SF News Some SF 'Homeless Moms' Neither Homeless Nor Moms, Chronicle Finds Homeless mom panhandles on Market Street with newborn baby: “I’m not harming her in any way.”https://t.co/nSmkszW1qZ via @hknightsf pic.twitter.com/2NItA9gsLe— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) July 30, 2017 Pitchforks
Arts & Entertainment Class War: S.F. Streets Hungry, Marin Porsche Drunk In Perfect Photo Well, would you look at this. A photo captured by Twitter user David Bellona, himself a designer at Twitter, is making the rounds for its perfect evocation of San Francisco's much-ballyhooed incipient class
SF News This Just In: Local Panhandlers Are Not Getting Rich For people likes Fox News' John Stossel, who believe panhandlers are really raking it in for upwards of $80K/year, here's a news flash: according to a survey funded by the the Union
Arts & Entertainment Occupy Bernal To Stop House Auction Tomorrow At City Hall On Friday, June 1, Occupy Bernal (the tiny Occupy group that, despite its size, somehow gets shit done) plans to stop the auction of Alberto Del Rio's house by making noise to drown
SF News What Does Your S.F. Neighborhood Say About Your Health? The Chronicle's Victoria Colliver penned a fascinating story in today's issue, one that mentions an "online report card on the health of San Franciscans" that's being introduced today "by a consortium of public
SF News Over 150,000 San Franciscans Experience Hunger In response to a Census Bureau report yesterday preceding the release of the 2010 Census stating that poverty levels in 2009 were the highest they'd been since 1951, the San Francisco Food Bank
SF News S.F. Unemployment Numbers Still Awful Second verse, same as the first: San Francisco's unemployment rate skipped from 9.6 percent in June to 9.7 percent last month. Although, as SF Weekly reports, we're not the worst in
SF News California Jobless Rate Climbs While some have declared the recession over, more or less, California's job rate might disagree. In August, we witnessed the jobless figure "climb to 12.2 percent last month, the highest on records
SF News Oh Sh*t! While SFist is much to dainty to post such vile images of something so natural, fearless LiveJournal blogger Jameth isn't. See, ever since he's been working on Stevenson Street a few weeks ago,
misc As God As My Witness You'll Never Go Hungry Again With Our New Kobe Steaks and Pomme Frites! So, the Old Gray Lady hauled out the printing press to publish a story about how "cool-hunting hipsters" love Valenica Street. Sure, it's a dated piece. Wildly so, it seems. The article goes
misc Brand New High School Calamity: Certain Students Are Being Made Objects of Scorn! But wait. Seriously? Kids are STARVING themselves? We think this is probably more of a failure of the students' judgment than of school policy -- hey, teenagers make lots of bad decisions, and
Arts & Entertainment Propaganda III: an Anti-American 4th of July Review Zombie Time has a chortle-worthy review of the Propaganda III art show -- a not-so-mildly anti-capitalist (and surprisingly anti-Semitic) exhibit -- which was held at, where else? The always-chic Bambuddha Lounge! You know,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Hyper-Sensitive Poverty of Imagination This letter was found in 2004 by SFist reader smallerdemon. It was posted near a window of a downtown bookstore that had books by black authors on display. Some Thoughts Is it my
SF News SFist Tonight Friend of SFist judy b. is moderating a discussion about San Francisco's criminalization of poverty at the Little Roxie tonight, which is co-sponsored by the People of Color Coalition of the SF Green
Arts & Entertainment Big Wheels, Bill Clinton, And You Hey, there's lots of stuff going on this weekend! And in exchange for telling you about it, we're going to ask again for a favor in return -- if you go to any
SF News Calif. Legislature Wants To Teach <i>Us</i> How To Save Bipartisan legislators introduced a bill in the California Senate Wednesday that would grant every child born within the state a $500 savings account, earmarked for higher education, a home downpayment, or retirement. The
SF News What About Bill? Hillary is in town to give a speech at one of the housing projects in Bayview to talk about the importance of lifting people out of poverty. Nah, we're just joking-- she did
Arts & Entertainment The Apocalyptic Adventures of the Superfisters How is it that you've never heard of ? It's been around for about 20 years, so you have absolutely no excuse for not diving into this unjustifiably unknown sci-fi pleasure. The year is
SF News How'd Question Time Go? Well, we're sorry to report that everyone's day jobs managed to succeed where Wade Crowfoot did not -- namely, in preventing anyone wearing a chicken suit from gaining access to the city's very
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Review and Preview at Berekley Repertory Theatre The best theater experiences happen when you go in not knowing what to expect, and then the show blows you away. If you agree, then stop reading right now
Arts & Entertainment Reversal Of Fortune Ain't no better way to celebrate the Fourth of July than by watching the Coney Island Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Competition: our buddies at the mothership Gothamist even liveblogged the whole thing! (yes,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Sparkling New Plays San Francisco Mime Troupe at Dolores Park A liberal San Franciscan missing the July 4 Mime Troupe performance is like a fire department missing its small-town Independence Day parade. Heck, we've never seen
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Blog Round-Up We were going to blame our missed post on Hurricane, Tropical Storm, Summer Shower Albert, but you see how that went, so we have to level with you. We were in Orlando last
SF News Bay Area Representatives Representin' In the first round, Pelosi is up against a tough challenger, #1 seeded Cynthia McKinney. McKinney is the Tupac quoting, police beating congresswoman from Georgia who is, for all intents and purposes, bat
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Grain in the Ear</i> The film festival representative who introduced this movie described it as "challenging," which we think may just be a euphemism for slow--but not in a bad way. If you're used to the fast
