SF News Guerneville Residents Evacuated As Russian River Crests; Videos Shows Napa, Truckee Rivers Rising People living in low-lying areas of the Russian River area in Guerneville and Monte Rio were ordered to evacuate Sunday as the river is expected to crest above flood stage Monday morning at
SF News Winter Storm Brings Flood Warnings, Power Outages, SFO Cancellations, One Death While many on social media Saturday balked at some of the sensational headlines about this weekend's rain, given the relatively tame downpours that arrived early Saturday, Saturday night and Sunday morning have brought
SF News Sick Yet? Bay Area Hit With Severe Flu Outbreak I hope you got your flu shot, because the San Francisco Bay Area is dealing with a "widespread" influenza outbreak before flu season has likely even peaked. As local public health officials are
SF News Man Slashed With Machete At Civic Center BART Entrance On Friday evening a 29-year-old man had his neck allegedly slashed with a machete near the UN Plaza entrance to Civic Center BART station closest to Seventh Street, and the suspect remains on
SF News First State-Funded Inmate Sex Reassignment Surgery Takes Place In San Francisco Thursday marked the first court-mandated sex reassignment surgery for an incarcerated person in the United States, and the procedure took place in San Francisco. As KRON 4 reports, 57-year-old convicted murderer Shiloh Heavenly
Arts & Entertainment Apocalypse Now, Please: Two Google Home Devices Have An Endless Conversation About Everything And Nothing Two Google Home devices have been programmed (tricked? hacked?) into talking back and forth to each other, and it's been going on all day and live-streamed via Twitch TV, under the header SeeBotsChat.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Reopening Tonight: Hecho Cantina, AKA The New Hecho We're excited to report that we will reopen tomorrow (Friday) at 6pm! Come by and see what we've done to the place; stay for our delicious cocktails and a more laid-back take on
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Dan Savage's HUMP! Film Festival Returns Next Week Once again, Dan Savage's carefully curated film festival for homegrown porn (and somewhat porn-y indie shorts) HUMP! is returning to San Francisco, marking the first stop on its national tour at the Victoria
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Was Pete Wells Doing A Service, Or Just Being An Elitist Dick, In Panning Oakland's Locol? The biggest food-world story of the week has turned out to be New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells's unexpected and unexpectedly terrible review of Locol in Oakland, the ostensibly revolutionary new model
SF News Tourists And Selfie-Takers Need To Stop Going Near The Cliffs And Caves Near The Cliff House Much like this idiot seeking some Insta fame by risking his life on cliff edges in Yosemite, people keep ending up needing to be rescued on and around the cliffs by Sutro Baths
SF News Mayor Lee Announces New District 8 Supe, Openly HIV-Positive Glen Park Resident Jeff Sheehy As was expected, Mayor Lee has filled outgoing Supervisor Scott Wiener's seat on the Board of Supervisors unofficially the "gay seat" on the board since it was originally held by Harvey Milk with
Arts & Entertainment 'Hamilton' National Tour Cast Includes Members Of Broadway And Chicago Casts Casting for the first national tour of Broadway smash hit Hamilton, which officially kicks off here in SF in March, was just announced, and among the principal cast members are performers who are
SF News Day Around The Bay: Two Skiers Rescued In Lake Tahoe Avalanche Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Remember that avalanche warning yesterday? Two skiers, who luckily
SF News Is Mark Zuckerberg Maybe Planning To Run For President? Yes, he may be the Anti-Trump, and we'd have to wait for a few years to see the two men potentially go toe-to-toe in an election ring, but Wired is floating the rumor
SF News SF Deputy Public Defender And Private Attorney Questioned In Contraband Drug Smuggling Case Smuggled contraband discovered in defendant’s’ shoes brought into court by lawyers https://t.co/RcCstvFLlX via @jonahowenlamb pic.twitter.com/y7ErU0VzNR— SF Examiner (@sfexaminer) January 5, 2017 In a situation straight out
SF News San Francisco Is At The Forefront Of Another Frontier: Care For The Dying In large part due to the enormity of suffering and loss of life during the height of the AIDS epidemic here, San Francisco has emerged two decades later with new models for providing
SF News Seven Feet Of Snow Falls In The Sierra, With More On Its Way After years of mostly disappointing winter snowfall totals in and around Lake Tahoe, the winter of 2017 is looking to be a sweet one for local skiers and snowboarders some of whom may
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nine Ways To Kick Off A Cleanse, Juice And Otherwise It's that time of year. You feel disgusting. Hopefully your New Year's weekend hangover has worn off by now hopefully!! and it's time to take stock, regroup, contemplate the direction your life has
SF News SF And Oakland Hold Community Forums On Warehouse And Live-Work Spaces The landlord of an arts space brought together tenants and city officials to discuss fire safety Tuesday night https://t.co/XqrPx9uiiT pic.twitter.com/KWOWrNe2qp— Mission Local (@MLNow) January 4, 2017 On
SF News Friday The 13th Will Mark The Arrival Of Muni's First New 'Fleet Of The Future' Train The first of 64 brand new Muni Metro light-rail trains will arrive in San Francisco on Friday, January 13th. It's not the most auspicious date for a transit system known for its poor
SF News Twitter In The Time Of Fascism: Lindy West Calls It 'Unusable For Anyone But Trolls, Robots, & Dictators' Much like Mark Zuckerberg, in a quest to defend his utopian vision of friends sharing birthday candle photos with friends, has struggled to accept that he now runs the world's biggest group-think and
SF News Oakland Hires Its First Female Police Chief, Anne Kirkpatrick Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has hired the city's first female chief of police, as multiple news sources are reporting this morning, and that is Anne Kirkpatrick, a former chief of Spokane's police department
Arts & Entertainment Hot Felon Jeremy Meeks Now Has Big House, Maserati, Modeling Portfolio God is good A photo posted by JEREMY MEEKS (@jmeeksofficial) on Sep 27, 2016 at 4:58pm PDT Nine months after he was released from prison on weapons charges having gained international fame
SF News San Francisco Jumps Up Four Spots In National List Of Bed Bug-Ridden Cities Once again, SF is in the news as being a hot spot for bed bugs, but luckily we remain well below the metropolises of New York, Chicago, DC, and Baltimore the latter now
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New York Times Critic Pete Wells Savages Locol In Oakland New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells has given us another surprise Bay Area review in his intermittent mission to survey the national food scene, and it's a review of Daniel Patterson and
