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
SF News Video: SF Ad Agency Produces Brief Spot Excoriating Trump "We wanted to put Donald Trump's antics in clear relief for all the world to see and remind them that our president is the leader of the free world, the person with a
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Senators Urge Feds To Investigate Airbnb Senator Elizabeth Warren has urged the federal government to investigate Airbnb. [Guardian] [SocketSite] A 31-story high-rise has been proposed for 330 Townsend. [SF Business Times] The police sergeant who shot and killed Jessica
SF News Criticizing Police On Social Media Leads To Arrests Following Dallas Shooting With police departments in San Francisco and around the country still working out how to best respond to the July 7 mass shooting in Dallas, some officers have taken to proactively arresting people
SF News VC Billionaire And Facebook Board Member Peter Thiel To Speak At Republican Convention German-American entrepreneur Peter Thiel knows a good thing when he sees it. That's what made him the first outside investor in Facebook, on whose board he now serves. It's what lead him to
SF News Security Robot Temporarily Decommissioned After Knocking Down And Running Over Toddler An autonomous security robot at the Stanford Shopping Center has been temporarily pulled from use following reports that it knocked a toddler to the ground and then ran the kid over last week.
SF News Dolores Park Patron Jumped By Gang Of Ten In Dispute Over Woman A Dolores Park-goer was attacked by a large group of suspects Wednesday night, over claims that the victim had dared gaze upon the romantic partner of one of his alleged assailants. It was
SF News Allegedly Bleach-Drinking Man Arrested Following 22-Hour Standoff With SFPD An allegedly suicidal San Francisco man is in custody, after a dramatic standoff that went on for 22 hours. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Sergeant Michael Andraychak, 51-year-old Magnom F. Carolino
Arts & Entertainment Even Stanley Roberts Is Playing Pokémon Go, While Shaming Other People For Playing Of course this week couldn't end without KRON 4's Stanley Roberts doing a "People Behaving Badly" segment about Pokémon Go players walking into lampposts and getting mugged, and indeed he uses the segment
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: 49ers' Worth Shoots Up Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Behold: The worst habits of Pokémon Go players in
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pokémon Still A Thing, May Soon Sell Sponsored Stops Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Lower Haight residents packed a community meeting to oppose
SF News Supervisors Stutter-Step Toward Development Density Bonuses With Approval Of Limited Measure Just two months ago, with competing proposed housing density bonuses being debated by the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Lee, it appeared as if no progress might get made in the effort to
SF News Facebook Engineer Fights For Gun Groups After Company Bans Sales Between Users Facebook is great for so many things. Finding out about cool events, posting articles about your political beliefs to people who already share them, or watching your exes make compromises in their personal
SF News Expect Confusion As Twin Peaks Partial Car Ban Goes Into Effect Today A spot loved by locals and tourist alike underwent some changes today, as sections of the road surrounding Twin Peaks were made the exclusive domain of cyclists and pedestrians. The SFMTA plan to
Arts & Entertainment US Olympic Table Tennis Team Is Coming To SPiN In SoMa To Practice Have you been yet to the rad new ping-pong-themed bar, SPiN, partly owned by Susan Sarandon, that opened in May at Folsom and Third? Well, next Thursday, July 21, could be a good
Arts & Entertainment The Worst Habits Of Pokémon Go Players In Their SF Habitat (And A Few Upsides) San Francisco has some of the greatest scenery in the world, but this week much of the city has ignored that scenery and glued its collective noses to smartphones to play Pokémon Go.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Honor Of <i>Showgirls! The Musical!</i>, Drag Star Peaches Christ Gets Ice Cream Named After Her Over at Humphry Slocombe, starting August 1, you'll be able to enjoy a new ice cream flavor named in honor of the great San Francisco drag star Peaches Christ, and her new West
Arts & Entertainment Kink.com Offers Free Access To Republican Delegates As They Vote To Label Porn A 'Public Health Crisis' In preparation for the Republican Party's national convention, that party's delegates have unanimously adopted an amendment to their highly conservative draft platform referring to pornography as "a public health crisis" and a "public
SF News [Update] Man Offers Up His Services As Pokémon Go Bodyguard On Craigslist Pokémon Go was developed right here in San Francisco by Niantic, Inc., so it seems only fitting that the next big disruption to come to the world of augmented reality gaming should also
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's The New Menu For Smokestack In Dogpatch, From New Chef Brandon Korf Smokestack, the fast-casual barbecue operation within Magnolia Brewing's Dogpatch taproom and bar that opened two years ago, recently had a chef shuffle following the departure of Namu Gaji guy Dennis Lee. Now the
