SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Is What's Happened Inside The Former Lexington Club, Now Known As Wildhawk When the news broke in late 2014 that arguably the city's only lesbian bar, the Lexington Club, would close, everyone was fairly bummed out. When we learned it was to be replaced by
SF News Thankfully It's Not The O.Co Coliseum Anymore; Naming Rights Up For Grabs Have a cool few million floating around and interested in seeing your name printed in really big letters on the side of something large? Well, here's your chance: Overstock.com exited its naming-rights
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Antoinette Closes Right Quick, Bellota Heads To SoMa, And More A lot went down this week in the world of San Francisco's food scene, and we did our part to hip you to the history of brunch, the best places to find soup
SF News Anti-Gay Group Goes Mum About Threatened Pissoir Lawsuit, LA Times Picks Up Story Months Late With its February 24 deadline to the city to remove the Dolores Park pissoir or face legal action well passed, active anti-LGBTQ group Pacific Justice Institute has gone strangely quiet about what it
SF News Google's Garbage April Fools' Prank Backfires, They Blame It On 'A Bug' Have you ever been writing an email to a potential new employer, an estranged lover, or a grieving parent and thought, "you know what, this email could really be spiced up with a
SF News Ripe For Mockery Lyft Ad Changed To Gentrification Critique On-point SF ad vandalism (what was Lyft thinking?) pic.twitter.com/SabcKYmTwf— Chad Woodford (@cjam) March 31, 2016 It's so perfectly set up that it almost seems like Mission District-based Lyft is in
SF News Not A Newsflash: Techies Hate Trump San Franciscans like to think of themselves as an enlightened bunch — from the love-parading nudists to the techno-utopian seasteaders, we know what's up. However, in recent years, the reputation of the quintessentially Bay
SF News Early Morning Sidewalk Couch Fire Melts Cars In The Haight What a way to start the day. According to a tipster, at around 5:00 a.m this morning, he and his neighbors were awakened by the sounds of explosions and greeted by
Arts & Entertainment Watch: Citywide Productivity Plummets As SF Peregrine Falcon Cam Goes Live Sure, DC has their eagle-cam or whatever, and while that definitely is cool, they're not the only ones with a livestream of a raptor once almost driven to extinction nesting in their metro
SF News Work Begins On Massive Treasure Island Redevelopment Work has begun on a 20-year development project that will radically transform both Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island into something virtually unrecognizable from what we know today. The plan, now two decades
SF News Are The New San Francisco Giants TV Spots Really 'Horrific'? Everyone loves the San Francisco Giants, but not everyone, it appears, loves their new ad campaign. The series of short videos were published yesterday and feature a voice-over actor setting up some joke
SF News Racist Hacker Forced UC Berkeley Printers To Print Swastikas UC Berkeley, along with other colleges across the country, was on the receiving end of notoriously racist hacker Weev's malicious boredom last week. Weev, whose real name is Andrew Auernheimer, forced a hoard
SF News Now Microsoft's Racist Twitter Bot 'Tay' Is A Pot Head Microsoft just can't seem to get it together. After pulling its accidentally racist, sexist, antisemitic, homophobic, transphobic, 9/11 truther Twitter bot offline and then blaming its meltdown on a "coordinated attack," the
SF News Police Seek Witnesses As Multiple Animals Shot In Berkeley Five animals have been shot recently in Berkeley, and police are asking for witnesses to come forward with any information that might help them find the culprit. So reports KRON 4, which notes
SF News Video: Dreadlocked Guy Explains What Led Up To 'Cultural Appropriation' Accusation After a video depicting an African American student at San Francisco State University accusing a white student of cultural appropriation for sporting dreadlocks went viral, we were left with a series of questions.
SF News Day Around The Bay: No Criminal Charges In Berkeley Balcony Crash Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you — sign up here. Remember the sad case of the Berkeley balcony collapse that resulted
SF News Mission District Beating Deputy Allegedly Used Stolen Items To Bribe Witnesses Joining the two deputies depicted on video brutally beating a man in the Mission District in November of last year, a third Alameda County Sheriff’s deputy has been placed on leave. So
SF News Video: Dreadlocked White SFSU Student Accosted For 'Cultural Appropriation' A video that appears to show a San Francisco State University student taking her fellow student to task for having dreadlocks has gone viral, prompting an investigation by campus police. KRON 4 reports
SF News Report: Ellis Act Filings Up 36% As Evictions Hit Six-Year High Evictions are up for the sixth year in a row according to a recently released report from the San Francisco Rent Board. At 2,134, the total number filed between March 1, 2015
SF News Will More Security Cameras In The Tenderloin Reduce Crime? You may automatically associate the Tenderloin with crime and drug use and you would not be wrong to do so. But the Tenderloin Community Benefit District hopes that its pilot program to install
SF News Feds Successfully Hack San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone, Drop Court Case Against Apple The federal government announced today that it has successfully accessed the data on San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's work iPhone 5C, and as such will drop its case demanding Apple build a backdoor
SF News Super Bowl 50 Statue For Sale, Seller Suggests Someone Buy It And Burn It Ah, the Super Bowl 50 statues. Those huge metal 50's placed around San Francisco earlier this year marking the forthcoming Super Bowl 50 were enjoyed by many a San Franciscan, although not in
SF News Instagram Celebs Panic As Algorithmic Feed Reordering Looms Instagram feeds are usually very personal things — a mixture of friends, celebrities, and brands that, for whatever reason, you have decided to follow on the social media giant and consequently pop their pics
SF News Parking Over Pedestrians: Commitment To Vision Zero Questioned As Traffic Deaths Spike San Francisco's commitment to eliminating traffic fatalities by 2024, known as Vision Zero, is this year off to a tragic start. Adopted in 2014, the two-year-old initiative seeks to educate the public on
SF News Bay Area Newborn's Hair Makes Her An Internet Star It's not every day a star is born, and yet two-and-a-half months ago right here in the Bay Area we were blessed with just such a moment. That is the day that little
