SF News 50 Years Ago Today, BART's Transbay Tube Opened For Business It's been 50 years since BART began shuttling passengers under the Bay between Oakland and San Francisco. And with a recent seismic retrofit of the Transbay Tube complete, the agency is celebrating the big anniversary today.
SF News SFist Turns 20: Here's to 20 Years of Gossip, Snark, and Covering This Beautiful City Hey everybody, SFist is celebrating its 20th anniversary this week! To honor the occasion, we look back with fondness on these two madcap decades of this site, and the writers who made us the best smart-ass news publication in town.
SF News The Cable Car Turns 150 Years Old Today As you may know, the cable car was a San Francisco invention, conceived of as a solution to some tragic accidents that involved horse-drawn streetcars. And August 2, 2023 marks the 150th anniversary of the first cable car being tested on Clay Street.
Arts & Entertainment #HappyBirthday! The Hashtag Turns 10 It might seem like just yesterday that you were explaining how it worked to your mom, but it was ten years ago today that the hashtag was born. #Hashtag10 New York Magazine regales
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Specs' In North Beach Turns 48 On Sunday; Learn More About The Storied Dive Bar And Mini-Museum The tucked-away, categorically authentic North Beach dive known simply as Specs', the full name of which is Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe, stands nearly alone in its intact, dusty, old-man-bar diveyness despite being
SF News One Year Ago Today, The Napa Earthquake Rocked The Bay Area Officially dubbed the 2014 South Napa Earthquake, the quake that struck at 3:20 a.m. last August 24th officially marks its one-year anniversary today. The quake only caused minor shaking in San
Arts & Entertainment 39 Years Ago Today, Patty Hearst Was Convicted Of Armed Robbery How does one celebrate the 39th anniversary of the day one was convicted of armed robbery and use of a firearm to commit a felony? Long walk with your prize-winning dog? A cake?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acquerello Hosting 25th Anniversary Dinner Series Continuing tomorrow at Acquerello, which is ringing in 25 years at Sacramento and Polk this summer, is an alumni dinner series featuring chefs who formerly got their start there. A couple weeks ago
Arts & Entertainment 'Ultimate April Fools Joke' Gmail Turns 10 Today Disbelief at the reminder that Gmail was first announced on April 1, 2004 abounds. Can you believe that we once lived in a world where Gmail was not the dominant free webmail service?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Quince Rings In Ten Years With Big-Name Guest Chefs It's a big season for Quince. Not only did they garner a second Michelin star last month and land on the cover of Food & Wine's holiday issue (with a rib roast), but
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Tonight: Lights Down Low Turns 7! Let's give it up for Richie Panic, shall we? Mr. Panic, local DJ of note, has been dishing out his monthly Lights Down Low for masses at Mezzanine. And now it's time to
SF News Muni Turns 100 Today, Gives Out Free Rides Whoopty doo, Muni celebrates 100 years in operation today. If you can actually succeed in riding a Metro train or bus to work this a.m. despite reduced service this week and the
SF News BART Turns 40; Will Hand Out Free Tickets, Ice Cream Once upon a time in September 1972, just as President Nixon was vehemently denying any involvement with the Watergate break-in and Maude was premiering on television, BART was born. The Bay Area Rapid
SF News Guess What's Also Turning 75! The Mint. This month, in addition to the big celebrations for the 75th birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge happening over Memorial Day, it's also the anniversary of the opening of what was once known
Arts & Entertainment The Rrazz Room Turned Four, And Linda Lavin Was There The Rrazz Room (and yes, it has two Rs), the cabaret venue located off the lobby in the Hotel Nikko, celebrated its fourth anniversary Rrazziversary last night with a star-studded cast of favorite
Arts & Entertainment Mickey Hart To Turn Golden Gate Bridge Into Giant 'Wind Harp' In honor of the 75th birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge, being celebrated this May, artist and former Grateful Dead member Mickey Hart will turn the iconic bridge into a giant musical instrument
SF News Marking The Kennedy Assassination, 48 Years Later The decades tick on, but the nation's fascination with and collective grief for John F. Kennedy's assassination remains constant, even today as we mark the 48th anniversary. Above you can see a stabilized
misc YouTube Turns Five View more news videos at: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/video. Where have our lives gone? Oh, right, we've spent half of them watching shit on YouTube for the last several years. The site
SF News 40 Years Ago Today, the 60's Died at Altamont Today marks the 40th anniversary of Altamont, the infamous free concert thrown at the the Altamont Speedway, east of Livermore near the junction between 580 and I-5. The concert was billed as Woodstock
