SF News Day Around The Bay: SoCal Man Poses As Uber Driver, Sexually Assaults Woman Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you — sign up here. The New York Times got into the on-the-ground studies
SF News Lucasfilm Lawsuit Forces Name Change for 'Lightsaber Battles' There will be no more "Lightsaber Battles" in San Francisco or anywhere else for that matter, and no, not because the last time the unpermitted event came to San Fransisco in December it
SF News Video: Guy Free-Climbs SFMOMA Facade People just can't wait for our neighbor, @sfmoma to re-open. - John, Visual Arts A video posted by YBCA (@ybca) on Apr 11, 2016 at 1:26pm PDT Man, people are really excited
SF News Creep Impersonating SFPD Calls Residents, Claims Sexting Investigation The Department of Emergency Management is warning San Francisco residents of a person (or persons) claiming to be an officer with the SFPD calling and texting unsuspecting members of the public and telling
SF News Marchers Disrupt Sunday Streets To Protest SFPD Shooting Of Luis Gongora A group of fifty of so individuals took to the street on Sunday to protest last Thursday's SFPD shooting death of homeless man Luis Gongora. Gathering at 18th and Dolores Street, the group
SF News Whomp Whomp: Wooden Box 'Sleeping Pods' Are Illegal, Fire Hazard Outer Sunset resident Peter Berkowitz, 25, had a dream. That dream, to live in a tiny wooden box ("pod") and perhaps sell versions of his human dog crate to others, at first appeared
SF News POTUS Just Landed At SFO, Get Ready For Snarled Traffic Malia accompanying her dad for his SF visit. pic.twitter.com/AhSOOIGk4O— Kimberly Veklerov (@KVeklerov) April 8, 2016 President of the United States of America Barack Obama just landed at SFO for a
SF News Supervisors At Odds Over Penalizing Muni Riders Paying Cash A proposed SFMTA budget that would penalize people who use cash to purchase Muni tickets with a 25-cent surcharge has run into trouble, with two supervisors coming out in opposition, and one specifically
SF News First Video Surfaces Of SFPD Firing On Homeless Man Within 30 Seconds Of Exiting Squad Cars Partial video of yesterday's shooting has emerged, depicting police firing multiple shots within 30 seconds of the first officer on scene's exit of his squad car. The surveillance video was provided anonymously to
SF News Protesters March On Mission Station As Additional Witnesses Dispute SFPD Shooting Death Claims Protesters marched throughout the Mission last night in protest of yesterday's SFPD shooting death of a homeless man currently only identified as "Jose." While officers claim that Jose charged at them with a
SF News Stockton Man Defecates On Another Man's Yard, Brutal Double Stabbing Follows In a bizarre story coming out of our neighbor to the east, it appears that a Stockton man defecated in another man's yard this past Sunday, and this led to a foot chase,
SF News Weather Report: Weekend Rain Expected To Wash Away Your Dreams Of Summer Yesterday's taste of summer sure was sweet, wasn't it? Well, hopefully you made the best of it, because clouds are expected to roll in this weekend and drizzle on your personal parade. The
SF News BART Forced To Scrounge For Replacement Parts On eBay As we all know, BART's fleet is old. However, until the remaining 774 new cars are delivered and brought into service over the next five years, we all just have to make do
SF News [Update] Homeless Man Shot By SFPD Has Died, Witnesses Dispute Police Claims #mymission amidst wealth. Crazy homeless people get shot by cops right on my block A photo posted by Laura (@lsydell) on Apr 7, 2016 at 10:28am PDT Scroll to the bottom of
SF News Muni Proposes Tiered Pricing System That Penalizes Cash With 25-Cent Surcharge Yesterday evening the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency adopted a new budget that, if approved by the Board of Supervisors, will penalize commuters who purchase tickets the old fashioned way with good ol'
SF News CA Lawmaker Proposes Statewide Use Of Roadside Marijuana And Opiate Test Driving while stoned could soon become a much trickier proposition if one California state lawmaker has his way. Republican Sen. Bob Huff of San Dimas (insert Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure joke) yesterday
SF News Photos: First Look Inside That New BART Car, Bike Racks And All It's here. The first of 775 new train cars has arrived in the Bay Area. #BetterBART #FleetOfTheFuture pic.twitter.com/a6AjoqusIT— SFBART (@SFBART) April 6, 2016 After a thankfully uneventful journey across these
SF News Apple Shuttle Catches Fire During Morning Commute, Backs Up I-280 Traffic Advisory: Bus fire blocks multiple southbound lanes on I-280 at Sand Hill Road pic.twitter.com/qeCB2vYtbj— Palo Alto Weekly (@paloaltoweekly) April 6, 2016 Today started off hot for 15 southbound commuters,
SF News Day Around The Bay: 'New Homes In San Francisco From The Low $1,000,000s' "New Homes in San Francisco, from the low $1,000,000s"#SF #gentrification pic.twitter.com/B2Xe5AGZo4— Joe Fitz Rodriguez (@FitzTheReporter) April 2, 2016 Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
SF News [Update] Suspects In Hunter Pence Scooter Theft Arrested, Ride Returned We were collectively aghast yesterday at the news that a scooter donated by Giants right fielder Hunter Pence had been stolen sometime Saturday night (or early Sunday morning) from the Make-a-Wish Foundation's SF
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Danny Scheie In 'House Tour' At Z Space This, dear readers, is not a review. Rather, it is an exhortation: Go see Z Space's new comedy by playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb starring the arrestingly funny Danny Scheie. Titled A House Tour
SF News Meet 'Ponch,' The Chihuahua Involved In Sunday's Bay Bridge Police Pursuit Ponch is doing well this morning @CHPSanFrancisco @ErikEstrada but he would love to see his family. #BayBridgeDog pic.twitter.com/t8rGQosHfK— SF Animal Care (@SFACC) April 4, 2016 The incredibly adorable Chihuahua mix
SF News Facebook Using Artificial Intelligence To Add Photo Captions For The Visually Impaired Facebook yesterday announced a new service designed to assist the millions of visually impaired people who use one of its many products on a daily basis. Called automatic alternative text, according to the
SF News Feds Tell Local Police They're Happy To Help Unlock iPhones Well that didn't take long. Despite claiming for weeks that its efforts to break the encryption on San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's work iPhone 5C was only about that one phone, now that
Arts & Entertainment Look For Those Giant Inflatable Rabbits At Civic Center Starting Today #Intrude @CivicCenterPlaza @#.@SFAC .@mayoredlee .@sfrecpark .@sfoewd pic.twitter.com/NdBwkOMvIi— SF Arts Commission (@SFAC) April 4, 2016 The rabbits are finally here, and they're coming for you, and you, and you. Well, sort
