SF News Video: Inside The Milo Protest That Rocked Berkeley (And Annoyed Trump) UC Berkeley will probably think twice before booking another Breitbart histrionic to speak on campus, as last night’s canceled Milo Yiannopoulos event escalated into lively and sometimes violent protests along Bancroft Way,
SF News Federal Agent Charged With Abusing Burning Man Party Privileges A Bureau of Land Management Investigative Report on Ethical Violations and Misconduct released early this week charges a BLM law enforcement official with a series of improprieties and federal ethics violations at the
SF News San Francisco's City College Prepares To Fire Up Marijuana Curriculum The hits just keep coming for City College of San Francisco, which earlier this month retained its accreditation for the next seven years and recently received a $9 million earmark from the Board
SF News Women's March Using The Same Route, Meeting Place As Anti-Abortion March on Saturday There is a notable difference between the Women’s March San Francisco and virtually every other Women’s March taking place across the country on Saturday. Every other Women's March starts on Saturday
Arts & Entertainment Overdue Book Returned To SF Library 100 Years Late The San Francisco Public Library’s Fine Forgiveness Period is waiving late fees right now on all overdue items returned before February 14, 2017. But nothing you’ll return will be as overdue
Arts & Entertainment 19 Best Sketchfest Shows That Are Not Sold Out As The Comedy Festival Kicks Off It is a telling sign of the times that this year’s SF Sketchfest lineup has more star power than the upcoming inauguration of the President of the United States. This year’s
Arts & Entertainment The Story Of Emperor Norton, SF's First Icon and Greatest Eccentric, On The 137th Anniversary Of His Death You’ve perhaps heard during your Bay Area residency the occasional passing reference to an “Emperor Norton”, some foppish, overdressed, Victorian-era kook whose legacy we are apparently supposed to respect. Why? Why is
Arts & Entertainment Your Glam Guide To All The David Bowie-Themed Events This Weekend This weekend would have been David Bowie’s 70th birthday, but instead it’s the one-year anniversary of Bowie’s passing to the great beyond. Since San Francisco so adores the Man Who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Year's Day Hangover Brunches With The Shortest Wait Times Getting Sunday brunch in San Francisco is never a quick or easy proposition. Getting Sunday brunch in San Francisco when it’s New Year’s Freaking Day — which this Sunday happens to be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 50 Best SF Restaurants Open Or Delivering On Christmas Day Eating on Christmas means stuffing yourself stupid, regardless of your religion, lack thereof, or place on the socioeconomic hierarchy. So we here at SFist broke down San Francisco/Bay Area restaurants open on
Arts & Entertainment [Update] 'Hamilton' Online Ticket Queue Swells 100,000+ As In-Person Fans Go To War With Line-Cutters When your #Hamilton alarm doesn't go off and you log on 6 min late...only a mere 99,405 people ahead of me 😭 #hamiltonSF pic.twitter.com/Cyh7WugSYM— Kelsey (@Kelsey_001) December 12,
Arts & Entertainment Meet The People Who Camped Out Overnight For <i>Hamilton</i> Tickets Today tips off a Tulip mania the likes of which the Bay Area ticket market has never seen. Tickets for the runaway smash hit musical Hamilton went on sale to the general public
SF News Why Your Muni Fare Will Be Going Up To $2.50 In January (If You're Paying In Cash) It behooves us to remind you that effective January 1, 2017, San Francisco Muni riders who pay their fare in cash will face a 25-cent fare increase. As was proposed in April, riders
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Announces New Two-Year Lease, And Plans To Move To New Location After That SoMa’s longest-surviving gay bar The Stud looked cooked this summer, when a 150% rent increase threatened the continued existence of the 50-year-old San Francisco institution. But a newly-formed Stud collective founded late
Arts & Entertainment How <i>The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes</i> Stays Young As It 'Drags' Into Its 11th Year Tonight's opening of The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes at the Victoria Theatre marks the 11th consecutive year of big-name San Francisco drag queens reenacting episodes of the 1980s retiree sitcom. So after
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Check Out The Most Dazzling Art Works Of The Festival Of Light Your showing-around of holiday guests and visiting tourists can be a little more festive this season with the Illuminate SF Festival of Light, underway now through New Year’s Day. The long winter
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thanksgiving Prep: Grocery Stores With The Longest Lines, Ranked Most slacker San Franciscans still have Thanksgiving food shopping to do, and many of us who were time-wrecked by the short holiday week still haven’t even started the big grocery pilgrimage. With
Arts & Entertainment Cosplayers Descend On SFMOMA, Paint The Place Red Way more smartphone pictures than usual were snapped on Sunday at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as more than a dozen cosplay specialists tricked themselves out to represent works on display
SF News Valencia's Multikulti To Close, Bringing Heartbreak To Costume Community That handwritten sign in the window display of Frida Kahlo leggings, chunky Egyptian collar necklaces, and blingy ballcaps, sadly, is correct. After more than 16 years, popular Valencia Street costume boutique Multikulti has
Arts & Entertainment Two New Burning Man Sculptures Arrive At Patricia's Green In Hayes Valley That little Hayes Valley park at Octavia Boulevard has welcomed a few Burning Man art and sculpture pieces over the years, probably none more iconic than David Best’s Temple structures that held
SF News Scenes From Last Night's Emotional Castro Vigil While a raucous Trump election protest rocked Market Street last night, a peaceful, somber, but emotionally charged candlelight gathering brought out about 800 mourners and activists to register a collective WTF over the
SF News When Would The 2016 Ballot Measures Go Into Effect? An Analysis [Update: This post has been updated with additional detail on whether you can keep a pot plant on your front porch.] Fans (and foes!) of marijuana, soda, cigarettes, plastic bags, and pornography have
SF News Rigged Election? San Francisco's Greatest Vote Fraud Cases Through the Years This year’s election has not yet even taken place yet, but we already have a chorus conspiracy theories claiming that the process will be rigged and a presidential candidate who’s threatening
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Why Are SF Safeways Suddenly Putting Their Booze Behind Bars? [Update: This post has been updated with comment from Safeway communications and government relations.] Your booze runs may experience double toil and trouble at certain San Francisco Safeway stores this Halloween weekend, as
Arts & Entertainment Do You Live On A Former San Francisco Cemetery? An Interactive Map It is said that there are no cemeteries in San Francisco, but that is not true. In fact, ours was once a town full of cemeteries, before graveyards within city limits were banned
