Announced with just a few days notice because of waiting for ideal conditions for expected 20-50 foot waves, the 2015-16 Titans of Mavericks Surf Contest will take place in Half Moon Bay on one perfect day between November 1, 2015 and March 31, 2016. The 24 best and most daring big-wave more...

Can Broke Ass Stuart fix San Francisco? Will Mayor Ed Lee retain his mayoral post? Find out for yourself as the League of Women Voters San Francisco hosts a comprehensive candidate forum for the San Francisco Mayoral election. The candidates will answer questions from the League of Women Voters of San Francisco and the more...

Drone photographer Beto “Mooncricket” Lopez (who also happens to be an awesome breakdancing rollerskater) shot this drone footage of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in 2013. It’s only when you get up high do realize how enormously huge this festival is. October 2-4 marks the 2015 rendition of one of the largest (and free-est) more...

Thanks to an optical illusion in the sky, the moon will appear bigger and brighter than normal in the San Francisco Bay Area in the night, during what astronomers call a “supermoon.” Photo credit. David Yu. There’s also a total eclipse of the moon on the night of September 27-28, 2015. more...

On the morning of September 17, 1859, Joshua Norton walked into the office of George Fitch, editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin and handed Fitch a proclamation declaring himself “Emperor of these United States.” Fitch printed the proclamation in that evening’s edition. With this single act, Norton founded a borderless more...

NASA Astronaut Scott J. Kelly aboard the International Space Station took this awesome photo of SF on Saturday. And thankfully Karl the Fog decided to stay away to make the photo perfect. Good Morning, San Francisco #GoodMorning #sanfrancisco! Looking good this #Saturday morning!. #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/iWg6rruCgj — Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) September 5, 2015 But that’s more...

Want to hh which was cruelly destroyed by vandals the night of August 11th? Some a-holes removed every single rock from the labyrinth which was originally created by Eduardo Aguilera in 2004. All of the rocks that were laid out into 11 concentric circles were thrown into the ocean leaving behind only the faint more...

San Francisco car wash Divisadero Touchless Car Wash on Fell St. wants to touch the cars coming home from Burning Man even less. But they will…  for a price. So they’re charging $100 for a wash if the car is coming back from the Playa when they normally charge between $30 and $39 for more...

Thanks to an optical illusion in the sky, the moon will appear bigger and brighter than normal in the San Francisco Bay Area in the night, during what astronomers call a “supermoon.” Because the sun is about 50,000 miles closer to the earth than at its furthest point – and it’s more...

If you missed out on buying tickets, or simply didn’t want to drop mega money for tickets to the now sold out Outside Lands Music Festival, you can head to the park and listen to the festival for free. You can save lots of money, and still have a great time listening more...

Man Pees on Wall, Wall Fights Back! Picture this – 2AM, after drinking with friends, you’re on your way home and then – Mother Nature calls… you just have to go. But where? Ahh, there’s the ol’ trusty wall, just waiting for you to unleash your fury (‘coz hell hath no fury more...

On August 1, 2015, the SFMTA is launching a new historic streetcar line along the length of the Embarcadero, directly connecting  AT&T Park and Caltrain Station to Fisherman’s Wharf and the northeast waterfront. The service, known as the “E Embarcadero,” will operate on Saturdays and Sundays only from 10 a.m. to more...

There will be no BART train service between San Francisco and East Bay on August 1-2 and September 5-7, 2015. BART will close the West Oakland Station and will not run trains between West Oakland and Embarcadero stations the first weekend in August and during Labor Day weekend while they repair more...

President Obama will be in San Francisco to address the nation’s mayors the afternoon of Friday, June 19th at the U.S. Conference of Mayors 83rd Annual Meeting in San Francisco at the Hilton in Union Square. The chances of you getting a glimpse of the president are like, zero. But you more...

“the flowers are in, the grass is down, the cement is set and we are ready… the ‘all -spiffed -up’ North half of Dolores will be turned over to the people and yes Lord we are ready” After more than a year of waiting, the northern half of Dolores Park is finally set for more...