SF News Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent Resigns Amidst Officer Sex Scandal Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent tendered his resignation Thursday night, in the midst of a strange and sordid sex scandal allegedly involving his officers and a police dispatcher's young daughter. News of Whent's
SF News Bronze Disc Marking SF's Geographic Center Immediately Stolen A photo posted by @peternocturnal on Jun 9, 2016 at 6:13pm PDT "The center could not hold," the above Instagrammer captions this shot perhaps channelling Yeats by way of Didion but I
SF News SF Developing Economic Resiliency Plan, In Case Tech Thing Doesn't Work Out 100% While Mayor Lee introduced for approval the largest San Francisco budget to date — $9.6 billion — at the end of last month, more privately, city officials are making contingency plans for falling markets.
Arts & Entertainment That Time <em>Silicon Valley</em>'s TJ Miller Met (And Embarrassed) Elon Musk TJ Miller, who plays the buffoonish, churlish Erlich Bachmann on HBO's Silicon Valley, has had choice words for the tech industry in the past. "You don't have a sense of humor about yourselves,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Critic Michael Bauer Gets Salty In Scathing 1-Star Review Food critics, love them or loathe them, generally avoid doling out negative reviews. When you have nothing nice to say, as the say, don't go back to the restaurant. And yet, from time
SF News Alarming Video Shows Beating, Torture Of Homeless Man Later Found Dead In Golden Gate Park Disturbing video obtained by NBC Bay Area appears to show — in (be warned) shocking detail — one of several incidents of abuse that may have eventually killed 66-year-old homeless transient Stephen Williams, a man
SF News [Update] Stanford Rapist Brock Turner Will Leave Jail 3 Months Early; New Evidence Suggests He Did Plenty Of Partying Pre-College Though the sentence for Brock Turner, a former Stanford freshman convicted of three felonies for the rape of an unconscious woman behind a fraternity house dumpster last year, was deemed by many to
Arts & Entertainment For Brava's Long-Planned Expansion, A Crowdfunding Campaign And Targeted Opening Though the profitability/profligacy of Super Bowl 50 is still the subject of debate, the event did right by one set of local artists in the form a of a $200,000 grant
SF News In SF Bid For $50M Federal 'Smart City' Grant, Private Companies Pledge $150M More In San Francisco's effort to become the recipient of a US Department of Transportation Smart City Challenge Grant, local private companies and technology firms are stepping up to the plate, pledging $150 million
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Surprise! Liholiho Yacht Club Opens Separate Downstairs Lounge, Louie's Gen-Gen Room Liholiho Yacht Club chef Ravi Kapur, who landed himself on Food & Wine's best new chef's list this year (the July issue should hit stands any second if it hasn't already), has a
SF News In Newly Released Statement, Stanford Rapist Blames 'Culture Surrounded By Binge Drinking And Sexual Promiscuity' Brock Turner, the former Stanford freshman who was convicted of three felonies for his sexual attack on an unconscious woman near a fraternity house last year but sentenced last week to just six
SF News Wiener Leads Kim In (Merely Symbolic) State Senate Primary As Both Advance To November Election In a heated (read: lots of mailers) race for the District 11 State Senate seat currently occupied by Mark Leno, who is due to be termed-out, two Democratic San Francisco Supervisors — Scott Wiener
SF News Day Around The Bay: 94104 Ranks 3rd For Most Political Spending By US ZIP Code Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you — sign up here. SF authorities are seeking a possibly lost 10-year-old girl
SF News Scary Mountain Lion Frightens Children Near Cupertino But Is Actually Pretty Chill Though Everyone be cool: There was a mountain lion near Cupertino, and it growled at some kids, and that was probably very frightening, but everyone is safe now, the mountain lion — quite the specimen!
Arts & Entertainment The Steps Of San Francisco: Adah's Stairway To Buena Vista Park This is part of an ongoing series about the various staircases, and stair streets, of SF. See all installments here. It's only fair that Adah Bakalinsky has a San Francisco stairway named for
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Free Hayes Valley Jazz Block Party Clear your schedule this evening (and if you can for the entirety of the San Francisco Jazz Festival, though that might be overdoing it) because you are now going to a jazz block
Arts & Entertainment Castro Books Inc. Will Close June 15, Storewide Sale Of 30% Off 'Til Then Bad news in March that Books Inc.'s location in the Castro would close was tempered by good news later that month that the Castro would not be bookstore-less thanks to an expansion
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Souvla 2.0 Now Open On Divis For Gyros, Greek Froyo, And Backyard Patio Dining Where a location of Herbivore once sat on Divis, now spit-fired meats reign at Souvla, the second location of the supes pops casual (but organically priced) Greek souvlaki spot. Doors appear to have
SF News Uber's Two-Minute Wait Limit Comes To SF This Month A series of new Uber features that Bloomberg characterizes as aimed at appeasing (now litigious) drivers (without increasing lowered fares for them) are set to debut. For riders, the most pertinent among them
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ayesha Curry's Barbecue Pop-Up Opening Attended By Husband Steph And Manchild Drake A photo posted by jgtradition (@jgtradition) on Jun 3, 2016 at 11:58pm PDT "Golden State running practice at my house" boasts Drake on his track "Summer 16," and lo, for once the
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Ep. 3.7: 'Betas' "If you're not mortally embarrassed by your initial release," Jared delivers the conventional wisdom to Richard in a bid to encourage him to get Pied Piper into the hands of the public, "You've
Arts & Entertainment [Video] Paul Simon Informs Berkeley Audience Of Muhammad Ali's Death While Playing 'The Boxer' At the Greek Theatre Friday night, Paul Simon paused during verses of "The Boxer" to deliver the news. Muhammad Ali had died. This is at 3:50 in the above video. As Rolling
SF News Day Around The Bay: 'Not Above My Backyard' Says Avalos To Blue Angels Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Supervisor Aaron Peskin John Avalos, who has slammed the
SF News Victim Of Stanford Rape Releases Powerful Letter She Read In Court After Brock Turner, a former Stanford freshman, was sentenced to six months in jail following his conviction for several felonies in the rape of an unconscious woman visiting campus, that victim, whose name
SF News Supervisors Support Law To Fine Airbnb Directly For Unregistered Rental Units San Francisco is a step closer to enacting what the Chronicle estimates would be among the most stringent short-term rental regulation systems in the country. They report that the Board of Supervisors’ Government
