SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starbucks Fans Revolt Over New La Boulange Pastries Elsewhere in the country it seems that the pastry offerings from Bay Area-based La Boulange, which replaced Starbucks' previous baked-item array over the past year in different regional rollouts, are too small and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Frankie Knuckles' 'The Whistle Song' The house music and DJ communities lost a legend yesterday. Producer and DJ Frankie Knuckles passed away at the age of 59, and there's been a lot of mourning him on Facebook and
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Drag Race' Queen Bianca Del Rio Schools An Offended Heckler At The Café Over the weekend, some of you might have attended The Drag Queens of Comedy show, which played to a near-sellout house for two consecutive shows at the Castro Theater on Saturday. One of
SF News Weather Report: Hail! Did you get pelted this morning? Yesterday there was all that exciting thunder and lightning, and now, potentially more heavy rain is on its way today, and this morning already saw a storm
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Singin' In The Rain,' Now In HD An oldie, but c'mon. We should all be out there, and this happy about it, in the rain. And that Gene Kelly, man. Wow. Also, the our other favorite number from the movie,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 25 Best Bang-For-Your-Buck Restaurants in S.F. Last week we brought you SFist's first ever, statistically driven, entirely objective list of the top 25 restaurants in the Bay Area, based entirely on a calculation that drew on the raves, star
SF News Weather Report: Thunder! It's time to discuss, for everyone who's new here, why this thunderstorm we're having today is a really rare occurrence. The geography of our part of the West Coast, you see, tends to
SF News SF's Emergency Water System Probably Not Earthquake-Ready In the wake of that major fire in Mission Bay on March 11, in which firefighters tapped into the city's not widely known, 100-year-old, high-pressure emergency water system, the Chron has done some
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Venus In Fur' at A.C.T. Venus In Fur is intense. It's a highly intelligent piece of playwriting that requires two intelligent and fearless actors, some faultless timing, and expert, nuanced direction. Thankfully, in one of its first West
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Work MORE at SoMArts Local drag star Vivvyanne Forevermore, a.k.a. Mica Sigourney, the host of the weekly Friday night shindig at the Stud known as SomeThing, got a residency at SoMArts as part of their
Arts & Entertainment Photos: In Transbay District, There Will Be Starchitecture Finally, finally, San Francisco is getting some architecture worthy of a grown-up skyline, and it's coming in the shape of several, major new projects including two from starchitects Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster
SF News Planning OKs Pot Clubs Opening Closer To Schools The San Francisco Planning Commission voted Thursday to shrink the buffer zone required between new marijuana dispensaries and schools from 1,000 feet to 600 feet. As the Chron reports, the commissioners voted
Arts & Entertainment San Franciscans Love Their Asian Porn Stars, Says Data PornHub has been crunching a lot of numbers lately on their Insights blog, figuring out what users search for most, and just how many red states have a hankering for gay porn (Hint:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird Provisions Combats Reservations Bots The douchiest, greediest, tech-iest phenomenon to ruffle S.F.'s restaurant scene may finally be getting shut down, thanks to OpenTable. Yes, as Inside Scoop and Paula Forbes are reporting, State Bird Provisions
SF News Once Treacherous Devil's Slide Now A Nature Trail Devil's Slide, that crazy-dangerous half-mile of Highway 1 south of the city that had a habit of both washing away and causing occasional deaths, reopens Thursday as the Devil's Slide Trail, a 1.
SF News Oakland Mulling Law To Protect Cyclists From Aggressive Drivers Following in the footsteps of Los Angeles and Berkeley, the Oakland City Council's public safety committee last night considered a new law that would give cyclists recourse to sue following incidents of road
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Scenes From A Final Meal At Incanto, Which Closed For Good Last Night Local chef Chris Cosentino and business partner Mark Pastore closed the book on their 12-year-old Noe Valley restaurant Incanto Monday night, marking the end of an era both for the neighborhood dining scene
SF News Video: Collision Creates Impromptu Fountain In Tenderloin A collision between a taxi and a sedan at O'Farrell and Hyde last night around 12:40 a.m. sheered off a fire hydrant and sent water shooting toward the sky. That block
SF News Weather Report: Spring Showers More actual rain is coming. Like, days of it. Really. Like you might even get tired of it this time, because it's going to last, possibly, from tomorrow all the way through the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SRO, A Tiny New Bar From The Big Team, Opens In SoMa A lot of cocktail fans mourned the loss of cozy Tenderloin spot Big, which had to give up the ghost far too quickly last year when the building it was in was sold.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 25 Best Restaurants In The Bay Area (According to Statistics!) For the last couple of years, the editors of SFist have been putting together Best-Of lists of foods and restaurants based on both popular and our own personal opinions, but now it's time
SF News Landlord Once Again Intimidating, Evicting 1049 Market Tenants Landlord John Gall appears to be doing an end-run in order to empty his property at 1049 Market Street of all its tenants, despite there being dozens of legal, occupied residential units and
Arts & Entertainment Local Photographer Lampoons SF Rental Market Photographer Scott Hampton is parodying the ridiculous housing market situation we're in with a humorous photo essay he calls SF: For Rent. He even put one of them on Craigslist, and it's still
SF News Bay Area Has 61 Of The Richest Neighborhoods In The U.S. Wealth. There's much of it around us. And despite New York Magazine blithely believing we're all too shy about flaunting it, the 9 counties of the Bay Area boast a whopping 61 of
SF News There Will Probably Be Lots Of Delays At SFO This Summer San Francisco International Airport is closing 2 of its 4 runways this summer, right at the height of vacation season, in order to complete some federally mandated safety upgrades. Good luck getting anywhere
