Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week If your Netflix queue is beginning to bore you, head out and see some of the many films showing about town this week. Or dance, or drink beer, or head to a reading.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Mark Zuckerbro Explains 'The Facebook' In 2005 In 2005, Facebook was in its infancy and Mark Zuckerberg was in his early '20s — a period of young nerdbro-dom he signifies with a traditional red solo cup. Of course, the Facebook we
SF News Blood Testing Startup Theranos Is Now Under Criminal Investigation, SEC Probe Federal prosecutors are investigating the possibility that Theranos, Inc., a blood testing startup once valued at $9 billion, misled its investors with regard to its proprietary pin-prick blood sample technology. That was the
SF News Fanciful Renderings Imagine A Haight Street Without Cars In her essay "Slouching Toward Bethlehem," an investigation of life on Haight Street published in 1968, Joan Didion referred to a "center" that would not hold. While she was naming something more metaphysical,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Craft Cannabis Ads Tout 'Appellations, Boutique Genetics' And This Person By the time 4/20 celebrants leave their own brand of fog all over Golden Gate Park, many will have spotted a series of advertisements for a new cannabis brand, one hip to
SF News Black Woman Who Accused White Man With Dreadlocks Of Cultural Appropriation Has Received Death Threats One voice has been conspicuously absent from the, yes, somehow still circulating, really rather unproductive story surrounding the above video in which a black female SF State student accuses a white student with
Arts & Entertainment Video: Barack Obama Steals Steph Curry's Moves In Mentoring PSA Barack Obama and sometimes golf pal Steph Curry showed each other a few moves to demonstrate the power of mentoring in a video PSA that aired ahead of the Golden State Warriors' game
SF News Student Kicked Off Flight For Speaking Arabic Is Berkeley Senior, Iraqi Refugee Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, whom the Daily Californian reports is a 26-year-old Berkeley student in his senior year, had just boarded Southwest flight 4260 from Los Angeles to Oakland on April 6, planning to return
SF News Day Around The Bay: Vice Does San Francisco Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. VIce has a huge package with advice on what to do
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anchor Distilling's Rooftop Tasting Room And Cocktail Garden Will Make You Woozy Bruce Joseph had a secret. He and a couple of pals working at Anchor Brewing during the early '90s were distilling spirits. Of course, this was all under the direction of Fritz Maytag,
SF News SF's 37,000 Lyft and Uber Drivers Will Be Ordered To Get Business Licenses So much for promotional slogans like "Sign up and drive!" Uber and Lyft drivers operating in San Francisco, a number that may figure as high as 37,000, must obtain business licenses at
SF News Pipe Dream: Local Stoner-Rap Icon 'Berner' Fights To Formalize 4/20 On Hippie Hill Hippie Hill, the famed ground zero for high holiday 4/20, will host the annual non-permitted, unsanctioned event next Wednesday, one clouded by marijuana smoke and sometimes poor judgment. Last year's tally of
SF News SF Homes Prices, Heart Rates, Just Dropped For The First Time In 4 Years A report from online real estate brokerage Redfin that was picked up by Bay Area Real Estate website The Registry, among others, has a bit of news that may soothe the souls of
SF News Mission Street Changes Have Drivers Seeing Red, Could Be Revisited Before They're Finished As predicted, the freshly painted red transit-only lanes up and down Mission Street, which are being implemented along with other changes in a $3.8 million project, have resulted in confusion and consternation
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Upscale 'FoodHall' Approaches At 16th And Valencia In Former Val 16 Market Space Say goodbye to 10-for-a-dollar limes and hello to something new and gentrified in FoodHall, whose prices we do not know but whose chic logo and new paint job herald a different era at
SF News CEO Of Healthcare Startup Theranos Faces 2-Year Ban From Blood Testing Biz Theranos founder and chief executive Elizabeth Holmes, a 32-year-old Stanford dropout who claims her aversion to needles led her to invent proprietary blood testing technology requiring just a pin-prick, faces a two-year ban
SF News Sheriff's Deputy Accidentally Fires 'Baby Glock' Inside Hall Of Justice A San Francisco sheriff's deputy who has now been very much disarmed had a little baby accident yesterday when he discharged a so-called "baby Glock" within the Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant
SF News Day Around The Bay: Avalos Proposes Rules For Homeless Tent Sweeps Oracle Arena all decked out as #Warriors chase win No. 73 tonight vs. Grizzlies pic.twitter.com/0CpsVXb7vo— Ron Kroichick (@ronkroichick) April 13, 2016 Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Museum Of CA Opening First Mainstream Marijuana Exhibit In US While the only glass many Californians want between them and their marijuana might be in the form of a bong, museum patrons can soon see plenty of pot, presented behind glass like artwork
Arts & Entertainment Does Rapper And Self-Proclaimed Witch Azealia Banks Control Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey? Querulous recording artist Azealia Banks, whose Twitter feed is a simmering broth of homophobia, nonsense, and the occasional Donald Trump endorsement, may hold in her hands the fate of billionaire CEO Jack Dorsey.
SF News Napster Co-Founder Sean Parker Donates $250 Million (And His Name) To Presidio-Based Cancer Research Center Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder and onetime Facebook president, called Bill Gate's Billionaire Pledge, a promise to give half of his wealth away before he dies, "a good start" according to the Chronicle.
SF News 99-Year-Old Western Addition Woman Granted One-Week Reprieve From Eviction From today's rally in solidarity for Iris Canada. 99 years strong. Eviction = Death. Let our seniors live in peace. pic.twitter.com/iro45ajyQf— Tina Cheung (@tinacheung) April 13, 2016 After a court hearing
SF News Berkeley Grad Students File (Latest) Sexual Harassment Complaint Against Professor Two UC Berkeley grad students are the most recent to allege that they were sexually harassed by a professor at the respected institution, the AP reports via KRON4, and this time they've taken
Arts & Entertainment Inside The Fisk House, A Victorian Alliance Restoration That Proves History Buffs Are Hipsters There would be no Victorian furnishings in her home, Gail Baugh decreed 13 years ago when she and her husband Jim Warshell purchased the Fisk House, a late-19th-century gem at Hayes and Buchanan,
SF News No, San Francisco Does Not Spend $36,000 Per Year On Every Homeless Person After making note of the $241 million the city now allocates to homeless services yearly, a figure published in the Chronicle that represents a new high, not to mention $84 million more than
