Arts & Entertainment Cool New Five-Story Mural Completed Near Mission And Fourth Street A fine break from the week's enervating political news: A rad new mural by noted anonymous muralist Believe In People has just been completed this week, during the break in the rain, on
SF News Nationwide General Strike Gains Traction, Scheduled For February 17 A proposed national general strike to oppose any and all things Trump has been coalescing around February 17, the Friday before President's Day when, presumably, a lot of people will be taking off
SF News Unhatched Hummingbird Egg Delays $70M Richmond Bridge Project Infrastructure projects getting delayed by endangered or protected species, fish, fowl and otherwise, are not unique to the Bay Area. But currently there's a big bridge improvement project on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge
SF News Stanley Roberts Shames Cyclists Who Blow Through Red Lights On Market Street KRON 4's Stanley Roberts brings his shame camera to SF's Market Street this week to document just how many people on bicycles roll right through red lights in a given hour, sometimes doing
SF News Reddit Bans Alt-Right Subreddit Over Revealing Of Personal Information In their unenviable, continuing quest to rid the site of its "most toxic" troll population, Reddit has just shut down two related subreddits, r/altright and r/alternativeright, over the repeated practice of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Syhabout And Former Linden Street Brewer Announce Old Kan Beer & Co. In West Oakland Without much time to mourn the loss of the Oakland location of Hawker Fare, chef-restaurateur James Syhabout just announced the upcoming opening of a new brewery project with partner Adam Lamoreaux, the founder
SF News Rainstorm Arrives With Big Winds Tonight, Big Snow Comes To Tahoe Again Friday You had your reprieve, maybe you did a little early weeding in the garden or did some running around the Panhandle, and now the rain is headed back our way. The first storm
Arts & Entertainment Video: Lava Waterfall Dramatically Pouring Into The Pacific In Hawaii A red-hot lava "fire hose" as it's being called is currently pouring off a cliff from the Kiluea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, creating a dramatic show that's been ongoing for a couple
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 10 Best Hot Toddies In San Francisco Rains are back, the world has gone to hell in an orange handbasket, and life has considerably less luster and promise than it did a few short months ago. So if you're a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Salt & Straw Ice Cream's Hayes Street Location Revealed As we learned in November, Portland's celebrated Salt & Straw ice cream is set to open two locations in San Francisco this spring, its first in the Bay Area following an expansion to
Arts & Entertainment SF Shakes Celebrates 35 Years With '35 Famous Speeches in 35 Famous Places' All Over San Francisco The scrappy local theater troupe known as the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival is celebrating their 35th season in SF this year, and they're doing with an extended series of brief outdoor performances in
SF News Alphabet-Owned Boston Dynamics Unveils New 'Nightmare Inducing' Wheeled Robot In leaked video from a private presentation to investors by Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert, we see their latest war machine incredible mobile AI creation, Handle. Raibert himself says that it looks to
SF News Day Around The Bay: Raiders' Las Vegas Stadium Deal May Be In Jeopardy Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Academy of Art student Payam Jafari, who's an Iranian
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lefty O'Doul's To Have Closing Party Wednesday Amid Legal Battles Over Name And Memorabilia The legal battle over who owns Lefty O'Doul's basically the business and its brand, as opposed to the premises in which it has resided for nearly 60 years at 333 Geary, which is
SF News Talbot: Democrats And Tech CEOs Better Stop 'Collaborating' With Trump It certainly feels like we're in a lead-up-to-the-Iraq-War kind of moment when Democrats who vote the wrong way in order to placate their friends in Congress or show some deference to a new
SF News State Senator From Berkeley Demands To See Melania Trump's Immigration Documents California state senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) makes a good point: If we already know that First Lady Melania Trump worked in this country illegally when she first arrived here from Slovenia in 1996,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Bookstore Displays Cookbooks From Countries Affected By The Immigration Ban My new shop window, courtesy of our president. pic.twitter.com/FoHurAz0Y8— Omnivore Books (@omnivorebooks) January 28, 2017 Food-focused Noe Valley bookshop Omnivore Books is encouraging cooks in the neighborhood to learn about
SF News Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Announces 'Completely New Approach To Abuse' The fatigued and much abused Twitter faithful are taking with a grain of salt Monday's announcement from CEO Jack Dorsey that the company is "taking a completely new approach to abuse" and that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink CVS On Market Street In Castro To Close After Three Years In an announcement that is sure to send longtime Castro neighborhood residents into fits of rage, a 10,000-square-foot CVS store occupying some prime retail space on Market Street at Noe has announced
SF News San Francisco Becomes First City To Sue Over Sanctuary City Order As California May Become Sanctuary State SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging President Trump's executive order that threatens to withhold federal funds from so-called Sanctuary Cities, becoming the first city the nation to do so.
SF News Feinstein To Vote No On Sessions For Attorney General JUST NOW: On Sessions attorney general nomination: “I must vote no.” pic.twitter.com/lfQnX5Khug— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) January 31, 2017 Though it was unclear if Senator Dianne Feinstein was going to
Arts & Entertainment Video: Rad Local Woodworker Katie Gong Profiled In New People Mag Series San Francisco-based woodworker and artist Katie Gong, of Katie Gong Design, is the subject of Episode 7 of People Magazine's new American Doers series, hosted by very handsome Brit James Marshall. Gong grew
SF News Thousands Of Google Employees Stage Walkouts Against Trump Immigration Policies Protest along Embarcadero, with chants of "No Ban, No Wall." #ImWithThem pic.twitter.com/zY09fv6QAB— Jill Witty (@jwitty) January 30, 2017 A company-wide protest organized and attended by Alphabet/Google employees occurred Monday
SF News Millennium Tower Residents Complain That Building Not Only Sinks, It Stinks A new report via a resident at the nicknamed Leaning Tower of San Francisco, a.k.a. Millennium Tower adds further fuel to homeowners' rage about the developer's alleged construction shortcuts. Against the
SF News North Oakland's Bushrod Neighborhood Named Hottest Real Estate Market In The Nation A little-known subsection of Oakland called Bushrod, next to Temescal and on the Berkeley border west of Telegraph Avenue, was named by real estate site Redfin as the number one "hottest neighborhood of
