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.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California's Largest Recycling Center Operator Shuts Down California's largest recycler shuts down, a state law will make it much harder to an appeal a Navigation Center, and Joe Panik is leaving the Giants.
SF News Fire Season Anxieties Rise With Latest National Forecast Showing NorCal Fire Danger Rising While the relatively low number of wildfires across Northern California in July may seem like a good thing, a forecast from the National Interagency Fire Center suggests the opposite.
SF News Two Stabbed On BART Escalator In Downtown Berkeley Early Tuesday A man and a woman exiting the Downtown Berkeley BART station Monday night/early Tuesday were stabbed by an assailant who has not been located. Both victims were hospitalized with non-life-threatening wounds.
SF News Family of Gilroy Shooter 'Deeply Shocked and Horrified' By His Actions; FBI Finds He Had 'A Fractured Ideology' In their first public statement since the shooting, the family of Santino William Legan says they are finding it "impossible to reconcile this with the son we thought we knew."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Red-Sauce Italian Spot Great Gold Replaces Foxsister This Week Well-liked 24th Street brunch spot Foxsister quietly closed down on August 2, and on Friday the space will come alive again as a new concept from the same team: Great Gold.
SF News UCSF Launches Website And Alert System To Warn About Chase Center Traffic USCF Medical Center at Mission Bay wants to make sure that its staff and patients know when to expect the inevitable traffic nightmares around the Chase Center that are set to begin next month.
Arts & Entertainment 'Grass Lands' at Outside Lands Still Might Have On-Site Weed Sales, Maybe It's down to the wire for the final permit approval to make Outside Lands possibly the biggest music festival in the U.S. ever to allow both on-site sales and consumption of legal marijuana.
SF News Tuesday Morning Updates: Suspicious Device Paralyzes Mission District A suspicious device in the Mission was a false alarm, SF's homeless department falls short of goals, and Cupertino could be in trouble with the state over its decision to reject a big redevelopment project that involved housing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Alcatraz Ferry Terminal To Go Under Major Construction A man died and two other people were injured in falls in Yosemite National Park, a tech millionaire in Mendocino County has been fined for destroying wetlands to build a winery, and two people were rescued in a Laurel Heights blaze.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved West Portal Dive Portals Tavern is Closing After 82 Years Another cherished relic of Old San Francisco is biting the dust as news arrives that Portals Tavern in West Portal is closing its doors at the end of August.
