SF News Small Fire At Castro Building Believed Caused By Homeless Encampment #10012WF1 FIRE CONTAINED NO INJURY NO DISPLACED 1229 Hrs pic.twitter.com/iVRwCHQ9CW— San Francisco Fire (@sffdpio) October 12, 2016 Fresh concerns about homeless campers in the Castro are being raised after one
SF News Hillary Clinton In SF This Morning To Raise Money, Snarl Traffic With less than a month before a presidential election will indicate if more voting Americans are sane decent human beings or bigoted monsters, the (in some cases, admittedly begrudging) choice of the sane
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Driveway Blocking Explained Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Jack got spooked at the Armory's haunted house. [SFist]
SF News Day Around The Bay: Square Is Trying Hard To Sell Off Caviar Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Gallup ranks SF and Boston as cities that have
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meatless 'Bleeding' Burger Hits Menus At Cockscomb, Jardinière Thursday Where's the beef? Not in these burgers, which are made with a product from Impossible Foods, the creators of a synthetic meat made from plants. Unlike the typical veggie puck (or even the
Arts & Entertainment This Year's Legit Scary Armory Haunted House Makes You Figure Out How To Escape From It For the third year in a row, the purveyors of filth over at the Armory are hosting a haunted house in their cavernous headquarters. Unlike the first year, this latest dive into darkness
SF News All These California Republican Lawmakers Still Support Trump, Which, Wow As we count down the final 27 days until this other-worldly nightmare of an election is hopefully, sweet Jesus, over and done with and not hampered by some crazy recount or something more
SF News Photo Du Jour: Fruitvale Station Renamed? Since about 2011, Oakland's Frank H. Ogawa Plaza has been identified by activists and protesters from the Occupy and Black Lives Matter movements as Oscar Grant Plaza to commemorate the 22-year-old from Hayward
Arts & Entertainment Looking Back On 10 Years Of The Treasure Island Music Festival (And Forward To This Weekend's Last Hurrah) As the 10th annual Treasure Island Music Festival approaches this weekend, the event's founding fathers from Another Planet Entertainment and Noise Pop find themselves caught between twin instincts to which longtime festival goers
Arts & Entertainment 'Rhythm Is Universal': Legendary Tabla Performer Zakir Hussain Talks Bay Area Show With Mickey Hart Zakir Hussain is the picture boy for the tabla. Literally, he's one of the images on the Wikipedia page for this Indian percussion instrument. As music has gone global, so has he, performing
SF News Veteran Fist-Shaking Chronicle Columnist CW Nevius Announces He's Leaving The Paper After 36 Years In the latest in a series of high-profile departures at the San Francisco Chronicle, longtime resident curmudgeon, SFist punching bag, and ostensible common-sense columnist C.W. Nevius has announced his departure from the
SF News Suspicious Package At Market And O'Farrell Briefly Closes Streets, Is Found Empty A shelter-in-place warning from the SFPD went out Wednesday afternoon around 1:15 for the businesses adjacent to Market And O'Farrell Streets after a suspicious package was spotted. According to SFPD, streets were
SF News Map: SFMTrA Safety Vigilantes Install More Bike-Lane Posts Under The Cover Of Night @SFMTrA spotted! pic.twitter.com/SwwmS9ViXn— RadioChert (@ChertRadio) October 12, 2016 As promised, the anonymous individuals behind the vigilante pedestrian and bicycle safety group SFMTrA installed more bike-lane safety posts around the city
SF News Recall Ed Lee Petitions Approved, Hit The Streets Today HOT OFF THE PRESSES! The Official Petition to #RecallEdLee is ready for 60,000 signatures so we can #SweepEdLee #EvictEdLee #SaveSF #EDXIT pic.twitter.com/BHA8rZ619f— RecallEdLee2016 (@RecallEdLee2016) October 8, 2016 A nearly
SF News Britex Fabrics Negotiating Deal With New Landlord To Remain In Union Square Home Although the store wouldn't open until 10 a.m., holiday shoppers began to form a line for Britex Fabrics at 9 a.m. on Monday, a queue that soon wended its way around
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iconic 48-Year-Old Pac Heights Bar, The Lion Pub, Is Now Closed [Be warned a couple of images below are NSFW] An iconic fern bar on Divisadero, which for about 30 years was a neighborhood gay bar before becoming more of a straight-people hang in
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Twitter Cancels Developers Conference A photo posted by Pombo Pix (@pombo_pix) on Sep 30, 2016 at 9:38am PDT The names of San Francisco's most recent homicide victims have been released. [KRON 4] Analyses by local
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF No Longer Best Place To Trick-Or-Treat Just in time for Halloween, we bring you some truly frightening news: San Francisco is no longer the top trick-or-treating city in the country. KRON 4 reports this scarifying tidbit, and notes that
SF News Owner Of Top-Floor Millennium Tower Penthouse Puts Unit On Market For An Astounding $9 Million Some owners in “The Leaning Tower of San Francisco” say their condos are worthless https://t.co/x0rKRoqBPP— The Real Deal (@trdny) October 9, 2016 Despite a host of bad press and impending
Arts & Entertainment Get 83% Off A Three-Pack Of 10-Foot Lightning Cables Stow a cable in multiple places, and never worry about a dead phone again. We spend so much time on our phones, it feels like they’re constantly running out of battery. That’
SF News Outlook Bleak For California's First Dog, Governor Brown's Beloved Corgi, Sutter Nothing gold can stay it seems, even in the Golden State. We learn today via the Sacramento Bee that California's First Dog, a 13-year-old Pembroke Welsh corgi named Sutter, has fallen critically ill
SF News Lunchtime Robbery Rocks Mission Street Bank A duo of robbers committed a daring heist Tuesday — a mid-day robbery of a bank on a bustling stretch of Mission Street. It was 12:42 in the afternoon when police say that
Arts & Entertainment Sorry Everybody: Cubs Eliminate Giants From Playoffs With 9th Inning Rally It was a result that defied the mystical logic of even-year World Series wins that's become dogma for San Francisco Giants fans. Last night at AT&T Park, the home team lost
SF News [Update] SFPD Set To Get New Chief Thursday As Feds Release Damning Review Of Department The newly hired chief of the SFPD may be announced as early as tomorrow (Thursday), and the announcement looks to be coming just in time for the release of a 400-page report on
SF News Elderly Pedestrian Critically Injured By Driver In Nob Hill A woman walking in Nob Hill was left with critical injuries Sunday, after a driver struck her as she crossed the street. The collision, police say, occurred at 5:51 p.m. Sunday,
