Arts & Entertainment Complete Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2016 Lineup Includes Patty Griffin, Kris Kristofferson, Mavis Staples And More It's that time of year again! Fogust is over, Indian Summer almost here, and September brings with it the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival. We already learned via their audio hints that Cyndi Lauper
SF News Day Around The Bay: Uber Begins Construction On Mission Bay Headquarters Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Popular and beloved Dipsea Cafe might become pot dispensary.
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Hey, it's finally getting warm out (sort of)! That means movies in the park, bike rides on closed-off streets, and plenty of activities to get you out of the house. Here are some
SF News Tech Exec Ponders Office Stripper Party, Says Female Employees 'Undesirable' Because They Might Get Pregnant That the tech industry is rife with sexism is not a shocker in 2016. That someone would openly admit to discriminating against women while simultaneously pondering the merits of having an in-office stripper
SF News Video: Man Attacks Dog Following Duboce Park Scuffle Anyone who has ever been to a dog park is familiar with the scene: Off-leash dogs get a little too rambunctious, start biting, and need to be pulled apart by their owners. As
SF News Check Yourself, Manspreaders: BART's 'Seat Hog' Ordinance Is Now In Effect Hold onto your butts: BART's new "seat hog" rule is here and it's ready to party. Or be enforced. Whatever. Passed in April, the measure allows BART police to run criminal background checks
SF News Massive Eastbound Traffic Backup On Bay Bridge Following Mud Spill I-80 eb #BayBridge Treasure Island exit closed. #Caltrans working to clear roadway. pic.twitter.com/ljid4QfcPi— CHP San Francisco (@CHPSanFrancisco) September 1, 2016 Those trying to get out of the city a day
SF News Check Out Colin Kaepernick's Police Pig Socks Colin Kaepernick is now wearing socks depicting the police as pigs. pic.twitter.com/C1D809YSR2— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 1, 2016 While 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's recent decision to sit during the
SF News Burning Man Structure Collapses Injuring Six A Burning Man theme camp collapsed earlier this week, injuring six and requiring that one festival attendee be airlifted out of the desert for medical treatment. The Reno Gazette-Journal reports that this all
SF News Autonomous Robots Are Coming To A Lowe's Near You Hardware and home furnishings store Lowe's is to begin staffing its 11 Bay Area stores with autonomous helper bots as soon as this month. Dubbed the LoweBot, the San Francisco Business Times reports
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Dates For 'Hamilton' Run Finally Confirmed The Grammy, Tony, and Pulitzer Prize winning musical Hamilton is coming to San Francisco next spring, and we now for the first time have the official dates for the five-month run. The Mercury
SF News SpaceX Rocket Carrying Facebook's First Satellite Explodes On Launchpad For anyone who wondered why launch prep takes weeks & why no one is allowed near, this is why #Falcon9 #SpaceX pic.twitter.com/ukCPmAhOhD— Hunter Blaeser (@MinnesotaLoving) September 1, 2016 A SpaceX
SF News Bill To Streamline Construction Of In-Law Housing Heads To Governor's Desk Governor Jerry Brown is expected to sign a bill that would make it easier for homeowners to construct secondary housing units on their property. The San Francisco Business Times reports that the measure,
SF News Ninth Circuit Rules Medical Marijuana Card Holders Can't Buy Guns Possessing a medical marijuana card may allow you to buy, posses, and consume marijuana in one of 25 states (plus DC!), but as CBS 5 reports, it also comes with some limitations: Namely,
SF News Jail Sentence For Former SFPD Officer Who Illegally Searched SRO The former San Francisco police officer convicted of illegally entering and searching a SRO in 2010 has been sentenced to over a year in jail. Bay City News reports that Arshad Razzak claimed
SF News Instagram Is Finally Letting You Zoom In On All Those Brunch Pics Everyone loves Instagram — the social media platform's algorithmically ordered feed and ripping off of Snapchat makes it the perfect place to view days-old photos of brunch or videos of people's dogs. However, ceaselessly
SF News Burning Man Exodus Is Really Not That Many People, Says Chron You've heard it before: San Francisco "empties out" the week of Burning Man, leaving trendy bars and restaurants less crowded and that hot brunch spot free of lines. However, as the Chronicle points
SF News Video: Stanley Roberts Shames Drivers Abusing Disabled-Parking Placards Professional scold Stanley Roberts was back at it again this week, this time around directing his camera and reprobation toward those abusing the system of disabled-parking placards that actual disabled individuals depend on
SF News Day Around The Bay: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Backs Kaepernick In National Anthem Protest Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. SFMTA shared some data on the agency's new "painted
SF News Thieves Got A USPS Master Key And Are Pilfering Mail Across The City Police are on the lookout for two thieves they say have gone on a mail-stealing spree across San Francisco. According to Fox 2, the man and the woman appear to have obtained a
SF News BART Now Paying Passengers To Avoid Morning Rush-Hour Commute In a bid to ease congestion during commute hours, BART officials today announced the launching of a new rider program called "BART Perks." The idea, officials explain in a press release, is to
SF News Officials Blame Rock Creek Fire In Sierras On Bike Pedal, But Cyclists Aren't Buying It Officials say an unlikely culprit is to blame for one of the many wildfires currently ravaging the California wilderness, but their unusual findings are being met with skepticism and disbelief. The Chronicle reports
SF News Questions Raised As Interim Police Chief Refuses To Say Where He Went To College As San Francisco nears the end of its search for a police chief to replace ousted Greg Suhr, an interesting wrinkle has developed in current interim chief Toney Chaplin's attempt to get the
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Last Night's Sunset Sure Was Pretty SF summer is here... pic.twitter.com/SWItTKEtCw— the sunset (@thesunset) August 30, 2016 Did you catch last night's sunset? Maybe while out on a stroll grabbing some frozen treats? Of maybe sipping
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Bar Tartine Lowers Prices, Revenge Pops Up At The Residence, And More This week on the food beat we learned about synthetic milk made from yeast, we took a look at Nomica's opening menu, we checked out the menus at Nightbird (which just debuted last
