SF News Loma Prieta 25 Years Later: Harrowing CHP Footage Of Cypress Freeway And Bay Bridge Rescues In remembrance of the Loma Prieta earthquake which happened 25 years ago Friday, on October 17, 1989 SFist will be devoting some special coverage to the historical record of the quake itself, and
Arts & Entertainment ...And Now, A Baby Dressed As Skrillex For Halloween Though we are neither Skrillex nor baby aficionados here at SFist, we nonetheless had to share this photo that got sent in by mom Maria R. of her 15-month-old son Skylar, whom she
SF News The Tension Over Soccer Fields Is Not About Tech Bros, It's Too Few Fields, Says Chron Everyone got real up in arms over the video those Dropbox and Airbnb dudes who have since apologized squabbling with local kids over the rules governing the Mission Playground soccer field. As we
SF News Giants Win Game 3 Of The National League Championship Series In 10 Innings After a crazily tense, three-hour, 10-minute, 10-inning game, the Giants have taken the lead in the National League Championship Series. The Giants started with an early 4-run lead, but the game was tied
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yoshi's Is Becoming The Addition; Poison Guitarist Will Play The New Venue We learned back in June that Yoshi's San Francisco was getting sold to a new ownership group, and would no longer be called Yoshi's. The restaurant has shuffled along the last few months,
SF News Sidecar Just Won The Right To Operate At SFO In what the company is calling a "milestone agreement," Sidecar just became the first ride-share company to get a permit to operate at San Francisco International Airport. The service is expected to be
Arts & Entertainment Photo: West Portal Homeowner Clearly Wants To Frighten Children A tipster sent in this photo of a mock guillotine, complete with severed and bloodied mannequin head, that's been installed in the front yard of a West Portal home for the Halloween season.
SF News Watch ABC7's Cheryl Jennings Reporting Live Right After The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake In remembrance of the Loma Prieta earthquake which happened 25 years ago Friday, on October 17, 1989 SFist will be devoting some special coverage to the historical record of the quake itself, and
SF News Zuckerberg Ponies Up $25 Million To Fight Ebola Likely influenced by his benevolent doctor wife Priscilla Chan maybe she's really changing him, you guys! Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that he's donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation
SF News New Study Reminds Us We Need An Earthquake Kit. Actually, Four Earthquake Kits. A new study of the Bay Area's fault lines set to be published today in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America once again reminds us, as many experts have reminded us
Arts & Entertainment Teatro ZinZanni Finally, Maybe Headed Back To S.F. Waterfront... In A Few Years Three years have already passed since the zany, circus-meets-cabaret-dinner-theater Teatro ZinZanni had to pack up its tent on Piers 27-29 to make way for the America's Cup and now the permanent cruise ship
Arts & Entertainment Cleve Jones' Birthday Honored With Moving Speech By Dustin Lance Black, 'Hair' Number By Jonathan Groff There was a big party Saturday night at The Café in the Castro in honor of the 60th birthday of longtime gay-rights activist Cleve Jones. He said all he wanted for his birthday
SF News You May Soon Be Forbidden From Driving On Most Of Market Street Rather than enact some clear plan that does not confuse longtime residents and tourists alike, the SFTMA is continuing in their piecemeal approach to banning vehicle traffic on Market Street with yet another
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Mythbuster Grant Imahara Sells Out To McDonald's In Beef PR Video This odd video appeared today on McDonald's YouTube channel, framed like an episode of Mythbusters and featuring its former host Grant Imahara, in which Imahara takes a trip inside the Cargill beef processing
SF News Mission Woman Tells Harrowing Story Of Sexual Assault and Mugging Over the weekend, longtime S.F. resident Hillary Lannan who happens to be the sister of Looking creator Michael Lannan posted this piece to Medium in order to express her rage over an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hilarious: Prankster Posts Fake Hooters Permit Application In Noe Valley Noe Valley residents had a collective coronary over the weekend after this apparently fake liquor license transfer application for "Neighborhooters" went up on the boarded up former Bliss Bar at 4026 24th Street.
SF News Mission Soccer Bro And Dropbox Both Apologize For Soccer Field Scuffle; Protest Planned For Thursday [Updated] Assuming you saw the video that spawned another million gentrification conversations over the weekend, you'll be relieved to know that one of the guys involved, who is apparently a Dropbox employee and may
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Week In S.F. Food: Arguello Opens, A Manresa Spinoff In The Works, And More In case you missed it, one of the biggest headlines of the week was the announcement that Baker & Banker is closing later this month, after being in business for five years. Then
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Documentary Profiles S.F. Chinese Restaurant Pioneer Cecilia Chiang Those new to S.F. and its food lore may not have heard of Cecilia Chiang, and that's a shame. The 94-year-old retired restaurateur, whose flagship Ghirardelli Square restaurant The Mandarin closed in
SF News Video: Tensions Arise Over S.F. Soccer Field Between Neighborhood Kids And Recent Transplants A video came in to our tip line that records a lengthy back-and-forth two weeks ago between some twentysomething white guys who had paid Rec & Parks for a one-hour reservation at the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Take A Silent Trip Through San Francisco In 1960 Again we turn to the trove of historic videos that have been getting uploaded by the British Pathé news service, and here we have a charming, full color look at some of the
SF News Plan To Rename The Waldo Tunnel After Robin Williams Moves To State Assembly California State Assemblymember Marc Levine, who represents Marin, has taken up the cause of renaming the Waldo Tunnel in honor of the late Robin Williams. As Live 105 reports, with Williams' family's blessing,
SF News Guy Who Likes To Grab Other Guys' Butts While Jogging Sought Near SF State A male-on-male sexual assaulter has put the San Francisco State University campus on high alert this week after an incident on the running track at Cox Stadium. University police issued the alert after
SF News This El Niño Is Coming In Weak Sorry, everyone. Way back in March we started talking about the likely event of an El Niño winter season as Pacific ocean temperatures were on the rise. At one point, climatologists were saying
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Fallon, Funny Or Die Mock Ello We told you the Ello backlash was starting no sooner than the little, ad-free social network could even get off the ground. Well, now Jimmy Fallon made fun of it on the show
