SF News Resist-Themed Pride Draws More Than A Million To Downtown SF, Avoids Major Violence With 250 contingents marching, Sunday’s San Francisco Pride parade was the largest ever in the event’s history. But even with this year’s resistance-themed political overtones, the parade and Civic Center
SF News Albany High Expels Teen Over Racist Instagram Posts, Parents Vow Lawsuit Deplorable teens will be deplorable teens, but an East Bay school district has drawn the line at racism and veiled threats of violence. You may recall the saga of 13 Albany High School
Arts & Entertainment Rainbow Lips Light Show Coming To Twin Peaks Pink Triangle For Pride Weekend Since 1995, the Twin Peaks Pink Triangle has festooned our annual SF Pride weekend celebrations with a gigantic, one-acre pink homage to the LGBTQ community that’s visible from 20 miles away. But
SF News Two Pot Dispensaries On One Block Grows Grassroots Opposition In Visitacion Valley The 1,000-foot rule for marijuana dispensaries in San Francisco dictates that pot clubs cannot operate with 1,000 feet of a school, playground, recreational center, or substance abuse treatment facility. (Though the
Arts & Entertainment Guy Runs Warriors Championship Route As Steve Kerr Runs Thoughts On White House Visit The legendary @JimPlunkettCole makes the @washingtonpost for the 2nd time!! https://t.co/0Pi0XDjTNS #Warriors— PledgeSports (@PledgeSports) June 21, 2017 Right after the Golden State Warriors completed their NBA championship run, an aspiring
Arts & Entertainment Reddit Co-Founder and Serena Fiance Turns To Reddit For Parenting Advice This blog is ready to bestow unofficial “King and Queen of San Francisco” titles to all-time Grand Slam tennis champion Serena Williams and her Reddit co-founder fiancé Alexis Ohanian, possibly the greatest heteronormative
SF News Amazon Brick-And-Mortar Book Store Coming To Walnut Creek In August One of the more curious aspects to Amazon’s wholesale slaughter of the brick-and-mortar retail book industry is Amazon’s apparent desire to revive the brick-and-mortar retail book industry. To that end, the
Arts & Entertainment Sneak Preview: Conservatory of Flowers 'Summer of Love' Projections Come Alive The wildly anticipated trippy Summer of Love light show at the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park has its grand lighting ceremony Wednesday night, but the technical and artistic aces of Illuminate
SF News Santa Cruz Surgeon Who Allegedly Molested 11 Kids Granted Bail Despite yet another alleged victim coming forward, a Santa Cruz judge granted bail Monday morning to 57-year-old James Kohut, M.D., a brain surgeon charged with (now) 11 counts of child sexual abuse.
SF News Marijuana Booths May Be Coming To California County Fairs County fairs in America are known for some pretty outrageous ingestibles, from Fried Twinkies to Fried Jellybeans to Fried White Castle Burgers on a Stick. But those who wish to fry their brains
SF News Memorials, Friends Commemorate Slain UPS Drivers As New Details Emerge On Shooting Makeshift memorials are popping up around the site of Wednesday’s tragic mass shooting at the UPS Center in Potrero Hill in which the shooter allegedly “had it out for a manager”. Police
SF News SF 'Homeless Census' Shows Slight Decline, But Uptick In Unexpected Neighborhoods The city of San Francisco performs a “homeless census” every other year, and SFist joined in on this year's count on a chilly night back in January. More than 750 volunteers combed every
Arts & Entertainment 'Janis Joplin' At ACT Is An Intoxicating Summer Of Love Jukebox Musical There is currently an overflowing, lovin’ spoonful of Summer of Love commemorations in San Francisco, from street fairs to outdoor concerts to retail window displays but none of them really offers a plausible
SF News Photos: Nude Hikers Conquer Yosemite's El Capitan In the Buff The 7,500-foot challenge of Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan has beckoned to mountain climbers for more than 150 years, but no one’s ever been stark raving mad enough to climb
SF News Speculation Swirls That Warriors Will Refuse To Visit Trump's White House It is has become a fashionable and popular theory in these few days since the Golden State Warriors won the NBA championship that the team would boycott the traditional champions’ White House visit
Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Main Stage To Feature Ronnie Spector, Betty Who, And More Plans for next weekend’s for SF Pride are beginning to crystallize, as the downtown and Civic Center areas typically draw a million people in a two-day fest that culminates in Sunday’s
SF News Fresno Man Arrested For Streaming 'Deadpool' To 5 Million People Before It Was Released The 2016 wise-cracking superhero action flick Deadpool remains the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time, ‘pool’-ing in a staggering $363 million domestically. But it could have made even more money had five
SF News Report: Uber And Lyft Bloating SF Traffic By 15-20 Percent Rideshare behemoths Uber and Lyft purport to provide convenience for riders, but a new study drives home the point that these two companies in particular are burdening San Francisco with massive and broader
Arts & Entertainment Everything You Need To Know About Thursday's Warriors Championship Parade The Champagne is beginning to dry, the hangovers are wearing off, and the Mission Street mayhem has subsided from Monday night’s Golden State Warriors NBA Finals championship win, which naturally means it's
Arts & Entertainment The Dub Sack: WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS! Warriors Win Second NBA Title In Three Years The boom of fireworks just started well before Independence Day. The East Bay, Mission Street, and the collective populace of Dub Nation are now celebrating a richly deserved NBA championship. With a 129-120
SF News City Hall's 'Office of Cannabis' Begins To Bloom What little popularity San Francisco Mayor Ed is able to muster up these days may be contingent on pandering to the emerging local marijuana industry, but Lee might be screwing that one up
Arts & Entertainment The Dub Sack: Get Your Game 5 On As Warriors Look To Bring Title Home Friday night’s 137-116 loss in Game 4 of the NBA Finals denied the Golden State Warriors their unprecedented undefeated postseason. In the eyes of the Dub Sack, this simply brings the party
SF News Antioch Teen Killed By Errant BB Gun Shot A tragic first day of summer vacation Thursday in the East Bay suburb of Antioch, as Deer Valley High School freshman Marcos Garcia was shot and killed with a seemingly harmless pellet gun.
SF News Video: Chelsea Manning Gives First Post-Prison Interview We have yet to see Private Chelsea Manning speak publicly full-on as Chelsea Manning, in post-transition persona with her current voice since she was charged with aiding the enemy and imprisoned for most
Arts & Entertainment The Dub Sack: Game 3 Win Has Warriors on Brink Of History, Title, 'Greatest of All Time' Chatter It is difficult to assess the Golden State Warriors' 118-113 Game 3 win in the NBA Finals (I believe we properly called that) in terms of individual plays, stats, and scores when so
