Arts & Entertainment $90 Hipster Bow Tie Mocks Hunters Point Gun Violence Since a company fashioning locally made bow ties is a telling tale of these strange times, Forbes brings us a long interview with San Francisco- based Tasty Ties. That company has even gone
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo Du Jour: Mission Coffee Shop Warned Of 'Yuppie Infestation' According to a tip received by SFist, Haus, a coffee shop on 24th Street, was recently privy to an important and strongly worded warning. A "Yuppie Infestation" is just now sweeping the area,
SF News Governor Explains Why Drought Order Won't Limit Farmers In calling for water restrictions by executive order last week, Governor Jerry Brown has required cities and towns across the state to reduce water use by 25 percent compared with 2013 levels. But
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Hunky Jesus 2015, The 36th Annual Second Coming In his 36th annual second coming, Jesus — or a variety of men bearing his likeness — rose in Golden Gate Park's Hellman Hollow. Dolores Park's construction has prevented the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF's Black Artist Exodus Another market hall, the Myriad, is planned for 15th and Market and will have 10-15 vendors. [Business Times] A healthcare ethicist penned an op-ed begging SF General not to change it's name in
SF News Ron Conway And Marc Benioff Met With Jeb Bush Yesterday, Who Had This Nonsense To Say It wasn't just us giving Jeb Bush a warm welcome to San Francisco when the former Florida Governor rode in to town yesterday with his anonymous donor Super Pac "Right to Rise" in
SF News Bay Area Bike Share To Increase Number Of Bikes Tenfold, Expand To East Bay Under a proposal announced Thursday by the mayors of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Emeryville, the Bay Area Bike Share program plans to increase its numbers from 700 to 7,000 bikes and
SF News Shots Fired In Apparent Drive-By Near Church And Market Safeway A tip to SFist alerts us to shots fired at a car leaving the Safeway parking lot onto Church Street last night, as do tweets from nearby. Local resident Martina Brehmer says that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Orbit Room Has Closed There will be no last trips to The Orbit Room. Hoodline reports that the bar at 1900 Market Street quietly closed yesterday. Owner Jay Johnson passed away on March 21st, and the bar
SF News Ed Lee Wants $200 Million Housing Bond On November Ballot Mayor Lee is planning to ask the Board of Supervisors for approval to put a $200 million housing bond on the November ballot, writes Bloomberg. No need to mention the affordability crisis, which
Arts & Entertainment 'Full House' Reunion Series?! Netflix Reportedly Nears Deal Netflix, that great resurrector of TV shows past, may be very close to ordering a Full House reunion series called Fuller House. Presumably it's "Fuller" because the Tanners have taken on at least
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Real Estate Is So Messed Up That It's Now A Bravo TV Show Bravo, the don't-call-it-basic cable channel, has found its ideal housing market for the next season of the delicious show Million Dollar Listing, as we got wind of last summer. Now we can expect
SF News How Much Water Do Bay Area Residents Really Use? In response to California Governor Jerry Browns' executive order to reduce water use statewide by 25 percent, The New York Times took a dive into the question of how much water Californians really
SF News Day Around The Bay: Being Hunter Pence Here’s former SFist editor Brock Keeling’s day-in-the-life piece with Giants outfielder Hunter Pence is now available online. [7x7] In the latest in a series of breaches there, a woman jumped a
SF News For LGBT Pride Night, A's Pitcher And Girlfriend Prepare To Pack The Stands Oakland A's closer Sean Doolittle and his girlfriend Eireann Dolan aren't just gearing up for the start of the regular season. They're already looking ahead to June, when the team will host its
SF News Desperate Local Home Buyers Now Bidding With Stock Options In the process of selling his Noe Valley home, which has been written up in the New York Times and was listed at the beginning of last month for $1.895 million, Klout
SF News California Drought: Governor Orders First-Ever Water Restrictions via Imgur While at the annual April 1st Sierra snowpack measurement, California Governor Jerry Brown announced an executive order directing the State Water Resources Control Board to work with local agencies to reduce
SF News Former Stanford PhD Student Arrested For Poisoning Peers A former Stanford University med student PhD student working within the School of Medicine has been charged with four felony counts for allegedly poisoning fellow students last fall. Vice reported the story following
Arts & Entertainment 420 Times Cali Weed Was Danker Than East Coast Schwag It's not just that our West Coast home state grows the goody-goody. We've also been on the vanguard of marijuana culture and politics, starting way before the legalization of medical marijuana in 2003
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, MARCH 31 LOCAL FILM PREVIEW: The Last Black
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Releases Daily Lineups Last week we got the full lineup from the folks at Outside Lands, San Francisco's foggiest and largest music festival. Check that out for the hokey video if you haven't watched. And now
SF News BART Might Have Hit A Person Last Night And Not Realized It A BART police officer found a body on the tracks at Richmond Station just after 1 a.m. this morning, CBS5 reports . The person, who has been identified as male, was pronounced dead
Arts & Entertainment Google Releases Pac-Man For Maps; Go Play On SF Streets Offices today are at a standstill as the citizens of the Internet learn of a new Google-released game that can be played on Maps. As of this morning, you can turn most sections
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF's Rich Are The Richest Remember Dolores Park video-taking guy who wasn't so nice to the rangers? He now responds to the controversy. [Mission Local] Our rich people are far richer than any other city’s rich people,
SF News Missing UC Berkeley Student Found Dead Near USC, Family Confirms Eloi Vasquez, a UC Berkeley student who had been missing since he left a fraternity party near the University of Southern California this weekend, has been found dead. He was struck by a
