SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Beer Week Is Here, And These Are The 25 Best Events Let's get down to business. Starting Friday, it's SF Beer Week, the annual seven days and change wherein the San Francisco Brewer's Guild and local bars collude to keep half of this town
SF News Google's Waze Carpool Program Expands To Entire Bay Area, Partnering With UCSF, Kaiser, MTC Waze, the Israeli-created GPS maps application that tracks traffic and crowdsources up-to-the-minute reports on everything from accidents to potholes, was snapped up by Google in 2013, and as that company has incorporated Waze
Arts & Entertainment Video: Experimental Yyves Klein 'Symphony' Performed At Grace Cathedral Yves Klein's Monotone-Silence Symphony at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA. from Lévy Gorvy on Vimeo. You might complain that the French artist Yyves Klein's “Monotone-Silence Symphony” is a bit one-note, and you'd be
SF News Comfort Women Memorial Approved Despite Japanese Disinformation Email Campaign Earlier this week, and as expected, the San Francisco Arts Commission unanimously approved a final inscription for a memorial to the women who were sexually enslaved by the imperial Japanese army during WWII,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trader Joe's On Market Street Opening Two Weeks Early, Next Thursday If your idea of a holiday is two buck Chuck and those TJ's ginger snap cookies, Christmas is coming early this year. Though word last month was that San Francisco's sixth Trader Joe's
SF News Day Around The Bay: Millennium Tower Homeowners Hire Lawyer Who Represented Trump Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Raquel Miller, a local boxer at Hit Fit SF,
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week It's a busy one in the Bay Area with IndieFest, Beer Week, Chinese New Year, and constant resistance efforts going on, so here are just a few ways to learn, unwind, and have
SF News Video: Very Pregnant Chelsea Peretti Hosts, Roasts 10th Crunchies Tech Awards Like artificially intelligent software that's slowly becoming sentient, the technology leaders — founders, angels, CEOs — that gathered to celebrate themselves last night at the would-be "Oscars of tech" appeared somehow changed this year, displaying
SF News Video: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Would Change The Electoral College If She Could Admiration for Ruth Bader Ginsburg transcends even her role as Supreme Court Justice, her symbolic notoriety and vast life experience leading many on the left to seek out the 83-year-old jurist as a
SF News BART Janitor Who Makes $271K A Year Spends Hours At A Time In A Storage Closet Quick thought experiment: You're a janitor at a BART station, and not just any BART station, but the Powell Street BART station, a uniquely gross nexus of sadness and squalor. How much pay
SF News Murderous Drifters Plead Guilty To Golden Gate Park, Marin Killings Two in a group of three drifters, Morrison Lampley and Lila Alligood, pleaded guilty today to two first-degree murders over the course of a meth-fueled weekend in 2015. Sources including the Examiner and
SF News Mayor, Supervisors Reach Free City College Deal Mayor Ed Lee has agreed to spend $5.4 million in each of the next two fiscal years on free tuition to City College for city residents, and books for low-income students, in
SF News Revisiting 'Lone Star Swan', The Bird Man Of 16th Street BART "Everybody wants to know where I came from, who I am, why I write, why I feed the birds,” John Ratliff, who is alternately known as "Birdman" or "Lone Star Swan" tells Mission
SF News Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Throws Money At Bay Area Housing Crisis Fueling speculation that it might begin funding efforts to allay the Bay Area's housing crisis, representatives from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative met with local housing experts, real estate groups, and academics last summer
SF News SF Sheriff's Deputy Who Allegedly Provided Weapon to Convict Released On Bail We've got more details today in the case of Deputy April Myres, a 20-year veteran of the SF Sheriff's Department who was arrested, at work, by federal agents last week over an allegedly
SF News Day Around The Bay: Secret Benefactor Donates Copies Of '1984' Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Upper Haight bookstore the Booksmith is giving out free
SF News Berkeley Protest Fallout: $100K In Campus Damage, 3 Arrests, 2 Testy Trump Tweets Covering the aftermath of protests at Berkeley that cancelled an appearance by Breitbart editor and provocative jerk Milo Yiannopoulos, Bay City News reports that $100,000 of damage was done to the campus
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brewer's Guild Releases New And Rare Beer Tap List For Beer Week Gala Beer Week returns next week, beginning Friday the 10th and lasting through the 19th, in a fairly loose, drunken interpretation of the word "week." The schedule runeth over with events, from weeklong specials
SF News Berkeley Prof Who Consulted On Sinking SF Tower Blames The Ground, Which He Wasn't Required To Examine A Cal professor who worked as a paid consultant on the Millennium Tower claimed to city supervisors yesterday that an additional expert would have been needed to look at the building's geotechnical complications,
SF News Tahoe DUI Suspect Shot, Killed By Sheriff's Deputies After Taking Woman Hostage At Gunpoint Highway 89 between Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows ski mountains remains closed this morning as the Placer County Sheriff's Office investigates an incident last night in which a suspected DUI driver was pursued
SF News The Rock Is In Town Shooting 'Ballers' And Greeting Fans, Should Be Easy To Spot Some celebrities can hide behind a large pair of sunglasses and pass unbothered through Los Angeles, but it's considerably harder to blend in when your'e Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and San Franciscans are
SF News Dianne Feinstein Looks Ready To Grill Trump's Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch Pacemaker in place, California Senator Dianne Feinstein appears ready for a fight over Donald Trump's nomination of judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Antonin Scalia.
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: The Cranes Go Marching One By One, Hurrah Observe: The wild basket crane in its natural habitat. Looks like it tends to travel in packs with its ally, the lowly cement mixer. Yep, San Francisco is in the midst of a
SF News Uber CEO To Step Down From Trump Advisory Council Hold the protests! Uber's good now! That, at least, could be the message the company hopes to convey with news that Travis Kalanick, CEO of the massive Silicon Valley ride-hailing business, is stepping
SF News McCoppin Plaza Fenced Off, Declared Construction Zone McCoppin Hub Plaza, a minor land use nightmare near where Valencia meets Market Street, beside a U-Haul store, and adjacent to where the 101 meets Octavia, is now fenced off according to Hoodline.
