Arts & Entertainment The Temptations Get The Biographical Jukebox Treatment They Needed With 'Ain't Too Proud' Berkeley Rep appears set to send another world-premiere hit to Broadway (the short-lived Amelie musical notwithstanding) with Ain't Too Proud, a biographical jukebox musical that traces the history of famed Motown quintet The
SF News Recent SF Murder Seems Certain To Figure Into Sanctuary City Debate This week we learned more about the murder of 23-year-old Abel Enrique Esquivel, Jr., which happened on August 15 near the intersection of South Van Ness and 26th Street, and which involved a
SF News Saturday Links: Vigilante Massacres Mission Trees Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here An American In Paris garners raves. [SFist] What you'll
misc Comfy Bedding To Get You Ready For Hibernation Mode This Winter This winter will be your coziest yet. Unfortunately its almost time to bid farewell to summer and all of its hot, lazy, margarita-filled days. But while you don't have to bring out your
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Officially Becomes America's Wealthiest Urban Area Though SF has a decades-old “heat plan” for conditions like two weekends ago, the city inexplicably ignored it, refused to follow long-established recommendations. [NBC Bay Area] A proposal for a Poets Plaza is
SF News Full Speaker List For 'Free Speech Week' Includes Ex-Googler James Damore, InfoWars Radio Host Mike Cernovich The Milo Yiannopoulos-organized, mysteriously funded, very possibly still-to-be-cancelled "Free Speech Week" at Berkeley, which is set to begin a week from Sunday, has quite a roster of controversial names on its full schedule
SF News Roughed-Up Riders Suing BART For Inadequate Security The $3 million civil suit against BART brought forward by the family brutalized in the infamous deplorable teen flash mob robbery has now morphed into a much larger class action suit with more
SF News Google Slapped With Gender Bias Suit, Might Owe Money to 21,000 Female Employees Ex-Googlers can do more than just found a Bodega startup that the internet loves to hate. Some ex-Googlers might force the search giant to cough up back pay and a hefty slice of
Arts & Entertainment 'An American In Paris' Brings Gershwin Tunes To Vivid Life At The Orpheum When the cheery new Roman Holiday musical made its San Francisco debut in June, I noted that this out-of-town tryout destined for Broadway was part of a trend of mid-century nostalgia that's been
SF News Facebook And Google AdWords Allow 'Jew Hating' Target Categories For Advertisers Yet again this week Silicon Valley PR people are being roiled by news that some of their un-monitored algorithms have allowed for the spread of hate, and in this case, overt anti-Semitism. The
SF News East Bay Dummy Stolen By Apparent 'Mannequin' Fan A window display display was swiped from a Pleasanton clothing store in a bizarre robbery in which the thief left behind $200 and a note signed with the name of a character from
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Half-Constructed Loft In Outer Sunset, $1600/Mo If you're looking for an apartment deal in San Francisco, especially out in the Avenues, you are likely to stumble across more than one half-baked in-law unit or half-finished basement that might be
Arts & Entertainment Video: Taylor Mac Discusses His SF Inspiration For 'A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music' Tonight is the opening of Taylor Mac's A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music, being performed at the Curran from start to finish (in four parts on four separate days, separated across two weekends)
SF News New Law Will Make Crossing The Street During The Countdown Timer Legal Pop quiz, hot shot: Approaching a street you need to cross, you see the walk sign kick into crosswalk timer mode. Do you: a) Speedwalk into the intersection so you can be sure
SF News Accused Attempted Baby Murderer From Redwood City Had Secret Pregnancy And Bathroom Delivery Once Before OH MY GOD. This story out of Redwood City has just taken a turn for the very bizarre as we learn that 25-year-old Sarah Lockner, who was caught by a coworker allegedly trying
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: SoFi CEO Bows Out Early Facebook advertisers can't edit headlines or excerpts of news articles anymore. [Ad Week] Apple's data-mining privacy controls leave much to be desired. [Wired] Waymo's suit against Uber can move forward, judge rules. [Bloomberg]
SF News Harvard Rescinds 'Visiting Fellow' Honor For Chelsea Manning After CIA Protest Earlier this week, the Harvard Institute of Politics announced a list of Visiting Fellows who had been invited to the campus to speak during the 2017-2018 academic year, and among them were ousted
SF News [Updated] Is Your Landlord A Full-On Soft-Story Scofflaw? (And How Much You'll Pay If They're Not) Though San Francisco landlords first learned in 2013 that they'd be required to conform to a new seismic safety standard that includes retrofitting of so-called "soft-story" buildings, it appears that many would rather
SF News Ben Shapiro Backlash Protests Mostly Contained At Berkeley, Nine Arrests Made 9 arrested as protesters gather at UC Berkeley for talk by conservative speaker Ben Shapiro https://t.co/YyPvgZCXLJ pic.twitter.com/IKlalt970r— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) September 15, 2017 Despite a ton
Arts & Entertainment 'The Force' Lays One Of America's Most Troubled Police Departments Bare Peter Nicks's is a cinema verit-style documentary focused on the Oakland Police Department as things stood shortly after the arrival of then-police chief Sean Whent in 2014. At that point, the Oakland
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Alamo Drafthouse Under Fire Following Allegations Of Sexual Assault Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here See a bit of pop punk history tonight. [SFist]
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SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: Here's Your Sneak Peek At The SF Museum Of Ice Cream, Which Opens To Ticketholders Sunday It's almost time for local Millennials' Instagram feeds to be flooded with very similar photos taken in a sprinkle pool, in a swing under some pink bananas, and hugging a unicorn statue with
SF News Day Around The Bay: Anger After Ghost Ship Tribute Painted Over By City Worker CNet employee posts photo of a doppelganger in a painting from the Legion of Honor, ends up in crazy swirl of Internet fame via Reddit. [CNet] Glass containers will likely be banned from
SF News Yet Again, Burners Leave Behind Thousands Of Bikes Remember in 2014 how it was a scandalous headline that upwards of 2,000 people abandoned their bikes on the playa and, in total disregard of the "leave no trace" ethos, went on
