SF News Facebook Introduces Special Circumstances, Human Oversight To 'Real Names Policy' Enforcement Recently SFist ran two stories about Facebook users who reported outrage at that company's "real names policy" — really a policy of disabling accounts when they're reported by other users as fake. The first
SF News Mayor Lee Backs Tasers For SFPD, Opponents Ready For A Fight During a radio appearance this morning, Mayor Ed Lee voiced support for arming SFPD officers with Tasers, stating a position spokesperson Christine Falvey confirmed to the Examiner. Police Chief Greg Suhr has for
SF News Coast Guard Discovers Two More Shipping Containers Of 12 Washed Overboard Hey Matson Shipping looks like you can find your missing container in between China Beach and Baker Beach! pic.twitter.com/U2Qcu3Nsb5— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) December 13, 2015 As crews on Baker Beach
SF News Supervisor Peskin Moves To Expand Rent Control To Newer Buildings Supervisor Aaron Peskin is gearing up to draft legislation that would expand rent control to properties built after the current 1979 cutoff. Working with the City Attorney's office, Peskin is exploring a trade-off
SF News Coyote Attacks Another Small Dog In Stern Grove, Big Dog Saves It 'Like Rin Tin Tin' A Maltese-poodle mix was killed near Pine Lake in Stern Grove as its owners watched in horror back in September, and once again, a coyote pounced on a small dog in the park
SF News The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week There are plenty of gifts to be enjoyed this holiday season, many of them musical. Here are some, okay a bunch, plus a few odds and ends... like a dope 30th anniversary celebration
SF News Two SFPD Officers Who Shot Mario Woods Previously Faced Excessive-Force Lawsuits Announcing that he would file a civil rights lawsuit against the SFPD, last week attorney John Burris released an enhanced new video showing the police shooting of 26-year old Mario Woods, a black
SF News Yahoo Shareholders Propose Plan To Cut 9,000 Jobs Activist shareholders who have held significant sway over internet company Yahoo have now proposed plans to radically downsize its workforce of 10,700, presenting an alternative to the board's decision last week to
SF News Day Around The Bay: NY To SF Real Estate Map Says Greenwich Village Is Noe Valley A house on San Francisco's tiniest lot is on sale for $599,000. [CBS SF] Oakland Salvation Army allegedly kicked out a rehab client for talking to the media. [Chron] Take a look
SF News With Vote Tomorrow, Idaho Stop For Cyclists Stalled Just Shy Of Veto Override Mayor Lee made no friends among cyclists who have agitated for rolling "Idaho stops" at clear intersections when he promised to veto the likely passage of legislation that would make enforcement of full
SF News [Update] Seattle Approves Unions For Uber, Lyft Drivers Seattle's City Council voted today to allow freelance drivers the right to collectively negotiate such items as pay and working conditions. The New York Times observed that if the right were conferred upon
SF News Shipping Container Falls Off Ship Outside Golden Gate, Flotsam Washes Up On Baker Beach Hey Matson Shipping looks like you can find your missing container in between China Beach and Baker Beach! pic.twitter.com/U2Qcu3Nsb5— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) December 13, 2015 This morning the Coast Guard
SF News Burning Man Delays Ticket Pricing, Fights $3 Million New Tax What is Burning Man? A festival? A temporary community? A lifestyle choice? Burners themselves are known to dodge the question: You know, it needs to be, like, experienced to be understood. Nevertheless, an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Brass Tacks Takes Over Flipper's, Alamo Drafthouse Menu Revealed, And More This week at the SFist food and drink desk we selected the 11 best new bars, and with that my main recommendation is to not peruse it too far before cocktail hour. We
SF News Mario Woods: New Enhanced Video Released, Civil Rights Lawsuit To Be Filed Against SFPD Attorney John Burris has announced he will file a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of the family of Mario Woods, the 26-year-old San Francisco man SFPD shot to death on December 2nd. Police
Arts & Entertainment Eff-ing In SF, Vol. 2: I Left My Heart In San Francisco, Should I Post To Craigslist? Sex, love, and other mysteries in the city your mother warned you about. I left my heart in San Francisco, and it's the weirdest thing. It keeps turning up in places I don't
SF News Busted! Motley Crew Of Bay Area Water-Hogs Includes Buster Posey, Motley Crue Singer Everybody who's anybody — Giants catcher Buster Posey, Gold Medal figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi, even Motley Crue lead singer Vince Neil — seems to be wasting water in the East Bay. A new fad among
Arts & Entertainment Peek Inside The Alamo Drafthouse New Mission Theater, Open Next Week When the New Mission Theater opened 99 years ago as the Idyll Hour theater, the films were silent. The location at 2550 Mission has — save for the occasional illegal rave and a stint
SF News [Update] Fire At The Mission's Palace Restaurant Building Displaces 10 San Francisco firefighters are still at 3047 Mission Street at the corner of Cesar Chavez this morning. There, a two-alarm structure fire broke out last night, injuring two people. Update: SFFD maintains none
SF News Fizzary Owner Vandalized His Own Former Store Turned Illegal Nightclub (Where Prostitution Is Now Alleged) Former Fizzary spot turned nightclub vandalized this weekend https://t.co/hQKKxnZZIC pic.twitter.com/ZMlElsgYQl— Capp Street Crap (@cappstreetcrap) December 7, 2015 Who was that vigilante that tagged the former Fizzary (a
Arts & Entertainment Watch A Teenage Green Day Shred At Their Bay Area High School What a couple of punks these kids are. In fact, this very particular set of them might be recognizable from Billie Joe Armstrong's hair alone. This is Green Day, the year is 1990,
SF News Marissa Mayer's Yahoo Severance Would Be Way Less Than Reported In meetings last week, Yahoo's board decided it won't be spinning off its valuable shares of Chinese e-commerce gargantuan Alibaba. The company will instead measure a plan to sell off its own core
SF News Bay Area Muslims Suprisingly Resistant To Fascist Proposals If Republican "presidential candidate" Donald Trump plans to individually register American Muslims — something he's insinuated he'd like to do in order to (successfully) bait a thirsty media and feed the darkest, most bestial
SF News Day Around The Bay: Dropbox Drops Mailbox The ACLU will take on the case of the artist whose commissioned BART artworks were turned down, in part, by the transit agency. [Chron] Today’s Supreme Court challenge over redistricting out of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: W. Kamau Bell And <em>The Last Dragon</em>'s 30th At The Roxie The Last Dragon is the last of a lot of things. In 1985, Michael Shultz' film starring martial artist Taimak and Prince protégé Vanity was a late-entry into both the kung fu film
