Arts & Entertainment Church of 8 Wheels Building Gets Landmark Status, Skate Parties Will Apparently Keep On Rollin’ The former church on Fillmore Street now popularly known as the Church 8 Wheels was granted landmark status by the SF Board of Supervisors Tuesday, and while the property will be redeveloped into housing, its popular skate rink will reportedly stay intact.
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Coolest, Least Touristy Landmarks In San Francisco Tourists new to wandering San Francisco, and new residents who need places to wander, should know that there is more to this fine city than Coit Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, and Fisherman's
SF News Bronze Disc Marking SF's Geographic Center Immediately Stolen A photo posted by @peternocturnal on Jun 9, 2016 at 6:13pm PDT "The center could not hold," the above Instagrammer captions this shot perhaps channelling Yeats by way of Didion but I
SF News City Surveyors Mark Actual Geographic Center Of SF, Sort Of In recent days, because apparently they don't have enough to do, the city's Department of Public Works installed a small brass disc marker on a sidewalk on Corbett Avenue, the 700 block, on
Arts & Entertainment National Geographic Photographer Contest Inspires Stunning Images Of San Francisco There are still a couple weeks to enter the 2016 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest, but unless your skills and access to helicopters is up to the level of some
SF News [Update] To Save A 100-Foot Tree, Inner Richmond Couple Consults Planning Commission (And A Shaman) At 46 Cook Street, a tall tree of 100 years old and as many feet high is at the center of an Inner Richmond neighborhood feud, because of course it is. The Chronicle
Arts & Entertainment Trove Of Historical SF Photos Now Available For Your Browsing Pleasure San Francisco history buffs delighted at the news last year that a local nonprofit had been entrusted with the digitization of a vast trove of historical photos of the city, and that the
SF News Clothing Company To Help Spur Preservation Of Historic Alcatraz Lighthouse "Most people only know of Alcatraz because of the prison," executive director of the United States Lighthouse Society Jeff Gales tells the Mercury News, "but it has a rich maritime and lighthouse service
Arts & Entertainment [Semi-NSFW] These Are The Real Painted Ladies Of San Francisco A set of trompe l'oeil body painting works by artist Trina Merry from her San Francisco Series: Visions in the Fog gives new meaning to the term "painted lady." As KQED reports, to
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Cool, If Dizzying, Day In The Life Of SF The fine folks at Porch House Pictures just sent in this video, shot in a single 12-hour span in sunny San Francisco, in which they "raced up hills and across the bay trying
SF News City Landmarks Turn Red for World AIDS Day Today, December 1, is World AIDS Day. In honor of the day, Coit Tower and City Hall will be turning red come nightfall. So, be sure to check them out on your way
SF News Happy Birthday, Golden Gate Bridge Turning 72-years-old today, the Golden Gate Bridge celebrates another year as San Francisco's most notable landmark. The bridge-opening party kicked off on May 27, 1937, lasting for one week. Being a Gemini, the
SF News Our Nightly Festival of Lights Remains Undisrupted Many residents didn't participate, and in fact most of the people we talked to had never heard of it. Inconceivable! How could they have avoided Lights Out's bombardment of enviromessaging? The event had
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Oh noes: local homes sales are in the crapper. [SJ Merc] -- Sex assault charged against Sacto Kings player Justin Williams. [CBS5] -- More lighted landmarks to shutdown during Saturday's Lights Out
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like
SF News Support Local Architecture You can pick from 25 sites, which include perennial favorites like the Roxie and the Fox Theater in Oakland, but also some gems you may not have thought of, like the neon signs
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: a Palace for the SF Queens. Some go boring: pick the address, and voila, Campton Place, Hawthorne Lane, etc. Some go eponymous, which rhymes with non-adventurous, pompous and presumptuous: Gary Danko, Michael Mina. Some think too much, and pick
SF News Ketchup Girl We'll be straight with you -- we're having a hard time following the whole "is Annemarie Conroy qualified" debacle that's been afoot for the past few days -- something about a report being
Arts & Entertainment Viva Boulware! It feels like truly local coverage -- and SFist means that as a compliment. Boulware included punk culture, the literary scene, talk about when the Mission and Potrero Hill were affordable, the sex
SF News Landmark This, Baby! The San Francisco Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board will be meeting next month to decide, well, not much, really. They're going to choose 10 buildings or places to recommend to the Board of Supes
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Kiki and Herb on the Rocks Hey, you know that cabaret-drag performance duo, Kiki and Herb? Oh, you don't? Well, then, you might not really care for , which comes off feeling like a tribute mockumentary laden with in-jokes. Kiki
Arts & Entertainment Somebody Up There Likes Us Awwww. We're feeling all soft and snuggly after reading this sweet Gawker post that says kinda nice stuff about San Francisco! Apparently, a reader contacted them, requesting "more features about why San Francisco
SF News Got Housing? First, there are several battles over the tearing down of old buildings to be replaced by condos. Among the buildings being fought over is an abandoned cottage, an old abandoned theater, and an
SF News Save the Old Church The Archdiocese has been looking to sell the church to a developer as the church has been closed since 1994 due to the fact they can’t afford the $7-$8 million in
