SF News Day Around The Bay: How To Block The Black Bloc Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. The off-duty Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputy who
SF News Airbnb Follows Up '#WeAccept' Super Bowl Ad With Pledge To Help 100,000 People In Need With Short-Term Housing Following on an announcement last week by Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky that the company wanted to provide emergency short-term housing to those affected by President Trump's travel ban, the company has doubled down
SF News Ninth Circuit Schedules Hearing On Trump Immigration Order For Tuesday Following DOJ Brief The Department of Justice filed its brief Monday afternoon on behalf of the Trump administration ahead of the 3 p.m. PT deadline at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco,
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Auction Next Week To Feature Rare Images Of San Francisco After 1906 Earthquake A collection of rare photographs taken in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and fire in addition to several from before the earthquake are going up for auction on February 14 at Swann
SF News Trump Threatens To Yank Funds From 'Out of Control' California If It Declares Itself A Sanctuary State In a pre-Super Bowl interview with buddy Bill O'Reilly on Fox, President Trump once again said a number of frightening and angry-making things, including new comments praising Vladimir Putin, implying the US government
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Gets Another Coffeeshop: SF's First Verve Coffee Arrives Next Week at Church & Market The crazy glut of coffee options in the Castro shows little signs of abating as we get word that Verve Coffee Roasters is set to arrive in the flatiron-shaped space that was most
SF News Trump Administration To Do Battle With Ninth Circuit Court In SF This Week Over Immigration Ban Because Friday's temporary restraining order blocking President Trump's executive order on immigration (that's more commonly being called a "Muslim ban") came from a federal judge in Seattle, the Trump Administration is stuck battling
SF News Thousands Protest Trump's Immigration Policies At Civic Center Saturday From San Francisco yesterday. The hashtag is needed. #NoBanNoWallsf #grumpyoldmenagainsttrump pic.twitter.com/wjmxM1rnVN— seecat42 🙈🐱🐙❄️ (@SeeCat42) February 5, 2017 Thousands gathered Saturday for a rally at SF's Civic Center Plaza in protest of
Arts & Entertainment Video: Man Walks Duck Wearing Booties In San Francisco A man who may be new to town was spotted this week walking a rather obedient duck on a leash while also carrying two tiny dogs in his pockets. I say he may
Arts & Entertainment Mavericks Officially Canceled Following Bankruptcy Swell or no swell, there will be no Mavericks this year. Following the news this week that organizers had filed for bankruptcy protection amid some outstanding debts and a lawsuit from sponsor Red
SF News ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Trump On Behalf Of Three Middle Eastern Students The ACLU of Northern California filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of three students at California universities who have been living here legally with F-1 student visas who are now barred from traveling
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Motze Goes Fast-Casual, La Nebbia Closes, And More It's been a week, hasn't it!? In the food and drink realm, we said goodbye (for now?) to Lefty O'Doul's, we learned of Salt & Straw's upcoming address in Hayes Valley, we recommended
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Find Syrian, Iraqi, Persian And Other Cuisines Around SF (Before They're Banned) Inspired by a pal on Facebook, allow me to introduce you, if you haven't been already, to the San Francisco restaurants serving the food native to some of the seven countries that President
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Wolf To Open Shortly In The Former Bay Wolf Space On Oakland's Piedmont Avenue It's been a year and a half since Oakland's Bay Wolf called it quits after 40 years on Piedmont Avenue, marking an end of an era for a beloved and influential East Bay
SF News SF Sheriff's Deputy Arrested By FBI On Insurance Fraud Charges Stemming From Faked Burglary A 20-year veteran of the SF Sheriff's Department was arrested by federal agents Thursday over charges that she helped stage a burglary in her home and defrauded an insurance company. As ABC 7
SF News Uber Lost More Than 200,000 Customers In #DeleteUber Campaign Though they were, it turns out, falsely accused of trying to break up a taxi strike at JFK Airport last weekend, the social media response was nonetheless swift and damaging, and we now
SF News Day Around The Bay: Trans Inmate Who Got State-Funded Surgery Moved To Women's Prison Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Officials from the California corrections department say that the
SF News 38-Year-Old Singapore Airlines Flight Attendant Found Dead In SF Hotel Room Is this how the plague begins? A Singapore Airlines flight attendant was found dead in her hotel room in San Francisco Tuesday, after she reportedly told coworkers on her arriving flight that she
Arts & Entertainment Cool New Five-Story Mural Completed Near Mission And Fourth Street A fine break from the week's enervating political news: A rad new mural by noted anonymous muralist Believe In People has just been completed this week, during the break in the rain, on
SF News Nationwide General Strike Gains Traction, Scheduled For February 17 A proposed national general strike to oppose any and all things Trump has been coalescing around February 17, the Friday before President's Day when, presumably, a lot of people will be taking off
SF News Unhatched Hummingbird Egg Delays $70M Richmond Bridge Project Infrastructure projects getting delayed by endangered or protected species, fish, fowl and otherwise, are not unique to the Bay Area. But currently there's a big bridge improvement project on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge
SF News Stanley Roberts Shames Cyclists Who Blow Through Red Lights On Market Street KRON 4's Stanley Roberts brings his shame camera to SF's Market Street this week to document just how many people on bicycles roll right through red lights in a given hour, sometimes doing
SF News Reddit Bans Alt-Right Subreddit Over Revealing Of Personal Information In their unenviable, continuing quest to rid the site of its "most toxic" troll population, Reddit has just shut down two related subreddits, r/altright and r/alternativeright, over the repeated practice of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Syhabout And Former Linden Street Brewer Announce Old Kan Beer & Co. In West Oakland Without much time to mourn the loss of the Oakland location of Hawker Fare, chef-restaurateur James Syhabout just announced the upcoming opening of a new brewery project with partner Adam Lamoreaux, the founder
SF News Rainstorm Arrives With Big Winds Tonight, Big Snow Comes To Tahoe Again Friday You had your reprieve, maybe you did a little early weeding in the garden or did some running around the Panhandle, and now the rain is headed back our way. The first storm
