SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bars To Avoid Like The Plague During Santacon On Saturday Because It's The Actual Plague Isn't it about time that San Francisco passed common sense Santacon laws? I'm talking, of course, about a complete ban. If you're blissfully unaware of the annual scourge, allow me to ruin your
SF News A Few Ideas For Where To Give In SF This #GivingTuesday Now that Black Friday has spawned Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, and probably something on Sunday I'm forgetting, it's time for #GivingTuesday, in order to help you atone for your consumerist sins of
SF News Black Friday Shopper Fatally Shot In Reno Over Parking Spot; Brawl Breaks Out At Modesto Mall The horror show of Black Friday is over, and of course brawls broke out in various parts of the country as they always do. But things turned deadly Thanksgiving night outside a Reno
Arts & Entertainment This Is Just A Video Of A Hamster Enjoying A Tiny Thanksgiving Feast Videos of hamsters enjoying human-looking meals are nothing new to YouTube, but this particular hamster, Matilda, is somewhat new to the platform, and actually has a whole channel devoted to her and hamster
SF News SF's Tallest, Most Tremendous Christmas Tree? It's At A Building Partially Owned By Donald Trump When the yugest, really the most tremendous Christmas tree in San Francisco is lit up in a ceremony on November 29th, Donald Trump won't be there to flip the switch, but his spirit
Arts & Entertainment SF Zoo Gets Three Reindeer Visiting For The Holidays Belle, Holly, and Peppermint, three reindeer, have arrived to add some holiday cheer to the San Francisco Zoo, where they will be hanging out on the Playfield Lawn every day through the new
Arts & Entertainment Let The Holidays Begin: Union Square And Embarcadero Ice Rinks Open Today I know Halloween is barely over and your bathroom sink probably still has evidence of grease paint in it, but the ice rinks at Union Square and Justin Herman Plaza both opened for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF No Longer Best Place To Trick-Or-Treat Just in time for Halloween, we bring you some truly frightening news: San Francisco is no longer the top trick-or-treating city in the country. KRON 4 reports this scarifying tidbit, and notes that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Crab Season May Not Be Ruined This Year As Ocean Temps Fall Last year's disastrous local Dungeness crab season in which fisheries were not allowed to open until March, typically the natural end of the season in these parts is not likely to be repeated
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two San Jose Men Win First And Second Place In Hot Dog Eating Competition, Again San Jose is home to two of the nation's most decorated competitive eaters, and the two went stomach to stomach once again at Coney Island's annual July Fourth hot dog eating contest, with
Arts & Entertainment Gay It Up: Your Official SFist Guide To Pride Week 2016 Is Here Yes, Pride Sunday itself has become a bit less of a gay celebration in recent years, but with its million or so attendees in San Francisco and the strong tradition that many LGBT
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meadowood Is Taking A Year Off From Its Star-Studded 12 Days Of Christmas Monied foodinistas have had the chance to eat food from a heady array of celebrity and inside-food-celebrity chefs over the past eight years during the Restaurant at Meadowood's annual, highly publicized guest chef
SF News It's Memorial Day Weekend!: Expect TSA Lines, Traffic, And Crowds For Carnaval If you aren't already high-tailing it out of town or in a TSA line as we speak, be prepared for a few things that are for certain this Memorial Day Weekend. First off,
Arts & Entertainment Video: Man Attempts To Break Peep-Eating Record, For Easter This guy, who does not introduce himself, recently stuffed 200 marshmallow Peeps in his mouth in 14 minutes and 12 seconds, which he believes is a world record. Via a quick internet search,
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Luck Of The BARTish 🍀 Just met a Bart leprechaun 🍀 pic.twitter.com/Yq6pdiJfhB— cara rose defabio (@caradefabio) March 17, 2016 BART sure could use a little luck today, what with the voltage spikes knocking out so many
Arts & Entertainment A Look At San Francisco's St. Patrick's Day Parade And Its Gold Rush History San Francisco St. Patrick's Day Parade, 1946. (LIFE) San Francisco has long been host to big St. Patrick's Day celebrations though the parade's gotten a bit smaller in recent years the first of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Eat The Best Irish Food In San Francisco As St. Patrick's Day approaches, we at SFist thought you needed a primer on the best of many places around San Francisco to indulge in traditional Irish pub grub (and baked goods) whilst
Arts & Entertainment Did You Know That Every 100 Years We Have To Skip Doing Leap Year? Most of you probably know that the earth's orbit around the sun takes 365 and a quarter days, thus necessitating this extra day in February called Leap Day, every four years. It's kind
Arts & Entertainment Important Question: Where Are The New Year's Fireworks? Hey, all you who are new to town and looking to do the touristy things that new folks do! Or hey to all those of you who have been in SF for years
SF News SFPD Bolsters New Year's Eve Security Over Terror Fears Like in cities across the globe tonight, San Francisco police are preparing as best they can for the possibility of a terror attack in the wake of the November attack on Paris and
Arts & Entertainment The 16 Best Party Options For Ringing In 2016 In SF Do you still not have your New Year's Eve figured out? Have you still not secured your “If it sucks” Plan B or second-party scenario? For those of you not currently holding advance
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Get Some Christmas Eve Tamales In case you missed that tamale party earlier in the week and have not thought ahead about the all-important, must-have food item for a San Francisco Christmas, here are some good bets for
Arts & Entertainment Put On This New Wave Christmas Mixtape While You Bake Those Final Cookies In honor of Christmas after this odd and violent year we've had, an outfit that calls themselves Generic Male DJs has put out a mixtape of almost two dozen rare examples of Christmas
SF News Parts Of SFO Could Be Under Water For Christmas Eve Travel Due To King Tides, El Niño A "perfect storm" of El Niño season rain and unusually high King Tides on Christmas Eve could cause some serious snags in holiday travel, especially out of SFO. As the Business Times is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing: Tamale Party At Hecho For many in the Latino community, Christmas is all about tamales. And tonight you can either hop in to Hecho in the Castro for a prix fixe tamale feast, or take a dozen
