SF News Day Around The Bay: Ghost Ship Families Watch Firefighter's Helmet Video Juul is trying to go the ballot-measure route to keep vape pens legal in SF, the city just bought a former McDonald's site on Bryant, and PG&E has officially been blamed for the Camp Fire by the state.
SF News 50 Years Ago Today, The Battle For Berkeley's People's Park Became 'Bloody Thursday' May 15 marks the 50th anniversary of the infamous street battle between local law enforcement and unarmed UC Berkeley students over People's Park which left one man dead and over 100 people injured.
Business & Tech Facebook and Twitter Sign On With 'Christchurch Call' To Quash Extremist Content; White House Refuses The White House is signaling to white nationalists that it wants to protect their free speech rights by refusing to sign on with multiple Western governments to a non-binding pledge to stem the tide of extremist content.
Arts & Entertainment New Season of 'Black Mirror' Featuring Miley Cyrus Tackles AR, Home Assistants The upcoming, three-episode season of Black Mirror, its fifth overall, turns its dystopian lens on augmented reality technology, Alexa-esque home assistant devices, and somehow Miley Cyrus is involved as a Hannah Montana-like pop-singer alter-ego?
SF News City Is Spending $2.5 Million On Traffic Cops To Tell You Not To Drive To The Chase Center For everyone who doesn't get the memo about how slow and annoying it will be to drive to the new Chase Center for events — and how impossible it will be to park close by — a brigade of new parking control officers is being hired to make their lives more difficult.
Arts & Entertainment Female Buddha Sculpture On Its Way To Patricia's Green In Hayes Valley A sculpture of a robot-like female Buddha called Tara Mechani, by artist Dana Albany, will soon take the spot being vacated by that cube tree sculpture in Hayes Valley.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Mayor Supports Controversial Police Raid City College may have been overpaying faculty, a proposed law to double affordable housing fees paid by office developers, and Facebook changes live-streaming rules.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Chase Center To Fill 2,500 Open Jobs BART is delaying the full rollout of the new train cars by a full year, the Board of Supes just made SF the first city to ban facial recognition technology, and the new Warriors arena has a lot of jobs to fill.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Single-Day Lineups Released, Single-Day Tickets On Sale Thursday The day-by-day lineups have dropped for Outside Lands 2019, and 21 Pilots will be the Friday headliner, with Childish Gambino headlining Saturday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Pie Says Delivery Apps Don't Play Fair, Should Face Legal Consequences The depressing "shut-in economy" that's fueled a boom in app-based delivery services for everything from your laundry to bottles of booze has put a noticeable squeeze on SF's already squeezed restaurants.
SF News Potrero Hill Shack (Or the Land Under It) Hits Market For $2.5 Million A literal shack on Potrero Hill has joined the annals of ridiculous real estate listings that make for great sensational news headlines. And yes, it's an obvious tear-down.
SF News Media Furor Grows After SFPD's Raid Of Journalist's Home Seeking Adachi Leak The SFPD compounded the drama Friday surrounding the February 22 death of Public Defender Jeff Adachi and the leaked police report about the details of his death when they raided the home of a freelance journalist in an effort to find the source of the leak.
SF News Tuesday Morning Updates: Big Rig On Fire Causes I-580 Backup In Oakland A big rig carrying cooking oil caught fire and shut down lanes of the westbound I-580 bridge connector Tuesday morning, and PG&E execs are being forced by a judge to tour Paradise and San Bruno.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Uber Driver From Oakland Arrested In Dual Kidnapping Incidents Involving Women A homicide in the Bayview, the SFPD raided the home of a journalist who's refused to say who in the department leaked Jeff Adachi's death report, and a Ghost Ship survivor breaks down in tears in court.
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony To Play Live Score Of 'Call Me By Your Name' For Special Screening Next month, as part of their ongoing Film Series, the San Francisco Symphony will be performing the score of Call Me By Your Name, live, along with a screening of the 2017 Oscar-winning film.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flour + Water Pizzeria Set To Open By Late May We have an update today on the impending opening of Flour + Water's much anticipated pizza spinoff in the former Farina Pizzeria space at 18th and Valencia.
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 10 Fun Things To Check Out This Week From an unsung Tarantino film to Maker Faire to the annual running of Bay 2 Breakers, there's plenty happening this week to distract you from the coming rain.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cook Shoppe and Blind Butcher Both Quietly Open In the Castro The new replacement restaurant in the former Chow space, called Cook Shoppe, and the new steakhouse in the former Beso space, Blind Butcher, are both open as of this past weekend.
Business & Tech Rideshare Vehicles Are Hotbeds For Germs, Moreso Than Taxis, Says Study Those dangling bottles of hand-sanitizer might be more than just a courtesy! A small-scale study comparing swabs taken from rideshare vehicles with those taken in taxis and rental cars found that the rideshare vehicles had the highest overall presence of bacteria and other germs.
SF News Stormy Weather Arrives This Week To Rudely Interrupt Spring Three consecutive storm systems are moving into the Bay Area beginning late Tuesday, and it's going to make for an unusually wet mid-May.
SF News Eastbound Bay Bridge Traffic Backed Up Into SF Following Rollover Crash If you're reverse-commuting to Oakland or otherwise need to get to the East Bay this morning, you may want to consider BART. Three of five eastbound lanes have been blocked since around 8 a.m.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: String of Shootings Rattles Richmond A pedestrian was killed by a bus in the Tenderloin on Saturday, a proposed hydroelectric plant south of Yosemite is causing controversy, and a big antitrust case against Apple can move forward, says SCOTUS.
SF News Most Tenderloin Drug Dealing Is Controlled By Two Gangs While the SFPD makes about one and a half drug arrests per day, on average, in the Tenderloin, the department still seems only be putting a small dent in the open-air drug trade that goes on in plain sight.
SF News Sunday Links: Suspect Arrested Following Carjacking/Kidnapping In Oakland Saturday night's Amber Alert about a three-year-old girl in a carjacked vehicle ended with the girl safe and a suspect arrested, and there's a BBQ'n While Black event at Lake Merritt today marking the one-year anniversary of the BBQ Becky incident.
Arts & Entertainment 'The Good Book' Explores The Bible As Complicated, Human-Made Mess Taking on a topic as enormous and fraught as the Bible, from a historical and intellectual perspective in our modern era, is an admirably ambitious feat. And in 'The Good Book,' playwrights Lisa Peterson and Dennis O'Hare make an impressive attempt.
