Arts & Entertainment San Francisco White Guy Becomes Meme me: oh yeah 2007, three years ago?someone: ...10 years agomy brain: pic.twitter.com/m3K9fijNuf— persephone (@couturetits) February 18, 2017 SF resident Drew Scanlon could never have known four years ago when
SF News California Drought Virtually Over After Five Years Though a few parts of Southern California remain in a state of "moderate" or "severe" drought, the U.S. Drought Monitor reported Thursday that the vast majority of the state has now emerged
SF News Apple, Uber, Google Speak Out Against Trump's Trans Rights Rollback; Facebook, Twitter So Far Silent Some big tech companies came out in support of trans rights and in opposition to the Trump Administration's latest attack on them, the directive issued Wednesday by the Departments of Justice and Education
SF News Pelosi, Newsom Respond To Trump Directive Reversing School Policy On Bathroom Use For Trans Students In an effort to pander to religious conservatives who desperately want to make America straight and cisgender again, President Trump's administration issued a directive late Wednesday, as they had been expected to do,
SF News Day Around The Bay: 'Extreme Vetting' To Include Possible Demand For Immigrant User Passwords From Websites Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Tech companies come out against a proposed "extreme vetting"
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shiba Ramen Debuts In Downtown Oakland Complete With Camino-Trained Chef A new ramen option comes to downtown Oakland this via Shiba Ramen, which has already staked its claim in the East Bay scene via a stall at the Emeryville Public Market. As Inside
Arts & Entertainment Former Stanford WNBA Star Candice Wiggins Says She Was Bullied For Being Heterosexual Candice Wiggins, once a major star in the WNBA and a No. 3 draft pick when she graduated Stanford in 2008, now says that she abruptly quit the league in 2016 at least
Arts & Entertainment Video: How SF Is (And Is Not) A Queer Safe Space "San Francisco is a city that is so queer it's easy to forget that, not long ago, it wasn't a safe place to be queer." So says filmmaker Heather Smith, who along with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Delivery Robot Named Carry Spotted 'Learning The Sidewalks' Of The Mission Spotted on 19th Street: A delivery robot named "Carry" https://t.co/l8mXp2GqCH pic.twitter.com/EC1HGZUCuk— Mission Local (@MLNow) February 22, 2017 That R2D2-ish delivery robot on wheels that we first told
Arts & Entertainment Apple's Spaceship Doughnut Campus, Officially Named Apple Park, To Open In April Apple has kept details about the completion and move-in date for their new, Norman Foster-designed "spaceship doughnut" campus in Cupertino fairly well under wraps, but this week we have official word that the
SF News Major Flooding In San Jose Leads To Boat Rescues, Mandatory Evacuations @SJFD handling major flooding avoid the area Senter and Phelan pic.twitter.com/5nREMAUBZZ— San Jose Fire Dept. (@SJFD) February 21, 2017 The ongoing major flooding caused by the overfull Anderson Reservoir and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Laptops In Restaurants: Nuisance, Or Menace? I was recently sitting in a restaurant in the Castro where bar seating is available for dinner, and I watched as a man walked in, ordered an entree, asked advice on wine, and
SF News Northern California Town Of Maxwell Evacuated After Being Completely Flooded Most of inland Northern California is under a flood warning Sunday, effective through most of the week, as rivers, creeks, levees, and dams in multiple counties are severely stressed following a new round
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Rusted Mule Debuts On Polk, Glena's Tacos Appears In The Dogpatch, And More This week in the food scene brought a glowing, but sexist, profile of Dominique Crenn in the New York Times, and then just a day later a fire at her Hayes Valley restaurant
SF News Berkeley College Republicans Insist Milo Yiannopoulos Will Be Back To Speak On Campus Because college kids are really big on standing on principle, and because: free speech, campus conservatives at UC Berkeley say that they will, "without qualification," be bringing Milo Yiannopoulos back to speak on
SF News SF May Be Getting A Department Of Marijuana Freshmen Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, whose district includes the Castro, Duboce Triangle, Dolores Park, and Noe Valley, has directed the city attorney to draft legislation to create a Department of Cannabis, a brand new
SF News Another Study Contends SF Housing Would Be Way Cheaper If There Was Less Regulation A new theoretical look at housing markets around the country suggests what the prices of housing would be if there were less (or no) land regulations things like planning departments and design reviews,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Apple's TV Production To Start Small Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Despite some expectations that Apple might start pouring mega-millions
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Carl's Jr. Targeted By Protesters Who Oppose Labor Secretary Nominee Andrew Puzder As you may have heard, among Donald Trump's atrocious, government-despising cabinet nominees is Carl's Jr./Hardee's CEO Andrew Puzder, a man reportedly opposed to hikes in the minimum wage, and whose company has
Arts & Entertainment 'Hand To God' Is A Raucous, Irreligious Riot At Berkeley Rep Robert Askins's somewhat frightening, wholly hilarious black comedy Hand to God is less likely to scare off too many unsuspecting Christians unclear about its blasphemous premise in its run at Berkeley Rep as
Arts & Entertainment Photos From The 2017 Chinese New Year Parade In Downtown SF On Saturday, the nation's largest annual Chinese Lunar New Year celebration, with one of the only nighttime illuminated parades in the country as well, came down Market Street and circled Union Square, drawing
SF News Lake Oroville Situation Calms Down Temporarily As Officials Assess Damage On Spillways Monday morning is being spent assessing the situation and beginning emergency repairs to the auxiliary spillway at Lake Oroville Dam, which Sunday evening appeared in danger of failure in a situation that could
SF News Alt-Right March Planned In Berkeley March 4 This should go well! A gathering of "patriots" who support "free speech" will be descending on Berkeley on March 4 to show all those silly liberals what America really looks like. The already
SF News 22-Car Freight Train Derailment Creates Spectacle Near Sacramento A major train derailment that thankfully did not injure anyone occurred on Friday afternoon at about 12:45 p.m., sending 22 cars of the Union Pacific freight train into the Cosumnes River,
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF A Great Place For Marriageable Men? Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Legal experts are saying that the Trump administration would
