LA's Best Arcade & Gaming Bars
If you grew up in a time period before the word “Wii” was part of our vernacular, then you remember the original Nintendo and blowing on the bottom of your Mario Brothers game cartridge when the TV...
View ArticleAct FAST! Studio Ghibli Screenings Return to YBCA
Your end-of-January is about to be so good. The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is hosting a new anime series that includes some really special screenings for fans of Studio Ghibli and similar...
View ArticleLyft Ditches Fuzzy Pink Mustache for More "Adult" Stache
Dyeing your facial hair in bright colors is (kinda) totally in right now but fuzzy pink mustaches are so 2014. We know this thanks to a Wired story that Lyft has decided to send its pink mustaches to...
View ArticleCIIS Features Lectures from HONY, Admiral Adama, and More
To rise above all the flotsam and jetsam the Internet spews at us and to really captivate people is no easy task, but the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) has done it again in their...
View ArticleMove Over "Good Wife": The First Lady Rocks Other TV Looks
Last night savvy viewers of the State Of The Union address noticed the uncanny similarity between Michelle Obama's rockin' suit and one worn on The Good Wife. The first lady certainly looked righteous...
View ArticleThings I Never Thought I’d Say Until I Moved to San Francisco
San Francisco. Land of layered outfits, burritos, and fog. I was the tender age of 17 when I moved here, and within months, this city had already changed the way I talked about and reacted to...
View ArticleYou Work Hard, Treat Yo Self To Ribs On Saturday
It's freaking cold today. It's windy and chilly and gray and it has me wishing for warmer months, even if they are just "San Francisco warm."Luckily CatHead's BBQ is giving us a taste of summer this...
View ArticleWhat to Eat at The Twitter Building’s Fancy New Food Hall
Yesterday was the grand opening of The Market (1355 Market Street), a huge food emporium on the ground floor of the Twitter building. It’s open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. and attempting to cover all the...
View Article2015 Promises to Be a Battleground Year for Ellis Act Evictions
As San Francisco neighborhoods continue to transform – in large part because of the tech boom – one instrument of that change faced increasingly successful opposition in 2014.I’m talking about the...
View ArticleDowntown SF Might Lose a Ton of Public Spaces
This city has a ton of great parks, but they’re not always located near people’s offices. (SOMA, in particular, has approximately one divot of sod per tech worker.) That’s why savvy San Franciscans...
View ArticleThere Are Over 5,000 Airbnb Rentals in SF According to a New Map
While the debate over affordable housing in San Francisco continues, one new map by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project shows just how many Airbnb and VRBO rentals there are in San Francisco — over...
View ArticleA Huge Slip'N Slide is Coming to San Francisco
Slide the City, which throws water party events around the country, recently announced that a 1,000 foot Slip'N Slide will hit San Francisco in July — bringing with it live music, food, drinks, and...
View ArticleThis Hyperlapse of One Night in SF Will Give You a Heart Boner
San Francisco is the pretty-pretty-princess of cities. If you already knew this but just love further proof, here is an (incredibly fun to watch) hyperlapse taken during one night in SF. Wyatt Roy...
View ArticleWhy I Quit the Bar Method
While teaching yoga, training fitness clients, and finishing my master’s degree, the last thing I wanted to think about was my own workouts. Although I always complemented yoga with weight training and...
View ArticleFree Dueling Classes This Saturday
When your colleagues come together at the water cooler on Monday and ask the usual "What did you do this weekend," what would you rather tell them?"Oh you know, tried that new brunch place. Saw a...
View ArticleGo On This South Bay Beer Crawl Now
Who knew that Torrance would become such a beer mecca? Tap rooms in office parks? Somehow, it totally works and there are four up-and-coming breweries in close enough proximity to each other that you...
View ArticleDreamWorks Lays Off 500 Bay Area Workers, Closes Local Animation Studio
It’s been a rough month for people who make cartoons. DreamWorks Animation just laid off 500 people out of a staff of 2,200, partly by shutting down its Redwood City studio altogether and consolidating...
View ArticleExpect to See a Line for Free New York Bagels in Hayes Valley Tomorrow
It's happening again. Eater reports that New York bagels are once again being shipped to San Francisco for a special event this weekend. This time Brooklyn-based eyewear company Classic Specs is flying...
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