SF News Naive Engineer Hopes To Move To Excellent, Crime-Free Bay Area Neighborhood For $1200/Month None of us should be laughing at such things, because obviously if we lived pretty much anywhere else the country besides Manhattan this poor guy's requests would seem perfectly sane and reasonable. But
Arts & Entertainment Giants Honor Robin Williams With Billy Crystal, Williams' Children Throwing Out First Pitch At the opening of what turned out to be a triumphant, shutout Game 5 of the World Series for the Giants on Sunday, a tribute montage played on the Jumbotron honoring the late
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: The Oasis Returns To SoMa, Crystal Jade Coming Soon, And More The biggest food news of the week was the Michelin Guide release, with San Francisco finally (finally!) getting its first three-star restaurants in the city proper: Saison and Benu. This is very good
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: World Series Edition Your browser does not support iframes. You're getting in the mood already, hopefully. Maybe you're already a little buzzed and if so, pace yourself, friend! This is a marathon, not a race, and
Arts & Entertainment I Went To 'Hell In The Armory,' And I Have A Few Words Of Advice It should go without saying that Hell In the Armory, the new haunted house attraction in the basement of the infamous Kink.com headquarters, is not for pearl-clutchers. It is raunchy, it is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sliderbar In The Castro Shut Down By Health Department [Updated] Another restaurant fails to heed the warnings of the Health Department, and suffers their wrath: Sliderbar, the just-ok, two-year-old slider restaurant in the old Bagdad Cafe space at Market and 16th, suddenly finds
Arts & Entertainment The Bay Lights Will Disappear For Good In March Unless Backers Raise $4 Million As we reported back in June, the non-profit that's behind the installation and maintenance of the Bay Lights LED installation on the Bay Bridge are gunning to keep the lights up after their
Arts & Entertainment Life Imitates Art As Hewlett-Packard Hires Flo Rida For Event, Just Like On <i>Silicon Valley</i> Remember when on Episode 4 of Silicon Valley eccentric billionaire Peter Gregory threw a toga party benefit and hired Flo Rida to perform? Well, that just happened in real life last night, in
SF News Saturday's World Series Game Could Get Rained On The World Series is going to be a joyous thing here in S.F. these next couple of days, and should you say otherwise you might get slapped. Or worse. But fans who
SF News Racist Chinatown Tour Guide Speaks! ABC 7 got an exclusive interview with the woman herself, the one and only racist ranting tour guide who really hates Chinatown, and who has many things about it she would like to
Arts & Entertainment Trippy Map Shows All Of S.F.'s Many Grids This new map of the city by cartographer Stephen Von Worley depicts the streets of San Francisco in all their many colliding grid formations and the tangled mess that is Twin Peaks. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oh No! The Lexington Club To Close After 18 Years [Updated] Bad news for the LGBT community: The city's only, long-standing, dedicated bar for gay women*, The Lexington Club (3464 19th Street), is getting sold and sounds likely to close very soon. In a
SF News Confirmed: Condo Developer Cuts Deal To Avoid Affordable Housing Requirement If you're wondering whether Mayor Ed Lee's affordable housing ballot measure, Prop K, is going to mean anything, critics will be quick to point to a recent negotiation with a big developer as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Hamburger Mary's Will Go To Planning Vote In December The literally decade-long saga surrounding a single empty property in the Castro will enter its next and most certainly not final chapter later this fall when the Planning Commission will decide whether the
SF News Ellis Act Payout Law Heads To Ninth Circuit For Appeal City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced late Wednesday that his office would be appealing a federal judge's ruling that struck down the recent San Francisco ordinance requiring large lump-sum payouts to tenants evicted under
SF News Racist Ranting Tour Guide Possibly ID'd; David Chiu Demands Apology, Holds Rally [Updated] Since the video of the disgruntled tour guide shouting "f**k everything" about Chinatown started going around yesterday, SFist has seen a whole lot of comments both defending and castigating this unidentified woman.
SF News Despicable New York Woman Defaces Yosemite, Other Parks With Her Art A woman by the name of Casey Nocket recently traveled from New York out west to deface some of our national parks with her crappy art, and then Instagram it. Nocket doesn't sound
Arts & Entertainment 10 Best Places To Buy A Suit In San Francisco This may be San Francisco, where everyone's been eagerly awaiting the day sweatpants became fashionable (and they did), and where the tech industry's traditional uniform has always been jeans and a t-shirt, but
SF News Uber, Lyft, And Sidecar All Now Legal At SFO We thought maybe Sidecar had struck some kind of sweetheart deal last week getting permits to drop off and pick up passengers at SFO, but it turns out the other rideshare companies got
SF News Tour Guide Goes On Epic, Angry, Racist Rant About Chinatown Apparently, on her last day on the job, this San Francisco tour guide decided to crack open a beer and go on a lengthy, angry, off-color rant about everything she hates about Chinatown.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Spanish Restaurant Aatxe To Open Upstairs From Cafe Du Nord Another piece of the Cafe du Nord revamp puzzle has come into focus with the announcement of Aatxe, a new Basque/Spanish spot that will be opening by year's end in the street-facing
SF News Ellis Act Tenant Payouts Ruled Illegal A federal judge has struck down San Francisco's progressive legislation that counteracts the increased use of the Ellis Act to evict longterm tenants, as the Chron and others are reporting. In a ruling
SF News The Nudists Will Be Protesting Scott Wiener Again Next Weekend It's an election year, and incumbent District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener may not be facing a ton of competition in the race, but that doesn't mean the nudist contingent will not be trying
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Guide Director Michael Ellis Discusses The 'Extraordinary' Bay Area Food Scene In conjunction with the release of the new star rankings for the Bay Area Michelin Guide for 2015 today, SFist spoke with the guide's international director Michael Ellis. Ellis took the gig in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Guide 2015: Saison and Benu Become The First Three-Star Restaurants In The City For a couple of years it's been no secret that chef Joshua Skenes was aiming to make Saison the first Michelin three-star restaurant in San Francisco proper. Today, he got his wish, along
