SF News Homelessness Goes Down Nationwide, Rises On West Coast A new federal point-in-time census of the US homeless population, taken in January 2016 by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), found that across the nation even in New York City
SF News SF Public Defender's Office Proposes $5 Million Fund To Fight Deportation Cases Under Trump For the estimated 30,000 undocumented immigrants living in San Francisco, life could get a whole lot more difficult under a Trump Administration if the President-Elect sticks to his promise to ramp up
SF News Day Around The Bay: Airbnb Launches Trips, Offering In-Depth Travel Guides And Experiences Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Airbnb today announced the launch of Trips, one of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Los Angeles Will Also Get A Tartine Manufactory Downtown, Three Times The Size Of Bay Area Flagship Though the location still hasn't been confirmed, Eater LA has news that SF's beloved Tartine Bakery, which has been planning an LA expansion for the past two years, will be opening a huge
Arts & Entertainment The 9 Coolest Private Clubs In The Bay Area Perhaps this isn't the most ideal moment to be talking about frivolous endeavors, and spending one's money on anything besides the revolution. But if you've got the means and you're of a mind
SF News [Update] Supposed Escape Tunnel Under Historic Market Street Gay Bars Fails To Delay Large Development We learned last month of a skirmish occurring as a massive condo and hotel development at 950 Market Street is heading for its final approvals, due to the presence of several buildings that
SF News San Jose Teacher Tells Student Who Sat Through National Anthem He Could Be Deported Under Trump A PE teacher at Oak Grove High School in San Jose is currently on leave and could face disciplinary action after she allegedly made a deeply ignorant and offensive remark to a student
SF News Non-Muslim Woman With Lupus Attacked In Fremont For Wearing Headscarf; Taiwanese Church Vandalized Milpitas woman is apparent victim of hate crime while hiking #Mission Peak in #Fremont. Her story 5pm @kron4news pic.twitter.com/5352nRMNzE— @Rob Fladeboe kron4 (@KRON4RFladeboe) November 17, 2016 The disturbing stories continue
SF News Mayor Lee Proposes Limits On Pot Grows In Industrial Spaces Looking ahead to the full, free-wheeling retail marketplace for recreational marijuana that will be hitting California in just over a year, Mayor Ed Lee introduced legislation Tuesday that would require pot growers to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Eat Some Delicious Dungeness Crab As Crab Season Officially Kicks Off You may have missed or forgotten the news because of something or other going on in the world, but Dungeness crab season kicked off Tuesday for commercial fisherman, meaning that fresh, delectable crabs
SF News Civil Claim Filed Against Both The City And Transbay Terminal Developer In Millennium Tower Morass Another week, another legal filing regarding the Leaning Tower of San Francisco, a.k.a. Millennium Tower which has also sunk into the ground a reportedly unexpected sixteen inches since it was completed
SF News SF Teachers Circulate Lesson Plan Discussing Trump And His Supporters As Racist And Sexist The latest salvo against the President-Elect within our San Francisco bubble: A post-election newsletter to public school teachers from the United Educators of San Francisco includes an optional lesson plan referring to Donald
SF News Day Around The Bay: Infamous SF Landlady Faces Trial Over Evictions, Alleged Harassment Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Notorious SF landlady Anne Kihagi, who owns 13 rent-controlled
Arts & Entertainment Janis Joplin Biopic In The Works With Michelle Williams To Star A Janis Joplin biopic that's been several years in the making now has a new celebrity signed on to star, Michelle Williams. As E! News reports, the film, based on the book Love,
Arts & Entertainment Apple Reportedly Looking To Kill It Where Google Couldn't With iPhone-Connected Glasses Can Apple succeed where Google couldn't in bringing a wearable face computer to market? Bloomberg reported Monday that while this is "still in an exploration phase," sources within or close to Apple say
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Pescatarian-Friendly Ramen Spot Hinodeya Coming Straight From Japan to SF's Japantown Another ramen import from Japan, Hinodeya Ramen, is opening an American outpost here in San Francisco, and that is good news for ramen connoisseurs. As Hoodline tells us, the man behind the restaurant,
Arts & Entertainment 25th Annual Noisepop Festival Lineup Includes Ty Segall, Vince Staples, Radio Dept., And More Noisepop, SF's premiere indie music and arts fest, rings in 25 years this year, and in February will once again bring us eleven days of both established and up and coming music acts,
SF News Sex Workers Bring Petition To Governor Brown To Decriminalize Prostitution Erotic Service Providers Union delivers petition to gov with 24K signatures in support of decriminalizing prostitution. #prostitutenation pic.twitter.com/5xr1HFWzX6— Jazmine Ulloa (@jazmineulloa) November 15, 2016 Citing the fact that Governor Jerry
SF News Latina Woman Victim Of Alleged Hate Attack While Watching Children Near Fort Mason A Latina woman working as a nanny in SF's Marina district was physically and verbally attacked Monday in a hate crime at Fort Mason’s Great Meadow. As CBS 5 reports, the incident
SF News California Senator Barbara Boxer Takes Ceremonial Stab At Abolishing The Electoral College Though it's purely a gesture at this point in a Republican-led, lame duck Congress, retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer today filed legislation to abolish the Electoral College system. It's something that has been discussed
Arts & Entertainment Couple's Pregnancy Photoshoot Crashed By Nudist On Baker Beach Nude sunbather crashes pregnancy photoshoot on San Francisco beach 😂 https://t.co/utNabxhyCs pic.twitter.com/FGI1ZGITo0— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) November 15, 2016 A couple looking to commemorate being happily pregnant or
SF News Twitter Unveils New Ways To Mute The Racist Trolls Who Ruined Twitter Though they admit they can't keep up with the flood of hatefulness and abuse that flows from a large swath of their user base especially the anonymous ones! Twitter announced Tuesday that they
SF News Early Morning Dakota Pipeline Protest Blocks Traffic In Civic Center, Mid-Market Marking a nationwide day of action to keep attention on the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline project, hundreds of protesters gathered outside City Hall early Tuesday and marched down Market Street calling
SF News Hate Crimes, Though Now Possibly On The Rise In The Bay Area, Remained Low Here In 2015 As more anecdotal and confirmed reports of hate crimes and hate speech arise in the local media and on your Facebook feeds in the wake of last week's election the assumption being that
SF News Sheriff's Deputy Shot And Killed Execution-Style In Stanislaus County A 20-year veteran of law enforcement in the Central Valley was shot and killed Sunday at point-blank range in what authorities are calling an execution. Stanislaus County Sheriff's Deputy Dennis Wallace was responding
