SF News Allegedly Murderous Drifters Remain A Mystery, May Have Committed Other Crimes The three drifters accused of two murders, the first of a Canadian backpacker in Golden Gate Park and the second of a yoga instructor on a hiking trail near Fairfax, remain baffling to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: YACHT On Jetpacks, Music, And Whether The Future Is Cool "I don't give a shit about jetpacks," YACHT's Claire Evans tells SFist as the band prepares to release its album "I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler" on Downtown Records this Friday and
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Here's The Schedule For Hayes Valley's PROXY Outdoor Film Festival "[Moviegoing] brings people together," Douglas Burnham of the architecture firm Envelope A+D tells Hoodline. "With movies, it's dark, people are quiet, there's a little bit of an intimacy." So Burnham, who helped
SF News Warriors Officially Buy Mission Bay Arena Site From Salesforce The Golden State Warriors have, officially, secured a place for their champions to "come out to play," purchasing from Salesforce the 12-acre Mission Bay site for their proposed $1 billion development, just half-a-mile
SF News Day Around The Bay: The Last 'Why I'm Leaving SF' Essay We'll Ever Need SFPD has a stingray they refuse to talk about, and now they’ll need a warrant to use it. [ARS Technica] A good answer to all those long-winded “why I’m leaving San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Asha Tea House And Kit Fox Arrive, And Our Three 'Best Bars In The World' This week's biggest food news, at least in terms of financial impact, came from the coffee industry when we learned that Peet's Coffee & Tea would buy Portland's much-smaller Stumptown. Let that sink
SF News Mayoral Candidate Forum Is Sadly Neither Debate Nor Contest “There’s roughly ten thousand homeless people on the streets of San Francisco, and there’s roughly ten thousand Airbnb rentals out there. I’m just saying,” Broke-Ass Stuart Shuffman, a candidate for
SF News Mormon Founders Launch 'Porn Kills Love' Campaign In SF A group of self-declared "fighters" campaigning under the banners "Porn Kills Love" and "Fight The New Drug" are spreading the word in San Francisco through their sleek website, billboards, and sidewalk chalk that
SF News Second Act Approaches For Harding Theater, Long Vacant On Divis "The building is crazy and it's a mystery," Danny Marks tells SFist of the former Harding Theater at 616 Divisadero, which he's hoping to give new life. While the 1926-built movie palace slumbers,
SF News Banning Pedestrian Toll, Governor Brown Trolls Golden Gate Bridge For some time, there's been discussion of doing what hasn't been done in 45 years — charging pedestrians (and, for that matter, cyclists) to cross the Golden Gate Bridge. In fact, it really looked
SF News Video: Sacramento Man Who Helped Stop Gunman On French Train Stabbed Outside Bar It was Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, who along with friends from Sacramento Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos, halted an August 21 gunman on a train heading from Belgium to France. However, as
Arts & Entertainment The Ten Most Scenic Muni Lines There's an old joke that "San Francisco is the only town that goes in 6 directions: East, South, North, West, Up, and Down." Built on peaks and valleys of all kinds, public transportation
SF News Oakland Startup Will Cancel Comcast For You, Saving 'Hours Of Beautiful Human Life' Cheekily choosing a very common enemy, one Oakland startup is gaining tons of press and good will — and fast. How fast? 5 minutes flat — or, rather, that's how long AirPaper says it can
SF News New SoMa High-Rise SRO To Require Residents To Be 'Students Or Interns' Rising at 1321 Mission Street between 9th and 10th Streets is what might be thought of as an SRO Hotel for 2015. It's the Panoramic, and it offers us a view of housing
SF News Day Around The Bay: UCSF Officially Backs Warriors Mission Bay Arena In a deal that calls for a $10 million Mission Bay Transportation Improvement Fund, UCSF officially backed the Golden State Warriors proposed Mission Bay arena. [Chron] Governor Brown signed legislation allowing cameras on
SF News Uber, Airbnb Execs Sued By Live-In Domestic Worker For Years Of Sexual Harassment, Wage Theft Today in San Francisco Superior Court, Julieta Yang, a 45-year-old mother of three from the Philippines filed a lawsuit alleging years of sexual abuse and wage theft as a live-in domestic worker for
SF News Video: Citizen Journalists Prove 'Pee-Deflecting' Walls Don't Work More pee wall locations added. Check out the Chronicle coverage. http://t.co/ZzMNUA9rv2 @lizziejohnsonnn @MrCleanSF pic.twitter.com/ayMxno4pq5— SF Public Works (@sfpublicworks) October 5, 2015 The Chronicle reports that San Francisco
SF News Oakland's Pandora Buys SF's Ticketfly For $450 Million You liked the song, so now would you like to see the artist in concert? That's the $450 million question that Pandora, the 80-million user music discovery service (read: streaming internet radio station)
SF News [Update] Noted Tantric Teacher Murdered, Dog Shot On Marin County Trail Search & rescue teams looking for clues in the murder of a hiker near Fairfax. #abc7now pic.twitter.com/LyAOEcmX42— Cbarnard (@CornellBarnard) October 6, 2015 On Monday evening, a Marin County hiker near
Arts & Entertainment Former Twitter CEO (And Theater Nerd) Dick Costolo Consulting On HBO's <i>Silicon Valley</i> Dick Costolo may be laying low in the real Silicon Valley, but he's just jumping right into the parody version — if there is any perceptible difference. The tech exec is now consulting on
Arts & Entertainment Rachel Dolezal Is 'A Bit Of A Hero' Says Rihanna, Who Is A Bit Of A Mess Those who admire Rihanna's fiercely independent attitude and music — while harboring understandable disdain for the delusional Rachel Dolezal mostly self-serving appropriation of blackness — found themselves locked in a deep internal struggle today. As
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, OCTOBER 6 ARCHITECTURE LECTURE: City Arts and Lectures
SF News Clothing Company To Help Spur Preservation Of Historic Alcatraz Lighthouse "Most people only know of Alcatraz because of the prison," executive director of the United States Lighthouse Society Jeff Gales tells the Mercury News, "but it has a rich maritime and lighthouse service
SF News Bummer Alert: SoMa Dive Zeke's To Close Saturday Bad news out of SoMa this morning, so first: Are you sitting down? Preferably at a bar? Preferably at one Zeke's Diamond Bar — which just opened for the day? You see where this
SF News Day Around The Bay: Twitter Nixes Market Street Expansion Plans A company called “Mirae Asset Global Investments” is buying the Fairmont. [Business Times] The New York Times is ON IT when it comes to the Mid-Market food scene. [NYT] Those pee-resistant walls, mapped.
