Arts & Entertainment How One Teacher is Changing Lives One Cup of Coffee at a Time SoulPancake | Class Act series brought to you by California Lottery Thanks to a sweet and simple idea, special education teacher Ms. Sadie Guthrie has found an innovative way for students to thrive beyond
Arts & Entertainment Get Ready For The Holidays: 5 Reasons To Exit Through This Gift Shop Shop Now Check out our top 5 unique items from the Exploratorium store that will impress your friends, family, and colleagues. NUMBER 1 Keith Newstead's Automata Just about anything is possible in artist
Arts & Entertainment How Did Japan Inspire Monet, Van Gogh And Cassatt? See <em>Looking East</em> For The Answers Now on view at the Asian Art Museum. In the 19th century, a craze for all things Japanese changed the course of Western art. Looking East explores the movements and artists affected by
Arts & Entertainment Trivia Night Was A Success! On November 10th, Capital One hosted a trivia night focused on categories like lifestyle and money. The turnout was awesome, full of competitive spirits ready to compete for great giveaways with questions from
Arts & Entertainment Happn's New Spotify Feature Is The Best Way To Get To Know Your Crush It's important that whoever you're dating has similar interests as you, and music is no exception.Your taste in music says a lot about you, and it's awesome when you can agree on
Arts & Entertainment Thursday Date Night Along the Embarcadero Five easy steps to create an unexpected (and totally Instagram-worthy) Thursday date night along the Embarcadero. 1. Meet in front of the iconic Ferry Building. There's no denying that San Francisco's Ferry Building
Arts & Entertainment Squarespace Spotlight: A San Francisco Restaurant Finds A Site Worthy Of Its Creations A month ago, we asked Squarespace users in the SFist universe to come forward and shamelessly plug their website for a feature on our site. Well, it's time! Here's our subject on what
Arts & Entertainment Squarespace Spotlight: A San Francisco Restaurant Finds A Site Worthy Of Its Creations A month ago, we asked Squarespace users in the SFist universe to come forward and shamelessly plug their website for a feature on our site. Well, it's time! Here's our subject on what
Arts & Entertainment Boo At The Zoo Returns October 24-25! Join the San Francisco Zoo for this year's Boo at the Zoo! Grab friends and family and head down to trick-or-treat and see the animals. Do the Monster Mash at the special Halloween-themed
Arts & Entertainment Win A Free Month Of Rent! (Seriously.) Free rent in San Francisco? That's something you don't hear everyday. Sounds crazy, but room.me is making it a possibility for one lucky California resident. Finding the perfect roommate is one of
Arts & Entertainment Captive Whale Breeding Is Now Banned In California The people have spoken. Yesterday, the California Coastal Commission unanimously voted to ban captive whale breeding and drastically restrict the movement of whales in and out of SeaWorld San Diego. The ban was
Arts & Entertainment Love Is Not An Algorithm. It Happens When You Least Expect It. Let's think for a second about why traditional dating sites are dying out and mobile dating apps like Happn are thriving. The complicated algorithms, personality tests, chemistry quizzes and questionnaires used by traditional
Arts & Entertainment Check Out Exploratorium For An Immersive, Devilishly Different Halloween AMAZING EVENTS FOR THE OMNICURIOUS Experience devilishly different, Halloween-inspired Cinema Arts events at the Exploratorium this October. They're part of their unique, ongoing Cinema Arts programming, which bridges art and science through projection,
Arts & Entertainment Steam Carnival Bringing Aerialists, High-Tech Demos And The Famous Dunk Tank Flambé To Pier 48 The STEAM Carnival premiered in 2014 in Los Angeles to nearly 15,000 fans after funding the event through a notably successful Kickstarter campaign. The next stop for the Carnival is the 100,
Arts & Entertainment Preview An Upcoming Documentary On The Sharps, Humanitarians In The Nazi Refugee Crisis In early 1939, Waitstill and Martha Sharp, a young Unitarian minister and social worker, moved to Prague and aided hundreds of refugees fleeing Nazi persecution. Join the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to preview
Arts & Entertainment You No Longer Have An Excuse Not To Start A Personal Website Looking for a job? Displaying your work? Growing a business? Keeping a journal? There are a lot of reasons to have a personal website, and we've all seen some stunning examples out there.
Arts & Entertainment Fight The Good Fight: Difficult But Necessary New Documentary Focuses On Dog Farming Trade No one wants to talk about it, but it's a real issue: dogs are sometimes consumed for their meat in parts of Southeast Asia. It's not glamorous, it's not easy and it's not
Arts & Entertainment Driving The Bay To 100,000 City CarShare is celebrating 50,000 members by waiving sign-up fees and giving existing members $50 for referring a friend. The background story: last month City CarShare, the Bay Area's original nonprofit carsharing
Arts & Entertainment My Grandkids Will Not Believe How I Met My Husband One day, I'll be able to brag that it was my generation that witnessed the invention of online dating, and I'll tell my grandkids that I met their grandfather on Happn. As single
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What Really Is Your Cup Of Tea? Given a choice, would you choose something that's personalized to your tastes and liking over something that's "off the shelf"? Chances are you are nodding your head in agreement. And why not. We
Arts & Entertainment How Happn Saved My Life When I Moved To San Francisco Caroline. When I got a job offer in San Francisco, I had mixed emotions. I was thrilled, since living in sunny California was a fantasy I'd always had, but I was also pretty
Arts & Entertainment The Best Place to Chill on the Las Vegas Strip For the “coolest experience” in Las Vegas, make an expedition to Minus 5° Ice Bar. Located within the Shoppes at Mandalay Place, everything except for the floor and the ceiling is made out
Arts & Entertainment Last Chance To See Contemporary Art In Asian Art Museum's <em>28 Chinese</em> Would you like an "eye-opening overview of China's contemporary art scene of the past two decades"? If so, then SF Weekly suggests 28 Chinese, now in its FINAL WEEKS (yikes). It's a striking
Arts & Entertainment See Faces that Shaped America at the National Portrait Gallery From George Washington to George Carlin, Sequoyah to Rosa Parks, James Monroe to Marilyn Monroe, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is home to the icons of our nation’s history and culture.
Arts & Entertainment No Life's Too Small Recently, the shocking reality of puppy mills has been put in the spotlight. The terrible conditions being photographed and recorded have prompted more and more people to find their loving companion from the
