SF News Apartment Sadness: Small Bedroom, With A Big Catch I share this week's piece of shared-apartment schadenfreude not because it's especially expensive (it's not!), but because to get cheap rent in these crazy times, there&
SF News Whomp Whomp: Wooden Box 'Sleeping Pods' Are Illegal, Fire Hazard Outer Sunset resident Peter Berkowitz, 25, had a dream. That dream, to live in a tiny wooden box ("pod") and perhaps sell versions of his human dog crate to others, at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Rediscovers The LA Dining Scene, Checks In On Some Former SF Chefs In lieu of a Sunday review, Michael Bauer has written a larger piece about dining in Los Angeles for this Sunday's paper, which you can read online now. He writes generally
SF News Video: Hear The New BART Horn, And Get An Up-Close Look At The New Car's Interior Following that big press event on Wednesday, we now have video footage inside the first of the new Fleet of the Future BART car, currently undergoing testing at BART's Hayward facility.
SF News POTUS Just Landed At SFO, Get Ready For Snarled Traffic Malia accompanying her dad for his SF visit. pic.twitter.com/AhSOOIGk4O — Kimberly Veklerov (@KVeklerov) April 8, 2016 President of the United States of America Barack Obama just landed at SFO for a
SF News Supervisors At Odds Over Penalizing Muni Riders Paying Cash A proposed SFMTA budget that would penalize people who use cash to purchase Muni tickets with a 25-cent surcharge has run into trouble, with two supervisors coming out in opposition, and one
Arts & Entertainment Transbay District Likely To Get A Renzo Piano-Designed Highrise In some more excellent news for architecture and tall buildings in SF, we learned this week that starchitect Renzo Piano, the man behind one of the best-loved new buildings of the last
SF News First Video Surfaces Of SFPD Firing On Homeless Man Within 30 Seconds Of Exiting Squad Cars Partial video of yesterday's shooting has emerged, depicting police firing multiple shots within 30 seconds of the first officer on scene's exit of his squad car. The surveillance video
SF News As Uber Settles With SF & LA For $25 Million, Lyft's Class Action Settlement Is Denied On-point SF ad vandalism (what was Lyft thinking?) pic.twitter.com/SabcKYmTwf — Chad Woodford (@cjam) March 31, 2016 In terms approved by the Superior Court of California, within 60 days, Uber Technologies
Arts & Entertainment Video: SFMOMA's Rad New Living Wall One of the most stunning aspects of the new SFMOMA is a living wall comprising some 19,440 plants, all California native species, that lines a second-story courtyard along the eastern side
SF News City Hall Swag Scores, By The Numbers The Political Reform Act (aka Gov. Code sections 8100091014) requires state and local public officials to make an annual public filing that discloses their personal assets and income. San Francisco officials who miss
SF News Protesters March On Mission Station As Additional Witnesses Dispute SFPD Shooting Death Claims Protesters marched throughout the Mission last night in protest of yesterday's SFPD shooting death of a homeless man currently only identified as "Jose." While officers claim that Jose charged
SF News One More Truss Of Old Bay Bridge To Be Removed Saturday The long, extremely slow process of demolishing the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge continues this weekend with one more 504-foot truss section getting detached, lowered down to the water, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Demolition, The Boss, Miles Ahead Demolition - Everywhere Demolition is an odd movie that attempts to wrench emotions out of its audience, but left me feeling about as numb as its hero. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Davis Mitchell, your
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Chaos At The Police Commission * Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * Who will deliver your burrito, juice, and Advil first, a drone
SF News Day Around The Bay: USA Today Is Trying To Get To Know SF, Poorly * Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * Your hate read for today: USA Today's
SF News Stockton Man Defecates On Another Man's Yard, Brutal Double Stabbing Follows In a bizarre story coming out of our neighbor to the east, it appears that a Stockton man defecated in another man's yard this past Sunday, and this led to a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Season Of The Kitsch: Tacky And Tiki Are Back, Again In 2009, San Francisco's foremost Tiki bar looked about ready for a condo conversion. That was then, and this is now: Currently, the Tonga Room & Hurricane bar at the Fairmont
SF News Weather Report: Weekend Rain Expected To Wash Away Your Dreams Of Summer Yesterday's taste of summer sure was sweet, wasn't it? Well, hopefully you made the best of it, because clouds are expected to roll in this weekend and drizzle on
Arts & Entertainment Mirkarimi's Wife And Gascon's Wife To Star In SF Production Of 'The Vagina Monologues' What's this? It appears that the wives of two sworn enemies in SF politics, District Attorney George Gascon and former Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, are going to share a stage this weekend
SF News UC Berkeley Basketball Coach Accused Of Harassment Ends Appeal, Submits Resignation Just a day after we learned that some 19 UC Berkeley employees have been accused of sexual harassment in recent years, with seven of them losing their jobs in the process, embattled assistant
SF News BART Forced To Scrounge For Replacement Parts On eBay As we all know, BART's fleet is old. However, until the remaining 774 new cars are delivered and brought into service over the next five years, we all just have to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Check Out The Menu At The Lodge, Now Open In The Lower Haight A few weeks back I alerted you to the coming arrival of The Lodge, and Wednesday night marked night one for the new Lower Haight spot, in the space formerly occupied by Rickybobby.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: The SF LGBT Center's Benefit Soiree This Saturday, April 9, the SF LGBT Center will be hosting its 14th annual Soiree fundraiser, this year with the theme The Imaginarium, and organized by drag queen hostess Juanita More. The event
SF News John Avalos Seeks To Further Protect Sanctuary City Ordinance After his car was stolen, El Salvadoran national Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno went to the San Francisco Police Department to file a report. But when officers learned of a warrant for his arrest — it
