SF News Local Proposition Results: Tent Ban, Soda Tax Pass, Youth Voting, Public Advocate Fail, And Much, Much More San Franciscans are reminded this morning that ours is a city in a bubble, and not just the real estate/tech one usually invoked here, but a bubble of the liberal kind we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Scenes From Willie Brown's 'Free' Election Day Lunch At John's Grill San Francisco's political elite set aside campaign squabbles for free food and drink at John's Grill once again Tuesday, and with a crowd of more than 2,000 packed into the famed old-world
SF News Fake Bus Facts Declare Muni Is 'Gluten Free' And More A photo posted by Peter Andrews (@peter_wine) on Nov 2, 2016 at 10:36pm PDT Gluten is probably the least of Muni's worries, but someone with a printer and a sense of
SF News Richmond Vice Mayor Of Vice? Police Report Alleges He Was Drunk When Robbed, Still Drove City Vehicle On October 26, the Vice Mayor of Richmond, Eduardo Martinez, was the victim of vice in his own town: After emceeing a Chamber of Commerce-endorsed candidates' forum at Rigger's Loft Wine Company, a
SF News Near Old Ship Saloon, More Remnants Of Gold Rush Era Vessel Discovered The Old Ship Saloon at Pacific and Battery is so named for the Gold Rush era ship the Arkansas: That vessel ran aground in 1849 after a rough passage from New York, and
SF News [Update] Woman Allegedly Runs Over Estranged Husband, Jumps To Her Death In Martinez An apparently intentional hit-and-run in Martinez this morning appears to have concluded with another tragedy: A suicide at the Benicia Bridge. Authorities tell CBS 5 that 20 minutes after they received a call
SF News We May Now Have Upwards Of 40,000 Uber And Lyft Drivers Operating In SF The number of drivers for transportation network companies Uber and Lyft who operate in the companies' hometown of San Francisco might vary wildly from month to month, or even from Saturday night to
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mission Development Calls For Toilet Sinks And Murphy Beds Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. What’s going on with the Geary BRT project,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Lao Table Contends For Prettiest Restaurant, August 1 Five Opens Next Week, And More This week, SFist had news of changes to Nopa's late night hours, Safeway's move to buy up Andronico's, and a primer on the tiniest new bar in the Mission. It was a big
Arts & Entertainment 'The Hard Problem' At ACT Is Dramatically, and Academically, Muddy The "hard problem" of this play's title refers to the very nature of consciousness, and spoiler alert, Tom Stoppard — a playwright whose beloved Arcadia and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead have masterfully illuminated
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anthony Bourdain: SF Beer Nerds Are Like 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers' Anthony Bourdain, a fan of San Francisco's "two-fisted" drinking culture — "Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me" as he once said — has found one
SF News One Quarter Of California Isn't In A Drought Anymore San Francisco's newly verdant hilltops don't lie. According to a weekly national report from the US Drought Monitor issued yesterday, 12 percent of California had normal or better moisture and another 12 percent
SF News SFist Interviews: Oakland's Malkia Cyril On '13th' And Social Media Surveillance One major theme of Selma director Ava DuVernay's powerful documentary 13th is the protean way that systems of oppression can change to cling to power. The film's name, for example, is a reference
Arts & Entertainment Día De Los Muertos 2016: Lively Scenes From The Mission District The air was cool and thick with the smell of burning sage near Garfield Square in the Mission District last night, where Día De Los Muertos celebrants gathered following a neighborhood procession as
SF News City Attorney Files Civil Suit Against Millennium Tower Developer The City Attorney's office is suing Millennium Partners, the developer of the Millennium Tower, alleging that they neglected to disclose to buyers their knowledge of the building's excessive settling — the tower now tilts
SF News Mayor Lee's Name Floated As Potential Clinton Cabinet Pick Perhaps Hillary Clinton didn't hear the chorus of boos that greeted Mayor Ed Lee in May when he introduced her at a campaign event in San Francisco his name is now reportedly being
SF News With App Update, Uber Would Like To Access Your Contacts, Calendar As soon as today, your Uber app might start asking for an update. That's not all it's asking for: Uber wants more information than ever before on your comings and goings, even requesting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tiny New Mission Bar Is Tucked Inside A Liquor Store Even fans of the Royal Cuckoo Organ Lounge, an at once divey and swanky spot known for great music, may not realize there's a second Royal Cuckoo: The bar expanded from its Bernal
Arts & Entertainment New iOS Emoji Include Avocado, Facepalm, And What Appears To Be Harambe iPhone users, your visual vocabulary is about to increase by 72 emoji. 9to5mac and Emojipedia write that Apple has released to registered developers the first iOS 10.2 beta for iPhone and iPad.
SF News Self-Driving Car Company Cancels Product In A Huff At First Sign Of Regulation Give me completely unregulated self-driving cars or give me death. That's the tenor of a move by much-buzzed-about San Francisco startup Comma.ai to suddenly shut down a supposedly soon-to-launch product after receiving
SF News San Jose Bans Recreational Pot Sales Ahead Of State Vote On Legalization San Jose is getting out in front of California Proposition 64, which, if passed, would legalize recreational marijuana in the Golden State. Recalling the headache of medical marijuana legalization two decades ago — "At
SF News ACLU Sues California To Remove Ban On Ballot Selfies If you don't Instagram it, did it really happen? By that logic, if you don't snap a photo of your ballot and post it on social media, does your vote even count? Yes,
SF News Day Around The Bay: BART Janitor Grossed $270K In Pay And Benefits Last Year Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. A BART janitor made $162,000 in overtime last
SF News City Attorney Won't Fight Class-Action Suit Calling SF Bail System 'Unconstitutional' Because He Agrees A lawsuit filed by Washington, DC-based civil rights nonprofit Equal Justice Under Law almost exactly a year ago has a pretty good point about San Francisco's bail system - which many feel is
SF News Watch A Millennium Tower Resident Roll A Marble Claiming To Show The Building's Tilt If the unevenly sinking Millennium Tower is San Francisco's answer to Italy's Tower of Pisa, our comeback to Galileo — said to have performed gravity experiments from that classic structure — is this dude who
