SF News Elbo Room Clings To Life With Month Reprieve, Open Through Year's End "Big fu**in News!" writes Elbo Room bar co-owner Matt Shapiro in a rosy Facebook post flagged by Capp Street Crapp."Elbo Room's lease is extended til the end of the year!!!! With
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week See and be seen at these select San Francisco shows, parties, and events. You know, because you can't read the Internet all the time. TUESDAY, AUGUST 18 BOOK LAUNCH: "Adam Johnson presents his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 11 Bites You Will Want To Eat At Eat Drink SF For those about to gorge themselves at one or all of the three Grand Tastings from Eat Drink SF this weekend, we salute you. In its second year at Fort Mason and under
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink UberEats Just Launched In SF, Here's What They're Offering With a dramatic website launch and video flourish featuring chefs from Craftsman and Wolves and Uno Dos Tacos (not pictured: fat checks), Uber announced its entry into SF' s crowded food space, just
SF News Property Crime Up 22%, Violent Crime Up 13% Over Last Year "We've seen an absolute explosion of auto break-ins," said San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, adding that "[t]here are areas in my district where you'll have 10 cars
SF News El Niño Possibly Driving Sharks Crazy, Farther North Sea creatures have been abundant — and their behavior strange — along the shores of Northern California, leading some experts to speculate that a particularly strong El Niño could be the impetus. KRON4 reports in
SF News Day Around The Bay: Will The IRS Tax 'Free' Office Lunch? The IRS is inching closer to possibly taxing workers for free meals provided, on-site, by their companies, just as they’ve been threatening to do for a while. [Business Times] More on the
SF News Basically Homeless Couple Discovers RV Living 'Rocks,' But Why Are They 'Hackers?' In what SFGate calls an "unusual odyssey out of homelessness," a couple from Los Angeles has, in the words of that blog, "hacked" housing and travel with an RV and a new club
Arts & Entertainment Meet Mr. Sunblock, Protecting Dolores Park From UV Rays While Gotham gets Batman and Metropolis has Superman, at long last San Francisco has a hunky crusader to call its own. That's Mr. Sunblock, whose archenemy is harmful ultraviolet radiation. Okay, although this
SF News Literal Moonshot Startup Now Providing Lunar Funerals 'Within Reach' Until now, SoMa-based startup Elysium Space has been reaching for the stars. For $1,900, the company will arrange to have your loved one's cremated remains blasted into orbit as part of their
Arts & Entertainment Dolores Park Hero Skateboards Down Grass Hill At around 12:45 p.m. on a hazy Saturday in Dolores Park, a man (loudly selling psychedelics and in all likelihood ingesting them himself) began riding his longboard down the grass hill.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Eat Drink SF Arrives, Biergarten Holds Its Ground, And More This week in Bon Appetit's best food city in the country (no big deal), we had word of a new opening in the Twitter building, Cadillac Bar & Grill (where you can get
SF News How To Do The San Francisco Street Food Festival "It’s probably no surprise to you to hear that we, too, have felt the changes of the Mission" writes La Cocina of the relocation of their annual summer Street Food Festival to
Arts & Entertainment 1956 Travel Movie Poking Fun At SF Is Super Charming, Somewhat Racist "It's the only town that goes in 6 directions," Brooklynite Phil Foster says of San Francisco in this 1956 travelogue, "East, South, North, West, Up, and Down." The gem of a short, shared
SF News Day Around The Bay: Jerusalem Fire Now 23,500 Acres Apple has removed racist ringtones after the Chronicle contacted them about this weird loophole. [Chron] Get ready for mammoth Twitter DMs: They have arrived. [Wired] This $6,500 one bedroom Duboce Park “penthouse”
Arts & Entertainment An Interview And Performance By Fantastic Negrito, The Oakland Musician Whose OSL Set Was Canceled In the wake of being detained and disallowed from playing his set last weekend on suspicion of selling a wristband to Outside Lands, Oakland musician Fantastic Negrito doesn't sound bitter. “I don’t
SF News Protests Close I-980 After Police Kill Armed 24-Year-Old Very large crime scene at 27th and MLK for OIS pic.twitter.com/NSfS2YP7kx— Alan McCann (@AlanSbcg) August 12, 2015 Protestors blocked off-ramps at Interstate 980, broke windows at an Oakland City Center
SF News [Update] Tech Exec Claims Washio May Have Delivered Used Condom With Infant's Clothes, But It Also May Have Been Used Glove "Better. Faster. Cleaner." That's the way of Washio, the Uber of someone else doing your laundry. But in a hastily deleted tweet from one prominent San Francisco tech executive, Washio appears to be
SF News Suspect Arrested In Case Of TV News Crews Robbed And Attacked While Covering Pier 14 Murder Police have made an arrest in the violent attack and robbery that took place in the wake of Kathryn Steinle's murder. One suspected assailant who targeted two television news crews reporting from the
SF News Photo Du Jour: A Tree Falls In North Beach A question to tips, which can always be reached at [email protected] "Coming to work this morning about 8:30 am, police had blocked off a part of Columbus St. at Greenwich
SF News What Flirting With Tinder's Crazy Twitter Account Would Look Like On Tinder When the team at the West Hollywood-based meeting app Tinder got their hands on the most recent copy of Vanity Fair, they didn't like the reflection they saw in the mirror, or, to
SF News Under Pressure From Cyclists, Police Now Say Wiggle Crackdown Was Just A Two-Day Thing “We expected to get the attention of the cyclists,” Captain John Sanford said at a public meeting last night, smiling according to the Examiner “I think we got the attention," he continued, drawing
SF News Day Around The Bay: Cyclists To Protest Tonight's SFPD Meeting Rapper and thought leader Lil B switches allegiance from Hillary to Bernie. [KRON 4] One SoMa startup is pitching its “misty” shower as a water-saving tool, but it certainly isn't money-saving (it's very
SF News Like Many High Ideas, This Drone Weed Delivery Service Doesn't Really Work "What if, like, a drone could deliver weed in San Francisco?" It's the kind of question that, asked between coughs, might get a laugh — but also might end one's turn at the bong
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 11 Cool Things To Check Out This Week See and be seen at these select San Francisco shows, parties, and events. You know, because you can't read the Internet all the time. TUESDAY, AUGUST 11 FOOD FESTIVAL: Umami Mart is hosting
