Arts & Entertainment This 360-Degree Video Makes San Francisco Look Like The Tiny Planet In 'The Little Prince' Karen Cheng sent in this video to SFist, and while she doesn't remark on it, I was immediately thrown into the world of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the French aristocrat and artist who created
Arts & Entertainment New Queer Literary Journal 'Foglifter' Releases Inaugural Issue Monday While San Francisco fights for queer spaces in the forms of bars and neighborhoods, some see a heightened need for a different kind of queer space: LGBT Writing. When Bloom folded, California was
SF News Bay Area Gained 89,600 People With Tech Degrees Between 2011 And 2015 One city's "brain drain" is another's "brain gain," and by that logic, the mind of the San Francisco Bay Area is swollen with an influx of workers bearing tech-focused degrees. According to the
SF News VC Billionaire And Facebook Board Member Peter Thiel To Speak At Republican Convention German-American entrepreneur Peter Thiel knows a good thing when he sees it. That's what made him the first outside investor in Facebook, on whose board he now serves. It's what lead him to
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pokémon Still A Thing, May Soon Sell Sponsored Stops Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Lower Haight residents packed a community meeting to oppose
SF News Facebook Engineer Fights For Gun Groups After Company Bans Sales Between Users Facebook is great for so many things. Finding out about cool events, posting articles about your political beliefs to people who already share them, or watching your exes make compromises in their personal
Arts & Entertainment Kink.com Offers Free Access To Republican Delegates As They Vote To Label Porn A 'Public Health Crisis' In preparation for the Republican Party's national convention, that party's delegates have unanimously adopted an amendment to their highly conservative draft platform referring to pornography as "a public health crisis" and a "public
SF News Exquisite Art Deco Building On Valencia Now On The Market Built for the Independent Order of Foresters, a fraternal society a la the Odd Fellows or Free Masons, 170 Valencia Street was designed by architect Harold Stoner and completed in 1930. Just look
SF News Officer Named In Fatal Shooting Of Luis Gongora Assigned To Bureau Handling Police Reforms Within 30 seconds of their arrival at Shotwell Street near 19th Street on April 7, SFPD officers had shot 45-year-old Luis Gongora multiple times. He later died at SF General Hospital. As many
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week While there isn't a giant festival or citywide event this week, there's still plenty to check out. TUESDAY, JULY 12 BLUEGRASS NIGHT: Driftwood is once again the place for blue grass and cocktails
SF News Yet Another Tesla Crashes In Autopilot Mode, Company Blames Driver A Montana state trooper reported a troubling Tesla car crash over the weekend, telling the Detroit Free Press that a Model X driver had turned on his car's autopilot system before the vehicle
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Legacy Business' Support Program Facing Criticism As First Applicants Are Delayed Though Proposition J, legislation to financially assist so-called legacy businesses as selected by the Historic Preservation Commission, was approved at the ballot box last November, the program's implementation has been slow to arrive.
SF News Uber Caught Using Ex-CIA-Staffed Research Firm To Dig Up Dirt On Legal Opponent A few weeks after the attorney Andrew Schmidt filed a labor lawsuit against Uber and its CEO Travis Kalanick last December — one of so many legal battles that keep the ride-hailing company's legal
SF News Unlimited Vacation Time: The All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Of The Modern Workplace Among a certain set of Silicon Valley companies, unlimited vacation time is a powerful weapon in the perks arms race. Netflix, VMware, Evernote, and Palantir all offer the practice, which is attractive to
SF News DA Issues Blue Ribbon Report On SFPD, Cites Racial Bias And Lack Of Oversight A year-long probe by the district attorney into the conduct of the San Francisco Police Department is now complete and its results paint a portrait of a department that disproportionately targets racial minorities
SF News Warriors' Draymond Green Arrested In Michigan On Assault Charges Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green was arrested on Sunday at around 2:30 a.m. in East Lansing, Michigan, the town where he rose to prominence as a college basketball star. MLive
SF News Enormous Branch Blocks Panhandle Bike Path On Sunday evening at around 6 p.m. in the Panhandle, a huge cypress tree branch came crashing down onto the bike path that runs along Fell Street. Fortunately, there are no reports
SF News Day Around The Bay: Farewell Little Free Library Of Duboce Triangle A photo posted by _starchild_ (@_starchild_) on Apr 30, 2015 at 5:56am PDT Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Gets Political, Satirical With Latest Cocktail Menu To those who would contend that San Francisco has no proper seasons, I would say that first, you're demonstrably wrong, and second, I would add that if you must hold fast to something
SF News Theranos Deathwatch: Feds Ban Elizabeth Holmes From Running Blood Lab For 2 Years In the final episode of this past season of the HBO show Silicon Valley, a character seeking to justify questionable business practices puts it this way: His core product is solid, if some
Arts & Entertainment Video Shows Some Hitchcock-Level Seagull Action At Sutro Baths via GIPHY Your attention, please: The mystery at the heart of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 horror film The Birds has been solved in the comments section of a website. Below, a video posted by
SF News Photos: 2,000 Rally Peacefully In Oakland To Protest Shootings Of Philando Castile And Alton Sterling Responding to the latest police killings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, Americans demanded justice last night with rallies and protests in cities across the country. Roughly
SF News Could An App Stop Racist Policing? It's difficult to overstate technology's importance in the Black Lives Matter movement. Bystander cell phone video has made it harder, if somehow still not impossible, to ignore the seemingly endless killings of African
SF News Rally For Alton Sterling, Philando Castile Planned In Oakland Tonight Sickened by the seemingly nonstop police killings of black Americans, many Bay Area residents appear ready to assemble in Oakland tonight to rally for justice and an end to police violence. The most
Arts & Entertainment Female Cable Car Operator Competes In Bell Ringing Contest For First Time In 52-Year History Every day, San Francisco cable car operators bring a piece of local history to life, and that's pretty cool. In fact, today marks a particularly fun day for those operators because, as they
