SF News Chelsea Manning Sentenced To Solitary Confinement Over Suicide Attempt I guess this is how it works in military prison, but following a July suicide attempt that was linked to her ongoing struggle to be allowed to fully transition from male to female
SF News Elon Musk To Talk More About Sending People To Mars Next Week Future Martian leader Elon Musk is set to give a talk next week at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico in which he'll apparently be clarifying his plans for launching manned missions
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mr. Bing's Is Saved! I have some excellent news. Back in July we heard the ominous news that beloved sh*thole dive bar Mr. Bing's had been sold to new owners, the owners of Ireland's 32 in
Arts & Entertainment Video: All About SF's Rad Lowrider Culture Since the 1970's (at least), lowriders have been an intrinsic part of Latino culture in San Francisco. These souped up, tricked out vintage vehicles, often with fancy hydraulics that make them "dance" down
SF News Twitter Likely About To Get Bought, Maybe By Google Or Salesforce Earlier this month we heard that Twitter's board of directors was considering a potential sale of the company, and today the rumor is out that some buyout bids are in, including ones from
SF News Day Around The Bay: Serial Small Business Scammer Nabbed Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. City College is considering building teacher housing at its
Arts & Entertainment 'King Charles III' Is A Witty Dramedy Tailor-Made For Royal Watchers And Shakespeare Nerds The year is 2020, say, and beloved English monarch Elizabeth II has just died that's perhaps jumping the gun in terms of a prediction, though, given that she's only 90 this year and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Betelnut Spot To Become Something Mexican The word is finally in about what restaurateur Adriano Paganini is doing with the former Betelnut space at 2030 Union Street, next door to his restaurant Belga: It will be a second Mexican
Arts & Entertainment SFist's Annual First-Timer's Guide To Folsom Street Fair Weekend, With Event Suggestions The gay community's and the local fetish community's high holidays are upon us this weekend with 33rd annual Folsom Street Fair. Though it was originally a very gay male event and continues to
Arts & Entertainment Video: Trailer For New SF-Shot Bruce Lee Biopic 'Birth Of The Dragon' Kung fu master Bruce Lee, who was born in SF's Chinatown but raised in Hong Kong, is the subject of a new biopic currently making the festival rounds, Birth of the Dragon. Directed
SF News Peskin At Millennium Tower Hearing: 'This Isn't Somebody's Leaking Toilet. This Is a Big Deal.' Supervisor Peskin grills city officials about Millennium-"this isn't somebody's leaking toilet-this is a big deal" pic.twitter.com/E167qhiHAY— carolyn tyler (@ctylerabc7) September 22, 2016 The political piece of the Millennium Tower
SF News Nearly All Of The Affordable Housing Budget For The Mission To Be Spent On One Building Just to illustrate the difficult economics of building affordable housing in a time of great need for it, Mission Local is reporting that nearly all of the budget from an affordable housing bond
SF News [Update] Suspicious Rice Cooker Shuts Down South Van Ness Causing Huge Commuter Headache Hearing S Van Ness is closed btw Mission and Market due to police activity. pic.twitter.com/cg4YxhMCfM— Alexis Smith (@AlexisABC7) September 22, 2016 The sound of a news chopper overheard in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bon Marché Gets Its First Pop-Up, Minnie Bell's Soul Movement As SFist reported last week, this week marks the transformation perhaps temporary of the former Bon Marché space on mid-Market into a multi-vendor food hall, banking on the daytime success of next-door neighbor
Arts & Entertainment Video: Regarding The Phenomenon Of Mercury Retrograde, Like The Actual Astronomical Thing This being the Bay Area, you likely have many friends who believe whole-heartedly that all technology and certain types of communication go to sh*t every time the planet Mercury goest into retrograde
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Preview 'Mascots' With Christopher Guest Live On Stage! Lovers of the oeuvre of writer-director Christopher Guest and his brilliant mockumentary/comedy ensemble (like myself) are getting Busy Bee-level excited about the upcoming Netflix release of Guest's latest work, Mascots, coming on
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Jasmine Abuslin's Dad Speaks Out Google just launched a new messaging app called Allo, to mixed reviews. [Google] [Wired] [CNet] [Verge] Jasmine Abuslin’s dad spoke out last night for the first time publicly saying, "If those officers
SF News Millennium Tower Developer Now Blames 'Reckless Behavior' Of Transit Center Developers On Sinking Tower The blame game continues in the saga of Millennium Tower, which we learned last month had sunk 16 inches into the ground since it was completed seven years ago, and is also tilting
SF News Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan Resigns, The Third Bay Area Police Chief To So In Four Months We're getting breaking news via KTVU that Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan has resigned, and Captain Andrew Greenwood is now going to be serving as Acting Chief. Meehan, who came to Berkeley after
SF News More Upsetting Details Emerge In Double Murder As Drifters Appear For Hearing In Marin Painful details released in preliminary hearing of 2 drifters accused in #SF, #MarinCounty murders. https://t.co/bS8ATevBtj— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) September 21, 2016 We are now getting some better detail about what
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Praise the lord, the sun came out. And if you haven't simply lined up a series of deck-cocktail or park-beer-and-wine gatherings every evening this week, below we bring you a few more culturally
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nine Places To Get A Frozen Cocktail Or Boozy Slushy In SF Right Now Our required Indian Summer has finally thank god come to SF as of Sunday, and while it's a bit cooler today, the warmth is expected to spike back up to 80 this weekend
SF News New Mid-Market Shopping Mall Decides To Embrace Sixth Street Connotations, Rebrands As 6X6 After multiple delays, the six-story shopping center that once intended to be value-oriented, and previously going by the names CityPlace and Market Street Place, will no open as soon as November under the
SF News Three More Officers Formally Charged In Oakland Scandal, Including One Who Tipped Off Sex Worker To Sting Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley continues filing the formal criminal charges already promised against seven East Bay law enforcement officers, with three more officers charged on Monday. As KQED reports, those include
SF News Soberanes Fire Officially Becomes Costliest Firefight In US History, Topping $200 Million As we reach the two-month mark on the Soberanes Fire, burning just inland of Big Sur and sparked miles to the north on July 22, the Associated Press reports that the fire has
