SF News In Speech At Stanford, Hillary Clinton Responds To Brussels Attack Yesterday at Stanford University's Encina Hall, former Secretary of State and current presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton once again responded to Tuesday's violent attack on Brussels, an act of terrorism claimed by ISIS that
Arts & Entertainment Annie Leibovitz Premieres Free New Show In Presidio On Friday Since its initial 1999 publication, "Women," which photographer Annie Leibovitz began as a collaboration with Susan Sontag, has changed a great deal. So has the very subject. In its latest incarnation, “Women: New
Arts & Entertainment Hallelujah! Church Of 8 Wheels Reopens After Renovations Holy rollers at the Church of 8 Wheels, Fillmore Street's premiere house of God-turned-roller-rink, are in for a treat. As Hoodline has the good word, the popular recreational spot is open again after
SF News Second Homeless Navigation Center Will Be An SRO At 12th And Market A year after opening the city's first "Navigation Center" for the homeless at 16th and Mission Streets, a project heralded as a new approach to a persistent issue that would be replicated if
Arts & Entertainment [Update] 30,000 Burning Man Tickets Sell Out In 30 Minutes It's going to take more than radical self reliance to get tickets to Burning Man this year, as, like last year, the sale promised to be a minor technical disaster crapshoot. We'll update
Arts & Entertainment Video: Mr. Marina Contestants Read Mean SFist Comments Tonight at the Mr. Marina competition, a yearly roast of local frat-bro culture, they will perform feats of strength and tests of talent. But in a more remarkable twist, this year's crop of
SF News Day Around The Bay: Elon Musk Is Single Again, Earth Women! Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Here's more about When We Rise, the seven-part documentary miniseries we
SF News Supervisors Move Forward With Eviction Protection For Teachers A San Francisco Board of Supervisors committee gave its seal of approval this week to legislation that would protect teachers, school employees, child caregivers, and their families from evictions during the academic year.
SF News Supreme Court Won't Allow Oakland To Protect Massive Medical Pot Dispensary The City of Oakland cannot participate, as it has tried to for some years, in a suit to keep the federal government from closing a gargantuan local medical marijuana dispensary. The Chronicle reports
SF News Poisonous 'Death Caps' Growing All Over In Rain-Fueled Mushroom Boom When Donna Davis looked in the mirror, she saw that her skin had turned yellow. As KQED tells her story from 2014, Davis, fell ill after enjoying a "delicious" soup she cooked from
SF News Saint John Coltrane Church Landlord Responds To Controversy Since agreeing to vacate its Fillmore District home at the end of April, the congregation of the Church of Saint John Coltrane has at once celebrated their 60-day reprieve from eviction and protested
SF News Facebook Knows Your Race, Sends You Targeted Ads It's a tale of two trailers, as Business Insider juxtaposes them. Both are for Straight Outta Compton, but one is for audiences presumed familiar with NWA and one is for audiences who presumably
SF News Man Behind BART's Honest Tweets: 'Public Transit Has Always Been About Politics' Until last week, BART's Twitter account has consisted mostly of a series of apologies in reply to tweets from riders. Exhibit A: But like much of BART's strategy and infrastructure, saying "sorry" wasn't
SF News Up To Code? Tech Bootcamps Face Fines For Operating Without Licenses San Jose-based Coding Dojo wasn't supposed to be a school at all. As CEO Richard Wang explained to SFist last fall, the private postsecondary school's founder, Michael Choi, was managing several startups including
SF News Poll: For The First Time, A Majority Of San Franciscans Disapprove Of Ed Lee Ed Lee is in the red. The Chronicle reports that numbers previously omitted from a recent Chamber of Commerce poll conducted by David Binder Research are fairly damning for the mayor's camp. Why
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Barzotto Takes St. Vincent's Spot, 10 Years At Nopa, And More This week SFist had news of SpoonRocket's closure, which coincided with the launch UberEats' standalone app, word on the opening of quinoa automat Eatsa's second SF location, and photos from inside WesBurger 'N'
SF News Twitter Briefing: Company Will Maintain 140-Character Limit Twitter may have 99 problems, but 140 characters ain't one. The company will maintain its signature limit on tweet length, as CEO Jack Dorsey recently announced on the Today show. "It's staying," said
SF News City Now Wants To Tax Airbnb Hosts For Their Furniture, Sheets, Utensils, Etc. Airbnb and the City of San Francisco continue their passive-aggressive feud today, as the Chronicle reports: In a bid to completely discourage hosts from actually registering their short-term rentals with the city, as
SF News Planning Commission Approves Controversial, Massive Mid-Market Residential Development Known for its downtown office buildings from the towering 50 California to the Market Square/Twitter building, real estate investors the Shorenstein Organization received Planning Commission approval yesterday afternoon for their first residential
SF News Crissy Field Due For $2.5 Million Facelift This Fall Once a literal waste dump, Crissy Field is now anything but. Still, with 15 years since its last renovation, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area has deemed that the one-and-a-half mile spot could
SF News Segway Patent Complaint May Lead To Ban On Most Hoverboard Imports Thanks to the Consumer Product Safety Commission and countless reports of spontaneous combustion, we know that hoverboards are wildly unsafe to ride. Now we learn that they're even unsafe to import into the
SF News Inmates Now Suing Sheriff's Deputies Who Allegedly Forced Them To Brawl Behind Bars In addition to criminal charges brought against them earlier this month by District Attorney George Gascón, San Francisco Sheriff's deputies who allegedly led forced Fight Club-like matches between inmates, engaging in patterns of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Inside WesBurger 'N' More, Permanent Home Of The WesBurger Last night marked the final pop-up at Divisadero's Mojo Bicycle Cafe for Wes Rowe and his ultra-popular, all-brisket WesBurger. It was packed. "Almost every week at Mojo, I can tell who the first
SF News Supervisors Use Self-Deleting Message App To Bypass Public Records Laws Former Mayor Willie Brown once joked to a colleague, or so the New York Times writes, that the "e" in "email" stood for "evidence." Only, he probably wasn't joking. Now, in the political
SF News Poll: 51 Percent Of San Franciscans See City Headed In Wrong Direction Sadly, that New York Times article about the state of affairs in formerly magical San Francisco — a place where longtime residents are now begging for an end to the madness of the boom
