SF News San Francisco's Elected Officials Get Raises In July, Here's What They'll Be Making This summer, several of San Francisco's elected officials will get a 2.6 percent raise! Here's what some of the folks you see in the news will be making starting July 1, in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Madison Young And Daddy Madison Young (link is likely NSFW) wears a lot of hats: artistic director, sex educator, student, porn performer and director, mother, and author. She'll be in this last role tonight, when she appears
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Trespassing Citation Why pay for planning from an educated professional when you can get a bunch of people to compete—for free—to make over Market Street? [SF Business Times] Supervisor Mark Farrell uses Isla
SF News San Francisco's New Cruise Ship Terminal By The Numbers $12: How much cruise ship passengers used to be charged to disembark in San Francisco $18: How much that fee has been raised to, to help keep the project to construct a new
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: The Final DasBike-In Movie Night Tonight, enjoy the last in a series of indoor picnics geared toward bikes and those who love them. There's food and a couple of movies from local filmmakers, all free! "Bikes, beer, and
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Bike Ride With Nevius You'd think that "How to survive the San Francisco tech boom" might be an article on avoiding evictions or something, but it's actually on where to start your startup. [VentureBeat] "Today San Francisco
SF News Sailors Helpless After Boat Crashes Into Whale What luck! Five people and a whale are all safe and uninjured in a maritime collision that could have been much, much worse. According to Rebecca Rosenblatt, a spokesperson for the San Mateo
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Afternoon: Tour The Embarcadero Skyway Take a break from that The Good Wife (or any of a jillion other shows, jeez) marathon this afternoon to get some real life drama, at today's San Francisco City Guides tour of
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Red Tape For Suicide Net Mexican chefs who worked in San Francisco bring a little bit of our city back home. [Seattle PI] San Francisco used to be a rotten place for people from the Philippines. [Inquirer] A
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Indiana Jones And The Temple of Doom Friday: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Ha, remember when you thought Temple of Doom was the crappy Indiana Jones movie? Dammit, Crystal Skull, I'm getting mad just thinking about you! Anyway,
Arts & Entertainment Baby Swans At Palace Of Fine Arts Disappear, Predator Suspected Well, we knew it was a possibility, but it's still a little sad: Those baby swans at the Palace of Fine Arts we told you about on Wednesday appear to have been consumed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland In-N-Out Allegedly Refuses To Call 911 For Injured Patron Though the UC Berkeley community was thrown into a spiral of despair after a hopes of an In-N-Out Burger's new location near campus were dashed, there's one recent grad who's probably happy that
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Free Crack Pipes For Everyone Local print publication takes break, attempts to reorganize. [San Francisco Newspaper Association] People who just joined [Facebook] will have their posts default to only be shared with "friends" instead of with the whole
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Re:depiction When artist collective Hughen/Starkweather interviewed six staff members from the Asian Art Museum, they asked each staffer to choose an artwork from the museum's collection that is particularly meaningful to them, then
SF News Muni's (Sometimes Botched) Fare Inspection Efforts By The Numbers 700,000: The number of people who ride Muni every day $20 million: The amount of money, per year, that Muni says that it's losing because some riders don't pay their fare 54:
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Scolding Lombard Street Drinking along the F-Market. [Market Street Railway] There was a little fire at California and 24th last night. [Richmond SF] The [SF Chronicle]'s Debra Sauders has harsh words for the Lombard Street
Arts & Entertainment Palace Of Fine Arts Swans Pull A Jurassic Park No, they didn't menace Laura Dern, nor did they refuse to hold on to their butts. But remember how the fine scientists of Jurassic Park claimed that they had taken clever steps to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: 36 Stories By Sam Shepard Did you know that Carl Lumbly —that is, M.A.N.T.I.S./Agent Dixon/Martian Manhunter is also a Bay Area theatre standby? (Of course you did!) Tonight, see Lumbly and
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Whales Among Us You saw all those blog posts yesterday that said you needed to make $200K/year to buy a house in SF, right? Well, the people who released that report apparently messed up their
Arts & Entertainment Godzilla's Destruction Of The Golden Gate Bridge By The Numbers $1.55 billion: The cost to rebuild the Golden Gate Bridge, which Godzilla destroyed in the 2014 version of his (?) tale $45 million: The amount of money the Golden Gate Bridge used to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Yoga On The Labyrinth Tonight's event might have you saying "You remind me of the babe! The babe with the power!" But this evening, the labyrinth we're talking about isn't full of Muppets, and the power isn't
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Cookie Monster In SF Cookie Monster weighs in on the SF vs. NY debate. And by "debate," I mean vaguely trollish media musings, for as CM says, "Both cities are fun with lots of terrific people!" [Mashable]
SF News San Francisco's World Famous Crooked Street Might Close Thought the debate regarding which street in San Francisco is the crookedest—some say Lombard, some say Vermont, some say Carlton B Goodlett (because City Hall, ha ha ha)—the twisty stretch of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: In Conversation With BD Wong To me, BD Wong will always be Sergeant Louie from Executive Decision. Maybe to you he's Sheng from Mulan, Dr. Huang from Law and Order: SVU, or the priest from Oz. But tonight
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: BART's Escalator Woes Family of mother and child killed in SF housing authority property is angry that they can't get answers behind fatal fire. [NBC Bay Area] You guys, I'm scared! I agree with Willie Brown