SF News Sunday Links: Pedestrians Killed In Oakland, Mountain View, and Napa A mother and child were killed in an East Oakland hit-and-run, two more pedestrians were killed Saturday on busy roads in Mountain View and Napa, and SFO is seeing a rising tide of homeless people.
Arts & Entertainment 10 SF Record Stores To Check Out On Record Store Day San Francisco is lucky to be a city where there are still some great record shops left that are preserving the time-honored traditions of flipping through bins and casually discovering artists whose work you can actually touch and put on a turntable.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A's Slugger Khris Davis Already 'Khrush'-ing It With Nine Home Runs in 2019 The Oakland Athletics have certainly carried their sticks over from the 2018 season. Now sitting at 9-8 in the young '19 campaign, the A's offense is firing on all cylinders, and one man, in particular, is putting on an impressive display of power.
Bay Area Sports Giants Shoot Off 1 AM Fireworks After Going 18 Innings Against Rockies Many San Franciscans — but in particular those SoMa and Mission Bay residents near the ballpark who weren't out until last call — were jolted out of bed by the explosions of fireworks at 1 a.m. Saturday morning.
SF News Saturday Links: Man Who Fell In Grand Canyon Was From Santa Rosa Family of BART stabbing victim sues, warring crowdfunding campaigns over Navigation Center both fully funded, and a new proposal to charge a toll to go down the crooked part of Lombard.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Paxton Gate To Close Kids' Store The SFPD has begun releasing previously classified documents about officer-involved shootings, a pepper-spray assault and robbery in the Sunset, BART track maintenance will disrupt weekend service in the East Bay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Ice Cream Shops In San Francisco, Ranked People love ice cream, and this town — despite its notoriously chilly weather — is full up with ice creameries. Just as we have a spate of decent weather, SFist brings you an updated list of the city's best scoop shops (and one truck).
SF News Kim Kardashian West Is Trying To Become A Lawyer Now With Help From An Oakland Law Firm Professional influencer Kim Kardashian West is parlaying her passion for prison reform into a new career, and she's apparently planning on taking the California bar exam without going to law school.
SF News SF Officials Call Trump 'Morally Bankrupt' After Threat To Send Undocumented Detainees To Sanctuary Cities President Trump lobbed a new threat on Twitter Friday, pledging to punish "The Radical Left" by "placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only." In related news, the president remains a fan of randomly capitalizing words.
SF News Mission Bay Neighbors Begin Pre-Freakout About Chase Center Parking Situation Five months before the first concert or basketball game at the new Chase Center — a.k.a. the Warriors Arena — in Mission Bay, anxieties abound over what the traffic and parking situation will be like on event nights are running high.
Bay Area Sports Samardzija Sensational as Giants Blank Rockies 1-0 Giants starting pitcher Jeff Samardzija had a rocky and injury-ridden 2018 season, often looking completely out of whack and overmatched. However, 2019 appears to be a completely different story.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: 24 Arrested In City Hall Worker Protest A dozen VTA buses were taken out of service in Santa Clara in a scabies scare, a Tiburon couple describes being aboard the Norwegian cruise ship that lost power, and the four-year-old Oakland boy who accidentally shot himself is recovering.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Uber Files For IPO, Shows $1.8 Billion In 2018 Losses Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf won't be called in the Ghost Ship trial, Marine who went skiing solo in High Sierra six weeks ago still remains missing, and gas prices in SF hit $4.
Bay Area Sports Playoff Basketball is Here: What To Expect From The Warriors-Clippers Series The 2019 NBA playoffs are finally here, and the Warriors have the first-round matchup set. Owners of the top seed in the Western Conference, the Dubs will be playing a seven-game series against the Los Angeles Clippers.
Arts & Entertainment 10 Movies To Catch At The San Francisco International Film Festival In case you weren't aware, San Francisco boasts the longest-running film festival in the Americas, and this year's SFFILM fest features 163 films, 72 of them directed by women, and 12 of which are world premieres.
Arts & Entertainment 52nd Annual Cherry Blossom Festival Kicks Off Saturday in Japantown The annual celebration of hanami, the blossoming of cherry blossom trees that heralds the arrival of spring, begins Saturday in SF's Japantown with dozens of events and demonstrations.
SF News Florence Fang Lashes Back With Countersuit Over Hillsborough's Flintstones House 'Harassment' With the help of her attorney, former SF Supervisor Angela Alioto, Florence Fang is doubling down in her fight against the town of Hillsborough with a lawsuit of her own.
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Armistead Maupin Says SF's New Culture Is 'A Bit Dull' At ‘Tales of the City’ Premiere SFist talked to Armistead Maupin, Laura Linney, and a whole gang of characters both old and new as the Netflix ‘Tales of the City’ reboot premiered Wednesday night.
SF News Pothole On SFO Runway Causes Widespread Delays A runway that's scheduled for major maintenance work later this year had to undergo unscheduled maintenance Thursday morning because of a 1-foot-wide pothole.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: First Warriors Playoff Game Set For Saturday Debate continues over SF's Juvenile Hall, a pedestrian was killed on Highway 4, and Berkeley scientists are working on a birth control pill for men.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Electric Bills Could Go Up 50% If We Have More Wildfires The Transbay Transit Center is still supposedly on track for a June reopening, the man who died in Tomales Bay was out clamming, and a Berkeley expert warns that PG&E is bound to start passing off wildfire costs to consumers soon.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Jose City Council Pledges to Make New Airport Chick-fil-A The 'Gayest' One In The Country San Jose's mayor and city council dropped the ball 13 months ago when they approved a new Chick-fil-A as part of the contract for the concessionaire at Mineta San Jose International Airport. Now they're doing their best to make up for it.
SF News As Uber Preps Its IPO, Let's Stop Freaking Out About This Supposed Tidal Wave Of New Wealth Uber is expected to make its IPO filing public on Thursday, with an expected valuation of $90 billlion to $100 billion. Yes, those are big numbers, and some longtime employees are going to get quite paper-rich very soon. But this panic over all the pending IPOs needs to stop.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Drops Gorgeous Trailer For 'Tales Of The City' Featuring Bob the Drag Queen San Francisco looks stunningly beautiful and gloriously kooky and bohemian in the newly released trailer for Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, the Netflix reboot of the ensemble tale that began with a 40-year-old serial column in the Chronicle, and a PBS miniseries based on those columns.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Japanese Souffle Pancakes Currently All The Rage At Stonestown Mall The just-opened Gram Cafe and Pancakes at the Stonestown Galleria is one of several Asian food businesses drawing crowds to the otherwise faded shopping center — and it's serving an Instagram-trending dish that's kinda sorta sweeping the nation.
