SF News BART Says, Actually, Standing On The Right And Passing On The Left Causes Escalators To Break While it's part of Bay Area gospel and a piece of established etiquette that longtime residents try to drill into the minds of all newcomers to stick to the right side of a
SF News SF Women's March Expects 60K Turnout As More Inauguration-Related Demonstrations Planned This week, Bay Area groups have planned a slew of demonstrations that vary from fundraisers to protests to simple showings of solidarity surrounding Friday's inauguration of President Trump. The largest of them is
Arts & Entertainment Step Inside The Curran, The Newly Renovated 95-Year-Old Theater Reopening This Month After two years of renovation and restoration, The Curran theater on Geary Street comes back to life this month with an inaugural production of the Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home. This will be
SF News SF Remembers Martin Luther King With Marches, Free Museum Admission, And More Just days after the third and final march from Selma to Montgomery on March 28, 1965 a tired but persistent Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before an audience of 5,000 and
SF News Potential Successors To Mayor Ed Lee 'Saddling Up' For a few glorious days in early November, political wonks mulled a possible successor for current San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee after he was mentioned as a possible cabinet member for Hilary Clinton,
SF News Remembering California's Great Flood Of 1862 Though Northern California saw some intense rain over the last couple of weeks, bringing rainfall totals for the month of January well above average for many cities and towns, these numbers are still
Arts & Entertainment Tell Us About Yourself For A Chance To Win An Apple Watch Corgis via istockphoto Interested in winning a free Apple Watch? Yeah, we thought that sounded pretty sweet too. Of course you are! We're conducting a short survey to get to know you, our
SF News Why Muni's New Light Rail Trains, Now Slowly Arriving, Have All Benches Instead Of Seats Last week — ominously on Friday the 13th — the first new Muni Metro light-rail train arrived in San Francisco after assembly in Sacramento, a sign that the transit agency's much-anticipated "Fleet of the Future"
SF News Peter Thiel Reportedly Mulling Run For Governor Of California "If you can dream it, you can do it," people frequently claim Walt Disney famously said. And when it comes to allegedly aspiring baby blood consumer and Trump-loving billionaire Peter Thiel, his newest
SF News Monday Lunchtime Links: Muni Operators Want More Than $8M The Coast Guard says it has resumed a search for a father and his young son after a wave swept them to sea from an Oregon beach. [Associated Press] The SFPL is on
SF News Mission Crash Sends Tourists Who Allegedly Ran Red Light Flying From GoCar Two thrown from open-air GoCar in crash on 24th Street and South Van Ness Ave. this afternoon: https://t.co/xQH5oA4xMK pic.twitter.com/7BFTYs3JU1— Mission Local (@MLNow) January 15, 2017 A couple
Arts & Entertainment Overdue Book Returned To SF Library 100 Years Late The San Francisco Public Library’s Fine Forgiveness Period is waiving late fees right now on all overdue items returned before February 14, 2017. But nothing you’ll return will be as overdue
SF News Ghost Ship Fire Survivor Remains In Critical Condition Six Weeks Later One of just a couple of people who were hospitalized after escaping the Ghost Ship fire on December 2 in Oakland, 32-year-old Sam "Peaches" Maxwell is surviving proof of how deadly the conditions
Arts & Entertainment 4 Must-Have Accessories For Surviving The Winter Chill Stay warm (and plugged in) with these cold weather essentials, now up to 75% off. From frigid fingers to numb ears, winter in the mean streets can be the worst. But just because
SF News Trump Won't Use @POTUS Twitter Handle, Will Use Current Account To Keep Whining About SNL For Four Years When he assumes the presidency in less than a week, will Donald Trump make the final transition to power, setting aside his @realDonaldTrump Twitter account and his penchant for petty feuds to adopt
SF News FBI Arrests Noor Salman, Widow Of Orlando Shooter, Outside San Francisco Noor Zahi Salman, the 30-year-old widow of Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen, was arrested Monday morning at the home where she's been living with family in the Bay Area, and will be making
SF News Monday Morning Linkdump: Sheriff's Deputy Arrested In Sacramento Shooting Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Your weekend ICYMI: SFPD released photos of the alleged
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zeitgeist Possibly Winning Fight Over Neighboring Development's Potential Shadow A planned five-story condo development at 198 Valencia Street has been delayed after the Planning Commission found reason to sympathize with popular beer garden Zeitgeist, which sits across the street and which could
SF News [Update] SF Woman Found In Back Of Bus Likely Died From Meningitis Following a report out of Marin County last week about a 48-year-old man who died from meningitis, there's another case report here in San Francisco. ABC 7 reports that 53-year-old Laura Robson was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: SF Symphony's Semi-Staged 'das klagende Lied' Lotfi Mansouri, when he ran SF Opera, had persistently tried to convince MTT to conduct an opera there. It never happened. To hear MTT leading vocal works in SF, we had to settle
SF News Sunday Links: Nude Cliff House Dip Turns Dangerous Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Just a couple more months before you can indulge
SF News Martin Shkreli Pelted With Poop At UC Davis As Yiannopoulos Event Gets Canceled Amid Protest #MartinShkreli getting what looked like dog poop thrown at his face after someone yelled "You piece of s**t" Vid by @Captain_Hooks @ABC10 pic.twitter.com/zYCiVhzNdb— Frances Wang (@ABC10Frances) January 14,
SF News Saturday Links: Ed Lee Is The Best Paid Mayor In The US Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Should you go see Live By Night? SFPD says
SF News Police Release Photos Of Suspect In Machete Slashing Case At Civic Center BART The San Francisco Police Department is still seeking their suspect in a machete attack last week inside the Civic Center BART station. The attack occurred on Friday evening, January 6, and was witnessed
SF News Day Around The Bay: Soup Kitchen Nuns Get Green Light For Mission Spot 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's been ten months since Tony Robbins bought those
