SF News Uniqlo To Open First West Coast Store In San Francisco, Fall 2012 Uniqlo, the popular Japanese clothing chain that New York fashionistas love to rave about, is eyeing San Francisco for its first U.S. store outside of Manhattan. According to the Wall Street Journal,
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Sheriff Vicki Hennessy's Jail Tour Interim Sheriff Vicki Hennessy takes a tour of the city's jails, somehow comes off looking way more badass in photos than Mirkarimi ever did. Dear Startup Boys: Please Tuck In Your Shirts. [TheAwl]
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Crashing & Burning At 'Bring Your Own Big Wheel 2012' Judging by the carnage that showed up in the SFist Flickr Pool after yesterday's Bring Your Own Big Wheel event, San Francisco's other yearly Easter tradition was a sight to behold, full of
SF News Warriors Pass On Mission Bay Arena, Eye Pier 30 Slam Dunk When the San Francisco Giants announced their plan to revitalize Mission Bay with a $1.6 billion, 27-acre development project last week, one piece that was notably missing from the plan was a
SF News Fire Department Manhole Rescue Leads To Hilarious Emergency Notification Yesterday evening an electrical worker found himself stuck in a SoMa manhole after he reportedly fell down the ladder at Howard and Fremont Streets. The electrical worker, who was apparently not part of
SF News Facebook Buying Instagram For $1 Billion Writing in (where else) a status update from Palo Alto this morning, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his company has agreed to purchase San Francisco-based social photography app Instagram for a reported $1
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Regarding The State Of Undress Among Local Sunbathers On the state of tanning and undress at Dolores Park (among straight people, natch). [UptownAlmanac] These people got up way earlier than you yesterday to celebrate Easter on the top of Mt. Davidson.
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From Last Night: GWAR At The Regency Ballroom Photos and text: Alissa de Vogel Last night your intrepid Sfist correspondent ventured out to the Regency Ballroom to see thrash metal shock-rockers Gwar, in what was truly an epic feast for the
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Jesus Spotted Bearing Cross At Sixth And Mission In New York, the good lord might be blocking bike lanes, but here in San Francisco local photographer Austin Kamps snapped this photo of the Man apparently on a mission to clean up
SF News American Heartland No Longer Spared From Earthquakes, Says USGS Study According to a new study from the US Geological Survey, the great American flyover states from Colorado to Kentucky experienced an "unprecedented" increase in the number of 3.0 or greater magnitude earthquakes
SF News Two California Sea Lions Sentenced To Death For Eating Salmon In Portland, Oregon where the locals apparently don't love the sea lions enough to give them their own deck to lounge around on, two California sea lions were put to death by lethal
SF News Six Months After Occupy SF: How Are Those Bocce Courts Doing? It's been over half a year since the Occupy Movement first sprang up, which seems like as good a time as any to take a reading of the movement's local impact. Specifically: are
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Jack Kerouac, Hipster Foodie Jack Kerouac: The original hipster foodie. (Also, he wrote On the Road on one long scroll, you know. That's basically blogging by typewriter.) [GrubSF] Here's what's on Ross Mirkarimi's social calendar: two important
SF News Day Around The Bay: Oakland Finds Anti-Marijuana US Attorney Very Unchill After this week's crackdown on Oaksterdam University, US Attorney Melinda Haag has got to go. [EastBayExpress] How Mark Zuckerberg's Sister descended in to reality television (and how Tech is on the same path)
SF News Cyclist Who Struck Pedestrian At Castro: "I Just Plowed Through The Crowded Crosswalk" The cyclist who struck a 71-year-old pedestrian — who later died from his injuries — at Castro and Market Streets last week allegedly took to the Internet on the day of the incident to tell
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On The Municipal Railway... Mayor Ed Lee celebrated 100 years of San Francisco's Municipal Railway today by re-launching Muni's first streetcar, the restored Car No. 1. Joining the Mayor for the dignitaries-only first ride in the century-old
SF News Binh Thai Luc Pleads Not Guilty To Howth Street Mass Murder The man accused of killing five people in the gruesome Howth Street murders pled not guilty to all charges in court today. Luc, who was arrested two days after the March 23rd incident,
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Remembering Dolores Park's Classic Playground "Don't you miss when Dolores Park's playground used to have that incredible water feature?" - Nobody ever. And hello: just look at it now. Photo: sxl from the SFist Flickr pool.
SF News Spurned Photographer Exacts Revenge On SFGate, Creates FriscoGate.com Yesterday, in an attempt to get Internet readers to click on something as many times as possible, SFGate.com ran a second edition of "You know you're a real San Franciscan if you.
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: President Obama In A Fedora Here's President Obama looking dapper in a locally sourced, SF-made fedora. [RichmondSF] Local Chef Chris Cosentino creates a "Bitter Hipster" pasta dish. Get it? Because rotelli looks like bike wheels, duh. [@offalchris] AirBnB
Arts & Entertainment Ten Brief Excerpts From April's 'Nob Hill Gazette' As is our monthly tradition around here, we now present our favorite utterances from the April issue of San Francisco's "most exclusive news magazine". Provided (mostly) without commentary and in no particular order.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold: Your New Dolores Park-Adjacent Beer Store We've been keeping an eye on Cervecería de MateVeza ever since the (naturally) caffeinated micro-brewery popped up on our radar last year. Now, with a beer list boasting nearly 100 different bottles and
SF News Bicoastal Pot Trafficking Ring Busted In Santa Rosa Today's reminder that the rest of America doesn't quite share San Francisco's loose morals compassionate attitude when it comes to marijuana sales: ten Bay Area residents and two East Coasters were busted in
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: The Evolving Local Cocktail Culture Camper English chronicles the recent evolution of cocktails in San Francisco. [BoldItalic] And speaking of SF Cocktail Culture, there's some creative new mixology happening on Muni. [MuniDiaries] This weeks Guardian cover story: hanging
SF News Photo: Shooting Massacre Suspect One Goh's Mugshot Released Oakland Police this afternoon released the booking photo of Oikos University massacre suspect One Goh. Goh stands accused of shooting 10 and killing 7 classmates yesterday at Oikos University in Oakland. Goh was
