SF News Warriors Arena Foes Get Dropped By Their Law Firm, Sam Singer Quits Too Things aren't looking great for the cause of opposing the Warriors Arena project, now dubbed the Chase Center, which remains overwhelmingly supported by SF residents, the Mayor, and the Board of Supervisors alike.
Arts & Entertainment <em>Misfit Cabaret</em> Stars A Talented Nightclub Diva Stuck In A Screwball Variety Show You won’t find a more magnificent and talented nightclub singer belting it out on a San Francisco stage this weekend than Kat Robichaud, whose lounge revue Misfit Cabaret opened last night at
SF News Three Berkeley Students Attending Conference Injured In Nice Attack, One Missing Following yesterday's devastating mass killings in Nice, France, UC Berkeley reports that several students were injured and one is missing in the attack. That act of violence, carried out with a truck during
Arts & Entertainment Oh, God, Is 'Broette' Really A Word Now? Please Say It Is Not Everybody wants to make friends, right? There's nothing wrong with that, nor is the goal to being like-minded people together disadmirable. What concerns me most about the proposed meetup I am about to
SF News KKK Confirms That Those SF Recruitment Fliers Are For Real San Francisco Woman Gets KKK Recruitment Letter on Her Doorstep!https://t.co/xU1Owy9AiF pic.twitter.com/sw4fr5nRpy— (((BrokeAssStuart))) (@BrokeAssStuart) July 12, 2016 A spokesperson with the Ku Klux Klan has confirmed that
SF News Facebook Releases (Low) Diversity Numbers, Adds LGBTQ Stats, Appears To Blame Public School System If everyone has a Facebook account, in order to best represent all of these peoples' interests, Facebook employees should look like — and have had the experiences of — as many people as possible. Right?
Arts & Entertainment Video Premiere: 'Today Is The Day' By Oakland Band Steel Cranes There's a funny bit of trivia behind this new single and video from Oakland-based duo Steel Cranes. As vocalist and guitarist Tracy Shapiro tells it, she and the other half of this duo,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink (Very Gross) Photo Du Jour: Mangled Rat Appears In San Francisco Salad The co-worker of a Reddit user got a little extra protein in her salad yesterday, when she reportedly discovered a rat — or, at least, part of a rat — in a meal allegedly prepared
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: Vile Pharma Bro Gets Musical On Monday, [Google] is "introducing a new tool in Search to simplify the voter registration process to make it easier for you to have your voice heard." Plans to raze the infamous "purple
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: The Giants Are Looking Really Good (And It's An Even-Number Year) Tonight, when the Giants take on the Padres in San Diego, it will mark the unofficial start to the second half of the season. And at the halfway mark, it looks like the
SF News Soaring Cost Won't Stop Construction Of Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Net Despite a much higher than expected projected cost, Golden Gate Bridge officials said this week that they intend to move forward with plans to construct a steel suicide-prevention net under the iconic bridge.
Arts & Entertainment Renderings Released For Asian Art Museum Expansion The Asian Art Museum, though not without critics of its layout and curation, has come a long way since its start as wing in the old deYoung. Earlier this year, its 50th birthday,
SF News Trump Supporters Suing San Jose Following Violent Rally Supporters of Donald Trump are suing both the city of San Jose and its police force claiming officers failed to protect them from protestors at a Trump rally last month. The Associated Press
SF News Black Lives Matter Protests Happening Today At SF's Civic Center And Downtown Oakland Rallies and marches are scheduled today (Friday) across the country, as they were last Friday, in continued protest of the police killings of black people, and these include events in both San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Very, Very Funny: <em>Ghostbusters</em> It's difficult not to consider the 2016 version of the Ghostbusters story without acknowledging the maelstrom that enveloped it from the moment it was announced — fans vigorously opposed to a new version in
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SF News Day Around The Bay: Reward Offered For Leads In Massive Emeryville Fire Though Bastille Day has already become a cause for mourning in France, with as many as 70 people possibly killed after a truck ran into a crowd of revelers in Nice, there are
Arts & Entertainment This 360-Degree Video Makes San Francisco Look Like The Tiny Planet In 'The Little Prince' Karen Cheng sent in this video to SFist, and while she doesn't remark on it, I was immediately thrown into the world of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the French aristocrat and artist who created
SF News Elon Musk To Consumer Reports: We'll Keep Autopilot Thank You Very Much Consumer Reports today called on Tesla to temporarily suspend its autopilot feature in all of its cars following the May death of an Ohio man who had the feature engaged at the time
Arts & Entertainment New Queer Literary Journal 'Foglifter' Releases Inaugural Issue Monday While San Francisco fights for queer spaces in the forms of bars and neighborhoods, some see a heightened need for a different kind of queer space: LGBT Writing. When Bloom folded, California was
Arts & Entertainment 'Ed Ruscha and the Great American West' Opens Saturday at the deYoung Of the 20th Century painters who are most associated with California Diebenkorn, Park, Hockney, Thiebauld none created as bold, graphic, and ironic a style as Ed Ruscha (pronounced Roo-shay). He's most often tied
SF News Working Women Get Some Digital Representation With Newly Approved Emoji Following a pitch by Google in May, the Unicode Consortium announced that it will add 11 new emoji to the world's smart phone keyboards. Google wrote about the decision today, noting that new
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 10 Best Non-Dairy Frozen Desserts In SF Summery weather starting to get you in the mood for something icy and delicious? Perhaps you're vegan-ish or you're just trying to stick to a swimsuit diet, and you need some ideas for
SF News California Schools Finally Almost Ready To Teach Kids LGBT History It's been over four years since a new state law took effect requiring California schools to teach students about some of the LGBT people who have made significant contributions to US history, however
SF News Bay Area Gained 89,600 People With Tech Degrees Between 2011 And 2015 One city's "brain drain" is another's "brain gain," and by that logic, the mind of the San Francisco Bay Area is swollen with an influx of workers bearing tech-focused degrees. According to the
