SF News Gay Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Belittles Trans Rights In Republican Convention Speech LGBT rights in america have come so far that gay people can now be Republicans who bash other LGBT people. "I am proud to be gay," Peter Thiel told last night's Republican National
SF News Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Will Tell Republican Convention He Is Proud To Be Gay The common wisdom has been that Silicon Valley billionaire, Facebook board member, Paypal cofounder, and noted Libertarian person Peter Thiel hated Gawker media because they'd outed him to the public as gay. That
SF News Former Mayors Jordan, Feinstein, Brown, And Newsom Warn Against Creation Of Public Advocate Position Former mayors of San Francisco Dianne Feinstien, Frank Jordan, Willie Brown, and Gavin Newsom have joined forces in opposition to the creation of a new position that might sap the powers of the
SF News Black Lives Matter Marches Planned In SF And Oakland Today For 'National Day Of Action' As part of today's "National Day of Action to End Police Violence Against Black People," a concerted series of rallies that organizers say will occur at 80 locations under the unifying hashtag #freedomnow,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Supervisors Get Super Feisty Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. All of Southwest airlines' flights were delayed this afternoon
SF News Protesters Chain Themselves To Oakland Police Officers' Association Cops are trying to negotiate the opening of this set of doors so credit union employees can go home. pic.twitter.com/0JWwDkzrVU— Cat (@CatsCommentary) July 20, 2016 Calling for the city of
SF News Airbnb Hires Former Attorney General Eric Holder To Handle Discrimination Policy In May, Rohan Gilkes wrote a post on Medium about being cancelled on by a racist Airbnb host. His experience served as a focal point for reportedly widespread discrimination practiced by Airbnb hosts,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFMOMA's In Situ Is 'The Most Original New Restaurant In The Country' Says NYT Food Critic Pete Wells One of the nation's most esteemed dining critics, Pete Wells of the New York Times, is lavishing praise on chef Corey Lee's month-old restaurant (or is it an exhibition?) inside SFMOMA, called In
SF News Dual Proposals Approved To Curb Oakland Rent Increases In a session that lasted until late last night slash early this morning, Oakland's City Council has unanimously approved two proposals to curtail property owners' ability to raise their tenants' rents. The Associated
SF News Video Shows Recall Ed Lee Supporter Chanting 'Go Back To China,' Others Disavow Remark By the time critics of Mayor Ed Lee gathered in front of City Hall to advocate for a recall campaign against him last Friday, 300 hundred or more counter-protesters had lined up across
SF News Covered CA Rates To Jump 13% Statewide, Almost 15% In SF Next year, monthly premium rates in California will go up by 13.2 percent on average, the result of two insurers who have requested steep rate increases. As CBS5 and the AP report,
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Route For Tomorrow's Potentially Massive Pokémon Crawl Although much of San Francisco has been engaged in a de facto Pokémon Go crawl for weeks, a somewhat formal affair planned for tomorrow promises to be the real deal, if you consider
SF News SFPD Investigating Death Threat Against Acting Police Chief A death threat made on Twitter against Acting SFPD Chief Toney Chaplin is being investigated by authorities. "We are still gathering evidence and conducting interviews in preparation of presenting the case to the
Arts & Entertainment Scenes And Sounds From Flower Piano's Second Year In Golden Gate Park In additional to the usual sights and smells of the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park, another element — music — filled the air again this month. Flower Piano, an event in its
SF News Now Everybody Can Apply For A Verified Twitter Account, So Why Would Anyone? @oprah was one of the first Twitter accounts to boast a blue "verified" check, a useful indication that Ms. Winfrey's account did, indeed, represent her. But that onetime sign of Twitter Illuminati status
SF News Netflix Subscribers Depart In Droves As $2 Price Increase Finally Kicks In For Longtime Users Shares of Netflix were down a very unchill 15 percent today on news that the company hadn't added as many subscribers as expected, an outcome Business Insider calls a plunge in the company's
SF News Day Around The Bay: Amid Firefighter Shortage, City Pays $100K Per Day In Overtime Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Exciting and rare new plants, at least one of
SF News Judge Rules Warriors Arena Can Go Forward A Superior Court judge ruled today against a coalition of UCSF benefactors and former officials who questioned the sufficiency of an environmental review of the Chase Center, a.k.a. the Warriors Arena.
SF News Light Post Falls Across Kearny And Bush, Closing Intersection There are 25,000 light poles in San Francisco — or, rather, there were until today. Now there's one fewer: Redditors are reporting that a stories-high light post came crashing down at Kearny and
Arts & Entertainment With Durant Headed To Warriors, Oakland Rapper Lil B Pens Open Letter Squashing Beef When Oklahoma City Thunder star small forward Kevin Durant announced he would join the Golden State Warriors this fall, reportedly signing a two-year deal with the team for $54.3 million, one cloud
SF News BART Seriously Still Hasn't Replaced Decoy Cameras With Real Ones When 19-year-old Carlos Misael Funez-Romero of Antioch was shot and killed aboard a BART train at the West Oakland Station on January 9, no footage of the crime was available. That's because, like
SF News Berkeley Student Nicolas Leslie Confirmed Dead In Nice Attack On July 14, Nicolas Leslie, a 20-year-old UC Berkeley environment studies major studying French in Nice, sent a video of himself dancing at Bastille Day celebrations to his friend Mustapha Khokhar according to
SF News Three Berkeley Students Attending Conference Injured In Nice Attack, One Missing Following yesterday's devastating mass killings in Nice, France, UC Berkeley reports that several students were injured and one is missing in the attack. That act of violence, carried out with a truck during
SF News Facebook Releases (Low) Diversity Numbers, Adds LGBTQ Stats, Appears To Blame Public School System If everyone has a Facebook account, in order to best represent all of these peoples' interests, Facebook employees should look like — and have had the experiences of — as many people as possible. Right?
Arts & Entertainment Renderings Released For Asian Art Museum Expansion The Asian Art Museum, though not without critics of its layout and curation, has come a long way since its start as wing in the old deYoung. Earlier this year, its 50th birthday,
