SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Feed the Need: BBC Covers South Park Food Carts The Twittersphere was all aflutter today as the food cart (and food table) sensation hit South Park, because this time it drew media interest from BBC Radio, some unnamed video outlet and, yes,
SF News Central Subway Ground Broken With a heavy dose of coffee, free muffins and hat tips to Nancy Pelosi, the Central Subway officially broke ground today. Happening just outside SFist headquarters, we couldn't resist throwing on an overcoat,
SF News Shooting Victim Drives Self To Fire Station An unidentified man with an unfortunate gunshot wound drove himself to a fire station in SOMA early this morning. SFAppeal reports, "Officers responded to San Francisco Fire Department Station No. 1 at 676
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink (UPDATED) House Of Shields To Close? Following on the heels of the Eagle being up for sale, the century-old House of Shields "could be nearing the end of its run on New Montgomery Street." Eater reports that "the historic
Arts & Entertainment SOMA's The Eagle For Sale The Eagle, a historic and much-admired SOMA venue, is up for sale. SFist called the famous leather/bear/indie-rock/gay/straight-ish/everything-that-is-superb-about-SOMA spot for confirmation. "Yep, the place is for sale," the bartender
Arts & Entertainment Eye Candy at Gallery 16 For a slice of sophisticated, playful eye candy, head on over to Gallery 16 near South Park this month and check out a fantastic new show of artwork from Emigre, the independent type
misc Taqueria Reina Loves Newsom Tributes don't get much better than this homage found at Taqueria Reina. You win, Gavin. You win.
SF News SUV Flip at 10th and Howard Just outside the VidSF offices at PariSoma in SOMA, an SUV was in an accident, causing it to flip over. Remarkably, no one was injured. And it happened before this morning's deluge. As
SF News Carsonist Sets Two Vehicles Ablaze In SOMA Two vehicles had to be extinguished by firefighters this morning in the city's South of Market District. According to Appeal/BCN, "Units responded to Jessie and Sixth streets at around 5:15 a.
misc Photos: Twitter's New Office Moving out of the LoRi (Lower Outer Rincon Hill)/South Park neighborhood, the folks at Twitter moved up Third Street to a sweeter, swankier pad. CEO Ev Williams's wife, Sara Morishige, reportedly aided
Arts & Entertainment SF Open Studios: SOMA/Downtown Saturday marks the SOMA/downtown installment of SF Open Studios. All of the open galleries will be in the Eastern SOMA/Yerbua Buena area near SF MOMA -- the Yerba Buena neighborhood, if
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Osha Thai Takes Over Bong Su Quickly becoming the Fuzio of Asian cuisine, Osha Thai according to Eater, will set up shop in the old Bong Su space at Third and Folsom, replacing the greatest-named restaurant in San Francisco
SF News Breaking: Twitter Founder Sells Home, Buys Home The fine folks over at Curbed reported yesterday that Twitter co-founder Evan Williams (heretofore known as @ev) sold his SOMA penthouse (going for a scant $1,498,000) on Fourth Street. You know,
misc Scenes from a <em>Trauma</em> Shoot: SOMA Today, a Huey Helicopter parked right on Norfolk at Folsom next to Wish. The fine folks at Trauma have been filming in the area all week. Here's a shot of the Hollywood magic
Arts & Entertainment Folsom Street Fair '09: A Gallery - SOME NSFW! - UPDATED It was a lusty, warm day at Folsom Street Fair yesterday, and people showed up in droves to show themselves off in their leather harnesses, bustiers, jockstraps and the like. They also showed
SF News Central Subway Snags $9.9 Million The Central Subway plan got a boost yesterday care of a $9.9 grant via an unknown donor. (Though, according to Curbed, the Federal Transit Administration might be the culprit.) MTA spokesperson Judson
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Sweet Cart Comes to South Park Tomorrow (Thursday) Get ready, hungry worker bees buzzing about in the SOMA/Mission Bay/Rincoon Hill/downtown area. Dottie, the sweetheart of The Sweet Cart, will be selling her goods in South Park tomorrow (Thursday)
SF News No Smoke, No Fire Have no fear if you're walking down Second Street between Folsom and Harrison, just around the corner from SFist World HQ. That long line of fire engines hogging all the parking meters isn't
Arts & Entertainment "Hot and Cold - The End is Here" An overabundance of events happen this week: the SF Symphony's opening night gala tomorrow; SF Cameraworks 35th anniversary on Thursday; like, 9/11-y stuff, presumably. Anyway, as the end of summer approaches, a
misc Photo du Jour 494 "A Sad State of Affairs In the City of San Francisco" by Plug1. (Image shot dangerously close to SFist HQ. This is the neighborhood on a good day, folks.)
Arts & Entertainment Tonight Addition: DJ Spinderella at 330 Ritch You remember Salt-N-Pepa's "Let's Talk About Sex", right? Sure you do. It's the GenX ode to safe sex that kicks off thusly: "Spinderella cut it up one time." Anyway, the cutter in question,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fondue Cowboy: Comfort Food Comes to SOMA After white-knuckling a Tablehopper absence -- Marcia Gagliardi, you see, is in the process of writing a book, hence her two-week sojourn offline -- we were relieved to find her waiting in our
