Arts & Entertainment iPhone 7 Parody Video Mocks Apple For Making The Phone Worse College Humor brings us this delightful parody of the latest Apple launch video in which Chief Design Officer Jony Ive is recast as a kind of psychotic HAL (from 2001), and Tim Cook
SF News Fatality Involving Train Shut Down 16th Street BART Station Friday Night A man was struck and killed by a BART train Friday evening, leading to some service delays and a two-hour shutdown of 16th Street Station. As Mission Local reports, the incident happened at
Arts & Entertainment David Bowie's Ashes Scattered At Burning Man Temple? Plus 'Playa Elvis' And One More Video If you were at Burning Man this year, you're probably still getting your default-world bearings back and crying over your laptop every day looking at photos and video. If you weren't at Burning
Arts & Entertainment Apple's 'This Is 7' Ad Campaign Translates As 'This Is Penis' In Cantonese, Causing Much Laughter In China After this week's unveiling of the new water-resistant, headphone jack-free iPhone 7, Apple kicked off an ad campaign with the phrase "This is 7," apparently not knowing that directly translating that to Cantonese
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Souvla To Open Third Location On Valencia, In Former Grub Spot Rapidly expanding fast-casual Greek sandwich spot Souvla, which just opened its second location on Divisadero in June, has snapped up the recently vacated Grub space at 758 Valencia. As Eater reports, owner Charles
SF News Seven East Bay Law Enforcement Officers Charged In Celeste Guap Scandal Alameda County District Attorney Nancy E. O'Malley announced Friday that her office would be pursuing multiple charges, including including sex offenses and obstruction of justice, against seven members of three different law enforcement
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burma Superstar Owners Sued In Class Action By Kitchen Workers The Bay Area Burmese mini-chain Burma Superstar is the subject of a class-action lawsuit filed this week in Alameda County by three of the chain's employees on behalf of about 100 "similarly situated"
SF News 49er Bruce Miller In Court Today Facing Charges For Hotel Attack 29-year-old former 49ers fullback Bruce Miller, as we learned earlier this week, was dropped from the team following a violent incident early on the morning of Labor Day at a Fisherman's Wharf hotel.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Own Pat Montandon's Cole Valley House For $3.5M Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Famed local socialite Pat Montandon one of the central
Arts & Entertainment Stevie Nicks To Play San Jose Show In December With Openers The Pretenders Fans of Stevie Nicks, I have good news for you: The white witch herself is doing a solo tour this fall, and she'll be playing San Jose's SAP Center on December 14, as
SF News Viral Video Of Drunk Groom Going Under Bride's Dress At SF Wedding Leads To Lawsuit A fairly amusing viral video, uploaded by a videographer at a San Francisco wedding reception in 2015, has caused so much embarrassment for the couple involved that they're suing the photography firm that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Bay Area Icons Included In New Book About Ten Most Influential Restaurants In The US While the Bay Area has seen a renaissance of a sort in our food scene over the last five to ten years, our bigger-picture influence on the way America eats can be traced
SF News Thanks, LA: Salesforce Tower Won't Be The Tallest Building In The West Those obsessed with tall buildings and those who've been paying attention likely already knew this news. But while Salesforce Tower (née Transbay Tower), which once completed will stand at 1,070 feet, was
SF News Oakland Mayor Terminates Four Officers, Disciplines Eight Others In OPD Sex Scandal Along with City Administrator Sabrina Landreth (who is acting as temporary administrative head of the Oakland Police Department), Mayor Libby Schaaf gave a press conference late Wednesday announcing the disciplining of a dozen
Arts & Entertainment Fall Theater Preview: New Plays Explore San Francisco's Past, England's Future, And More As Labor Day passes, we start to say goodbye to whatever high hopes we had for making the most of our oh-so-wintry summer months, but we start to hope for another couple months
Arts & Entertainment Brace: Pokemon Go Is Coming To The Apple Watch The Apple launch event today didn't end with Sia and the news about the iPhone 7. John Hanke, CEO of Pokémon Go game developer Niantic, took the stage to tell everyone how the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Crazed Burner Boyfriend Enraged By Question 'How Was Burning Man?' Most non-Burners with devoted Burner friends should be able to relate to this fun sketch by YouTuberist Kevin Oeser in which he returns home to his girlfriend, fresh from the playa, only to
SF News SF Car Break-Ins Down 18 Percent As Of July The scourge of car burglaries which have been noticeably on the rise in the last two years in various neighborhoods, hitting a five-year high last summer may finally be slowing down thanks to
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Humane Society Receives 34 Cats And Kittens In Cardboard Boxes The Marin Humane Society is grappling with the unexpected and anonymous nocturnal delivery of 34 cats and kittens in cardboard boxes on its doorstep. Three suspects who abandoned the animals were caught on
SF News Authorities Dig Up Cal Poly Campus In New Search For Kristin Smart, Missing Since 1996 For 20 years, the family of onetime Cal Poly student Kristin Smart has had no closure in her disappearance and presumed murder, and now the FBI and the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Department
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Central Kitchen And Kin Khao Chef Michael Gaines To Debut Taco Spot In Dogpatch After a year of searching for a good space, chef Michael Gaines has finally landed on one to be the home of his taco-and-margarita restaurant dubbed Glena's, which he previewed with a couple
SF News Bay Area To Be Voting On Multiple Ballot Measures Relating To Homeless Problem In November At the ballot box this fall, residents of multiple Bay Area cities can expect to be voting on a record number of local ballot measures aiming to build more affordable housing for the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Doughnut Dolly To Pop Up At The Market In The Twitter Building Friday, Ahead Of September Opening Excellent news, doughnut fans!! Now that summer's just about over and you can stop dieting for that beach vacation, you can treat yourself this week and next to a delicious filled doughnut the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Crab Season May Not Be Ruined This Year As Ocean Temps Fall Last year's disastrous local Dungeness crab season in which fisheries were not allowed to open until March, typically the natural end of the season in these parts is not likely to be repeated
SF News Weather Report: Indian Summer Arrives For One Day This Week (Wednesday) Did you enjoy your long weekend, everybody? Did you escape the city for some sun on Saturday or Sunday? I hope so. I did. It was quite lovely down on Peninsula but from
