SF News Half of Twin Peaks Blvd. To Go Carless; You Can Decide Which Half The Twin Peaks panoramic lookout point is an iconic place to take visitors and out-of-towners, particularly for those of us way too snobby for Alcatraz or Fisherman’s Wharf. The views up there
SF News 'Lonely Planet' Puts Oakland At #8 On Its Best U.S. Travel List Wedged between Greenville, South Carolina and Duluth, Minnesota on Lonely Planet's list of "Best in the U.S." list for 2015 is Oakland, California, clocking in at number 8. For the record and
SF News Brace: Super Bowl Expected To Draw 1 Million To S.F. Come Super Bowl 50, the city of San Francisco is expected to harbor an estimated 1 million tourists for the annual football gala. And if you thought San Francisco was losing its gay
SF News Four Seniors Hurt When Tourist Bus Hits Power Lines On Friday, an open-air, double-decker tour bus in the Richmond District struck some low-hanging power lines and caused serious injuries to four tourists in their 60s. One of the victims is said to
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: A Tour of North Beach By Night Mondays are the real sacred days of the week. Your friends who work in the service industry know this to be true, as their only competition for cafe and laundromat space remains moms,
Arts & Entertainment Another Car Drives Into Cement Construction Site; Tourists Look On In Awe Oh geez. Following on the zippy heels of this Porsche that crashed into a Marina cement construction site in February, this unfortunate family wagon seems to have crashed into a cement construction site
Arts & Entertainment Why Should People Visit San Francisco? 'Fast Money, Faster Women,' Says Website Today, on the Internet, a website named San Francisco #19 out of the top 29 cities to visit this year. (Why 29? Unclear. Because it's a prime number, maybe?) Anyway, number 19 puts
SF News Dead Woman Found Floating In SF Bay The fuzz was called to Pier 45 today after two tourists spotted a dead woman floating in the San Francisco Bay at around 11:20 a.m. The Chronicle reports, "Police, firefighters and
Arts & Entertainment VIDEO: 'A Day In The Life Of San Francisco' This new "Day in the Life of San Francisco" can serve as a kind of counterpoint to this 1955 city travelogue we showed you. It's the work of the city tourism bureau, and
SF News Juvenile Female Assaulted In Fishermen's Wharf After Getting Lost From Tourist Group A young teen, who got lost from her tourist group, was assaulted behind some bushes in Fishermen's Wharf Tuesday night. According to reports, the victim got separated from her tourist group at around
Arts & Entertainment Couple Visiting S.F. Create 'Full House' Intro Parody Video We don't know who the Kaplans are, but we sure do like their style. Lauren and Michael Kaplan used edited footage from a recent trip to San Francisco to re-creating the intro to
SF News Jack London Inn Named 2nd Dirtiest Hotel In U.S. Using traveler ratings for cleanliness, TripAdvisor named the 10 dirtiest hotels in the country. Oakland's Jack London Inn was honored as the second most rank hotel, following behind the Grand Resort Hotel &
SF News Man Asks for Directions at Fisherman's Wharf, Gets Hit With Salad Dressing The news of how charmingly our local denizens treat tourists around the Wharf just keeps getting better: Mr. Aldax at the Examiner brings word today of an incident outside a local grocery store
SF News Homeless Woman Burns Tourist's Face With Cigarette at Fisherman's Wharf In a new endorsement for S.F. as America's number-one tourist destination (18th year in a row, boyeee), two "transients" attacked a tourist couple near Fisherman's Wharf last week. As Mike Aldax reports
SF News New Civic Center Hostel Will Nearly Double the Number of Hostel Beds In City A proposed "upscale hostel" at 7th and Market with a restaurant, basement nightclub, and two large rooftop terraces was approved by the Planning Commission last week, and once completed in 2012 it will
SF News Two Adorable Baby Sea Lions, Orphaned at Pier 39, Find Home in Chicago Two baby sea lions, whose mother gave birth to them at Pier 39 and abandoned them there for reasons unknown, have settled into their new home at Brookfield Zoo outside Chicago. They don't
SF News Tourism Up, But Tourist Spending Not So Much 2010 has proven a far better year for tourism in San Francisco than the dismal year that was 2009, but tourists on average seem to be spending less. According to the Chron, hotel
SF News Car Rams Tourist Bus In North Beach Unbeknown to them, a gaggle of tourists went through the city's Street of San Francisco live-action experience on Sunday. See, according to ABC 7, their double-decker bus collided with a vehicle in North
SF News Police Chief to Announce Arrests In German Tourist Shooting Death SFPD Chief George Gascon will announce today the identities and arrests of the suspects in the fatal Union Square shooting of German tourist Mechthild Schroeer, reports BCN (via SF Appeal). "We believe very
SF News Another German Tourist Killed Last Week Just a few days after German tourist Mechthild Schroeer was killed by stray gunfire near Union Square, 21-year-old Nils Linke, who was also a tourist from Germany, was struck and killed on his
SF News Newsom Makes Public Statement About Shooting That Left German Tourist Dead S.F. Mayor Gavin Newsom condemned Sunday night's theater district shooting, one that killed Mechthild Schroeer, a 50-year-old German tourist. "On behalf of our entire city, I offer my deepest condolences to the
SF News Woman Shot, Killed In Theater District Identified The woman who was shot and killed a little before 9 a.m. p.m. last night on Mason and Geary has been identified as Mechthild Schröer, 50, of Minden, Germany. According to
SF News LAN Airlines Responds to 'Bareback' Ad After spotting this "Bareback In Brazil" travel ad seen throughout San Francisco, SFist contacted LAN Airline for their side of the story. Much to our surprise, that said they had nothing to do
misc Gwyneth Paltrow Does San Francisco Pointy actress Gwyneth Paltrow has a lifestyle newsletter called GOOP. Why does she call it GOOP? Because she's an actress, and thus crazy. Her most recent newsletter is about San Francisco. Some of
