Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Attendance Tops 90,000 Saturday, Breaks Record With Childish Gambino Headlining Saturday is often the most attended day of the three-day Outside Lands festival, but this year broke records with a reported 90,000 attendees — and that crowd didn't come without some complications.
SF News Saturday Links: Lady Gaga Donates Funds To Gilroy Schools Oakland Coliseum chief resigns over naming rights controversy, permit denied for that Straight Pride parade in Modesto, and the SF school district considers preserving that controversial mural somehow.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Warehouse Fire Damages Artists' Studios Mollie Stone's is headed for Russian Hill, Mill Valley just approved an aggressive and controversial tree-removal measure, and Dim Baos from the Koi Palace team is coming to the Transit Center.
SF News San Francisco-Born Activist Believed To Have Been Shot By Duterte Government In Philippines A rally was held Friday for Brandon Lee, a 37-year-old San Francisco native who is believed to have been targeted and shot in an extra-judicial assassination attempt by the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
Arts & Entertainment Runner Draws Frida Kahlo On SF With Running App A local runner named Lenny Maughan used one of those running apps to draw Frida Kahlo's face on a map of San Francisco via a 29-mile run.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Step Inside The Almost Completed Chase Center The new, 18,000-seat Golden State Warriors arena and concert venue is mere weeks from its public debut, and now we get to look around inside via some informal video tours.
SF News Camp Fire Death Toll Rises To 86 As Elderly Man Succumbs To His Wounds The death toll in last November's Camp Fire just rose by one after 72-year-old Paul Ernest of Paradise succumbed to complications from burns that he got trying to escape the fire with his wife. Ernest had been hospitalized ever since the fire.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Three-Alarm Fire Burning at Oakland Warehouse Chinatown residents continue to tell City Hall they feel targeted for crime, the mayor touts bicycle safety improvements on Valencia, and the Ghost Ship trial jury has taken a break for the weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Outside Lands Adds More Cops, Security Personnel Uber posted their biggest quarterly loss ever, a man and a woman have been arrested in a string of catalytic converter thefts in Berkeley, and Outside Lands will have a lot more cops and security this year.
Arts & Entertainment How To Do Outside Lands, Part 3: Logistics and Transportation Completing our three-part series on how to do Outside Lands like a pro, SFist brings you some tips for getting there, navigating the place, and getting out.
SF News Bear Falls Off Embankment Onto Patrol Car, Causing Crash and Wildfire In Humboldt County A zany news item out of Humboldt involves a sheriff's deputy who was out on a call about a drug overdose when a bear seemingly fell out of the sky onto his patrol car, causing the car to crash into an embankment, flip over, and catch fire.
Business & Tech FBI Seeks Contractor To Harvest Facebook and Twitter Data To Identify Potential Shooters, Terrorists The FBI put out a request for proposals last month seeking a contractor that will trawl social media to identify potential threats to American interests — something that Facebook and Twitter explicitly prohibit any third party from doing.
SF News Postmates Gets First Permit To Test Delivery Robots On SF Streets Remember how the Board of Supervisors was talking about banning all sidewalk delivery robots two years ago? Well that didn't happen, and instead, like with the scooter debacle, the city has simply come up with permitting system.
SF News SF Soul Cycle and Equinox Locations See Protests After News Of Owner's Trump Fundraiser San Franciscans who patronize Soul Cycle and Equinox gyms are facing a moral quandary over their fitness choices this week after it was revealed that Equinox Fitness owner Stephen Ross was hosting a high-ticket fundraiser for President Trump in the Hamptons.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca To Reopen By Winter Under New Owners Nancy Oakes, Anna Weinberg, and Ken Fulk Boulevard chef Nancy Oakes and Marlowe/Park Tavern restaurateur Anna Weinberg are joining forces to reimagine Tosca Cafe as something in between the legendary dive bar it once was and the polished culinary destination it became.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Becomes First Major Music Festival to Allow Marijuana Sales As of late Wednesday, Outside Lands was cleared to become the first major event in San Francisco — and the first big music festival in the country — to sanction on-site sales and consumption of cannabis.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Ski Mask Rapist Denied Parole A fiery crash in San Jose claimed one life, an East Bay congressman is trying to address near-miss incidents at SFO, and Rep. Eric Swalwell held an emotional town hall on gun control.
Arts & Entertainment How To Do Outside Lands, Part 1: The Food and Drink SFist has done a lot of these fests — ten of them, in fact, all but 2018's — so allow us to give you some tips and highlights, in our role as old pros.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Feds Announce Major Tenderloin Crime Crackdown SF's newly installed top federal prosecutor just announced a year-long operation to target drug and sex traffickers in the Tenderloin, and a brush fire in Oakley has already burned one structure.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queens Hosting Game Night at Union Square's Hotel Zeppelin Local drag star Juanita MORE! and friends Dulce de Leche and Mutha Chucka are kicking off a new series of "Gayme Nights" in the downstairs Peace Lounge at the Hotel Zeppelin Wednesday evening.
SF News Man In Tracks At Montgomery Station Causes Huge Mid-Morning BART Delay A man who was injured underneath a westbound BART train at Montgomery Station Wednesday morning led to significant systemwide delays — including a significant backup in West Oakland for SF-bound riders.
SF News Possible Shooter Threat at Twitch HQ In Downtown SF; Suspicious Package Near Oracle Park Gamer streaming company Twitch told employees on Wednesday that they were welcome to work from home, and the SFPD is investigating a possibly credible threat at the company's downtown SF headquarters.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo Bids Farewell To Leonard, Its Beloved 19-Year-Old African Lion Zookeepers at the Oakland Zoo and fans among zoo-goers are mourning the loss of the zoo's senior lion, Leonard, who had to be euthanized on Sunday. He was 19, and had been suffering from kidney trouble and arthritis.
SF News Notorious 'Ski Mask Rapist' George Anthony Sanchez Gets Parole Hearing A man convicted of raping 25 women in the Bay Area in 1980s recently became eligible for the state’s new Elderly Parole Program, and is getting a parole hearing Wednesday, much to the horror of his many victims.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Ghost Ship Jury Still Out More details reveal the SFPD's knowledge of Bryan Carmody's profession, a homicide investigation in Livermore, and KPIX retraces the steps of the Gilroy gunman.
