SF News Interactive Map: These Famous Neighborhoods Across The World Cost The Same As Yours Does If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, surely you do so for a reason — perhaps some of the 50 we listed a few months ago that signal our continued radness. Maybe
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Complete Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2015 Lineup The lineup for the 15th annual free (and freewheeling) Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival is, true to its name, fairly genre-bending. On October 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, the following artists are taking over Golden
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 75,000 Or More Expected To Attend 7th Annual Eat Real Fest In Oakland Festival director Ally DeArman remembers a very different Eat Real Fest than the one taking place this weekend in Jack London Square. But back in 2009, even if the food festival's attendance wasn't
SF News Caitlyn Jenner Is Coming To SF In February, Tickets On Sale Tomorrow The celebrity trans person that even your grandmother knows all about is coming to the City by the Bay, and it's likely to be a popular appearance. Caitlyn Jenner, who already has a
SF News Video: Uber's Travis Kalanick Asks 'Am I Going To Be Part Of The Future Or Am I Going To Resist It?' Uber's C.E.-bro Travis Kalanick has been on what reads to many as an apology tour, appearing on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, posing for a piece of corporate portraiture in
SF News Jane Kim Wants To Fence Off McCoppin Plaza After Complaints About The Homeless Hangout As you're well aware if you've strolled or biked by the intersection of McCoppin and Valencia Streets on the cusp of Market Street, McCoppin Plaza rarely resembles the above promotional photo. Instead, the
SF News The Life Of Another Uber Non-Employee: The Customer Service Rep A video posted by Uber (@uber) on Jun 1, 2015 at 10:13am PDT An anonymous personal essay on The Billfold, a website about finance, takes on a subset of the many contractors
SF News Tech Companies Already Recruiting Boy Arrested For Bringing Homemade Clock To School While Muslim I expect they will have more to say tomorrow, but Ahmed's sister asked me to share this photo. A NASA shirt! pic.twitter.com/nR4gt992gB— Anil Dash (@anildash) September 16, 2015 As everyone
Arts & Entertainment Usual Suspects Announced For Bridge School Benefit Concert First held in 1986 and organized by none other than Neil Young and Pegi Young, The Bridge School Benefit Concert — an all-acoustic fundraiser held each October — has announced its acts for its 2015
Arts & Entertainment Video: Burners Welcome Fallen Drone As New Dance Party God When a drone carrying a camera in the sky high above the playa crash-landed — like a space probe on a new, dusty planet — the locals welcomed their newcomer as a new totem or
SF News Day Around The Bay: How You Know You're In A Real SF Dive Bar Supervisor Wiener plans to introduce legislation to exempt all 100% affordable housing projects from conditional use authorizations. [Chron] [Ex] Twitter’s getting a “buy” button so now you can buy tweets and such
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, SEPTEMBER 15 GEEK BURLESQUE: "The SuicideGirls: Blackheart Burlesque
SF News 'G' Chahal Now Being Sued By Employee He Allegedly Threatened To Beat Up, Called A 'Terrorist' Gurbaksh "G" Chahal's once-good name — after earning his millions by age 25, he appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show — is once again being dragged through the mud. This time, a lawsuit reported by
SF News Twitter Is All Up In Your Private Messages, Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Twitter has been sliding into your DMs (direct messages between users) or so claims a class action lawsuit reported on by BuzzFeed. Though the company asserts the privacy of these messages, the suit
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Island Music Festival Announces Daily Lineups, Tickets On Sale Thursday As we augured based on the schedule slash vibe of previous years, DeadMau5 is your Treasure Island Music Festival Saturday headliner with the National headlining on Sunday. The rest of the daily lineups,
SF News Gray Foxes Are Breeding In The Presidio Again In an encouraging sign, a single gray fox sighting in February now leads us to photos of an entire gray fox family. Per sources to the Examiner, at least three of the foxes
Arts & Entertainment Short Tamale Lady Documentary Features 50 Mini Musical Tributes A new documentary highlighted by KQED Arts (as part of their Truly CA series) from filmmaker Cecil B. Feeder focuses on one local character whose reputation precedes her. That's Virginia Ramos, or as
SF News Larry Ellison Buys Giant Palo Alto Hotel In Life-Size Monopoly Move This just in: Billionaire yacht cheater and proud Hawaiian island owner Larry Ellison just paid $71.6 million to buy a huge-ass Palo Alto hotel. The Business Times reports that Ellison is basically
SF News Real Jerks Steal Running Shoes Donated To Oakland K-12 Students KPIX reports that running gear and shoes donated to Oakland youth group Running for a Better Oakland were stolen out of the ambulance in which they were being stored. Writes one organizer: "I
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Total Bay Area Move, Food Writer Mark Bittman Leaves NYT For Food Startup When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When in San Francisco, eat well and try to get hired by an early stage startup. That's of course what Mark Bittman's done, revealing in
SF News Fate Of Biergarten Not Guaranteed As City Officials Argue Over Need For Housing On The Property Two years ago, and as recently as last month, we were under the impression that the popularity of 2011-built Hayes Valley "cargo-tecture" complex collectively known as Proxy guaranteed its existence through 2021. But
SF News Day Around The Bay: Protesters Shut Down Oakland Whole Foods Augusta Lee Collins, a legendary jazz/blues musician, was killed in an Alemeda traffic accident. [CBS SF] The SFMTA photo lab is super chill — literally, in order to protect old negatives. [SFMTA] Housing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Half Orange Opens Beer Garden, Mission Pie Bakes Off, And More This week there's been plenty of goings on in the food news department. For starters, the team behind the Financial District's Sens have announced that Market Street sequel Barcha will open on the
SF News Willie Brown Admits To Helping Accused Abuser Skirt Charges, Says It Was Ethical Yesterday it came out that tech exec Gurbaksh 'G' Chahal may have wiggled out of 45 felony counts of domestic violence by paying $1 million for help from former San Francisco Mayor and
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Island Twist: FKA Twigs Replacing Robyn And La Bagatelle Magique At Music Festival Billboard reports that a "heartbroken" Robyn says she just can't perform songs on which she collaborated with producer Christian Falk, who died last summer from cancer. That's led the pop artist to cancel
