Arts & Entertainment Barbary Coast, SF's Swanky New 'Speakeasy' Pot Lounge, Offering 4/20 Booth Reservations For a taste of California, a puff of any old Humboldt County grass will do. But for a pot-smoking experience with a uniquely San Francisco feel, sneak over to Barbary Coast, a 2013-opened
SF News New Real Estate Map Adds New Neighborhood Names to SF Real estate agents have always reveled in transforming a neighborhood, or a sub-section of a shitty neighborhood, through the kind of re-branding that turns a place like Hell's Kitchen in NYC into Midtown
Arts & Entertainment Groovy Scavenger Hunt This Weekend You might think "potatoes" when you hear this street. Something big and red, there you might meet. If figuring out rhyming, city-themed clues is your kind of fun (and why wouldn't it be)
SF News Less Than Jake (McGoldrick) Well, at least he lives in the Richmond, right? (Some) affordable housing advocates and ethicists are shaking their heads over District 1 Supervisor Jake McGoldrick's poor party timing this week. Remember that lot
Arts & Entertainment Welcome to SFist, Sparkletack-Richard! We are giddy with glee to welcome Richard, author of the Sparkletack blog and podcast, to the SFist family. Richard's encyclopedic knowledge of San Francisco's past makes his history podcast mandatory listening for
SF News Happy Days Are Here Again? Now for those of you thinking "wha?" here are the reasons given: -My, look at how clean downtown looks -Look at all those happy, smiling shoppers shopping -Aren’t those fancy, schmany restaurants
SF News Tension On The Barbary Coast? So you know when you see the bright green headline on Usual Suspects that says "Supes Question Giving Contract To Lobbying Firm" and the note in bold from Usual Suspects publisher Alex Clemens
Arts & Entertainment So You Think You Know The Reel San Francisco? Sure, we've seen a lot of these movies before, but this is our chance to see studio archive prints of these classics in a big-screen theatre setting. DVDs just can't compare! Some of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: The Usual Suspects All good San Francisco political junkies have Usual Suspects bookmarked on their browser. The local clearinghouse of all things political keeps everyone up to date, diligently reading and summarizing all the articles about
SF News Wetter Than a [Fill In Tasteless Reference to Aroused Female Genitalia] SFist Rita (always looking out for the staff) was worried about flooding in North Beach earlier this week, and now we can report the corners of Powell and Columbus on Union are now
SF News Frank Chu Sells Out In a move sure to shock the world of San Francisco advertising, Frank Chu has left his current sponsor, Barbary Coast Consulting for Adidas. Yep, first there was Mars Blackmon, then L'il Penny,
SF News Local Publicists To Appear On MTV's "The Real World" “We’re giving these city slickers one bed, an intermittently functioning sink, and a variety of ‘colorful’ drop-in guests from the neighborhood,” said Real World producer Mary-Alice Bunim. “Longevity bets at MTV have
Arts & Entertainment Barbarians to Invade the Uptown As Scaramouche points out, there should be quite the turnout, so if you're into blogs or are a blogger, and you qualify as a Bay Area resident (we doubt anyone from Eureka, Sacramento
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zegnatronic! Adriel Hampton reports on his blog that Alex Clemens, the mastermind behind SF politics must-see site Usual Suspects, has proudly bought ad space on the back of Frank Chu's "Impeach Clinton/12 Galaxies"
SF News Stop the Presses! Or Whatever! Our First Blind Item!!! "That chic South of Market restaurant's doing fine with customers but not so well with the staff. At least two food servers are gone, I hear, because the boss asked whether they were
