Arts & Entertainment The Bay Lights Will Disappear For Good In March Unless Backers Raise $4 Million As we reported back in June, the non-profit that's behind the installation and maintenance of the Bay Lights LED installation on the Bay Bridge are gunning to keep the lights up after their
Arts & Entertainment Life Imitates Art As Hewlett-Packard Hires Flo Rida For Event, Just Like On <i>Silicon Valley</i> Remember when on Episode 4 of Silicon Valley eccentric billionaire Peter Gregory threw a toga party benefit and hired Flo Rida to perform? Well, that just happened in real life last night, in
SF News Saturday's World Series Game Could Get Rained On The World Series is going to be a joyous thing here in S.F. these next couple of days, and should you say otherwise you might get slapped. Or worse. But fans who
SF News Racist Chinatown Tour Guide Speaks! ABC 7 got an exclusive interview with the woman herself, the one and only racist ranting tour guide who really hates Chinatown, and who has many things about it she would like to
Arts & Entertainment Trippy Map Shows All Of S.F.'s Many Grids This new map of the city by cartographer Stephen Von Worley depicts the streets of San Francisco in all their many colliding grid formations and the tangled mess that is Twin Peaks. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oh No! The Lexington Club To Close After 18 Years [Updated] Bad news for the LGBT community: The city's only, long-standing, dedicated bar for gay women*, The Lexington Club (3464 19th Street), is getting sold and sounds likely to close very soon. In a
SF News Confirmed: Condo Developer Cuts Deal To Avoid Affordable Housing Requirement If you're wondering whether Mayor Ed Lee's affordable housing ballot measure, Prop K, is going to mean anything, critics will be quick to point to a recent negotiation with a big developer as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Hamburger Mary's Will Go To Planning Vote In December The literally decade-long saga surrounding a single empty property in the Castro will enter its next and most certainly not final chapter later this fall when the Planning Commission will decide whether the
SF News Ellis Act Payout Law Heads To Ninth Circuit For Appeal City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced late Wednesday that his office would be appealing a federal judge's ruling that struck down the recent San Francisco ordinance requiring large lump-sum payouts to tenants evicted under
SF News Racist Ranting Tour Guide Possibly ID'd; David Chiu Demands Apology, Holds Rally [Updated] Since the video of the disgruntled tour guide shouting "f**k everything" about Chinatown started going around yesterday, SFist has seen a whole lot of comments both defending and castigating this unidentified woman.
SF News Despicable New York Woman Defaces Yosemite, Other Parks With Her Art A woman by the name of Casey Nocket recently traveled from New York out west to deface some of our national parks with her crappy art, and then Instagram it. Nocket doesn't sound
Arts & Entertainment 10 Best Places To Buy A Suit In San Francisco This may be San Francisco, where everyone's been eagerly awaiting the day sweatpants became fashionable (and they did), and where the tech industry's traditional uniform has always been jeans and a t-shirt, but
SF News Uber, Lyft, And Sidecar All Now Legal At SFO We thought maybe Sidecar had struck some kind of sweetheart deal last week getting permits to drop off and pick up passengers at SFO, but it turns out the other rideshare companies got
SF News Tour Guide Goes On Epic, Angry, Racist Rant About Chinatown Apparently, on her last day on the job, this San Francisco tour guide decided to crack open a beer and go on a lengthy, angry, off-color rant about everything she hates about Chinatown.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Spanish Restaurant Aatxe To Open Upstairs From Cafe Du Nord Another piece of the Cafe du Nord revamp puzzle has come into focus with the announcement of Aatxe, a new Basque/Spanish spot that will be opening by year's end in the street-facing
SF News Ellis Act Tenant Payouts Ruled Illegal A federal judge has struck down San Francisco's progressive legislation that counteracts the increased use of the Ellis Act to evict longterm tenants, as the Chron and others are reporting. In a ruling
SF News The Nudists Will Be Protesting Scott Wiener Again Next Weekend It's an election year, and incumbent District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener may not be facing a ton of competition in the race, but that doesn't mean the nudist contingent will not be trying
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Guide Director Michael Ellis Discusses The 'Extraordinary' Bay Area Food Scene In conjunction with the release of the new star rankings for the Bay Area Michelin Guide for 2015 today, SFist spoke with the guide's international director Michael Ellis. Ellis took the gig in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Guide 2015: Saison and Benu Become The First Three-Star Restaurants In The City For a couple of years it's been no secret that chef Joshua Skenes was aiming to make Saison the first Michelin three-star restaurant in San Francisco proper. Today, he got his wish, along
SF News Kansas City vs. San Francisco: They Have Earthquakes Too, A Good Outfield, And Way Cheaper Housing For those of you who aren't already playing hooky or trying to leave work early to watch the first game of the World Series (and therefore not slacking off by reading the internet)
SF News Native American Remains Found During Transbay Excavation Making Things A Little Complicated Back in February we learned that the extremely old remains of a person thought to be of Native American descent were found during the excavation for the Transbay Transit Center. It turns out
SF News Guy Running For Oakland Mayor Hates Bicycles, Gays, Thinks We Should All Carry Guns The Oakland Mayor's race has, historically, been a bit of a circus. Back in July we noted the 21-candidate race included a dog named Einstein who was being put forward by the Occupy
SF News AT&T Park Data Usage Just Might Melt The Stadium On Friday When the Giants finally come back to town for Game 3 of the World Series on Friday, data-usage records at AT&T Park are expected to be broken. The record was already
SF News Where To Try Out Apple Pay, Assuming That Store Location Has Read The Memo Today's rollout day for Apple Pay, the new touch-payment system that came built in on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, and will also be included in the upcoming Apple Watch. And as
SF News New York Writer Moves To S.F., Proceeds To Shame Us All For Not Being Grown Up Enough Oh, this is rich. Some writer who just moved here from Brooklyn, while admitting he left behind at least a few "sneaker-shod Peter Pans" back there, decided to take to the pages of
