Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: What High School Did You Go To? Dear Rain, Where did you go to high school?? Most important question to be asked from one native to the other! Signed, Another Native Dear AN, This is probably a question that only
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: San Francisco's 'Police Problem' * BART, please commission Caleb to make you the horror film we're all dying to watch. [SFist] * The Coast Guard rescued a struggling swimmer at Ocean Beach Tuesday afternoon. [KRON4] * [Slate] can&
Arts & Entertainment Prince Announces Surprise Shows At Oakland's Paramount Theater Sunday As he's done a bunch of times in recent years, Prince announced late Tuesday that he'd be doing some surprise concerts on very short notice this time the kickoff
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF's Sexy Circus Could Take Show On The Road * Is Park Station’s weed bust program the best use of SFPD resources, [Hoodline] wonders? * Three San Jose State students were convicted of misdemeanor battery for bullying a black roommate, putting a bike
SF News Video: Google-Owned Boston Dynamics Improves Their Terrifying, Terminator-Like Robots Alphabet/Google-owned robotics company Boston Dynamics, the people behind those crazy robot war dogs, has just unleashed upon us yet another bit of nightmare fuel. Specifically: The new and improved Atlas Robot.
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Once again we bring you some ideas for things to do off the internet this sunny and lovely week in our fair city. You do know it's really nice outside, right?
SF News City Spits On, Rejects $80 Million In State Funds Intended For New Jail Though expected, we now know that the Board of Supervisors' December vote to kill the proposed new jail means that San Francisco will definitely turn down $80 million in state grant money
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mosu Opens With $200, 10-Course, Very Pretty Tasting Menu In The Fillmore Capitalizing on good neighbors and their foodie foot traffic like State Bird Provisions and The Progress comes a new lower Fillmore restaurant from a pedigreed chef where you can easily spend your week&
SF News Silicon Valley Billionaire Wants $30 Million For His Beach Access, National Media Shames Him The saga of Sun Microsystems founder and local billionaire Vinod Khosla and his beachfront property south of Half Moon Bay came up in the news again in the past week after Khosla laid
SF News Fort Funston, Ocean Beach To Partially Ban Dogs Under Proposed Rule Change Under a set of new rules proposed yesterday, large swaths of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area are set to become entirely dog-free — this includes not insubstantial sections of popular dog-walking
SF News Alameda Man Implicated In Get-Rich-Quick Scam Remains Missing; Brother Believes He 'Sacrificed Himself' Two weeks ago SFist put out the early word of the disappearance of John Beck, a 73-year-old Alameda resident last seen boarding a BART train in downtown Oakland, and whose family
SF News City To Clear 'Tent City' Homeless Encampment Within 72 Hours Division Street's tent city, a sizable homeless encampment beneath a section of the Central Freeway that has grown in size over the last two winters, will be cleared by city agencies
SF News Major Proposal To Remove I-280 Overpass And Caltrain Rail Yard Moves Forward A proposed (extremely expensive) plan, first floated last May, to remove the existing Caltrain rail yard as well as parts of the I-280 overpass and off-ramp in SoMa/Potrero in anticipation
SF News Threatened Eviction Of 97-Year-Old Woman Prompts Community Outpouring Marie Hatch is 97 years old, currently fighting cancer, and has lived in the same Burlingame home for 66 years after her original landlord and friend promised her a lifetime lease. Now, thanks
SF News Will This Action-Packed Video Of Overnight BART Maintenance Shut Us Up About 24-Hour Service? 24-hour BART service is a literal pipe dream. Without a second Transbay Tube, single-track overnight service is out of the question. But the transit agency knows we don't give
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Yuppies Unwelcome On Ulloa Opened Graffiti request via iphone at 3201 Ulloa St https://t.co/yxsUReJ6X7. Second request for removal! pic.twitter.com/TvzWE6SU1u — SF311 Reports (@SF311Reports) February 23, 2016 A day after a SoMa traffic-
SF News Second Pro-Apple Rally Planned For Tonight In Downtown SF Growing group of folks at the SF Apple Store. Showing support of Apple's decision to protect encryption for users. pic.twitter.com/UKIwf5qYPK — Doctor Popular (@DocPop) February 18, 2016 Less than
SF News Soccer Hooligan Leaves SF Ref With Traumatic Brain Injury The SFPD is seeking an adult — and apparently quite aggro — soccer player who brutally beat the referee who ejected him from a game. The Chron reports that the fateful adult-league game was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Imminent Health Hazard(s)' Force Closure Of Market Street Burger King Mid-Market diners craving the royal taste of a Whopper will have to go a little further to scratch that itch these days, as the Burger King at Market and Grove Streets has
SF News Selling The Farmville: Zynga To Offload SF Headquarters San Francisco-based mobile games-making something something unprofitable Zynga has one trick left up its sleeve: the sleeve itself, which the company now plans to sell. As Bay Area real estate blog
SF News As Chicago Plan Stalls, Oakland Hints At Second Bid For Lucas Museum For several years now, filmmaker and extremely rich person George Lucas has been working to create a massive museum dedicated to showcasing his collection of movie memorabilia, illustrations, and graphic art. After his
SF News DA Gascon Denounces 'Old Boys' Club' In SFPD As Department Announces New Community-Oriented Bureau In an effort to restore trust in the San Francisco Police Department in the wake of the killing of Mario Woods, Police Chief Greg Suhr and Mayor Ed Lee announced Monday that some
SF News Have You Seen This Missing SF Woman? The San Francisco Police Department is asking for the public's help to find an elderly area woman who lost touch with her family over a week ago. According to SFPD spokesperson
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Uber Defends Their Background Checks * We were at the Church Of Coltrane's (possibly) last service in the Fillmore. Join us! [SFist] * There was a six-car pileup on northbound 101 just north of Vermont Street this
Arts & Entertainment Get Your Gold On At The Asian Art Museum Pictured: Jon Leezy of Disco Energi (House of Energy) Get your gold on! In honor of their 50th birthday, the Asian Art Museum is channeling the camp-tastic 80s TV hit “Solid Gold”