Arts & Entertainment Get Vodka-Drunk At The Miss Russian SF Beauty Pageant This Sunday Did you know San Francisco had its own beauty/talent competition only for Russian expats? Well, we do. And it's actually a semi-finalist race in preparation for the Miss Russian California pageant that
Arts & Entertainment Apple Watch Shatters Pretty Easily, Doesn't Work With Wrist Tattoos, Might Irritate Sensitive Skin It's been five days since the Apple Watch came out, and the internet has rushed to put the device through a litany of non-professional impact and torture tests, because who needs Consumer Reports
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Liverpool Lil's Damaged By Morning Fire Popular Marina pub Liverpool Lil's (2942 Lyon at Lombard) was hit with a two-alarm fire this morning which as far as we know is still ongoing. A tipster sent in the above and
Arts & Entertainment Video: Apple Watch Destroyed By Blender The people at Blendtec, the blender manufacturer, have been doing this "Will it blend?" thing for a while now, via YouTube, to market their blenders. Now, overly smarmy "scientist" Tom Dickson (he's actually
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Summer Fog Rolls In Early This photo posted this morning by Redditor blueski shows the fog rolling in/burning off from the vantage of 20th and Noe. This may or may not be attributable to the approach of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bernal Heights Restaurant Little Nepal Hosts Earthquake Fundraiser One of San Francisco's two Himalayan/Nepalese restaurants, Little Nepal (925 Cortland) in Bernal Heights, is hosting a fundraiser Thursday, April 30, to benefit victims of the devastating earthquake that occurred there Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment Video: If Facebook Actually Filtered Everything That Annoyed You The joke, of course, is that if there were a Dislike button, or if the algorithm could actually read all the disdain, judgement, and jealousy you feel as you scan your Facebook feed,
SF News Model Whose Face Was Slammed To The Ground During Arrest Now Suing BART, Oakland Police An extra-drunken St. Patrick's Day led to one San Francisco woman getting slammed to the ground by BART police, her face severely bloodied, four bones in her face broken, and two teeth damaged.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cole Valley's Ice Cream Bar Getting A Spinoff In The Castro Excellent news for Castro residents with sweet tooths: The Ice Cream Bar, the old-timey soda fountain and ice cream parlor in Cole Valley, is moving in on the former L'Occitane space at 554
SF News Separate Tech Shuttle And Black Lives Matter Protests Planned For Oakland On May Day The Google bus blockades are not over! Separate protest events will be happening on Friday May 1 in two different parts of Oakland, in recognition of International Workers' Day, a.k.a. May
SF News Day Around The Bay: Which Supes Agreed To Ride Muni? You know how the Transit Riders Union issued that challenge to the Supervisors and the Mayor to ride Muni to work at least 22 days in June? Well, seven of them signed on,
SF News SF's Wealthy Can Now Rent Audi R8 Spyders For $1285 Per Day Do you have a pile of cash just sitting around that you were considering using for kindling in your barbecue? Perhaps you enjoy driving fancy cars, but despite having plenty of money to
SF News Facebook, Other Tech Companies Step Up To Help Nepal, Matching Donations For Relief Effort A number of tech companies stepped up in the wake of the disastrous earthquake in Nepal over the weekend, but so far Facebook seems to have emerged with a surfeit of generosity, as
SF News 160-Year-Old SF Jeweler Shreve & Co. Getting Pushed Out Of Union Square Building That Bears Its Name The latest victim of rising rents and opportunistic landlords is a heritage retailer of the Union Square area, Shreve & Co., a Bay Area jewelry business that dates back to the Gold Rush
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Stuff: It's Super Duper Day, Everyone For everyone who didn't just get their first VC round or some exorbitant signing bonus and who toils, with the rest of us, among the moderately paid non-elite, free lunch is still a
SF News Stop Flying Your Drones Around The Golden Gate Bridge! Multiple times a month, remote controlled drones have been seen buzzing the iconic Golden Gate Bridge shooting videos like the one above, but there are a couple of major problems with this according
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: The Tenderloin Basement Of Your Dreams Try to imagine the kind of apartment where, in fiction or in a tabloid murder, the school custodian who is also a pedophile would live, and you might come close to this little
SF News Airbnb Violations Now Being Used More Often Than The Ellis Act In Evicting SF Tenants Many San Francisco renters, especially those living in rent-controlled units, have likely had to sign leases, or revised leases, with their landlords in recent years that specifically prohibit short-term rental of the unit
SF News Local Writer And SF Native Daisy Barringer Says The City 'Feels Broken' Now I've tossed in my three or four cents about why the changes currently roiling our fine city aren't some kind of death knell and I firmly believe that a city needs to change
SF News There Will Be A 'Fan Village' For The Super Bowl At The Foot Of Market Street, But 'No Room' For The Homeless Super Bowl 50 is going to turn this town upside down come next February, and even though the majority of 70,000 tickets to the game itself will be going to out-of-towners, there
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bottlerock Food Stage to Feature Dominique Crenn And Snoop Dogg This year's BottleRock up in Napa (May 29-31) is going to feature a Williams-Sonoma-sponsored food stage, and as Eater tells us, the chef talent includes Dominique Crenn, Masaharu Morimoto, Michael Mina, Tony Gemignani,
Arts & Entertainment The 11 Best Spas In San Francisco We've spent plenty of time providing you with Best Of lists that will probably make you fat. So now it's time to talk about the places you can go to feel healthy and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Say Goodbye To The Elbo Room, For Real, Come November As SFist discussed well over a year ago, prompting fast denials from the bar's owners, the Elbo Room is indeed headed for closure to make way for a condo building. As Mission Local
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Has The Third Worst Commute In The U.S. Now Good question: Why isn’t the MTA making Uber and Lyft drivers take their mandatory safety courses? [Hoodline] “Market demand” for bigger units means the Transbay development will cut 99 units, including 27
SF News Mandatory Vaccination Advances Through California Legislature This year's measles outbreak led directly to California lawmakers proposing a change to state law that would all but eliminate the ability for parents to cite personal beliefs in keeping their kids from
