SF News SF Protesters Arrested For 'Resist' Banner Near White House As Another Banner Appears On Twin Peaks A protracted protest last night conducted by Greenpeace members who illegally took over a crane near the White House to make an anti-Trump political statement included several representatives from the Bay Area, the
SF News Trump Hotels Threaten SF Expansion, Local Leaders Say 'Good Luck' Eric Danziger, CEO of Trump Hotels, got his start right here in the City by the Bay, working in 1971 as a bellman at the Fairmont Hotel. Now he'd like to see the
SF News Day Around The Bay: City Lights Books Has An Anti-Trump Section Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. So , SF can’t find any company willing to
Arts & Entertainment Now Is A Good Time To Remember Nazis In SF And Talk About 'The Man In The High Castle' As a German refugee traveling the United States during the 1930s, the photographer John Gutmann described himself as "in paradise" in San Francisco according to the history blog Weimar Art. Shooting mostly the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coletta Gelato, Fresh Outta Milan, Now Open In SoMa It's obviously too chilly out for ice cream — but that doesn't shorten the lines at Bi-Rite Creamery ever, and, technically, gelato is served warmer than ice cream, making for creamier scoops and providing
misc New Zealand Investigates How Peter Thiel Gained Citizenship As More Billionaires Make Kiwi-Style Apocalypse Plans A recent New Yorker magazine piece about the variety of very expensive preparations super-rich Americans are busy making for the apocalypse — an event brought about either by Trump's presidency or other destabilizing factors
SF News Mission Activists Oppose 'Tea Art' Cafe In Vacant Storefront As 'Destabilizing To Working-Class Communities' A cafe with designs to open for "tea, coffee, and snacks" in a Mission Street storefront near 24th Street that's been empty since 2015 is now in the crosshairs of at least one
SF News Recent Oakland Sinkhole Was So Large That CHP Nicknamed It 'Steve The Sinkhole' Certain larger-than-life phenomena like San Francisco's fog or Fenway Park's left field wall demand personification, names like Karl and The Green Monster, respectively. Along those lines, Oakland's California Highway Patrol took a moment
SF News Adoptly, The 'Tinder For Adoption,' Keeps Insisting It's Real [Update: It's Not] "Swipe right to parenthood with Adoptly, the world’s first adoption app," declared a highly suspicious pitch to SFist last week. Vaguely outraged at the illegal-sounding idea of adopting children through an app
SF News SF School Board To Repeal Long Unobserved Rule Segregating Asian Students The San Francisco Unified School District is using itself as an educational example tonight, ceremonially expunging a racist 1906 rule that's still on the books — though not observed and mostly-but-not-quite-forgotten — that calls for
SF News Video: Archeologist Excavates Keel, Artifacts From Gold Rush-Era Ship At SF Development Site The Arkansas Re-discovery from Grosvenor Americas on Vimeo. As local history buffs know and will never tire of telling you, much of San Francisco's Financial District is built on landfill — the Bay waters
SF News [Update] Squaw Valley Ski Patrol Officer Killed In Explosion, Mountain Closed A ski patrol officer was killed this morning at Tahoe's Squaw Valley resort during "avalanche control activities," closing the resort for the day according to a statement from a representative of the ski
SF News Two People, Two Cats Mysteriously Dead In Berkeley Apartment, Carbon Monoxide Leak Ruled Out #BREAKING Berkeley Police say suspicious:2 people (approx. 30's), 2 cats found dead in Deakin St. unit of 4-plex bldg pic.twitter.com/Z5BPB8j2Qw— Jana Katsuyama (@JanaKTVU) January 24, 2017 There were no
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sierra Nevada Brewery Recalls Beer In 36 States Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. announced on Sunday the voluntary
SF News Chastened By Regulators, Chinese Bike-Share Company Plans Scaled-Back 'Soft' Launch In SF Bluegogo, the app-based Chinese bike share company whose reported plan to drop thousands of bikes around San Francisco willy-nilly had local lawmakers tut-tutting, is opting instead to proceed with caution. Specifically, that means
SF News Hyphy Rapper Keak Da Sneak Is Recovering, Performing After Being Shot A photo posted by Keak Da Sneak (@therealkeakdasneak) on Jan 22, 2017 at 4:53pm PST Oakland rap legend Keak da Sneak, the stage name of Charles Kente Williams (Bowens), a progenitor of
SF News One Percenters In Bay Area And Beyond Busy Making Chic Apocalypse Preparations Whatever apocalypse prep you might be making these days, however drastic, it's probably quaint in comparison to what certain members of America's one percent are busy undertaking. Doomsday "preppers," a category of paranoiacs
Arts & Entertainment Recently Discovered Children's Story Written By Mark Twain To Be Published This Fall Sifting through the Mark Twain Papers and Project at UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library, one scholar struck literary gold, or at least enough raw material to turn into something of value: A set of
SF News Great, Now GOP Could Stop California High-Speed Rail Funding In Its Tracks California's high-speed rail project continues forward with anything but high speed, finally breaking ground in January of 2015 in Fresno where the first phase of construction sought to connect that Central Valley town
SF News Photos: More Than 100,000 Attend Women's March In San Francisco As City Hall Lights Up Pink As one rain-soaked sign summarized the scene, it was a "Nasty Day for The Nasty Women." But cold, wet weather didn't deter the estimated 100,000 or more people who gathered in San
Arts & Entertainment For 39th Anniversary, Pier 39 Holds 39 Weeks Of Celebratory Events (Starting Today) Pier 39, a destination for tourists and, relatedly, sea lions, is celebrating 39 years since entrepreneurial businessman Warren Simmons took over the mostly defunct cargo pier and recreated it with a dash of
Arts & Entertainment It's Halloween Forever At This Graveyard-Themed Mini Golf Course In Concord Halloween is more than a holiday at Concord's Ghost Golf, a 2010-founded putt-putt course: It's a full-time business, baby. Once upon a time, the yearly occasion was all fun and games for proprietor
SF News Facebook Hosts Trump Inauguration Party With Fake News-Pushing Website The Daily Caller, Martin Shkreli Attends At the Daily Caller's inauguration party, featuring Martin, 5k% drug hike, Skreli #Trump #VIPs pic.twitter.com/RBkbbQRWWX— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) January 18, 2017 Facebook may now profess to combat fake news,
SF News Thousands Join Hands Across The Golden Gate Bridge In Peaceful Demonstration The Golden Gate Bridge, famous for its red-orange hue, became a sea of purple on Friday morning as thousands of peaceful demonstrators wearing that color — a symbol of unity against bullying according to
SF News Power Of @POTUS Twitter Account Peacefully Transferred To Trump My fellow Americans on Twitter. It is with great honor that I announce to you today that a cornerstone of 21st Century American democracy, the peaceful transfer of the @POTUS Twitter account, has
