Arts & Entertainment All Civic Center Pride Attendees Must Pass Through Metal Detector, Undergo Weapons Search Everyone attending this weekend's Pride celebration at San Francisco's Civic Center will be searched, and searched quite thoroughly. Both the Bay Area Reporter and KRON 4 report that all attendees will be forced
SF News Supes Seek To Ban Grass Rentals In All SF Parks Following Dolores Park Dustup Responding to an outpouring of condemnation from the general public, five members of the Board of Supervisors have put forth a resolution that would effectively kill the Recreation and Parks Department's program of
SF News Despite Spending $2.5M, BART Still Doesn't Know What Caused Mystery Voltage Problem Remember those unexplained voltage spikes that knocked over 100 BART cars out of service earlier in the year? Thankfully, whatever was causing the disruption eventually stopped, and BART was able to resume normal
SF News Today Is The Summer Solstice, And It's Going To Be A Warm One Bringing a bit of cheer to our Monday morning is the fact that today is the summer solstice — the longest day of the year and the first official day of summer. What's more,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Die Yuppie Scum' Spray Painted On Site Of Future Outer Sunset Brewpub Forthcoming Outer Sunset Brewpub Tagged With 'Die Yuppie Scum' Graffiti https://t.co/88g16UU4Iv by @yourprotagonist pic.twitter.com/nFui7ptEtg— Hoodline (@HoodlineSF) June 16, 2016 Someone really doesn't like brewpubs. Or, perhaps, they
Arts & Entertainment Want Tickets To Game 7? Here's How Much They'll Cost You So, it's come to Game 7. Sigh. And while we know the entire thing is rigged, we all still want to go to Sunday's do-or-die NBA Finals game at Oracle Arena against the
SF News Facebook Employees Actually Hate Commuting, Beg For SF Office In what will come as a surprise to no one, it turns out that fancy tech shuttle or no, the employees of Facebook are pretty sick of the commute to the Menlo Park
SF News Firm To Purchase SF Piers For $82.5M On Behalf Of Unnamed Offshore Client An Atlanta company has made moves to purchase prime San Francisco commercial real estate on behalf of an unnamed, offshore individual or company. So reports The Registry, which notes that Invesco Real Estate
SF News Family Of Homeless Man Killed By SFPD Move To File Suit Against City The family of Luis Gongora, the homeless man shot and killed by SFPD in April of this year, is preparing to file a civil suit against the city. KRON4 reports that civil rights
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Watch The Amazing Acro-Cats Do Tricks, Play Music Have you ever wanted to see talented cats perform acrobatic stunts? Of course you have. How about rock-star cats jamming out some serious tunes? Double of course you have. Well guess what, dear
SF News Drunk Men Who Slashed Inflatable Dam, Wasting 50M Gallons Of Water, Fined Three men who damaged an inflatable dam on Alameda Creek in May of last year, wasting just shy of 50 million gallons of water in the process, will be forced to pay a
Arts & Entertainment Video: Giants Fan Catches Foul Ball, Gives It To Little Kid, Gets Hug This is just priceless. #ThrillOfTheGame A video posted by MLB ⚾ (@mlb) on Jun 15, 2016 at 7:05pm PDT Sometimes it's the little things in life that make all the difference. Surely this
SF News A Close Up Look At The New BART Seats Yes, it smells like new car. #FleetOfTheFuture pic.twitter.com/dOB580FUw8— SFBART (@SFBART) April 6, 2016 While we're all certainly excited for the numerous amenities the new BART cars will offer, the seats
SF News Uber Settles Another Driver Suit To The Tune Of $7.5M Uber has settled yet another lawsuit, with the issue of driver background checks at the heart of the latest legal dispute. According to Reuters, in response to a case brought in San Francisco
SF News Woman Arrested After Allegedly Throwing Brick At Steve Jobs's House A bizarre scene reportedly went down at the former home of the deceased Steve Jobs, and a woman stands accused of felony assault and misdemeanor vandalism involving the Palo Alto residence. According to
SF News Day Around The Bay: Girl Killed In Oakland Drive-By Had Just Performed At Friend's Funeral Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you — sign up here Mayor Ed Lee wants to create a 25-member board
Arts & Entertainment Report: It's Not (Just) You, Your Favorite Dating App Is Full Of Dudes When it comes to online dating, your average 20- or 30-something has a lot of options. Think Tinder, OKCupid, or Grindr to only name a few. The prevalence and variety of dating apps,
SF News San Francisco Gets 'F' Grade For Small Business 'Friendliness' Running a small business in the gilded city of San Francisco is a drag, or so says contractor-for-hire site Thumbtack, which just released a study asserting that because of roadblocks like "regulations," San
SF News Tech Titans Voice Support For Gov. Jerry Brown's Controversial Plan To Speed Housing Development A gaggle of powerful members of the tech sector have banded together to support an effort, spearheaded by Governor Jerry Brown, to override local planning reviews and affordable housing requirements for new developments,
SF News Orlando Shooter's Wife Grew Up In The East Bay, May Face Charges The wife of 29-year-old Omar Mateen, the man police say is responsible for killing 49 people and wounding another 53 inside a gay nightclub in Orlando, allegedly knew of her husband's plans and
SF News Facebook 'Spam King' Sentenced To Two Years In Prison By San Jose Judge A prolific Facebook spammer was sentenced yesterday to two-and-a-half years in prison by a federal judge in San Jose and ordered to pay $310,000 in restitution. The Associated Press reports that the
SF News Despite Safety Gains, Effort To Remove Mission Transit Lane Continues Despite evidence that the Mission Street transit-only lanes have drastically reduced collisions, and the dearth of evidence that they have negatively impacted merchants, Supervisor David Campos and SFMTA's Director of Transportation Ed Reiskin
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week It's Pride month — a month that San Francisco does right. But for those of you who don't want to wait for the June 26 parade, or who are otherwise just excited to get
Arts & Entertainment Video: Two Planes Landing At SFO In Beautiful Synchronicity While it won't make everything right with the world, this short video of two planes landing simultaneously at SFO is pretty cool. And it might, just for a few seconds, provide you with
SF News More Facebook Employees Commuting By Car And Some Blame Tech Shuttle Regulations With the tech shuttle pilot program a permanent fixture on San Francisco streets since February of this year, and with a corresponding decrease in protests, we might expect the number of tech employees
