Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Free Rides For Cinco de Mayo Revelers Yes, it's offensive to call Cinco de Mayo "Mexican St. Patrick's Day." And yet, that's how many people treat it, as an excuse to drink themselves blind then to stagger on home before
SF News Lower Haight Landlord Won't Let You In Bed For Less Than $100,000 Just a few years ago, Haight and Fillmore was derided as "dicey" (or worse). But these days, at least one landlord appears intent on driving the average San Franciscan out of the area,
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Apple's Flaccid Gift Not only is Jeremy Irons weird about marriage equality, he's a litterbug. [SF Chronicle] When this SF company says that it wants to become the "Wikipedia of medicine," I wonder if they understand
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Pick Up Some Poop Friday: Jeremy Jordan "Breaking Character" Jeremy Jordan had a thankless job portraying one of the creators of Hit List, the imaginary musical featured in Smash, a drama about Broadway that one of my
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Murderous Swans The first person to ever win the [SF Marathon] was a cab driver from Reno. Soon-to-be SF company LinkedIn experiences "its largest quarterly loss since going public," and has "has fallen out of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Dracula Twilight's for teens, The Vampire Diaries is basically just a soap opera, and True Blood's not back until June 22. That's just fine, because tonight you can sink your teeth (groan, sorry) into
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Behave Like A Decent Human Being At The Gym Oh, the gym. So much virtue on display! But so much dreadful rudeness, too. For today's Etiquette Week report on gym comportment, we turn to trainer Tim Ehhalt (you might remember him from
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Supe And Fire Chief Fight This guy set up a fake wi-fi hotspot in San Francisco, and got access to about 1500 people's data in just a few hours. [WSJ] [Bleacher Report] predicts the 49ers' most important games
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: The SF Giants' Irish Heritage Night Even if you don't have tickets to tonight's sold-out Irish Heritage Night game between our SF Giants and the San Diego Padres, you can still join in the pregame fun at their annual
Arts & Entertainment The 6 Best Weekend Escapes From San Francisco Though San Francisco is often listed as one of the top tourist destinations in the world, as the creepy and possibly misogynistic aphorism goes, one can occasionally tire of its familiar beauty. Last
SF News Christian Dior To Open Massive Flagship Store In Union Square The storied (and, in recent years, scandal-beset) high-end fashion retailer Christian Dior on Tuesday announced that they will be opening a 10,000 square foot flagship store in San Francisco's Union Square. According
Arts & Entertainment Confirmed: Godzilla Will Destroy The Golden Gate Bridge As noted back in February, at least part of the new Godzilla movie is set in San Francisco. (In fact, the film's site presently displays a lovely animation of our city in flames.
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: 10,000 Kittens Saved 1960s-era 49er defensive end Dan Colchico dies at age 76. [AP/Merced Sun-Star] Not only is Shrimp Boy apparently posting to Facebook from jail, he just participated in a journalism symposium from the
SF News Etiquette Week: How To Be A Non-Despicable Dog Guardian "Having the time and money to care for an animal in the city is a real privilege, not some inalienable right," local writer Jackson West said when he was told that the topic
SF News Muni's Performance By The Numbers At a Board of Supervisors' Land Use and Economic Development Committee meeting Monday, SFMTA director of transit John Haley trumpeted the improvements the MTA says they're seeing in Muni's on-time performance stats over
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Lee Wants Commissioner To Pak It In SF lawyer Michelle Friedland overcomes conservative groups' disdain for her support of LGBT rights to ascend to a judgeship on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. [San Jose Mercury News] The
SF News Sending Up The Sharing Economy There was a time when people sneered at the idea that people would consider renting their homes to unsupervised strangers. And who would have taken a ride in some rando's car a couple
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Game Night At NOW! NOW!, the community festival that kicked off Sunday, touts themselves as "a cross between [freespace] and SXSW," except for the Panhandle area. The schedule for the festival, which runs through Saturday, includes events
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Amoeba's New Business Model Is Weed How much does it cost to get busted for selling "hacks, cracks, data theft, botnets and zero days"? [ZDnet] 49ers fan sues the NFL for $50 million, saying that they engaged in "'economic
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Feria de Sevillanas "Half The Road" trailer from kevin tokstad on Vimeo. Friday: The Bicycle Film Festival Friday night, the 13th international Bicycle Film Festival rolls (ha!) into the Victoria Theatre (2961 16th Street) with a
SF News BART Connector To The Oakland Airport, By The Numbers 3.2: The number of miles BART's Oakland Airport Connector, an elevated transit line that will run from the Coliseum/Oakland Airport BART Station to the Oakland Airport, will travel 4: The number
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bad Landlord Sails Away [KPIX] introduces us to Elba Borgen, SF landlord, Ellis Act evictor, and yacht club member. This is how 54-year-old landscaper Lonnie Monroe saved a man from killing himself. [SF Chronicle] SF health officials
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Cocktails For A Cause Tonight, it's time to break up your cycle of work-Muni-home-bed by thinking about some of the issues that face women around the world. Don't worry, this is easy, and there will be drinks!
Arts & Entertainment SFFS To Honor Jeremy Irons For Integrity, Ignores His Weird Opinions On Marriage Equality The San Francisco Film Society has announced that this year's recipient of the Peter J. Owens award for excellence in acting will be Jeremy Irons, an artist recently known as much for his
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Stolen Phone Adventures [KALW] has more on that controversial plan ("Blogs picked up the story. Many mocked the idea.") to distribute free crack pipes on San Francisco's streets. San Francisco to Santa Monica, blogged. [The Unworldly
