SF News Day Around the Bay: The UK Discovers Oakland The UK has discovered Oakland with an Independent piece that chronicles the "moustachioed locals" that populate "California’s answer to Brooklyn," where an "industrial-scape provides a requisite frisson of edginess." Harrumph. [Independent UK]
Arts & Entertainment Shoppers, Don't Panic Yet: SF Holiday Bazaar Is Coming Do you procrastinate until the end of December, hoping against hope that a natural disaster will save you from holiday gift-giving duties? Conquer your crippling shopping phobia with the San Francisco Bazaar, an
Arts & Entertainment Perfect For That Hard-to-Shop-For Relative: This $40K Bordello/Art Project Black Friday is on the way, and that means it's time for the familiar, creeping, awful realization that gift-giving is back on the agenda. But what to gift that one intransigent person on
SF News Tuesday Night Hit-and-Run Severely Injures Two Pedestrians Hit-and-runs are mystifying in their awfulness, and this one is no exception. At about 6pm on Tuesday night, two pedestrians were struck by a black sedan in the crosswalk in front of the
SF News S.F. 'Most Bike-Friendly City' In The Country? It's all relative, as the saying goes, and it's never been truer than with today's announcement that San Francisco has been crowned the "most bike-friendly city" in the nation. Or, as it could
SF News The NRA Is Now Suing S.F. Over City's Gun Magazine Ban The National Rifle Association is officially not gonna take it anymore when it comes to San Francisco's tyrannical anti-gun agenda. Now, they've taken it upon themselves to sue the city of San Francisco,
SF News Some Perspective On SF's Impending Ratpocalypse From An Urban Rodentologist Last week came word that construction of the far-off Central Subway project may be displacing an urban rat army. But before freaking out completely (and just slightly after reading the Wikipedia entry on
SF News Central Subway Construction Stirs Subterranean Rat Army As construction continues on the $1.578 billion Central Subway project that will connect Chinatown to Muni's light-rail system, all that excavation has stirred more than just the ire of fiscally conservative Muni
SF News Treasure Island Could (Still) Be Radioactive That eerie glow? Not necessarily a harmless glowstick-toting Deadmau5 fan. In another installment of jolly local housing news, a new report by the state health department suggests that children living on Treasure Island
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Toll Could Hit $7 Soon What with the state of the world today, it may be hard to believe that the cost of crossing the Golden Gate Bridge actually dropped at any point in its past. But between
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Some Thoughts On The New Dolores Whole Foods It's been about a week since San Francisco's newest Whole Foods, its seventh location, opened on Market and Dolores. Located directly across Market Street from Safeway, which is in turn located across Church
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mastectomy Dance Major surgeries are generally no cause for celebration, and a double mastectomy is no exception. But San Francisco woman Deborah Cohan decided to infuse her procedure with a little something different: joy, fun
SF News S.F. Rents Are Up 10% From Last Year San Francisco residents have long bemoaned the rising cost of rentals, and now there's word that the increase may be worse than you thought: in the past year alone, rents have risen a
SF News Teen Arrested For Setting AC Transit Passenger On Fire We get our fair share of nightmarish public transportation-related crimes around here, but this one may take the cake. Yesterday evening, a sleeping passenger was actually set on fire aboard an AC Transit
SF News This Just In: Local Panhandlers Are Not Getting Rich For people likes Fox News' John Stossel, who believe panhandlers are really raking it in for upwards of $80K/year, here's a news flash: according to a survey funded by the the Union
SF News Day Around the Bay: Caldecott Fire Caldecott reopened after fire, but 8 are hospitalized [SFGate] Complaints mounting against Excelsior Internet cafes where gambling proliferates [Examiner] Who actually grew up in San Francisco? SF's native families. [TBI] Favorite San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment In Which SFist Reviews The Exploratorium's New Tactile Dome Today marks the opening of the Exploratorium's new Tactile Dome, the pitch-black tactile experience where visitors feel their way through a maze-like path. Here to report on the new Dome, and to provide
Arts & Entertainment Uber Delivering On-Demand Kitten Playtime Today From the ride-sharing service that brought you on-demand ice cream and app-available Tamale Lady comes a new, even more sinister temptation: on-demand kitten snuggles. Apparently today is National Cat Day (although any cat
Arts & Entertainment Tale of Stolen Phone Turns Romantic Thanks to Dropbox Ah, technology and modern love. Without the aid of local file hosting service Dropbox, one young Swiss man might never have know that his stolen smartphone ended up in the hands of a
SF News Meanwhile, On The Bay Bridge... Some thirty-odd palm trees are being installed along the Bay Bridge's new eastern span, and opinions are mixed over the new look, with some commuters particularly irked over the palms' visual association with
Arts & Entertainment Of Course: Bay Area Now A Hotbed Of Pet Gyms In discretionary spending news, there's apparently a new trend afoot: sending your overweight "children" (which in San Francisco means cats and dogs) to pet gyms and enrolling them in diet and exercise programs.
SF News Real Estate Investors Target West Oakland For Gentrification As gentrification finger-pointing reaches a fever pitch in the Bay Area, the Wall Street Journal has found a new culprit: real estate investors who are pumping money in spots like West Oakland in
SF News 2 BART Workers Killed by Train Two BART workers were killed after being struck by a moving BART train Saturday afternoon. The victims, whose names have not yet been released, were conducting inspections on a stretch of track north
SF News Accident Topples Moving Truck In Duboce Triangle First we got a new BART strike, then a cyclist was killed, this time by a Muni bus. Now the day seems downright cursed, with another accident this afternoon in Duboce Triangle that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This: Spark's Sugar Rush Fundraiser We here at SFist are always on the lookout for ways to stuff out faces with treats, especially if it's guilt-free and for a good cause. Enter the 6th annual Sugar Rush, a
