SF News Mayor Refuses To Allow Likely Statewide Smoking Age Increase To Rain On Local Prohibition Parade Though buying cigarettes might soon become a 21-and-over activity for any smoking Californian, San Francisco isn't content to wait for Governor Jerry Brown to decide if he's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Eat The Best Irish Food In San Francisco As St. Patrick's Day approaches, we at SFist thought you needed a primer on the best of many places around San Francisco to indulge in traditional Irish pub grub (and baked
SF News Fear Of Overreach Keeps BART Board From Passing Fines For Seat Hogs You can still lounge to your heart's content across an entire row of BART seats — at least for now. The vote on whether or not to impose fines of up to
SF News Driver Of White Van Kills Broadway Pedestrian, Speeds Away .@SFPD investigating fatal hit/run on Broadway at Powell. Westbound Broadway closed at Stockton. pic.twitter.com/gHUoCruzF0 — Kale Williams (@sfkale) March 11, 2016 The San Francisco Police Department is seeking the driver
SF News We Tried Peeple (AKA 'That Yelp for People App') So You Don't Have To Back when the “Yelp for People” app Peeple was announced in September, public reaction was so profoundly negative that SFist couldn’t help but be intrigued. This week Peeple actually arrived in the
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Knight of Cups, The Brothers Grimsby 10 Cloverfield Lane - Everywhere 10 Cloverfield Lane arrived almost out of the blue, with a trailer dropping before anyone even knew the movie existed. Since it was produced by J.J. Abrams and
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Apple Ditching Genius Bars * Don't throw away your shot to go to the "Hamiltunes" El Rio sing-along. [SFist] * Beth ventures inside Ed Lee's "man cave." [SF Gate] * It
SF News Day Around The Bay: A Look Inside The U.S. Mint * The U.S. Mint in San Francisco has starting minting a new batch of half-dollars for a commemorative series in honor of the National Park Service. [Chronicle] * Someone painted racist slurs on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime Waterfront Restaurant Sinbad's Is Being Demolished So long, Sinbad's. Troubled waterfront restaurant is getting demolished right now https://t.co/dm2Pv4hxpq pic.twitter.com/v0rnSpHfHQ — Inside Scoop SF (@insidescoopsf) March 9, 2016 Sinbad's has been
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: SF's Black Cat Bar Comes Back To Life In Shoot For LGBT History Series A photo posted by Dustin Lance Black (@dlanceblack) on Mar 9, 2016 at 8:12pm PST "After three long years of research, interviews and writing, it’s now time to leave home
SF News Google Artificial Intelligence Defeats Go Grandmaster, Humans Prepare For Robot Uprising Ladies and gentlemen, we make a lot of jokes around here at SFist about the robot uprising, but news yesterday out of South Korea has us feeling a little, shall we say, on
Arts & Entertainment Raise A Glass: 'Hamiltunes' Host Hamilton Sing-Along At El Rio This Month Have you been saying to yourself "there’s a million things I haven’t done?" Is one of those things "singing along to the broadway phenomenon Hamilton with a horde
SF News This Burned Out Pacific Heights Mansion Can Be Yours For Only $6 Million This beautiful, burned out shell of a home can be yours for the low, low price of $6 million dollars! The mansion, which is located at 2008 Vallejo Street, has been empty since
SF News Attention, Gucci: The Fresno Police Just Found Your Biggest Fan When Fresno police pulled 33-year-old Khamprasong Thammavong over at 5:40 p.m. Monday, they say they were just performing a routine traffic stop. But what followed was anything but routine,
SF News SFPD Officers Who Killed Alex Nieto Did Not Use Excessive Force, Jury Finds According to an eight person federal jury who deliberated for roughly a day following eight days of testimony, four San Francisco police officers did not use excessive force when they killed Alex Nieto,
SF News Rains Douse Bay Area, Your Excitement For The Weekend As Flash Flood Watch Takes Effect The National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Watch advisory for San Francisco effective now through Sunday, so watch the hell out, okay? Heavy rains are rolling in with KRON4 calling for
Arts & Entertainment Piglet That Terrorized Mission Now Menacing ACC Staff After Janice, the pig who rampaged through the Mission Tuesday was captured, she was taken back to San Francisco's Animal Care and Control shelter to await her fate. Would her guardian
SF News This Proposed Replacement For FLAX Breaks Our Heart Just A Little You remember FLAX Art & Design, right? You are sure to recognize the iconic building, which features a giant wooden man poised to launch a colored pencil like a javelin, even if you
SF News The Massive Cost To Clean Up BART, By The Numbers We all know BART has a well-earned reputation as a grimepit, from the skin-infection hosting seats to their infamous poop escalators. And the problem seems to be getting worse, as a
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's 11 Best Local Gyms And Fitness Studios San Francisco is an athlete's paradise. Weather is usually suitable for a run or a hike, hills are themselves a training regimen, and yoga studios seem to be city-mandated every
SF News For Success, Startups Look To Crazy New Metric: Profitability In a survey of 929 tech and healthcare startup executives, Silicon Valley Bank has made a shocking discovery. Just 64 percent felt business conditions would improve this year, writes Wired, representing an 18
Arts & Entertainment Police Tell Rapping, Tapping Sebastopol Goat 'Nevermore' Once upon a 1:38 a.m. dreary, while a Sebastopol resident pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While they nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Truly Sad Sleeper Van Going For $800/Month It's not the first van or truck to be in this column, and it won't be the last probably, but this sleeper van picked up by Curbed this week
SF News UC Berkeley Law Dean Allegedly Sexually Harassed Women, Received Slap On Wrist The Dean of UC Berkeley Law School sexually harassed his employees, but was allowed to keep his job out of concern for his future career prospects, a suit brought by a former employee
SF News Closing Arguments Heard In Nieto Trial, Jury Deliberates “What brings us here today are 59 shots," Mission Local quotes the closing arguments attorney Adante Pointer made yesterday in the case against police officers who killed Alex Nieto in Bernal Heights
