Arts & Entertainment As Seen In The Skies Over 4/20... Seen high above Golden Gate Park. Good formation, kerning could use work. pic.twitter.com/0PltMrEwnV— Eddie Codel (@ekai) April 21, 2016 During Wednesday's 4/20 celebrations in Golden Gate Park, Pax, the
Arts & Entertainment Video: How 420 (and 4/20) Became A Thing We've given you the history of 420, or 4:20, before, but here, since it's a holiday, is an animated refresher, via Laughing Squid. And yes, it really did all start with a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Confirmed: Cafe Du Nord To Pivot More Into Event Space And Venue, But With Food As SFist reported exclusively last week, the Viking Room at Cafe du Nord, which opened last year with the promise of offering a full dinner menu in a sort of supper club environment
Arts & Entertainment Video: Giants Fans Flee As Seagulls Divebomb Cheap Seats At AT&T Your browser does not support iframes. It was a scene almost right out of The Birds at AT&T Park Monday night as the Giants were in the process of losing to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Best Stoner Foods In San Francisco It's 4/20, y'all, and while hopefully most of you have gotten over the novelty of getting high and won't be joining the throngs at the unsanctioned 4/20 smoke-in on Hippie Hill
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hugh Laurie Spotted At Foreign Cinema; Hillary Swank Sups At Liholiho Short as we mostly are on celebrity sightings here in NorCal, I thought I'd alert you to a couple that happened this week in local restaurants. First off, as we learned last month,
SF News Facebook May Let You Add A Tip Jar To Your Posts In a move that looks like it's both an effort to compete with user-revenue-generating platforms like YouTube and to boost sharing on the platform overall, Facebook appears to be considering options for allowing
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 Fail: Snapchat's Bob Marley Filter Puts Everyone In Blackface UPDATE: Snapchat says Bob Marley blackface filter was approved by his estate to use on 420 https://t.co/6dEoisUIAQ pic.twitter.com/B3CJ2VfeDU— The Next Web (@TheNextWeb) April 20, 2016 Interesting choice,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Beach Cafe Spinoff In Former Luna Park To Be Called Mission Beach Valencia There's still no opening date for the Mission Beach Cafe takeover of the space formerly known as Luna Park (694 Valencia Street at 17th). But, as Tablehopper now reports, via a letter that
Arts & Entertainment Lech Wierzynski Of Bay Area Band The California Honeydrops, On Tour With Bonnie Raitt, Misses Playing In BART Stations The California Honeydrops are a good-time band with an unmistakably Californian style, despite drawing on influences like Delta blues, gospel, and Motown. While frontman and trumpet player Lech Wierzynski sings and plays trumpet,
Arts & Entertainment Whoops! This Giants Fan Possibly Made Team Lose After He Grabbed Fair Ball Your browser does not support iframes. This guy, who was sitting near the left-field line at AT&T Park last night, is sad and ashamed. You see, in the seventh inning, while
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Doing Three Sold Out, Cellphone-Free Shows At The Chapel This Week Just like most of you, probably, we're just now getting word that Dave Chappelle announced a couple of surprise shows as he often does these days Tuesday night at The Chapel in SF
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Check Out The Menu At Fénix, Rising From The Ashes Of TBD In May As we first learned in January, short-lived AQ spinoff TBD, two doors down in SoMa, is going to be reborn as something else entirely, under the same management: a Mexican spot called Fénix
SF News Two Teens Presumed Drowned At Ocean Beach Identified The two teenagers presumed dead after being swept to sea by a rip current on Saturday afternoon have been identified as Wayne Ausa and Grisham Duran of Vallejo. Friends and family are mourning
SF News N-Judah Meltdown Snarls Morning Commute Thankfully, rush-hour meltdowns on Muni aren't quite as frequent as they were in recent years, but they're not yet a thing of the past. This morning saw an "overhead wire issue" near the
SF News Yep, Religious Group Now Suing Over Dolores Park Pissoir It turns out that threat of a lawsuit a couple months ago over the new Dolores Park pissoir from one conservative, anti-LGBT group, the Pacific Justice Center, has turned into a reality, and
SF News Day Around The Bay: More Marin Hikers Stranded, Requiring Airlift Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Still more hikers up in Marin, this time a
Arts & Entertainment Gorgeous, Historic Penthouse Inside Rincon Clock Tower Going For $8.5M If you want to live like a Bond villain/unrealistically wealthy man-child Tom Hanks in Big, get a load of this penthouse loft that just came on the market at 461 Second Street,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deli Board and Fondue Cowboy Potentially Threatened By Condo Proposal On Folsom A proposal for a 46-unit residential building at Folsom and Russ Streets would, potentially, mean the demolition of several retail businesses facing Folsom Street on that block, including restaurants Fondue Cowboy and the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sunset Fro-Yo Shop Owner Decries Insane City Bureaucracy Over Trying To Install One Bench Ariel Ford, the owner of Inner Sunset frozen yogurt shop Easy Breezy which began with a shop in Noe Valley and also has a location on 18th Street in the Castro took to
Arts & Entertainment Video: Gangs Of Killer Whales Are Hunting Gray Whales In Monterey Bay "It's the biggest battle in nature, right here in your own backyard," says marine biologist Nancy Black speaking with the Monterey Herald, and she's talking about orca killer whales hunting for gray whale
SF News Today In History, San Francisco Shook And Caught Fire "We are in the ring of fire. The Big One is coming." #1906quake remembrance in #SF #LottasFountain pic.twitter.com/fKeUOm8lgl— Ron Lin, LA Times (@ronlin) April 18, 2016 On April 18, 1906
SF News Two SFPD Officers Named In Shooting Of Luis Gongora The SFPD has identified the two officers involved in the April 7 shooting of homeless man Luis Gongora as Sgt. Nate Steger and Officer Michael Mellone, both veteran police officers who together shot
SF News Crazed, Armed Burglary Suspect Jumps From Russian Hill Roof During Police Chase, Lands On Audi This is the car alleged burglar landed on after jumping from roof of apartment. #abc7now pic.twitter.com/ZglRcw7B9f— Elissa Harrington (@EHarringtonNews) April 16, 2016 An insane foot chase happened Saturday that began
SF News Two Teen Boys, In A Group Of Five Friends, Swept Out To Sea At Ocean Beach, Presumed Dead Appears to be a rescue operation in progress at Ocean Beach. 2 teens stuck past the break. SFFD & USCG on scene. pic.twitter.com/T8rIyBS8Jf— Eddie Codel (@ekai) April 17, 2016 Yesterday