SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soylent Says Algae To Blame For Customers' Extreme Vomiting, Diarrhea Meal-replacement company Soylent claims to have identified the culprit in a series of food poisonings that customers say left them vomiting and defecating for hours. Bloomberg reports that the company alleges a form
SF News If Prop 64 Passes You Can Start Legally Smoking Weed Right Away, But Employers Can Still Fire You For It Voters heading to the polls tomorrow face a lengthy ballot and a host of pressing choices on any number of important issues. Honestly, it's enough to stress out even the most mellow of
SF News Teenager Found Dead At Sonoma State Was Stabbed Multiple Times In Possible Random Attack The body of 18-year-old Kirk Kimberly was discovered buried last week in a shallow grave on Sonoma State University campus, and officials now say his death could have been the result of a
SF News Vine Might Live On After All As Twitter Looks To Make A Deal Like an 11th hour call from the Governor, video-looping service Vine may have just received a last-minute stay of execution. TechCrunch reports that parent company Twitter is currently entertaining numerous offers and term
SF News Cole Valley Home Of Rolling Stone's First Photographer Is For Sale Although they might no longer recognize it if they were still with us, famous rock icons like Janis Joplin and Jerry Garcia were at one time very familiar with a house now for
SF News Russian VC Buys North Beach Church For $7M, Plans 'Innovation Center' A church in North Beach is set for a very modern rebirth following its purchase by a Russian venture capitalist. Instead of a christian place of worship, as Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
SF News Photo Du Jour: That's A Lot Of Balloons A photo posted by Jordan Ferney (@ohhappyday) on Nov 3, 2016 at 4:39pm PDT Mission Street ranks a little higher on the festive scale today thanks to a 5,000 balloon art
SF News Alleged Elon Musk Impersonator Wants Tesla Lawsuit Dismissed A man who allegedly impersonated Elon Musk says a Tesla lawsuit against him should be dismissed because the impersonation was just too "goofy" to be taken seriously. The Chronicle reports that Todd Katz,
SF News 81-Year-Old Retired Oakland Police Captain To Be Charged In Celeste Guap Sex Scandal Retired 81yo @oaklandpoliceca capt charged by @ContraCostaDA w/soliciting Jasmine Abuslin, but no charges against any other cops 12p @KTVU pic.twitter.com/QPg28MtvOC— Henry K. Lee (@henrykleeKTVU) November 4, 2016 The Contra
SF News BREAKING: Puppy Cafe Proposed For San Francisco A rare ray of sunshine breaks through the election haze today with the news that San Francisco could soon have its very own puppy cafe. Yes, you read that correctly: A puppy cafe.
SF News Sen. Al Franken Takes Uber And Lyft To Task Over Bias Report Following up on a National Bureau of Economic Research report released last month which found that Uber and Lyft drivers in Seattle and Boston discriminated against passengers with African American-sounding names, Senator Al
SF News Housing Protesters Shut Down Mission Street Thursday @jrivanob Some 150 people here at 22nd and Mission listening to poetry on gentrification, eviction pic.twitter.com/jY5I5F1CDu— Joe Rivano Barros (@jrivanob) November 4, 2016 Traffic came to a halt last night
SF News Day Around The Bay: Body Found On Sonoma State Campus Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Human remains were found in a shallow grave in
Arts & Entertainment An 'Escape Alcatraz' Ride Just Opened At Fisherman's Wharf There *might* be a new reason for locals and native San Franciscans to go to Fisherman's Wharf, and it's an "Escape Alcatraz" amusement ride that does not have anything to do with the
SF News Cartoon Art Museum Finds A New Home Following Displacement The Executive Director of the Cartoon Art Museum has some good news for patrons of the cartoon arts. As she announced last week, her museum has found a new home for its collection
SF News Outside Spending In This Year's Supervisor Races Has Reached Historic Levels This year's presidential campaign isn't the only one flaunting historical precedent. Right here on the local level, the competition for seats on the Board of Supervisors has drawn in huge amounts of outside
SF News Traffic Collisions Account For Half Of All Injuries Treated At SF General In what will likely come as a surprise to even the most jaded of San Francisco's pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers, we learn via a Department of Public Heath report that half of all
SF News Flywheel Taxi (Née DeSoto) Sues Uber For Predatory Pricing Uber is on the receiving end of another lawsuit this week, and this time it's not from the ride-hail company's "driver-partners". Rather, according to the Chronicle, in a lawsuit filed yesterday in federal
SF News Interim Police Chief Allegedly Threatened Staff With Internal Investigation Following Press Leaks Apparently upset that details from a Department of Justice review of the SFPD had been leaked to the press ahead of its official release date, interim SFPD Chief Toney Chaplin allegedly told his
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Halloween celebrations have come to a close, and, with your head still likely pounding from one too many orange Jello shots, you may be considering taking it easy this week. However, with great
SF News The 510 Area Code Is Running Out Of Numbers, So Officials Are Going To Create A New One Snapping up a fresh new number with a 510 area code will soon be a thing of the past, as the California Public Utilities Commission just announced that all available numbers with the
SF News Adult Performers To Speak Out Against 'Condoms In Porn' Proposition Today At Women's Building A group of adult performers, public health advocates, and elected officials plan to join forces today in front of the San Francisco Women's Building in opposition to Proposition 60. The ballot measure, which
SF News 12 Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters Arrested At FiDi Citibank Happening Right now: @Citibank Shut Down in downtown Frisco for funding #DAPL@ImmortalTech @EQUIPTO @APTPaction @EastBayExpress pic.twitter.com/22JehZjxaY— Raw-G (Gina Madrid) (@RawwG) October 31, 2016 Police arrested 12 protesters yesterday morning
SF News Day Around The Bay: 27-Foot-Tall Waves Predicted Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. In light of the Jasmine Absulin (a.k.a
SF News Study: Uber Drivers Are More Likely To Cancel Your Ride If You're Black An Uber driver is twice as likely to cancel a ride if the passenger requesting it has a black-sounding name, a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds. The study,
