SF News Scenes From Saturday's Protest at SF's Tesla Showroom Yesterday‘s rally at SF’s Tesla showroom had another large turnout with protesters crowded around the intersection and in the center island on Van Ness. The energy was lively as participants chanted and waved to drivers who honked encouragingly, along with the occasional dog, barking in solidarity.
Arts & Entertainment One More Photo: Lightning Strikes Salesforce Tower #Lightning strikes the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. pic.twitter.com/T01WHOLFt4— Karl Mondon (@karlmondon) September 12, 2017 This is just one more extra dramatic photo of last night's crazy storm, via Mercury-News
SF News [Update] Photos: Freak September Thunderstorm Brings 1200+ Lightning Strikes It's weird enough that we're getting a thunderstorm tonight, but this was one with an unusually high number of cloud-to-ground lightning strikes. Also, meteorologists are saying that more thunderstorms are possible on Tuesday,
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Scenes From Last Weekend's Lowrider Cruise Tribute To Selena Some Muni bus shelters on Saturday weren't displaying arrival times for buses: Instead, they read "Lowrider Cruise, 4/8 6pm to 9 pm." And cruise they did: The San Francisco Lowrider Council gathered
Arts & Entertainment Rare Jack London Photos Show Devastation Of 1906 Earthquake Famed author Jack London was many things in his 40 years of life: a war correspondent, an oyster pirate, a sailor, and a photographer. It is that last bit which the New York
Arts & Entertainment Bring Your Own Big Wheel Race Once Again Brings Thrills, Chills, and Spills To Potrero Hill Big Wheelers turned out big time Sunday for the 16th annual Bring Your Own Big Wheel rally on Vermont Street, where roughly 2,000 bunny-eared, onesie-clad, super hero costume-wearing San Franciscans — and a
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Tuesday Night's Stunning Sunset With its fog-free evenings and sprays of cirrocumulus clouds, September has given us some phenomenal sunsets, especially a string of them last week. And then, yesterday evening, there was another one for the
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Sunday Night's Brilliant Sunset Sunday brought one of those rare, actually warm SF nights, with temperatures all over town over 70 degrees well past sunset. And the sunset itself aided by the outer-ring cloud remnants of Hurricane
Arts & Entertainment 11 Photos Of The 15th Annual Bring Your Own Big Wheel Solidifying our town's reputation for being a shameless haven for many thousands of overgrown children, the 15th annual Bring Your Own Big Wheel race down Vermont Street happened on Sunday drawing hundreds, along
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Saturday: City At Large Photos Of SF What are you up to Saturday afternoon? If you're not sure yet, we've got the answer: the opening of City At Large: Photographs of San Francisco. Twelve photographers, many of whom you've probably
SF News BART Wants An Extreme Powell Street Station Makeover: Photos You know BART's Powell Street Station. But maybe you won't know it for long, as BART has set their Station Modernization Program sights on its vast, white, sprawl. That's right, it's time for
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Tonight: Troy Holden's 'Neighbors' Portrait Exhibit Opens Last week, SFist showed you Troy Holden's Neighbors, the San Francisco-based photographer's breakthrough portraiture series. Working with the North of Market-Tenderloin Community Benefit District, he snapped 50 portraits of individuals and families at
Arts & Entertainment Troy Holden's 'Neighbors' Captures The Faces Behind Three Changing S.F. Neighborhoods SoMa, the Tenderloin, and Mid-Market (two of them real, the latter freshly conceived and coined) received heaps of ink over the last year. Some good, some bad, most of it controversial in one
Arts & Entertainment Cool Twitter Account Tweets Even Cooler Classic SF Pics Well, this is downright delightful. A new Twitter account, @OldSanFrancisco, tweets black-and-white images of ye olde San Francisco. So far they've got images of Stockton Street in Chinatown (1951), South of Market ('52)
Arts & Entertainment Give Us All Your Candy: SFist Staff Shows Off Their Childhood Halloween Costumes Happy All Hallow's Eve, folks! Today is a day when, at least back in our halcyon youths, we roamed around the neighborhood at dusk, seeking fun-size treats while wearing our finest spooky, princess,
SF News Scenes From BART Strike Part 2: Unions' Revenge Today's BART strike prompted lots of fuss from the media, anguish on Twitter, and even a petition for a ban on BART strikes altogether. More importantly, many commuters are pissed. Rightfully so. Folks
Arts & Entertainment It's A Small San Francisco After All, In Photos Ah, tilt shift: the magical photography technique that renders houses and monuments tiny and toylike while speaking to our desire for a renewed sense of childlike wonder in a big, scary world. Also,
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Is Steep, In Leaning House Photos Do you have vertigo? Do you want some? It's one of San Francisco's favorite photo subjects, and today we bring you a selection of our favorite leaning house photos to illustrate just how
Arts & Entertainment Do You Know These '90s Haight Street Newlyweds? By Sharon Knolle About 20 years ago, I took some photos of two newlyweds on Upper Haight. They were dressed in vintage clothes, the groom in an old-fashioned tie and glasses, the bride
Arts & Entertainment Is This The Most San Francisco Photo Ever Taken? Google Glass? Check. Blue Bottle? Check. Dolores Park? Check. Bicycle? Check. People in unicorn costumes? Check. Complete scarcity of children. Yep. It just might win. [Imgur]
Arts & Entertainment 7 Reasons To Love San Francisco There are countless stories to tell in San Francisco, but sometimes a picture says so much more than mere words can. Each week we present to you 7 Reasons. (Our sister site LAist
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Sexy, Sparkly Carnaval 2013 Splendor WIth a meme-ridden theme of "Harlem Shake" this year, the 35h Carnaval, one of the remaining remnants of the old Mission, still stands as the city's most bombastic annual parades, featuring music and
Arts & Entertainment 7 Reasons To Love San Francisco There are countless stories to tell in San Francisco, but sometimes a picture says so much more than mere words can. Each week we present to you 7 Reasons. (Our sister site LAist
Arts & Entertainment 7 Reasons To Love San Francisco There are countless stories to tell in San Francisco, but sometimes a picture says so much more than mere words can. Each week we present to you 7 Reasons. (Our sister site LAist
