SF News San Francisco's Jet-Setting Mayor's Travel Expenses Close In On Six Figures It's good being mayor of San Francisco! Sure, there's lots of boring meetings, and you have to work on the weekends sometimes, but there are perks—perks like the over $95,000 of
Arts & Entertainment The 7 Best Weekend Getaways From San Francisco Summer can be a drag in San Francisco, where the June Gloom often puts a damper on one's mood well into July and August. Luckily, sunnier and less windy weather is usually just
SF News Bad Weather Prompts Flight Cancellation From SFO To East Coast Due to the impending blizzard heading to the east coast, scores of flights -- 55 as of this morning, to be exact -- have been cancelled. "As of 4:30 a.m., 38
SF News Carnival Cruise Forbids Drag Queens During Drag Cruise [Update] In the words of Latrice Royale, "The shade, the shade of it all." Around 1,500 passengers who booked tickets aboard Al and Chuck Travel's Drag Stars at Sea -- 2012 Caribbean Adventure
Arts & Entertainment Jump Start Your Fall Vacation Planning Now Summer may have slipped past us, but that doesn’t mean it’s too late to use your hard-earned vacation time before the end of the year. Get ready to plan a perfect
Arts & Entertainment Daisy Does The Niners: Victory in Green Bay By Daisy Barringer May 2012: My best friend and I are celebrating my birthday with an indulgent dinner at Absinthe complete with caviar and cocktails. Lots of cocktails. At one point she looks
Arts & Entertainment Gonzo's Beginnings And Wild Slides: Another Side Of S.F. Have you stopped to appreciate the wonder in marvelous things right under your nose? The historical travel show, Up To Speed, a Hulu Original Series hosted by tour guide extraordinaire Timothy "Speed" Levitch
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NoPa Is The New Mission, Says New York Publication Hey, everybody, the New York Times has discovered San Francisco again! And this time it isn't about the Mission. Well, almost. The gray old lady sets its book-sniffing sights on NoPa — known to
SF News Two Men On Gay Cruise Arrested For 'Buggery' Two men traveling aboard a gay cruise ship in Dominica were arrested by local authorities on Saturday for participating in sultry acts of homosexuality up to and including indecent exposure and "buggery," the
Arts & Entertainment Behold: The SFO Activity Book On the heels of last week's hot topic surrounding kids in restaurants which also brought up the typical debate in the comments over whether kids should be allowed on planes, we found ourselves
SF News Baby Boy Born on SFO-Bound Flight from Philippines Philippines Airlines passenger Aida Alamillo delivered a healthy baby boy mid-flight yesterday while en route to San Francisco with the help of three onboard nurses and several flight crew members. The baby was
SF News San Francisco 10th Most Bed Bug-Plagued City While bed bugs are nothing new to New York City, other major cities should heed the big apple's warning. Like, for example, San Francisco. According to a recent list, Baghdad by the Bay
SF News Broke-Ass Stuart Lands IFC Travel Show Time to start retroactively kissing writer/blogger Stuart Schuffman's ass, Bay Area media folks. Because Schuffman (AKA Broke-Ass Stuart) just landed his own travel TV show. It'll be called Young, Broke, and Beautiful
misc Brad Newnam Returns with "Mancation II: Full Bore" In the sequel to yesterday's piece in which Brendan Francis Newnam attempted to spark some hetero manlove mischief with a blueberry vegan donut, the CNN correspondant returns with the second half of his
misc S.F. Too Healthy, Harmless for Proper Mancation CNN's Brendan Francis Newnam penned a whimsical piece about a recent "mancation" to San Francisco, which, sadly, was a total disaster. First off, what's a mancation? Well, it's a vacation "taken by a
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 Heading Northeast Out of SFO? Check Flight Status Beforehand. Holiday travel has been particularly hellish this year for lots of folks, and it's not getting better any time soon. Incessant rain in the Bay Area caused delays for passengers traveling out of
misc Sonoma County Native Coined the "Bikini Traveler" Hey, did you hear about that "Bikini Traveler" gal who was all over the news last week? Well, we somehow missed it until last night. In an effort to avoid the dreaded pat-down
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
SF News Some Euro-Bound Flights Resume Out of SFO The Icelandic volcano that no one can pronounce and that has paralyzed European air travel for the last five days continues spewing ash into the air, but some airlines like KLM and Air
SF News Delayed Eastbound Flights From SFO, Oakland, Due to Previous FAA Computer Crash For anyone who might be reading this before heading to the airport, expect delayed flights today. Although the FAA's Atlanta-based computer system is back up after an earlier system crash, they expect a
misc Quote du Jour: David Byrne on San Francisco David Byrne -- the tall guy in ivy league favorite Talking Heads/the man behind the score of The Last Emperor -- wrote in last week's about the perfect city. San Francisco was
misc Oakland Tourism Video This hilarious Oakland! "promo" by SF sketch comedy group/film production company Killing My Lobster has been making the rounds in recent weeks. Topics such as slow jaywalking, ghostriding, Zachary's vs. Little Star,
SF News Gay.com Honor Thrills Mayor Newsom Gay.com named the winners of their annual Travel Awards. To no one's surprise, San Francisco was named Favorite Domestic Destination. Woo hoo! Gavin, of course, was equally elated. Because this means more
SF News Los Altos Man Seeks Answers in Mysterious Death of Fiancé in Thailand Los Altos native Brian Kells reached out to local news stations this week after his fiancé of three weeks, Jill St. Onge, died very suddenly at a guesthouse on Phi Phi Island in
