Arts & Entertainment SF Singer/Songwriter Rachel Lark Talks About Her New Video About Period Sex Don't worry, everybody. The "blood" — all 6 gallons of it — in local bawdy singer/songwriter Rachel Lark's first music video is just corn syrup. "No sex-positive people were harmed in the making of
Arts & Entertainment Here Are The Official Treasure Island Music Festival Night Shows (So Far) When Treasure Island Music Festival — in some ways the lower-key counterpart to Outside Lands — herds artists from The National to DeadMau5 to the Bay Area for October 17 and 18, some of those
SF News Ship Drags Dead Whale Into Bay, Carcass Surfaces In Oakland Estuary Dead whale drifted past the #Oakland cranes early this morning, now lodged under the docks in #Alameda pic.twitter.com/nzmUiZaMgq— Dean C. Smith (@DeanCSmith) August 26, 2015 As KRON 4 reports, yesterday
SF News Mirkarimi's Sheriff's Deputies To Patrol Streets Like Beat Cops San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has always been a fan of foot patrols, which during his time as a Supervisor made him many enemies in the San Francisco Police Department. And, true to
SF News Life After The Boom: What Will Happen When This Bubble Bursts Earlier this week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its largest intraday loss in history. With it, several major Bay Area stocks sunk low. Shares of Twitter dipped below their IPO price, and
SF News Day Around The Bay: Former SF Archbishop Slapped With DUI Home Depot and other corporations, like Walmart, now count on seasonal upticks in sales from Burning Man. [Quartz] Uber launches SmartRoutes to compete with Lyft’s similar service which gives $1 discount if
SF News WTF Is Happening With Raccoons In SF: What You Can Do To Keep Your Dog Safe The veterinarian bill for American Grilled Cheese Kitchen owner Heidi Gibson's 60-pound pit bull came to $350. As she wrote to Facebook, beneath a picture of Micky's raw and bleeding muzzle: "Micky: 1
SF News Grateful Dead Will Not Die, Members Announce SF And LA Shows "The music never stopped" continues to be a prescient, now even somewhat ominous Grateful Dead lyric. As Rolling Stone writes, the band — or rather its former members Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, and Bob
SF News [Update] Tourist Robbed, Shot In Chest Near Crooked Section Of Lombard Street Though the Chronicle originally reported that a man was shot and killed on a touristy Russian Hill block, they now write that the sole shooting victim is injured, not dead. He is now
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, AUGUST 25 CABLE CAR RACE: From the twisted
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Torn Apart By Fire, The Riptide Is Fundraising To Support Employees Last week, a 2-alarm fire struck the Outer Sunset haunt the Riptide, a bar frequently highlighted by SFist for its equally warm fireplace and atmosphere. Fire damage has now been estimated at a
SF News San Francisco's Sh** Still Stinks, But Is This Summer The Worst Ever? Let's take it as a given that the status quo of San Francisco streets is crap. But is 2015 the worst "summer of muck" on record? Certainly Debra Saunders thought so when she
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bon Marché Opens For French Fare, Wine, And Flowers This Friday Call it the Mid-Market Marais. Bon Marché has shrunk that famed Parisian quartier — with all its wine, pastry, and flower stalls — down to 7,500 square feet on the first floor of the
SF News Stung By Negative Press, Burning Man Blogger Insists Bug Infestation Is Over, Was Overblown The totally non-metaphorical plague of biting green bugs that descended on the Black Rock Desert last week — bringing with it a rash of negative press — has mostly disappeared. Those pests, the Burning Man
SF News Day Around The Bay: Cab Drivers Can't Smoke Medical Weed Tech stocks got killed today, like bad. [Business Times] Here is a tweetstorm prophecy regarding bubble-popping. [Re/code] Hackers menace tourists’ cell phones. [KRON 4] Cab drivers are not allowed to use medical
Arts & Entertainment Tech Company A Cappella Groups To Perform In Relative Safety Of Atherton Tonight via GIPHY Though some might consider the performance of cappella pop music to be an inexcusable offense after (if not during) college, at least some employees from leading technology companies like Twitter and
SF News Man Known For Traveling Country With Three Mules Denied Golden Gate Bridge Crossing A wandering man who insists he is not living under the delusion that these are biblical times has covered large swathes of America with his three mules, a journey that's in the past
SF News Netflix 'Unlimited' Maternity/Paternity Leave For New Parents Excludes DVD Division Workers Netflix, the Los Gatos-based company that scored a huge PR victory with the announcement of its 'unlimited' maternity and paternity leave for new parents, now faces backlash from its reportedly under-appreciated DVD workers
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Jeff Goldblum On Jazz, Amy Winehouse, And Visits From Aliens If this can be said of anyone, Jeff Goldblum's voice is jazz. His impromptu cadences, his vocal dynamics: They're unexpected delights no written interview — apologies! — could do justice. Fortunately, Goldblum hopes to do
SF News Google Express Shutting Down SF, Mountain View Hubs As Workers Campaign For Union The Google Express is switching tracks, as it were, shutting down on-demand delivery hubs in San Francisco and Mountain View as reports Re/code. The move to restructure comes just as a battle
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Eight Best Slices Of Toast (That Like Ruined San Francisco Or Whatever) Toast. Depending on whom you ask, it's destroying San Francisco, or it's a food. "We’re obsessed with false ideas of quality....the emperor has no clothes," VentureBeat fumed at the height of
SF News Day Around The Bay: Caltrans Would Like To Blow Up The Old Bay Bridge Span, Thanks Caltrans wants to blow up the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge, please. [KRON4] [CBS SF] First Republic Bank says they won’t offer mortgage financing to Ellis Act evictors. [Business Times]
SF News Giant Drill Court Inside The Armory To Become Full-Time, Non-Porn Event Space Get ready to spend more time in the general vicinity of fetish porn production! A new event space is opening full-time within the Armory, the Mission District sanctum of the premium fetish pornographers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink British Gastropub The Growlers' Arms Closing After Under A Year In Oakland It's disappointing news for a restaurant still finding its footing in Oakland's Glenview neighborhood, writes Inside Scoop. The Growlers' Arms, a British gastropub pouring english ales and churning out smoked pork bangers and
SF News Lands End Labyrinth Completely Disappears, Vandals/Goblins To Blame Created by Eduardo Aguilera in 2004 and meticulously maintained by Colleen Yerge, the Lands End Labyrinth, which SFist profiled in a list of seven just last month, has vanished. Though the stone pattern
