Arts & Entertainment Justice To Headline Massive New Year's Eve Concert At The Armory Roughly 4,000 attendees are getting ready to do the D.A.N.C.E. at the Armory Drill Court this New Year's Eve, as the 40,000-square-foot space is preparing to host
SF News Mayor Considering Legal Action As Self-Driving Ubers Continue To Roam SF Streets With Uber executives vowing to keep their self-driving cars on San Francisco streets in the face of opposition from both local and state officials, Mayor Ed Lee is exploring the possibility of taking
SF News Woman Trapped Under Muni Bus In Critical Condition 🚨⚠️️: @fresconews is #onthescene of an incident involving a @sfmta_muni bus. Crime tape is up. Buses are impacted near Market & 3rd. pic.twitter.com/qixYN5F0TB— Kyle Chak (@KyleSChak) December 20, 2016 Market
SF News Mayor Lee Picks Outsider For New SFPD Chief, Veteran LAPD Cop William Scott Mayor Ed Lee has chosen the next San Francisco Police Chief, and, to the surprise of many, the job will not go to current interim Chief Toney Chaplin. Instead, the Chronicle reports that
SF News Day Around The Bay: Elon Musk's Latest And Greatest Idea Is A Joke Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. According to tax documents, the non-profit Burning Man Project
SF News Newly Appointed Rec And Parks Commissioner Resigns Days After Being Sworn In Jason Chan's time as a commissioner with the Rec and Parks Department was short and not particularly sweet. The Chronicle reports that the former Ed Lee campaign worker resigned from his post mere
SF News Google-Founded Self-Driving Car Company Waymo Unveils Vehicles, Eyes 2017 Deployment As Uber continued to argue with state regulators last week over its self-driving cars on San Francisco streets, another manufacturer of autonomous vehicles rolled onto the scene. Executives with Waymo, a company which
Arts & Entertainment DNA Lounge Facing Imminent Closure As Owner Asks For More Patrons DNA Lounge is hemorrhaging cash, and is on the verge of closing its doors for good. So writes the owner of the SoMa nightclub, Jamie Zawinski, in a lengthy blog post published this
SF News Twitter To Release Vine Camera App In Apparent Effort To Please No One When Twitter announced in October that it was shutting down Vine, fans of the six-second video-looping service lamented the forthcoming loss and various potential buyers — including Pornhub — came out of the woodwork. While
SF News SFPD Confiscating Buskers' Instruments Ahead Of Holiday Shopping Rush Counting on some nice chunks of change from holiday shopping foot traffic, buskers set up in force around Union Square this time of year playing everything from drum kits, to trumpets, to keyboards
SF News Fancy SoMa Condo Reproduces Local Artist's Work Without Permission Even if you don't know his name, you've likely seen his work. Jeremy Novy's stencils of spotted koi fish dot San Francisco sidewalks, and the queer artist's work has become synonymous with SF's
Arts & Entertainment Video: Heartbreaking Tribute To The 36 Artists Who Perished In Ghost Ship Fire As friends, family, and the community at large continue to mourn those who perished in the December 2 Ghost Ship fire, KQED Arts has released a video honoring the dead. The video consists
SF News Update: Ten Hospitalized After Driver Crashes Car Into Chinatown Bus Stop Major accident in Chinatown where a car crashed into a bus stop, multiple injuries pic.twitter.com/msj4mnNvba— Jessica Christian (@jachristian) December 16, 2016 Ten people are injured, with five suffering "major injuries,
SF News Tech Executives Yuck It Up At Private Trump Tower Meeting As initial photos emerged from Wednesday's gathering of the tech elite at Trump Tower in New York City, the most apparent reaction from those gathered appeared to be one of bewildered frustration. However,
SF News Uber Ignores Mayor Lee's Demand That It Cease Unpermitted Self-Driving Ride Service Mayor Ed Lee stepped into the self-driving fray yesterday, issuing a statement demanding that Uber cease picking up passengers in the company's autonomous Volvo SUVs immediately. As the Chronicle reports, the Mayor's words
SF News Facebook Asks Users To Tell It What Is And Is Not 'Fake News' Did Facebook and so-called "fake news" give us president-elect Donald Trump? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn't think so, and called any suggestion to the contrary "a pretty crazy idea." However, facing a chorus
SF News Video: Mountain Lion Kills Deer On Hillsborough Home's Porch Like many wealthy Peninsula suburbs, Hillsborough, known for its giant homes and manicured lawns, has its fair share of wildlife, from squirrels to coyotes — providing a little taste of nature in a place
SF News Rainpocalypse 2016: Embarcadero Under Water Again The waves are overflowing onto the street along the Embarcadero in #SF pic.twitter.com/3jkbcObQRN— Sarah Ravani (@SarRavani) December 15, 2016 It's been two years since the last rainpocalypse, and just like
SF News Kamala Harris Reverses Position For Second Time, Will Not Support Challenge To San Francisco's Cash-Bail System Marking the second reversal on the matter in under a week, outgoing California Attorney General (and Senator-elect) Kamala Harris said yesterday that she will not, in fact, support a challenge to San Francisco's
SF News Uber Blames Its Drivers As More Reports Of Self-Driving Cars Running Red Lights Surface Uber's San Francisco self-driving car launch had a rocky first day. First, the California DMV told the company that, despite its protestations to the contrary, it still needed to acquire permits to operate
SF News Day Around The Bay: Tech Leaders Look Ready To Vomit During Trump Summit Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Did you know there are a bunch of ships
SF News State Regulators Tell Uber It Must Immediately Stop Self-Driving Car Program Uber's self-driving car program, launched this morning in San Francisco, is experiencing a bit of whiplash. According to the Associated Press, California state regulators just announced that Uber must cease picking up passengers
SF News Elon Musk And Travis Kalanick Just Joined Trump's Advisory Team It looks like Facebook board member Peter Thiel will now have some company in his late-night cram sessions with President-elect Donald Trump. The Washington Post reports that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Tesla
SF News Supervisors Vote To Install Permanent Alex Nieto Memorial On Bernal Hill A photo posted by @tootsieroll415 on Jun 16, 2016 at 5:30pm PDT The arrangement of rocks, flowers, and photographs that has sat beside Bernal Hill for the past two years in memory
SF News Uber Says 'FU' To DMV, Rolls Out Self-Driving Cars Without Approval Uber's self-driving cars are now picking up passengers on the streets of San Francisco. Starting today, the company will make its autonomous vehicles available to customers hailing an UberX ride through the app.
