Arts & Entertainment 'The Columbarium' Is A Beautiful Look Into One Of San Francisco's Last Remaining Final Resting Places The Atlantic shared a look at The Columbarium, which is a documentary that delves into the story of the San Francisco Columbarium, otherwise known as the Neptune Society Columbarium. It's one of the
SF News BART Patrons Arrested In SF For Threats To Women, Attempted Hat Theft In a welcome change of pace to the many stories of unsolved BART crime, BART police say they made at least two arrests this weekend, both at stations in San Francisco. The first
SF News California's Best-Paid Mayor Is...SF's Own Ed Lee Based on his salary from last year, San Francisco mayor Ed Lee is the best paid mayor in California, beating out Los Angeles, Oakland, and every other town in our state. But it
Arts & Entertainment The Story Of Emperor Norton, SF's First Icon and Greatest Eccentric, On The 137th Anniversary Of His Death You’ve perhaps heard during your Bay Area residency the occasional passing reference to an “Emperor Norton”, some foppish, overdressed, Victorian-era kook whose legacy we are apparently supposed to respect. Why? Why is
Arts & Entertainment The Best Quotes About San Francisco And The Bay Area As this is San Francisco Appreciation Week, it's time to be reminded of the many great and witty things that have been said about this fairest of cities, and the often lovely words
SF News NYT Writer Living Abroad For Decades Describes How Crazy San Francisco In 2016 Seems To Him New York Times foreign correspondent Thomas Fuller, who's spent the last 27 years living abroad primarily in Asia, has moved back to States, to the San Francisco of 2016 that we inhabit, and
SF News San Jose Is Now The Richest City In The US, SF Is Third According to Bloomberg's analysis of data for the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States — numbers from the Bureau of Economic Analysis — San Jose is the figurative gold medal winner. At $105,
SF News How To Get Away With Bay Area Murder Murder. Many of us have contemplated it at some point, at the very least to consider what we'd have to do to get away with it. But as it turns out, you might
Arts & Entertainment Blue Angels, City-Wide Drone Ban, And More: Fleet Week Returns To San Francisco It's that time of year again — San Francisco Fleet Week, after a budget-cut 2013 meant basically no celebration at all, roared back in October 2014, and has returned this weekend for all the
SF News 4.0 Magnitude Earthquake Gets The Bay Area's Monday Going Good morning, Bay Area! That's what the Hayward Fault appeared to be saying, as it rocked those of us who were lingering in bed out of it with a 4.0 magnitude quake
Arts & Entertainment 5000 Explosions: Behind The Scenes At San Francisco's 4th Of July Fireworks Display Technically, it is not true to say that the city of San Francisco will be lighting off fireworks at Pier 39 for the 4th of July at Pier Fireworks celebration on Saturday night.
Arts & Entertainment SFnopes, Vol. 1: Which Of These Seven San Francisco Urban Myths Are True Or False? Everyone knows that Mark Twain never uttered the “coldest winter” quote and that Lombard is not really the crookedest street. But what other San Francisco lore that’s commonly bandied about happens to
Arts & Entertainment New 'San Andreas' Trailer Does A Pretty Great Job Of Effing SF Right Up Now, you might look at the newest trailer for San Andreas, the earthquake-focused film shot in San Francisco (among other places) last summer and assume that it is the standard goofball disaster film,
SF News In Tragic Coincidence, Caltrain Sent To Fetch Passengers Delayed By Menlo Park Collision Involved In Second Fatality Two people are dead after separate collisions with Caltrain Monday, and in a strange twist, the train sent to pick up passengers stranded by the first collision was the one that struck and
Arts & Entertainment Beauty Contest: San Francisco Vs. NYC Gothamist Managing Editor John Del Signore is in San Francisco this week judging our coffee consumption and pointing out the obvious. Below, he judges San Francisco's beauty through his New Yorker eyes. I
SF News $40 Million Raised For Super Bowl 50 Expenses, SF Gets Bupkis Though the host committee for Super Bowl 50 has touted $40 million in private gifts to support the event, none of that money will go to pay San Francisco's costs as (ostensible) hosts
SF News [Updated] SWAT Raids San Francisco Hells Angels Outpost, Nabs Suspect In Assault At least one person was arrested during an early morning raid of the San Francisco headquarters of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, SF police say. At 5 AM, SFPD officers served a search
SF News NFL Announces Date For San Francisco Bay Area Super Bowl According to a spokesperson for the San Francisco Bay Area Super Bowl Host Committee, Super Bowl L, which will be held at the as-yet-unfinished Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, will be held
SF News A List Of Things The New Pope Has In Common With San Francisco As the smoke dies down in the Vatican, let's take a look at how Pope Francis I stacks up with San Francisco values. Here now, a list without commentary: He used to have
SF News Oakland Now Gayer Than San Francisco, Says 'Advocate' There's been a lot of talk lately about how hip Oakland is these days, but you know what no one has been talking about in the neverending San Francisco vs. Oakland debate? Just
Arts & Entertainment Gallery: Giants Fans Burn Things, Overturn Cars After Winning World Series [Updates] For those of you too skittish to head out to the streets of the Mission or SoMa to celebrate the big Giants win tonight, we've helpfully rounded up some photos of San Franciscans
Arts & Entertainment Fuzzy New York Columnist Calls San Francisco Fans "Soft" Today in cross-country smacktalk, New York Daily News columnist Filip Bondy just comes right out and says what's on his mind: "San Francisco 49er's fans are soft." After the vitriol that came out
Arts & Entertainment Here's a Rock That Looks Like San Francisco Photographer Ariel Dovas spotted this rock that looks like the city of San Francisco. Ta-da.
SF News 7 Reasons To Love San Francisco There are countless stories to tell in San Francisco, but sometimes a picture says so much more that mere words. Each Tuesday (or Wednesday!), we present to you 7 Reasons. (Our sister site
misc San Francisco's New Motto: 'Not Smug, Just Better' After voting on a fresh, new motto for San Francisco, we have a winner: Not Smug, Just Better You like? We find it fitting on many levels. "Not Smug, Just Better" (brought to
