Arts & Entertainment YouTube Launches $35 Streaming TV Service, But Will Anyone Watch? Entering the fray of hopeful cable-killing streaming services today is YouTube with the launch of YouTube TV. Lots of people, especially younger people, already consume a ton of their TV programming via YouTube
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: This Art Is Crap A months-old feces smear — or should we call it a fresco? — on a block of Russian Hill is now a work of public art thanks to a small museum-style label, likely placed there
Arts & Entertainment After Winter Storms, New Roofs Needed At Sanctuary For Famed Local Gorilla Koko Famed sign-language-learning gorilla Koko, a onetime friend to Robin Williams, has been living in a private sanctuary down in Woodside for decades under the care of The Gorilla Foundation, alongside her male partner
Arts & Entertainment Can't-Miss Picks For The SFFILM Festival, Kicking Off Today Now in its 60th year, the San Francisco International Film Festival has just switched to the much snappier but somewhat unpronounceable name SFFILM Festival and begins tonight at the Castro Theatre. With more
Arts & Entertainment Group Behind Bay Lights Is Fundraising For Trippy Conservatory Of Flowers Light Projections Entering the Conservatory of Flowers gives Ben Davis butterflies. "You step inside, and you're filled with awe a million times over," he tells SFist. As the founder of the nonprofit arts group behind
Arts & Entertainment Watch John Stamos Help This SF Guy Propose To His Girlfriend Did I ever tell you guys how my husband proposed to me? Of course I didn't, because I am a grown-ass woman who makes decisions in tandem with my partner and doesn't wait
SF News Whoa: Check Out The $40 Million Spec House That Just Hit The Market On Billionaire's Row Upping the ante in San Francisco's luxury home market and potentially garnering the highest price ever paid for a home in the city, we bring you 2712 Broadway on Pacific Heights' Billionaire's Row
SF News Police Say They've Nabbed Muni's Alleged Groper/Frotteur WARNING: SFPD says this man is wanted for suspicion of sexual battery, allegedly attacked several women on @sfmta_muni. #SanFrancisco pic.twitter.com/Mhh9Vs6aNc— Lilian Kim (@liliankim7) April 4, 2017 Days after local
SF News Naked Woman With Webbed Toes Found Wandering Street Outside Fresno, Claims She's A Mermaid Fresno police are seeking the public's help in identifying a woman who was found wet and mostly naked, walking down a road near a lake outside Fresno early Tuesday morning. The woman says
SF News Evictions Down By 21% Since Last Year In First Decrease Since 2010 From the beginning of March 2016 to the end of February 2017, a total of 1,881 evictions notices were filed with the Rent Board, a 21 percent decrease from last year’s
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Ron Conway Opposes SF Income Tax Albany High School parents come together in effort to figure out why some of their kids are alleged racist jerks. [KRON 4] Inside Facebook's new tools to fight revenge porn. [Ad Week] Seattle
SF News A Decade After Gavin Newsom Pulled SF's Trash Cans, Ed Lee Brings (Some Of) Them Back It was June of 2007, when then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom declared "We have too many garbage cans in the city," and ordered SF's Department of Public Works to remove half of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Hong Kong Lounge II Owner Sentenced To Six Months In A Halfway House The ex-owner of Hong Kong Lounge and Hong Kong Lounge II in the Richmond, 58-year-old Ming Lian Zhou, received a sentence Tuesday of six months in communal confinement in a halfway house, followed
SF News Muni Bans All Political, Offensive, And Violent Advertising On Buses And Trains People with cool, provocative political messages will have to save it for their bumper stickers. As of today, political ads on Muni buses and trains are are prohibited, ABC 7 reports, following a
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: What's Your Worst Muni Experience? Dear Rain, I imagine you've ridden Muni for a lot longer than many of your readers, so I want to know, what has been your worst Muni riding experience? Signed, Step Down! Dear
SF News Orlando Shooter's Widow Noor Salman Will Not Fight Extradition To Florida Bay Area native Noor Salman, who is accused of aiding and abetting her husband Omar Mateen in the deadliest mass shooting in US history at Pulse nightclub in Orlando last June, will soon
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Another Oakland Fire Victim Identified Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here There's some good stuff coming to SHN next season!
SF News Day Around The Bay: International Applications To UC Schools Drop For First Time In Decade Correction: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that UC schools had seen "sharp" drops in international student applications. The drop was small, but nonetheless represents the first decline in a decade.
SF News Police Search For Man Accused Of Series Of Sexual Assaults On Muni .@sfpd says be on the lookout for this man who they say is rubbing himself against unsuspecting women on @sfmta_muni. #SanFrancisco pic.twitter.com/8soiDQpyDO— Lilian Kim (@liliankim7) April 4, 2017 A
Arts & Entertainment Neighbor Objections Force Planned Pinball Lounge Out Of Bernal Spot Back in November we heard that a couple of pinball-loving entrepreneurs were hoping to open a pinball parlor/lounge in a former hair salon at 1000 Cortland in Bernal Heights, but that plan
Arts & Entertainment Peninsula School District Issues Warning About Netflix Series '13 Reasons Why' That Deals With Teen's Suicide The just-released, Bay Area-based Netflix show 13 Reasons Why, produced by actress Selena Gomez, has been cause for concern for the San Mateo-Foster City School District, which sent out a letter to parents
SF News Supervisors Propose Penalties For Wrongful Owner Move-In Evictions Landlords like the one who evicted Angelique Rochelle and her three children from a San Francisco apartment in 2014 under the false pretense of an owner move-in eviction — the landlord simply raised the
Arts & Entertainment Upcoming SHN Season To Include Broadway Hits 'The Color Purple' And 'An American In Paris' It was SHN's turn to announce their upcoming season of theater today, and included among the Broadway-tour offerings are the first national tours of current Broadway hits School of Rock, Alladin, and Waitress,
SF News 7-Unit Elbo Room Development Challenged By Discretionary Review Request A redevelopment plan for the Elbo Room space at the corner of Valencia and Sycamore that would add three stories to the existing two-story building to create seven units of housing could be
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week The current wave of warm weather is a reminder that getting out of the house can be fun, and that there's more to life than your couch. Here are some activities to keep
