Arts & Entertainment The Naked And Unafraid: NSFW Scenes From Folsom Street Fair 2016 Sunday's 33rd annual Folsom Street Fair was at least 300,000 people strong according to organizers, and locals and fetish tourists alike flocked to SoMa to take in the sunny spectacle and brave
Arts & Entertainment Where To Watch The Presidential Debate Tonight In SF The first of three scheduled debates between presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump happens tonight, starting at 6 p.m. Pacific Time, and if you're too nervous or excitable to sit at
Arts & Entertainment Highlights From The New York Times' Portrait Of Dede Wilsey, 'Defiant Socialite' Ick. "Dede Wilsey Is the Defiant Socialite" https://t.co/5glUznL0UO— Ayelet Waldman (@ayeletw) September 25, 2016 Following an evisceration of her work as board president and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums
SF News Two SFFD Paramedics Under Fire For Ambulance Sex It's called "the lights and sirens club," and if you don't know what that is then clearly you're not a member. Two San Francisco Fire Department paramedics were under investigation after it was
SF News Possibly Suicidal Man With Gun Shuts Down Civic Center Leading To Six-Hour Standoff White man with toy gun? 6 hr standoff. Gets help. Black men & children with toy guns (open carry state)? Executed. https://t.co/x6m4iyHFcy— Steve Locke (@steve_locke) September 25, 2016 A
SF News Rose Pak Mourned, Celebrated At Big Wake And Funeral #RosePak It is a Chinatown holiday. Streets closed for Rose Pak funeral. pic.twitter.com/wtArf8ZtV2— C.W. Nevius (@cwnevius) September 24, 2016 The late Chinatown powerhouse Rose Pak, who died last weekend
SF News At Last: Heat Advisory Issued For Sunday, Monday You've all been very, very patient, and for those new here you may have heard that we traditionally think of September as the start of our summer. After a particularly brutal summer, fog-wise,
SF News Snapchat Unveils Its Own Cheaper Google Glass, Called Spectacles Snapchat releases first hardware product, Spectacles https://t.co/M0krS3Q1JO via @WSJ— Snapchat (@Snapchat) September 24, 2016 Snapchat has entered the hardware market, everyone, and late Friday they unveiled Spectacles, a set of
SF News Day Around The Bay: Chinese Uber Drivers Pull Zombie Scam Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Oakland police officer Brian Bunton appeared in court today
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Rings In 30 Years As Chronicle Critic, 5,320 Reviews Later This week Michael Bauer is marking 30 years at the Chronicle, where he's served as food editor and restaurant critic since 1986 after moving the Bay Area from Dallas. As part of his
SF News Chelsea Manning Sentenced To Solitary Confinement Over Suicide Attempt I guess this is how it works in military prison, but following a July suicide attempt that was linked to her ongoing struggle to be allowed to fully transition from male to female
SF News Elon Musk To Talk More About Sending People To Mars Next Week Future Martian leader Elon Musk is set to give a talk next week at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico in which he'll apparently be clarifying his plans for launching manned missions
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mr. Bing's Is Saved! I have some excellent news. Back in July we heard the ominous news that beloved sh*thole dive bar Mr. Bing's had been sold to new owners, the owners of Ireland's 32 in
Arts & Entertainment Video: All About SF's Rad Lowrider Culture Since the 1970's (at least), lowriders have been an intrinsic part of Latino culture in San Francisco. These souped up, tricked out vintage vehicles, often with fancy hydraulics that make them "dance" down
SF News Twitter Likely About To Get Bought, Maybe By Google Or Salesforce Earlier this month we heard that Twitter's board of directors was considering a potential sale of the company, and today the rumor is out that some buyout bids are in, including ones from
SF News Day Around The Bay: Serial Small Business Scammer Nabbed 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 College is considering building teacher housing at its
Arts & Entertainment 'King Charles III' Is A Witty Dramedy Tailor-Made For Royal Watchers And Shakespeare Nerds The year is 2020, say, and beloved English monarch Elizabeth II has just died that's perhaps jumping the gun in terms of a prediction, though, given that she's only 90 this year and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Betelnut Spot To Become Something Mexican The word is finally in about what restaurateur Adriano Paganini is doing with the former Betelnut space at 2030 Union Street, next door to his restaurant Belga: It will be a second Mexican
Arts & Entertainment SFist's Annual First-Timer's Guide To Folsom Street Fair Weekend, With Event Suggestions The gay community's and the local fetish community's high holidays are upon us this weekend with 33rd annual Folsom Street Fair. Though it was originally a very gay male event and continues to
Arts & Entertainment Video: Trailer For New SF-Shot Bruce Lee Biopic 'Birth Of The Dragon' Kung fu master Bruce Lee, who was born in SF's Chinatown but raised in Hong Kong, is the subject of a new biopic currently making the festival rounds, Birth of the Dragon. Directed
SF News Peskin At Millennium Tower Hearing: 'This Isn't Somebody's Leaking Toilet. This Is a Big Deal.' Supervisor Peskin grills city officials about Millennium-"this isn't somebody's leaking toilet-this is a big deal" pic.twitter.com/E167qhiHAY— carolyn tyler (@ctylerabc7) September 22, 2016 The political piece of the Millennium Tower
SF News Nearly All Of The Affordable Housing Budget For The Mission To Be Spent On One Building Just to illustrate the difficult economics of building affordable housing in a time of great need for it, Mission Local is reporting that nearly all of the budget from an affordable housing bond
SF News [Update] Suspicious Rice Cooker Shuts Down South Van Ness Causing Huge Commuter Headache Hearing S Van Ness is closed btw Mission and Market due to police activity. pic.twitter.com/cg4YxhMCfM— Alexis Smith (@AlexisABC7) September 22, 2016 The sound of a news chopper overheard in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bon Marché Gets Its First Pop-Up, Minnie Bell's Soul Movement As SFist reported last week, this week marks the transformation perhaps temporary of the former Bon Marché space on mid-Market into a multi-vendor food hall, banking on the daytime success of next-door neighbor
Arts & Entertainment Video: Regarding The Phenomenon Of Mercury Retrograde, Like The Actual Astronomical Thing This being the Bay Area, you likely have many friends who believe whole-heartedly that all technology and certain types of communication go to sh*t every time the planet Mercury goest into retrograde
