SF News City Sues Bernal Heights' Kingston Shack 'Gambling Den' City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who last year successfully shuttered underground Excelsior gambling establishment Next Stop Business Center, is once again in crackdown mode. As the Weekly notes, this time his target is Kingston
Arts & Entertainment Local Seth Rogen Body Double Sought For Steve Jobs Film Men with the body and beard of Seth Rogen are in particular demand at the moment, it would seem. Rogen, who plays the Apple genius Steve Wozniak alongside the Apple genius Steve Jobs
SF News Rep. Mike Honda Tweets Support For His Transgender Granddaughter As the proud grandpa of a transgender grandchild, I hope she can feel safe at school without fear of being bullied. pic.twitter.com/NDIfOdW9sk— Rep. Mike Honda (@RepMikeHonda) February 18, 2015 Congressman
SF News Bay To Breakers Sponsor Wants Us To Set New Whimsical Records This Year San Francisco's annual footrace-themed cosplay shitshow, also known as Straight Pride, aims to set new records this year at the behest of recently announced title sponsor Zappos.com. The event, already the longest
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mission To Mars Some Bay Area folks are finalists for that one-way Mars trip, where the rent is presumably cheaper. [CBS5] Michael Bauer comes out against the current system of tipping. [Chron] A very impressive woman
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Patissiers Craftsman & Wolves Pounce On Russian Hill Location Valencia Street pastry rebels Craftsman & Wolves have announced their expansion to Russian Hill along with a big hire in top pastry chef Angela Pinkerton who has arrived in the Bay Area by
SF News Airbnb Has Paid Those Back Taxes To SF 'In Full' $25 million. That's the widely quoted figure that Airbnb owed the city in back hotel taxes and penalties, and it's perhaps the sum they've just paid San Francisco. Though the Chronicle reports that
SF News Tonight: Black Supermoon Will Summon King Tides Remember all the supermoons last summer? The astronomical event of this evening will be a phenomenon sometimes called a "black supermoon," and it's the cause of a coastal flood advisory for the Bay
SF News Dolores Vandals Cause 100K In Damage At Park Renovation Site Almost anything goes at Dolores Park, whose northern half has been closed since last March for $20 million in renovations. But this time, literal lines were crossed. Nighttime ne'er-do-wells breached fences and ignored
Arts & Entertainment Nine Noise Pop Festival Shows Not To Miss Noise Pop upped the ante for their 23rd annual festival with a new HQ at the Swedish American Hall and a sizable lineup of over 150 acts sprinkled around the Bay. If you
SF News New (Improved?) Renderings For 7-Story Condo At Church And Market The four-years-vacant former Home restaurant property at 2100 Market — a notable eye-sore that at least didn't become a Chipotle, as was possible — has issued an update to last year's initial rendering of a
SF News Pets Fall Prey To SF Housing Crisis A photo posted by Eve Batey (@evelb) on Aug 15, 2014 at 2:17pm PDT Though San Francisco has statistically and anecdotally ranked among the most pet-friendly cities in the country (as well
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 11 Cool Things To Check Out This Week See and be seen at these select San Francisco shows, parties, and events. You know, because you can't read the internet all the time. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 MARDIS GRAS LOUNGE: Over at Bergerac
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sloppy SFFD Documentation At Site Of Mission Fire Fire officials have acknowledged that their inspectors were lax when it came to documenting repairs of violations like the ones found (for years) at the building at 22nd and Mission Street that burned
Arts & Entertainment Time Travel In SF With Waterstrider's New Music Video Waterstrider, an Oakland-based five piece outfit, has just released one of the more intriguing music videos to be set in our part of the world. Take a disorienting trip with the band through
Arts & Entertainment Timelapse Time: Black And White 'Gotham City SF' Edition, Plus Some Critiques Gotham City SF // A Timelapse Film from Toby Harriman on Vimeo. As San Francisco produces a prolific number of timelapse/cool videos, perhaps it's time to take a more formal approach to their
SF News Video: Obama Talks Tech At Stanford, Shuts Down Cable Cars In some, President Obama's Bay Area visit caused, as KRON4 reports, extreme, perhaps troubling excitement. Even cable cars halted in their tracks, according to the Chronicle. Okay, that was for security reasons, but
SF News Borderlands Books Owner Again Blames Closure On Minimum Wage, Not Amazon Though he mentioned the problems posed by e-readers and Amazon in his initial statements on the impending closure of Borderlands Books, owner Alan Beatts would now like everyone to know that the real
SF News Airbnb CEO Apologizes For Gandhi Comparison Tweet Critics of Silicon Valley take particular pleasure in delusional analogies from tech companies and their backers, and last week provided plenty of fodder. First, Twitter was ablaze with a Uber-as-Rosa Parks comparison, for
SF News Annual Valentine's Day Pillow Fight Leaves Giant Mess, One Unconcious The annual Valentine's Day flashmob pillow fight, which here in Neverland SF has a Facebook event page and a FuncheapSF listing but no official organizer, went down on Saturday on schedule at Justin
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learning To Drink Vol. 8: The Martin(i/ez) E.B. White dubbed it "the elixir of quietude." H.L Mencken called it "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." Yes, the Martini has gone by many names and been
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Former Fog City Chefs Snag Republic Space, Kostow Flies Out Of SFO Restaurant This weekend, we're all just dining on sweets (see our list of The 11 Best Candy And Chocolate Shops In The Bay Area) and grabbing a handful of Locanda's "Locondoms". But there's more
Arts & Entertainment No Sleep Till The Bay: Video Of The Beastie Boys In SF 23 Years Ago Uncut Footage / San Francisco , CA - 2/13/92 from Porkys1982 on Vimeo. 23 years ago to the day, the Beastie Boys traded their beloved 5 Boroughs for the Bay. It was incredibly
SF News N-Judah Specific Missed Connection Site Turns Your Commute Into A Cruise The N-Judah has now become a tunnel of love ride thanks to a new Craigslist "missed connections" style site called "We Met On The N." The service promises to make it easier to
Arts & Entertainment [Updated] Local Film Crew Member Disputes Reports That Man Urinated, Defecated On Tenderloin 'Ant-Man' Set Update: Cara Miller, who identifies herself as "A local film crew member," contacted SFist to say that the TMZ we wrote about below "is bad info." Scroll down for her full email to
