SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: SF Neighborhood Names Mocked Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Hours before backpacker Audrey Carey was slain in Golden
SF News Day Around The Bay: Trump Piñata Sales Show Stamina Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Is San Francisco's high cost of living stressing out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another New Downtown Restaurant Bites The Dust: Volta After just nine months in business, Volta has called it quits. Co-owner Umberto Gibin broke the news to Inside Scoop, saying Saturday was the restaurant's last day. Having just opened in December, this
SF News Fighting Rising Sea Levels In Mission Bay Will Require Levees, Sea Walls Imagine walking around AT&T Park in the year 2100. Things might be different: For one, you might be protected from a greatly risen ocean by glass barriers of 3-4 feet. That's
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: As She Predicted, Wilsey Is Staying In Charge Of Museums Board Dede Wilsey's "personal fiefdom" managing the deYoung Museum and Legion of Honor shall apparently continue with only a few small changes, at least according to reports from special sessions of the museums' board
Arts & Entertainment Video: How Elon Musk And SpaceX Plan To Get A Rocket To Mars In 80 Days Or Less As noted last week, Tesla CEO and Space X mastermind Elon Musk is gunning hard for getting human beings to colonize Mars faster than NASA's timeline would have us there. And today he
SF News Golden Gate Park Meadow To Be Named For Robin Williams, Secret Benefactor Of Park Comedy Day "We found this new kid wandering around backstage, and I hope you like him," local comedian Will Durst recalls joking to the audience at one annual Comedy Day in Golden Gate Park. Then,
SF News Millennium Tower Residents Launch Their Own Investigation To Explain Building's Sinking When the 58-story building you call home starts tilting and sinking, it makes sense that figuring out the aberrational movement's true cause is a top concern — official finger-pointing be damned. With that in
Arts & Entertainment The Best Quotes About San Francisco And The Bay Area As this is San Francisco Appreciation Week, it's time to be reminded of the many great and witty things that have been said about this fairest of cities, and the often lovely words
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week With the official first day of fall behind us, friends and family around the country are starting to lament the winding down of summer. Not us! Things in San Francisco are hot hot
SF News Don't Touch That Playlist: Expansion Of 'Hands-Free' Law Means Big Changes For Drivers Picture it: You're cruising down Highway One, windows down, with Spotify playing your favorite jams. Life is good, hell — it's never been better. And then: Bam! Some awful track comes on and you
SF News Eff-ing In SF, Vol. 10: Hinge Is Going To Charge For Membership, How Will You Swipe? Sex, love, and other mysteries in the city your mother warned you about. To rebuild Hinge, a relatively small dating app that's often invoked as an alternative to Tinder, the company first plans
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Walmart And Uber, Together At Last More Yahoo hack fallout: Senators say the company should face an SEC probe [Associated Press] as security experts warn of "ripple effect" of hack across the internet [Associated Press]. Google is shielding a
SF News Testimony Reveals More Sad, Grim Details In Murder Of 23-Year-Old Backpacker Audrey Carey Further preliminary hearing testimony on Monday from an investigator who first interviewed 19-year-old murder suspect Lila Scott Alligood upon her arrest in Portland last October revealed a bit more about the killing of
SF News Duboce Triangle Miscreant Fires Gun During Attempted Morning Mugging Apparently frustrated by his failure to rob a man who was headed to work Monday, an aspiring Duboce Triangle mugger discharged his firearm — but no one was injured, except, perhaps, the failed criminal's
Arts & Entertainment This Luxurious Bed Sheet Set Is Normally $120, But You Can Grab It For $33 These ultra-soft Bamboo Bed Sheets are your missing piece to a great night’s sleep. Honking cars, yelling people screeching cats. When it comes to city living, there’s no shortage of things
SF News Man Convicted Of Fatal Choking And Accused Of Castro Arsons Returns To Streets Of SF It's an odd story, one of those items where Jay and I occasionally ask each other "what happened with that whole thing?" A man, convicted of fatally choking a sexual partner during an
SF News Big Rig Fire Blocks Eastbound Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Traffic Richmond Bridge eastbound is closed due to big rig collision and fire. No ETO. Use alt rout e pic.twitter.com/d2ElZgVL5A— CHP Marin (@CHPMarin) September 27, 2016 Eastbound traffic on the Richmond-San
Arts & Entertainment 2016 Treasure Island Music Festival Relocating Shows To Other Side Of Island Faithful attendees of Treasure Island Music Festival expecting views of San Francisco's skyline might be disappointed to learn that this year, when acts like Sigur Rós, Ice Cube, and Sylvan Esso take the
SF News Loma Fire Breaks Out In Santa Cruz Mountains, Threatens 300 Structures UPDATE Massive #LomaFire in #SantaCruzMountains already 100 acres https://t.co/33YRkWaMaO pic.twitter.com/pgHzDq1Ygh— KCBS 106.9 FM/740 AM (@KCBSNews) September 26, 2016 A small wildfire quickly grew in size
SF News You Can Stop Complaining About The Heat: At This Moment, The Fog Is Returning To San Francisco For San Franciscans whose social media feeds have been a horrific mishmash of presidential debate discussion and complaints about the current heat wave, relief might be near. No, not from the election stuff
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Twitter Sale Might Screw Shareholders Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Is "Box City" the future of homelessness? [SFist] [BART]
SF News Day Around The Bay: Tuesday Is Third 'Spare The Air Day' In A Row Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Wells Fargo’s misdeeds, according to one analyst, are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Buzzy NYC Indian Restaurant Babu Ji Expanding To SF Jessi and Jennifer Singh opened their East Village contemporary Indian restaurant Babu Ji after departing Australia, where the restaurateurs had three businesses they've since closed, one of which was, according to an article
SF News Don't Try This: Drilling Your Own Headphone Jack Into The iPhone 7 So we were all pretty bummed out when we learned, as promised, that the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus would be without a headphone jack. Well, in a surprise to no
