At the Castro Theatre on Sunday evening, SF Sketchfest celebrated the 35th anniversary of the cult-classic comedy whodunit 'Clue,' with star Colleen Camp, bit player Jane Wiedlin (of Go-Gos fame) and writer-director Jonathan Lynn.
Another person was violently robbed of their laptop in Oakland on Friday, and this time the victim was shot in the course of the robbery.
Winter rain will return this week after a relatively quiet and dry spell, and a chilly storm hitting the Bay on Wednesday into Thursday will bring fairly heavy rain at times, and snow in Humboldt County and the Sierra.
The Moms 4 Housing group and their supporters continue to rally in West Oakland today, SF's city-owned health clinics are getting renovated, and the Oscar noms are out.
Timelier service schedules? Added trips through the Transbay Tube? A far more reliable BART commute? All that’s promised (and more) to come from the rapid transit agency spending a mind-boggling $798M to update their aged train control system.
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To make the transition easier, the real estate investment firm that owns the home has said it is willing to pay for the move and for the women's shelter for the next two months. The women call the offer "an insult."
$10,000 worth of equipment was stolen from a high school robotics team, a man was found dead on Muni tracks this morning, and the Raiders announced they'll drop "Oakland" from all social media channels.
Celebrity 49ers fans like E40, Dave Franco and Matt Bomer all came out for Saturday's decisive game. Now we wait to see if it'll be Green Bay or Seattle heading here for the NFC Championship Game.
Fresh off the heels of his packed swearing-in ceremony, San Francisco's newest district attorney is already shaking things up — or, rather, sweeping them away — firing at least six prosecutors yesterday afternoon.
A string of homes synonymous with San Francisco and late-80s television, the seven Painted Ladies along Alamo Square, are doted on by both tourists and locals alike for their ornate architecture and storied histories. Now, one of them is on the market for a dizzying $2.75M — and it's a fixer-upper.
The 49ers will face off against the Minnesota Vikings at 1:35 p.m. at Levi's Stadium, California Highway Patrol is looking into an early morning shooting on Highway 101 in San Jose that injured one person, and Lime will lay off 14 percent of its workforce.
Tesla is now the most valuable U.S. automaker ever, BART appoints a new police chief, and one of the two Ford Mustangs featured in the 1968 classic SF film 'Bullitt' just fetched a record price.
Brown Sugar Kitchen departs the Ferry Building, Trick Dog debuts its latest menu, Cafe X stops slinging robot coffee downtown, and Soleil Ho brings us her top 25 dishes to try.
OMG. As SFist reported in December, the fourth installment of The Matrix franchise is supposed to be shooting in San Francisco next month. But the production team may already be here and doing stuff in Alameda.
Residents of the tiny Oregon beach town of Tierra del Mar were attempting to go to battle with Facebook as the company moves to begin drilling a landing spot there for a fiber-optic cable from Asia, but Facebook won out with the county because there was no legislation against such projects.
While known as one of the most pagan, hallucinogen-friendly, and hedonistic events in the country, Burning Man has come to serve a pseudo-spiritual purpose for many Burners, and an actual place for ministry for some people of faith.
Jimmy GQ’s first ever playoff start, and Levi’s Stadium’s first NFL playoff game, comes Saturday afternoon with the end zones returning to their old-style red ‘saloon font’ with the massively outdated helmet.
The saga of Moms 4 Housing appears to be coming to a close as a judge on Friday ordered that the women who have been occupying a vacant property in West Oakland must leave or be removed by the Sheriff. The decision is very likely to draw more protest.
A 61-story mixed-used tower planned for the Transbay District's Parcel F — the largest of the remaining projects in the district not yet underway — just won a key approval at the Planning Commission on Thursday.
There's a fun run type thing for charity going on Sunday in Golden Gate Park, and in addition to marshmallow sweet stations along the route, participants get a mug of hot chocolate and chocolate fondue once they cross the finish line.
A 54-year-old Orinda teacher has been arrested for inappropriate relations with students in the 1990s, Oakland's Montclair neighborhood has community meeting about laptop theft death, and BART approves new wi-fi.
An SF supervisor is crying for more trash cans on the street, Sen. Dianne Feinstein is walking back some comments critical of Pelosi, and some burglars snagged $83K in jewelry from the Bloomingdale's in Palo Alto.
The Bay Area is home to a bevy of world-class burger spots and restaurant chefs who have been perfecting the burger arts for decades. And that is very much true in the East Bay too.
Neighbors along the 24th Street corridor in the Mission have been arguing against the city's Department of Public Works (DPW) for years now over the fate of the lovely but sometimes precarious mature ficus trees that line the street.
A pair of suspects in a shooting that left one man dead and five others wounded last March in the Fillmore District were indicted in federal court Wednesday on charges of being felons in possession of a firearm, and using a firearm in a violent crime that ended in death.
