SF News UC, Cal State & Other Colleges Tell Undocumented Students Abroad To Come Home Before Inauguration University officials around the country, including those in California, are urging students living abroad who have DACA residency status as the children of immigrants that they should return to the U.S. before
SF News [Update] Muni Hacked For 100 Bitcoin, Questions Arise About What Data Was Compromised The hacker responsible for all those free Muni rides over the weekend is asking for 100 bitcoin (about $73,000) in exchange for unlocking the affected Muni computers, as the Examiner found out
SF News Black Friday Shopper Fatally Shot In Reno Over Parking Spot; Brawl Breaks Out At Modesto Mall The horror show of Black Friday is over, and of course brawls broke out in various parts of the country as they always do. But things turned deadly Thanksgiving night outside a Reno
SF News Day Around The Bay: Brace For More Rain Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Dungeness crab season north of Point Reyes and up
SF News Artist Arrested In Bayview Vandalism Involving Swastika Apologizes, Says He Was Drunk An incident of what appeared to be racist graffiti on a business in the Bayview, complete with a swastika and charges of a hate crime, turns out to have been just the misguided
SF News Reddit CEO Admits To Editing Comments In Trump-Related Subreddit Stoking the flames of conservative rage, conspiracy theorist exasperation, and Trump supporter ire, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman admitted Thursday to secretly editing a series of comments attacking him in the r/the_donald
SF News Day Around The Bay: Nancy Pelosi, Ed Lee Chip In At Meal For Needy Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Here's a video in which the creator of eight-year-old
Arts & Entertainment This Is Just A Video Of A Hamster Enjoying A Tiny Thanksgiving Feast Videos of hamsters enjoying human-looking meals are nothing new to YouTube, but this particular hamster, Matilda, is somewhat new to the platform, and actually has a whole channel devoted to her and hamster
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Have you emerged yet from your darkened bedroom, blinds drawn, squinting into the November light and coming to terms with the new (hopefully temporary) world order? Oh good. I'm still hiding in mine.
Arts & Entertainment Sadly, David Byrne's Musical About Imelda Marcos Won't Be Coming to ACT After All Sad news today for theater fans: ACT announced that they've had to cancel the planned June production of Here Lies Love, the acclaimed musical by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim that tells the
Arts & Entertainment Watch Whoopi Goldberg, Guy Pearce, Rosie O'Donnell And More In 'When We Rise' Trailer The ABC miniseries event about the LGBTQ rights movement, When We Rise, shot earlier this year in San Francisco and elsewhere, is set for a February premiere, and the network just released the
SF News #CalExit (Sadly) Can't Really Happen, But Group Files Petition For It Anyway You've probably had a few of these conversations in the last week in which at least one Californian says, referring to states that went red this election, "Well, we could just stop sending
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley's Shotgun Players Enter Full Repertory Cycle, With New Plays Each Night Of The Week Shotgun Players opened their ambitious 25th anniversary season this spring with a decidedly ambitious approach to Hamlet seven actors have their names randomly drawn each night, each having memorized most of the show's
SF News 6.9 Magnitude Offshore Earthquake In Japan Triggers Tsunami Warning For Fukushima An early morning earthquake struck off the Japanese coast Monday near Honshu triggering a tsunami warning for Fukushima prefecture, the same place that suffered devastating tsunami damage in the March 2011 earthquake there.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Is SF's Golden Age Of Restaurants Seeing Its Sunset? As 2016 comes to a close, a few things are coming into focus about what the year taught the local restaurant industry. Fixed-price menus are on the rise at the same time as
SF News NPR Takes Dive Into Facebook's Content Management Process, Says It's 'Set Up To Fail' Late Friday, Mark Zuckerberg sought to quell the angst about Facebook losing the election for Hillary Clinton by posting a pledge to try harder, as a company, to combat the proliferation of fake
Arts & Entertainment SF Zoo Gets Three Reindeer Visiting For The Holidays Belle, Holly, and Peppermint, three reindeer, have arrived to add some holiday cheer to the San Francisco Zoo, where they will be hanging out on the Playfield Lawn every day through the new
Arts & Entertainment All About 'I'm Not Fascinating,' A Quirky Relic Of 1990's San Francisco I'm Not Fascinating—The Movie! The Trailer from danny plotnick on Vimeo. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first screening of I'm Not Fascinating, a 1996 film centered on the arguably
SF News Zuckerberg Walks Back His Dismissal Of Fake News Problem, Says Facebook Will Take Steps To Combat Bulls**t Just a week ago, Mark Zuckerberg was calling it a "crazy idea" that a proliferation of fake news stories on Facebook, most of them favoring a conservative bias, helped Donald Trump win the
SF News Man Arrested In Bayview For Spraying Racist Graffiti The nation's rash of emboldened racism continues with an incident Thursday evening in the Bayview. The SFPD sent out a release regarding the arrest of and charges against 33-year-old David Chacon of San
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bernal Heights Fire Possibly Caused By Cigarette UPDATE: Employee of nearby Good Frikin Chicken tells SF Examiner he heard "explosion" when fire started pic.twitter.com/u0sP0uD1aP— SF Examiner (@sfexaminer) June 18, 2016 Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and
SF News Months Later, Apple Launches Repair Program For iPhone 'Touch Disease' Remember the "touch disease" phenomenon among iPhone 6 Pluses that came to light, ever so coincidentally, right around the time of the iPhone 7 launch? That was back in late August, and at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Boudin Blanc At Camino Chef Russell Moore has something in his repertoire that has dogged him for years now precisely because it so delicious. It's called boudin blanc, and if you're unfamiliar with this rich and much
SF News The Election of Donald Trump Has Caused A Spike In Crisis Hotline Use In SF Following the Democalypse of last week, some parts of the country i.e. every city are going through major anxiety crises and deep depressions while other parts of the country basically everywhere that
SF News Video: Black Market Weed Growers Suffer As Medical Growers Go Corporate With Legalization In the wake of the passage of Prop 64 last week, Vice News has done a piece titled "A Tale of Two Growers," contrasting the fates of Steve DeAngelo, the hugely successful founder
