SF News Regarding How New York, And Dianne Feinstein, Openly Hate Airbnb Maybe you've heard, but New York City is the next frontier Airbnb is hoping to conquer, and so far that effort is not looking nearly as easy as the company's San Francisco conquest
Arts & Entertainment Uber Delivering Kitten Cuddles Once Again Today In a drive to encourage kitten adoption, and just generally to pimp their brand again, Uber is doing that kitten delivery thing again today from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. They
SF News BART Realizes Downtown Stations Are Rush-Hour Nightmares, Will Spend $400,000 Studying The Problem Since BART loves to spend money studying its problems, the transit agency is going to be spending $410,000 on a study to figure out what they can do about over-crowding in Embarcadero
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From Last Night's Civic Center Collision Of Giants Fans And Phish Fans It wasn't so much of a collision as it was an amiable, SF-style co-existence on the lawns and plazas of Civic Center last night as a thousand or so Giants fans piled in
SF News Richard Meier Out, Snøhetta In For New Tower At Market And Van Ness As the Chron's architecture guy tells us this week, plans are shifting for the prominent development site at the corner of Market and Van Ness Streets, where we earlier heard we might be
Arts & Entertainment 20 Halloween Costumes To Avoid At All Costs In 2014 Many of you are probably still weighing your options for costuming on Friday, and some of you have probably already made some poor choices. For whatever it's worth, here again is SFist's two
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brandy Ho's Castro Location Closes Tonight Perpetually empty 18th Street restaurant Brandy Ho's is giving up the ghost after service tonight, as a tipster tells Hoodline. The Chinese/Hunan restaurant expanded to this location seven years ago from North
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yet Another Food Truck Park Coming To Valencia and Cesar Chavez Just when we thought we had, as a city, reached peak food-truck-park saturation, plans have emerged for yet another food truck park, this one in the Mission on an empty lot where Valencia
Arts & Entertainment Should The Super Bowl 50 Host Committee Be Reaching Out To LGBT-Owned Businesses? Since this is the Bay Area, the nexus of the LGBT civil rights movement and home to one of the largest LGBT populations in the country, shouldn't the host committee for Super Bowl
Arts & Entertainment Weather Report: World Series Sun, Halloween Rain Bask in this, kids. Today's glorious, late Indian Summer sun and heat might be the last we see even though we all know that November can sometimes surprise us. And that's why we
SF News Studios In Huge New Complex Between Oak And Fell Will Start At $3,135 Not surprisingly, the enormous, five-story, 182-unit apartment complex that's under construction on the block that was formerly taken up by the Central Freeway on- and off-ramps, between Oak and Fell and Octavia and
SF News Brittany Maynard, 29-Year-Old Planning Assisted Suicide, Makes It To The Grand Canyon The terrible story of Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old woman with stage 4, inoperable brain cancer who relocated to Oregon this year in order take advantage of the state's assisted suicide law, got her
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luna Park Finally Closing; PlumpJack Team To Turn It Into A Bar I don't know about you, but Luna Park (694 Valencia Street) has been one of those longstanding, mediocre Mission restaurants that always makes me go "That's still there?" So suffice it to say
SF News Some Fool Climbed The Statue At Dolores And Market And The Fire Department Had To Help Him Down A possibly intoxicated/high/balls-tripping idiot decided to climb the pegasus statue at the end of Dolores Street yesterday, across from the Whole Foods, tried to ride it like a horse, and then
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Another Amazing OK Go Video OK Go, still not resting on their laurels as pop music's most insanely clever music video-makers, have just unleashed their latest, which was shot in Japan with the help of about a hundred
Arts & Entertainment Giants Fans To Collide With Phish Fans At Civic Center Tomorrow Night Vermont-born jam band Phish, beloved among former and would-be Deadheads and Phish heads all over the Bay Area, is doing their second of three sold-out shows at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Tuesday night,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cat Town Cafe Opens In Oakland, Marking America's First Cat-Play Coffeeshop Try to muffle your squeals if you're at the office, cat people. Because it's here. Cat Town Café (2869 Broadway) is officially open over in Oakland, meaning that they beat out a similar
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Cool Short Film About San Quentin's 'Giants' Little known fact: There's a baseball "league" at San Quentin State Prison consisting of two teams: the Giants and the A's. The baseball tradition goes back to the 1920s at the prison, and
SF News Activists Seeking Legal Action Against Racist Tour Guide This of story the ranting, Chinatown-hating former City Sightseeing tour guide, and the overall public outcry against her, may have almost run its course. Late last week we got to hear her speak
SF News Naive Engineer Hopes To Move To Excellent, Crime-Free Bay Area Neighborhood For $1200/Month None of us should be laughing at such things, because obviously if we lived pretty much anywhere else the country besides Manhattan this poor guy's requests would seem perfectly sane and reasonable. But
Arts & Entertainment Giants Honor Robin Williams With Billy Crystal, Williams' Children Throwing Out First Pitch At the opening of what turned out to be a triumphant, shutout Game 5 of the World Series for the Giants on Sunday, a tribute montage played on the Jumbotron honoring the late
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: The Oasis Returns To SoMa, Crystal Jade Coming Soon, And More The biggest food news of the week was the Michelin Guide release, with San Francisco finally (finally!) getting its first three-star restaurants in the city proper: Saison and Benu. This is very good
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: World Series Edition Your browser does not support iframes. You're getting in the mood already, hopefully. Maybe you're already a little buzzed and if so, pace yourself, friend! This is a marathon, not a race, and
Arts & Entertainment I Went To 'Hell In The Armory,' And I Have A Few Words Of Advice It should go without saying that Hell In the Armory, the new haunted house attraction in the basement of the infamous Kink.com headquarters, is not for pearl-clutchers. It is raunchy, it is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sliderbar In The Castro Shut Down By Health Department [Updated] Another restaurant fails to heed the warnings of the Health Department, and suffers their wrath: Sliderbar, the just-ok, two-year-old slider restaurant in the old Bagdad Cafe space at Market and 16th, suddenly finds
