Arts & Entertainment The Ghost Signs Of San Francisco, Mapped When Kasey Smith would walk to the advertising agency where she used to work, she would pass "no fewer than ten" old painted signs on the sides of buildings. Known as ghost signs,
SF News New S.F. Rent Map Says 1 BRs Now Average $2,800 Unless you've been living under a (rent-controlled) rock, you know that rental wars are in full swing, and another rent map shows just how expensive the city has become. According to the map,
SF News Photos Of Asiana Flight 214 Crash At San Francisco International Airport Around Noon on Saturday, July 6th, 2013 Asiana Airlines flight 214 from Seoul, South Korea crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport. Two passengers have been confirmed dead and at least 35
SF News This Interactive Map Shows Where Your Cell Phone Will Get Stolen Cell phone theft is reaching epidemic proportions in San Francisco, accounting for 50% of all crime reported in the city. Police data show that about 1,470 instances were reported last year alone.
SF News Map: Average Rent For 1BR In San Francisco By Neighborhood Were you having a good week? Too bad. We're here to shed some light on the housing situation in San Francisco. And it's brutal. For us, anyway. You too, we can only assume.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Map: Dine About Town 2013 View San Francisco Dine About Town 2013 - Restaurants in a larger map The fine folks at Google sent us this map that, from January 15 - 31, you can use to peruse
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Map: 12 Gay Bars In The Castro, Drawn On Cartoon Man's Abdominal Muscles Artist Nate Padavick drew this precious map showcasing 12 of the Castro's most popular bars. And he drew it on a cartoon man's abdominal six-pack. It was unleashed last year around Gay Pride
SF News Map: Every Operating Pinball Machine In San Francisco Mission Mission came across this map created by San Francisco Pinball Flippers that shows practically every working pinball machines available in San Francisco. Whether it be at a bar, restaurant or club, this
misc The Streets of San Francisco, Rendered in Typography San Francisco loves maps. San Francisco also loves typography. So, the San Francisco Typography Map almost makes too much sense. Names of roads, streets and highways are all meticulously drawn in an impossibly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Map: Food By State Remember I Can Haz Cheeseburger? They created this map that denotes each state with a signifying food. California gets grapes. Because of Napa. That, and because a Welch's Concord Grape Juice craze is
misc These Are Things Makes Map Of San Francisco Jen and Omar from These Are Things, a mapmaking design team in Columbus, Ohio, just finished working on a map of San Francisco. Lovely, yes? According to Jen and Omar, "Our latest maps
misc Map: 50 States, 50 Television Series Although we disagree with California's TV denotation -- we are, if anything, a state brimming with Bad Girls Club hopefuls -- Andrew Shears' whimsical map of the US, featuring TV hits that best
misc Map: The World According to San Francisco Generic conceptualized and conceived this shockingly accurate map. Brilliant work. Click on map to enlarge. [via Curbed]
misc Map: Race and Ethnicity, San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley Eric Fischer created this map (click to enlarge!) based on race and ethnicity. He explains, "I was astounded by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago's racial and ethnic divides and wanted to see what
SF News Map: Bay to Breakers Liquor Store Locator SFist has a rich history of helping Bay to Breakers runners get nice and ripped. (You're welcome.) After publishing this 2008 map indicating liquor stores along the race route -- which resulted in
misc 1862 Map of San Francisco Eric Fischer came across this nifty map of San Francisco from 1862. We can't stop looking at it. Amazing stuff. Too small? No problem. View it in a larger size for more detail.
SF News For Your Neurotic Pleasure: Another Crime SF Map Following on the heels of CrimeReports and EveryBlock -- two other handy crime maps -- CrimeMapping.com unveiled their new crime map system. Like its predecessors, CrimeMapping.com allows you access to the
misc Map: Another Amusing View of San Francisco We've seen this map of San Francisco make the rounds this morning, which makes sense. It is most amusing. We especially enjoy the "Forests of Mystery," "Streets Upon Streets of Silence," and "You're
SF News Map: Google Flu Shots, Flu Trends Gosh. Everybody seems to be getting a flu shot, getting the flu, or freaking out about something flu-related. So, who are we not to throw fat on fire? We came across Google's new
SF News Map: Recovery Funds In San Francisco View Recovery at Work in San Francisco in a larger map While this is old news, this map is a great way to navigate info on Recovery Funds affecting San Francisco. Signed into
SF News Auto Arsonist Map View Where have the cars been burned? in a larger map Created by executonsinfo Here's a handy map that shows where the dastardly Auto Arsonist has flicked his or her Bic. Since Saturday
misc Create Your Own Map of San Francisco Neighborhoods We adore stuff like this, things that boil down the complicated and tenuous class, race and sociopolitical tapestry of San Francisco into convenient sweeping generalizations. And, which ever rapscallion took a black Sharpie
SF News Map: Northern California Unemployment View Northern CA Unemployment in a larger map SFGate's 'Scavenger' came up with the above handy Google map, denoting the 20 northern California cities with the highest unemployment rates. While it's not a
SF News Swine Flu Map View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map Adding to the paranoia that is Swine Flu Tracker 2009, here's a handy map that shows reported cases of the flu throughout the U.S.
SF News 'Map of Prop 8 Donors' Heats Up One of the perks of being behind-the-scenes here at SFist is that we get to read all of the angry comments that come after a story has moved away from the home (or
