SF News Lyft Gets In On Self-Driving Car Game With 'Level Five' & New Workforce In Palo Alto Lyft is nipping at the heels of main competitor Uber in joining the race to bring autonomous vehicles onto the road, but they're doing so with a slightly different and they say more
SF News Day Around The Bay: Fire Breaks Out In Auburn Firefighters are responding to a vegetation fire on Upper Stagecoach Trail in the Auburn State Recreation Area in Placer County. pic.twitter.com/pcz7VBu95r— CAL FIRE NEU (@CALFIRENEU) July 20, 2017 A small
SF News Manhunt Underway For Two Richmond Gang Members Suspected In Murder And Multiple Crimes A manhunt is intensifying for two members of Richmond street gang known as the Manor Boyz who were the subjects of a six-month police and FBI investigation and crackdown. As Richmond Police Lt.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hamburger Mary's *Might* Finally Open In The Castro, Maybe News flew around the local blogosphere late Wednesday that, following an Entertainment Commission hearing on Tuesday, the extraordinarily delayed revival of Hamburger Mary's might, three and a half years after we first heard
SF News Detwiler Fire Grows To 109 Square Miles, Still 10 Miles From Yosemite The biggest wildfire currently raging in California is the 70,000-acre, 109-square mile Detwiler Fire in Mariposa County. It nearly doubled again in size between Wednesday and Thursday, and as the Weather Channel
SF News Reality TV Crew Robbed Of $50,000 In Cameras And Equipment In Oakland Yet again, a TV crew finds out the hard way that their cameras are not safe on the streets of Oakland. A four-person crew shooting a reality TV series for teens was robbed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owner Of Tomales Bay Oyster Company Goes Missing While Oyster Fishing Picture of missing boater Charles Friend, 70 yrs old of Oakland, well known and loved by many in West Marin, Tomales. pic.twitter.com/XBNvd7MkQU— Marin County Sheriff (@MarinSheriff) July 19, 2017 70-year-old
SF News Day Around The Bay: Berkeley Therapist Sued Over Conversion Therapy Some new Nike-designed Warriors uniforms were just revealed. [SBNation] The Giants managed to beat the Indians today. [Examiner] Regarding how Square's social media guy trolls the trolls on Twitter. [AdWeek] Not surprising poll
SF News Some BART Train Cameras Still Using Betamax Format BART continues to have to answer for its aging train car woes, and for its recent spate of crime, and the latest terrible tidbit comes via the Chronicle, where we learn that more
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wise Sons Expands To Hayes Valley, To Artis Space The Wise Sons empire is in growth mode, and pretty soon, Hayes Valley denizens will not have to hoof it to Fillmore Street to get their bagels. Hoodline reports that they've taken over
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 15 Best Burrito Spots In SF It's been a couple years since we tackled the always controversial Best Burrito list, so it's time to update SFist's official opinions on the topic. We all should know by now that if
SF News Video: Gold Nuggets Being Found In Rivers After Oroville Dam Crisis One exciting side effect of the Oroville Dam spillway crisis this winter has been a new albeit modest gold rush along the rivers that the spillway fed into, like the Feather River and
Arts & Entertainment 'Portals' Art Installation Lets You Talk To Strangers Across The Globe Maybe you, too, have thought about what a shame it is that with all the tools technology has brought us, we remain connected mostly just to the familiar our own friends and family.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Namu Stonepot Debuts Next Week On Divisadero The time has come, everybody. The Namu Gaji team is officially expanding to Divisadero next week, and praise the lord they're bringing the Gamja Fries. As Tablehopper reports, Namu Stonepot (553 Divisadero at
SF News Millennium Tower Tilted Over Two Inches In Last Six Months, But A Fix May Be In The Works The sinking and leaning tower of our downtown skyline, the eight-year-old Millennium Tower, continues to sink and tilt, and new data released by an engineering firm that has been monitoring the tower's movement
SF News Detwiler Fire Triples In Size, Entire Town Of Mariposa Evacuated The Detwiler Fire west of Yosemite is raging on in its third day, tripling in size since just yesterday to encompass nearly 46,000 acres, and now threatening the town of Mariposa, which
SF News Day Around The Bay: Tent Encampments Dwindle Near New Nav Center Google Glass 2.0 turns out to be really useful in the workplace, like on a factory floor. [Wired] New bike share bikes are already getting vandalized in Oakland. [East Bay Times] San
SF News Antioch Woman Who Led Class-Action Bias Suit Against Walmart Dies At 67 Betty Dukes, the woman who led a class-action civil rights lawsuit against Walmart that reached the Supreme Court in 2011, has died at age 67. As the Associated Press reports, Dukes passed away
SF News Blown Insulator And Smoke Situation Causes Brief Scare, And Delays, At Embarcadero BART A loud bang and subsequent smoke situation filling Embarcadero Station Tuesday morning caused a fright for some commuters and inconvenienced others, but as BART explains, it was just a blown insulator that insulates
SF News Detwiler Fire Near Yosemite Grows To 15,500 Acres In Second Day #DetwilerFire [update] 2 miles east of Lake McClure (Mariposa County) is now 15,500 acres and 5% contained. https://t.co/zBoyaN9sl1 pic.twitter.com/w4L6uO8GpH— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) July 18, 2017
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In-N-Out Worker Reveals Restaurant Secrets In Reddit AMA In-N-Out Burger's secret menu, which is not a secret anymore, has been a fascination of the internet since around the beginning of the internet. But there are more secrets to the much beloved,
SF News A Majority Of Americans Wish Trump Would Get Off Twitter While President Trump shows no signs of weaning himself off his near daily Twitter habit, six months into office, a new poll shows that a majority of Americans find his tweets inappropriate, insulting,
SF News Man Killed At Twin Peaks Lookout Sunday Was Well Known Film Location Manager 71-year-old Edward French was an avid photographer and longtime resident of the Bay Area, and he was just a half mile up the hill from his Eureka Valley home Sunday morning when he
SF News Day Around The Bay: Is SF's VC Boom Over? Remember that Los Altos Hills Airbnb where Beyoncé and Justin Bieber stayed that was $10K a night during the 2016 Super Bowl? It now goes for $30,000 a night. [Chronicle] I guess
Arts & Entertainment Apple Unveils New Exploding Head, Zombie, Bearded Man Emoji Did you know it was World Emoji Day? Neither did I! Anyway, in honor of this non-holiday, Apple just previewed a gaggle of fun new emoji that will be part of iOS 11,
