SF News Viral ‘SF Karen’ Goes on Dr. Phil Show, Blames Her Troubles on Cancel Culture Remember that one lady in Pac Heights who gained unfortunate viral fame for confronting a man who wrote “Black Lives Matter” on his own property? She just went on ‘Dr. Phil,’ and had a very sympathetic audience of concerned-looking white people.
SF News Harassed Bike Messenger to Host 'Karen Awareness Day' In Lafayette Park This Weekend A San Francisco bike messenger and his courier collective are having a "Karen Awareness Day" gathering on Sunday to "raise awareness of the epidemic of 'Karen' incidents in our communities."
SF News 'Karen'-Inspired Billboard Pops Up in SF To Call Out Rude Online Restaurant Reviewers Bay Area eateries have been plagued by a recent onslaught of piss-poor reviews on sites like Yelp and Tripadvisor — not related to food, mind you... but in regards to enforcing mandated COVID-19 safety measures and issues with third-party delivery drivers.
SF News SF Tech CEO Who Went on Racist Tirade Resigns From Company Michael Lofthouse, the CEO of the local tech startup Solid8 who was filmed yelling anti-Asian expletives at a dining family in Carmel Valley last weekend, has officially resigned due to growing backlash over his atrocious, racist behavior.
SF News 29-Year-Old Man Facing Enhanced Hate Charges After Allegedly Screaming Slurs Near SF Walgreens After a young man approached a sobbing woman by an Anza Vista Walgreens to ask if he could offer any help, Brendon Kruse allegedly took it upon himself to yell racial expletives at the preteen, holding the victim's bike in place to prevent him from fleeing.
SFist Karen SF 'Ken' Filmed Blocking Latino Man From Entering His Own Apartment Complex Well, it looks like SF "Karen" Lisa Alexander — the skincare CEO filmed scrutinizing a local man for writing "Black Lives Matter" outside his home earlier this month — has a male counterpart: this "Ken" named William Beasley who blocked a Latino man from entering his apartment complex Tuesday.
SF News SF 'Karen' Filmed Confronting Pacific Heights Man Over Writing 'Black Lives Matter' on His Property Alas, it looks like New York City's Amy Cooper, who called the police on a black Harvard-educated bird watcher in Central Park back in May, might be upstaged by San Francisco skincare CEO Lisa Alexander after she was filmed criticizing a local man for writing "Black Lives Matter" outside his home.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to SF Sketchfest's First Annual Filmed Sketch Night Why gather with strangers in a theater to stare at funny films on a screen when you could . . . sit at home on your couch and stare at funny films (even these most of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Paul Reubens Tribute The scene at the Palace: No kids. Just adults who were once in various stages of kidness and under Reubens' thrall. "We've all grown up," observed Big Sis. The show opened with a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the 14th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy Friday night may have kicked off the 14th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy soiree, but it was our first. Though we're clearly members of the target audience for a December night of comedy
Arts & Entertainment Who Am I? The last time we saw The Who, we were fairly certain we were witnessing a farewell tour. It was 1982. Boy, were we wrong. That was not The Who's farewell tour. But the
Arts & Entertainment Podcasting Frankenstein As part of SF's Free Night(s) Of Theater (details are still being finalized), on Monday, October 30, Black Box Theatre is performing , a new adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, before a live
SF News Your Commute: Fire On The Bart , we thought, as we stared blankly out of our downtown office window this morning. That's an awful lot of cop cars speeding down the street. Then we got an email from SFist Karen,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Show Goes On It's either true commitment or sheer lunacy that Stage Fog comes to you this week, because we (that's we the contributor, not we SFist) are the sad victims of a major Comcast outage
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: It's a Gay Play Buffet [After a too-long hiatus, Stage Fog returns with this entry, the debut of SFist Karen, whose blog is about the only one around that's devoted solely to Bay Area theater. You can find
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Flutastic We're not being dramatic or anything, but we've had the flu for a week now, with massive pain behind our eyeballs and pretty much zero appetite. But you can't all come over and
