SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 16 Best Ice Cream Shops In San Francisco Though people may line up for Bi-Rite Creamery even in the frigid depths of a foggy July night I'll never understand it! SF's Indian Summer, and maybe a
SF News NorCal Police Chief Abruptly Retires After Offensive Facebook Posts Come To Light A recently hired police chief in the town of Seaside, in Monterey County, has fallen victim to what's becoming a strangely common pitfall of public figures with insufficient social media skills
SF News San Francisco Will Cover DACA Renewal Fees Ahead Of October Deadline The SF Mayor's Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs is offering to cover the cost of renewal application fees for all Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients in the
SF News Video: First Snows Fall Around Lake Tahoe Believe it or not, some snow fell last night in the Sierra, and on Half Dome in Yosemite, meaning at least up there, summer is officially dunzo. Some flakes fell at higher elevations
SF News Oakland Synagogue Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Graffiti Just after the celebration of Rosh Hashanah Wednesday night, a Jewish synagogue in Oakland was vandalized early Thursday morning with anti-Semitic graffiti. As KRON 4 reports, the rabbi at Temple Sinai found
Arts & Entertainment A (Mostly) Gay Guide To Folsom Street Fair Weekend Parties It's time again for the city to fill up with tourists, not of the conventioneer and Alcatraz sweatshirt-buying kind, but of the latex bodysuit and leather chaps-wearing kind and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Well Loved Juhu Beach Club Set To Close In Oakland, Reopen Later, Somewhere Chef Preeti Mistry's five-year-old Temescal spot Juhu Beach Club will be sunsetting at its current strip-mall location in the near-ish future, as Mistry has just announced. A
SF News Facebook Finally Comes To SF, Leases Entire Office Portion Of 181 Fremont It's confirmed! We reported the rumor in June, denied by Facebook at the time, that the social media giant was in talks with real estate brokers to lease a large amount
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Bubbles Recorded This Love Letter Track To San Francisco Two Months Before He Was Killed As we learned right after he was fatally shot in the Tenderloin two weeks ago, local character, artist, DJ, and nightlife personality Bubbles was planning to leave San Francisco for good to move
SF News Earthquake Early Warning System Still Isn't Ready, $26M And 11 Years Later In yet another example of how America can't seem to fund projects that are actually important or finish them in any reasonable amount of time, the West Coast earthquake warning system
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: A New (Gay) Billboard For SoMa Just in time for Folsom Weekend, Oasis co-owners and drag powerhouses Heklina and D'Arcy Drollinger have unveiled a new billboard on top of their SoMa nightclub which you can see
SF News Why Forecasters Were Surprised By SF's September 1 Heat Spike While meteorologists had widely predicted a heatwave for all of California over the Labor Day weekend, beginning on Friday September 1, the predicted high temperature for San Francisco was about 20 degrees off
SF News Ex-Google Guy James Damore Says He Wasn't Asked To Speak At Free Speech Week, Will Not Be There In further evidence that Milo Yiannopolous was at the very least padding his list of "confirmed" speakers for Free Speech Week with names of people he'd like to see
SF News Day Around The Bay: Lucky 13's Got A Year * Lucky 13's current owners are predicting the bar has "at least a year" before its forced to close due to condo development. [Eater] * Uber is in an ugly legal
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week The weird weather (for September) is over, and it's a warm and sunny week ahead. In addition to this weekend's Folsom Street Fair and all the attending gay and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California's Foie Gras Ban May Be Back On, Pending An Appeal Following a brief, two-and-a-half-year period in which it was illegal to produce or sell foie gras in California, following the implementation of a law that dated back to 2004
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Safeway, Five Others, Back To Being Open 24 Hours After an apparent outcry from customers in the neighborhood and perhaps continuing their quest to compete with the newer Whole Foods across the street the Church and Market Safeway has returned to being
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Proper Hotel And Its Mid-Market Restaurant Villon Are Open For Business A new, long-awaited, high-end boutique hotel at Seventh and Market is officially open for guests, bringing another potential catalyst for change in the always colorful environs of Mid-Market. Proper Hotel,
SF News Latest On Free Speech Week: Coulter And Bannon Not On Schedule; And Who Is 'The Berkeley Patriot'? Well what do you know! The headlining acts, so to speak, of Milo Yiannopoulos's stunt of a speaking event next week, former chief strategist Steve Bannon and former Comedy Central Roast
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Mac: A Joyfully Liberal Carnival Barker To Get Us Through These Terrible Times I've been thinking how best to talk about what I experienced Sunday at Chapter II of Taylor Mac's irreverently epic, hard-to-describe, "performance art concert" called
Arts & Entertainment Facebook Censors Reject Completely Tame Folsom Street Fair Ad, Then Reverse Themselves Some more anti-Facebook LGBTQ outrage erupted late last week when the GLBT Historical Society had a totally safe-for-work, entirely tame ad they wanted to post seeking volunteers for their booth
Arts & Entertainment Video: Warriors Help Stranded Hurricane Irma Shelter Pets Much like there were thousands of shelter pets that needed to be relocated following the massive flooding with Hurricane Harvey in and around Houston, there are tons of four-legged friends that needed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jardiniere To Host Benefit Dinner To Pay DACA Recipients' Renewal Fees A benefit dinner happening next Monday, September 25 at Jardiniere in San Francisco will be a first-of-its kind fundraiser for the local area with proceeds directly going to pay registration renewal
SF News Milo Yiannopoulos Insists 'Free Speech Week' Is On, And That He's Paid $65K For Venue Rentals Relentless alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, who along with some alleged conservative/alt-right financial backing is dead-set on taking UC Berkeley to task for trying to stymie or cancel the Free
SF News Berkeley Police Fight Fake News Regarding Stabbing At Shapiro Protest A rumored story that was being perpetuated last week by Kyle "Based Stickman" Chapman regarding a Ben Shapiro supporter getting stabbed in the neck by "Antifa terrorists," and which
