Arts & Entertainment Booksmith Boycotts Book By Milo Yiannopoulos, Who Arrives In The Bay Area This Week In a move his acolytes are sure to leverage as evidence of the politically-correct-to-the-point-of-intolerance, easily "triggered" left, the independent San Francisco bookstore The Booksmith announced on its website this week that it won't
SF News Weed May Be Legal In California, But You Can Still Get Busted In Yosemite Or On Ocean Beach You think you can't get busted for smoking or possessing marijuana in California anymore after Prop 64 passed in November? Well, think again. If you're on federal land - which includes all national
SF News In Preparation For Trump Presidency, Dianne Feinstein Gets Pacemaker Senator Dianne Feinstein is said to be "working from home and resting comfortably" after undergoing a voluntary operation to have a pacemaker installed Tuesday afternoon, just hours after the 83-year-old senator was grilling
Arts & Entertainment 20 Questions With SFist: Artist Peter Cochrane If you've ever gotten coffee at Andytown or picked up a print at Three Fish Studios, you've already taken in Peter Cochrane's work: He does the weird and wonderful floral arrangements you see
SF News Post-Inauguration Women's March In San Francisco Announces Speakers, Performers As soon as she heard about the Women's March on Washington, Martha Shaughnessy, who has lived in San Francisco almost her whole life, bought a ticket to fly to the nation's capital. She
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: PG&E Lays Off Staff The San Francisco Board of Education has a fresh set of leaders to guide it as it selects the next superintendent of public schools. [SF Examiner] SF startup gathers nation’s Medicaid data
SF News Trump May Be Helping Kill Twitter's Brand As President-Elect Trump wraps up his first news conference since July, and maybe the last he'll give until we're at war with someone, the San Francisco Chronicle gives us a somewhat speculative piece
SF News Head Of SF's Police Commission Resigns, Will Be Lawyer For Sheriff's Department The embattled president of the San Francisco Police Commission surprised police reformers Tuesday, when she announced that she was quitting the gig for a job with the San Francisco Sheriff's Department. Suzy Loftus,
SF News Unknown Cyclist Sets Fire To San Francisco Porta-Potty According to the San Francsico Police Department, some time between 3:56 a.m. and 4:48 a.m. Tuesday, a man in his 20s rode a bicycle up to a porta-potty located
Arts & Entertainment Get $70 Off These Smartphone Camera Lenses To Totally Transform Your Photos Do it for the ‘gram. Give your smartphone camera the same capabilities as a professional-quality DSLR with this five-pack of Clip & Snap Smartphone Camera Lenses. You get five different looks — each of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ask A San Francisco Native: What's The Deal With SF Pizza? Hi, Rain! When I moved here from the East Coast (with a stop for college in the Midwest) in the 1990s, it seemed like I couldn't get a decent pizza anywhere. Sure, I'd
SF News J Church Train Stops Just Short Of Fallen Tree In Dolores Park .@sfmta_muni J line isn't going anywhere pic.twitter.com/yYjmbmAJDA— Diego Ongaro (@ongardie) January 11, 2017 Mother nature was busy trimming trees last night with heavy winds and rain. At around 7
SF News Storm Aftermath Update: San Anselmo Evacuated, Multiple Landslides, Guerneville Still Flooded After Tuesday's storm and more scattered showers expected today, the Bay Area has had a more than thorough drenching and the snowpack in the Sierra could rise over 200 percent of normal for
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: BART Delays Escalator Repair Vote Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here The latest on how SF is navigating its role
Arts & Entertainment Dropping In On Squaw Valley Think you can handle California’s most epic terrain? “3 2 1 Dropping!,” another Squallywood denizen shouts, declaring to the valley below they’ve embarked on another quest for eternal radness. Since hosting
SF News Update: BART Service Outage Between 24th St. And Colma After Two Trains Hit Tree Limb 24th Mission Street Station Chaos. #SFBART #BART #SF .@SFBART pic.twitter.com/b5tlV3lUXz— Charlie (@PerKerry) January 11, 2017 Under heavy winds during rush hour this evening, a BART train struck a large tree
SF News Day Around The Bay: Supervisor Ronen And Mayor Lee Attempt To Preserve Latino Businesses Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Following that mysterious rotten egg smell that may have
SF News Will New District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy Face An Immediate Special Election This Year? It's a longshot and a rumor at this point, but mayoral appointee Jeff Sheehy, who today is attending his first Board of Supervisors meeting as District 8 supervisor, could face some immediate opposition
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open: New Tenderloin Cocktail Spot Rum & Sugar For your wintertime drinking pleasure, a brand new cocktail bar has just debuted in the former Castle Club (823 Geary Street) space in the heart of the Tenderloin, and it's called Rum &
SF News Rival Surveys Study Proposed Bike Lanes For Fell And Oak Along The Panhandle San Francisco cyclists accustomed to the mixed-use path through the Panhandle to and from Golden Gate Park may someday be granted a lane of their own. Sure, protected lanes on Fell and Oak
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alta CA Will Get Second Location In Dogpatch, Alta Cafe & Bar When the ambitious new gallery and arts venue the Minnesota Street Project debuted last spring, we learned that chef-restaurateur Daniel Patterson (Coi, Locol, Aster, Haven, Plum Bar, Alta CA) had signed on to
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 15 Cool Things To Check Out This Week With another rainy week upon us, it's hard not to take to bed. Don't give in! Rouse yourself! Fight! Get out of the house and do some of this stuff. TUESDAY, JANUARY 10
SF News Welcome To Legal Weed Boom Town, Where Even Former Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi Is Cashing In These are heady times for San Francisco's existing marijuana industry, a loose affiliation of medical dispensaries, cultivators, and consultants who are still tending to their existing clientele of patients with doctors' recommendations while
SF News Video: The Yuba River At Full Gush South Yuba River, Monday, Jan 9th #nevadacity #castorm pic.twitter.com/f0J0mhmfsz— Inn Town Campground (@InnTownCamp) January 9, 2017 Whoa. This is video shot Monday of the south Yuba River near the Inn
Arts & Entertainment Video: Vintage Footage Shows Alcatraz When It Was Still A Prison YouTuber Meghann Cuniff has done a digital transfer of some amateur Super 8 film footage from 1950 showing a trip to San Francisco, including a ride over the Bay Bridge, views of Nob
