SF News City To Clear 'Tent City' Homeless Encampment Within 72 Hours Division Street's tent city, a sizable homeless encampment beneath a section of the Central Freeway that has grown in size over the last two winters, will be cleared by city agencies within 72
SF News Will This Action-Packed Video Of Overnight BART Maintenance Shut Us Up About 24-Hour Service? 24-hour BART service is a literal pipe dream. Without a second Transbay Tube, single-track overnight service is out of the question. But the transit agency knows we don't give a damn for their
SF News Selling The Farmville: Zynga To Offload SF Headquarters San Francisco-based mobile games-making something something unprofitable Zynga has one trick left up its sleeve: the sleeve itself, which the company now plans to sell. As Bay Area real estate blog The Registry
SF News Van Shuttle Service Chariot Heralds New Mission Route Check the app, lords and ladies: Your "Chariot" awaits. The two-year-old network of about 90 14-seater vans that are only elegant when compared with Muni — which is maybe the point — is coming to
SF News With New Shine, Old Mint Hosts Pop-Up History Museum San Francisco's Old Mint, est. 1854 for all that filthy Gold Rush lucre, hasn't been shiny and new in quite some time. Not since it closed in 1937 with the advent of the
Arts & Entertainment Photo Of Allen Ginsberg And Bernie Sanders Resurfaces, Recalls Poem To Politician .@BernieSanders talking to poet Allen Ginsberg, 1983. Photo by Phyllis Segura. https://t.co/jZvVEwAA0q pic.twitter.com/nxyIcI1sIf— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) February 13, 2016 Over his lifetime, Allen Ginsberg may have most
SF News Uber Driver Charged With Killing 6 In Michigan Spree May Have Driven Passengers Between, After Shootings A Kalamazoo, Michigan man arrested on suspicion of killing six people this weekend was a driver-partner for Uber, the San Francisco-based company confirms. Furthermore, authorities are investigating unconfirmed reports that the suspect may
SF News Day Around The Bay: 'Sun Of The Underworld,' The Shrimp Boy Story A San Jose Cop can keep his job despite posting anti-protest, anti-Black Lives Matter tweets. [Chron] All Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley eviction hearings could be moved to Hayward... which isn’t accessible by
SF News Is Peak El Niño Behind Us? Potential La Niña Dry Spell Could Extend Drought After the wettest December on record and some heartening gains for reservoirs, our luck could be drying up. Yes yes, the winter season promised to us by forecasters as a Godzilla El Niño
Arts & Entertainment Urban Dictionary Definitions Of Bay Area Places, Mapped Much like the "Judgmental Maps" of the South Bay and San Francisco before it, a new cartographical catastrophe awaits in the Bay Area according to Urban Dictionary. The premise: Place the definitions of
SF News Yosemite 'Firefall' Phenomenon Delights Photographers That bright glow that appears to be lava? Don't worry. It's just light reflected on the Horsetail waterfall. The phenomenon referred to as the Yosemite Firefall, the Chronicle writes, is just observable twice
SF News Is Ted Cruz The Zodiac Killer? Internet Ponders Important Theory United States Senator Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz, a suspected Canadian, today faces darker speculation as he campaigns to become the Republican Presidential nominee. Fusion, The Daily Dot, other reputable Internet content engines and
SF News Ocean Beach Fires To Remain Free: $35 Permit Proposal Rejected Fires on Ocean Beach, a tradition who knows how old, are in the words of their advocate Tom Price "one of the last free things that people can do in San Francisco." But
SF News Photo Du Jour: Sign Of The Times Spotted in Duboce Park at the foot of Steiner. No, we don't know what's happened here: All we have to go on is this striking image of a serene day and a clearly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's 10 Best All-You-Can-Eat Deals As you know, we're not Vegas — and in most cases, mercifully so. However, when it comes to all-you-can-eat dining, sure, there's something to be jealous of in that town's glitz and plenty. And
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NY Halal Guys Will Open SF Location In The TL A year ago nearly to the day, New York expats thrilled to the good word that the beloved Halal Guys would be franchising, expanding shortly to our fairer shores. Eater now learns that
Arts & Entertainment Jobs And Gates, Modern Day Hamilton And Burr, Get Broadway Musical Treatment Forget the forefathers of American democracy and financial systems: The next hit Broadway musical could take its cues from the forefathers of the PC and the Mac. As the New York Times foreshadows
Arts & Entertainment Janelle Monáe Will Open, Electrify Stern Grove Festival Janelle Monáe, that pompadour-rocking genre polymath, has a big role to play at this year's Stern Grove Festival. She's opening it up — and also, hopefully, getting benefactors to open up their wallets. Her
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owner Of Sparky's Diner Late On Rent, May Have Abandoned Property While a few possible reasons for the closure of Sparky's 24-hour diner were posited — among them, a Health Department shut down which seemed perfectly logical given the food they served — it seems according
SF News DA Teams Up With FBI On Secretive Political Corruption Task Force Remember how an FBI agent posed undercover as an Atlanta businessman and met with former San Francisco Human Rights Commission staffer Zula Jones and ex-Human Rights Commissioner Nazly Mohajer, who promised him meetings
SF News For SF's Only Frank Lloyd Wright Building, Planning Seeks Expanded Landmark Status There are only a few landmarked interior spaces in San Francisco — the New Mission Theater, Twin Peaks Tavern — but if the Planning Department has its way, a small shop at 140 Maiden Lane
SF News Radio Flyer Makes Tiny Teslas For CEOs-In-Training Disruptive children will soon have something on which to spend that Bitcoin they've been saving from the Tooth Fairy. For young founders and tech execs to be, Radio Flyer has teamed up with
SF News Another Startup Founder Declares He 'Shouldn't Have To See The ... Despair Of Homeless People' At this point it's a tale as old as Glassholes. Tech guy who's lived here three years (!) has several awkward moments involving mentally ill and/or intoxicated homeless people while his family is
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Clear your schedule, because once again there's a surplus of art, film, and music to enjoy in San Francisco, California. Who would have thought... TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16 RADIATION CITY: Portland, Oregon's independent rockers
SF News Day Around The Bay: Silly Pink Bunny Will Rise Again Shortly after an iconic gay travel agency 'Now, Voyager," reopened to fanfare, its owner has passed away. [Hoodline, eBAR] El Tin Tan, a longtime Mexican dive bar on 16th Street, has closed. [Capp