SF News [Update] Facebook's 'News Curators' Choose Trending Topics, Suppress Conservative News, Say Former Employees Gizmodo's been blowing the door open on Facebook's increasingly influential Trending news area, in which topics popular at any given moment on the network are shown, typically the top three of them anyway,
Arts & Entertainment Video: Amazing <i>America's Got Talent</i> Chihuahua Act Wows Oracle Arena I can't get enough of this video, which is actually a week old now but just surfaced in my Facebook feed, of circus performer Christian Stoinev making a halftime appearance during the NBA
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Ride A Muni Bus It's time again for something we haven't done in a couple years here at SFist, and that's Etiquette Week in which SFist's editors dole out some prescriptive advice for how to behave in
Arts & Entertainment Darren Criss To Play Hedwig For San Francisco Run In October The casting announcement has just been made, and for the San Francisco touring production of the revival of the hit rock musical Hedwig & the Angry Inch, the genderqueer main character Hedwig will
SF News New Valencia Bike Barometer Already Defaced Perhaps predictably, someone who either hates bicyclists or hates the SFMTA or just plain hates the gentrification of Valencia Street has already vandalized the new bike counter that just went up a week
SF News [Update] General Strike Begins With Morning Picket At City Hall Picketing starts at #SF city hall for #Frisco5 #Frisco500 #hungerforjusticesf genera strike pic.twitter.com/kgY4qv7LGU— Mission Local (@MLNow) May 9, 2016 A true general strike, the likes of which we haven't seen
SF News Starfish Return In Huge Numbers On California Coast After Mass Die-Off Some good news among plenty of terrible news when it comes to the environment, the ocean, and marine life: Sea stars, or starfish, have come back in huge numbers along the Northern California
SF News Hunger Strikers Decide To Eat Again, Call For General Strike Monday At the urging of "the community," the hunger strikers known as the Frisco Five decided to end their hunger strike after 17 days on Saturday. Via some representatives, they issued a video statement
SF News [Update] Longtime SF Public Defender Marla Zamora Stabbed To Death At Her Potrero Hill Home A prominent former public defender, Marla Zamora, was found stabbed to death in the backyard of her Potrero Hill home Friday, and police already have a prime suspect in custody. As the Chronicle
SF News Video: Hillary Clinton Says 'California Counts,' Sounds Unsure About Legal Weed SF Chronicle columnist and CBS 5 correspondent Phil Matier sat down for some one-on-one time Friday with Hillary Clinton before a rally she attended in Oakland which was followed by a fundraiser Friday
SF News Lengthy, Angry Protest Breaks Out As Frisco Five Supporters Storm City Hall Friday Following the hospitalization Friday of the hunger strikers now known as the Frisco 5, a call went out on IndyBay to their supporters, whom some are calling the Frisco 500, for a vigil
SF News Oh Great: Earthquake Swarm Beneath Mount Saint Helens Indicates Volcano Is 'Recharging' To our north, in Washington State, we're getting news that a swarm of 130 small earthquakes has been occurring between 1 and 5 miles beneath Mount Saint Helens, the volcano that last erupted
Arts & Entertainment Cool Time-Lapse Of SFMOMA's Construction, Plus John King's Final Word On The New Wing The new, enormous SFMOMA addition designed by Norwegian architects Snøhetta has some early fans, as well as some early critics, as we discussed last week. We had to wait until this weekend's Sunday
SF News 25-Year-Old Darnell Williams Found Guilty In Sleepover Murder Of Young Oakland Girl The double murder trial of Darnell Williams concluded Friday with guilty verdicts in the slayings of 8-year-old Alaysha Carradine in Oakland on July 17, 2013, and 22-year-old Anthony Medearis in Berkeley two months
SF News Hunger Strikers, The Frisco Five, Pack Up And Go To The Hospital Mission PD protesters packing up. They say #Frisco5 are at hospital. pic.twitter.com/cAZAufKwi0— Evan Sernoffsky (@EvanSernoffsky) May 6, 2016 Welp, some people wondered after yesterday's unproductive phone call with Mayor Lee
Arts & Entertainment 1970's-Era Star Pharmacy, Landmark In The Early Days Of AIDS, Recreated For One Day For Castro Shoot As mentioned briefly yesterday, more shooting has been going on in the Castro for When We Rise, the ABC documentary mini-series written by Dustin Lance Black, and based in part on the forthcoming
SF News Mayor Lee Has Phone Call With Hunger Striker And Little Is Accomplished San Francisco mayor speaks with hunger strikers by phone, stands by police chief and reform efforts https://t.co/4rP71mkCcM— KRON 4 News (@kron4news) May 5, 2016 Following on the political theater of
Arts & Entertainment Beyoncé Adds Second Concert Date At Levi's In September Having sold out her May 16 show at Levi's Stadium on her Formation World Tour, Beyoncé has just announced that she'll be swinging back through the Bay Area for a second date on
SF News Day Around The Bay: Qatar Wants To Buy The St. Regis Qatar's sovereign wealth fund is looking to buy the St. Regis Hotel, both the one here and the one in New York. [Business Times] Need some ideas for where to celebrate Cinco de
SF News Will We Be Voting To Recall Ed Lee In November? Just one year after winning reelection by a too-close-for-comfort margin, Mayor Ed Lee could be facing a recall effort this fall, if one of two alleged ballot measure proposals has any legs. The
Arts & Entertainment Missing Burning Man? Watch This Feature-Length Film From BM 2015 It took eight months, but Scottish dude Mark Day has just finished and released this 100-minute video documenting Burning Man 2015, in all its dust-stormy glory. He calls it "an intentionally-overlong exercise in
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Rainbows No More In preparation for another shoot today in the Castro for When We Rise, the production crew was laying down some coverings to mask the relatively recent rainbow crosswalks, in order to keep with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Vegan Community Up In Arms Upon Learning That Gracias Madre Owners Eat Meat Now Unfolding over the last couple weeks has been some MAJOR DRAMA on social media over the revelation not altogether new that Cafe Gratitude founders and owners of SF's Gracias Madre are now, after
SF News Muni Will FINALLY Allow Two Trains In A Station At Once, Soon After years of trying and failing to make this work, Muni is finally (maybe) getting close to allowing "double stopping" or "double berthing" in downtown Muni stations, thereby alleviating some computer-created congestion in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <i>Top Chef</i> Alum Ryan Scott Is Behind Finn Town, Taking Over Former Barracuda In The Castro News has just arrived that the chef behind the replacement for Barracuda (and more recently Mandu) in the Castro, which we learned last fall would be called Finn Town, is none other than
