SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Original Lori's Diner (On Mason) Is Closing After 32 Years Fans of Lori's Diner (are there any who actually live here?) will be sad to learn of the closing of the mini-chain's OG location at 336 Mason Street after 32 long years in
SF News Teen Falls Asleep In Muni Shelter, Wakes Up Injured In Alley A youth who fell asleep in a Muni shelter has a rude Christmas Day awakening, when he found himself in an alley with wounds to the head. According to the San Francsico Police
Arts & Entertainment Seven New Year's Eve Parties For Locals Like so many other holidays these days, New Year's Eve is amateur hour for a remarkable number of people who don't know how to drink. It's also a traditional time when people in
SF News Proposed Embarcadero Fire Station On Floating Pier Could Rise With Sea Levels, Withstand Earthquakes A recently floated plan to replace aging facilities at Pier 22 1/2 on the Embarcadero would put a crucial fire station on a barge or buoyant pier, a floating facility to support
SF News Hate Crime Alleged As San Francisco's Giant Menorah Is Stolen #stolenmenorah taken over the weekend from SF Washington Square story @nbcbayarea pic.twitter.com/9E2k3KcGAp— Mark Matthews (@MarkMatthewsNBC) December 26, 2016 In an act that some local religious leaders are calling a hate
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Facebook Subscriptions Debunked Again Apple is working with Consumer Reports to figure out why the reviews site's battery test results for the new MacBook Pro do not match the gadget giant's lab tests and field data. [CNet]
SF News Man Stabs Two People In The Face Near Dolores Park Two men were hospitalized early this morning after an attempted robbery near Dolores Park turned violent. The Examiner reports that the men were on the corner of 20th and Church Street, at the
SF News Hillsborough Millionaires Sue Town Over Fines To Promote Water Conservation All is not well in Hillsborough, a suburb of 11,500 people west of San Mateo that's among the nation's wealthiest towns. There, nine unhappy residents are suing the municipality to recoup fines
SF News Starting Sunday, You Could Get A Ticket For Holding A Cellphone While Driving A new California law takes effect on January 1 that prohibits all use of a handheld cellphone while driving, including hitting the skip button on a playlist, looking at a map app, texting,
SF News Man Stalks, Shoots At Uber Driver In Hayes Valley An Uber driver waiting for a fare was injured this Christmas Eve, when a man followed the car on foot then fired shots into the vehicle. According to San Francsico Police Department spokesperson
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink BrainWash Cafe May Be Forced To Close As Nearby Construction Kills Business BrainWash Cafe is in trouble. The SoMa laundromat/cafe and frequent host to open-mic nights has seen a precipitous drop in business over the past several months, and its owner says that unless
SF News Local Versace Store Accused Of Having Secret Code For Black Customers A Versace retail outlet in the Bay Area is being sued by a former employee who was fired, he says, after just two weeks. What's more, he says he was discriminated against for
SF News Bay Area Native Allegedly Bites Flight Attendant's Ear During Drunken Fit On Transcontinental Flight An American expat from Santa Rosa is in some serious trouble with federal authorities after disrupting the peace aboard an SFO-bound KLM flight last week and allegedly biting a flight attendant on the
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: The Mayor Of The Tenderloin Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here The Castro mourns George Michael. [SFist] As a Trump
Arts & Entertainment Castro Bars Blare George Michael Hits, In Mourning Of A Gay Icon The passing of a gay icon like George Michael, way before his time, will continue to hit hard in the Castro and around the Bay Area for days to come a devastating blow
SF News Monday Morning Linkdump: Coho Salmon Get Busy Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Your weekend ICYMI: Precita Park got a snowman. the
Arts & Entertainment Precita Park Got Its Annual Christmas Snowman San Francisco snowman. pic.twitter.com/V76XF8owzX— anthony brown (@anthonybrown) December 25, 2016 The anonymous Bernal Heights resident who for several years running has imported some snow to Precita Park and installed a
Arts & Entertainment Warriors Dealt A Painful Christmas Loss By The Cavs, 109-108 With just 3.4 seconds left in the game, the Cleveland Cavaliers' Kyrie Irving took a shot that won a game the Warriors should have had in the bag, by one point. The
Arts & Entertainment Daisy Does The Niners: 49ers Ruin Christmas With 22-21 Win Over The Rams by Daisy Barringer Thirteen straight 49ers losses in a row conditioned me to believe this joke of a team wouldn’t win another game all year. And though it’s true all of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 50 Best SF Restaurants Open Or Delivering On Christmas Day Eating on Christmas means stuffing yourself stupid, regardless of your religion, lack thereof, or place on the socioeconomic hierarchy. So we here at SFist broke down San Francisco/Bay Area restaurants open on
SF News Political Consultant Enrique Pearce Pleads Guilty To Child Porn Charges Over a year and a half after his shocking arrest on child pornography charges, local politico Enrique Pearce has pleaded guilty to four counts, and is likely to get a six-month sentence, possibly
SF News Christmas Eve Links: SFO's Therapy Pig Does Holiday Travel Duty Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. SFO's therapy pig, Lilou, has been extra busy helping
SF News Day Around The Bay: Warriors' Coach Kerr Discusses Upbringing, Father's Assassination Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. The City Controller’s Office has issued a report
SF News Avril Lavigne Tells Mark Zuckerberg To Stop Bullying Nickelback Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg got a stern talking to yesterday from 2000s pop icon Avril Lavigne, who took time out of her day to tell the tech titan to quit it with the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Contrada Debuts Next Week, Chef Khai Duong Returns To SF, and More Most important in our food world this week, SFist brought you our carefully considered Best New Restaurants of 2016. But we also learned of a Sumo Stew pop-up, and a fight by Zeitgeist
