Arts & Entertainment At Rio Olympics, SF Native Ends 32-Year Fencing Medal Drought With Silver Alexander Massialas, a native son of the Bay Area and also a son of a three-time Olympian, made it all the way to the Olympic finals in the men's individual foil fencing competition.
SF News Twitter Lists More Than 1/4 Of SF Headquarters For Sublease Correction: This post originally stated that the portion of Twitter offices for sublease represented a quarter of the company's space in San Francisco overall. In fact, the figure is greater than that, though
misc Video: Bernal Hill Coyote Plays With Ball Just Like One Of The Dogs A photo posted by @rallyp_157 on Aug 7, 2016 at 8:19am PDT A particular Bernal Hill coyote, one of perhaps a few that roam the area's park, has been picking up
SF News Guerrilla Traffic Safety Warriors Take Reforms Into Their Own Hands After Cyclist Deaths In response to deaths like those of 41-year-old Heather Miller and 26-year-old Kate Slattery, two cyclists killed on the same night in June in separate hit-and-run incidents, as well as 24 others this
Arts & Entertainment Chance The Rapper, Major Lazer, The Muppets And More: Outside Lands 2016 Day Three, In Photos Yesterday, after a foggy Friday and downright chilly Saturday in Golden Gate Park, Sunday lived up to its name, rewarding crowds at Outside Lands with clear skies and warm weather. And hey, if
SF News Day Around The Bay: Fake Mayo Company May Have Faked Sales SF-based vegan “mayo” startup, whose CEO is maybe a big faker, appears to have undertaken a large-scale operation to buy back its own product to convince investors they’re more popular than they
SF News 158 Justin Herman Plaza Vendors Get $590 Each For Shoving Off During The Super Bowl For three weeks in February, art vendors like Michael Trachiotis were blocked from selling their wares from the stalls near Justin Herman Plaza for which they buy Arts Commission permits. Though Super Bowl
SF News New Waldorf Astoria Hotel In SoMa Promises To *Finally* Give SF A Taste Of Luxury San Francisco — something of a backwater, wouldn't you say? — will at last cater to the American aristocracy forced to do business with its nouveau riche. "San Francisco needed a proper luxury hotel," John
SF News SF Police Officers' Association Posts Photo Of Dogs Trivializing Black Lives Matter The already tone-deaf San Francisco Police Officers' Association, a union that's repeatedly railed against any perception of anti-police sentiment, has caused some new controversy with a purportedly playful image that claims to look
Arts & Entertainment Amidst Weeds, Art Blooms In Vacant Hayes Valley Lot Philistines may be forgiven for confusing an experimental Hayes Valley art thing with an abandoned lot, but fortunately the Chronicle is here to set the record straight, writing that a block of what
SF News Facebook To Relegate Clickbait Headlines To Special Place In Timeline Hell Thank you for clicking on this meaningful headline and welcome to an article with useful information. There were other options, I would presume, like "you won't believe what this one social network is
SF News New Ballot Measure Would Make Developers Replace Art And Manufacturing Space In their last regularly scheduled meeting before September, your San Francisco Supervisors eked out one final ballot measure for your consideration this November. It's on us to decide whether certain development projects — just
SF News Day Around The Bay: E-40 Will Perform At Outside Lands Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Yes, E-40 will be performing at Outside Lands in
SF News New Lower Haight Medical Pot Dispensary Has Local Merchants Bickering, Possibly Lobbing Threats When local medical cannabis dispensary SPARC opened its elegant glass doors in SoMa six years ago, it was greeted with design awards and a flattering nickname for its chic aesthetic and professional atmosphere:
Arts & Entertainment Did You Pack A Layer?: The Outside Lands 2016 Checklist Outside Lands, est. 2008, returns to Golden Gate Park this weekend to delight and slightly overwhelm locals and visitors alike. Between the art, the artists, the DJs, the food stalls, the food trucks,
SF News Apple Is Coming To Take Your Gun Emoji In a literally symbolic gesture, Apple is removing the gun emoji from its forthcoming mobile operating system, iOS 10, replacing the signifier of violence with an illustration of a toy water gun. Your
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week You may have heard by now that it's Outside Lands this Friday through Sunday. Maybe you're all tied up with that, but regardless, there's plenty else to indulge in. Of course there's more
SF News Does Facebook Owe $5 Billion In Back Taxes? The manner in which some of Facebook's assets were valued by a third-party company was "problematic" according to court documents filed by the IRS: Those assets may have been undervalued by "billions of
SF News SF, Oakland, And San Jose Rents All Went Down Last Month Three of the costliest rental markets in the nation — San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose — were all in decline last month according to analysis from Zumper, on whom we have come to rely
SF News Instagram Introduces 'Stories,' Essentially Copying Snapchat If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then Instagram, the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, is absolutely fawning over rival Snapchat, whose ephemeral photo and video sharing service has grown into a
SF News Cajun Restaurant 'Bayou' Heads To Former Young's BBQ Space In The Mission Last fall locals had an inkling that the former home of Korean restaurant Young's BBQ on 17th Street would play host to someone from nearby Garcon. That's indeed the case, with Garcon's former
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pop-Up Dinner Parties In Dumpsters Fight Food Waste For Charity In hindsight, it was only a matter of time. Now, strong-stomached diners in search of the next hip food trend need look no further than the pages of Edible San Francisco and their
SF News Algorithm Could Set New Standard For SF Bail System To reform a bail system that critics say disproportionately punishes poor people, District Attorney George Gascón is touting a new approach: An algorithm that recommends how to set bail by factoring in a
SF News Chinese Uber Rival Buys Uber China, Ending Expensive Fight Not one to readily admit defeat, bullish Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has come closer than ever in a blog post to the Uber Newsroom titled "Uber China Merges with Didi Chuxing." It's less
SF News Day Around The Bay: Rose Pak Shuts Down Idea For Car-Free Stockton Street Section 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 lawbreaking trans woman named “Crackers’ has repeatedly violated
