SF News 45-Year-Old Downtown Toy Store Jeffrey's To Close In April, Still Might Relocate A beloved, iconic downtown toy shop one of the last independently owned toy stores in the city is being forced to close next month after a steep rent hike. Used as an inspiration
Arts & Entertainment Video: Time-Lapse Of Last Night's Beautiful, Scorching Red Sunset Hat tip to Colby Droscher for creating this video, a time-lapse of last night's well documented, beautiful sunset sky over SF. Below, a few more shots via social media. The soundtrack to the
SF News [Update] Crazy Vallejo Kidnapping Story Probably Total Hoax If the story of pretty 29-year-old Denise Huskins' sudden abduction from Mare Island in Vallejo early Monday morning sounded a little too Gone Girl for everyone to believe, that's because probably was. As
SF News Profile Photo Shows Germanwings Co-Pilot Andreas Lubitz In Front Of Golden Gate As news has been breaking that 28-year-old co-pilot Andreas Lubitz apparently deliberately crashed the Germanwings flight and killed all 150 people on board on Tuesday, a single photo of Lubitz has surfaced showing
SF News Day Around The Bay: Kamala Harris Takes U.S. Attorney To Task There’s a surprisingly low number of white kids in public school in SF. [Pricenomics] Here’s a rap video from SF PUC called “SF Sewers: You Can’t Live A Day Without
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 15 Best Fried Chicken Spots In The Bay Area Few comfort foods stir America's heart and soul like fried chicken, which is a keystone dish in American cuisine whether you hail from the South or not. Ask any vegetarian and they're likely
Arts & Entertainment Video: Making-Of Footage For These Gorgeous Nighttime Aerial Photos Of SF Photographer Vincent LaFloret's stunning, color-enhanced aerial views of SF made the rounds last week, including a piece in the New York Times discussing his post-production process using Adobe Lightroom. As he explains, digital
SF News Watch Several Hipsters Argue With, And Insult, Two Parks Officials Busting Them In Dolores Park Certainly we here at SFist want to denounce all War on Fun efforts in the cracking down on drinking in Dolores Park a sunny-day tradition which has been going on steadily, and with
SF News Vallejo Woman Found Alive In Southern California Denise Huskins, the 29-year-old woman abducted from outside her home early Monday morning and whose kidnappers then demanded a ransom, has been found safe and alive in Southern California, apparently abandoned by her
Arts & Entertainment HBO Cancels <i>Looking</i>, Will Conclude With One Final Special Not shockingly, the cast of HBO's Looking was informed yesterday that the cable network would not be renewing the show for a third season, and this morning HBO confirmed the news in a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Polk Street's Verbena To Rebrand And Reopen This Week As Reverb Kitchen & Bar Following some months of upheaval at fifteen-month-old Verbena on upper Polk, the owners who also own the successful Gather in Berkeley are going for a complete revamp in order to reintroduce themselves to
SF News Vallejo Is Whack: Woman Kidnapped For Ransom It's time to revive the Vallejo Is Whack tag as the city to our north presents us with another bizarre and scary crime. This time the victim is a 29-year-old woman (her Facebook
SF News Weather Report: Prepare For A New Heat Wave Yes, we got something like a few hundredths of an inch of rain Sunday night and yesterday, though the central city might have seen a bit more than that via a well-stocked storm
Arts & Entertainment Elton John, Sam Smith, And St. Vincent Top Outside Lands 2015 Lineup Outside Lands 2015 Lineup Announcement from Funny Or Die San Francisco's foggy though wonderful, and wonderfully bougie August music festival in Golden Gate Park just dropped this year's lineup, along with an accompanying
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Progress, SPQR, Quince, And Manresa Top 2015 James Beard Nomination List A month ago we had the so-called "long list" of semi-finalists for this year's "Oscars of the food world," a.k.a. The James Beard Foundation Awards. And today we bring you the
SF News 25-Year-Old Injured In West Oakland Collision Awakens From Coma Maggie Lowrie kisses her son Greg Lowrie as he recovers at Highland http://t.co/0QfRF1PsY6 #oakland @daviddebolt pic.twitter.com/BRedthLFni— Jose Carlos Fajardo (@jcfphotog) March 21, 2015 Greg Lowrie, the 25-year-old
SF News Day Around The Bay: Apple Could Be Worth $1 Trillion? Silicon Valley techies are flying to SoCal to snap up cheap (compared to SF) mansions. [AP] A UCSF staffer was arrested for secretly recording women in the restroom. [KTVU] Apple could be worth
SF News Airbnb Law Impossible To Enforce, Says Agency Tasked With Enforcement Less than two months after the controversial Airbnb-legalization ordinance took effect, the city agency that has been dealing with the registration nightmare of the city's many thousands of Airbnb hosts, the Planning Department,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Not Looking' Season 2 Trailer NOT LOOKING - Season 2 Trailer - watch more funny videos Just in time for the finale of Looking, we get the trailer for the new season of L.A.-based web-series parody
SF News Video: Non-Critical Mass Child Cyclists Take Over Southbound Lane Of 101 Sunday A group of about 40 reported teenagers decided to take to Highway 101 South on Sunday afternoon and Cruz from SoMa toward the Excelsior, as this guy on Reddit shows us. This was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sinbad's Owners Now In Standoff With Port, Refuse To Vacate We learned last month that 40-year-old, kitschy, waterfront standby Sinbad's was headed for imminent closure, but at the time the restaurant's owners, the Stinson brothers, made some statements that suggested they weren't going
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: Monagamish Last night's Season 2 finale of Looking likely did not disappoint loyal fans of the show, and may have even impressed some late-arriving gay fans with its frank and genuinely realistic discussion of
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Opera House Prepares For <i>Game Of Thrones</i> Premiere We warned you last week that the Game of Thrones cast was descending on Civic Center tonight for the Season 5 red carpet premiere. The whole event will be streamed live on Facebook
SF News What Are NY And SF Doing In Ted Cruz's Campaign Video? I'm running for President and I hope to earn your support! pic.twitter.com/0UTqaIoytP— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 23, 2015 "It's going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help
SF News South Bay Man Kills Stepdaughter In Gruesome Drunk Driving Incident A Campbell man with a serious alcohol problem drove into, and then over, his 41-year-old stepdaughter on Thursday afternoon, and his wife is speaking out to the media about the terrible incident in
