SF News Entire Muni Subway Is Closing Nights And Weekends For Four Weeks To Test New Trains The SFMTA can't just shut down one entire Muni subway for an entire month just to test five new trains. Or can it? Streetsblog brings us word of the San Francisco Municipal Transit
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Culture is king queen this week with an extraordinary bevy of really special events, from a benefit performance of Ragtime to a celebration of black women as God to glowing pianos under Golden
SF News Ka-Ching! San Francisco Has The Fastest Growing Wages In The Country Seattle-based software company PayScale.com used its tons of data to look at wage growth in the 31 fastest growing cities in these United States of America. Bearing in mind that the average
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Farm-To-Table Dining May Be Coming To SF Jails Sheriff Vicky Hennessy wants to explore the possibility of bringing a more farm-to-table culinary situation to San Francisco's jails. "It would be locally sourced food, the kind I like to eat," Hennessy tells
SF News Terrible Person Creates Facebook Page Just To Mock SF's Homeless A person going by the name Julie Zberg allegedly created a Facebook page called "Manpiles of SF" in order to denigrate the homeless she sees around her neighborhood. We don't know why. BrokeAss
SF News A Truck Full Of 'Slime Eels' Flipped On An Oregon Freeway And OMG The Pictures I don't think you're ready for this jelly. A truck full of live eels being shipped to Korea "for consumption" flipped on Highway 101 in Oregon, spilling eels all over everything everywhere. According
SF News BART Directors Take Urine-Stained Tour Of Powell Station Approximately 50 BART officials and directors toured the Powell Street BART Station Thursday as part of an official look at what Macy's Union Square employees apparently call "The Toilet." The San Francisco Chronicle's
SF News Trial Of Man Accused Of Killing Kate Steinle Begins Friday At long last, the Kate Steinle murder trial begins tomorrow, Friday. Here's a quick refresher: 32-year-old Kathryn "Kate" Steinle of San Francisco was shot and killed on July 1, 2016 while strolling along
SF News Sacramento Men Who Stopped Train Attack Will Play Themselves In Clint Eastwood Movie There are perks to heroism. According to KRON 4, the three Sacramento-based men who thwarted an attempted act of terrorism on a French train in 2015 will get to play themselves in Clint
SF News Shark Attack In Santa Cruz Closes Beaches A shark attack near the Santa Cruz shore has prompted beach closures and presumably an uptick in folks watching Jaws on Netflix. SFGate reports that a shark tried to take a bite out
SF News Video: Airbnb Host Pushes Woman Down Flight Of Stairs Over Late Check-Out "You're not the great artist that you think you are, you're not the queen that you think you are. You need to leave now. This is not Africa," said a Dutch Airbnb host
SF News It's Official: San Francisco And Oakland Are The Worst Cities For Drivers There's another downside to living in the Bay Area. According to a study by WalletHub, San Francisco is now America's worst city for drivers and Oakland is the second worst. What does that
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Get out and about! Select any number of these carefully curated events to broaden your horizons and hopefully not blow your bank account. Fans of comedy, cinema, and shopping will be especially jazzed
Arts & Entertainment 'Hot Convict' Caught Kissing Clothing Company Heiress, Drama Ensues Don't even pretend that you don't remember Jeremy Meeks. The 33-year-old was arrested on a gun charge in Stockton in 2014 and shot to fame because his mugshot was HELLA HOT. He was
SF News Central Subway Is Almost A Year Behind Schedule All of San Francisco has been anxiously awaiting the completion of the $1.6 billion Central Subway, and the agonizing construction required to build it. But we're going to have to wait just
SF News $50K Reward Offered For Last Year's Mysterious Pokemon Go Murder Remember Pokemon Go? Well last year someone got shot while playing it in San Francisco, as you may or may not recall. 20-year-old Calvin Riley was playing the flash-in-the-pan, augmented reality game on
SF News San Franciscans Called To Complain About Illegal Fireworks Twice As Much As They Did Last Year The City and County of San Francisco is full of snitches 1,114 of them to be exact. The San Francisco Examiner reports that the number of calls to the city's non-emergency hotline
SF News UC Berkeley Senior Alleges Racial Profiling, Illegal Detention At Hands Of Berkeley Police A University of California, Berkeley student is saying via Facebook post, that he suffered a 39-hour ordeal via the Berkeley Police Department and has yet to receive an apology. The Daily Californian reports
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week There's a wonderfully weird week on the horizon. Buckle up for axe-throwing, an all-male comedy strip-tease revue, and a french fry eating contest. THURSDAY, JULY 6 JAE WHITAKER REMEMBERS: The GLBT Historical Society
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Jose's Reigning Champ Sets New Record In Hot Dog Eating Contest How fast can you eat 72 hot dogs and buns? Not as fast as "Jaws" from the South Bay, we'll bet. Hailing from San Jose, 33-year-old Joey "Jaws" Chestnut held onto his title
SF News Half Of The Mexican Museum's Collection Is Potentially Inauthentic Or 'Insignificant' Founded by the late Peter Rodriguez, the Mexican Museum has been a part of San Francisco's cultural community since 1975. But as the museum has grown its collection into a body of Latino
SF News CA Couple Moved To Portland, Vandals Respond With "Go Back To CA" Graffiti Jessica Faraday and Preston "I work for Adidas" Page did not receive a warm welcome from some new neighbors. KRON 4 reports (via Portland's KOIN) that the California-based pair moved to Portland, Oregon
SF News Suspect Charged In East Bay Car Crash That Killed Two Kids 35-year-old Lemuel Sirvonn Wilson Jr. was arrested Sunday in connection with a fatal weekend crash in the East Bay that killed two children and left a three-month-old with major injuries. ABC 7 reports
SF News San Jose Woman Accused Of Running Over 'Friend,' Killing Her Campbell police say Tues hit&run was homicide. 23 yr old Elsie de la Rosa arrested. Allegedly ran down female acquaintance after fight pic.twitter.com/jfrUG1kAVG— @Rob Fladeboe kron4 (@KRON4RFladeboe) June
Arts & Entertainment 'Tales Of The City' Is Coming Back, Via Netflix Reboot Cue the sound of angels. Something is finally going right. Are you sitting down? Variety has reported that Netflix is developing a 10-episode "present-day continuation of San Francisco author Armistead Maupin's Tales of
