SF News Muni Begins To Introduce New, Uglier Transfers When history looks back on the day the formerly great burning fire within the heart of San Francisco officially extinguished, it will be the day Muni did away with the classic, colorful, bus
SF News Smell The Stinky Corpse Flower That Blooms For 1 Day Every 3 Years The very rare and very peculiar Amorphophallus titanum is about to bloom at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers. SF Weekly delivers the odorous news of the "Terra the Titan," a plant that
SF News Eyes Peeled, SF! A Fursuit Was Stolen From Fisherman's Wharf Wanna make a cool $200? Find Clumzy Lion's head. The Dogpatch Press, which features writing "by furries, for furries," has the news of a stolen lion costume head. "Clumzy Lion" was in town
SF News Religious Pleasanton Construction Company Sued For Racist Harassment Steel your nerves, people. Here's some local news about some alleged monumental ignorance. An African-American woman named Tishay Wright is suing her former employer, Pleasanton-based Southland Construction Inc. because her bosses were allegedly
Arts & Entertainment Oh Snap. The City Will Throw Its Own 'Summer Of Love' Concert After Rejecting Everyone Else's After rejecting numerous proposals from a producer that really, really wanted to throw a free Golden Gate Park concert celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love, the San Francisco Recreation and
SF News The Trial For The Murder Of A Woman Found In A Suitcase Is Wrapping Up Pearla Louis' body was discovered in a suitcase floating along the Embarcadero waterfront on May 18, 2010. Seven years later, the trial for her murder is finally coming to an end. According to
SF News The Man Who Killed A Woman Over A Sixth Street Fender Bender Just Got 82 Years 28-year-old Michael Sione Green has been sentenced to at least 82 years in prison for a 2013 murder of 23-year-old Melquiesha "Mel" Warren over a fender bender outside of a South of Market
SF News Check Out The Website That Tracks Criminal Activity On BART Meet CrimeMapping.com, the website that BART police are now utilizing to upload the transit agency's crime data. "It works by, uh, people loggin' on to the internet," explained BART Police Deputy Chief
SF News Killer Of Sierra LaMar Gets Life Without Parole A Santa Clara County jury has spared the life of 26-year-old Antolin Garcia-Torres by giving him a sentence of life in prison without the possibility parole. According to KRON 4, Garcia-Torres was convicted
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Moulin Rouge in drag, a Rhythm Nation dance class, street festival-ing at Haight and Ashbury, very fancy wine tasting, and a memorial for the "Gay Betsy Ross": this week's event line-up is basically
SF News Insanely Brave Rock Climber Scaled El Capitan Without Any Ropes Or Safety Gear 31-year-old Alex Honnold climbed Yosemite's 3,000-foot granite wall El Capitan without one rope and without one piece of safety equipment. It's called "free soloing" and completing this feat at this location is
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Rejected A Proposal For Better Facebook Transparency It's totally possible for Facebook to be even more upfront about "fake news" that appears on the social media site, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn't think that's necessary. KPIX 5 reports that "activist
SF News Three Very Smart BART Janitors Made Over $100K Each In Overtime There is money to made in BART's garbage. The Mercury News reports that three BART janitors racked up over one hundred thousand dollars each in overtime pay. Liang Zhao Zhang made $125,573
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's Where To Celebrate National Doughnut Day In The Bay Area You've waited all year long and it's finally here: Happy National Doughnut Day! In celebration of this totally necessary holiday, we've got a rundown of all the places around the Bay Area you
SF News Woman At Center Of Oakland Police Scandal Speaks After Accepting Settlement The case of the Richmond woman at the heart of a sex scandal that rocked several law enforcement agencies has reached its first stage of resolution. ABC7 reports that 19-year-old Jasmine Abuslin has
SF News Everything You Need To Know About SF's Heroin Addiction Epidemic Every conversation about San Francisco's homeless problem needs to include an understanding of the growing injection drug problem that's affecting not only our city, but many around the nation in recent years. Addiction,
SF News Not Surprisingly, UberPool Has Been A Major Loss Leader Are you the "master" of your UberPool? Leaked internal documents obtained by Buzzfeed reveal some of UberPool's weird terminology, and the company's total hemorrhaging of money, passengers, and drivers. (We've known these prices
SF News Horrible Racist Teenagers Are A Thing In The Bay Area Naively, you might have assumed that teenagers in the San Francisco Bay Area would be less blatantly racist than teenagers in, say, the depths of Mississippi in 1952. Sadly, you would be wrong.
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week This week could NOT get any bigger. Jerry Seinfeld comes to town, the Golden State Warriors will probably win Game 1 of the Championships, 'Casablanca' gets even classier, and there's a big party
SF News Horrible Vandals Keep Defacing Tahoe With Bad Graffiti Lake Tahoe residents are sick of all the tacky graffiti scrawled and scratched on the area's beautiful rocks and some of them are fighting back. ABC 7 reports on a Facebook group called
SF News Oakland To Settle With Woman At Center Of Police Sex Scandal For Nearly $1 Million Jasmine Abuslin, the 19-year-old woman at the heart of a drama-filled sex scandal that rocked several Bay Area police departments who previously went by the pseudonym Celeste Guap, will probably settle her lawsuit
SF News Your Blue Apron And Amazon Prime Habits Are Why San Francisco's Recycling Rates Are Going Up There is no stronger click-bait than the words, "FREE SHIPPING." San Franciscans (and Americans in general) don't have time to go to the General Store anymore and chit-chat with the old guy at
SF News Reese Witherspoon Surprised The Current Residents In Her Old Stanford Dorm Room Elle Woods is like, in my room. The Huffington Post reports that actress and clothing company proprietress Reese Witherspoon popped by her former dorm room while on a recent visit to her alma
SF News SF Supe Wants BART To Go To The Richmond District Supervisor Sandra Fewer wants the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to explore using some of the cash from a possible Bay Area bridge toll increase for a potential BART extension to the Richmond District and
SF News Hallelujah! Serena Williams Is Definitely Moving To The Bay Area Olympic gold medalist, Grand Slam-winner, and certified nail technician Serena Williams has accepted a position on the board of SurveyMonkey and will indeed be settling down in the Bay Area with her husband,
