SF News Dope! Amoeba Music In Berkeley Can Now Sell Pot Amoeba Music's jazz section at their Berkeley location has a new focus: jazz cigarettes. The location has received its license to sell medical marijuana as a city-sanctioned dispensary, which it plans to place
SF News Fighting Rising Sea Levels In Mission Bay Will Require Levees, Sea Walls Imagine walking around AT&T Park in the year 2100. Things might be different: For one, you might be protected from a greatly risen ocean by glass barriers of 3-4 feet. That's
SF News Golden Gate Park Meadow To Be Named For Robin Williams, Secret Benefactor Of Park Comedy Day "We found this new kid wandering around backstage, and I hope you like him," local comedian Will Durst recalls joking to the audience at one annual Comedy Day in Golden Gate Park. Then,
SF News Eff-ing In SF, Vol. 10: Hinge Is Going To Charge For Membership, How Will You Swipe? Sex, love, and other mysteries in the city your mother warned you about. To rebuild Hinge, a relatively small dating app that's often invoked as an alternative to Tinder, the company first plans
Arts & Entertainment 2016 Treasure Island Music Festival Relocating Shows To Other Side Of Island Faithful attendees of Treasure Island Music Festival expecting views of San Francisco's skyline might be disappointed to learn that this year, when acts like Sigur Rós, Ice Cube, and Sylvan Esso take the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Tuesday Is Third 'Spare The Air Day' In A Row Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Wells Fargo’s misdeeds, according to one analyst, are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Buzzy NYC Indian Restaurant Babu Ji Expanding To SF Jessi and Jennifer Singh opened their East Village contemporary Indian restaurant Babu Ji after departing Australia, where the restaurateurs had three businesses they've since closed, one of which was, according to an article
Arts & Entertainment The Steps Of San Francisco: The 22nd Street Jungle Stairs This is part of an ongoing series about the various staircases, and stair streets, of SF. See all installments here. Putting the "jungle" in "urban jungle," a secluded staircase on 22nd Street between
SF News Regarding The 20-Person 'Box City' That Is One Advocacy Group's Pilot Encampent Project The civic motto for Anthony and Eddie, who are resident leaders and artists in a place they call Box City, is simple: "These may look like boxes, for us poor they are homes.
Arts & Entertainment You Regatta See These Photos From The SF Model Yacht Club's Wooden Boat Parade Just a few miles across town from the showcase of flesh and unbridled sexuality on Folsom Street, another group of fetishists were celebrating their own source of pleasure in Golden Gate Park: The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: RTB Fillmore Pops Up For Ramen, Duc Loi Expands, And More The food news from us this week: Mr. Bing's, the dingy-ass apple of our dive-bar eye, has been saved, essentially. Also, the former Betelnut space will be a thing along the lines of
SF News Vox Media Tech Journalist Was Also Secretly Working For Apple A note published today written by Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of the prominent technology website The Verge, disclosed that Deputy Editor Chris Zeigler, a founding member of The Verge, had secretly been working for
SF News Director Of New Homelessness Department Keeps It 100 On Reddit AMA We had a great time at @reddit answering some great questions from t he community about homelessness. @JeffKositsky https://t.co/rt4Q9G9QzU pic.twitter.com/inNS94Daz3— SF DHSH (@SF_DHSH) September 23, 2016
SF News Feds Accept Version Of Anti-Displacement Preference Plan Today is a good day. We WON historic anti-displacement housing preference in SF! #fightingandwinning for our communities who need it most. pic.twitter.com/DCBi3betue— London Breed (@LondonBreed) September 22, 2016 Supervisor London
SF News Remembering The Hunters Point Uprising, Sparked 50 Years Ago After Police Killed Unarmed Black Teen "This is the San Francisco America pretends does not exist," the writer James Baldwin said while surveying the historically black Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood in 1963. That quote, from the documentary Take This Hammer,
Arts & Entertainment The Five Best Skate Spots In San Francisco If you look at San Francisco a little differently, you'll start to see skateboarding spots everywhere. That's what the sport does: radically repurpose the urban landscape. Steps are for leaping off, handrails are
SF News Google To Open Youth Education Center In Oakland Fruitvale Village, a transit-adjacent 255,000 square-foot real estate development with 47 housing units owned by a local nonprofit and completed in 2003, is getting a new commercial tenant: Google, the Alphabet, Inc.
SF News Berkeley Passes Resolution Banning Dog-Eating Festival... In China Oliver, rescued from Yulin, China Dog Meat Festival, appears at Berkeley City Council #berkmtg pic.twitter.com/KwDFYniUnU— Tom Lochner (@tomlochner) September 21, 2016 Tuesday's meeting of the Berkeley City Council featured a
Arts & Entertainment 'Fuller House' Season 2 Premieres Dec. 9 On Netflix Renewed for a second season just a week after premiering on Netflix in its entirety this February, Fuller House could be giving its predecessor, the long-running San Francisco-set sitcom Full House, some competition
SF News Have You Seen This Artist's Converted Metermaid Vehicle, Stolen Yesterday? Amos Goldbaum, the popular local line-drawer and muralist whose designs grace walls and T-shirts all the town over, can usually be seen out and about in his converted city vehicle. "It's a funny
SF News Caltrain's Twitter Account Is Sassy As Hell @mlroach @isaach We were doing sassy Twitter before it was a thing.— Caltrain (@Caltrain) March 19, 2016 It being 2016, every #brand has come to the conclusion it needs to have a personality.
SF News Apple Reportedly In Talks To Buy Schmancy Car Maker McLaren With a $610 billion market capitalization, Apple is rather wealthy, so wouldn't you say it's high time the company bought an expensive car for itself? The Financial Times reports that Apple may seek
SF News Day Around The Bay: City Attorney Subpoenas Millennium Tower Developers 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 state appeals court on has rejected the city's
SF News BART Hopes To Use Clay To Seal Leaky Tunnels Known As 'The Rainforest' The section of tunnel is so consistently damp that BART maintenance crews call it “the rainforest.” As opposed to "the pricey real estate above," as BART writes, "BART’s tunnels in downtown San
Arts & Entertainment Far From 'The Worst Song Of All Time,' Starship's 'We Built This City' Is Actually Kind Of Good “I don't think anybody can take all the credit... or all the blame ” GQ quoted Starship guitarist Craig Chaquico in their recent oral history of the Starship song "We Built This City," which
