Arts & Entertainment Video: Adorable Baby Baboon Frolics At Oakland Zoo Oakland Zoo added a new member to its baboon troop earlier this year with the birth of Zachary. According to the zoo's Facebook page, Zachary was born April 22 and brings the troop
SF News Forbes: Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Net Worth Now Zero Dollars Elizabeth Holmes, the CEO of blood testing startup Theranos, has had a rough year. News broke in April that the company, which she founded, was under criminal investigation and an SEC probe for
SF News Clipper Policy Updated, Riders No Longer Responsible For Fares On Stolen Cards Did you know that you were responsible for charges on your Clipper card, even if you had reported it stolen? Well, until very recently, that was indeed the case. According to ABC 7,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Warm Weather Is Here To Stay 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 13-year-old girl was rescued yesterday after a wave
SF News Ethics Commission: Gascón Broke The Law In Soliciting Campaign Contributions From Staff San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón broke the law when he asked staff members to donate to his 2014 reelection campaign. So reports the Chronicle, which notes that the DA told the Ethics
SF News Effort To Recall Mayor Stalls As Department Of Elections Rejects Filing On Disputed Grounds An effort to recall Mayor Ed Lee hit a roadblock last week, as the Department of Elections told a coalition of activists working to remove the mayor from office that it will not
SF News New Airbnb Program Allows You To Report Your Awful Neighbors Airbnb just made it easier to rat out that neighbor of yours whose nonstop Airbnb hosting means a never-ending parade of drunk tourists stumbling in and out of your building. Say hello to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shuttered Due To Cockroaches, Blondie's Pizza On Powell Closes For Good Blondes at Powell is closed FOREVER. They were closed not long ago for roaches. pic.twitter.com/wAhdWVKqWo— Akit (@AgentAkit) May 29, 2016 Following the Health Department's discovery of a "severe cockroach infestation"
Arts & Entertainment Those Weaponized Baseball Bats Placed Around The City Finally Get Explained Strange: @SFPD collects at least 15 bats w/nails found chained to poles across city. Weapon or zombie prop? #abc7now pic.twitter.com/kwz2RZ9Wz9— Katie Utehs (@KatieUtehs) November 27, 2015 Remember those spiked
SF News Deputies Caught On Tape Beating Man Plead 'Not Guilty' To Beating Man The two Alameda County Sheriff's Deputies charged earlier this month for their alleged role in the November, 2015 videotaped beating of Stanislav Petrov have each pleaded "not guilty" to three felony charges. KQED
SF News Ed Lee Blames Judges, Not Criminals, For Spike In SF Property Crime In a conversation with the Chronicle's editorial board, Mayor Ed Lee expressed an interesting opinion on just who, exactly, is to blame for the fact that San Francisco now has the highest per
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Boosted Life A photo posted by Gray (@grayp) on May 26, 2016 at 3:27pm PDT What do you call a swarm of Boosted Boarders? The electric skateboards seem to be getting more and more
SF News SFPD Seeks Driver, Cyclist In Market Street Confrontation Video A video depicting a confrontation between a driver and a cyclist Wednesday morning on Market Street has caught the attention of the San Francisco Police Department. Streetsblog reports that SFPD Commander Ann Mannix
SF News SFPD Doesn't Have A Racism Problem, Says SFPD With the recent officer-involved shooting of yet another person of color providing yet another example of what some claim to be institutional racism in the San Francisco Police Department, five officers spoke with
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Bike Rides In The Bay Area Among the Bay Area's many, many charms is the diversity of amazing bicycle rides all within a short distance of wherever you happen to be. From urban rides through city parks, to grueling
SF News Video: Screaming Driver, Cyclist Nearly Come To Blows On Market Street A confrontation caught on tape yesterday morning shows a driver who had been driving in the bike lane on Market Street jumping out of his car and verbally accosting a clearly frightened cyclist
SF News Completed Mission Bay Park Fenced Off For Months Due To Red Tape A brand new Mission Bay park is surrounded by fences — locked up and off limits to the community — even though work on the park was finished months ago. The reason? Well, it's complicated,
SF News [Update] Student-Involved Shooting Shuts Down Novato High School, 3 Suspects At Large A Novato High School Student Killed, Another Injured In Shooting https://t.co/Adde6OzO1q #sanfrancisco pic.twitter.com/eI8rB9vjZ2— San Francisco News (@SFnewsnow) May 26, 2016 Novato High School is closed today as
SF News Day Around The Bay: Former Newscaster Moves Onto Her Boat 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 (now former)KGO personality, upon losing her job,
SF News Headless, Limbless Torso Washes Up Near Bay Bridge Body taken by Alameda County Coroner pic.twitter.com/KklIkz8csq— Jenna Lyons (@JennaJourno) May 25, 2016 A gruesome story is developing out of Oakland this afternoon, with reports coming in that a construction
Arts & Entertainment 'Happy Chewbacca' Viral Video Star Visits Lucasfilm, Facebook The Star Wars fan whose Facebook Live video streamed from a Kohl's parking lot made her a star visited California this week, hitting up both Lucasfilm in the Presidio and Facebook's Menlo Park
SF News Stoners Can Now Be Even Lazier With Introduction Of Keurig-Like Vaporizer Have you ever wanted to get absolutely ripped but, you know, it was just, like, too hard? Enter CannaCloud, a new Keurig-like vaporizer in development by Boston startup CannaKorp. The device employs single-use
SF News Sea Turtle Mural Defaced Yet Again In Possible Tagger Turf War A Mission District mural of ten sea turtles was defaced for the second time this week, once again raising questions about the role street art plays in a neighborhood that is rapidly changing.
SF News Some BART Employees Making Triple Their Salaries In Overtime A perceived pattern of excessive overtime pay to BART employees has a least one state senator asking questions, and has forced officials within the transit agency to launch an internal probe into the
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week With Memorial Day ahead, it's easy to daydream the day away thinking about all the cool stuff you're about to get up to. However, there's plenty of cool stuff to do before then