SF News Racist Ranting Tour Guide Possibly ID'd; David Chiu Demands Apology, Holds Rally [Updated] Since the video of the disgruntled tour guide shouting "f**k everything" about Chinatown started going around yesterday, SFist has seen a whole lot of comments both defending and castigating this unidentified woman.
SF News Tour Guide Goes On Epic, Angry, Racist Rant About Chinatown Apparently, on her last day on the job, this San Francisco tour guide decided to crack open a beer and go on a lengthy, angry, off-color rant about everything she hates about Chinatown.
SF News Tourist Shot In Tenderloin Sunday A man visiting S.F. from Boston was walking with his wife Sunday morning near the intersection of Polk and Ellis Streets when he was shot in the leg by a stray bullet.
SF News Now In S.F., Eccentric Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Is Launching An Audio-Tour Company Ousted Groupon founder Andrew Mason, now 34, has relocated to San Francisco, lost 30 pounds, and since last fall he's been working on a new venture: Detour. It's a mobile app, currently in
SF News Lombard Street Residents Finally Get Peace And Quiet In Form Of Massive Crowd Of Pedestrians After residents of the visitor-beloved stretch of Lombard known (dubiously) as the "world's crookedest" asked the SFMTA to consider keeping tourist traffic off their street, the MTA complied, launching a "pilot program" of
SF News Want To Visit Lombard's Crooked Stretch This Weekend? Then Take A Cab So, you have out-of-town guests, but they're too delicate for Fisherman's Wharf's Dungeon and too afraid of ghosts to go to Alcatraz. All they want to do it visit that crooked street they've
Arts & Entertainment British Tourists Claim Their iPhone Captured An Alcatraz Ghost Finally! After years of wondering if ghosts are real, today you receive your answer. Yes they are, and one of them "lives" (if you can call it that, because, ghost) at San Francisco's
Arts & Entertainment Elaborate, Dark, Disney-Esque Tourist Attraction, The Dungeon, Opens At Fisherman's Wharf Next Week In space formerly occupied by the The Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf, something called The Dungeon is opening on June 26, bringing a popular European tourist attraction to our shores for the first
SF News Meanwhile, In Barcelona... Proving that San Francisco isn't the only city facing renters' woes, Erik Keeling (my brother, who has been living in Spain for the last 20 years) sends in this pic from the Barceloneta
SF News San Francisco's World Famous Crooked Street Might Close Thought the debate regarding which street in San Francisco is the crookedest—some say Lombard, some say Vermont, some say Carlton B Goodlett (because City Hall, ha ha ha)—the twisty stretch of
SF News Alamo Square Neighbors Freed From Tour Bus Oppression During a meeting yesterday, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's board of directors voted 5-0 to ban large tour buses from the postcard vistas surrounding Alamo Square Park. Starting next month, the neighbors
SF News Tour Bus Driver Charged With DUI Behind The Wheel Of 'Hop-On, Hop-Off' Bus Leon Maynard, 60, of San Bruno is trying to avoid a DUI conviction after police say they spotted him "struggling to steer" a double decker tour bus near Stockton and Post in the
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 Best 11 Tourist Spots That Locals Should Also Enjoy Tired of your neighborhood already? Well, it's time to throw on a coat, march out the door, and venture out. Hundreds of thousands of tourists come to this city each year to behold
SF News Downtown Hotel Boom: Two to Three New Hotels Heading to SoMa/Mid-Market The construction boom in the city won't just be bringing new condos and office towers. This week a new hotel on Fourth Street got approved by Planning, and there are at least two
SF News Hide Your Kids: 'Evil Elmo' Descends On San Francisco A man known for dressing up in an Elmo costume and harassing tourists in Times Square with anti-Semitic rants has apparently decamped to San Francisco for the week, where he's doing the same
SF News Ed Lee Says Don't Worry About Weekend Traffic Nightmare You know how everything upon everything is happening this weekend in our fair city? The hordes are coming, but Mayor Ed Lee insisted in a quickie press conference today, "I know there will
Arts & Entertainment Video: Seagull Swipes Camera From Tourist, Films Beautiful Sunset [Updated] While tourist Nathalie Rollandin was shooting the honey-kissed sunset at the Golden Gate Bridge last week, a nearby rogue seagull wasn't having any of it. The crafty bird snatched her GoPro camera and
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
SF News New Golden Gate Bridge Visitor's Center Kinda Sucks, Says John King The big celebration this weekend also marks the unveiling of the new Golden Gate Bridge entry plaza and Bridge Pavilion, a red-painted visitor's center that's part of $6 million in improvements completed in
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
SF News Photo: Lombard Street Turns Into Waterfall After Car Collides With Hydrant A car making its way down San Francisco's curviest street* crashed in to a fire hydrant this afternoon, sending a gush of water in to the air and flooding out basements and garages
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
SF News Pedicab Companies at War! An upstart pedicab company, operating mostly along the Embarcadero, has ruffled the feathers of some more "established" pedicab companies who claim that not all of the new company's drivers are properly permitted. The
