Arts & Entertainment 16 Things San Franciscans Are Nostalgic For In 2016 As we wrap up San Francisco Appreciation Week, it's time to get sentimental. If you've only been here a short time, most of what's listed below will make little sense to you. But
Arts & Entertainment 'LightRail' LED Installation On Market Street Begins Raising Funds The cool, transit-centric light installation unveiled two years ago by the non-profit behind the Bay Lights remains a project in motion, though an initial plan to break ground on it in 2016 appears
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Absurd USA Today List Of Best Local Food Scenes Includes Oakland, Ignores SF And LA The only West Coast city to make the Top 10 in a USA Today readers poll about the best local food scenes in the country is Oakland, and Minneapolis-St. Paul is Number One
Arts & Entertainment A Quick And Not-So-Strict Guide To Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Kicking Off At Noon Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the annual celebration of roots music and a lot of other stuff in Golden Gate Park, is happening now, with the first acts taking the stage at noon and as
SF News Autopsy For Luis Gongora Reveals He Was Shot Six Times, Had Meth In His System Luis Gongora, the second of three people fatally shot by San Francisco police in a six-month span that began with the killing of Mario Woods last December, was shot a total of six
SF News Day Around The Bay: Trump Blaming Google For Bias Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. 100-year-old Iris Canada has just gotten the 11th stay
Arts & Entertainment Real-Life Feminist Bookstore From 'Portlandia' Cuts Ties With Show, Says It's Anti-Feminist, Transphobic Depicted as humorless on the IFC show Portlandia, Portland's real-life feminist bookstore In Other Words the basis of the show's Women and Women First, and also its shooting location has lost its sense
Arts & Entertainment Fun Facts From San Francisco History That You've Probably Never Heard Before As we continue San Francisco Appreciation Week, we thought we could dig back into some of the lesser known fun facts about the city, a few of which are likely to surprise even
SF News Investigation Into Hayes Valley Quadruple Homicide Stymied By Gang Silence, Fear An investigation into the fatal shooting of four men on Page Street in January 2015 has been slowed by the fact that witnesses have been afraid to come forward, and some of those
SF News You May Soon Be Served Ads On Your Phone During Uber Rides Kind of like those TV screens in the back of taxis only more insidious, Uber is set to begin serving ads to your cell phone during trips via a new partnership that makes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Mill Looks To Add Beer, Wine, Nightly Dinner The success of The Mill's Monday and Wednesday pizza nights, launched over two years ago, has convinced owner Josie Baker to expand on that, and as Hoodline sees today, he's filed an application
SF News Pelosi Chews Out Gary Johnson Voters, Blames Them For Tight Polls House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi came out swinging yesterday for liberal and libertarian voters who, upset with the choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, are going to use their precious votes to
Arts & Entertainment Video: Inside SF's Cable Car Carpentry Shop Since it's San Francisco Appreciation Week, how about a look inside the cable car carpentry and repair shop that you may not have known existed here in the city. As the SFMTA's blog
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Most Delicious Pasta Spots In San Francisco Italian Americans helped build this city, and it's Mexican, Chinese, and Italian cuisines that inform most of the dishes we'd consider San Francisco classics. And while North Beach isn't totally where it's at
SF News Key Plea-Bargain Witness In Meth-y Drifter Murder Case Explains Why They Chose Their Victims 25-year-old Sean Michael Angold, who admits to dealing and smoking meth around the time of the pair of seemingly random murders that shocked the Bay Area last October, took the stand Tuesday to
SF News Video: Aerial Fight To Contain The Loma Fire In The Santa Cruz Mountains, Now at 2,250 Acres A swiftly moving fire in the sparsely populated Santa Cruz Mountains that broke out Monday has prompted multiple evacuations, and as CalFire updates us today, the Loma Fire has spread to 2,250
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another New Downtown Restaurant Bites The Dust: Volta After just nine months in business, Volta has called it quits. Co-owner Umberto Gibin broke the news to Inside Scoop, saying Saturday was the restaurant's last day. Having just opened in December, this
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: As She Predicted, Wilsey Is Staying In Charge Of Museums Board Dede Wilsey's "personal fiefdom" managing the deYoung Museum and Legion of Honor shall apparently continue with only a few small changes, at least according to reports from special sessions of the museums' board
Arts & Entertainment Video: How Elon Musk And SpaceX Plan To Get A Rocket To Mars In 80 Days Or Less As noted last week, Tesla CEO and Space X mastermind Elon Musk is gunning hard for getting human beings to colonize Mars faster than NASA's timeline would have us there. And today he
Arts & Entertainment The Best Quotes About San Francisco And The Bay Area As this is San Francisco Appreciation Week, it's time to be reminded of the many great and witty things that have been said about this fairest of cities, and the often lovely words
SF News Testimony Reveals More Sad, Grim Details In Murder Of 23-Year-Old Backpacker Audrey Carey Further preliminary hearing testimony on Monday from an investigator who first interviewed 19-year-old murder suspect Lila Scott Alligood upon her arrest in Portland last October revealed a bit more about the killing of
SF News Loma Fire Breaks Out In Santa Cruz Mountains, Threatens 300 Structures UPDATE Massive #LomaFire in #SantaCruzMountains already 100 acres https://t.co/33YRkWaMaO pic.twitter.com/pgHzDq1Ygh— KCBS 106.9 FM/740 AM (@KCBSNews) September 26, 2016 A small wildfire quickly grew in size
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: 'Animal Style' Patatas Bravas At Bellota Dining at Bellota a couple weeks back I was treated to a fun off-menu item patatas bravas "animal style" topped with jamon Iberico and chorizo aioli. Eater reminded me of the dish today
Arts & Entertainment You're Not A Real San Franciscan Until... Here at SFist, we're declaring this San Francisco Appreciation Week. Perhaps it's just the good mood the weather has put us in and yes, I know, not everyone loves the heat, and some
SF News Microsoft And Disney Floated As Suitors In Twitter Sale, Which Could Be Imminent #Twitter #Disney pic.twitter.com/SjUSPHyzHq— Wissem (@Wissem_Rassas) September 26, 2016 Late last week we heard that Twitter was starting to receive buyout bids from several tech companies, including Salesforce and Google,
