SF News Gap Continues To Struggle As Shoppers Reject Their Conformist Message As you've likely heard, Gap is in trouble. The San Francisco-based clothing company faces declining sales and is on the verge of closing dozens of stores as shoppers look elsewhere for their sartorial
SF News Nude Trump Statue Removed, May Get New Home At Lefty O'Doul's The naked likeness of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump surreptitiously installed yesterday in the Castro has found an unlikely champion: Anti-nudity Supervisor Scott Wiener. Wiener, who is known for his successful 2012 campaign
SF News Bourgeois Meets 420 At SF's First Exclusive Marijuana Country Club Love getting stoned, but hate being around common folk while high? Wish you could just blaze and read The Nob Hill Gazette in peace, but annoying parkgoers always asking to borrow your lighter?
SF News Twitter's New 'Quality Filter' Will Let You Shut Out The Trolls Twitter has a troll problem. That the social-media service has become a tool for those wishing to harass others is well documented, as are the company's seemingly ineffective attempts to combat the toxicity
SF News Now PG&E Wants Its Conviction Thrown Out In San Bruno Blast Case As most of you know, in September of 2010, an explosion rocked San Bruno, killing eight people, injuring 58 more, and destroying 38 homes in the process. On August 9, 2016, a jury
SF News Report: SF Rents Are Probably Never Going To Drop With the news that rents in San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland all went down last month, many of us briefly allowed a previously forbidden thought to flicker across our minds: Could the
SF News Oakland Yet Again Named The Second 'Unfriendliest' City In The Country Oakland has yet another dubious feather to add to its gentrifying cap. According to Condé Nast Traveler, the city across the Bay is still the second "unfriendliest" in the world a title it's
SF News Overnight Oakland Shootings Leave Five Injured Gunshots rang out in Oakland last night, as five people were shot in two separate locations. KRON 4 reports the first shooting left four injured, and the second shooting left a fifth wounded
SF News Day Around The Bay: UC Berkeley Spent $200K To Improve Departing Chancellor's Image Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. SFMTA gave in to merchants and will roll back
SF News Drunk SF Man Builds Website For Finding Free Pianos Are you an erstwhile pianist who only gave up your musical love because you have no idea where to score a cheap, used baby grand? Enter Piano Pound. The work of a drunk
SF News Man Dies In Oakland Liquor Store After Allegedly Setting It On Fire A deceased man was pulled from the wreckage of an Oakland liquor store last night following reports that he had barricaded himself inside and set it ablaze. CBS 5 reports that the Oakland
SF News Ford Promises Self-Driving Taxis With No Steering Wheels By 2021 Another major player just joined the race to bring self-driving cars to the masses. The Chronicle reports that the CEO of Ford announced yesterday plans to put fully autonomous taxis on the roads
SF News Alligator Shows Up In The Wild In East Bay Creek, Gets Shot And Killed By Officials 4' alligator sighted Monday in Ala. Co Creek @ACSOSheriffs lead agency with jurisdiction of waterway. Pls avoid area pic.twitter.com/3kN0q5cVGW— Fremont Police Dept (@FremontPD) August 16, 2016 The life of an
SF News East Bay BART Delays To Start Today And Last Three Weeks Adding another repair project to the list, BART officials just announced new work in the East Bay that will result in ongoing delays for passengers. The repairs, which start today and involve replacing
SF News SFMTA Approves Sunday Double-Parking Pilot Program It seems that last week's prediction was correct, as the SFMTA Board of Directors today approved the creation of a pilot program to allow Sunday double-parking on Dolores Street. Jerold Chinn, the transportation
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 13 Cool Things To Check Out This Week With August being notably chillier than usual, sometimes it takes a little nudge to get out of the house. Lucky for you, this is San Francisco and there's always stuff to do right
SF News Berkeley Man Arrested For Driving His Car Over Dozens Of Veterans' Graves A Berkeley man stands accused of a drug-fueled vehicular rampage that targeted the final resting place of our country's military veterans. CBS 5 reports that the 29-year-old man drove his car through the
SF News Dubai, Not West Coast, May Get First Working Hyperloop Techno-fetishists around the world rejoiced in 2013 when Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk published a white paper on the idea of a super-fast form of transportation between Los Angeles and San Francisco
SF News Google Launches New Video Chat App Google yesterday made a move to expand its toehold into the world of video chatting. Wired reports that the company announced a new video-chat app that is available for download on both Android
SF News SFPD Says It's 200 Officers Short-Staffed, And Is Having Hiring Troubles The San Francisco Police Department is understaffed and having trouble filling the gaps. So reports CBS 5, which notes that the department blames a myriad of factors for the 200 open positions. "It’
SF News 'Dreaded Bandit' Arrested Outside Of Richmond District Bank With Loaded Gun The Dreaded Bandit's reign of bank-robbing terror may have finally come to an end. The Chronicle reports that Friday afternoon police arrested the man they believe to be the serial bank robber. He
SF News Prosecutorial Overreach Claimed In Case Involving Scott Wiener's Stolen Phone While we all know that stealing is bad (duh), and can have serious consequences both for victims and thieves, stealing from a law-and-order elected official is likely to turn out notably worse for
SF News Candidate For D7 Supervisor Argues Cyclists Need Licenses And Bike Insurance A candidate for District 7 supervisor and columnist for the Examiner yesterday published a bizarrely out-of-touch op-ed suggesting that San Francisco mandate people be required to get special licenses, insurance, and registration before
SF News 49ers Begin Lobbying Effort For Another Bay Area Super Bowl The year is 2022: Flying cars dot the skyscape, Google Glass 3.0 adorns everyone's face, and people consume only Soylent (or one of its offshoots). Oh yeah, and the Super Bowl is
SF News Muni Driver Allegedly Beaten By Angry Motorist Driving for Muni can be a stressful gig. With all the rider beatings, collisions, and allegations of discrimination, the brown-uniform-sporting employees have a lot to deal with even before it comes to matters
