SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurateur Reacts To Reservation-Sale Apps, Selling Tickets For Restaurants We told you about ReservationHop, the highly questionable startup that wants to buy and sell hard-to-get reservations from people, and profit from this enterprise, as some misguided favor to restaurants. Also, last week
Arts & Entertainment The 6 Coolest Installations You'll See At Burning Man 2014 For those of you getting psyched and doing your Muppet-fur boot shopping for the playa, we have a preview of a few of the cool large-scale sculptures you'll be seeing out there at
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Apple's 1986 Clothing Line, and Siskel & Ebert Reviewing 1986 Apple Ads The Apple corporation was just coming into its own in 1986, and visionary co-founder Steve Jobs had already begun putting out the sort of cinematic commercials that movie critics like Roger Ebert and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Ravi Kapur Restaurant Will Indeed Be Called LihoLiho Yacht Club The much anticipated new Lower Nob Hill project from chef Ravi Kapur (Boulevard, Prospect) and two of the partners behind Nopa (Allyson Jossel and Jeff Hanak), which we first learned about last fall,
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: What Are These Bizarre Jellyfish Things? Great big "blooms" of bizarre, beautiful, blue and purple creatures have been washing up on local beaches in recent days. These relatives of jellyfish that do not sting (but still may cause allergic
SF News Westboro Baptist Church To Protest 'Fag Media' Next Month At Facebook, Google, And Apple The infamous idiots of the Westboro Baptist Church, who always know a good media-attention-whoring opportunity when they see one, are turning their homophobic attention to the entire tech sphere next month and will
SF News Study Proves What We've All Known: The Castro Is Getting Straighter Whether you're just a casual fan of the gay hedonist character of the Castro, or a vehement homo-separatist, this news is likely to cause some exclamation marks to get thrown around on Facebook
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Jelly's In Mission Bay To Reopen Next Summer As Bar & Grill From Hi Dive Team The former, defunct Jelly's (295 Terry Francois Boulevard), which closed four years ago following a shooting, has been up for grabs from the Port of San Francisco for quite a while, and now
SF News Video: Stanley Roberts Shames Everyone Driving In Red Transit-Only Lanes Perhaps you've noticed that there's now a bright red lane that extends 330 feet down mid-Market, ending at 6th Street. It's meant to tell confused drivers, who remain perennially confused about where the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Chinchilla Eats Apple, Takes Dust Bath It's been ages since we had some chinchilla-related palate cleansing, so please enjoy these two videos of a chinchilla named Pusch enjoying a piece of dried apple, and then taking a brief dust
SF News Update: Do Not Try To Find Emergency Drinking Water From Hydrants After An Earthquake Update: SFist has received official word from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission that the whole emergency-drinking-water-from-hydrants program was discontinued in recent years due to fears about backflow of unsafe water into the
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour: Hundreds of Goats on Russian Hill? Reader Kate Kelly sent us this photo of a herd of goats that appears to have brought right into the heart of the city, to the north slope of Russian Hill, to clear
Arts & Entertainment Who Is Zamar, the Serial Street Artist Behind the Mischievous Squid? A tagger/street artist going by the name Mar or Zamar, and mr_tentacool on Instagram, has been covering surfaces all over San Francisco and Oakland with an image of a squid, sometimes
SF News Stanford Students Launch New, Unpermitted Rideshare App For Late-Night Lifts To The South Bay Unhappy with paying $60 to $80 to get back to Palo Alto from the city via Uber, a couple of Stanford seniors have launched a new app called Fleet that ferries people along
SF News Yosemite Fire Grows to 2,700 Acres, Threatens Giant Sequoias This year's sure-to-be-dramatic fire season rages on with our next main event, the El Portal Fire at the western edge of Yosemite National Park and in Stanislaus National Forest. It began Saturday and
SF News Day Around the Bay: Grover Norquist Is Going to Burning Man If you thought Burning Man had jumped the shark when the Winklevosses showed up, you were wrong. Because now Republican talking head Grover Norquist is going with his wife. [Twitter via Slate] The
SF News Oh No, Leland Yee: New Racketeering Charges For Yee and Shrimp Boy A revised grand jury indictment filed Friday, which includes 228 charges against 29 defendants, now includes federal racketeering charges against suspended state Senator Leland Yee and Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, as well as
SF News One Woman Blocks eBay Shuttle, Refuses To Let It Pass In Pac Heights Diners at Jackson Fillmore (2506 Fillmore Street) in Pacific Heights on Thursday were treated to some street theater in the form of a one-woman tech bus protest. As 7x7 reports via one of
SF News Airbnb Squatter ID'd, Says He 'Would Squat Again' The two Russian brothers who are accused of squatting in one woman's Airbnb condo in Palm Springs have been identified publicly as Maksym and Denys Pashanin. Maksym Pashanin is the person who rented
SF News You Will Soon Be Paying An Extra Quarter To Ride Muni Bad news: Fares on Muni busses and trains will be going up to $2.25 on September 1. Bright side: You don't have to carry extra quarters around if you just get yourself
Arts & Entertainment Comedy Flashback: <i>Mr. Show</i> Predicts the Corporate Sanitizing of San Francisco Waaay back in the mid-90s, the pioneering, twisted sketch comedy show Mr. Show aired on HBO for three years, and produced some classic moments from the minds of David Cross and Bob Odenkirk
Arts & Entertainment We Now Have Renderings Of Tall Towers at First and Mission, and South Van Ness and Mission That Norman Foster-designed, 910-foot tower at First and Mission Streets which did not have a complete rendering as of last week now does, along with a full, early critique by architecture critic John
SF News Baby Delivered On Northbound 101 After Parents Get Stuck In Traffic A couple who were headed to Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco on Friday morning were forced to pull over in the midst of traffic after the wife's water broke and the baby was
SF News Google Barely Pays Any Taxes Like Apple and Twitter, Google skirts the U.S. government's higher business taxes by funneling revenues through subsidiaries in Ireland and other tax havens. And we mean almost all its revenue. This may
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Beer Hall/Arcade Headed To SoMa, Namu Gaji Ramen To Open In Dogpatch, and More This marks the beginning of a weekly column rounding up some of the week's more notable restaurant and bar news that we didn't get to cover. Always feel free to send us tips,
