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, APRIL 14 SHOES: Wine, too. Peruse cultural/historical
SF News Day Around The Bay: San Pablo Cop Caught In SF Drug Sting Is this “co-living” project seeking to circumvent SF's affordable housing rules? [Business Times] That mandatory helmet proposal has been dropped. [KQED] A San Francisco deputy guarding a drug kingpin who he escaped from
Arts & Entertainment Giants Home Opener: Bumgarner Rides In On A Horse It's finally here, and your San Francisco Giants are taking on the Colorado Rockies as we speak. The fans, the media, and the players are assembled and, as is the wont of any
Arts & Entertainment Photos: The 2015 'Mission Crit' Fixed-Gear Bike Race A photo posted by Vahe Hovhannisyan (@vhpoet) on Apr 12, 2015 at 10:09am PDT "I'm still trying to recover," James Grady, who organized last Saturday's Mission Crit fixed-gear bike race, tells SFist.
SF News Car Burglaries And Thefts Are Way Up Over Last Year “It’s rare that you see no broken glass on any block in San Francisco,” said Police Chief Greg Suhr during a special Board of Supervisors meeting this past Thursday. As The Examiner
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Season 2 Premiere Recap: Series A As Silicon Valley enters its second season, the Emmy-nominated HBO show and the TechCrunch Disrupt-winning company it follows face related challenges. Can Richard Hendriks (Thomas Middleditch) reach, in the words of one investor,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: The Chairman Brick and Mortar Arrives Monday This week brought the menu for Lark, a new spot from chef-owner Coskun Abik of Dunya that we've been tracking as it prepares to open in the former Brandy Ho's space on Monday.
Arts & Entertainment This Mini Apple II Is The Smart Watch We Should Really Be Talking About Instructables, the delightful site where you can learn how to do or make just about anything, has released this video for a retro-style Apple watch based on the historic Apple II in a
Arts & Entertainment Video: Mind-Controlled Robo-Flowers Bloom On Market Market Street now looks a little more like that planet from Avatar because of new installation from Ashley Newton: mind-controlled robotic flowers called "NeuroFlowers" that open, close, and change color all based on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learning To Drink Vol. 15: Sherry Baby Good drinks tell a story, and this is the story of those drinks. Each week, we serve up a remedial cocktail lesson for bartending beginners to help you get the most out of
SF News Day Around The Bay: PUC Votes To Penalize PG&E $1.6 Billion For San Bruno Explosion After the PUC penalty of $1.6 billion to PG&E, that's $2.2 billion in total fines for the 2010 blast. [Business Times] A successful tech entrepreneur writes about her attempts
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Chef Dominique Crenn Travels To Europe In Search Of Childhood Dish "I had an incredible childhood," glows Dominique Crenn, the two-Michelin-starred chef of Atelier Crenn, in this episode of Culinary Journeys on CNN. "Spending time on the farm in Brittany with my uncle. I
SF News Of Course The Mission Gets A Fixed-Gear Bike Race This Weekend Picture a race from the Fast and the Furious. It's quick, its urban, but this time, it's on bikes. Fixies, to be exact. Also, it's street legal. James Grady is the force behind
SF News New Service Turns Random Stanford Students Into 'Nerd' TaskRabbits Stanford isn't just a stellar institution of higher learning. It's a sterling brand, with amazing alums as ubiquitous as Cardinal sweatshirts. And now harnessing the school's star power is a service called Nerd,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Renderings: 'The Market' Plans Polk Expansion With Renovation Of Former Big Apple Grocery Space The Market on Market, which opened in the Twitter building in January, is moving along with plans for Polk Street. At the corner of Polk and Clay, the team plans to renovate the
SF News SF Holding Ugliest Yard Contest To Promote Water Conservation "It was supposed to be a lawn in a sea of paved front yards," writes one contestant, insisting their yard is the ugliest in SF, "But the drought had other ideas, as did
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF's Comedic Apartment-Hunting Anthem Chris Severn, who tells SFist he's just getting his sketch group DeskFan Comedy off the ground, is clearly no stranger to apartment hunting or its attendant apartment sadness. So, in a song that's
SF News 2-Alarm Fire In The Mission Displaces 9, No Injuries Fire on 26th and Bartlett.This is right outside our living room.Luckily we're ok. @KTVU @abc7newsBayArea @nbcbayarea pic.twitter.com/B2FmfYrerX— Alexander Meinke (@AlexanderMeinke) April 8, 2015 A fire in the Mission
Arts & Entertainment Drone Porn: Fly Over The Golden Gate With This 4K Footage Remember that drone-shot porn video, the one that was basically just regular, fly-over drone footage, but featured two people in a field in flagrante delicto? Well this drone footage is way sexier. It's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thieves Try To Steal Bar Agricole's 500-Pound Patio Bar, Fail A photo posted by Bar Agricole (@baragricole) on Apr 6, 2015 at 4:36pm PDT As you might have guessed from the looks of their would-be haul, the thieves didn't get very far.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Rose Pak Hates Techies One Oakland A’s player unwilling to pay Bay Area’s rents is returning to the Midwest. [SFGate] Rose Pak says techies ruin neighborhoods and basically insults them in a bunch of weird
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, APRIL 7 FREE CONCERT: Come out to play
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Union Square Likely Getting An Ice Bar According to some sleuthing by Hoodline, San Francisco could be the latest home of a Minus5° Ice Bar. That chain's gimmick has customers staying warm in fake fur with cold vodka in a
SF News The Bold Italic Ceases Operations In the latest significant announcement reflecting rapid shifts in the San Francisco media landscape, The Bold Italic announced today that it would cease its operations effective immediately. The web — and briefly, print — publication
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Stars Of 'Silicon Valley' Read Crude Fan Mail The Cast Of ‘Silicon Valley’ Reads Fan Mail - watch more funny videos The Pied Piper team returns to HBO on April 12th, but in the meantime, the fan mail has been piling
