SF News LGBT Community, GLIDE, And Homeless Advocates Protesting Props Q, R In Castro To protest propositions Q and R, San Francisco LGBT groups, organizations like GLIDE, and advocates for homeless people will come together in the Castro at Harvey Milk Plaza today, Thursday, at 5:30
Arts & Entertainment Short Documentary Recounts The Founding Of Reddit, Intended To 'Make The World Suck Less' Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman were University of Virginia undergraduates when they met Paul Graham, the startup guru who had yet to found Y Combinator, and pitched him on an order-ahead service called
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Specs' Owner Richard 'Specs' Simmons Dies At 88 In 1968, beloved bespectacled barkeep Richard 'Specs' Simmons bought a down-and-out North Beach watering hole and made it Specs'. Now the bar outlives its owner and namesake: Simmons died on Wednesday morning at
SF News Department Of Justice Report Finds SFPD Bias But Carefully Avoids Alleging Racism A US Department of Justice report requested by city officials including Mayor Lee that was approved in February and released yesterday describes, in nearly 400 pages with 94 findings and 272 recommendations, a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meatless 'Bleeding' Burger Hits Menus At Cockscomb, Jardinière Thursday Where's the beef? Not in these burgers, which are made with a product from Impossible Foods, the creators of a synthetic meat made from plants. Unlike the typical veggie puck (or even the
SF News Photo Du Jour: Fruitvale Station Renamed? Since about 2011, Oakland's Frank H. Ogawa Plaza has been identified by activists and protesters from the Occupy and Black Lives Matter movements as Oscar Grant Plaza to commemorate the 22-year-old from Hayward
Arts & Entertainment Looking Back On 10 Years Of The Treasure Island Music Festival (And Forward To This Weekend's Last Hurrah) As the 10th annual Treasure Island Music Festival approaches this weekend, the event's founding fathers from Another Planet Entertainment and Noise Pop find themselves caught between twin instincts to which longtime festival goers
SF News Britex Fabrics Negotiating Deal With New Landlord To Remain In Union Square Home Although the store wouldn't open until 10 a.m., holiday shoppers began to form a line for Britex Fabrics at 9 a.m. on Monday, a queue that soon wended its way around
Arts & Entertainment Sorry Everybody: Cubs Eliminate Giants From Playoffs With 9th Inning Rally It was a result that defied the mystical logic of even-year World Series wins that's become dogma for San Francisco Giants fans. Last night at AT&T Park, the home team lost
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week This week there are events galore thanks to literary nerd festival throwers Litquake, and this weekend is dominated by Treasure Island. But in between/instead, there's plenty else, so have a look. TUESDAY,
SF News ACLU: Facebook, Instagram, And Twitter Provided Data Access To Surveillance Company Used By Police To Track Protesters Chicago-based Geofeedia, a "location-based intelligence platform" that analyzes social media posts to deliver them as surveillance information to 500 law enforcement agencies, is often used to target protesters such as Black Lives Matter
SF News Developer Of Big Mid-Market Hotel And Condo Complex To Buy And Donate Nearby Parking Lot For Affordable Housing The developer of a 12-story condo and hotel project at 950-975 Market Street between 5th and 6th Streets (next to the Warfield theater) is in contract to pay $4 million for a surface
SF News Theranos Deathwatch: First Major Investor Sues Company For 'Series Of Lies' The walls continue to close in around Theranos and it's founder Elizbaeth Holmes as the first — and probably not the last — of a group of major investors who pumped a cumulative $800 million
SF News Ruth Bader Ginsberg Calls Colin Kaepernick's Anthem Protest 'Stupid' And 'Arrogant' Interviewing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on a variety of contemporary topics for Yahoo! News, Katie Couric learned that the 83-year-old justice, notoriously compassionate and cool, is rather dispassionate and even dismissive when it
Arts & Entertainment Winchester Mystery House Pries Into Creepy Attic Room Boarded Up Since 1922 The story goes that the mansion of Sarah Winchester, heir to the rifle family's fortune, was constantly under construction in order to create more space for her to quite literally outrun her demons.
Arts & Entertainment Behold: The Gargantuan Gourds Of The Half Moon Bay World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off It's decorative gourd season, motherf****rs, and this year — as any other — the place to be is Half Moon Bay. The self-proclaimed World Pumpkin Capital hosts its 46th annual Pumpkin Festival this weekend,
SF News Supes Pass Resolution Urging SFMTA To Name Chinatown Central Subway Station After Rose Pak Rose Pak will be remembered for the Central Subway one way or another. After all, she pushed for the project as forcefully as the boring machine that drilled the 1.7-mile tunnel from
SF News SF Supervisors' Threat To Annex Brisbane Seems To Scare City Into Building Housing Negotiating tactic, empty threat, or real plan, the idea floated last week that San Francisco might annex our southern neighbor city of Brisbane is now moot (if it ever wasn't). #Brisbannex, as surely
SF News Day Around The Bay: Lawsuit Alleges Marissa Mayer Tried To 'Purge' Men From Company Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Undocumented SF State students are sharing their stories in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Darren Criss Brings It Home As 'Hedwig' As Darren Criss prepared to take the mantle — or Farah Fawcett wig, as it were — of Hedwig in a three-month engagement of Hedwig & the Angry Inch on Broadway last year, John Cameron
SF News CEO Of Escort Ad Site Backpage.com Arrested On Pimping Minor Charges The 55-year-old CEO of a classified listings website notorious for its robust escort section was arrested yesterday in Texas on a California warrant. State Attorney General Kamala Harris announced in a press release
SF News SF School District Robo Dials Parents To Address 'Clown Rumors' #CreepyClown seen walking around in #Richmond. More photos: https://t.co/L3ROCJKEbU pic.twitter.com/PKV4RGBHDx— Emily Kirschenheuter (@ekirschenheuter) October 7, 2016 As the rumor of "creepy clowns" has parents and the media
SF News Y Combinator President Sam Altman Is Prepping For The AI Apocalypse With Guns, Planes, Peter Thiel, And Elon Musk Sam Altman can see the future, and what he sees — far along the horizon, past the massive profits for the many thousands of startups in which he has a hand as president of
SF News Record Company Dings Drag Queens Supporting Scott Wiener For Use Of Katy Perry Song Did the use of Katy Perry's "Firework" in a video plug for Scott Wiener just explode in the Supervisor's face? As the politician campaigns against Jane Kim for a state senate seat in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nostra Officially Closes, Remodel Underway For NY Transplant Babu Ji It's time to give a big Italian chef's kiss goodbye to Nostra Spaghetteria and Bar Mia. That establishment, a choose-your-own-pasta adventure, was Alexander Alioto's more low-key reboot of the more ambitious Plin, but
