Arts & Entertainment Kevin Spacey Coming to Town in 'Richard III' A hugely successful and critically acclaimed production of Shakespeare's Richard III, originally produced at the Old Vic in London, is on its way to the Curran Theater in S.F. October 19 to
SF News SFist Blotter: 20-Year-Old Woman Stabbed in Dolo Park, Toddler Drowns in Richmond Dolores Park / Stabbing: A 20-year-old woman was severely beaten and stabbed multiple times in the legs Saturday during a brawl that broke out at a party in Dolores Park around 10:30 p.
SF News Pedicab Companies at War! An upstart pedicab company, operating mostly along the Embarcadero, has ruffled the feathers of some more "established" pedicab companies who claim that not all of the new company's drivers are properly permitted. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Lima Sour at Jasper's Corner Tap & Kitchen Last week marked the opening of a new watering hole in the Tenderloin named after Jasper O'Farrell himself, called Jasper's Corner Tap and Kitchen (the former Ponzu at Taylor and O'Farrell). Among the
SF News Muni Doesn't Want You Riding With Despair So, we were just on the Muni underground. Miraculously, it was operating on time and only a little bit jerkily, but then again it isn't rush hour yet and we all know those
SF News SFist Blotter: Charred Body Near Tomales Bay, Old Person Crashes Car Into Bank Vallejo / Car Accident: An 84-year-old woman drove her car into a Vallejo bank yesterday noon, and at least one female victim was hospitalized. The driver said she mistook the gas for the brake
SF News Pot Club 'Clustering' a Problem? The Planning Commission has a pile of pending applications for new medical marijuana dispensaries, and the president of the commission, Christine Olague, is putting pressure on the Board of Supervisors to relax rules
SF News Does This Failed 'Bachelorette' Contestant Really Want to Be Mayor of S.F.? After being rejected by Bachelorette Ashley Hebert on national television Monday night, scorned suitor Ben Flajnik of Sonoma took to Twitter to redefine his role in the world as "winemaker, failed proposer, and
SF News Friend of Missing Woman Michelle Le, and a Potential Murder Suspect, Appears In Court A person of interest in the May 27 disappearance of nursing student Michelle Le made a court appearance Tuesday related to a custody battle with her child's father. Giselle Esteban, a high school
SF News We Read the Weeklies: August 3, 2011 Gather round kids. Grandpa's got a story about three Bay Area alt-weeklies and what they decided to report on this week, at the height of this long, misty, fog-gray summer. Don't worry, it
SF News We Are Getting a Few More Cabs, and They Will Be More Expensive At their board meeting yesterday, the SFMTA voted to approve 85 new taxi medallions, 50 of which will be for part-time, single operators limited to 60 hours per week on the streets. This
SF News SFist Blotter: Muni Robber Has Seizure, Man Shot In Ass Trying to Steal Pot City College / Muni Robbery: A man threatened a woman at knifepoint while sitting next to her on the KT-Ingleside yesterday afternoon, demanding her cash and belongings. She complied, but when a witness on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist's Favorite $10 Cocktail Spots As you know, we here at SFist enjoy a stiff drink, and quite often we enjoy the kind of stiff drink that involves some heavy muddling and straining, esoteric tinctures, and housemade bitters.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Person Pinball This fun little stop-motion animation vid by Aaron Hughes was the outro video at the 8th annual Animation Block Party in NYC. It features a bunch of stylish Brooklyn kids getting knocked around
SF News In an Especially Deadly Year, Oakland Rehires 24 Laid Off Cops In the budget passed on June 30, the City of Oakland managed to find funding to rehire 24 of the 80 police officers it laid off last year. More officers have also been
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Fabio and the Old Spice Guy... Discuss Yes, it's just another viral stunt meant as shill for Old Spice, trying to appeal to a new generation of sweaty pits. But as we've mentioned earlier, the Old Spice guy long ago
SF News They're Getting Pretty Sick of Smelling Gas In San Bruno An image from the tragic disaster of September 9, 2010. "I'm sick and tired of this being scared all the time," says San Bruno resident Janel Costanzo, after an incident Saturday in which
SF News SFist Blotter: 22nd Murder in Richmond, Three More in Oakland Richmond / Murder: Another weekend in Richmond ends with another dead: One man was wounded and a woman was killed as they drove into an apartment complex at the corner of Eighth Street and
SF News Those Two, Unfortunate Berkeley Grad Hikers In Iran Might Be Freed Soon Though they've now spent exactly two years in an Iranian prison, Berkeley grads Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal had their final hearing yesterday in the trial that's been ongoing since February in an
Arts & Entertainment HBO Helps Spruce Up West Oakland's Central Station for Hemingway Movie Oakland's Central Station was once the western terminus of the Transcontinental Railway, and the Beaux Arts train station that still stands at the end of 16th Street near the 980 freeway has seen
SF News Beware Surprise Sobriety Checkpoints on Bay Bridge On-Ramps SFist gets word today of a surprise sobriety checkpoint on the Folsom Street on-ramp to the Bay Bridge last night around 10 p.m. CHP officers were reportedly not forcing everyone out of
SF News SFist Blotter: Father-Son Murder-Suicide on Peninsula; Carjacking in SoMa Santa Clara County / Murder-Suicide: Two men's bodies were found in a home on Wednesday on the 14000 block of Clara Street in unincorporated Santa Clara County, and they've now been identified as 50-year-old
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go On a Spontaneous Blind Date Based on Food Preference, Courtesy of New Dating Site Say you're wandering around Hayes Valley, feeling a little lonely and blue, and you just want someone nice to share a plate of spaetzle with at Suppenkuche. Spoondate, a Mountain View-based start-up, would
SF News Yes, Ed Is Probably Going to Run Those Run Ed Run people, and their rosey-cheeked maker Rose Pak, appear to have swayed their reluctant candidate, ladies and gentlemen. Seven months and two trips to the White House later, Interim Mayor
SF News SFMTA Might Allow More Cabs Onto the Streets At their board meeting on Tuesday, the SFMTA is planning to consider issuing 125 new taxi permits, potentially increasing the city's fleet of cabs by about 8%. This is obviously welcome news to
