SF News Earthquake Disaster Flick Starring The Rock Shoots This Month, Everyone Freaking Out A movie called San Andreas starring Dwayne “The Rock’’ Johnson, Kylie Minogue (!), and Alexandra Daddario is set to begin shooting in San Francisco later this month, and already some neighbors in tony Russian
SF News Public Service Announcement: Read SFist In 'Blog' View (If You Want) It has come to our attention that not all SFist readers realize that you can still read the site in the old-fashioned, reverse-chronological, stacked-story way of our blog forebears. But you can! Sure,
SF News Condo In New Linea Complex Appreciates $200K In Two Months? Everybody knows the refrain: Real estate in this town is crazy! Here's your latest exasperating evidence: A two-bedroom condo that first sold in late April for just under $1.2 million, in the
SF News Accused Silk Road Founder Still Trying To Say Bitcoin Isn't Money; Judge Not Having It Remember how accused, still incarcerated Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was trying to argue last December that he should get all his bitcoin back because, since it's not actual money and only exists
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 10 Best Margaritas In The Bay Area Who doesn't love a margarita, right? No, for real, unless you have a severe citrus sensitivity or you don't drink booze at all, the margarita is just one of those universally loved classic
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Miley Cyrus and The Flaming Lips Get Weird Miley Cyrus, who kind of surprisingly is a huge Flaming Lips fan (she told Rolling Stone recently, "Once you listen to them, it's hard to listen to anything else."), got a dream come
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Hayes Valley Brasserie Monsieur Benjamin Opens Tonight Chef Corey Lee of the acclaimed, Michelin two-star Benu is opening his second restaurant venture today in Hayes Valley, and it's called Monsieur Benjamin . As we learned last year after Lee first announced
SF News L.A. Dodgers Found Negligent In Bryan Stow Trial, Family To Receive $18 Million Jurors reached a verdict in a civil trial today finding that the L.A. Dodgers and their stadium were responsible in the egregious 2011 beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow. Stow and his
SF News Some Mandatory Water Restrictions Could Be On Their Way Next Week To deal with this year's record drought in California, which may be a 100-year or a 500-year drought depending on who you talk to, the State Water Resources Control Board is deciding next
SF News Blood Drive For Gay Men This Friday Aims To End Decades-Long Gay Blood Stigma Every few years someone tries to remind the masses that the Red Cross and the FDA still won't accept blood from gay men or from any man who has had sexual contact with
SF News New Startup Lets You Buy A Car With Bitcoin A new online used-car marketplace is running a promotion in which, if you are a nerd who happens to have a lot of bitcoin saved up, you can purchase a car with that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Launches New Menu With Cocktails Named After S.F. Landmarks Trick Dog, the Mission's one-and-a-half-year-old, arguably coolest cocktailian magnet, has just launched the latest iteration of their drink offerings, which have changed up every six months since they opened. They started out with
SF News 12 Words Of Advice For Tech Industry Transplants New To S.F. I realize I got a touch snippy in that open letter last week to a couple of New York Times tech writers who had recently moved away from San Francisco and who only
SF News Apple Makes Big Hires From Fashion World In Preparation For (Probable) iWatch Launch Apple has just made its third of three big personnel additions, poaching some high-profile people from the fashion and luxury accessories industries in what is likely a sign that it's gearing up for
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'O'Reilly Factor' Minion Mocks Gay Pride, Tells Mark Leno His Pants Are Too Tight Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Fox News resident blowhard Bill O'Reilly just filed a segment—a week late—about the S.F. LGBT Pride celebration that happened on June 29.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Street Food Entrepreneur To Open Her First Restaurant In The Twitter Building Azalina Eusope hails from Malaysia, and she's a fifth-generation street food vendor whose great-great-great-grandmother first began perfecting the family's recipes. She's been operating her own catering business in San Francisco, Azalina's, since 2010,
SF News Tiny Coastal Town, Pop. 18, Sold To San Luis Obispo Couple There's a wee little town along Highway 1 called Harmony, about six miles south of Cambria, that's home to several artisans and has always been owned by a single family. The downtown is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acquerello Hosting 25th Anniversary Dinner Series Continuing tomorrow at Acquerello, which is ringing in 25 years at Sacramento and Polk this summer, is an alumni dinner series featuring chefs who formerly got their start there. A couple weeks ago
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mexican World Cup Players Return From Brazil, Dine At Papalote Popular Mission Mexican spot Papalote (3409 24th Street) took to Facebook today to shout out the news that members of Mexico's World Cup team Carlos Alberto "Gullit" Peña and José Juan "Gallito" Vázquez
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Amber Dhara Closes After Two Years, Several Rat Problems In some unsurprising restaurant news, perpetually empty, enormous Indian restaurant Amber Dhara (680 Valencia Street) has given up the ghost just a month after its brief, rat-related, Health Department shutdown. The restaurant, which
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sound Effect Overload This cute short kind of reminds me of early slapstick comedy, like the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers, except using modern sounds like air sirens and computer bloops. It's all about absurdity,
SF News Photos: Hot Cop Of Castro Gets Facebook Fan Page Enough with hot felons! Some of you have likely already seen the handsome mug of Officer Chris Kohrs, the incredibly hunky motorcycle cop who's been spotted, drooled over, and photographed many times since
SF News Hot Felon Indicted On Gun Charge, Could Face A Year In Prison Even though we all should have stopped paying attention at least a week ago, I have an update for you about reputed "hot felon" Jeremy Meeks, who remains in a Stockton jail and
SF News Elderly Man Soils Himself Leading To Lengthy Delay On SFO-Bound Flight How did your 4th-of-July travel go? Anyone who happened to be aboard US Airways Flight 667 from Philadelphia to SFO last night did not have that terrific a time. As passenger Kimberly Pye
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Restaurant Manresa Suffers Major Fire In Los Gatos The Michelin two-starred restaurant Manresa, arguably one of the most influential and renowned restaurants in the Bay Area, suffered a two-alarm fire last night in its kitchen that is sure to shutter the
