Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Burning Man is almost upon us, but Bay Area revelers seem in no hurry to hunker down and rest up. Instead, there's energetic activity this week in San Francisco, including not-to-miss dance parties.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Koko The Gorilla Slaps The Bass With Flea Of Red Hot Chili Peppers A photo posted by @sllollaryee on Aug 19, 2016 at 12:00pm PDT "This is a day I won't ever forget in my life," Flea, née Michael Peter Balzary, a founding member of
SF News Mark Zuckerberg And Priscilla Chan Sell Off $95 Million In Facebook Stock For Charity, Or Similar Inspired by the birth of their daughter, Dr. Priscilla Chan and husband Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's first family, pledged last December to give away 99 percent of their extremely valuable company stock during their
SF News The Troubled Tale Of Lending Club And The Problems Created By Glowing Tech Press Why did Bryan Sims buy $1000 in stock of Lending Club? Just because he loved the company, a kind of eBay for loans, so much at the time. Now he feels differently, but
SF News SFO Hikes Overnight Parking Prices 40%, Overnight An economic impact report for San Francisco International Airport released earlier this month showed soaring business activity and a record 51.4 million passengers served in fiscal year 2015. The Business Times summarized
SF News Lyft Rebuffed In Buyout Efforts By Google, Uber, And Others Lyft is coming to a strange sort of crossroads. The second largest ride-hailing company in the United States behind Uber (but by a mile) is seeking a variety of suitors for a buyout.
SF News Holy Relic, A Piece Of Christ's Cross, Stolen From St. Dominic's Church Someone is definitely going to hell for stealing a holy relic from St. Dominic's Church at Bush and Steiner in the Western Addition. The purloined property was an ancient artifact that religious leaders
Arts & Entertainment Frank Ocean Drops New Album On Apple Music, Releases Magazine At Pop-Up Stores Is it Blonde, or is it Blond? Apple Music lists the new Frank Ocean album, which was released exclusively on that service this evening, as the former. But a picture of its cover
SF News Day Around The Bay: Companies Fighting Automated Calls Form 'Robocall Strike Force' Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. More than 30 companies including Apple, AT&T,
Arts & Entertainment Metallica Drops Surprise New Single, Music Video Ahead Of First Studio Album In 7 Years Metallica is going into overdrive right now. Just as Spotify releases its first foray into video with a documentary about the band's rise to fame called Landmark — Metallica: The Early Years and the
SF News Design Your Dream SF Subway System With New SFMTA Tool San Francisco public transit riders can be forgiven for giving in to the occasional fantasy. Hopeful, even wistful maps of what local transportation might have been or might yet be are widely made
Arts & Entertainment Yeezy Season Approaching: Kanye West Pop-Up Store Arrives In Chinatown Kanye West has come a long way from his pink polo days, having introduced a full three seasons of his own fashion line, sometimes tied to his music as at his Madison Square
SF News Federal Judge Rejects $100M Uber Settlement With CA, MA Drivers, Doubts Company Will Ever IPO A proposed $100 million settlement between Uber and its California and Massachusetts drivers, with $84 million to have been paid out initially and $16 million more to have been distributed if and when
Arts & Entertainment Frank Ocean Teases Us With Visual Album <i>Endless</i> While Building Spiral Staircase Frustrated Frank Ocean fans, try to contain yourselves. The end to a long wait looks nearer than ever, with Ocean proving he has new music to share. Yes, the elusive artist has hurt
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Classy-Casual Barzotto Opens On Valencia For Fresh Pasta, Gelato, And More In atmosphere, the difference between the former St. Vincent and the new occupant of its former Valencia Street home is night and day. Like, quite literally, St. Vincent, which was dark and masculine,
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Scott Wiener And Other Locals Take (Semi-NSFW) Selfies With The Nude Trump Statue As part of a nationwide artistic effort to disarm a public figure seen by many as dangerous, anarchist group INDECLINE installed in the Castro's Jane Warner Plaza a life-size, nude effigy of presidential
SF News Shifting Into High Gear, Uber Will Begin Driverless Car Service In Pittsburgh Within Weeks “We are going commercial,” Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced to Bloomberg Businessweek with regard to the company's decision to allow — conscript? — customers into using its driverless cars in Pittsburgh. “This can’t just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Never Forget The Farallon Egg War, A Gold Rush-Era Food Fight To Feed Miners During a gold rush, as the saying goes, best to sell pickaxes. But in the case of the San Francisco Gold Rush, pickaxes were in relatively good supply compared to protein. A dozen
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: Tartine's Massive Second Location, Tartine Manufactory, Open And Packed The typical lines for Tartine have migrated deeper down 18th Street, from Guerrero to, now, Alabama Street. There, inside the Heath Ceramics building, Tartine Manufactory is now open, and the much-anticipated all-day spinoff
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Soylent Makes A Food Bar They Can Go Shove Up Their A** Food, that daily unpleasantry, was finally solved in 2013 with the advent of Soylent. A meal-replacement substance meeting all the necessary FDA requirements to be sold as "food," Soylent was created by former
SF News Chef's Body Found In Westfield Mall Reclassified As Suspicious Death, Not Homicide Though originally investigated as a homicide, the death of 28-year-old San Francisco chef Frank Galicia has been reclassified as merely "suspicious." SFPD announced the reclassification yesterday, though KRON 4 reports that the cause
SF News UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks Announces He Will Resign Just as students pour back onto campus, UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, who recently had said he hoped to serve for another ten years, has announced he will resign, though not until the
SF News [Updated] Castro Doorman Beaten In Apparent Gay Hate Crime Headed home after finishing a Wednesday night shift, Tommy Castellani, an employee of the Castro bar Badlands (4121 18th Street), was brutally beaten in an act of bigoted violence according to his sister,
SF News Local Vintage Camera Store Robbed, Confused Owner Says 'We Can't Even Get People To Buy This Stuff' Matt Osbourne, who along with Gordon Szeto owns Glass Key Photo at 442 Haight Street, admits to being confused by a robbery at his store. The methods aren't so surprising: They "smashed in
SF News Lake County Police Arrest Suspected Arsonist Behind Growing Clayton Fire, And Possibly Others Just In - #ClaytonFire in Lake County has grown to 4,000 acres. Winds picking up.Photo by @kentphotos pic.twitter.com/UmILfRDWUP— CAL FIRE PIO Berlant (@CALFIRE_PIO) August 15, 2016 As
