SF News Frank Chu Has A New Sponsor: Expensify Frank Chu has a new sponsor. I have a lot of mixed feelings about this. pic.twitter.com/kSXxKwT5pH— Audrey Cooper (@audreycoopersf) March 26, 2016 Famed local kook/perennial protester Frank Chu got
Arts & Entertainment Video: Man Attempts To Break Peep-Eating Record, For Easter This guy, who does not introduce himself, recently stuffed 200 marshmallow Peeps in his mouth in 14 minutes and 12 seconds, which he believes is a world record. Via a quick internet search,
SF News Rogue Wave Causes SFFD Training Boat To Capsize, Four Hospitalized LIVE: @sffdpio interview regarding today’s capsize of Rescue Boat 1. https://t.co/UamdF0BE2m pic.twitter.com/IGj9VrBJoY— Craig (@cwb) March 26, 2016 A San Francisco Fire Department training vessel, Rescue Boat
SF News Tony Robbins Buys Homeless-Serving Nuns A New Soup Kitchen In The Mission Multimillionaire "CEO whisperer" Tony Robbins, who once spent some time homeless himself before striking it rich as a business and self-improvement coach, has for the second time come to the rescue of a
SF News BART's Actually Gotten More Reliable Over Last Seven Years, Not Less — Are They Just Crying Poverty? BART and its decrepit, 30+-year-old fleet of train cars has been a major topic of discussion the last couple weeks after a mysterious voltage spiking problem took a group of them out
SF News British Man Stabbed On Cathedral Hill Last Month Dies; Police Release Video Of Attack A brutal stabbing of a 44-year-old British man near the intersection of Franklin and Post on February 18 has become a homicide, and the SFPD is now seeking the public's help in apprehending
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Revelry Bistro Debuts, Nostra Spaghetteria Is For Sale, and More This week around the Bay we had Asia SF getting some strangely big accolades from OpenTable, we heralded in the debut of Waxman's in Ghirardelli Square, said goodbye to Triptych in SoMa, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF-Based OpenTable Defends Asia SF As City's 'Hottest' Restaurant I was expecting after reaching out to OpenTable yesterday about their list of the nation's 100 Hottest Restaurants to find out that perhaps someone in another city's OpenTable offices, or even someone from
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Living Rooms Are The New Studios You may have noticed that Apartment Sadness hasn't been an every-Friday thing recently, and if you did, thanks for caring. But while I will attempt to continue diligently chronicling the accommodational woes of
SF News Check Out The Huge Retail, Performance, And Residential Project Coming To Candlestick Point Big things are coming to the land that was formerly home to Candlestick Park, and big developer Lennar, who's also developing the adjacent Shipyard with 12,000 residential units, has just received approvals
SF News SF Bay Guardian Returns! (In Digital Form) Fans of the San Francisco Bay Guardian remain frustrated and sore over the abrupt 2014 shutdown of the once venerable progressive paper. But, as staffers at the time promised it would, the SFBG
SF News San Francisco Metro Area Population Grew By 60,000 Last Year It's been said often enough that San Francisco has been in the midst of a population boom the likes of which it hasn't seen in decades, something to the tune of 10,000
Arts & Entertainment Big, Spooky, Legendary Alamo Square Mansion Is Getting The Documentary Treatment Anyone who's wandered around Alamo Square has wondered about the big, looming, elaborately painted Victorian at the corner of Fulton and Scott, known by the name of its original owner as The Westerfeld
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 25 Best Dive Bars In San Francisco Whether drowning sorrows on your lonesome or slumming it with friends, dive bars are good for a lot of occasions. Firstly, they're often cheaper than their mixology-obsessed counterparts in tonier parts of town.
SF News Vallejo Is Whack: Police Seriously Botched Huskins's Sexual Assault Investigation If you thought the allegations about the Vallejo Police Department's mishandling of the kidnapping of Denise Huskins last March couldn't get any worse, you were incorrect. As ABC 7 reports after reading the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Sea Lion Pup Found In Fremont Is Not Having It With The Cameras Today Lost CA sea lion found in #Fremont on Osgood Rd this morning. @TMMC responding to the #TriCityAnimalShelter #Ozzie pic.twitter.com/2QziGnVtQI— Fremont Police Dept (@FremontPD) March 24, 2016 A perhaps confused, definitely
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink OpenTable Believes SF's Hottest Restaurant Is... Asia SF Yesterday at SFist HQ we got an email from the OpenTable team letting us know that their hotly anticipated (JK) list of the nation's 100 "hottest" restaurants for 2016 had just been revealed.
SF News San Francisco Now Has Official Tweeter Who Gets Paid $130,000/Year Ugh. "Social Media Strategist" remains a real job, and even city governments like San Francisco think they need one. Per SF Weekly we learn that the city's Department of Technology had a job
SF News Day Around The Bay: Teatro ZinZanni Plan Sent Back To Drawing Board Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Some opinion via [Jacobin Magazine]: Sharing economy companies like
SF News 95-Year-Old Lost Tugboat Found Near Farallones A nearly century-old mystery has been solved after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed this week that a shipwreck discovered on the ocean floor seven years ago is in fact the long
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Peninsula Restaurant Owner Accused Of Tax Evasion Found With $600K Stashed In Home Russell Deutsch, the 57-year-old owner of Old Port Lobster Shack restaurants in Redwood City and Portola Valley and the Old Port Lobster Grill in San Jose, appears to be in some hot water
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Silicon Valley' Cast Guesses At What Actual Startups Do By Their Dumb Names Watch this on The Scene. Anaplan? Twilio? Klarna? These are all real companies that we will not link to, but feel free to Google them. The hilarious cast of HBO's Silicon Valley, who
Arts & Entertainment Video: New iPhone SE Mocked As 'A Phone From Three Years Ago' As quickly as Apple announced the release of a new, cheaper and smaller model of the iPhone that is basically the same as the iPhone 5S with a bit more speed, dubbed the
Arts & Entertainment Pre-Broadway Premiere Of 'Roman Holiday' Comes To SF, Along With Acclaimed Revamp Of 'Into The Woods' Today SHN announced their full regular season of shows, following their earlier announcement in January that Hamilton would be part of the 2016-2017 season along with the Tony Award-winning play The Curious Incident
