SF News Day Around The Bay: This Year's Top Halloween Costume Predicted Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Lo-Cost Meat and Fish Market, a staple of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Now that the sun is back out, and you've finally dried out your shoes following last weekend's deluge, it's time to once again get out of the house. Fortunately, there's plenty to do
SF News Stain Of Peter Thiel's Trump Advocacy Marks Y Combinator As Silicon Valley Backlash Grows Peter Thiel has always ranked high on the Silicon Valley eccentric scale, as most already know. The PayPal co-founder and Facebook board member's support for building floating libertarian cities and interest in the
SF News Map: San Franciscans Want New Subway Lines Pretty Much Everywhere San Francisco has some decent public transit, but huge chunks of the city are conspicuously under-served. Right now, for example, The Examiner tells us that only 25 percent of jobs are within walking
SF News Early Morning Marin County Crash Kills Three, Splits Car In Two Three men are dead following an early morning car crash that left Marin County's Sir Francis Drake Boulevard strewn with rubble. ABC 7 reports that the wreck, which only involved one car, occurred
SF News Video: Mission Smokers Reveal Thoughts On Proposed Cigarette Tax Increase With so many local and state measures on this November's ballot, it's perhaps easy for some to get lost in the mix. Proposition 56 may be just such a measure — and while not
SF News Fly Above The Mission With This 3D Drone-Made Map Have you ever dreamt you're a bird, flying over a familiar city now foreign with new perspective? Operators of first-person-view drones often talk of experiencing a similar feeling — being "out of body" as
SF News [Update] White Nationalist Rally Planned In SF Elicits Calls For Counter Protest A group of anti-immigrant, white nationalists plan to hold a rally in San Francisco today protesting the city's status as a sanctuary city, and calls have gone out for counter-protesters to meet them
SF News Golden Gate Bridge To Hire Additional Suicide Prevention Officers As most everyone knows, the Golden Gate Bridge plays host to breathtaking views as well as, unfortunately, tragedy. Officers have long patrolled the bridge with the goal of preventing suicides, and now the
SF News Vallejo Police Shoot Gun-Wielding Man After Armed Starbucks Encounter A man was shot was shot three times by Vallejo police last night after he allegedly entered a local Starbucks and pointed an assault-style weapon at officers. According to a press release from
SF News Check Out A Brand New BART Car, In Person, In The East Bay This Weekend Yes, it smells like new car. #FleetOfTheFuture pic.twitter.com/dOB580FUw8— SFBART (@SFBART) April 6, 2016 BART's "fleet of the future" is coming, but with full deployment of the new train cars not
SF News Instacart's Independent Contractors Score Big Win After Threatening Strike Instacart's "shoppers," a.k.a. independent contractors, forced the grocery-delivery startup to back down on a proposed major change to worker compensation in the face of a planned strike. In a blog post
SF News Robert Downey Jr. Wants To Be The Voice Of Mark Zuckerberg's AI Butler "This just got real." So wrote Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday after Robert Downey Jr. offered to record the voice of the tech titan's personal AI butler. As one of his always interesting
Arts & Entertainment Robin Williams's 87 Bicycles To Be Auctioned Off For Charity The late Robin Williams was mostly known as a performer, but the Tiburon resident was also an avid cyclist and collector of bicycles. Since his passing in 2014, the collection has fallen into
SF News Saturday Bay Bridge Implosion To Affect Treasure Island Festival Goers It's been almost a year since remnants of the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge were intentionally imploded, removing the top 50 feet of the E3 pier. We knew there would be
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bay Bridge Bike Path Completed, But You Still Can't Ride On It Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. A report documents the amount of guns sold in
SF News Months-Long Ocean Beach Bonfire Ban Goes Into Effect November 1 Fans of Ocean Beach bonfires need to move quickly if they want to enjoy the classic San Francisco pastime before spring of next year. Rules that went into effect last April governing fires
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Munchery, Still Losing Millions Of Dollars A Month, Seeks New CEO Munchery is in trouble. According to a new report from Bloomberg, the San Francisco-based meal delivery startup is losing millions of dollars a month, struggling to raise additional funding, and is on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soylent To Immediately Cease Selling Food Bars Following Claims Of Vomiting, Diarrhea Following reports that Soylent Food Bars, the latest product from techno-utopian meal-replacement company Soylent, were causing extreme vomiting and diarrhea in some customers, the company yesterday announced that it would stop selling the
SF News Protesters Urge SFMTA Not To Name Chinatown Central Subway Station After Rose Pak As she was in life, Rose Pak is controversial even in death. The local political power-broker passed away in September at the age of 68, and was quickly mourned and honored by the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Avocado Prices Skyrocket As Mexican Farmer Protest Affects Shipments North In what has the makings of a looming statewide crisis, we learn today that due to a negotiation tactic by Mexican avocado growers, prices in California of that most nourishing and delicious of
Arts & Entertainment This Year's Legit Scary Armory Haunted House Makes You Figure Out How To Escape From It For the third year in a row, the purveyors of filth over at the Armory are hosting a haunted house in their cavernous headquarters. Unlike the first year, this latest dive into darkness
SF News Suspicious Package At Market And O'Farrell Briefly Closes Streets, Is Found Empty A shelter-in-place warning from the SFPD went out Wednesday afternoon around 1:15 for the businesses adjacent to Market And O'Farrell Streets after a suspicious package was spotted. According to SFPD, streets were
SF News Map: SFMTrA Safety Vigilantes Install More Bike-Lane Posts Under The Cover Of Night @SFMTrA spotted! pic.twitter.com/SwwmS9ViXn— RadioChert (@ChertRadio) October 12, 2016 As promised, the anonymous individuals behind the vigilante pedestrian and bicycle safety group SFMTrA installed more bike-lane safety posts around the city
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF No Longer Best Place To Trick-Or-Treat Just in time for Halloween, we bring you some truly frightening news: San Francisco is no longer the top trick-or-treating city in the country. KRON 4 reports this scarifying tidbit, and notes that
