SF News An Activist In Cairo, An Exile In San Francisco Ahmed Salah, a former Egyptian democracy activist and the author of You Are Under Arrest for Masterminding the Egyptian Revolution: A Memoir, seems to like San Francisco okay. In an excerpt posted to
SF News Feds Tell Local Police They're Happy To Help Unlock iPhones Well that didn't take long. Despite claiming for weeks that its efforts to break the encryption on San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's work iPhone 5C was only about that
Arts & Entertainment It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's Tony Hawk On A SoMa Half-Pipe! A photo posted by Tony Hawk (@tonyhawk) on Apr 4, 2016 at 10:15am PDT Soaring into Birdman of Alcatraz territory yesterday was pro-skater Tony "The Birdman" Hawk, whom Hoodline
Arts & Entertainment Look For Those Giant Inflatable Rabbits At Civic Center Starting Today #Intrude @CivicCenterPlaza @#.@SFAC .@mayoredlee .@sfrecpark .@sfoewd pic.twitter.com/NdBwkOMvIi — SF Arts Commission (@SFAC) April 4, 2016 The rabbits are finally here, and they're coming for you, and you, and you.
Arts & Entertainment Views Of Twin Peaks, Diamond Heights, Cole Valley, And More Of San Francisco Circa 1955 Today I continue reaching into the trove of color photographs taken by hobbyist Charles W. Cushman to bring you some more cityscapes that were on sunny spring days like we're having
SF News Hunter Pence's Scooter Stolen For Second Time In Two Years, This Time From Make-A-Wish Foundation Giants outfielder Hunter Pence has been known to ride a motorized scooter between AT&T Park and his home SoMa home. He had parked the Goped scooter in a secluded spot by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Is What's Happened Inside The Former Lexington Club, Now Known As Wildhawk When the news broke in late 2014 that arguably the city's only lesbian bar, the Lexington Club, would close, everyone was fairly bummed out. When we learned it was to be
SF News The Other Homeless Count: How Many Have Died? On December 31, 2014, longtime homeless Castro figure "Anastasia" was found dead on Market Street. A rare event it was not, but people knew Anastasia — the scarves, the coffee cups — so
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Food Network Is Letting Yelpers Have A TV Show At this late date, Yelpers are finally going to get a nationally televised stage from which to deliver their amateur snark about restaurants they do not like or, to use a phrase popular
SF News The DC Metro, At Almost The Same Age As BART, Is Also Having Major Problems At Middle Age The Bay Area is not alone in having a mass transit system built in the mid-1970's that is showing some major signs of age this past year that are in
SF News Good Samaritan Thwarts Market Street Phone Snatching A phone theft in the middle of one of San Francisco's busiest areas had a happy(ish) ending Friday, when a good Samaritan who saw the robbery tackled one of the
SF News Banned From Numerous SF Streets, Homeless Czar Now Wants RV Park For Homeless Vehicle-Dwellers It was back in 2012 when the city of San Francisco started banning the overnight parking of "oversized" vehicles. The prohibitions were an effort to keep otherwise homeless folks living in
SF News Thankfully It's Not The O.Co Coliseum Anymore; Naming Rights Up For Grabs Have a cool few million floating around and interested in seeing your name printed in really big letters on the side of something large? Well, here's your chance: Overstock.com exited
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two SF Chefs, Ravi Kapur And David Barzelay, Named <em>Food & Wine</em> Best New Chefs The prestigious annual honor of being named to Food & Wine's Best New Chefs issue will be going to not one but two local chefs this year, once again proving San
SF News Bay Area Temperatures To Hit 'Low 90s' This Week It might feel like a typical spring day today, but that won't last long! Record high temperatures are expected in the Bay Area this week, with some spots hitting the low
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: It's Opening Day! * Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * Your weekend ICYMI: Jay liked Act of God, Airbnb admits that
SF News Car Collides With Fire Hydrant, Creates Seven-Story Geyser At Polk And Hayes Water everywhere! Posted by Brad Bushell on Saturday, April 2, 2016 The corner of Polk and Hayes got a nice bath on Saturday afternoon after a car jumped the curb and hit a
SF News [Update] Virgin America Sold To Alaska Airlines As reported last week, Virgin America put itself up for sale, and the boutique airline owned in part by Virgin Atlantic founder Richard Branson has reached a deal to be acquired by Alaska
SF News Sunday Morning Coming Down: Kid Robbed At BART Station * Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * Is it that easy to get more action on Tinder? (I
Arts & Entertainment 'An Act Of God' Starring Sean Hayes Is A Smart, Mostly Light-Hearted Take On The Maker Sean Hayes the performer is not to be confused with the character of Jack McFarland on Will & Grace that he's blessed (or doomed) to be branded with as his career-
SF News Airbnb Reveals 20% Of SF Listings Are By Hosts Listing Multiple Homes, Vows Crackdown Airbnb has issued a mea culpa of sorts today, and a reversal of some of its previous rhetoric surrounding the issue of hosts who illegally use the platform to turn themselves into small-
SF News Saturday Morning Special: SEC Fires 'Warning Shot' At Silicon Valley * Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * “The use of the N-word is very prevalent" in
SF News Day Around The Bay: Study Finds SF Landlords See Low Returns * Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * Hume Cloister, or as it is often known, Hume Castle, is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Antoinette Closes Right Quick, Bellota Heads To SoMa, And More A lot went down this week in the world of San Francisco's food scene, and we did our part to hip you to the history of brunch, the best places to
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Actual Shipping Container In The Bayview, $600/Mo Last summer, the local media caught wind of a 31-year-old business school grad who'd built an ersatz apartment complex out of 11 shipping containers that were all in an
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