Arts & Entertainment 16 Things San Franciscans Are Nostalgic For In 2016 As we wrap up San Francisco Appreciation Week, it's time to get sentimental. If you've only been here a short time, most of what's listed below will make little sense to you. But
Arts & Entertainment 'LightRail' LED Installation On Market Street Begins Raising Funds The cool, transit-centric light installation unveiled two years ago by the non-profit behind the Bay Lights remains a project in motion, though an initial plan to break ground on it in 2016 appears
SF News Does Recology Sort The Black Trash? Sifting The Truth Out Of A Recycling Myth The answer to the question of whether our garbage overlords do any sorting of recyclables from our trash is NO, everything in the black bin goes to landfill automatically, and yes, that's a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Absurd USA Today List Of Best Local Food Scenes Includes Oakland, Ignores SF And LA The only West Coast city to make the Top 10 in a USA Today readers poll about the best local food scenes in the country is Oakland, and Minneapolis-St. Paul is Number One
Arts & Entertainment A Quick And Not-So-Strict Guide To Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Kicking Off At Noon Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the annual celebration of roots music and a lot of other stuff in Golden Gate Park, is happening now, with the first acts taking the stage at noon and as
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: SFUSD's Teacher Shortage For the first time, automakers will be able to test autonomous cars with no steering wheels, brake pedals or human drivers on some public roads in California, under legislation signed Thursday by Gov.
SF News Autopsy For Luis Gongora Reveals He Was Shot Six Times, Had Meth In His System Luis Gongora, the second of three people fatally shot by San Francisco police in a six-month span that began with the killing of Mario Woods last December, was shot a total of six
Arts & Entertainment The 20 Best Hip-Hop Tracks About The Bay Area By Adrian Spinelli Bay Area hip-hop exists in a class unto itself. Not as commercial as our NY and LA counterparts, our independent nature and uncompromising hip-hop ethos emanate from every hyphy beat,
SF News 'Dirty' Politics: How The City's Janitors Could Swing The Board Of Supes' Balance of Power Nobody likes a boring election. (Plenty of people don’t like allegedly exciting elections, either, so there’s that.) People like to know their vote matter and that, in turn, they matter, even
SF News Tenderloin Street Site Of Two Homicides In Two Days For the second day in a row, Ellis Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin District has been the site of an early-morning shooting that claimed a man's life. According to the San Francisco Police
Arts & Entertainment The SF Zoo's Newest Flamingo Chick Has Had It With Your Shenanigans Considered a "near threatened" animal by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the Chilean flamingo is known (I am told apocryphally) as one of the more personality-laden representatives of the species. Nowhere
Arts & Entertainment Tim Burton Fails Again With 'Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children' While I've often appreciated the films of Tim Burton, I've very rarely loved them, finding him too often to be so involved with the the look of his films that he forgets he's
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Facebook Plans Ad Tsunami Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Grocery store owners say they regret participating in beverage
SF News Day Around The Bay: Trump Blaming Google For Bias Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. 100-year-old Iris Canada has just gotten the 11th stay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Citizen's Band And Pinkie's Bakery Abruptly Close In SoMa The bakery Pinkie's and its co-tenant and sister restaurant Citizen's Band, a casual, diner-style operation serving contemporary comfort food, have both closed. A tip to SFist revealed that staff had been notified last
Arts & Entertainment Real-Life Feminist Bookstore From 'Portlandia' Cuts Ties With Show, Says It's Anti-Feminist, Transphobic Depicted as humorless on the IFC show Portlandia, Portland's real-life feminist bookstore In Other Words the basis of the show's Women and Women First, and also its shooting location has lost its sense
Arts & Entertainment Video: San Francisco As It Was In The 30s, 40s, and 50s With the past being a foreign country and all that, looking at historical footage of one's own city can have a disorienting effect — what you see is your home, and yet so clearly
Arts & Entertainment Fun Facts From San Francisco History That You've Probably Never Heard Before As we continue San Francisco Appreciation Week, we thought we could dig back into some of the lesser known fun facts about the city, a few of which are likely to surprise even
Arts & Entertainment GaymerX Conference To Power Queer Gamers Into Multiplayer Mode Add to the list of the too many things to do this week the groundbreaking annual queer gamer conference GaymerX in San Jose (Sept. 30 - Oct. 2). The world’s first LGBT
SF News Venture Capitalist Solves Sexism In Tech By Telling Women To Pretend They're Men Sexism, as we are repeatedly reminded, is particularly pervasive in the world of tech. And so a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed addressing discriminatory hiring practices against women in the industry might at
SF News Investigation Into Hayes Valley Quadruple Homicide Stymied By Gang Silence, Fear An investigation into the fatal shooting of four men on Page Street in January 2015 has been slowed by the fact that witnesses have been afraid to come forward, and some of those
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: SF Might Be Booming, But Rec And Parks Cries Poor The San Francisco school board has voted to bar board members and the superintendent from directly soliciting campaign donations from district employees, a policy aimed at preventing undue influence over subordinates. [SF Chronicle]
SF News UC Berkeley Assistant Professor Accused Of Sexual Harassment Now Suing Accusers, School Remember the case of the UC Berkeley assistant professor who in April was accused of sexually harassing three grad students? No, not this guy, this guy, this guy, or even that guy. Rather,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Study Claims SF Not That Great A City For Coffee Lovers San Francisco is a great coffee town. In addition to our many wonderful coffee shops, we're awash in high-end roasters that set national and international trends. Blue Bottle, Sightglass, Four Barrel, and Wrecking
SF News Have You Seen This Man? Police Release Sketch Of Fisherman's Wharf Homicide Suspect Police are seeking the public's help to find the suspects in an apparently random slaying of a college student at a popular tourist attraction last month, releasing a sketch of a man they
