SF News Peter Thiel Calls Funding Hulk Hogan v. Gawker Lawsuit 'Philanthropic' After speculation that appeared to verge on conspiracy theory, Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire, Facebook board member, and pledged Trump delegate, was revealed this week to have been footing the
SF News From Rodney King To Oscar Grant To Mario Woods, Oakland Attorney John Burris On Taking Cases That Change Police Departments John Burris isn't a political activist. "Making speeches? Nobody can win that," he says ruefully over tea in his Oakland law offices. "You can say what you want, I can say what I
SF News Rival Density Bonus Plans Vie For Support Correction: This post originally stated that Supervisor Peskin's proposal had been killed. It has not been, and this post has been corrected to reflect that. SF Supervisor Katy Tang and Mayor Ed Lee
SF News Work Starts On Long-Planned Changes To Masonic In June After eight years in the pipeline, changes first petitioned for in 2008 are finally due to arrive on the notoriously dangerous stretch of Masonic Avenue from Geary to Fell. Those are, most notably,
SF News In Retro Move, Lyft Lets You Book Rides 24 Hours In Advance On-demand ride-hailing service Lyft just went old school with a new option to book your ride up to 24 hours ahead. It's a test run for now, says Mashable, but the vintage, taxi-style
Arts & Entertainment Get Ready For Tonight's Warriors Game By Watching Draymond Green Get Hyphy In This Beats Ad Draymond Green doesn't bump mainstream, he knocks underground. In this advertisement, the Golden State Warriors forward has been magically transported — by his Beats headphones, apparently — into the video for E-40's 2006 Hyphy anthem
SF News Mother And 3-Year-Old Killed In San Leandro As Amtrak Train And SUV Collide #BREAKING: Amtrak train crashes into car in San Leandro, killing two. https://t.co/M7r8icdYzT pic.twitter.com/GolOO19BoU— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) May 24, 2016 An Amtrak train and an SUV collided
SF News You Could Be Allowed To Break The Windows Of Hot Cars With Dogs Inside Under Proposed CA Law Assembly Bill 797, a proposed amendment to Section 597.7 of the state Penal Code relating to trespass, would extend the privilege of smashing car windows, if necessary in order to rescue dogs
SF News Facebook's Internal Probe Finds No Evidence Of Bias In Trending Topics A week after CEO Mark Zuckerberg's meetings with conservative leaders in a conciliatory action following reports that Facebook's news curators were instructed to suppress conservative news articles, Facebook, which initially denied the allegations
SF News [Update] Silicon Valley Billionaire Peter Thiel Secretly Funded Hulk Hogan V. Gawker Suit In March, after a years-long case against Gawker Media, Hulk Hogan, whose legal name is Terry Bollea, was granted a $140 million jury award at the online media company's expense for its release
SF News Day Around The Bay: Daily BottleRock Lineups Released Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Is this KRON4 on-air fight for real? You be
Arts & Entertainment Van Morrison Coming To SFJAZZ This Fall While Van Morrison, age 70, is already on the books to play at Davies Symphony Hall on October 17th, SFJAZZ has announced it will be offering a more intimate experience with the "Belfast
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Art-Inspired Cakes At New MOMA Have Blue Bottle Pastry Chef Crying 'Forgery' "Remember those modern art style desserts?" SFist wondered in April 2015 when we learned that MOMA had not renewed its contract with the coffee shop Blue Bottle. "What will become of them!?" You
SF News 15 Years Of Officer-Involved Shootings In SF, By The Numbers Greg Suhr, who resigned his position as the Chief of Police at the mayor's request last week, never fired his gun while on duty. That's common. The "vast majority" of San Francisco police
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Ep. 3.5: Watch The Chair After its own game of thrones, Pied Piper's CEO chair sits empty, and Richard aims to prove himself the rightful heir to the company he founded. But to keep the business afloat, costs
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: LocoL Opens Next Week In Oakland, Bauer Calls Out Coi Servers' Uniforms A lot of food news here from SFist this week: Mourad Lahlou's Aziza will close for two months to receive a renovation, Cowgirl Creamery has been sold to a bigger Swiss dairy company,
Arts & Entertainment Behold The Wind-Powered Walking Dutch Sculptures Arriving At The Exploratorium Next Week 'Strandbeests' is Dutch for beach animals because it's the beach that physicist/artist Theo Jansen designed his kinetic sculptures to navigate. "They have to survive the storms, the water, the sand," Jansen tells
SF News Video From Last Year Shows New SF Police Chief Calling Out 'Cynicism' And 'Bias' Mayor Lee appointed 26-year department veteran and Deputy SFPD Chief Toney Chaplin to the position of Acting Chief of Police yesterday after requestng and receiving Chief Suhr's resignation, a decision made by the
SF News [Update] Major BART Delays After Smoke Fills 16th Street Station BART riders at San Francisco stations have been experiencing major delays in the East Bay direction this morning. The cause appears to be an equipment problem that left 16th Street station filled with
SF News Google Bets On VR Platform, Chat Apps, And Amazon Echo Competitor If you're in tech or just playing along on Twitter, you can't escape it: Google's I/O conference, a summit filled with unveilings and presentations of post-Steve Jobs proportion. The big highlights so
SF News Melissa Harris-Perry To Speak At Public Defenders' Summit In SF Next Week San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi has hosted the San Francisco Justice Summit for more than a decade, but this year, in explicitly examining "Use of Force" at the free event — while the
SF News Uber Courts Parents With Trip Tracker To View Their Kids' Rides In Real-Time A day after announcing its Family Profiles feature, which allows users to add up to 10 people and pay for their rides, Uber made clear one key use for that feature with the
SF News Video: Bernie Sanders Calls Out SF Homeless Crisis In Impromptu Union Rally Speech Senator Bernie Sanders thanked a crowd of labor protestors Wednesday afternoon "for standing up, right here in San-Fran-Cisco," emphatically pronouncing each syllable of our city's name in his heavy Brooklyn accident — though not,
SF News California Lifts Mandatory Water Restrictions Though Drought Continues While an El Niño rainy season skewed North and left California drier than anticipated, the State Water Resources Control Board met, as expected, to revisit our mandatory 25 percent water use reduction restrictions.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Oakland Councilmember Wants To Erase Marijuana-Related Offenses From Criminal Records Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. An 80-year-old woman who was facing eviction from the
