SF News Discussions Of Bias, Tech, And Trump Take Center Stage At The <em>Vanity Fair</em> New Establishment Summit While everyday San Franciscans went about their normal business last week, a collection of movers and shakers from the worlds of business, tech, media, and politics gathered at Yerba Buena Center for the
SF News $15 Billion Volkswagen Emission Scandal Settlement Approved By SF Judge A federal judge based in San Francisco just approved a $15 billion settlement in the emission-cheating scandal that rocked the German-based car manufacturer Volkswagen. The Associated Press reports that this is the single
SF News Video: Watch Passengers Poke Around BART's 'Fleet Of The Future' BART's "Fleet of the Future" is slowly but surely rolling toward a widespread deployment, but as that's still a ways away, BART officials have offered up curious commuters a chance to check out
SF News Video: Steph Curry Contemplates Finals Loss, Plots Comeback In New Ad The magic of two-time MVP Steph Curry wasn't enough for the Warriors this past season, with a brutal defeat against the Cavaliers in the 2016 NBA Finals a painful reminder that even going
SF News Deal Announced To Build First New Rent-Controlled Units In Decades For the first time in over 20 years, San Francisco may get new rent-controlled housing. And not new in the sense that the units in question are being built to replace the destruction
SF News Hacker Group Claims Responsibility For Friday's Attack And Warns Of More To Come Friday's attack on critical internet infrastructure is likely the first of many, with a hacking group claiming responsibility and saying that it was only a test and that another larger attack is still
SF News San Francisco BBQ Festival Disrupted By Animal Rights Activists Attendees at this weekend's 2nd annual San Francisco BBQ Fest got a little scolding along with their braised ribs as a group of animal rights activists showed up to the ticketed event and
SF News Today Is The Last Day You Can Register To Vote In California; Here's How Although it may be months before you're breathing clearly again and the PTSD subsides, this year's election season only goes on for a finite amount of time and will soon be coming to
SF News Day Around The Bay: Luxor Cabs Gains Legacy Business Designation Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. The Miami Beach art fair UNTITLED is planning a
SF News The Soda Lobby Is Using Bernie Sanders In Fight Against Soda Tax, And Sanders Is Pissed The American Beverage Association is pulling out all the stops in its fight against the proposed penny-per-ounce soda tax on the ballot this November in both San Francisco and Oakland. One such effort
SF News SF Engineer Designs Bike Lock That Sprays Vomit-Inducing Chemicals When Cut Cyclists all know that SF has a bike theft problem. And even when cyclists use expensive u-locks, those can quickly be cut with angle grinders — a fact which many know all too well.
SF News Peter Thiel To Speak Publicly About His Trump Support As Silicon Valley Battle Lines Harden Contrarian that he is, noted libertarian Trump lover Peter Thiel has decided that the controversy surrounding his support for the Republican presidential candidate demands his response. And so, as Bloomberg reports, the billionaire
SF News [Update] Bay Bridge Bike Path Will Finally, Probably, Open This Sunday Scroll to the bottom of this post for updates. After years of construction and numerous delays, the Bay Bridge bike path is finally set to open this Sunday. Probably. KQED News reports that
SF News Arrests Made In Connection To Tuesday's School Shooting Police have arrested two individuals they say are connected to Tuesday's school shooting that left four students injured, one critically. ABC 7 reports that one of the suspects was apprehended the evening of
SF News Video: Stand-Up Paddleboarders Rocked By Waves At Yesterday's Competition Fifteen of the world's best paddleboarders gathered at Ocean Beach yesterday for the Red Bull Heavy Water SUP (Stand Up Paddleboard) competition, battling surf and waves in their 7.5 mile journey from
SF News Oakland Police Officer Arrested, Accused Of Inappropriate Conduct An Oakland police officer was arrested and booked into Oakland downtown's Glenn Dyer Jail at 1:00 a.m. this morning, with the department saying the charges are related to prostitution. Interestingly, as
SF News Photo Du Jour: Your Grandparents Partied In Dolores Park Too Dolores Park, circa 1960. All that different from today? @outsidelandz @OpenSFHistory #sfhistory #opensfhistory https://t.co/bSA0nQcTyq pic.twitter.com/AvmYG0bT26— David Gallagher (@DavidGallagher) October 10, 2016 With all the kvetching about the
SF News New Marina Parking Restrictions Targeting Car-Dwellers Upset Homeless Activists Another in a long line of SFMTA measures restricting large vehicles from parking overnight on certain San Francisco streets was approved on Tuesday, this time focusing on the Marina. The Examiner reports that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starbucks To Open 1,000 High-End Coffee Bars To Challenge Blue Bottle For 'Third Wave' Supremacy Eyeing the success of fancy "third-wave" coffee purveyors like Blue Bottle and Intelligentsia, Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz today announced plans to roll out 1,000 high-end coffee bars. Reuters reports that the
SF News Video: Stanley Roberts Reminds Us That Sideshows Are Bad Stanley Roberts is back on the sideshow beat using his usual semi-mocking tone at KRON 4 as he scolds the people who participate in them those who stand by and film them. And
SF News SFMTA Says Street Safety Improvements Are Actually Dangerous, Pulls Vigilante Crosswalk Posts Thank you @SFMTrA ! Westbound traffic visibly slower when crossing with kids today, and more walkers are using the intersection already. pic.twitter.com/DCULFK2qiV— Hum of the city (@humofthecity) October 13, 2016 Saying
SF News Aggressive Drivers Looking Forward To Bullying Self-Driving Cars While there is all kinds of pie-in-the-sky talk about the future of self-driving cars, one generally agreed upon impact of any potential widespread adoption is safer roads. With safety-conscious software making the decisions,
SF News Warm Springs BART Likely Won't Open Ahead Of Bond Vote After All The several times delayed Warm Springs BART extension will not open this weekend as officials originally hoped. The Chronicle reports that the latest delay, due to unfinished testing, makes it significantly less likely
SF News Zuckerberg Stands By Facebook Board Member Peter Thiel And Claims Support For Trump Counts As 'Diversity' As the backlash against prominent Donald Trump supporter and Facebook board member Peter Thiel continues to grow, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has come out in support of the controversial Libertarian — suggesting that not
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ghost Pepper Rips Hole In SF Man's Esophagus, Collapses His Lung For all the foodie adventurousness of San Franciscans, one local man took his daring a bit too far when he consumed a burger smothered with a ghost pepper purée — and ended up almost
