Arts & Entertainment Video: Lava Waterfall Dramatically Pouring Into The Pacific In Hawaii A red-hot lava "fire hose" as it's being called is currently pouring off a cliff from the Kiluea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, creating a dramatic show that's been ongoing for a couple
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 10 Best Hot Toddies In San Francisco Rains are back, the world has gone to hell in an orange handbasket, and life has considerably less luster and promise than it did a few short months ago. So if you're a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Salt & Straw Ice Cream's Hayes Street Location Revealed As we learned in November, Portland's celebrated Salt & Straw ice cream is set to open two locations in San Francisco this spring, its first in the Bay Area following an expansion to
Arts & Entertainment SF Shakes Celebrates 35 Years With '35 Famous Speeches in 35 Famous Places' All Over San Francisco The scrappy local theater troupe known as the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival is celebrating their 35th season in SF this year, and they're doing with an extended series of brief outdoor performances in
SF News Alphabet-Owned Boston Dynamics Unveils New 'Nightmare Inducing' Wheeled Robot In leaked video from a private presentation to investors by Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert, we see their latest war machine incredible mobile AI creation, Handle. Raibert himself says that it looks to
SF News Day Around The Bay: Raiders' Las Vegas Stadium Deal May Be In Jeopardy Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Academy of Art student Payam Jafari, who's an Iranian
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lefty O'Doul's To Have Closing Party Wednesday Amid Legal Battles Over Name And Memorabilia The legal battle over who owns Lefty O'Doul's basically the business and its brand, as opposed to the premises in which it has resided for nearly 60 years at 333 Geary, which is
SF News Talbot: Democrats And Tech CEOs Better Stop 'Collaborating' With Trump It certainly feels like we're in a lead-up-to-the-Iraq-War kind of moment when Democrats who vote the wrong way in order to placate their friends in Congress or show some deference to a new
SF News State Senator From Berkeley Demands To See Melania Trump's Immigration Documents California state senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) makes a good point: If we already know that First Lady Melania Trump worked in this country illegally when she first arrived here from Slovenia in 1996,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Bookstore Displays Cookbooks From Countries Affected By The Immigration Ban My new shop window, courtesy of our president. pic.twitter.com/FoHurAz0Y8— Omnivore Books (@omnivorebooks) January 28, 2017 Food-focused Noe Valley bookshop Omnivore Books is encouraging cooks in the neighborhood to learn about
SF News Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Announces 'Completely New Approach To Abuse' The fatigued and much abused Twitter faithful are taking with a grain of salt Monday's announcement from CEO Jack Dorsey that the company is "taking a completely new approach to abuse" and that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink CVS On Market Street In Castro To Close After Three Years In an announcement that is sure to send longtime Castro neighborhood residents into fits of rage, a 10,000-square-foot CVS store occupying some prime retail space on Market Street at Noe has announced
SF News San Francisco Becomes First City To Sue Over Sanctuary City Order As California May Become Sanctuary State SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging President Trump's executive order that threatens to withhold federal funds from so-called Sanctuary Cities, becoming the first city the nation to do so.
SF News Feinstein To Vote No On Sessions For Attorney General JUST NOW: On Sessions attorney general nomination: “I must vote no.” pic.twitter.com/lfQnX5Khug— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) January 31, 2017 Though it was unclear if Senator Dianne Feinstein was going to
Arts & Entertainment Video: Rad Local Woodworker Katie Gong Profiled In New People Mag Series San Francisco-based woodworker and artist Katie Gong, of Katie Gong Design, is the subject of Episode 7 of People Magazine's new American Doers series, hosted by very handsome Brit James Marshall. Gong grew
SF News Thousands Of Google Employees Stage Walkouts Against Trump Immigration Policies Protest along Embarcadero, with chants of "No Ban, No Wall." #ImWithThem pic.twitter.com/zY09fv6QAB— Jill Witty (@jwitty) January 30, 2017 A company-wide protest organized and attended by Alphabet/Google employees occurred Monday
SF News Millennium Tower Residents Complain That Building Not Only Sinks, It Stinks A new report via a resident at the nicknamed Leaning Tower of San Francisco, a.k.a. Millennium Tower adds further fuel to homeowners' rage about the developer's alleged construction shortcuts. Against the
SF News North Oakland's Bushrod Neighborhood Named Hottest Real Estate Market In The Nation A little-known subsection of Oakland called Bushrod, next to Temescal and on the Berkeley border west of Telegraph Avenue, was named by real estate site Redfin as the number one "hottest neighborhood of
SF News Berkeley Couple's Death Linked To Carbon Monoxide, Possibly From Laser Cutter Or 3D Printer The mystery of the deaths of two people and their two cats in a Berkeley home last week has been preliminarily solved, and the cause appears to have indeed been carbon monoxide poisoning
SF News Trump Resistance Rises Fast In The Tech And Science Sectors As They See A Work Visa Ban Comes Next The weekend brought a flurry of public statements from Silicon Valley executives denouncing President Trump's refugee and general travel ban for residents of seven majority-Muslim nations, with varying degrees of outrage and criticism.
SF News As Thousands Delete Their Uber Apps Over JFK Story, Uber Denies Trying To Break Up Taxi Strike Following reports that Uber was still operating to and from JFK Airport in New York on Saturday during a taxi strike in response to Trump's immigration order, a call went out on social
SF News Second Day Of Protest Hits SFO As Airbnb Offers Free Rooms To Those Affected By Travel Ban Protesters are set to descend on the International Terminal at SFO for the second day in a row, at noon on Sunday, to express their outrage over Donald Trump's actions with regard to
SF News Tim Cook Met With Ivanka And Jared Thursday, Wrote Memo Condemning Trump's Order To Employees As the blowback continues over President Trump's sweeping, stupid, and dangerous executive order intended to ban Muslim immigration for 90 days, we learn that Apple CEO Tim Cook threw himself into the middle
SF News ACLU Celebrates Temporary Victory Over Trump's Order On Immigration; Mayor Lee Commends Federal Judge Hundreds showed up at SFO and elsewhere Saturday to protest President Trump's executive order on immigrants from seven primarily Muslim nations, which had led to detentions of innocent people at airports nationwide who
Arts & Entertainment KellyAnne Conway Makes Her Debut At 'Beach Blanket Babylon' That was fast! Wasting no time after last week's inauguration, the costume department at Beach Blanket Babylon has already whipped up a version of that goofy Gucci Paddington Bear outfit KellyAnne Conway was
