SF News The Tea Room Theatre, Among City's Last Sex Clubs, Will Close The Tea Room Theatre, a longstanding home for all male adult entertainment and viewer participation in the Tenderloin, will close its doors according to a rumor of which the Bay Area Reporter has
SF News After Mayor Floats $17.5 Million Police Reform Package, Supes Grill Him, Some Call To Fire Suhr As part of his proposed two-year budget, Mayor Lee has suggested adding $17.5 million to the SFPD's budget with the goal of instituting reforms and reducing violence, the AP reports via KRON4.
Arts & Entertainment Sorry, You Can't Get Gwyneth's $15K Dildo At The Union Square Goop Pop-Up. We Asked. "Hi, I'm looking for a $15,000, 24-karat gold massager," I asked an attendant at the Union Square pop-up shop for Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand Goop. Cutting me off before I could mansplain
SF News Former Police Union Pres. Defends Allegedly Racist Cop As Community Calls For State Investigation Of SFPD Yesterday, news broke that a 17-year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department serving in the Bayview Station was reported by his colleagues for allegedly highly racist remarks. The content of those remarks,
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 11 Cool Things To Check Out This Week First thing's first:This Sunday is Bay to Breakers, so open up the old costume closet and pick out something cozy, because the weather for the annual race/general morning shitshow won't be
SF News Deplorable Teen Beats 63-Year-Old Woman On 14-Mission Bus A teenage girl knocked an unidentified 63-year-old woman to the floor of the 14-Mission bus last night at around 5:50 p.m., according to the Chronicle. The teenage girl, somewhere around 14
Arts & Entertainment Eff-ing In SF, Vol. 7: How Do Dating Apps Make Money? I'll admit I hadn't been swiping very carefully on Tinder when I got a match, so, as one does, I went back to look at her profile. "Let's match and never message each
SF News [Update] SFPD Officers Report Colleague For Racist Remarks In early February, the San Francisco Police Department says it learned from two officers at its Bayview Station that another officer had used "inappropriate language" with "sexual and racial undertones." Maybe the SFPD
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Spin, Susan Sarandon's Ping-Pong Bar/Restaurant, Now Open in SoMa Since word broke of ping-pong bar/restaurant chain Spin's plans to locate here last summer, many have waited with childlike impatience for its arrival. We grew tired of the cocktail list at Urban
Arts & Entertainment Watch Metallica Sing 'Happy Birthday' To Willie Mays, Melt Faces At AT&T Park Sure, Metallica is pretty metal. But you know what's really metal? Turning 85 years old, as Giants great and hall-of-famer Willie Mays did last Friday, *not* coincidentally at the team's annual "Metallica Night.
Arts & Entertainment Facebook Plans $4.4 Million Solar Canopies, $1.3 Million Noodle Bar For HQ After a year at its new, Frank Gehry-designed headquarters, Facebook looks to be making their house a home. As Curbed reports on building permits sleuthed by Buildzoom, the company, which often leaves areas
SF News Two Earthquakes Strike Area Of Burning Man Site In Three Days In three days, the "playa," a remote portion of the Nevada desert that becomes a makeshift city of 70,000 during the annual Burning Man festival, has experienced two earthquakes. The AP reported
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Ep. 3.3: 'Shawshank Redemption' Like show creator Mike Judge's Office Space, the latest episode of Silicon Valley borrows the plot points — and thrills — of a prison break movie, substituting, of course, the office for the prison in
SF News Day Around The Bay: At Least One Homeless Navigation Center Will Allow Alcohol 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 26-year-old son of Marin addiction doctor Howard Kornfeld,
SF News New 628 Area Code Spotted In The Wild, Sign Of Changed SF While preparing their Top 100 restaurants booklet, Inside Scoop made a shocking discovery. 628 area codes, which we've known since 2012 would be coming to San Francisco, have arrived, or at least some
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Arts & Entertainment RIP Charles Gatewood, Photographer Of 'Strange, Edgy Subjects' Who Was One Himself “For my personal work, I preferred strange, edgy subjects,” Charles Gatewood wrote in his 1975 monograph “Sidetripping,” published with text from his friend and collaborator William S. Burroughs. Gatewood, a renowned photographer who
SF News Hillary Clinton Arrives In Bay Area, Probably Fundraising At The Masonic Tonight Ahead of California's June 7 primary, Hillary Clinton arrives in the Bay Area today, campaigning in Oakland this afternoon and fundraising in San Francisco this evening. KRON 4 and the AP report that
SF News Don't Get Paranoid, But State Bill Would Let Landlords Evict You For Smoking Pot via GIPHY Finding housing in San Francisco is difficult. Finding housing that bears the Craigslist designation "420 Friendly" is not. However, the Weekly writes that you could absolutely be evicted for smoking weed
SF News Cupertino Mayor Says Apple Kicked Him Out Of HQ Cupertino, California: Pop, 58,302 Souls, plus 1 Gigantic Company. That, of course, would be Apple, and in an interview highlighting the seemingly frayed town-gown relations, so to speak, between the company and
SF News Supervisor Farrell Sues City To Erase Ethics Fine Over Dede Wilsey Campaign Contributions In 2010, Mark Farrell won his seat on the Board of Supervisors representing Pacific Heights and the Marina, District 2, by a mere 258 votes. That's Supervisorial elections for you. Previously a political
SF News Fight Over Mission Street Transit-Only Lanes Still Red-Hot The $3.8 million SFMTA project designating lanes on Mission Street bus- and taxi-only, a system used on Market Street and other thoroughfares, was enacted with the stated goal of reducing congestion and
Arts & Entertainment Gagosian San Francisco, Offshoot Of Major Art Dealer's Empire, Prepares First Show If you build it, provided that "it" is a massive expansion to your best art museum, they will come, if by "they" you mean famous art collectors. Hot on the heels of the
SF News Chief Suhr Cancels Appearance At Police Accountability Forum Over Security Concerns After a march on City Hall yesterday led by five protestors only consuming liquid calories to demand his removal, Police Chief Greg Suhr reneged on a planned appearance with Public Defender Jeff Adachi.
SF News Majority Of Supervisors Supports Amendment Lowering Voting Age To 16 Eight San Francisco Supervisors appear to support a charter amendment lowering the local voting age to 16, a measure to be voted on by that board next week, which if approved would send
