Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Have you emerged yet from your darkened bedroom, blinds drawn, squinting into the November light and coming to terms with the new (hopefully temporary) world order? Oh good. I'm still hiding in mine.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Parking Lots To Close Thanksgiving Weekend In an effort to reduce bridge traffic over the course of the upcoming holiday weekend, parking lots on either side of the Golden Gate Bridge will be closed to private vehicles starting Thursday
SF News Link Circulating Online Freezes Any iOS Device When Opened A seemingly harmless video circulating online could mean a big headache for any Apple customer who mistakenly tries to play it, as the roughly five-second clip results in the eventual slowing down and
SF News Typically Attuned To Difference, Board Of Supervisors Focuses On Similarities In Wake Of Democalypse Hillary Ronen's successful election to the Board of Supervisors on November 8 wasn't just overshadowed by the unexpected election of Donald Trump. In her mind, the presidential election changed the very office to
Arts & Entertainment Sadly, David Byrne's Musical About Imelda Marcos Won't Be Coming to ACT After All Sad news today for theater fans: ACT announced that they've had to cancel the planned June production of Here Lies Love, the acclaimed musical by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim that tells the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Munchery Allegedly Struggles With Food Waste As CEO Is Replaced And Employees Grumble Meal-delivery startup Munchery has been in the news a lot lately, predominately for a host of reasons unlikely to please its many investors and employees — think millions of dollars in losses per month
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Jane Lynch Declares It Christmas, Talks Holiday Album, SF Performance, And McDonald's Fries At the absolute earliest, the Christmas season typically starts toward the middle of dessert at Thanksgiving. But Jane Lynch, three-time Emmy and Golden Globe winner, declares that the holiday season starts now, and
SF News Drink-Tossing Jacket Molester Remains At Large Tenderloin altercation took an odd turn Monday, when an attacking suspect didn't take his victim's call phone or cash, but instead settled for ripping a decoration from a bedazzled jacket. Police say that
SF News Former Fancy Soda Shop Once Again A Late-Night Gambling Den The former site of an upscale candy and soda shop, The Fizzary, is once again in the news following reports that the location's current tenant is still running an illegal, late-night gambling and
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Headphone Malwear Fears Gavin Newsom sits down with SF high school kids to discuss the recent uptick in hate crimes. [KRON 4] Great, now there might be malware that converts your headphones into makeshift microphones that
Arts & Entertainment Watch Whoopi Goldberg, Guy Pearce, Rosie O'Donnell And More In 'When We Rise' Trailer The ABC miniseries event about the LGBTQ rights movement, When We Rise, shot earlier this year in San Francisco and elsewhere, is set for a February premiere, and the network just released the
SF News SFPD Officers Reportedly On Edge Following Police Shootings Elsewhere Officers with the San Francisco Police Department have their "eyes on a swivel," a spokesperson says, braced for action following a day in which at least four cops were shot in states other
Arts & Entertainment Cosplayers Descend On SFMOMA, Paint The Place Red Way more smartphone pictures than usual were snapped on Sunday at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as more than a dozen cosplay specialists tricked themselves out to represent works on display
SF News Bankrupt Yellow Cab Is Now For Sale That beleaguered staple of San Francisco, Yellow Cab Cooperative, is for sale. The Examiner reports that the almost 40-year-old taxi company just couldn't overcome the one-two punch of a series of lawsuits stemming
SF News 2016 Election Set Record For Highest Ever SF Voter Turnout San Francisco's in-person turnout at the polls on November 8th was nothing to write home about: Just about half of the city's registered voters made it to a polling place on election day
SF News Man Fatally Crushed In 'Industrial Accident' At San Francisco Lumber Yard A worker at a San Francisco lumber yard was killed Monday afternoon, crushed beneath the forklift he was driving. According to a tweet by San Francisco Police Department Bayview Station Captain Raj Vaswani,
SF News #CalExit (Sadly) Can't Really Happen, But Group Files Petition For It Anyway You've probably had a few of these conversations in the last week in which at least one Californian says, referring to states that went red this election, "Well, we could just stop sending
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Westfield Trash Fire Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Shotgun goes full rep, y'all. [SFist] The SFMTA does
SF News Day Around The Bay: $1,500 Wifi-Enabled Toaster Oven Ruffles Feathers Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Santa Cruz police shot and killed a 15-year-old student
SF News Oh Dear God: Rose Pak's Body Was Never Buried And Is Still At A Mortuary As Family Feuds As a longtime San Francisco politics writer, Joe Eskanazi knows where the bodies are buried... or, as the case may be, not buried at all. That's what appears to be the trouble with
SF News A Look At The Work Of SFFD's First Official Photographer This year marks the 150th anniversary of the San Francisco Fire Department, and in honor of that milestone the SF Public Library decided to look back at the department's first official photographer: Chet
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley's Shotgun Players Enter Full Repertory Cycle, With New Plays Each Night Of The Week Shotgun Players opened their ambitious 25th anniversary season this spring with a decidedly ambitious approach to Hamlet seven actors have their names randomly drawn each night, each having memorized most of the show's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Heckled By SF Anti-Dog Meat Protestor, Anthony Bourdain Jokes He'll 'Shoot A Puppy' If She Doesn't Stop Anthony Bourdain has famously few qualms when it comes to consuming, shall we say, overlooked foods, but he's been adamant about drawing the line at dog meat, telling ABC in a 2011 interview
SF News People Aren't Buying Steph Curry's Latest Under Armour Shoe Proving that star power is no substitute for good taste, the latest Steph Curry-branded shoe from Under Armour is shaping up to be a big letdown — and the company's stock price is feeling
Arts & Entertainment Five Minutes With E-40, Plus Five Shows To Check Out This Week by Adrian Spinelli Five Minutes With E-40 Last Friday, E-40, the Bay Area’s benevolent king of hip-hop, didn’t just drop one album, he dropped two. The D-Boy Diary Book 1 and
