SF News Video: Cool NASA Video Shows Before And After Images Of California's Drought We got through a historic drought and have come out the other side after the atmospheric rivers and steady rains of this past winter in California. Especially in Northern California and around the
Arts & Entertainment Watch This Knucklehead Fondle SF's Corpse Flower, Pose For Photo San Francisco's corpse flower is a pretty big deal, and rightfully so: The rare Amorphophallus titanum growing at our Conservatory of Flowers only blooms for a day every three or four years. Like
Arts & Entertainment Reddit Co-Founder and Serena Fiance Turns To Reddit For Parenting Advice This blog is ready to bestow unofficial “King and Queen of San Francisco” titles to all-time Grand Slam tennis champion Serena Williams and her Reddit co-founder fiancé Alexis Ohanian, possibly the greatest heteronormative
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Dumb Dogs Called Out A majority of Californians are worried that the ACA might be repealed. [UC Berkeley] Man busted in Bay Area carpool lane has been driving on a suspended license for 21 years.[KRON 4]
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Is Farina Finally Closed? A certain exorbitantly priced, marginally well liked Italian spot on 18th Street has been mysteriously closed for about a month, and this could signal the final demise of a polarizing restaurant that has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Pens Idealistic Note To Jeff Bezos About The Future Of Whole Foods Never one to miss an opportunity to proselytize, local-sustainable evangelist Alice Waters took to Twitter over the weekend to pen the note below, signed "with hopefulness," asking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to please
SF News SFO Staffer Who Creeped On Church While Clad In Fake ICE Jacket Loses Job The San Francisco International Airport employee who freaked out congregants at a Marin County church by photographing them while wearing a jacket that bore a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement logo has lost
SF News BART Cars' Semi-Functional Air Conditioning Making Many Miserable During Heatwave Given that summer in SF (and to some extent Oakland and Berkeley too) is usually pretty cool, we don't tend to have the same sweaty public transit woes of our friends in, say,
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: What Do You Miss The Most? In these Troubled San Francisco Times, there is a lot of talk about who was here when, and what that does (or doesn't) mean. In an effort to both assist newcomers and take
SF News SF Cyclist Killed In Rush Hour Collision A cyclist was killed Tuesday, after police say he was struck by a driver at a busy San Francisco intersection. According to the San Francisco Police Department, a male cyclist in his 40s
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Nasty Yelper Loses Fancy Job Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Do you find Uber more palatable now that Travis
SF News Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Resigns Under Pressure From Key Investors After some Tuesday night drama in Silicon Valley involving Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and several key investor in the embattled ride-hailing company all worthy of Silicon Valley the HBO show Kalanick has resigned
Arts & Entertainment Dream Better And Wake Up Fresher With The Dangerously Comfy Leesa Mattress For the most part, people spend about a third of their lives asleep. Yep! It’s biology, but for some reason, much more care is given to our waking lives than those hours
misc Save The Planet While Saving Some Cash Low-energy bulbs, smart outlets, and more budget ways to reduce your carbon footprint. We've only got one planet (so far), and it's up to us to take good care of it. Start with
SF News Day Around The Bay: Suspect Who Caused Massive Bay Bridge Backup In Jail A post shared by Erik Flatmo (@erikflatmo) on Jun 20, 2017 at 12:27pm PDT The guy who's accused of driving his Cadillac at some CHP officers on the Bay Bridge early Sunday
Arts & Entertainment The SFist Guide To Pride 2017 No doubt, this year's SF Pride is going to be one for the books, if only because as the nation remains bitterly divided about its identity and its future. So in some part
SF News Fancy Hillsborough Mansion Sold For 70% Off Original Asking Price Take it from an experienced shopper: 70% off is a great deal on anything. For example, let's look at the case of the de Guigné estate in Hillsborough that originally hit the market
SF News Amazon Brick-And-Mortar Book Store Coming To Walnut Creek In August One of the more curious aspects to Amazon’s wholesale slaughter of the brick-and-mortar retail book industry is Amazon’s apparent desire to revive the brick-and-mortar retail book industry. To that end, the
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Sure it's Pride Week (and stay tuned for Jay's upcoming list of Pride events), but there's still a city full of eclectic events that will compete for your Pride-time. Check out cheese pairings,
SF News New Oakland Fire Department Report Reveals Details Of Ghost Ship Victim Recovery A new, 50-page "Origin and Cause" report by the Oakland Fire Department has been released for the Ghost Ship disaster, though the report concludes, as the earlier investigation by the ATF did, that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cult Beer Favorite Pliny The Elder Loses Number One Spot On Cult Beer Ranking Russian River Brewing's Pliny the Elder is no longer tops among the beer aficionados and homebrew cultists who vote in the annual Zymurgy Magazine poll on the Best Beers in America. As SFGate
SF News Summer Of Love Epicenter Becomes Site Of Aggravated Assault The intersection of Haight and Ashbury Streets — thought of by many as ground zero of the now 50-year-old Summer of Love, was home to a much less loving encounter Monday night, the San
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Curry Family Gets Tattooed A father killed his two children and himself in Santa Rosa Monday. [KRON 4] Actor Mahershala Ali tells [GQ] that Berkeley cops used to profile and harass him. Inside Facebook and Instagram's attempt
SF News Uber Finally Adds Tips For Drivers Signaling that possibly only one man has been standing in the way of Uber drivers being able to receive tips from passengers as they can with ride-hailing rival Lyft, the company announced Tuesday
SF News UPS Coworkers Remain Confused About Shooter's Motives; Vigil Held For Victims Two UPS coworkers who witnessed last Thursday's shooting in Potrero Hill, one of whom was shot in the leg during the ordeal, remain confused about what drove 38-year-old Jimmy Lam to kill three
