Arts & Entertainment Reminder: Come Have A Beer With Us Next Week At SFist's Reader Meetup Consider this your second notice, friends: next Thursday, February 6th the editors, contributors and beautiful commenters of this very website will meet in real life at Virgil's Sea Room. So what can you
SF News Woman Found Dead On Mission Sidewalk, Man Arrested For Murder On Monday morning around 8:30 a.m. Mary Freeman, a 48-year-old homeless woman, was found dead on the sidewalk near 15th Street and San Bruno Avenue on the edge of the Mission
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Bay Bridge Teardown The Bon Vivants talk about one year of success at Trick Dog, cocktail menu design, and what's next. [EaterSF] The drought becomes real: Bluestem Brasserie is now encouraging guests to reuse plates and
SF News Day Around The Bay: Defending A Billionaire There's a northern California elephant preserve. [WSJ] S.F. Public Utilities Commission asks San Franciscans to start cutting back on water. [KTVU] The BART police officer who shot his colleague says he is
SF News A Raging Bull Terrorized Sonoma County For Hours Yesterday If you recognize the town of Rohnert Park in Sonoma County, it's probably thanks to the newly constructed and widely advertised Graton Resort & Casino that opened there last year. On Monday, the
Arts & Entertainment Video Of Baby Otter In Monterey Momentarily Distracts Entire Bay Area In Monterey, Calif., where the conditions are perfect for adorable wildlife and tourism to both thrive, a wild mother sea otter was spotted last week floating near the Monterey Bay Aquarium with a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Tech Culture' Is Now Ruining Five-Hour Dinners Too "Tech Culture" — that nebulous boogeyman currently haunting San Francisco — is there anything it can't ruin? Esteemed San Francisco Chronicle food critic and lifestyle blogger Michael Bauer is on a rant over on Inside
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: A Hazy Shade Of Marin An untitled shot from Marin County, California by Bennett Honson
SF News Drug Advocates Will Hand Out Free Crack Pipes, Whether The City Likes It Or Not After the HIV Planning and Prevention Council suggested the San Francisco Department of Public Health look into starting a crack pipe exchange program, city hall officials and the DPH itself balked at the
SF News 'Extraordinary American' Mayor Ed Lee Will Spend The Evening With Michelle Obama San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, just back from a trip to Washington, D.C., will return to the nation's capital tonight to chill with the nation's coolest mom during the State of the
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: 'Looking' To Give Back The crew of Looking donated $1,000 to the Duboce Triangle Neighborhood Association, which was very sweet of them. [Haighteration] San Francisco is working to prohibit employers and housing providers from discriminating based
SF News Day Around The Bay: Drought Prospectors Cocktail consultants are now a thing. [SFBiz] Gold prospectors are back and they're trying to get rich quick off of California's drought. [KTVU] Meanwhile, above us: January might end with a little rain,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'I Left My Heart' Time-Lapse Leaves Us Dizzy For San Francisco Thanks to our city's unrivaled beauty and anthropomorphized fog San Francisco and its visitors seem to put out time-lapse videos at a higher-than-average rate, but this one from Permagrin Films has a snazzy
SF News San Francisco Groups To Explore Handing Out Free Crack Pipes In an effort to curb HIV infections in San Francisco, members of local HIV prevention groups are cooking up a new plan to distribute pipes to crack users who they say are at
SF News Uber Sued For Wrongful Death Of 6-Year-Old Sofia Liu The family of 6-year-old Sofia Liu, who was struck and killed by an UberX driver in the Tenderloin on New Year's Eve, is suing Uber for wrongful death related to the incident. In
SF News Drunk Driver Arrested After Striking Woman At Mission Bus Stop Friday evening around 8:10 p.m. a 45-year-old driver struck a woman at a bus stop near Mission and 30th Streets. The driver was arrested on suspicion of DUI causing injury and
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Wine Spill A San Francisco sentencing commission wants to lessen drug possession charges to reduce jail spending. [BCN/Appeal] A big rig carrying 28 tons of wine overturned on Highway 101 in Santa Rosa. [KTVU]
SF News Photos: Pro-Choice And Pro-Life Activists Clash At 'Walk For Life' Event Saturday afternoon, thousands of anti-abortion activists descended on San Francisco for the annual Walk for Life stroll down Market Street. The Pro-Life event is, as we've mentioned before, an opportunity for San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Big Waves, Big Wipeouts At Mavericks The Mavericks Invitational big wave surfing competition went off without a hitch today. The ninth edition of the occasional contest, which only runs when conditions are ideal, saw waves cresting at more than
SF News Day Around The Bay: Lamborghini Thief Gets Life Guy Fieri's Lamborghini thief Max Wade gets life in prison for botched killing. [Chron] South African surfer Grant "Twiggy" Baker wins today's Mavericks surf competition. [AP] BART officer who died in the line
SF News San Francisco Is Only The Fourth Most Godless Place In The Country, Study Finds This week in studies: a new survey from the American Bible Society has found that San Francisco is not, in fact, the godless hellhole it is made out to be. Instead, the titles
SF News Baby Dolphin Born Into Life Of Suburban Captivity Earlier this month in Vallejo, Calif., a young, first-time mom gave birth to a bright and energetic offspring who will probably never know a better life outside the confines of a pool in
Arts & Entertainment Watch Mavericks Live From The Comfort Of Your Computer Screen The Mavericks Invitational big wave surf competition is on this morning down in Half Moon Bay. Waves are predicted to get as high as 45 feet, which big wave surfers are calling "ideal"
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Reservoir Eyesore The Rec & Parks Department is finally getting closer to turning the Francisco Reservoir on Russian Hill into something less ugly. [Chron] A suspect is on the loose after attacking a man with
SF News Your Next iPhone Will Probably Be Five Inches According to the latest chatter from the Wall Street Journal, Apple has decided that size does matter and will offer a second, larger screen iPhone later this year in order to compete with
