SF Restaurants, Food & Drink At Least 60 Bay Area Restaurants Have Closed Since September It's been a rough, rough year for restaurateurs around the country and the local region, and as January draws to a close we have a somewhat shocking estimated tally of how many Bay
SF News Attorneys For Ghost Ship Proprietor Now Arguing That Fire Started Next Door The trial-by-media for Ghost Ship proprietor Derick Almena predictably continues, now seven weeks since the deadly blaze tore through the live-work warehouse he designed and managed and took the lives of 36 people.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hawker Fare Closing Its Original Oakland Location After almost six years in business near Oakland's Uptown district, Hawker Fare is closing up shop in a few short weeks, on February 18. Owner James Syhabout, whose Laotian mother has been in
SF News Photos: Oakland Women's March Drew At Least 100,000 Twin Bay Area "sister marches" on Saturday, in solidarity with the massive Women's March on Washington in protest of Donald Trump's inauguration, look to have been about equal in size in both San
SF News About 2,000 Marched Up Market Street Friday To Protest The Inauguration In advance of the Women's March in San Francisco on Saturday, which is expected to be the largest of the weekend's anti-Trump demonstrations, about 2,000 people rallied at Civic Center Friday evening
Arts & Entertainment Raiders File Paperwork With NFL To Move To Las Vegas The Oakland Raiders could become the Las Vegas Raiders in the not too distant future if the NFL agrees to let them move, and the team has just officially filed the paperwork seeking
SF News Uncle Of Orlando Shooter's Widow: 'I Know She's Innocent, I Raised Her' Noor Salman, the widow of Pulse nightclub mass-murderer Omar Mateen, appeared briefly in federal court in Oakland Tuesday morning facing charges that could potentially send her to prison for life. As the Chronicle
SF News Two Tower Of Power Bandmates Hit By Oakland Amtrak Train On Way To Yoshi's Appearance Two musicians of the Oakland R&B group Tower of Power are recovering in the hospital after being struck by an Amtrak train in Jack London Square last night. According to the
SF News Update: Downed Power Line Shuts Down I-880 In Oakland Causes Major Afternoon Traffic Snarl The winds are picking up and we're just getting word via CBS 5 that a downed power line has shut down the I-880 freeway in both directions as of 12:30 p.m.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Dead Whale Found Near Port Of Oakland Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. A man shot on Monday a block away from
SF News SF And Oakland Hold Community Forums On Warehouse And Live-Work Spaces The landlord of an arts space brought together tenants and city officials to discuss fire safety Tuesday night https://t.co/XqrPx9uiiT pic.twitter.com/KWOWrNe2qp— Mission Local (@MLNow) January 4, 2017 On
SF News Oakland Hires Its First Female Police Chief, Anne Kirkpatrick Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has hired the city's first female chief of police, as multiple news sources are reporting this morning, and that is Anne Kirkpatrick, a former chief of Spokane's police department
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New York Times Critic Pete Wells Savages Locol In Oakland New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells has given us another surprise Bay Area review in his intermittent mission to survey the national food scene, and it's a review of Daniel Patterson and
Arts & Entertainment Video: Heartbreaking Tribute To The 36 Artists Who Perished In Ghost Ship Fire As friends, family, and the community at large continue to mourn those who perished in the December 2 Ghost Ship fire, KQED Arts has released a video honoring the dead. The video consists
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From The 'Oakland United' Ghost Ship Benefit Concert Featuring Hieroglyphics, Tune-Yards, Primus, And More Fans joined hands, heard from victims' loved ones, and swayed to emotionally resonant music at the Fox Theater last night in a powerful fundraiser concert presented by Another Planet Entertainment and Noise Pop
Arts & Entertainment Southwest Pilot Congratulates Flight Full Of Raiders Fans For Drinking All The Plane's Liquor Passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Kansas City last week, the day of a football game between the Raiders and the Chiefs, managed a rare and thirsty feat of cleaning
SF News SF Is 'Spot-Checking' 10 Warehouses That Could Be Illegal Residences While Oakland Is Avoiding Such 'Witch Hunts' In the aftermath of the deadly Ghost Ship fire in East Oakland 12 days ago, it was assumed by many that other similar warehouses that had been converted into illegal live-work spaces or
Arts & Entertainment Solange Joins Fantastic Negrito For Google-Sponsored Benefit Concert In Oakland On Friday Solange Knowles, sister to Queen Bey and royalty in her own right, will perform a trio of songs from her masterful album A Seat At The Table at an intimate performance in Oakland
SF News [Update] Overloaded Electrical Lines Named As Cause Of Ghost Ship Fire The East Bay Times, which has been doing a bang-up job staying on top of the Oakland fire story and its many narrative branches, has just reported the breaking news that, according to
SF News Ghost Ship Survivors Tell Stories Of Being 'Chased' By Fire, Leaving Friends Behind While we've spent much of the last week following the fire investigation and profiling the 36 dead in Oakland's Ghost Ship fire, there have been notably few first-person accounts to trickle out from
Arts & Entertainment Video: Patti Smith Dedicates Performance To Oakland Fire Victims At an event last week in New York celebrating the 20th birthday of Democracy Now!, Patti Smith sang a stirring rendition of "Peaceable Kingdom," a song that she wrote with Tony Shanahan to
SF News Journalists Try, But Fail To Track Down Ghost Ship Landlord Chor Ng Journalists working for both the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle have spent the last few days with boots on the ground in Oakland, using property records to survey the various
SF News Friends And Former Friends Paint Conflicting Pictures Of Ghost Ship Founders Derick Almena And Micah Allison In the seven days since the tragic inferno at Oakland artist enclave called Ghost Ship, some of the expected finger-pointing has been aimed at the city and its inspections apparatus, and some has
SF News Profiles Of The Final Nine Ghost Ship Fire Victims SFist is continuing to offer brief remembrances and obituaries as they're being collected from various news sources and friends. Here was the first group of eight, the second group of six, another seven,
SF News Anti-Trump Demonstrations Planned In SF And Oakland Saturday And Monday Several local demonstrations are planned this weekend and Monday in a show of resistance against President-Elect Donald Trump, and in support of any faithless (or "moral", as they've been recast) electors who would
