SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learning To Drink Vol. 18: Down The Boulevardier Good drinks tell a story, and this is the story of those drinks. Here, we'll be serving up a remedial cocktail lesson for bartending beginners to help you get the most out of
SF News Silk Road Kingpin Ross Ulbricht Sentenced To Life In Prison Ross Ulbricht, the founder and operator of the $1.2 billion "Silk Road" online black market, has been sentenced to life in prison. As The New York Times reports, the 31-year-old man was
Arts & Entertainment Video: Warriors Invite 105-Year-Old Fan To NBA Finals Sweetie is serious about her basketball and her players-now looks like she'll get to a Warriors game next week pic.twitter.com/pONEwUu5dh— carolyn tyler (@ctylerabc7) May 29, 2015 Why does this centenarian
SF News Senate Candidate Wants Your Vote 'So We Don't All Die' When you enter Mike Beitiks' website, iwillnotdonothing.org, you see that his message is simple. He wants us to live. "ISIS. Obamacare. Russia. The NSA. Wealth disparity. Immigration reform. Gun control. What do
SF News Peter Shih 2.0?: Chauvinist Website Lists Gripes With SF Women Why are San Francisco women so bad, like, the worst on the continent? It's a stupid question that no one asked, but according to lawyer and 17-year SF resident Seneca Stone in a
SF News Day Around The Bay: Leno's Ellis Act Bill Fails Again Without the votes in the senate committee, Mark Leno’s Elis Act reform bill is back on the shelf. [KQED] Just as it approaches its IPO, Fitbit faces a Jawbone lawsuit that alleges
SF News Video: Follow Two Transgender People For A Year In Under 7 Minutes Transitioning | KQED News from KQED News on Vimeo. For State of Health, KQED has closely tracked two transgender people — Jamie Nelson, who identifies as a queer transgender male, and Jetta’Mae Carlisle, who
Arts & Entertainment The Ghost Signs Of San Francisco, Mapped When Kasey Smith would walk to the advertising agency where she used to work, she would pass "no fewer than ten" old painted signs on the sides of buildings. Known as ghost signs,
SF News Look Upon Uber's New Mission Bay Headquarters, Ye Mighty, And Despair Feast your eyes upon this monumental vision for Uber's Mission Bay corporate headquarters, which as the Business Times reports, is expected to open by late 2017 or early 2018. We first heard about
SF News Apple Works To Fix Glitch That Lets You Turn Off Anyone's iPhone With A Text Leave it to the noble citizens of Reddit to discover and exploit a glitch in Apple's mobile software that allows users to shut down another person's iPhone by sending them certain text message.
SF News Video: SF Zoo's Quest For A Giant Bluetooth Rhinoceros Toy "I've known a few rhinos in my day," Jason Watters, Vice President of Wellness and Animal Behavior at the SF Zoo, tells SFist. "They all have a different personalities. Our youngster, Boone, a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Red's Java House Turns 60 With 1955 Prices In 1955, two San Francisco-born seafaring brothers bought "Franco’s Lunch" at Pier 30 and renamed it "Red’s Java House." At the time, the prices looked like this. Nodding both to the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Health Department Shut Down Herbivore Divisadero For Repeat Rodent, Insect Woes [Update] According to Food Inspection Reports requested by SFist from the Department of Public Health, Herbivore Earthly Grill isn't doing a remodel just for fun. The restaurant was unfortunately suspended back on the
SF News Weather Report: That 3,000 Foot 'Cloud Deck' Hanging Over Us Should Burn Off (A Bit) Today Today's forecast: Layers, both of the marine and the apparel varieties. But KPIX 5 weather anchor Roberta Gonzales is auguring changes by abandoning her penchant for color-blocking and delivering the good word that
SF News Day Around The Bay: Former 49er Ray McDonald Arrested Again In San Jose Uber says disability laws don’t apply to them because they’re a tech company, not a transit one. But why stop there? Companies pay taxes, so soon Uber may claim to be
SF News Alleged Zipcar Kleptomaniac Was Caught Stealing Another Zipcar A Day After Her Release After the equivalent of a parking lot of Zipcars vanished in a six-week stint — the Examiner say it was 81 vehicles, the Chronicle says 76 — things were looking a little suspicious. But then
SF News Soylent Schmoylent: The New York Times Drinks Silicon Valley's Powdered Protein Kool-Aid, Again Though it might as well be, Schmoylent isn't a parody of Soylent, the meal replacement beverage invented in 2013 by a 24-year-old who later constipated himself to keep from flushing the toilet. No,
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Recap: Failure = Success "Gentlemen of the Hooli board, and lady," CEO Gavin Belson opens a meeting to discuss Hooli's botched livestream. "To the ignorant or those in conventional industries, the recent Nucleus glitch may seem like
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, MAY 26 SALON: An evening series of cocktail
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Jessica Largey Leaves Manresa, Vive La Tarte Opens In SoMa, And More There were two pesky issues in the Castro this week: Quickly following Mandu shutting down for health issues (and reopening as Janchi, their second rebranding in three months) we had news that Posh
SF News Uber May Be Signaling An IPO, Poached Carnegie Mellon Lab For Self-Driving Car Prototype A photo posted by Uber (@uber) on Oct 31, 2014 at 10:23am PDT All ride-hail Uber. Yes, you can follow them on Instagram for more unintentionally brilliant stuff like this. But while
SF News Former Startup Castle Residents Speak, Say It's 'Like A Prison' "One of the largest estates in Silicon Valley with everything you need to live and launch your greatest ambitions." That description of the place called Startup Castle in Woodside might be more accurate
SF News Writer Broke-Ass Stuart Running For Mayor In 'Journalistic Experiment' Stuart Schuffman, best known by his writing moniker and eponoymous website Broke-Ass Stuart, formally announced today via his column for the San Francisco Examiner that he is running for Mayor, challenging Ed Lee
SF News Inside 'InnCubator': Highly Suspicious Hostels For Techies On HBO's Silicon Valley, T. J. Miller plays Erlich Bachmann, a schlubby entrepreneur with delusions of grandeur and a home on the Peninsula he's renting to young techies and calling an "incubator." Of
Arts & Entertainment Video: GaymerX Conference Organizers Debut Queer Gaming Documentary GaymerX, which debuted in San Francisco in 2013 as the first ever LGBT gaming convention, has been a huge success, even earning its own episode on HBO's erstwhile Looking. Now, as Boing Boing
