SF News Cool New Maps Show The Seafloor Beneath The Golden Gate, Point Reyes A USGS project called the California Seafloor Mapping Program, ongoing since 2007, has just produced some pretty and highly detailed new maps of the seafloor of the San Francisco Bay and our immediate
SF News Day Around The Bay: Faulty Manufacturing Blamed For Broken BART Rail Following a threat of a lawsuit, the Haight Street McDonalds gets rent-a-cops. [Hoodline] BART blames a manufacturing defect, hydrogen bubbles in fact, for the piece of rail that broke the other week. [CBS
SF News Facebook And SF Pride Issue Joint Statements About 'Real Name' Policy As they face another protest on June 1 by the LGBT community, Facebook has issued yet another statement talking around the issue of their "authentic names policy," suggesting vaguely that they've been adjusting
SF News Twitter Allows Promoted Tweet From Hate-Spewing Transphobic Troll In a case in which it appears Twitter had a not-so-strict screening method for a paid advertisement, several promoted tweets were allowed through the system from a fake account that expressed hatred toward
Arts & Entertainment Like Pink Saturday, Dyke March To Start Much Earlier This Year In an effort to curtail late-night crowds, hooliganism, and violence, in the Castro, the entire schedule of the Saturday of Pride weekend is shifting up by several hours, which includes the traditional early
Arts & Entertainment 'Cable Car Nymphomaniac' Remounted For Limited Run In June The FOGG Theatre's inaugural, original production, The Cable Car Nymphomaniac which SFist reviewed during its initial run in January is being remounted in a new space starting May 29. The initial run was
SF News [NSFW] Topless Black Lives Matter Protest Blocks Market Street A group of women protesting the killings of black women and children bared the breasts this morning and peacefully shut down Market Street at Beale just after 9 a.m. this morning. A
SF News There's An Absurd War Happening Between On-Demand Valet Parking Apps First there was MonkeyParking, which turned out to be totally illegal. Then last summer we heard about Zirx, the on-demand valet app which provided "agents" to park your car anywhere in SoMa for
Arts & Entertainment YouTube's Kids App Has Some Trouble Filtering Out Beer Ads, Adult Content Apparently YouTube has been catching a lot of flack from parents, family-centric non-profits, mommy bloggers and the like because their newly launched Kids app has done an incredibly poor job of filtering out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Castro Restaurant Shut Down By Health Department: Posh Bagel Yikes. The vermin/cockroach problem may be more rampant in the Castro than previously understood as we learn of yet another health-department shutdown in the neighborhood, the second in just three weeks. Yesterday
SF News Prostitute Pleads Guilty In Google Exec's Death, Sentenced To Six Years High-end call girl Alix Tichelman, 27, took a plea deal this week in the case of the heroin-induced death of Google X executive Forrest Timothy Hayes, who died aboard his yacht in a
SF News System-Wide BART Delays Reported Due To Equipment Problem In East Bay BART commuters this morning ran up against some serious delays, reportedly up to an hour, especially for those trying to get between the East Bay and SF. Delays that were initially announced as
Arts & Entertainment Long Lost 1988 Jerry Garcia Interview Surfaces In San Francisco TV Studio Archive Apparently KPIX in San Francisco has been sitting on a 26-minute VHS tape interview with the late, great Jerry Garcia which never aired. As they tell us, "The Grateful Dead singer sat down
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Restaurant Shut Down By Health Department Rebrands For Second Time In Three Months The Castro is getting another new restaurant, sort of, called Janchi, which is being billed as a "Korean gastropub." It's going into the space at 2251 Market Street and as Hoodline notes, this
SF News Another Terminally Ill California Woman Makes Plea For Death With Dignity As the California legislature moves closer to possibly passing the End of Life Option Act, which is modeled on Oregon's Death With Dignity Act of 1997, the organization Compassion & Choices has released
SF News Feds Bust Pot Smuggling Ring Involving Oakland Airport Baggage Handlers A trio of baggage handlers at Oakland Airport have been charged with conspiracy to distribute, and possession with intent to distribute, 100 kilograms or more of marijuana. As the AP reports, the three
SF News 18th Street Duplex Sells For 114 Percent Over Asking We already know that everything from teensy condos to hoarder hellholes are selling for well over their asking prices in this sizzling real estate market we're in. But watch what happens when a
SF News Day Around The Bay: Tech VCs Start To Take Pot Seriously Variety critic says Pixar’s Inside Out is "the greatest idea the toon studio has ever had." [Variety] The [Chron] just did a “special report” on SF school desegregation. Sausalito tries to make
Arts & Entertainment Video: Stanley Roberts Once Again Chased Down Everyone He Could Find Publicly Peeing At Bay To Breakers We warned you!! In an annual tradition just as beloved here at SFist as the posting of Bay to Breakers costumed revelry, we now bring you KRON4's Stanley Robert's requisite "People Behaving Badly"
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Poutine With Beef Cheek Gravy At KronnerBurger Open as of two weeks ago in Oakland is KronnerBurger, the long-awaited brick-and-mortar from chef Chris Kronner formerly of Bar Tartine, Serpentine, and Slow Club. Kronner launched KronnerBurger as a pop-up at Bruno's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Super Duper Opening Ninth Location At Kearny And Pine Next Week The empire of Adriano Paganini grows yet again next week as his reps announce the opening of the Bay Area's ninth Super Duper location, this one coming to 346 Kearny Street, at Pine
SF News Here Are All The Reasons Traffic Sucks More Than Ever In SF Everyone who's been anywhere near downtown in the last year or two knows how much longer it takes to get from point A to B than it used to. San Francisco has, maybe
SF News Well Known Mountain Climber Dean Potter And One Other Die In BASE Jumping Accident At Yosemite A renowned climber and BASE jumper, who for years had flouted rules against BASE jumping in national parks, died Saturday along with another man in an accident involving wing suits, and a jump
Arts & Entertainment Bay To Breakers 2015, In Photos It was a little cold out there, but nevertheless Sunday marked the 104th running of Bay to Breakers, which has been called the oldest consecutively run footrace in the world, starting as a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Forgery Debuts In SoMa, The Empire Room Opens in Civic Center, and More This week's big opening was Belga in the Marina, and there was the smaller, quieter opening of Acquolina over in North Beach as well. Other than that, the big headline this week was
