SF News Mayor Ed Lee Bans City-Funded Travel To Mississippi After Anti-LGBT Bill Signed By Governor The number of US states to which San Francisco will pay for travel shrank again today, after Mayor Ed Lee banned all city-funded travel to the state of Mississippi after their governor
SF News Record Heat Is Bringing Out Snakes (Watch Out!) Today's potentially record-breaking heat is causing snakes, both the venomous and non-venomous varieties, to slither and creep into yards and homes, alternately seeking both sun and shade. And as
SF News President Obama To Party With Spider-Man, Head To SF Just hours after a breakfast date with one of Hollywood's Spidermen, President Barack Obama will alight in San Francisco for a whirlwind 24-hour visit. Variety reports that on Thursday, POTUS
SF News Apple Shuttle Catches Fire During Morning Commute, Backs Up I-280 Traffic Advisory: Bus fire blocks multiple southbound lanes on I-280 at Sand Hill Road pic.twitter.com/qeCB2vYtbj — Palo Alto Weekly (@paloaltoweekly) April 6, 2016 Today started off hot for 15 southbound
Arts & Entertainment Behold: 100 Female, Queer, And Non-White 'Techies' In Portraits And Interviews "Techie" has become a narrow, and quite often, a narrow-minded term. That's why Helena Price, a startup worker turned photographer, put out the call for stories from "
SF News Oakland City Council Approves 90-Day Pause On Rent Hikes In a move that sounds even more progressive and renter-friendly than San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, Oakland's City Council last night approved a 90-day moratorium on all
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Ed Lee Gets Pulled Over * Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * Jack loved House Tour, and thinks you should go. [SFist] * At
SF News Day Around The Bay: 'New Homes In San Francisco From The Low $1,000,000s' "New Homes in San Francisco, from the low $1,000,000s"#SF #gentrification pic.twitter.com/B2Xe5AGZo4 — Joe Fitz Rodriguez (@FitzTheReporter) April 2, 2016 * Follow SFist on Twitter and like us
SF News Plans Submitted For 25 Units On Duboce Triangle Parking Lot Behind the former Church Street Blockbuster, which the elderly will recall was a chain of stores that were like physical Netflix spaces, lies an empty parking lot at 55 Belcher. Now there are
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Do This Week Sure, the middle of this week (Wednesday) will be hot and gorgeous, but by the weekend you'll be back in your layers and possibly even looking to cower indoors. With all
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kava Lounge Sets Grand Opening For Booze-Free Relaxation On Divis Tired of your current drug/booze regimen? It might be time to turn to kava, and now there's a home for it in San Francisco at Kava Lounge, San Francisco'
SF News [Update] Suspects In Hunter Pence Scooter Theft Arrested, Ride Returned We were collectively aghast yesterday at the news that a scooter donated by Giants right fielder Hunter Pence had been stolen sometime Saturday night (or early Sunday morning) from the Make-a-Wish
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2016 Lineup Does Indeed Include Radiohead & LCD Soundsystem, Also Lionel Richie And The Muppets! Finally, two weeks after we thought they'd announce it and after that fake-out lineup, we get the real-deal Outside Lands 2016 lineup. And yes, a number of acts from
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Danny Scheie In 'House Tour' At Z Space This, dear readers, is not a review. Rather, it is an exhortation: Go see Z Space's new comedy by playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb starring the arrestingly funny Danny Scheie. Titled A
SF News Are Tech Workers Starting To Flee SF For Jobs In Cheaper Towns? The Bay Area costing what it does, and technology being a slightly more transplantable line of work than, say, farming or mining, a variety of pundits are once again wondering whether the Bay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Sets Opening Date In Chinatown: April 12 Though it once appeared on our list of the most anticipated new restaurants of 2015, Brandon Jew's modern-Chinese passion project Mister Jiu's is finally ready to open in
SF News Meet 'Ponch,' The Chihuahua Involved In Sunday's Bay Bridge Police Pursuit Ponch is doing well this morning @CHPSanFrancisco @ErikEstrada but he would love to see his family. #BayBridgeDog pic.twitter.com/t8rGQosHfK — SF Animal Care (@SFACC) April 4, 2016 The incredibly adorable Chihuahua mix
SF News SF To Become First US City To Require 100-Percent Paid Parental Leave It's all but a done deal that the Board of Supervisors Tuesday will vote to approve a pioneering ordinance that will allow parents of both genders to receive full pay for
SF News Facebook Using Artificial Intelligence To Add Photo Captions For The Visually Impaired Facebook yesterday announced a new service designed to assist the millions of visually impaired people who use one of its many products on a daily basis. Called automatic alternative text, according to the
Arts & Entertainment Civic Center's Giant Inflatable Rabbits To Get Round-The-Clock Security When the news broke that five giant light-up rabbits would be coming to San Francisco's Civic Center, there was discussion among the SFist staff on how long it would be
SF News Outer Sunset Box-Dweller Would Like To Sell His Human Dog Crates The economical young gentleman who relegated himself to a wooden "pod" in an Outer Sunset living room, making national headlines for, like, symbolizing the San Francisco housing market, would now like
SF News Paypal Kills Plan To Open North Carolina Office Over Anti-LGBT Law Plans by San Jose-based Paypal to open a new global operations center in Charlotte, North Carolina appear to be off the table following the March 23 signing into law of House Bill
SF News Fatal Monday Night Shooting Is SF's 10th For 2016 A 20-year-old man was killed Monday evening, the victim of a shooting near Interstate 280 in San Francsico's Portola neighborhood. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the man
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Farewell, Admiral Ackbar * Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * Leader of a revolution now works as a desk clerk at
SF News Day Around The Bay: Fentanyl Kills Nine More People In Sacramento * Experts say the Bay Area is not even close to filling its housing hole, except at the high end of the market, where much of the new construction has taken place. [Chron] * Another
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