SF News Mission Soccer Field Reservations Getting Nixed; Protest Still On This Morning Following the past week's uproar over the reservations-vs-pickup-game debate surrounding Mission Playground's soccer field, Rec and Park general manager Phil Ginsburg gave in last night and told members of the Latino Democratic Club
Arts & Entertainment Just Because... The Giants have just taken a 3-1 lead in the National League Championship Series. The city is elated. Journey songs can be heard blasting out of bars all over town, and tomorrow's Game
SF News Loma Prieta 25 Years Later: The Times Warns Portland They May Be Worse Off Than Us, Seismically 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
Arts & Entertainment Despite There Being No Trick-Or-Treaters, S.F. Once Again Tops List For Trick-Or-Treating Cities The people over at real estate site Zillow don't seem to understand how few children there are in San Francisco. And for the fourth year in a row, our city is number one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coqueta, Kin Khao, Anchor Oyster Bar Among New Michelin Bib Gourmand Picks For 2015 Next week will mark the release of the 2015 Michelin Guide to the Bay Area, and as per the usual routine, the Michelin folks have released this year's picks for the "Bib Gourmand"
SF News Apple Accidentally Unveils New iPad Specs One Day Early As predicted last week, Apple's scheduled event tomorrow is all about new iPads, just in time for the holiday shopping season. And now, via some employee's screwup in the iTunes store iBooks section,
SF News Loma Prieta 25 Years Later: Harrowing CHP Footage Of Cypress Freeway And Bay Bridge Rescues 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
Arts & Entertainment ...And Now, A Baby Dressed As Skrillex For Halloween Though we are neither Skrillex nor baby aficionados here at SFist, we nonetheless had to share this photo that got sent in by mom Maria R. of her 15-month-old son Skylar, whom she
SF News The Tension Over Soccer Fields Is Not About Tech Bros, It's Too Few Fields, Says Chron Everyone got real up in arms over the video those Dropbox and Airbnb dudes who have since apologized squabbling with local kids over the rules governing the Mission Playground soccer field. As we
SF News Giants Win Game 3 Of The National League Championship Series In 10 Innings After a crazily tense, three-hour, 10-minute, 10-inning game, the Giants have taken the lead in the National League Championship Series. The Giants started with an early 4-run lead, but the game was tied
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yoshi's Is Becoming The Addition; Poison Guitarist Will Play The New Venue We learned back in June that Yoshi's San Francisco was getting sold to a new ownership group, and would no longer be called Yoshi's. The restaurant has shuffled along the last few months,
SF News Sidecar Just Won The Right To Operate At SFO In what the company is calling a "milestone agreement," Sidecar just became the first ride-share company to get a permit to operate at San Francisco International Airport. The service is expected to be
Arts & Entertainment Photo: West Portal Homeowner Clearly Wants To Frighten Children A tipster sent in this photo of a mock guillotine, complete with severed and bloodied mannequin head, that's been installed in the front yard of a West Portal home for the Halloween season.
SF News Watch ABC7's Cheryl Jennings Reporting Live Right After The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake 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 Zuckerberg Ponies Up $25 Million To Fight Ebola Likely influenced by his benevolent doctor wife Priscilla Chan maybe she's really changing him, you guys! Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that he's donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation
SF News New Study Reminds Us We Need An Earthquake Kit. Actually, Four Earthquake Kits. A new study of the Bay Area's fault lines set to be published today in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America once again reminds us, as many experts have reminded us
Arts & Entertainment Teatro ZinZanni Finally, Maybe Headed Back To S.F. Waterfront... In A Few Years Three years have already passed since the zany, circus-meets-cabaret-dinner-theater Teatro ZinZanni had to pack up its tent on Piers 27-29 to make way for the America's Cup and now the permanent cruise ship
Arts & Entertainment Cleve Jones' Birthday Honored With Moving Speech By Dustin Lance Black, 'Hair' Number By Jonathan Groff There was a big party Saturday night at The Café in the Castro in honor of the 60th birthday of longtime gay-rights activist Cleve Jones. He said all he wanted for his birthday
SF News You May Soon Be Forbidden From Driving On Most Of Market Street Rather than enact some clear plan that does not confuse longtime residents and tourists alike, the SFTMA is continuing in their piecemeal approach to banning vehicle traffic on Market Street with yet another
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Mythbuster Grant Imahara Sells Out To McDonald's In Beef PR Video This odd video appeared today on McDonald's YouTube channel, framed like an episode of Mythbusters and featuring its former host Grant Imahara, in which Imahara takes a trip inside the Cargill beef processing
SF News Mission Woman Tells Harrowing Story Of Sexual Assault and Mugging Over the weekend, longtime S.F. resident Hillary Lannan who happens to be the sister of Looking creator Michael Lannan posted this piece to Medium in order to express her rage over an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hilarious: Prankster Posts Fake Hooters Permit Application In Noe Valley Noe Valley residents had a collective coronary over the weekend after this apparently fake liquor license transfer application for "Neighborhooters" went up on the boarded up former Bliss Bar at 4026 24th Street.
SF News Mission Soccer Bro And Dropbox Both Apologize For Soccer Field Scuffle; Protest Planned For Thursday [Updated] Assuming you saw the video that spawned another million gentrification conversations over the weekend, you'll be relieved to know that one of the guys involved, who is apparently a Dropbox employee and may
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Week In S.F. Food: Arguello Opens, A Manresa Spinoff In The Works, And More In case you missed it, one of the biggest headlines of the week was the announcement that Baker & Banker is closing later this month, after being in business for five years. Then
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Documentary Profiles S.F. Chinese Restaurant Pioneer Cecilia Chiang Those new to S.F. and its food lore may not have heard of Cecilia Chiang, and that's a shame. The 94-year-old retired restaurateur, whose flagship Ghirardelli Square restaurant The Mandarin closed in
