SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lucky 13 Murals Mysteriously Painted Over As Bar Faces Fears Of Demolition Unlucky 13: After Demolition Permit Application Posted, Bar's Murals Vanish https://t.co/Sg9FrIeRuO by @editcatsf pic.twitter.com/wzEIiOVDMB— Hoodline (@Hoodline) May 4, 2017 A curious twist in the newly unfolding saga
SF News Facebook Will Add 3,000 Employees To Prevent Further Live-Streaming of Murders Facebook has faced a flurry of angry-face reaction buttons in recent weeks, after the uploading of a video of a murder in Cleveland made international headlines and the genuine killing of a human
Arts & Entertainment The Dub Sack: Warriors Easily Win Game 1, Remain Perfect In Playoffs The Golden State Warriors resumed playoff action Tuesday night after a weeklong rest between rounds, and beat the nightlife-challenged Utah Jazz to win Game 1 of the Western Conference Semi-Finals 106-94 at Roaracle
SF News Flooding Predicted This Week As Record Sierra Snowpack Melts Quickly Drought concerns are so last year. This year, floods are the far likelier catastrophe in Northern California as the Sierra Nevada snowpack — currently at 190 percent of its historical average and the largest
SF News Elon Musk Proposes New Underground Superhighways in Completely Plausible TED Talk Last week brought us the TED2017 conference, the annual future-looking soapbox for white male tech founders born into wealth (they prefer the term ‘serial entrepreneurs’) to propose solutions no one ever asked for
Arts & Entertainment Cannabis Wedding Expo Rings Stoners' Bells With the passage of legal recreational marijuana use in California, the full marijuanization of each aspect of our lives and culture walks further down the aisle each day. Couples who are engaged in
SF News $5.5 Million Settlement For Guy Beaten Senseless by Alameda County Deputies The long, strange, ‘everybody looks bad here’ saga of a November 2015 incident wherein the driver of a stolen Mercedes received an absolutely thorough thrashing by Alameda County sheriff’s deputies appears to
Arts & Entertainment Frameline Breaks Out A Preview Of Its 2017 Festival Schedule We do not yet have the full schedule for this year’s Frameline, a.k.a the San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival that is set to run its 41st annual iteration June
Arts & Entertainment Art Show Invades Entire Marina Hotel For stARTup Art Fair We have plenty of fun here at SFist disparaging the Marina, scoffing at their SantaCon sloppiness, heckling Mr. Marina contestants, and remember the Marina Louboutin Skullcrusher?! But it behooves us to point out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink World's Largest Nachos Successfully Breaks Record, Chips Were For Real Made Of Crickets A publicity stunt and world-record attempt to build the largest order of nachos ever assembled was indeed successful on Saturday afternoon at SoMa StrEat Food Park, as the sprawling, 70-foot-long, 5,022-pound serving
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 Draws 15,000 to Make Hippie Hill Go Up in Smoke Hippie Hill lived up to its name like never before Thursday, as the largest-ever iteration of the annual 4/20 bacchanalia in Golden Gate Park pulled an estimated crowd of 15,000 at
Arts & Entertainment Hunky Jesus 2017 Title Goes to 'Wet T-Shirt Jesus' Amid Scattered Showers The heavens opened up over Sunday’s annual Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Easter parade of whimsical sacrilege that culminates in the Hunky Jesus Contest. Rainstorms of biblical proportions crucified the turnout yesterday in
SF News Lyft's Pride Float Queen Claims Lyft Refused Her Rides Rideshare service Lyft has managed to avoid many of the high-profile public relations disasters of its larger competitor Uber, generally eluding terrible headlines while Uber has experienced a nonstop parade of recent scandals
Arts & Entertainment Bill Nye Arrives In SF To Drop Some Science Bow-tied crusader Bill Nye the Science Guy refuses to bow out of the public eye. While his 1990s PBS show now exists only in reruns, Nye is still seen debating creationists, defending vaccinations,
Arts & Entertainment Can't-Miss Picks For The SFFILM Festival, Kicking Off Today Now in its 60th year, the San Francisco International Film Festival has just switched to the much snappier but somewhat unpronounceable name SFFILM Festival and begins tonight at the Castro Theatre. With more
Arts & Entertainment A Giants Season Preview To Convince You They Will Win the World Series We stopped believin’ in the San Francisco Giants’ even-year championship magic on a heart-wrenching night last October. So all this faith, numerology, and baseball superstition regarding odd-numbered years being the Giants’ “off years”
SF News Four Ways To Keep Snooping ISPs From Seeing And Selling Your Data Some have worried that consumer rights would lose out to corporate America during the Trump administration. Well, Tuesday's congressional vote allowing internet service providers (ISPs) to sell your personal web browsing history is
Arts & Entertainment Good Things Come In 'Three's Company Live!', Now Back At Oasis You know exactly what you’re going to get at Three’s Company Live!, which opened last night at Oasis and runs through April 29. Just as with Heklina and D’Arcy Drollinger’
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man 2017 Ticket Registration Just Kicked Off The byzantine and highly complex process of buying officially sanctioned, face-value Burning Man 2017 tickets is now underway, everybody. Registration for the Burning Man ticket Main Sale began at noon today (Wednesday), so
Arts & Entertainment Roller Derby Bashes Back As 2017 Bay Area Season Gets Set To Skate Roller derby rolls back into action this weekend, as Bay Area Derby gets ready to kick out the jams for its 2017 season. Formerly known as the B.ay A.rea D.erby
Arts & Entertainment $10 'Hamilton' Ticket Lottery Details Announced All you young, scrappy, and hungry people who can’t afford the $14,000 Hamilton tickets seen on StubHub and Castro fliers, get ready to flip your powdered wigs. After weeks of incredibly
SF News Abortion Access Hackathon Moves Fast, Breaks Patriarchy “If you have not done a lot of tweeting about abortion before, you’re in for it,” Bay Area journalist Andrea Grimes said in her opening remarks to this weekend’s Abortion Access
Arts & Entertainment Dog Day Afternoon: Canines Take Over The Roxie For Dog Film Festival “I hope everybody peed and pooped outside,” Dog Film Festival founder Tracie Hotchner announced humorously but earnestly, kicking off a Sunday afternoon show featuring this year's finest short films from the canine canon.
SF News A Brief History Of The Long Tradition Of General Strikes In The Bay Area Our stages of grief and outrage over the Trump presidency have reached the refusing-to-show-up-for-work phase, with today’s national Day Without Immigrants and Friday’s proposed national general strike (another women’s general
Arts & Entertainment Photos: The Regional Pole Dancing Championships Were Actually Kind Of Artistic The poles had no margin of error at Saturday’s Golden Gate Pole Championships, the Northern California regional tournament on the competitive pole dancing circuit. San Bruno’s Skyline College theater played host
