SF News Sex Worker At Center Of Oakland Police Scandal Reveals How And Why She Went Public; Three SFPD Officers Involved Too Celeste Guap, the 18-year-old Oakland prostitute who had sex with over a dozen OPD officers as well as a half dozen in the Richmond PD, and allegedly three in the SFPD, sat down
SF News ISIS Throws Some Footage Of San Francisco And Las Vegas In New Threat Video I guess some ISIS supporters are ignoring credible reports that Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was probably gay and mentally ill and wasn't really religious at all and are trying to claim him as
Arts & Entertainment Video: American Flag Burned At Trans March, Breitbart Predictably Freaks A couple of participants in Friday's Trans March in San Francisco chose to express their political defiance, and/or their disgust with the U.S. government, by burning an American flag and videotaping
SF News Why San Francisco's Homeless Became A Problem In 1982 As part of the SF Homeless Project today we have two good retrospective pieces with archival footage from the early 1980's in San Francisco that trace the sudden visibility of hundreds (or thousands)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oro Shutters After Nine Months On Mint Plaza In yet another abrupt and fairly high-profile closure, Oro, the second restaurant project of Commonwealth chef-partner Jason Fox, served its last dinner Saturday night. As Fox tells Inside Scoop, "We thought we had
SF News Weather Report: East Bay And South Bay Getting Cooked This Week It is really summer and Bay Area residents are feeling the heat with some triple-digit temperatures sizzling in the deep East Bay and South Bay Monday. Tuesday is forecast to be about the
SF News SF Homeless Project Kicks Off With Open Letter To The City, Look Back At The Last 30 Years As announced last month in the New York Times, over 70 different media organizations in San Francisco, including SFist, are participating a broad-ranging effort this week to shine new lights on the issue
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From The 2016 LGBT Pride Parade And Juanita MORE's Pride Party Sunday brought the 46th annual San Francisco LGBT Pride parade, arguably the biggest of its kind in the country, and some perfect sunny weather meant that throngs of people lined Market Street to
Arts & Entertainment Rumors Ramp Up About George Lucas's Treasure Island Museum, Which Will Have Same Architect As Chicago Plan George Lucas made it official last week that he'd be abandoning his plan to build his museum of graphic art and movie memorabilia in Chicago, and chances are high that he'll be shifting
SF News Two Suspects Sought In Major Jewelry Heist Near Union Square The SFPD has released surveillance images of two men they believe stole as much as $3,000,000 worth of jewelry from Grace Jewelry at 121 O'Farrell Street. As KRON 4 reports, the
SF News Mustachioed Road Rage Cyclist Ian Hespelt Pleads Guilty To Assault And Vandalism Charges You surely remember that Critical Mass confrontation last August that turned ugly when a Zipcar driver happened upon the bicycle convention, possibly stepped on the gas with a cyclist in front of her,
SF News Dozens Of Pro-Nuclear Protesters March To Resist Diablo Canyon Closure Over 50 of us including Robert Stone, Gwyn Cravens, Richard Rhodes & me locked down in front of @Greenpeace SF! pic.twitter.com/YyqxOYHi8K— Mike Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) June 24, 2016 Approximately 80 protesters
SF News Saying They're 'More Afraid Of Police Than Terrorists,' Black Lives Matter Pulls Out Of SF Pride Following news that SF Pride this year would feature security screenings to enter the Civic Center festival as well as an increased police presence in the wake of the shooting in Orlando, some
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zume Pizza, A Startup Involving Pizza-Making Robots, Launches In Mountain View A new company in Mountain View is looking to disrupt the pizza delivery universe dominated by Domino's and Papa John's by (almost) fully automating the pizza-making and cooking process through robotics. Bloomberg takes
Arts & Entertainment New Fun Weekend Activity: Watching Herons Hunt, Kill, And Swallow Gophers Whole In Golden Gate Park @coolbiRdpics yesterday in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco pic.twitter.com/xIUarZzncH— Elliot Loh (@Loh) May 7, 2016 Local Twitterer Elliott Loh was hanging out in Golden Gate Park last month when he
SF News European Tech Entrepreneurs In SF For Conference React To Brexit Vote As stock markets react to the United Kingdom's historic vote to exit the European Union, many European tech entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit the same one President
SF News President Obama Lands In SF, Dines In SoMa With Tech Elite WATCH LIVE: #Obama is arriving at #SanFrancisco's #CrissyField now: https://t.co/VFCHYJDR4b #PresidentObama pic.twitter.com/2j7VdRPu0w— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) June 24, 2016 POTUS is back in town. As we noted yesterday,
SF News Day Around The Bay: County Jail Can't Figure Out Trans Inmate Issue The SF County Jail can’t figure out how to house trans inmates. [SF Weekly] Meanwhile, as we learned earlier, California's most famous trans prison inmate, now released, now lives in SF, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Gay Bars In San Francisco For Every Occasion In honor of Pride Week, SFist brings you this comprehensive guide to San Francisco's gay bar scene, tailored to each of your potential needs on any given night of the week. Sometimes you
SF News Awesome, Twisty Tower Designed By Jeanne Gang For 160 Folsom Gets Another Approval It looks like full steam ahead for the rad, unique, 39-story residential tower by acclaimed Chicago architect Jeanne Gang that's been proposed for 160 Folsom Street, one of the final pieces of land
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dum, An Indian Restaurant, Takes Over Former Local Mission Eatery Spot The space left vacant after the December closure of Local Mission Eatery at 3111 24th Street has come alive again at the hands of "Indian soul food" truck chef-owner Rupam Bhagat, whose Dum
Arts & Entertainment Larry Wilmore Mocks Oakland's Police Chaos; Former Prostitute Speaks Out About Her Assault Case Against OPD "There's a crazy situation going on in Oakland right now," says comedian Larry Wilmore. "And for once it's not Raiders fans." Now that Oakland cycled through three police chiefs in nine days and
Arts & Entertainment Gay It Up: Your Official SFist Guide To Pride Week 2016 Is Here Yes, Pride Sunday itself has become a bit less of a gay celebration in recent years, but with its million or so attendees in San Francisco and the strong tradition that many LGBT
SF News Activists Now Want To Oust Newly Elected Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Over Police Scandals The drama continues across the Bay as anti-police-violence activists raise a call for the ousters of Mayor Libby Schaaf, saying that the cycle of three fired police chiefs in the last two weeks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Bay's First Dunkin' Donuts (In A Long Time) Opens In Walnut Creek We learned last winter that the first Dunkin' Donuts to debut in the Bay Area would be out in Walnut Creek, and now that has come to pass. East Coast transplants who want
