-story, 274-unit apartment building at 333 12th Street is trying to skirt zoning laws that call for a certain mix of larger
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Palate Cleanser: 'I Can't Feel My Face' Cover Played On Dentist's Equipment This awesome cover of The Weeknd's big summer jam "I Can't Feel My Face" by the very talented Andrew Huang was played entirely on dental equipment in an actual dentist's office. Instruments include
SF News Oaklander Rails Against Gentrification, Tells Newcomers To Stop Moving There A short screed on Craigslist is making the rounds [Ed. Note: The post was removed, but it's screencapped below], posted in the Rooms & Shares section for Oakland, titled "STOP MOVING TO OAKLAND.
Arts & Entertainment Nancy Pelosi's Daughter Airing Documentary About The New SF On HBO On September 28, HBO is airing the new documentary San Francisco 2.0, directed by Alexandra Pelosi, and the film was screened last night here in town (SFist wasn't invited). As the Business
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters To Get Special Medal From President Obama Next Week I am so honored to accept the National Humanities Medal from @POTUS Watch live 9/10 @ 3pm EDT http://t.co/Pw13DCNd70 pic.twitter.com/oT3xyhelKM— Alice Waters (@AliceWaters) September 3, 2015 Food
Arts & Entertainment Justin Vivian Bond Revives First SF Cabaret Act, 'Dixie McCall's Patterns For Living,' In NYC Trans performer Justin Vivian Bond, née Justin Bond, got v's start in San Francisco and v, by the way, is Mx. Bond's preferred pronoun. Bond's first cabaret endeavor in 1990, intended at the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pesce To Close In The Castro On September 13 After just two years in its new location in the Castro, and after more than a decade in smaller digs on Polk Street, Pesce (2223 Market Street) is calling it quits. The restaurant
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Rock Climbers Install Light-Based Art Installation On Yosemite's Half Dome This video, shot on August 29, shows a group of climbers installing 39 solar-powered LED lanterns temporarily up the Snake Dike route on Yosemite's Half Dome. It was an art piece titled Half
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Grubstake Owners Remain Wishy-Washy About Diner's Future Following on Monday's report that the beloved Grubstake diner would likely indeed go the way of the developer's bulldozer under new ownership, the Chronicle circled back to the buyers, who remain in escrow
