SF News Mostly Homeless Haight Denizen To Collect $140,000 Reward For Those Escaped Convicts 55-year-old Matthew Hay-Chapman looks like your average Upper Haight vagabond whom you probably wouldn't let borrow your cell phone if he asked. And that's exactly what happened last Saturday when he was headed
SF News [Update] Protest Over Homeless And Super Bowl City Attracts Many Police, Frank Chu No SFPD patience today. #SB50 homeless protest kettled after ten minutes. pic.twitter.com/EVb8NyDTWg— Chris Roberts (@cbloggy) February 4, 2016 A planned and well publicized protest today next to the Ferry Building,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Cleve Jones Found A Bunch Of Straight 'Tech Bros' In A Castro Bar And Now Everyone Is Flipping Out This week the UK Guardian built a story around the fact that longtime gay activist and friend of Harvey Milk Cleve Jones was sounding alarm bells about seeing a group of men he
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Treasury Brings High-Style Cocktails To The Financial District Way downtown amongst the banks, a handsome new cocktail spot opens tonight in a space that was once home to Cable Car Clothiers at Sansome and Bush. It's called The Treasury, and it's
Arts & Entertainment Kink Enthusiasts To Gather For 'Fetish Bowl' Tonight Everyone's getting in on the Super Bowl-themed fun, even the BDSM crowd! Tonight starting at 9:30 p.m., longtime fetish-friendly weekly dance party Bondage-A-Go-Go is hosting its "Fetish Bowl." The party happens
SF News Renderings Of Possible Bay Bridge Main Span Bike Path Are Kind Of Insane While delays continue in completing just the short piece of bike path that would connect the Bay Bridge's eastern span's existing bicycle and pedestrian path to Treasure Island, the brainstorming and design phase
Arts & Entertainment Super Bowl Apartment Sadness: $900 Per Person Per Night To Sleep On Air Mattresses Wow! So you saw how that one guy was trying to charge basically $10K a night for his furnished three-bedroom in North Beach for Super Bowl weekend? (And he might have gotten it,
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Don't let the Super Bowl get the best of you, San Francisco! There's still lots to do, and the weather's going to be downright lovely all week, so step away from your screens
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sorry, Everyone: Rickybobby Is Dunzo Tonight is the official last night of Rickybobby. Gonna miss their burger - one of the best I've ever had! #burger #rickybobby #dinner #thebest #americanfood #sogood #food #foodporn #foodie #foodstagram #foodshare #instafood #nomnom
Arts & Entertainment Weather Report: Super Bowl Sunday Edition Despite some of us jumping to the conclusion that Super Bowl 50 just seems cursed, weather-wise things could be a lot worse for the face-off of the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers.
SF News Legal Weed Gets Big Endorsement From California Doctors; UCSF Study Calls It A Public Health Threat The effort to legalize marijuana by ballot initiative this year just got a significant boost as the powerful California Medical Association a professional association of some 41,000 physicians statewide formally announced their
SF News Nevius Thinks You Should Stop Buying Tents For The Homeless Here at SFist we can sometimes go months without paying much attention to the thrice weekly rantings of prickly local character and Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius. But between the Mario Woods case,
Arts & Entertainment Fall Out Boy And Skrillex Join Free Concert Lineup For Super Bowl Week Did you know that free concerts by big-name acts were also happening for Super Bowl Week at the Regency Ballroom? Well, they are, and three just-announced shows for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Journeymen, A New Oakland Pop-Up, Finds Monthly Home Like many young, creatively ambitious chefs these days, Jonathan Tu, 32, and Chris Wolff, 29, have already roamed the world's culinary capitals and honed their skills, like journeymen craftsmen of yore, in multiply
SF News Suitcase Murder Case Closed With Few New Details, Andrus Responsible, Says SFPD It appears that the SFPD is closing the case file on last year's "suitcase murder," almost exactly a year after it occurred, despite the fact that a couple of key aspects of the
SF News Tahoe Skiers Held Up By 44-Car Pileup In Snowy Mess On I-80 Sunday People trying to get back to the Bay Area from Tahoe on Sunday afternoon may have been stuck in a massive, chain-reaction pileup of big rigs and cars on I-80 near Truckee which
SF News SF PUC Might Be On Hook For Sliding Hillside After Broken Water Main Discovered Following the news last week about a $2+ million house that had to be demolished immediately, by order of the city, because the hill it was sitting on in SF's Sherwood Forest neighborhood
SF News Twitter Getting Sold To Marc Andreessen? Shares of Twitter are up over nine percent as of this writing Monday morning all over a rumor that investor Marc Andreessen is going to step in and save the day, along with
Arts & Entertainment After Repeated Vandalism, Super Bowl 50 Statue Quietly Removed From Alamo Square Good riddance. Toppled twice, now headed for Ed Lee's backyard. #sb50 @hoodline @SFCitizen pic.twitter.com/NoANGiMDq2— LZ (@lz) January 31, 2016 That fairly annoying Super Bowl 50 statue smack in the line
SF News SF's First Open-Air Urinal Makes National Headlines You know that pissoir they installed at Dolores Park that we first heard was coming last year? Well, ever since that first photo hit the internet last week, the nation has been abuzz
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Another Bedbuggy, Syringe-Strewn SRO, $1450/Mo How would you like a furnished, 300-square-foot hotel room in which to live out your meager existence in San Francisco alongside some substance-prone regulars who pay a daily rate and keep some odd
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Lexington Club Space Will Become A Cocktail Bar Called Wildhawk Well, ladies and gentlemen and genderqueer fans of the former Lexington Club, the worst thing you may have expected would happen to the onetime lesbian bar is happening: It's becoming a high-end cocktail
Arts & Entertainment Go Watch This: Chelsea Handler Marches Topless Into Meeting At Twitter HQ In her newly released docu-series on Netflix, Chelsea Does, comedian Chelsea Handler tried to get a meeting with then Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, only she walked into the Twitter building topless in order
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Don Pistos/Chubby Noodle Guy Opening A Marina Tequila Bar, And More Local restaurateur Pete Mrabe, who opened Don Pisto's in North Beach in 2010, is now in major expansion mode this year, with four new projects in the works to add to the three
SF News House In Sherwood Forest Gets Demolished As Sliding Hillside Threatens Several Homes Demolition work along Casitas Avenue has stopped for the day. Crews will return tomorrow. @kron4news pic.twitter.com/4hqNgz1P4C— Chuck Clifford (@chuckclifford) January 29, 2016 El Nino rains appear to be the culprit