SF News Whoopi Goldberg Launches Marijuana Menstrual Pain Relief Products Cannabis entrepreneurship, an industry by and large dominated by white men as BuzzFeed discussed last month, got a huge boost from Whoopi Goldberg this week. The comedian and co-host of The View
Arts & Entertainment Guns N' Roses Reuniting For Tour, Playing AT&T Park August 9 Late '80's rock gods Guns N' Roses, most of them anyway, are reuniting for a full tour this year, dubbed the Not In This Lifetime Tour, as they announced
Arts & Entertainment UC Berkeley Study Reveals How To Get More Action On Tinder April showers bring weekend nights staying home and swiping on Tinder, so the timing is right for an academic study published this week analyzing what types of profile picture poses and body language
Arts & Entertainment What's Your Uber Passenger Rating? (Here Are Ours) There was a time when one's Uber "passenger rating" — the (averaged, I gather) rating assigned to you by your various drivers — was a deep, dark secret. This time last
SF News Drivers, Scooter Riders, Cyclists Flouting Statewide Dual Earbud Ban Though laws prohibiting drivers and cyclists from wearing headphones or earplugs in both ears have been on the books for years, it wasn't until January, 2016, that the law was extended
SF News Six Months Later, Valley Fire Victim Reunited With Lost Cat Last September's Valley Fire devastated the community of Middletown, California and destroyed over 1200 homes, becoming the third most destructive wildfire in state history. It also killed four people and an
SF News Anti-Gay Group Goes Mum About Threatened Pissoir Lawsuit, LA Times Picks Up Story Months Late With its February 24 deadline to the city to remove the Dolores Park pissoir or face legal action well passed, active anti-LGBTQ group Pacific Justice Institute has gone strangely quiet about what
SF News California Historical Society Selected To Restore Old Mint As New Cultural Center San Francisco has selected the California Historical Society to restore the Old Mint, which dates to 1854 and was rebuilt in a classical revival style in 1874 at the intersection of Fifth and
SF News Bay Area Beaches Are Especially Dangerous Right Now If you're planning on going to a NorCal beach today or tomorrow, take care: The National Weather Service is warning everyone that things are going to be especially dicey up and
SF News Google's Garbage April Fools' Prank Backfires, They Blame It On 'A Bug' Have you ever been writing an email to a potential new employer, an estranged lover, or a grieving parent and thought, "you know what, this email could really be spiced up with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink When Did We Start Calling It 'Brunch,' And When Did It Become A Thing? Brunch. It's the meal that many of you love to get tanked at after a long weekend of getting tanked, before settling in for a long Sunday's nap. And
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: <em>Everybody Wants Some!!</em>, <em>Born To Be Blue</em>, <em>I Saw The Light</em>, <em>Midnight Special</em> Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!! is being billed as a "spiritual sequel" to his breakout 1993 movie Dazed and Confused, and that makes sense. Both take place in a
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Don't Believe The Lies * Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * On the increasingly unreliable information superhighway, the last thing anyone needs
SF News Day Around The Bay: Roommate In Dreadlock Dispute Speaks * The roommate of the woman involved in that dreadlock dispute at SF State speaks out about her roommate's obsession with social justice and black power. [ABC 7] * Have you seen this
SF News Ripe For Mockery Lyft Ad Changed To Gentrification Critique On-point SF ad vandalism (what was Lyft thinking?) pic.twitter.com/SabcKYmTwf — Chad Woodford (@cjam) March 31, 2016 It's so perfectly set up that it almost seems like Mission District-
Arts & Entertainment John King: LinkedIn Tower 'Has All The Charm Of A Well-Tailored Packing Crate' In a scorching hot takedown from Chronicle architecture writer John King, our local arbiter of tall building taste calls the new tower at 222 Second Street, which is leased in full by LinkedIn,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Names Six Rising Star Chefs, Including Aatxe's Ryan Pollnow and Californios' Val Cantu See how The Chronicle’s 2016 Rising Star Chefs shape the Bay Area’s dining scene.https://t.co/SqGOBx13G2 pic.twitter.com/VyMPaojLdG — SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) March 31, 2016 It's time
SF News DA: SFPD Officers Sent Recent Racist Texts Mocking The Racist Text Scandal According to the District Attorney's office, San Francisco police officers texted each other racist and homophobic remarks making light of the unfolding, so-called racist SFPD texting scandal that roiled the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Best Soup Dumplings (Xiao Long Bao) In The Bay Area There is some mad competition among dim sum parlors on both coasts for the claim of "best soup dumpling," because these multifaceted Shanghainese delicacies known as xiao long bao (or XLB)
SF News Not A Newsflash: Techies Hate Trump San Franciscans like to think of themselves as an enlightened bunch — from the love-parading nudists to the techno-utopian seasteaders, we know what's up. However, in recent years, the reputation
SF News Google Ventures, Other VC Firms Invest $120 Million In $700 Wi-Fi Enabled Juice Machine Silicon Valley may well be running out of juice, as streams of venture capital dry up and some San Franciscans root for a cooling-off period. But investors like Google Ventures (GV, as
SF News Muni's Last Two Big Orange LRV Cars Could Be Yours, For Free! You could own Muni's two remaining Boeing-Vertol light rail vehicles, aka the "big orange trains," for absolutely no charge, a spokesperson says. All you need is a way
SF News Early Morning Sidewalk Couch Fire Melts Cars In The Haight What a way to start the day. According to a tipster, at around 5:00 a.m this morning, he and his neighbors were awakened by the sounds of explosions and greeted by
SF News Underwear-Clad Pedestrian Killed While Crawling On 280 Was 23-Year-Old Woman Delays I280 SB at Alemany. @CHP_GoldenGate says person in underwear crawling in roadway struck by at least 1 vehicle pic.twitter.com/q2tGC94CWi — Christien Kafton (@CKaftonKTVU) March 28, 2016 An underwear-clad
Arts & Entertainment Watch: Citywide Productivity Plummets As SF Peregrine Falcon Cam Goes Live Sure, DC has their eagle-cam or whatever, and while that definitely is cool, they're not the only ones with a livestream of a raptor once almost driven to extinction nesting
