SF News SoulCycle Is Shutting Down One Of Its San Francisco Locations Amid Full-Scale Downsizing Once mega-popular spinning gym SoulCycle has taken a hit from pandemic at-home workouts, lingering anxiety around group fitness, and widespread sales of Peloton bikes, and it means that the company is shutting down 25 percent of its U.S. studios and laying off around 75 employees.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's 11 Best Local Gyms And Fitness Studios San Francisco is an athlete's paradise. Weather is usually suitable for a run or a hike, hills are themselves a training regimen, and yoga studios seem to be city-mandated every few blocks. But
Arts & Entertainment The Six Best Swimming Pools In San Francisco Attention all urban swim folk: SF has a bunch of nice indoor and outdoor pools hidden away, both public and private, for your fitness and pleasure. First off, if you're going to swim
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Would Like You To Know He Lost 11 Pounds Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer, about twice a year, has to remind his readers that he does not, in fact, weigh 300 pounds, and that despite his occupation, he maintains a svelte figure.
Arts & Entertainment Hayes Valley To Get Outdoor Movies This Fall Further solidifying Hayes Valley's position as the trendiest and most centrally located of all our rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods, the Proxy development next to Patricia's Green on Octavia is getting a small outdoor cinema.
Arts & Entertainment Get Outside Now: Cinco de Mayo, Sunday Streets, Omar Sosa Still making plans? Here's some stuff happening around town. The Eighth Annual Cinco de Mayo Festival is going on as we speak at Dolores Park, featuring a Zumba-thon, live performances by Bay Area
SF News San Francisco Restaurant Honors Jack LaLanne Jack LaLanne, who was born in San Francisco, died on Sunday. The fitness guru will be remembered tonight at a local restaurant where they serve his signature dish. "A table will be set
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Taxing Soda Whether you call it soda, pop, or cola, you'll have to pay more to buy it if Gavin Newsom gets his way: Matier and Ross report that Mayor Newsom is thinking about taxing
Arts & Entertainment Ingmar Bergman Also Dies It was a deadly weekend to be famous, that’s for sure. As one commenter already pointed out today, famous people tend to die in threes: Bill Walsh, Tom Snyder, and of course,
Arts & Entertainment Time To Rummage Through The Closet: Nike Helps You Recycle Old Shoes Thumbs up to corporations exercising responsibility--particularly when it can promote exercise. Got old athletic shoes? Put them to good use. Help Nike turn old sneaks into playing surfaces within our community. The company's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fat Kids, Skinny Kids, Kids Who Climb On Rocks Looks like there's a budding trend for private companies to supply healthier school lunches in schools throughout the greater Bay Area. Some of these companies, as seen in the article in the SJ
SF News Love, San Francisco Style The funny thing about all this, however, is that just a few years ago, San Francisco was listed as not one of the best places for singles. Hmm... Anyways, all you need to
misc Hearings Can Sort of Be Healthy Too Since this hearing sounded like a whole heap of San Francisco fun, we searched around for any sort of description of it. SF Party Party, who have been one of the leading voices
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kelp Supplements: Not The Cure You’re Probably Looking For But some news about arsenic poisoning and kelp supplements this past week caught our eye. A study coming from UC Davis public health researchers reports on a woman who started taking kelp supplements
misc Saturdays Are Healthy Too All of this means the proverbial ball is in Gavin's proverbial court. He said he'd listen to the study even if it went against what he thought and the study went against what
misc Now Tell Us Something We Don't Know First, there's a new study out saying that, yes, marijuana does help ease pain. It is also pretty good for "Lost" and listening to Tool but we don't think the study measured that.
Arts & Entertainment Cycling: RSVP Dates for 2007 It's just getting too dangerous out there on the pavement these days isn't it? Time to head for the hills. Mountain biking is a grass-roots sport that is only about one bake sale
SF News SFist Blotter (Wednesday Edition) So many crime stories of note today that we're running an off-cycle SFist Blotter! A casual carpool driver from Hercules was carjacked this morning. She picked up the usual crew of city-bound commuters
Arts & Entertainment Tahoe Gets Fresh Pow Pow As for how the season is looking, experts looked into their Magic 8 ball and after getting "Ask Again Later" several times, have deemed the upcoming season as being possibly "exceptional." This is
SF News Ohmeed Popal Fit For Trial Ohmeed Popal, the hit-and-run SUV driver who rampaged through Pacific and Laurel Heights about three months ago, has been deemed sufficiently sane to be tried for 18 counts of attempted murder in San
SF News Way Better Than Million Dollar Baby (Not That That's Saying Much) "What's it like in there?" they'd ask us. "Is it scary?" "Well, no" we'd say, right before they'd remind us that the love of our life spends a lot of his free time
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Goes to the Human Cockfights Our Governor is SO not like your Governor. This particular match is between Team Gracie and Team Hammerhouse and kicks off the "Arnold Martial Arts Festival," which is part of the whole Arnold
Arts & Entertainment Rain On, Ride On So what's a fat tire to do in the Bay Area for a little wet-weather action? You could brave the conditions and hit the trails anyway, or you could look for some lower-impact
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Mocks Tubby, Frail Los Angeles Once Again We must admit -- as silly as they are, we love these non-scientific, arbitrary rankings lists put out by the likes of Men's Health and Men's Fitness, mostly because it's usually a good
misc SFist Last Freakin' Minute Holiday Gift Guide: The Body Gallery If you're like us, you still have a few disturbing holes on your holiday gift giving. Union Square is now officially insane, Stonestown is too generic, and all the nifty little boutiques are
