Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho Dominates Celebrity Jeopardy! and Advances To Semifinals Along With W. Kamau Bell SF-born Margaret Cho wowed Celebrity Jeopardy! viewers with a stellar performance, securing a spot in the semifinals. Cho might end up competing with Oakland's W. Kamau Bell who advanced earlier in the season.
SF Politics Willie Brown’s Old Clothes Now On Sale Through Goodwill In the ‘Willie Brown Collection’ We kid you not, former SF mayor Willie Brown is now selling his clothes on Goodwill, and you can own Da Mayor’s old clothes. There aren't any fedoras on sale, but you can buy one of his puffy Patagonia vests, and… his old coat hangers?
SF News Staples Gives Over $100K To SF Schools, With Lady Gaga's Help Staples, the office supply chain, recently partnered with Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation and DonorsChoose.org to donate $100,966 to San Francisco teachers' projects. ABC 7 reports that the gift is
SF News Joy Venturini Bianchi Gets Fired From Charity After Chronicle's Major Exposé In a December 2016 expose that floored nearly all of San Francisco society, an investigative team from the San Francisco Chronicle released a scathing report detailing the shady dealings of a well-known bespectacled
Arts & Entertainment GLBT History Museum Seeks End-Of-Year Donations To Help Relocate Their Archive The Castro-based GLBT History Museum is reaching out for end-of-the-year, tax-deductible donations because one of the big projects they've got to undertake in the new year is moving their entire, diverse archive of
SF News Hot Cop Of Castro Is Doing Wet T-Shirt Contest For Charity Officer Chris Kohrs, a.k.a. The Hot Cop of Castro, is participating in a contest for charity next Monday that will involve him wearing something skimpy and having buckets of ice thrown
SF News Google Glass Wants To Help, Announces Contest For U.S. Nonprofits And just to show you that we here at SFist are not always about pouring a piping-hot demitasse of venom on Google Glass, the face computer you hate to hate (because, hey, growing
SF News Mark Benioff Calls Out Tech Companies Who Refuse To Give Back To Community "We still have some pretty epic companies here who have had IPOs and aren't giving—and aren't part of this and won't join. And entrepreneurs who don't believe in this. This is not
Arts & Entertainment Warning: SantaCon Happens This Saturday What started out in 1994 by the San Francisco Cacophony Society as a festive, charity-driven Christmas outing has since turned into a cavalcade of drunk pricks and slutty Santa garb. And public urination.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Restaurants And Creativity Explored Team Up For Cookbook For your Friday reassurance that yes, there is goodness and humanity in this world, we bring you a look at the new Arts & Eats cookbook, which releases today as a collaboration between
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Attn Burners: Drop Off Your Food On Your Way Home As hordes of revelers prepare to head to Burning Man (starting this Sunday!), we'd like to remind them that there's a choice way to donate leftover non-perishable camp food. It goes to the
SF News Donate To Red Cross To Help Oklahoma Tornado Victims The wake of Monday's two-mile-wide tornado in Moore, Oklahoma -- a natural disaster that killed dozens and has been billed by some as "the worst tornado in the history of the world" --
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Monday: SFist Editor Brock Keeling Guest Bartending At Gitane In semi-self-serving news, your SFist editor (that's me!) will kick off a new guest-bartending series at Gitane on Monday, May 6th. It goes to benefit La Cocina. Monday night’s specialty libation, christened
Arts & Entertainment Mr. Marina Competition 2013: Spray-Tanned Fundraising Arriving at Ruby Skye last night with 30 minutes to spare in the free hour of sponsored SKYY drinks, your humble SFist editor promptly ordered two vodka sodas. You know — to blend in.
Arts & Entertainment These Bros In Spray Tans Would Like To Remind You That The Mr. Marina Competition Is Tonight Behold: Five of the ten finalists in the 2013 Mr. Marina Competition, all dolled up in their finest underoos and spray-on bronze from a local salon. This photo should serve as a retina-searing
SF News Concert, Fundraising Underway For Family Who Lost Daughter To Treasure Island Fire When blazes erupt in the Mission or that Castro, ones that displace residents, the community jumps at the chance to support the fire victims with fundraisers at local hipster bars. And we love
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Makes $500 Million Donation To Charity (In Facebook Stock) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a hefty charitable donation this holiday season. The 28-year-old entrepreneur, who pledged two years ago to give away at least half of his wealth to charity, has gifted
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink City's Top Bartenders (And SFist Editor!) To Help NYC Bars Devastated By Hurricane Sandy By now you are all aware of Hurricane Sandy's tacky devastation. New York City and New Jersey were pummeled black and blue. But did you know that bars in the Tri-State area were
SF News BART Agent Fired For Being Charitable A BART station agent who took pity on an impoverished teen was fired yesterday, on his 66th birthday. Jim Stanek admits that he gave a 16-year-old boy $300 in paid BART tickets because
Arts & Entertainment Notes From A Volunteer: Glide's Grocery Bag Giveaway Friend of SFist Olivia Warnecke spent her morning volunteering at Glide Memorial Church as part of their annual Grocery Bag Giveaway. Here's what she had to say: Volunteering at Glide is something I
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Café Gratitude Asks For Help Amid News Of Closure In light of today's news that all Northern California Café Gratitude restaurants will close or be sold, owner Terces Engelhart made plea to supporters today. She asked fans and, ahem, followers interested in
Arts & Entertainment 12-Foot Tall LEGO Santa Yoda Coming to Union Square On Friday, November 18, the public and the fine folks at LEGO will help construct a 12-foot tall by 10-foot wide Santa Yoda made out of lego bricks, right next to the ice
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A 2000 Foot Long Hot Wheels Race Track This is like the Hot Wheels Race Track we had as a kid, only not nearly as long or rad, and it doesn't jump off the track every five seconds. O the envy,
SF News Bayview Pastors React Charitably to Kenneth Harding Shooting Death In response to tension sparked by Kenneth Harding reportedly shooting himself to death while trying to evade fare police earlier this month, several pastors "stood on a Muni platform Monday in San Francisco's
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Snubs Supermodel Niki Taylor Hey, everybody! Guess what? Niki Taylor is in town. She's here to give San Francisco money. Because we're broke, that's why. Who is Niki Taylor, you ask? Well, first of all, shame on
