SF News City Decides To Take Care of Trees, Add More Greenery Though 'green' in its lefty politics, San Francisco is actually not that green in a literal sense. See, city trees shade only a mere 13 percent of city streets, putting us to shame
Arts & Entertainment Map: What Did San Francisco Look Like In The Mid-1800s? Speaking of Emperor Norton, here's a map of how Baghdad by the Bay looked during the 1800s, care of Smithsonian Magazine. Marvel at the old coastline! Recoil in horror at the landfill sitting
Arts & Entertainment Behold, The First Known Color Photos Of S.F. The 1906 earthquake changed a lot of things in San Francisco, if by "a lot of things" you mean much of the city was reduced to gravel and gutted by fire. But here's
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Named Snobbiest City, Which It Kinda Is Travel+Leisure has given San Francisco top billing in its list of America's Snobbiest Cities, based on a variety of factors such as propensity for recycling, culture and other markers of "elitism". To
Arts & Entertainment 20 Signs You're A True S.F. Local Here in San Francisco, locals are a rare breed. So just what makes you a "true local"? Wars have been fought over less. Here are 20 signs you just might make the cut.
Arts & Entertainment 25 Signs That You Must Be New To S.F. Last week we brought you 41 Signs That You're a Jaded San Franciscan, and this week, we're swinging the pendulum the other way. Here are 25 signs that you either just got into
Arts & Entertainment 41 Signs You're A Jaded San Franciscan Sometimes it can be hard to tell what's normal in this town. Here now (with a tip of the hat to Buzzfeed listicles): 41 possible signs you've become that jaded San Franciscan. 1.
Arts & Entertainment 5 Abandoned Couches Each week we will offer you five images from Erik Wilson's epic series on the abandoned couches of San Francisco. He's been capturing these germ-ridden yet oddly beautiful Punky Brewster'd couches for several
SF News New Artist-Designed Bike Racks Installed Last year, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition held a Treasure Island bike rack contest. Kirk Scott, Todd Gilens, Daly Genik Architects, and Ryan Dempsey won the opportunity to create bike racks in the
SF News Newsom Stars in Final Swearing-In Ceremony Lt. Governor-elect Gavin Newsom appointed his final batch of city board members and commissioners on Tuesday. A few new names of note? "Dorka Keehn and Kimberlee Stryker were appointed to the city's Arts
misc Bernal Heights Blog Debuts You know, kids, your editor once lived atop Bernal Heights for a brief spell during the early '00s. We don't remember much about our tenure there, really, except titularly wild times at Wild
SF News Behold the Brian O'Neill Memorial Peopleway Now that the city's Bicycle Plan is back on track (har), fanciful new ideas are coming to light. One idea that we like best, which was highlighted Streetsblog today, is the Brian O'Neill
SF News How Do You Handle Abusive Cab Rides? Most cabbies in San Francisco are hardworking, chatty ilk who, if you're nice, might even let you smoke inside the cab. They have the best stories, most bizarre and/or accurate philosophies, and
SF News Don't Dump Unwanted Stuff On City Sidewalks Uh oh. Did you know that you could face a steep, steep fine if you dump your old furniture on the city sidewalks? We didn't. And we've tossed everything from post-party cheap vodka
SF News WalkScore Scores San Francisco No. 1 When It Comes to Walking Walk Score, a site that tells you just how "walkable" your city or hood is, ranked San Francisco the top spot for those of us who get by on foot exclusively. Eating San
misc Photo du Jour 312 Think twice, is right. How very bad you must feel right about now. You can always try helping her, and many like her, by donating to the Coalition on Hobos (keep the Street
misc What's Going On Here, Disgruntled Tenant? With a fondness for black and red ink, a tenant at Oak and Broderick seems peeved with their current living situation, which allegedly involves rats, urine, fecal matter, and an illegal rent increase.
SF News Help One Woman and Her Family Find a Home While Gavin Newsom tours California to tout his successes as mayor of San Francisco -- not to mention spending the weekend at the insider-baseball-y Democratic Convention in Sacramento, along with practically every other
SF News Stockton Rated Most Miserable Stockton wins it. Using nine factors (i.e., commute times, corruption, professional sports teams, Superfund sites, taxes, unemployment, violent crime and weather) to determine the crappiness of 150 of the country's largest metropolitan
misc Looking At The Sky In Silence? This has the stench of Academy of Art student project emanating from it, but...who knows? An SFist reader (hillary's_quivering_lip) sent it in to us, taken at Montgomery and Sacramento. It's
misc Cash Tomato To Give Away Cash, Tomatoes In Dolores Park This Saturday...Just Because Yowza! Yowza! Yowza! This Saturday afternoon at Dolores Park, Cash Tomato, a San Francisco "video sharing website that gives weekly large cash prizes to its highest rated videos," is giving away free cash.
misc ¿Como Se Wha? Someone please tell us what this means! We neither speak nor understand Mexican. Helpo! It seems that these have been found up and down Howard Street today, and we're flummoxed. What secrets do
