Arts & Entertainment Photos: Sunday Night's Brilliant Sunset Sunday brought one of those rare, actually warm SF nights, with temperatures all over town over 70 degrees well past sunset. And the sunset itself aided by the outer-ring cloud remnants of Hurricane
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Matilda, The Musical' At The Orpheum Theater Local fans of Roald Dahl's 1988 children's novel Matilda have likely been eager to see the Royal Shakespeare Company's five-year-old musical based on it, which is a dark and boisterous adaptation by director
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Petit Crenn Aims For Early August Debut In Former Bar Jules Digs Ever since we learned in April that the replacement for longtime Hayes Valley neighborhood favorite Bar Jules would be a new casual spot from chef Dominique Crenn, called Petit Crenn, I've been eager
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Live In A Sad Sunset Garage For $1300 In a bid to provide affordable housing for area students, one Sunset family is generously offering the use of their converted garage for a mere $1300 a month. A few years ago, a
SF News Cleaning Service Startup Homejoy Shuts Down Over Worker Classification Lawsuits In what could be the first of several shakeups in the "on-demand" / "gig economy," San Francisco-based startup Homejoy is calling it quits on July 31. The primary reason: It's fighting four lawsuits over
SF News Over A Year After Fire At Dolores And 14th, Residents Still Displaced An anonymous tipster wrote in to report that despite initial reports that only a few people in the six-story building that is 87 Dolores would need to be displaced following an April 2014
Arts & Entertainment Outdoor Cinema In Hayes Valley Becomes Non-Profit After Kickstarter Fails The expanded outdoor cinema project at Hayes Valley's Proxy that we told you about last month did not succeed in raising the $150,000 it was looking to raise via Kickstarter. But, as
SF News Google Self-Driving Car Involved In Its First Minor Injury Accident One of Google's 23 self-driving Lexus SUVs was rear-ended in recent weeks at an intersection in Mountain View, and three employees who were in the car at the time suffered minor whiplash. The
SF News Day Around The Bay: Missing Snake Found! SF was just ranked the 4th worst city in which to drive. [HuffPo] That poisonous snake that apparently went missing at the SF Zoo over the weekend and was presumed dead? It wasn't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Sketchiest Safeways, Ranked A couple years back SFist did you the solid of listing the city's five worst Walgreens. Now, as a new report arrives via Hoodline about one downtown Safeway in particular (145 Jackson Street)
Arts & Entertainment Video: Peek Inside The Renovated Herbst Theater, Reopening In September The Herbst Theater, a.k.a. the San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building, which was originally built as a more utilitarian twin to the War Memorial Opera House next door, has been undergoing
SF News Real Estate Sadness: Crumbling Noe Valley Shack Lists For $1.6M I don't know. Do we really need to get into this? It's another tale of crazy real estate prices, a total tear-down, and the desperation of some with money to own a little
SF News Judge Recommends $7M Fine, Suspension For Uber Over Skirting California Regulations In a ruling by an administrative law judge over claims by the California Public Utilities Commission that Uber had refused to provide necessary information to regulators, Uber is being fined $7.3 million
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tsk/Tsk, A Temporary, 'Low-Brow' Watering Hole, Opens Friday On Divis Earlier we mentioned that former Bourbon & Branch guys Justin Lew and Ian Scalzo were going to be doing something they've done in the past take over a bar, and while taking some
Arts & Entertainment Siri Wants Everyone To Know That Caitlyn Jenner Only Goes By Caitlyn Jenner Ever the friends of the LGBT community, Apple has made sure that Siri delivers some proper sass when asked questions about Bruce Jenner. In fact, if you ask anything about Caitlyn Jenner's former
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The Tasting Menus At AL's Place After three years off the scene and presumably out of practice, it might have been tempting to assume that chef Aaron London was going to need some time to reacclimate to having his
SF News Weather Report: Heat Now, Maybe Rain Later This is a weird goddamn summer, right? All that rain and mist last week, combined with more possible rain from Hurricane Dolores coming up our way by the weekend, is turning this into
SF News Former Colleagues Of Suspected Kidnapper Matthew Muller Describe Him As 'Really Sweet' But Strange In the latest update on the case against suspected home invader and kidnapper-for-ransom Matthew Muller, former employers and colleagues have come forward to describe some of his behavior during the short six-month stint
SF News Uber Reaches Wrongful Death Settlement With Family of Sofia Liu A precedent-setting case against rideshare behemoth Uber has been settled, and the family of Sofia Liu, who was killed in a crosswalk by an UberX driver on New Year's Eve 2013 has won
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marijuana Edibles 'Get Baked Sale' Canceled After City Crackdown A bake sale for medical marijuana-laced edibles scheduled for August 1 has been quashed by the SF Department of Public Health after a new supervisor there ruled that such events aren't legal, as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Restaurants Protest Crazy High Fees For Composting, Will Throw Stuff In Trash Instead The City of Oakland has a contract for their waste removal and recycling that is being passed along to consumers at a far higher rate than other Bay Area cities. As the Chronicle
Arts & Entertainment Kevin Spacey Comes To Sonoma To Sing Standards This Weekend, Do A Little Comedy In an odd turn of events for Bay Area summer entertainment, Oscar winner Kevin Spacey is coming to the Green Music Center at Sonoma State University this Saturday for a one-time performance of
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Buster Posey Deliver A Baby In New Esurance Commercial The always adorable Buster Posey is the latest celebrity to appear in Esurance's new series of ads about imposters who are "sort of" like the real thing in this case Buster is sort
SF News Suspect In Vallejo Kidnapping Possibly Tied To Three More Home Invasions Since the big news yesterday that the FBI was arresting 38-year-old Matthew Muller on suspicion of kidnapping 29-year-old Denise Huskins of Vallejo back in March, Huskins and boyfriend Aaron Quinn appeared at a
SF News LGBT Seniors To Get Passed Over In Senior Housing Complex Built For Them? The affordable housing development currently under construction at 55 Laguna Street, on the former UC Berkeley Extension campus between Market Street and Haight, is being co-developed by a non-profit that helps find housing
