SF News Firm That Recruited Ousted Oakland Police Chief Charging SF $49K To Find New SFPD Chief The national search process is beginning for a new chief of police for San Francisco, following a season of high tension and high drama on both sides of the bay for both the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Israel Calls Out Facebook As A 'Monster' In Fight Against Terror According to one metric on one apartment listing site, SF one-bedrooms are back to being a tiny bit cheaper than one-bedrooms in New York for the first time in over a year. [Curbed]
Arts & Entertainment Furry Community Responds To Possible Closing Of The Stud, Their Monthly Gathering Place Every second Saturday for a number of years now has been Frolic, the Bay Area furry community's regular monthly dance party hosted at The Stud. It's one of many community's worried by the
SF News Hayward City Workers Accidentally Destroy Longtime Geo-Pilgrimage Site On Hayward Fault A curb that sits directly atop one section of the Hayward Fault in the East Bay, well known to earthquake science nerds and the local geological community since the 1970's but apparently not
SF News Bohemian Grove Employees Get $7 Million In Wage Theft Settlement Valets at Bohemian Grove, the ultra-elite private resort in the redwoods of Monte Rio owned by the Bohemian Club, just won a significant settlement from the 144-year-old private gentlemen's club. As the Chronicle
SF News Kid Orders Custom Trump T-Shirt At Haight Shop And Employees Leave Little Message For Him Inside A 14-year-old Trump supporter recently went into Bang-On, the custom t-shirt shop in the Upper Haight, asking that they make him a Trump shirt, simple black with yellow lettering. Several employees apparently snickered
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two San Jose Men Win First And Second Place In Hot Dog Eating Competition, Again San Jose is home to two of the nation's most decorated competitive eaters, and the two went stomach to stomach once again at Coney Island's annual July Fourth hot dog eating contest, with
SF News Driver In Fatal Tesla Crash Posted YouTube Videos Of Himself Testing Auto-Pilot Feature Joshua Brown, the 40-year-old Ohio man who was killed in May while his Tesla Model S was in auto-pilot mode, was, like many Tesla owners, a technology enthusiast who enjoyed testing the limits
SF News UC Berkeley Student Was Among 20 Killed In Bangladesh Shooting 19-year-old Indian national Tarishi Jain, a student at UC Berkeley who had just finished her sophomore year at the school, was one of the dead in a brutal mass shooting and hostage situation
SF News Did Prince Make An Anonymous $34 Million Donation To Help Oakland Before He Died? A very large donation to the San Francisco Foundation last summer from a donor who wished to remain anonymous may have come from Prince, or so surmises Tamara Palmer writing for SF Sounds.
SF News Gov. Brown Signs Six Gun Reform Bills Into Law Ahead Of Holiday California lawmakers delivered a host of firearm control bills to Governor Jerry Brown's desk Thursday, 11 in all, whichamount to some of the most sweeping legislation limiting gun sales and banning certain types
SF News Crime On The Decline In 2016, Says SFPD Opera-goer muggings aside, crime is actually down this year according to new stats from the SFPD. As the Examiner reports, new data from May shows a downward trend in the frequency of robberies,
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Millennial Hippie Commune Of Your Worst Nightmares Fire dancing! Communal dinners! People cutting each others' hair and frolicking together on the beach! Chateau Ubuntu has it all. This 38-person (!), 10-bedroom house near Alamo Square rents spots for $650 to $1,
SF News How The Closure Of Goodwill Impacts The Homeless, And More Stories From The SF Homeless Project As the week winds down, we have another wave of pieces from the SF Homeless Project, covering a variety of subjects. Here are some highlights: KRON 4 has a piece about family homelessness,
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: $2400 For Crap House In El Cerrito Yay! Even parts of the East Bay that can't even be called hip are trying to charge absurd prices for terrible apartments. A tipster called our attention to an ad, since deleted, for
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Alan Cumming Sings At The Castro We told you about this when it was announced, but tonight's the night that actor Alan Cumming brings his one-man cabaret act, Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs, to the Castro Theater, and there
SF News Stanley Roberts Shames Tour Buses That Still Circle Alamo Square A ban on tour busses clogging the four streets that ring Alamo Square took effect in 2013, however that hasn't stopped some operators of smaller but still illegal short busses from taking people
Arts & Entertainment R-Rated <i>Sausage Party</i> Trailer Screens Before <i>Finding Dory</i> And Concord Parents Flip Out This is pretty funny, at least if you're a non-parent: There's a totally dark and adult-themed animated feature coming out called Sausage Party, the trailer for which is above, and it's a stoner-esque
SF News Day Around The Bay: #HeterosexualPrideDay Can Go Eff Itself More from the SF Homeless Project: A look at how the issue of homelessness has been addressed by the local business community, and how it impacts local business (especially tourism) via the [SF
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New 'Fast Fine Dining' Spot Corridor Debuts On Van Ness The guys from Hi Neighbor Restaurant Group (Stones Throw, Trestle) just opened their latest project in the base of the 100 Van Ness tower on Tuesday evening, and it's called Corridor. Kind of
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Sells Out Yet Again, And Fred Armisen Joins The Comedy Lineup For the sixth straight year, Outside Lands has sold out, this time ahead of the July timeframe when all the VIP and general admission tickets generally disappear and this shouldn't be a surprise
SF News Hillary Clinton Hosts Fundraising Luncheon In SF With Jamie Lee Curtis Today Hillary Clinton lands back in SF Wednesday for a fundraising luncheon co-hosted by actress and yogurt shill Jamie Lee Curtis and Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards. Perhaps because of the participation of the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Homicide Near San Jose State Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Police are investigating the shooting of two men, one
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week There's barely a breather between Pride weekend and the Fourth of July holiday, which for some is hopefully a four-day situation. If you're staying in town and looking for reasons to leave the
SF News North Beach Tenant With Rent Hiked To $8000 Gets Help From Peskin Due to the world's obsession with San Francisco and its crazy rents, a story about one North Beach tenant's rent hike from $1,800 to $8,000 for a rent-controlled one-bedroom has made
