Arts & Entertainment Elon Musk Still Dating Amber Heard, Takes Her To Al Gore Movie Screening Back in July there were reports of Amber Heard, fresh from her high-profile divorce from Johnny Depp, being seen bopping in and out of hotel rooms at the Delano in Miami with Tesla
Arts & Entertainment Video: Sacramento-Area Winner Driving Backwards In Heavy Traffic A child might ask "Why is that car driving backwards, Mommy?" And a wise mother would respond, "I don't know but that is a person you don't want to grow up to be,
SF News Florida Judge Halts Oakland Judge's Decision To Free Noor Salman On Bail Prosecutors in the federal case against Orlando shooter Omar Mateen's widow succeeded Thursday in keeping her behind bars for now, filing a motion in federal court in Florida against releasing her on bail.
SF News Day Around The Bay: City Attorney Sues Hertz Over Golden Gate Bridge Toll Scheme Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. City Attorney Dennis Herrera is suing Hertz for bilking
Arts & Entertainment Cleve Jones Talks About The 'Surreal Experience' Of Seeing His Youth Reenacted In 'When We Rise' Local activist and author Cleve Jones first attended an eight-hour premiere screening of the Dustin Lance Black-penned miniseries When We Rise at the Castro Theatre last week. This week he's fielding reactions from
Arts & Entertainment What Was The Summer Of Love?: An Explainer As 50th Anniversary Celebrations Ramp Up When people talk about "the 60s" in San Francisco, they're talking about a period from January 1967 to December 1969 just three short years that would nonetheless forever reshape the population of the
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Shoe Stores In SF In the past SFist has tried to steer you to the city's finest independent booksellers, record shops, and even local fashion labels. Today we bring you a curated list of places to indulge
SF News Pro-Trump Rally In Berkeley Saturday May Not Actually Be Happening A pro-Trump, pro-Yiannopolous, Proud Boys-affiliated rally for the alt-right planned for Berkeley on March 4 may just be a fiction perpetuated by social media, though that may not prevent counter-protesters from showing up
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Grocery Outlet Arrives In The Mission, At Long Last, Next Week After sitting empty for six years, the former DeLano's Market space on South Van Ness near 24th Street if finally coming alive again as a Grocery Outlet, starting next week. Mission Local brings
Arts & Entertainment Rachel Dolezal Has Changed Her Name To Nkechi Amare Diallo 39-year-old white former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal has filed papers in her hometown of Spokane, Washington to legally change her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo. As the New York Daily News notes with
SF News Local Billionaire Donates $5 Million to Flood Relief Effort In San Jose Billionaire donates $5M to aid San Jose flood victims https://t.co/CQFZNXkuYD pic.twitter.com/NTkb8bYDtj— SFGate (@SFGate) March 2, 2017 Though the South Bay is not short on billionaires who could
Arts & Entertainment As Colin Kaepernick Becomes Free Agent, He Says He'll Stand For National Anthem Next Season Perhaps following the advice of his agents, or perhaps truly feeling like his protest has run its course, soon-to-be-former 49ers quarterback intimated Thursday that he will be happy to stand for the national
SF News Local Tech Workers Make New Enemies By Crying Poverty Over Six-Figure Salaries File under: Reasons Middle America and much of the world hates us right now. The Guardian has just published a new piece in the perennially popular genre of Stories About How Stupidly Expensive
Arts & Entertainment Ahead Of 'When We Rise' Part Two, ABC 7 Airs Pioneering AIDS Video Diary By Late Reporter Onetime ABC 7 entertainment reporter Paul Wynne decided in 1990, after being diagnosed with HIV and beginning to show the deterioration signs of AIDS, to document the final period of his life in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open In West Oakland: Old Kan Beer & Co. The brewpub project announced last month in the former Dock at Linden Street space, Old Kan Beer & Co., is now officially open as of today, and partners James Syhabout (Hawker Fare, Commis)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Hotel Under Construction ID'd As Virgin Hotel, With Rooftop Bar Confirmed Back in January, I alerted you to the hotel construction boom that's bringing SF four new hotels this year, three of which appeared to be arriving with rooftop bars an exciting bit of
SF News [Update] New Details Emerge In Case Against Orlando Shooter's Widow Noor Salman As Judge Releases Her On Bail Noor Salman reappeared in federal court Wednesday for a scheduled bail hearing following her arrest in January on charges of aiding and abetting terrorism and obstruction of justice. She's expected to stand trial
SF News Pelosi: Trump 'Speaks Like A Populist' But He's Full Of Sh** House Minority leader and other Bay Area Democrats were predictably unimpressed with President Trump's first speech before a joint session of Congress a sort of mock State of the Union address, six weeks
SF News Day Around The Bay: Kaepernick Offloads His Bay Area Home Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. According to a rumor posited by the Wall Street
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Ring In Mardi Gras In SF If you have friends in New Orleans right now you're probably feeling a little bit jealous of the fun they're having, because that city obviously owns Mardi Gras. But nonetheless, it is also
SF News Video: Local News Station Catches On To LSD Microdosing Trend Microdosing: It's all the rage in Silicon Valley these days, maybe because everyone wants to be the next Steve Jobs and Steve did acid in India back in the day so why not
SF News United To Offer Three Daily Flights From SFO To Santa Rosa? Strangely, United Airlines seems to think there's a market for ferrying people quickly, by air, on the very brief journey from SFO to Sonoma County maybe wine country tourists who disdain cars? and
Arts & Entertainment More UGH: Ghost Ship Fire Inspires Three Connected NBC Procedural Dramas Wednesday We learned last week of the crass move by Dick Wolf's production enterprise to base an episode of NBC's Chicago Fire on the barely three-month-old tragedy at Oakland's Ghost Ship warehouse. The ripped-from-the-headlines
Arts & Entertainment These Are The Real-Life San Francisco LGBT Heroes Portrayed In ABC's 'When We Rise' The first of four installments of ABC's docu-drama miniseries When We Rise premiered last night, and will be available for your on-demand binging pleasure for a while to come (with the remainder of
SF News Video: New Drone Footage Shows Massive Canyon Created By Oroville Dam Spillway Erosion It's been two weeks since a potentially catastrophic scenario appeared to be unfolding at Lake Oroville, north of Sacramento, which forced the evacuations of some 200,000 people ahead of what could have