Arts & Entertainment 'Still Here, Still Queer': Scenes From Dyke March 2016 It's not the Lesbian Parade, it's the Dyke March, and that wording might tell you everything you need to know about the event's 24th incarnation this past Saturday. The festivities began, as is
SF News North Beach Tenant Facing Eviction After Rent Increase From $1,800 To $8,000 With rent increases and evictions all too commonplace in the Bay Area, it's now the most extreme examples — last year's massive rent hike on a Bernal Heights apartment, to name just one — that
SF News Day Around The Bay: Lucas Offically Gives Up On Chicago Museum, Vows To Strike Back In CA Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Three concrete gun batteries that once protected the Golden
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Hodor Actor Kristian Nairn To DJ Rave Of Thrones At Mezzanine Before he was huge on the small screen as Hodor on HBO's Game of Thrones, Kristian Nairn was just a huge dude who was also very big on the Northern Irish deep house
Arts & Entertainment SF Map Composed Entirely Of Street, Place Names Will Delight Type Enthusiasts Maps of San Francisco can be very grounding. While so many aspects of this city may change — buildings rising and falling, people coming and going — the basic geography/cartography of our peninsula tends
SF News [Update] New PayByPhone App To Let Drivers Reserve Spaces In Advance Correction: This article incorrectly indicated that PayByPhone would operate its reservations at some metered street spaces. This is not so, the company has informed SFist: "PayByPhone wants to clarify that it plans to
SF News Uber Will Stop (Telling You How Much It Is) Surge Pricing Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Surge pricing, on principle, is going nowhere, but the dreaded lightning bolt indicating exactly by what factor prices will be increased is (soon to
SF News In Long Road To HIV Vaccine, Local Clincal Trials Begin With New Approach A new approach in the enduring search for a vaccine to eradicate HIV is the focus of clinical trials beginning in San Francisco among other cities and serves as the subject for an
SF News Like Airbnb Before It, City Is Coming After Short-Term Rental Site HomeAway The city of San Francisco will be going to court to make sure that homeowners renting units on HomeAway, a short-term rental listing company that also owns Airbnb competitor VRBO, are paying their
SF News Google Fiber Heading To SF Faster After Webpass Acquisition Building fiber internet is an infrastructure headache — expensive, time-consuming — and so San Francisco web devotees continue to pine for the fast stuff with no clear delivery date in sight. But one provider is
SF News Five-Story, 50-Unit Residential Building Proposed For Valencia Near 14th Getting anything built in the Mission District is very challenging! For evidence of that, here's a fun example from last year, or the story of some more recent but long-delayed movement on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Woods Beer Co. Opening Chill Treasure Island Beer Beach You may know Woods Beer Co. for their creative brews like Yerba Mate IPA at their Polk Street, Oakland, and Dolores Park adjacent locations (that last one being actually the first and née
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: And Now You Will Never Lock Your Bike To One Of These As someone who, from time to time, locks their bikes to these "No Stopping Any Time: Tow-Away Zone" signs, I found this photo to be highly illustrative. I will no longer do so!
Arts & Entertainment Eff-ing In SF, Vol. 8: Five Signs He's A 'Peter Pan' via GIPHY Sex, love, and other mysteries in the city your mother warned you about. Peter Pan was the original fuccboi. That dude would NOT grow up, you know? So perhaps it should
SF News Kim, Critical Of Wiener's PAC Support, Took State Senate Lead After PG&E-Backed PAC Ad In what was by early June already the most expensive District 11 State Senate Race ever of all time, political action committee money apparently flowed freely on both sides. Until now, Scott Wiener
SF News SEC: Giants Pitcher Jake Peavy Lost More Than $15M In Ponzi Scheme Jake Peavy, the 35-year-old pitcher for the Giants, has had a difficult spring on — and relatedly — off the mound. He's 2 and 6, for the record, and usually much more reliable. At issue:
SF News East Bay Man Arrested On Suspicion Of Sex Trafficking After Luring Women To Fake Fitness/Modeling Agency One glance at the website for Mad Girls Fitness, still online at the time of this publication, and you might be able to tell that something is wrong. Amidst general nonsense and images
Arts & Entertainment New Public Space At LinkedIn Building Is Now Open To All But Known To Few A photo posted by Jessica Nguyen (@jtnguyen06) on Apr 29, 2016 at 4:41pm PDT If you don't know, now you know: POPOS are plazas, atriums, and small parks that are part of
SF News UC Berkeley Professor Who Stepped Down For Sexual Harassment Kept $343K Salary A former UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor who was forced out of that position after he sexually harassed an Assistant Vice Chancellor appears to have received a record number of golden parachutes. I say
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Pride Week is absolutely packed with activities, and while we'll also give you a list of pride/queer specific celebrations and parties to hit up, here's the usual, general smattering of wonderful things
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Last Night's Sunset Set Fire To The Sky (And Instagram) Did you SEE last night’s sunset? Did you turn your head skyward to witness a Summer Solstice miracle? Did you observe the heavens in their fiery glory? Well, did you? Honestly, who
SF News $2.4 Billion SFO Terminal 1 Renovation Breaks Ground June 29 As the final stage of San Francisco International Airport's $4.1 billion 10-year capital improvement plan, Terminal 1 is getting partially demolished in favor of two new boarding areas, a central check-in and
SF News Google Employees Declare 'Lady Day' To Mock Shareholder's Sexism Did you enjoy a nice Lady Day? That symbolic event was celebrated at Google at the end of last week in a concerted response to the sexist comments of an unnamed shareholder in
SF News Apple Won't Give Computers Or Donations To GOP Convention, As It Traditionally Does, Because Trump CBS 5 calls it a "boycott," which might be an extreme way of looking at it, but yes, Politico reports that Apple will not lend any help to the GOP convention over the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime Tenderloin Dive The Brown Jug Closed Following ABC Sting An undercover agent from the California Department of Alcohol Beverage Control was able to sell alcohol described as stolen to staff members at the Brown Jug and also to purchase illegal drugs from
