A death at Burning Man on Saturday night is being investigated as a homicide after a man was found in a pool of blood at a camp in Black Rock City, during the ritual burning of the Man.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
An SF Giants fan made quite the splash on Wednesday when he was broadcast getting dropped off in McCovey Cove via water taxi, which quickly went viral. It was later confirmed that the man was an off-duty boat captain.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
The Oakland PD is removing public access to its radio communications for the first time in 100 years Wednesday; the Valkyries beat the Mystics Saturday and will host the Fever Sunday; and two unclaimed lottery tickets were purchased in Milipitas and Pleasant Hill.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
In a new documentary airing on Oxygen, convicted serial killer and rapist Joseph Naso confessed to killing 26 victims, including 19-year-old Pamela Lambson on Mount Tam in 1977, originally pinned on “The Dating Game Killer” in 2011.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Local musician Rudy Colombini has been developing Music City SF, a live music hub and incubator on Bush Street, for the past 20 years. The 29,000-square-foot space is now in default, and Colombini hopes to raise funds via a reality show filmed at the venue.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
This week: Michelle Tea’s ‘Valencia’ turns 25, and California turns 175; Boozie Brunch boosts local restaurants while Culinary Cinema pairs films with three-course meals; a state park thrives post-wildfire and Point Molate is opening to the public; plus, puppy yoga, cat Pilates, and Bay Area makers.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Newsom is launching a new task force addressing homeless encampments along state roadways in California's ten largest cities; smoke caused by overheating brakes led to a BART meltdown Friday night; and a Marin County writer and father of three is having a heyday roasting the area's well-to-do.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
The former Delta pilot who was arrested for child sexual abuse at SFO in July appeared in court Friday; it's been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast; and a Tesla driver appeared to be snoozing behind the wheel last week.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Pokémon catchers report for training after Friday night’s Giants-Orioles game at Oracle Park, as the team has lined up a massive “Pokémon Go Drone Show” so you can peek at giant Pikachus flying through the sky.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Bosco sets an opening date, Shuggie's reopens with its new more ambitious menu (and low-ABV cocktails), and Souley Vegan has made a triumphant return in Oakland, all in This Week in Food.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
The bar and live music venue Amado’s closed permanently two years ago, but is now somehow open again, with a soft opening schedule of just weekend nights, and food only on Fridays and Saturdays (for now).| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
In a surprising deal that was somewhat brokered by Gavin Newsom, Uber and Lyft are going to let their 800,000 California rideshare drivers unionize and get collective bargaining rights, though drivers can still refuse to join the union.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Former San Jose City Councilmember Omar Torres, who was convicted in April of molesting a younger male relative, faced a fraught sentencing hearing Friday in which his victim yelled at him and called him a "monster."| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Mayor Lurie’s new effort to get many RVs off SF streets with a two-hour parking limit is now in effect, except the actual two-hour parking limit does not kick in until November. And the city will offer cash in an RV buyback program.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
A new upscale billiards lounge with a cocktail bar has just opened on Mission Street, in the space that was formerly home to ECHO nightclub.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
A site that had been one of several to spark controversy and protest in the last decade as market-rate developers were ravenous to build in the Mission District is now going to become the largest 100%-affordable development in the neighborhood in 20 years.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
A 100% affordable housing project broke ground at 16th and DeHaro streets Monday morning, and this is newsworthy, because it's being built by a market-rate developer, and it was not originally going to be affordable housing.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
A federal court case with major implications for Donald Trump's agenda — namely his stated intent to send federal troops into US cities run by Democrats that he perceives to be crime-ridden — had its three-day hearing this week.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee doesn't take kindly to her city being lumped in to Trump's fear-mongering campaign relating to urban crime, which he is using to justify deploying the National Guard in DC.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Whether he's legally permitted to or not, Herr Trump is doubling down on his earlier threat to send National Guard troops to combat "crime" in Chicago, New York City, and San Francisco.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Yes, there were once cows in Cow Hollow.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Eight people were injured and reportedly 50 people are now displaced after a fire tore through a 19-unit apartment complex in San Rafael Thursday morning.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
An ice cream bear jamboree was broken up by El Dorado County Sheriff’s deputies in South Lake Tahoe early Sunday morning, but not before that bear put a serious dent in the strawberry ice cream supply.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Two banks in Oakland's Chinatown were targeted for smash-and-grab ATM thefts Wednesday morning; Republican legislators in California are scrambling to stop a redistricting effort; and today is the day Tap and Ride begins on BART.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
A federal court has denied an attempt by San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to block a voter-approved initiative allowing the county board of supervisors to remove her from office, claiming it violated her federal rights.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
The saga continues in San Mateo County as Sheriff Christina Corpus seems dead set on leaving her job kicking and screaming, as opposed to bowing out quietly as the cards keep getting stacked against her.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Embattled San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus gave her first testimony before a hearing with the county's board of supervisors on Monday, and she remained defiant in denying the allegations against her.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Residents of the Outer Sunset and Richmond once again flooded 311 with complaints about this month's concerts; more SF city employees are ordered back in the office next week; and In-N-Out Burger is opening its first Washington State location.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) announced Friday that he’s investigating Meta after it was discovered that the company’s policies allowed its AI chatbots to interact with children in a “romantic or sensual” manner.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
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A big-city newspaper critic has to deal with the big-name, Michelin-starred places eventually, and it seems that Soleil Ho's tour of the Bay Area's more acclaimed, pricey spots is finally complete.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
I actually called it wrong yesterday when I said the chances of a take-down review of Chez Panisse from the Chronicle's new food critic were "slim to none." Oh, she went there.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Also, Rich Table finally gets a star!| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Some controversial cuts were going to be inevitable when the Chronicle's two main food critics set about reviving the Top 100 restaurants list this year. But, call me crazy, just-OK taco shops do not belong in the top 20 when over a dozen Michelin-starred spots are getting snubbed completely.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Three years in, Soleil Ho drops a review of The French Laundry, and now the details emerge about why the Chronicle's restaurant critic left Thomas Keller's famed restaurant off a recent list of best splurge restaurants.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
In a very-low-turnout election Tuesday, SF voters handed Mayor London Breed a couple of victories on police powers and drug screening for welfare recipients, while an affordable housing bond she abandoned is still too close to call.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Mayor London Breed’s priorities are all over your March 5 primary ballot, including one measure that proposes to give San Francisco police expanded use of drones and surveillance cameras.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
The Chico man suspected of sparking the Park Fire last week, which has burned over 380,000 acres of Northern California, has now been charged with felony arson and arson with aggravating factors.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
The death of local drag icon Heklina won’t stop the Golden Girls from being a friend for your upcoming holiday season, as Miss Coco Peru has signed on to take Heklina’s traditional role of the garishly outfitted Dorothy Zbornak in this year’s production.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
As news ripples out through the local and national drag community about the loss of San Francisco legend Heklina, many are processing the shocking news and mourning on social media.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
It was way back in 2007 that the idea to reenact old Golden Girls episodes with SF drag queens took shape, with Heklina and some friends doing the first performances in someone's Victorian in the Western Addition.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Heklina and D'Arcy Drollinger tell SFist how they keep their annual Christmas show from getting blanched.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
A beloved drag queen has died, and all too soon. Cookie Dough, a.k.a. Eddie Bell, succumbed to complications from meningitis at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco Thursday night. She was 52.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
