SF News Kansas City vs. San Francisco: They Have Earthquakes Too, A Good Outfield, And Way Cheaper Housing For those of you who aren't already playing hooky or trying to leave work early to watch the first game of the World Series (and therefore not slacking off by reading the internet)
SF News Native American Remains Found During Transbay Excavation Making Things A Little Complicated Back in February we learned that the extremely old remains of a person thought to be of Native American descent were found during the excavation for the Transbay Transit Center. It turns out
SF News Guy Running For Oakland Mayor Hates Bicycles, Gays, Thinks We Should All Carry Guns The Oakland Mayor's race has, historically, been a bit of a circus. Back in July we noted the 21-candidate race included a dog named Einstein who was being put forward by the Occupy
SF News AT&T Park Data Usage Just Might Melt The Stadium On Friday When the Giants finally come back to town for Game 3 of the World Series on Friday, data-usage records at AT&T Park are expected to be broken. The record was already
SF News Where To Try Out Apple Pay, Assuming That Store Location Has Read The Memo Today's rollout day for Apple Pay, the new touch-payment system that came built in on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, and will also be included in the upcoming Apple Watch. And as
SF News New York Writer Moves To S.F., Proceeds To Shame Us All For Not Being Grown Up Enough Oh, this is rich. Some writer who just moved here from Brooklyn, while admitting he left behind at least a few "sneaker-shod Peter Pans" back there, decided to take to the pages of
SF News Warning: Homophobic Loon Let Loose Again On Mission Streets A guy who's been in jail on hate crime charges since July, stemming from an incident involving some shouty hate speech at Arizmendi Bakery that escalated into threats of violence, is expected to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cue the Toast Jokes: The Mill Had A Small Fire On Friday Twitterers and blogs like Uptown Almanac took approximately five seconds to roll out some toast jokes after Divisadero coffeeshop/pricey toast purveyor The Mill experienced a small fire Friday evening. They were in
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Highlights From Treasure Island Music Festival 2014 How about that weather, huh? Saturday proved to be the first perfect weather day in several years of the Treasure Island Music Fest, requiring hardly any layering and providing a perfect, balmy venue
SF News San Francisco Radio Stations Ban Lorde's 'Royals' For Duration Of World Series Forgetting the fact that Lorde's hit single "Royals" has already been overplayed to death by Top-40 radio stations, two San Francisco stations are putting the kibosh on its airplay for reasons of a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Lena Dunham Noshed At Tosca, An Update On Cosentino's New Project, And More You hopefully heard the big news about the Frances spinoff, and the item about the upcoming Mission Chinese/Commonwealth spinoff with lots of environmentally progressive bells and whistles called The Perennial. Well, here's
Arts & Entertainment Your Quick And Dirty Guide To Treasure Island Music Festival Hey, everybody! It's time once again for everybody's favorite, non-shitshow-y music event in the middle of San Francisco Bay, the Treasure Island Music Festival. Despite there being not a lot of room for
SF News Video: Eviction Protesters Storm Hayes Valley Shoe Store To Call Out Bad Landlord Paolo Iantorno, Serial Evictor, Assaults 3 People, Tries to Smash My Camera 16 Oct 2014 from Peter Menchini on Vimeo. A protest went down yesterday in Hayes Valley at the popular shoe store
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 10 Best Brunch Spots In San Francisco (and One In Oakland) For some of us, brunch is a chore, and going out for it is a rarity. (I'm kind of with Grub Street on this one... brunch is, most of the time, pretty mediocre,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Pretty Slow-Mo Athletes In HD This video, shot in Chicago, Paris, Luxembourg, and elsewhere, was made by Jacob and Katie Schwarz as part of a collaboration with satellite company SES in order to show off the capabilities of
SF News Loma Prieta 25 Years Later: What The Quake Felt Like For A Kid For the last few days SFist has been running videos from various sources documenting the 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta Earthquake and its aftermath, marking the quake's 25th anniversary, which is today. Everyone who
Arts & Entertainment Lyft, Uber Mocked On <i>South Park</i> It was only a matter of time before the ride-sharing craze made it onto South Park, and now it has. Watch as Timmy starts a company called Handicar, which quickly expands into more
SF News Loma Prieta 25 Years Later: Photographer Michael Macor Describes The Cypress Freeway Scene In remembrance of the Loma Prieta earthquake which happened 25 years ago today SFist has been devoting some special coverage to the historical record of the quake itself, and its aftermath. "It looked
SF News Developer Moves Forward With Enormous 5M Project At 5th and Howard Forest City Development, which is also developing the massive Pier 70 project that you'll be voting on in November, has unveiled details this week of another huge project they have planned for the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Chinese Food / Commonwealth Team Launching The Perennial In SoMa Idealist restaurateur couple Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz, who from their beginnings with Mission Street Food and Mission Chinese Food sought to give back to the community by donating proceeds from every meal
SF News Loma Prieta 25 Years Later: Former A's Remember The Quake At Candlestick In remembrance of the Loma Prieta earthquake which happened 25 years ago Friday, on October 17, 1989 SFist will be devoting some special coverage to the historical record of the quake itself, and
SF News Big, Dilapidated, Historic Alamo Square Manse Goes On The Market For $6.6 Million A historic, 8,000-square-foot mansion just off of Alamo Square, at 930 Grove Street, has just hit the market for a cool $6.6 million. For a trophy house of this size, as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Frances Chef Melissa Perello Snaps Up Baker & Banker Space For Spinoff Melissa Perello, the much acclaimed chef at five-year-old Frances, looks to have finally landed on the perfect space where she can "replicate Frances on a larger scale" (as she told Hoodline last year)
SF News Yawn: Apple Unveils Thinner iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 3 In the good-news column for anyone in the market for a new iPad this holiday season: They have new faster processors, touch ID, and better cameras. The iPad Air 2 can now take
SF News Cyclists Are Getting Attacked, Robbed Of Bikes In The Panhandle We mentioned this briefly last week, but now there's been a community meeting in which SFPD's Park Station police confirmed there had been six separate incidents of violent bike thievery in the Panhandle
