Arts & Entertainment Here's The First Look At Helen Mirren In 'Winchester' CBS Films just released the first image of actress Helen Mirren in character, and in costume, as Sarah Winchester in the upcoming thriller Winchester. It's directed by Michael and Peter Spierig, the Australian
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Former Ritz And Michael Mina Chef Ron Siegel Gets His Own Spot In Marin Chef Ron Siegel, who in his time as executive chef at the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton earned four stars from the Chronicle and many other accolades, and who later would take over
SF News Marshawn Lynch's Oakland Store Denies Rumor Of Raiders Block Party With E-40, Michael B. Jordan The Raiders may not be long for the Bay Area, but there's cause for celebration today with the return of prodigal Oakland son Marshawn Lynch. Born and raised in Oakland, Lynch rose to
Arts & Entertainment Video: Salma Hayek Translates Mexican Slang Salma Hayek, who's starring in the new film How to Be A Latin Lover, has just done this cute explainer video for Vanity Fair translating various Mexican slang phrases some of which have
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Sunken Barge To Rise From Bay Fake monks return to SF. [KRON 4] Queen Latifah was in SF to talk about the importance of diversity in advertising. [Ad Week] [CNet] asks "Can Facebook solve its violent video problem?" This
SF News A Dozen Decomposing Dog Remains Found By Side Of Vallejo Trail She found the carcasses of 12 pets, dumped in plastic bags. No identifications. pic.twitter.com/E8vXx56Exk— Wayne Freedman (@WayneFreedman) April 27, 2017 A woman walking her own dogs stumbled upon a gruesome
SF News Berkeley Chancellor Pens Op Ed: 'We Are Under Attack From Both Sides' UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks took to the New York Times today with an op-ed concerning both the Ann Coulter speech kerfuffle and the ongoing use of the campus as a locale for
SF News Valet App Luxe Is Shutting Down Existing Door-to-Door Service Current users of Luxe are out of luck: The San Francisco-based parking service known for its blue-jacket clad, scooter-toting valets, is shutting down its door-to-door service. But CEO Curtis Lee is pushing back
SF News Yet Another Cable Car Conductor Goes Down For Alleged Fare Theft A week after a San Francisco cable car conductor was arrested in an alleged fare theft scheme, a second conductor has been booked on similar charges. As previously reported, 61-year-old cable car conductor
SF News Couple Robbed At Gunpoint On Muni Bus Two San Francisco bus riders were robbed at gunpoint Wednesday, the victims of a brazen midday heist by a trio of miscreants. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the shakedown happened at
SF News BART Identifies Some Suspects In Mob Robbery As Woman Comes Forward With Separate Teen Attack Story The swarm robbery by a large group of teenagers that occurred at BART's Coliseum Station Saturday night continues to make the local news as KRON 4, CBS 5, and NBC Bay Area all
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Seniors Demand More Time To Cross SF Streets Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Of course she did. [SFist] Early-morning power problems slow
Arts & Entertainment They Met Through Networking App Shapr Dating apps always have beautiful stories that lead to pretty engagement photos and cheaper rent. This time with Shapr, there’s no “they got married and moved in” but rather their careers took
SF News Day Around The Bay: Flying Uber Cars? Really? 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 court has ruled that Uber must turn over
SF News Self-Driving Car Tests Without Human Backup Drivers One Step Closer After Tense Meeting The California DMV stands to further ease its regulations on autonomous vehicles at the urging of automakers, Reuters reports following a heated public hearing in Sacramento Tuesday. Representatives from the Association for Global
SF News Gay, HIV-Positive Asylum Seeker From Russia Living In Bay Area Detained By ICE In Florida The stakes are very high for 30-year-old Russian national Denis Davydov, who traveled to the US legally in 2014 and overstayed his visa, requesting asylum as an HIV-positive gay man who faces persecution
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch A Landslide Spill Down Onto Highway 101 In Mendocino One Day After It Reopened A section of Highway 101 in Mendocino County that has been closed twice in the last month by rockslides had just reopened Monday when the hill began giving way again Tuesday night, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ivanka Trump Once Shilled For Juicero Daily cold-pressed juice we can make at home? Yes, please: https://t.co/jFgquzX3OU #Healthy @Juicero #Juicero— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) March 31, 2016 It seemed that every drop of humor had already been
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Mac Returns To SF In September To Perform His Complete 'A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music' Performer and playwright Taylor Mac will, for only the second time, be performing all 24 hours of his epically ambitious A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music this fall at The Curran. The wildly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing: Beer Fest Aboard A Submarine San Francisco is a beer-loving town if ever there was one, and this week marks the third annual installment of a smaller-scale beer fest than the annual Beer Week Gala that went down
SF News Intoxicated Mountain View Man Attacks 300-Pound Security Robot, Is Arrested It's an only-in-Silicon Valley story that has NBC Bay Area making "Rage Against the Machine" dad jokes: Knightscope, the maker of a line of rolling security robots, apparently trusts its own product enough
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Preeti Mistry's Navi Kitchen Debuts In Emeryville, Indian Pizza Coming Soon The second East Bay restaurant from Juhu Beach Club chef Preeti Mistry, Navi Kitchen, opened its doors this morning for limited breakfast service including an awesome looking chai-spiced bacon and egg sandwich dubbed
SF News Man Robbed After Attempting To Snap Photo Of Possible Market Street Stalker A man who believed that a guy was following him down Market Street might have been onto something, as he was robbed him the moment he tried to take a photo of his
SF News No Arrests Yet As BART Catches Flak For Not Publicizing 'Flash Mob' Robbery Should BART have been faster to alert the public about the mob of 40+ teens who bum-rushed fare gates, stormed the platform, and roughed up and robbed a bunch of people at Coliseum
SF News Cotati Man Identified As Suspect In Attempted Pac Heights Kidnapping A Sonoma County man is behind bars today, the suspect in an attempted kidnapping that's shaken the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. As reported Monday, police say that a man attempted to
