SF News Former Stanford Swimmer Sentenced To 6 Months In Campus Assault Of Unconscious Woman Brock Turner was a Stanford first year student when he was arrested and charged with sexual assault in early 2015. He was found guilty this past March of multiple felonies: Assault with intent
SF News Gawker Founder Defends Coverage Of Silicon Valley, Peter Thiel Declines To Debate Him Nick Denton, the Gawker founder whose suspicions were confirmed last month that a thin-skinned Silicon Valley billionaire offended by unflattering coverage was bankrolling Hulk Hogan's devastating case against his media company, spoke out
SF News SF Tsunami Warning Sent In Error LOL Oops "TSUNAMI WATCH," the alert sent out at 8:46 a.m. stated. "BE PREPARED TO EVACUATE." I started the evacuation with my bowels, and went from there, but fortunately, I didn't get too
SF News Elon Musk Wants To Send You To Mars By 2024 Elon Musk went full-on epistemological at Recode's Codecon conference, suggesting that we might be in a videogame kind of simulation! Wow! This, you might know, is a theory originally posited by Descartes, then
Arts & Entertainment Steph Curry Debuts Emoji And They Are [Fire Emoji] Because the future of commerce is monetized emoji, as Kim Kardashian (with her Kimoji) and similar entrepreneurs know well, Warrior's MVP Steph Curry has followed suit, debuting yesterday StephMoji, a $2 app store
SF News Family Of Man Shot While Painting Oakland Mural Files Claim Against Feds Over Stolen Gun Oakland Muralist Antonio Ramos was painting an anti-violence mural in West Oakland when he was shot and killed last September with a gun stolen from the car of a US Immigration and Customs
SF News Civil Grand Jury: Scandal-Plagued Crime Lab Should Be Run Independently Of SFPD According to the findings of a six-month study by a 19-member San Francisco Civil Grand Jury, our local crime lab needs to be removed from SFPD control and run independently, just as the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Muni Is Number 2 Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Some sheriff's deputies in Alameda County became herders for
Arts & Entertainment Video: Women Surfers Make Waves Tomorrow At Doc Fest While some surfers chase an endless summer, the Outer Bar Babes of San Francisco clearly aren't attached to ideal, sun-drenched conditions. They surf Ocean Beach. And tomorrow the group is showing inland San
SF News Bay Area Muslims Are Getting Out The (Anti-Trump) Vote Last December, video showed a woman in Alameda County harassing a group of praying Muslims, screaming that they were "murderers." Rasheed Albeshari, who posted footage of the attack, wrote at the time, "I
Arts & Entertainment Trump Literally Schlongs America In Horrifying New Kink.com Video In a video Mr. Trump might call "not very nice" and "mean, very mean," local hardcore and fetish pornographers Kink.com have literalized the idea of Mr. Trump screwing America, though to what
Arts & Entertainment 10th Treasure Island Music Festival Will Be Held On October 15-16 If you're looking down the road past Outside Lands (August 5-7), mark your calendars for the 10th ever Treasure Island Music Festival: We now learn it's being held on October 15 and 16.
SF News For The Nth Time, SFPD Says They'll Have Body Cameras Soon, Now By August 1 A version of the perennially delayed body camera program for officers of the San Francisco Police Department is expected to be implemented beginning on August 1 according to the Mayor's Office. Some skeptics
SF News Mayor Ups Proposed Budget To $9.6 Billion With Emphasis On Cleanliness, Homelessness Spending For the fiscal year starting on July 1, Mayor Lee has proposed that San Francisco's budget increase, mostly on the back of property taxes, by around $700 million to reach $9.6 billion.
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Books, talks, movies, and plays are everywhere you look this week, so let's take in a healthy dose of culture, shall we? TUESDAY, MAY 31 JEWISH SEX AND CINEMA: Peter L. Stein, a
SF News SF's New Homelessness Department Head Wants To Leverage Tech To House 8,000 By End Of Mayor's Term On July 1st, much of San Francisco's spending on homelessness, a total of $241 million distributed among more than 400 contracts with 76 mostly nonprofit private organizations, will at long last be corralled
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Ep. 3.6: 'Founder Hounders' One really excellent element of Sunday's pitch-perfect episode of Silicon Valley was its fortuitous timing, airing after news this week that Paypal billionaire Peter Thiel had secretly funded a lawsuit against Gawker Media
SF News Day Around The Bay: The Bay Area Is Winning The Patent Race By A Mile Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you — sign up here. Why tech workers in San Francisco are buying homes
SF News Will Peter Thiel's Secret Funding Of Gawker Lawsuit Jeopardize His Facebook Board Seat? Peter Thiel has divided Silicon Valley. In the ongoing story of the Paypal co-founding billionaire and Facebook board member who has been secretly funding Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker Media — in what he
SF News Step Inside The 'Full House' House, Which Looks Way Different Than On TV And Is Selling For $4.1 Million Would you like to own your own de facto San Francisco tourist attraction? Do you have $4.15 million? I know just the place: 1709 Broderick. It was just this April that we
SF News Parents Of Kate Steinle, Woman Shot And Killed At Pier 14, File Federal Lawsuit Elizabeth Sullivan and Jim Steinle of Livermore, the parents of the 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle who was shot and killed last July while walking with her father at Pier 14, have filed a lawsuit
SF News Muni Mobile App Will Add 'Rate My Ride' Feature In a move that borders on masochism, Muni's Mobile app, which launched for mobile ticketing last November, will soon prompt users to rate their Muni experience. You know, like Yelp for the SFMTA.
SF News Newsweek: Apple's New SF Flagship Store Is A 'Fancy Crypt' The gleaming new Union Square Apple store, unveiled and opened this month, is its "first global flagship," which is to say that stores that come after it will follow in its mold. Designed
Arts & Entertainment Rediscovered Historical Comics Recall San Francisco Days Of Yore Ron Henggeler, a chronicler of local ephemera in his newsletter, happened upon a 1975 volume of illustrations harkening back to Old Frisco by Albert Tolf, and you should take a look. The historical
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Black Cat, A New Restaurant And Lounge, Will Jazz Up The Tenderloin This Summer The Tenderloin, already purring with swanky bar and restaurant openings, will receive another place to carouse this summer in Black Cat, a restaurant and lounge with a touch of jazz. The bill at
