Arts & Entertainment Sleep Better On The Mattress That's Shipped For Free, To Your Door, In A Box Slumber is serious business—whoever said that sleep is for the weak probably lived with a not-so-great mattress. Sound like a familiar problem? Then it might be time for a mattress upgrade. For
SF News Day Around The Bay: Judge Throws Out Snapchat-While-Driving Suit Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. It appears that Twitter has banned the account for
SF News Adoptly, The 'Tinder For Adoption,' Keeps Insisting It's Real [Update: It's Not] "Swipe right to parenthood with Adoptly, the world’s first adoption app," declared a highly suspicious pitch to SFist last week. Vaguely outraged at the illegal-sounding idea of adopting children through an app
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week The sun is out after what feels like months of non-stop rain, and this is why you live in California sunny, relatively temperate days in January and February while the rest of the
SF News 70 Years Ago This Week The Mayor Tried To Kill Off San Francisco's Cable Cars The will of San Franciscans to hold on to things we love, and fight change when it doesn't feel right, is a source of terrific frustration to real estate developers and others in
SF News SF School Board To Repeal Long Unobserved Rule Segregating Asian Students The San Francisco Unified School District is using itself as an educational example tonight, ceremonially expunging a racist 1906 rule that's still on the books — though not observed and mostly-but-not-quite-forgotten — that calls for
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Won't Run For President, But Is Preparing For More Political Battles Setting recent rumors to rest, for now, that he has designs on a high political office such as President, Mark Zuckerberg responded to a direct question from BuzzFeed News about his political aspirations
SF News Video: Archeologist Excavates Keel, Artifacts From Gold Rush-Era Ship At SF Development Site The Arkansas Re-discovery from Grosvenor Americas on Vimeo. As local history buffs know and will never tire of telling you, much of San Francisco's Financial District is built on landfill — the Bay waters
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink At Least 60 Bay Area Restaurants Have Closed Since September It's been a rough, rough year for restaurateurs around the country and the local region, and as January draws to a close we have a somewhat shocking estimated tally of how many Bay
Arts & Entertainment Behold The Coyotes Of Buena Vista Park With anecdotal "dozens" of coyotes living in San Francisco's wooded areas, it's hardly a surprise to see one of the canines in a local park. And yet, a pair (or more?) of coyotes
SF News Attorneys For Ghost Ship Proprietor Now Arguing That Fire Started Next Door The trial-by-media for Ghost Ship proprietor Derick Almena predictably continues, now seven weeks since the deadly blaze tore through the live-work warehouse he designed and managed and took the lives of 36 people.
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Storms Spur State Of Emergency Police are looking for two men who are allegedly involved in an armed robbery on the UC Berkeley campus. [KRON 4] Google's messaging strategy is just a mess. [Wired] Plans to raze the
SF News Woman Caught On Video Vandalizing Davis Mosque With Bacon, Shattered Windows The Islamic Center of Davis was vandalized on Sunday, and surveillance video shows a woman in her 20s or 30s arriving outside the mosque around 3:50 a.m., leaving strips of bacon
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Wave Smashes Through Window, Rushes Into Coastal Restaurant It's one thing to hear about this week's dangerously high surf, it's another to see it in action, especially when that action is happening inside a nearby costal restaurant. As previously reported, Monterey
SF News [Update] Squaw Valley Ski Patrol Officer Killed In Explosion, Mountain Closed A ski patrol officer was killed this morning at Tahoe's Squaw Valley resort during "avalanche control activities," closing the resort for the day according to a statement from a representative of the ski
SF News Two People, Two Cats Mysteriously Dead In Berkeley Apartment, Carbon Monoxide Leak Ruled Out #BREAKING Berkeley Police say suspicious:2 people (approx. 30's), 2 cats found dead in Deakin St. unit of 4-plex bldg pic.twitter.com/Z5BPB8j2Qw— Jana Katsuyama (@JanaKTVU) January 24, 2017 There were no
SF News Man Found Dead In Muni Tunnel Might Have Been Injured While Stealing Transfers A death near Muni's Church Street Station made headlines in January for the crowds of commuters left stranded in its wake — but new details reported Monday suggest that the tale was far more
SF News New SFPD Chief Bill Scott Sworn In Amidst Small Protest A swearing-in ceremony for SF's new police chief Monday at the City Hall rotunda was interrupted briefly by a small group of protesters affiliated with the Frisco Five the hunger strikers who led
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: AirPod Phone Call Troubles Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Local luminaries share insights into Robin Williams' early years.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sierra Nevada Brewery Recalls Beer In 36 States Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. announced on Sunday the voluntary
SF News Chastened By Regulators, Chinese Bike-Share Company Plans Scaled-Back 'Soft' Launch In SF Bluegogo, the app-based Chinese bike share company whose reported plan to drop thousands of bikes around San Francisco willy-nilly had local lawmakers tut-tutting, is opting instead to proceed with caution. Specifically, that means
SF News San Francisco Remains The Nation's Most Childless City For most of the last two decades, San Francisco has been among the country's least age-diverse places, boasting one of the lowest concentration of families with children under 18 of any major US
Arts & Entertainment Same Guy Who Made 'Hollyweed' Sign Hangs 'IMPEACH' Banner On Golden Gate Bridge IM🍑 "You're Fired." 🌁 #wethepeople A photo posted by Zach Fernandez (@jesushands) on Jan 21, 2017 at 7:46pm PST As much of liberal America was participating in women's marches on Saturday to protest
SF News Hyphy Rapper Keak Da Sneak Is Recovering, Performing After Being Shot A photo posted by Keak Da Sneak (@therealkeakdasneak) on Jan 22, 2017 at 4:53pm PST Oakland rap legend Keak da Sneak, the stage name of Charles Kente Williams (Bowens), a progenitor of
SF News One Percenters In Bay Area And Beyond Busy Making Chic Apocalypse Preparations Whatever apocalypse prep you might be making these days, however drastic, it's probably quaint in comparison to what certain members of America's one percent are busy undertaking. Doomsday "preppers," a category of paranoiacs
