SF News Remember: There's No East Bay-SF BART Service This Weekend BART is 43 in human years, but in public transportation years, it's like a zillion and showing its age. As such, the agency has budgeted $20 million this year, and then $30 million
Arts & Entertainment First Scenes From Burning Man 2015, Happening Right Now Without You "Hundreds of art cars were circling the Man, shining in the dark," writes Caveat Magister on the Voices of Burning Man blog. "A thousand more bicycles were parked outside of his perimeter, covered
Arts & Entertainment In Circle Of Life, SF Zoo Welcomes Lion Cub via GIPHY Sukari, the San Francisco Zoo’s 13-year-old African lioness, has given birth to a new member of the pride. Someday, all this will be his — or hers, as the Zoo reports
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sparks Fly As Homeless Couple Lights Couch On Fire At 17th and Treat a homeless couple started a couch fire, with some guessing it could have been part of their lovers' quarrel. [Mission Local] One tech "thought leader" says the only bubble
SF News SF Hiring 'Potty-Sitters' To Monitor Public Toilets At $100,000 Per Toilet San Francisco's public restroom wrongdoers are being put on notice by a group of "potty-sitters," as the Chronicle calls these new hires who are being paid up to $16 an hour to make
Arts & Entertainment The Roxie To Pay Tribute To The Late Wes Craven With 'A Nightmare On Elm Street' Screenings Wes Craven was doubtless a visionary, and what he envisioned scared (and titillated) pretty much everybody. The Last House on the Left (1972), The Hills Have Eyes(1977), and Scream (1996), which gave
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Drink This: Wet Hop IPA On Nitro At Local Brewing Co. At SoMa's Local Brewing Co., co-founder and brewmaster Regan Long wanted to share a lesson on N2 versus CO2 in beer. And she wanted to do it in a way you could taste.
SF News 'Flintstone House' In Hillsborough Lists For A Rumored $4.2 Million Off Highway 280, there's a house in Hillsborough that looks better suited to the town of Bedrock. Yes, the "Flintstone House," as it's affectionately known, has been something of a roadside attraction since
SF News 5R-Fulton To Be 20 Percent Faster With Traffic Circles And Tweaks On McAllister The SFMTA is hailing its experiment, known as the 5L-Fulton Limited Pilot Project, as a success. Already, they say, it's moved and consolidated stops to increase speed and ridership on this and other
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, SEPTEMBER 1 SHOW: "Ducktails, the increasingly less “solo”
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Instructional Video' Shows Reddit In The '80s As imagined by the videographers of Squirrel-Monkey in an "unearthed VHS" (via Laughing Squid), this is what Reddit looked like in the 1980s. Of course, Reddit was founded in by Steve Huffman and
SF News Have The Tech Wealthy Totally Supplanted The Mission Hipster? Local Site Says Yes. In declaring the Mission "hipster" to be dead, former SF Bay Guardian nightlife writer and onetime publisher Marke Bieschke has certainly threatened to kill the website 48 Hills, which published his virally popular
SF News SFPD To Investigate Critical Mass Incident Between Cyclist And Zipcar At last Friday's Critical Mass bike ride, a cyclist stopped in front of a Zipcar after moving in to opposing traffic. His bike was struck by the car when it began to move
SF News [Update] 7 Displaced, 1 Hospitalized After 2-Alarm Ashbury Heights Fire Major fire and structural collapse in Ashbury Heights. cc @breakingsfnews @SFGate @HuffPostSF pic.twitter.com/pWywGB1D4z— Joey Hodges (@joeyhodges) September 1, 2015 Firefighters are currently battling a 2-alarm structure fire in the Ashbury
SF News Day Around The Bay: New Law Could 'Radically' Change Who Gets Affordable Housing A new law could change who gets affordable SF housing, and has some strong support from the likes of London Breed. It gets reviewed in three weeks time. [Socketsite] "Monster in the Mission”
SF News Have You Been Hit On By A Dude Using Lyft Line To Meet Women? A San Francisco man who calls himself an entrepreneur is reportedly trying to turn Lyft Line into an (involuntary) Tinder. As Leigha Beckman writes on Medium and shares with SFist, a man she
SF News Sue Thy Neighbor: Airbnb Stokes Fears Of 'Lawsuit Vigilantism' In Fight Against Prop F The small print on the new website, No On F, reads "Paid for by SF For Everyone, No on Proposition F, Sponsored and Major Funding by Airbnb." SF For Everyone is, as the
Arts & Entertainment Craigslister Who Wants A Burning Man Ticket For His Treadmill Probably Isn't Going Anywhere Eager to hop off life's treadmill and go play on the playa, one Craigslister has been hoping to trade in his literal treadmill — an expensive one! — for a ticket to Burning Man. Bartering,
SF News When A Zipcar Hits His Bike, One Critical Mass Cyclist Attacks With A U-Lock "[Dont'] pick fights with motorists, even (especially) if they’re itching for one," writes one website devoted to San Francisco's Critical Mass, the monthly bike ride that takes place in hundreds of cities
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Chron's Best Food Trucks, Mission Bay HQ Brewing For Réveille Coffee Co., And More This week over at the SFist food desk, we took a tour of the new Bon Marché which opened for realz today, did a little rumor-mongering re: La Boulange re-opening/rebranding, and shed
SF News Cannabis Study: Indica And Sativa Are Basically The Same Thing At This Point Your friend that only smokes pure indica because sativa 'makes them paranoid?' Scientists have confirmed your sneaking suspicion that these dopers are just blowing smoke. As any serious toker will point out,
SF News Stanley Roberts Of 'People Behaving Badly' Suffers Stroke, Seems Fine Stanley Roberts, KRON 4's host of "People Behaving Badly," is in many ways the self-appointed conscience of San Francisco. So, brace yourselves because god knows what kind of crappy behavior people will get
SF News Fixie Bikes Confuse Google's Self-Driving Cars: Could This Become The Most SF Problem Ever? At a four-way stop in Austin, Texas, a cyclist on a fixed-gear bike — or a "fixie" as the in-group calls them — baffled one of Google's self-driving vehicles. Could it be a harbinger for
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Man Requests 100,000 Retweets To Dress As Ninja Turtle At Wedding, Internet Complies Following the theft of the UC Berkeley Police chief’s gun, another law enforcement officer has their gun stolen, this time in Oakland. [KRON 4] [CBS SF] It’s coyote pupping season, so
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starbucks May Let La Boulange Locations Stay Open, Possibly Under Founder Pascal Rigo Starbucks is "in discussion with interested parties to transfer the leases for some retail locations" the chain tells Hoodline, with Eater and the Business Times getting in on the speculation that behind the
