Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Graffiti Pioneer Mike Giant Bay Area graffiti legend And pioneer Mike Giant painting on Larkin Street. Photo by Troy Holden.
SF News Photo: Oakland Cop Parks In Disabled Parking Spot While Getting Peet's Coffee An SFist tipster, who wishes to remain anonymous, sent us this photo of an Oakland police officer parking in a disabled parking space in Temescal on Monday while sipping some brew inside a
SF News Awkward Tweet Alert: Jed York Welcomes Back Alex Smith Huh. This is awkward. Now that no other team wanted to sign Alex Smith, just like SFist's own Daisy Barringer predicted, and the 49ers tried (unsuccessfully) to woo Peyton Manning, Smith resigned from
Arts & Entertainment Kylie Minogue: Perfect Poster Girl For Jean Paul Gaultier At The DeYoung Who better to promote Jean Paul Gaultier's upcoming exhibit at the deYoung Mueseum than Kylie Minogue? No one, that's who. The pop icon's image, as seen above, will grace poster walls, lampposts, and
SF News Morgan Hill Teen Girl Still Missing; Sex Offender Father Not A Suspect The search for 15-year-old Sierra Lamar, a sophomore at Sobrato High School, continues today. Lamar was last seen on Friday "when she left her home near the intersection of Dougherty and Palm avenues,
SF News Man's Jaw Fractured During Afternoon Market Mugging At around 2 p.m. on Monday, a man was coldcocked by a punch in the head and robbed while walking along Seventh and Market. He was hospitalized with a broken jaw, reports
Arts & Entertainment Big Brother Casting Call In San Francisco, 4/7 Have you always wanted to live your life in front of TV cameras, with a sundry of people ranging from skinny and attractive to skinny and young? Now's your chance: On April 7th,
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Lower Haight Swing Action The Mission isn't the only place with a public makeshift swing (RIP!), the Lower Haight played host to some noontime fun today care of this swing in the Lower Haight being used by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dine With President Barack Obama, Gwyneth Paltrow, And Angela Bassett In S.F. For $35,800 [Updated] Spare $35,800? Or need a date? Because there are few things we love more than this scene from Waiting to Exhale. And this SFist editor would like to personally thank Angela Bassett
Arts & Entertainment 7 Reasons To Love San Francisco There are countless stories to tell in San Francisco, but sometimes a picture says so much more that mere words. Each Tuesday, we present to you 7 Reasons. (Our sister site LAist does
SF News Day Around The Bay: Scooter Sharing Service's Serious Snafu* Ballyhooed new scooter sharing service might run into wall at DMV. Oops. [SF Appeal] Nob Hill NIMBY fight over Masonic Center continues tomorrow. [Curbed] CSU cancels spring 2013 admissions. [Chron] Rick Santorum is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Award 2012 Nominees Announced The James Beard Award nominees were announced Monday, and SFist's searing portrait of the Jack in the Box Bacon Shake was not nominated in the media category. (Fie, nominating committee! Fie!) Other than
SF News Ross Mirkarimi Receives One-Day Jail Stay, Probation San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi received a one-day jail sentence and three years of probation Monday for falsely imprisoning his wife, Eliana Lopez, during a fight that allegedly resulted in his bruising her.
SF News Woman Stabs Woman In Sunday Night SOMA Dispute Due to a dispute over money, a woman was arrested after allegedly stabbing another woman in the city's SOMA district. "The stabbing was reported at 6:01 p.m. Sunday in the 1300
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Perfect Segway "These Boots are Made for ahem... riding" by danishdynamite.
Arts & Entertainment Dolores Park Celebrity Map 2012: Rachel Maddow Likes Dolores Park, Riding Muni Formerly bespectacled Rachel Maddow loves riding Muni, the MSNBC host told Vanity Fair. She's a big fan of taking the J-Church up to "the top corner of Dolores Park" (a.k.a. "the
SF News List Of Declared And Rumored S.F. Supervisor Candidates Revealed While San Francisco won't get to select a new mayor this time around, residents will have the chance to pick a slew of new supervisors. And the Usual Suspects, San Francisco's political page
SF News Two Men Rape Woman Near Oakland City Hall A 25-year-old woman survived a kidnapping and rape by two men in Oakland on Sunday morning. The victim says she was "grabbed from behind about 1 a.m. near 14th Street and Broadway"
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas McNaughton & Michael Gaines Host Two Previews For Wildly Anticipated Central Kitchen Flour + Water chef Thomas McNaughton and chef de cuisine Michael Gaines' upcoming new joint, Central Kitchen (think Saison-y, but not as expensive or fancy yet still leaning in that general direction), is all
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On The Heterosexual Emancipation Front... What is the Straight Agenda, anyway? Find out at the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair (Saturday, March 31, 2 p.m.) or at Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley (Monday, April 2, 4 pm)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ben & Jerry's UK Launches 'Apple-y Ever After' For Gay Marriage Equality While Ben & Jerry's Taste The Lin-Sanity hit a mildly sour note upon its release — it initially featured fortune cookie bits, which offended some since Jeremy Lin was born here in 'Merica, so
SF News Protest At Apple Store For Friday's iPad Release Just like the release of the iPhone 4s and iPad 2, tomorrow's new iPad release at the Stockton Street Apple store in San Francisco will play host to a group of protesters. And
SF News Rad Old Couple Cited For Smoking Pot In Castro Plaza Robert Blitzer, 66, and his husband, Xenry, 63, were sitting in the Castro Plaza on March 11, doing what every honorable, Goddess-fearing San Franciscan should be doing on a warm weekend day of
