Arts & Entertainment Armory Prepares To Open As Massive Music Venue With Festival Of Women DJs Big, imposing, and really like nothing else in the city, the San Francisco Armory is impossible to miss — and it's always fun to explain to out-of-towners that it's owned by BDSM pornographers Kink.
Arts & Entertainment SoMa Avocado Mural By John Van Hamersveld Is Subtle Ad With Secret Snapchat Filter The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album cover. The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street. The poster for The Endless Summer. John Van Hamersveld designed those arresting images and many more. Oh, and here's
SF News Perma-Locked Muni Seats Are Free To Sit In At Last For more than two years, some seats on Muni buses have been perpetually in the up position, locked and unusable. The move was made to limit liability after the company that builds Muni
SF News US Navy To Name Ship After Harvey Milk Harvey Milk, the SF Supervisor who made history as the first openly gay elected official in a major US city before his tragic assassination in 1978, has been honored in many ways. Histories,
SF News Video: Woman Punks Serial Package Thief With Dog Poop-Filled Box Tormented by a package thief who habitually swipes parcels from her San Francisco doorstep, one woman took matters into her own hands, or perhaps, in this case, gloves. KRON 4 has the tale,
SF News Nouveau Tech Riche Home Buyers Scoring Zero-Down Mortgages In December, San Francisco Federal Credit Union began offering zero-down mortgages on home of up to $2 million to an echelon of tech workers who, while rich in assets like company equity, don't
Arts & Entertainment Eff-ing In SF, Vol. 9: Tech Bachelor Hacks Tinder, Goes On 150 First Dates In Four Months Sex, love, and other mysteries in the city your mother warned you about. Though he may have programmed dating apps to automatically match with as many women as possible and systematically send them
SF News Chronicle Columnist Hypes Same Website Under Scrutiny For Potential Conflict Of Interest With Paper We're probably going to have to chalk this up to longtime Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik's lack of awareness, but in her latest column she happens to be hyping the same rich-people-experience site, IfOnly
SF News Donald Trump To Address His Redditor Ilk In 'Ask Me Anything' Tonight It may not surprise you to learn that Donald Trump has many supporters among the netizens of Reddit, the notable man-heavy online birthplace of such movements as Gamergate and the push to remove
Arts & Entertainment Third Eye Blind Releases Confusingly Catchy Black Lives Matter Song Several years ago, I saw Third Eye Blind play a minorly tragic show in a smoky, carpeted casino basement in Reno. Please don't ask. If you had told me then — as the band's
Arts & Entertainment Video: Cute Kid Asks A's Pitcher To Play Imaginary Baseball With Him, Has No Idea Who This Guy Is This kid liked the A's bandana. Asked us to play. Had no idea who he was playing with. Sean was charged with the run pic.twitter.com/78qFOcTMa6— Eireann Dolan (@EireannDolan) July 26,
SF News Citing Trump, Supervisors Approve Ballot Measure To Let Non-Citizens Vote For School Board In 2004 and 2010, San Franciscans voted on ballot measures that would have extended the right to vote in school board elections to non-citizens. The thinking: parents and caregivers of SF children who
SF News Day Around The Bay: Stop Vandalizing This Defenseless 101-Year-Old Clock You Monsters Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. The Warriors Arena opponents are (obviously, of course, what
SF News Rally Thursday For 81-Year-Old North Beach Poet Fighting Eviction Since 2013 Diego Deleo was first threatened with an Ellis Act eviction in 2013, a year after the death of his wife. He's been fighting ever since, and this week a rally in North Beach
SF News Video: Divis Driver Strikes Scooter In Midst Of Illegal U-Turn A new partnership between Hoodline and a free iPhone dashcam app called Nexar is already yielding some dramatic video content for the neighborhood news network. The concept, admittedly a bit terrifying, has a
SF News Office Space Startup WeWork Has Labor Issues Of Its Own The National Labor Relations Board has filed a formal complaint against WeWork, a New York-based startup already popular in SF that rents out shared office space to individuals and small startups, after a
SF News Airbnb Again At The Center Of Political Play This Election Year As Supervisors Fast-Track Amendments David Campos has built much of his political career on loud calls to preserve housing stock and combat gentrification, and as he approaches the end of his final term as District 9 Supervisor,
Arts & Entertainment First Out Gay D1 Mens Basketball Player Wants To Join SF Fire Dept. While Derrick Gordon had been trying out for NBA teams, according to Sports Illustrated he's indicated instead his intention to sign with the San Francisco Fire Department. Gordon, a new Jersey Native, became
SF News Data Scientist Writes Uneccessary Program To Find SF Apartment Vik Paruchuri, who runs a data science tutorial company called Dataquest, was concerned. Moving with his girlfriend from Boston to the Bay Area, how would they find an apartment in one of the
SF News 'Pooper,' An App To Send Someone To Pick Up After Your Dog, Is Bullsh** Pooper purports to be a light-hearted but ultimately serious subscription service startup that will send a "scooper" to pick up your dog's poop after you take a photo of it and tag its
SF News Ad Tech Millionaire G Chahal Violated Probation, Will Face Jail Time A year after Gubaksh "G" Chahal attacked his then-girlfriend in his San Francisco penthouse, a crime for which he was originally charged with 47 felony counts but for which he eventually pleaded guilty
SF News Day Around The Bay: Grand Jury Calls Out Poor Fire Safety Inspections Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Typically unused Market Street news kiosks will feature art
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Buzzworks Opens, Corner Store Changes Menu, And High Praise For Bellota This week in SFist's food section, we brought you the saga of DaDa Bar, the longtime bar and art gallery trying to relocate from Second Street to Post Street and being met with
Arts & Entertainment More Pokémon Go Crawls, Including Gay Happy Hour Edition, Planned For This Weekend The Pokémon Go crawls just keep Poké-coming. Unsatisfied by one giant celebration of the mobile app game of the moment, held earlier this week with thousands of participants, fans are demanding MOAR POKÉMON.
SF News Police Groups Pay $15K For Full Page Chronicle Ad Basically Opposing Mario Woods Day The name Mario Woods has become a rallying cry for local Black Lives Matter activists. A Bayview resident suspected in a stabbing who was shot and killed by police in December, Woods' death
