SF News Shooting Aboard BART In West Oakland Was Not Random, Suspect Still At Large According to witnesses aboard a BART train headed to San Francisco on Saturday night just before 8 p.m., right before the doors would open at the West Oakland Station, a "disheveled looking
SF News Bill Del Monte, Last Survivor Of 1906 Earthquake, Dead At 109 In April 1906, more than 1,000 people died in San Francisco during the great 7.7 to 8.3 magnitude earthquake, and its ensuing fires. But not William "Bill" Del Monte. And
SF News Campos Wants To Make All Single-Person Bathrooms 'All Gender' The gender binary is so 2015. In a release statement calling for the "most comprehensive law in the nation," Supervisor David Campos is leading the charge to "increase bathroom access for transgender people,
SF News Despite Moral Bankruptcy, Martin Shkreli Bailed Himself Out With $45 Million E-Trade Account "THEY SEE ME ROLLING..." pic.twitter.com/D1mDBEeZMq— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) September 16, 2015 Though many have astutely observed that finance loser turned pharmaceutical wantrapreneur Martin Shkreli is "worthless," the 32-year-old arrested on
SF News Woman Found In Stolen Vehicle Poses For Mona Lisa Mugshot Mugshots are a dime a dozen. At best, they're tabloid fare. But not since the booking photo of the elaborately mustachioed cyclist accused of smashing a car with a U-lock has an image
SF News Day Around The Bay: Guy Fieri's $700 Super Bowl Menu Is A Desperate Cry For Help Nerd alert: Preorder an Oculus Rift headset. [Ars Technica] [Wired] Conviction for man accused of racist graffiti in SF. [KRON 4] San Francisco officials wrote to Airbnb, HomeAway/VRBO, Craigslist, and FlipKey to
Arts & Entertainment Eff-ing In SF, Vol. 4: New Year's Dating Resolutions And How To Break Them via GIPHY Sex, love, and other mysteries in the city your mother warned you about. For many of us, 2016 began with a kiss and a little bit of hope. For others, you're
SF News Planning Department Calls Proposed SoMa Office Development 'Playful And Inventive' Keep an eye on 725 Harrison, where a cool looking new office complex that we talked about last fall may soon be on the rise. As Socketsite writes, the complex that would occupy
Arts & Entertainment Meet The Dudes, Bros, And Dudebros Of The Mr. Marina 2016 Competition Many men may enter, but only one will leave with the crown. None, however, shall exit with his dignity. Yet judging by this year's crop of bro brethren, there wasn't much of that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After 23 Years, SF's Only Colombian Restaurant Closing On Valencia Street Most customers don't ask to see the menu at El Majahual. They already know what they want by the time co-owner Regina Ledesma comes around — be that empanadas, tamales, or Regina's favorite dish,
SF News For SF Homeless, Just 75 Of Possible 1,300 'El Niño Beds' Added While Mayor Ed Lee vowed last month that up to 1,300 temporary shelter beds might be added during this season's El Niño weather pattern, by the Examiner's count just 75 have been
SF News Justice For Mario Woods Coalition To 'Crash' Ed Lee Inauguration The second — or, including his interim term, the third, but who's counting — inauguration of Mayor Ed Lee at City Hall tomorrow may also usher in a new era of protest in San Francisco.
SF News Poseidon Looses Wrath, Closes Pacifica Pier Neptune has aimed His mighty El Niño trident at Pacifica, closing the area to visitors and striking fear in the watery hearts of the local fisherpeople. Angry ocean. High surf warning. Pacifica Pier.
SF News SF's Yellow Cab Enters New Chapter... 11 Bankruptcy Welcome to 2016, San Francisco. Yellow Cab Co-Op, our city's largest taxi company with 530 medallions, is filing for bankruptcy the Examiner reports. In a letter obtained by the paper, president of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Techies Credit Strength To German Energy Soda In the popular imagination, hackers and coders subsist on Soylent alone. However, according to a trend piece over at KQED, a new beverage of choice is the source of strength for technologists in
SF News Spurned Husband Allegedly Torches Groomsmen's Cars, Leaving Lube, Joker Cards Hell hath no fury like a husband scorned, and the Contra Costa Times has the story of one particularly hellish husband who, following a breakup, allegedly exacted his vengeance upon his onetime groomsmen
SF News Brain Drain: Game App Lumosity Will Pay $2 Million For 'Unfounded' Cognitive Benefit Claims Lumosity, a series of brain-training games founded in 2005 and based right here in the App-alachia of San Francisco, has agreed to pay $2 million for making false claims that its many offerings
SF News Rising Tides Strand Snoozing Couple In Car On Beach Near Bay Bridge All has ended well for couple who got stranded by tide waters near #BayBridge. They drove off "embarrassed" #abc7now pic.twitter.com/Pp1NEJIoCr— Katie Utehs (@KatieUtehs) January 5, 2016 A potentially amorous and
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Brimming with hopes and dreams for 2016? Get out there and fulfill them, if those dreams include going to a lot of sweet events, of which these below represent a few. TUESDAY, JANUARY
SF News Regarding The Mystery Of Who And What Controls Your Facebook News Feed Facebook needs us. It needed us at the beginning to create the "network effect": friends flocking together to see and be seen. But now it needs us more than ever, as Slate writes
SF News Mayor Calls For Budget Cuts Amid $100 Million City Deficit Despite a flush local economy and real estate prices that leave locals flushed, the City of San Francisco faces a nearly $100 million budget deficit, approximately 42 percent of which comes from the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Gather Two Of Each Animal A new study links two local faults, the Hayward and Rodgers Creek Faults, which are far closer than previously considered. That might suggest the “big one” will be even bigger than expected. [Chron]
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food Reviews: The Return Of Sam Wo And The Portrait Of A $40 Burger What do the fries at AL's Place, the spiced squab at the Progress, and the deviled egg at Octavia all have in common? They're uncommonly good, according to Chronicle food schmoozer Michael Bauer,
SF News Lyft Scores $500 Million General Motors Investment, Plans Autonomous Cars General Motors knows that, in the future, not everyone is going to own their own car. Lyft knows that, in the future, not everyone is even going to drive a car. So, as
Arts & Entertainment Generous Rain, Regulations Make Point Reyes A Mushroom Magnet For Oakland's Debbie Viess, all mushrooms are a bit magical. "They're ephemeral," the co-founder of the Bay Area Mycological Society tells SFist. "Of course you can walk in the woods most of the
