SF News The 14 Stereotypes That Facebook Assigns To All Of Us The company that invented the motto “Move fast and break things” certainly managed to break things pretty good during the 2016 election, promoting Russian troll-farm fake news content to as many as 126
Arts & Entertainment A Grave Look At SF's Infamous 'Haunted Hotel' Spooky season’s in full swing on the blogs and local newspapers, with The Atlantic’s video rundown of the cryptic Columbarium, the SF Weekly’s devilish dive into Anton LaVey’s supposed
SF News Toxic Ash Looms As Ongoing Health Hazard In Wake Of North Bay Fires The collective North Bay wildfires have moved on from emergency response to the investigation and cleanup phases, as displaced individuals return to their homes to assess the damage done. Chemists and biologists are
SF News An Alleged MySpace 'Resurgence' Was Fueled Mostly By Ad Fraud The running tech industry joke that is the continued existence of early stage social networking site MySpace just turned into even more of a joke. Once valued at $12 billion, the forgotten MySpace
SF News National Park Service Nixes Black Panther Homage Amid Conservative Backlash In the latest chapter of right-leaning newsgroups and placing a high value on disrupting the proceedings of Berkeley, California, the Chronicle reports that an almost-$100,000 grant from the National Park Service
Arts & Entertainment The Rise and Fall of the Exotic Erotic Ball (1979-2010) There was once a time when the hottest, most coveted golden ticket to a Halloween party in San Francisco was to something called the Exotic Erotic Ball, a combination of swinger party, fetish
Arts & Entertainment The 13 Spookiest Halloween Windows & Storefronts In SF Good eeeeeveninnnng . With the spectre of Halloween weekend now upon us, storefronts across town are chasing your party and costume dolla with revolting retail window displays of fiendish proportions. As we’ve done
SF News Berkeley Student Paper In Hot Water Over Arguably Anti-Semitic Cartoon Of Alan Dershowitz U. Cal Berkeley chancellor condemns antisemitic cartoon attacking Alan Dershowitz in student newspaper. https://t.co/SFocUOZ6Zs— Jeremy Burton (@BurtonJM) October 25, 2017 There's long been a tension in left-wing politics over the
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week We’re still a full week away from Halloween itself, but just days out from from the high holy days of the San Francisco party calendar known as Halloween Weekend. As darkness falls
SF News Crowdfund Sites Under Fire For Pocketing Big Bucks In Wildfire Donations As containment is finally being reached in the tragic North Bay wildfires that have taken 42 lives and scorched more than a quarter of a million acres, many of us watching from afar
SF News Local Billionaire Drops $10 Million On 'Impeach Trump' TV Ads You are unlikely to enjoy any television advertisement you see today as much as you will the one-minute spot seen above, an advertisement coming to a TV commercial break near you and unapologetically
SF News High-Profile Tech Bro Robert Scoble Faces Barrage Of Sexual Harassment Allegations The only enduring legacy of the stupid Google Glass fad of 2013-14 is the image of fanboy Robert Scoble wearing the contraption in the shower. While the Glass device has mercifully been more
SF News Pricey Retro Streetlights Coming to Van Ness Avenue In November The on-again, off-again lights inspired by ca. 1915 street design are back on again, after being nixed by the SFMTA and the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission. Matier & Ross reported in the
SF News Ghost Ship Proprietor Featured In SF Prison Art Show The Prison Art Show is an annual function at the Pier 5 Law Offices featuring artwork from incarcerated men and women all over the country. But the 2017 Prison Art Show has a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 17 Best Taco Tuesday Deals Around The Bay The relatively recent promotional gimmick of “Taco Tuesdays” is indeed a white person’s phenomenon, though one that has been gloriously reverse-commodified by Latino-owned restaurants nationwide. The original concept tacos for a dollar
Arts & Entertainment Clarion Alley Mural Project Turns 25: A Historical Primer The onslaught of gentrification has been blitzkrieging the Valencia Street Corridor for the better part of 30 years now, yet one little patch has always maintained the neigborhood’s old-school, punk-rock, outlaw roots.
SF News Video: Tahoe Bear Trouble Is Back As Bear Activity Picks Up Our scenic getaway to the northeast, Lake Tahoe, has long been a popular frolicking spot for bears, and SFist will breathlessly report any and all bear developments particularly when there is video. Bear
SF News SFMTA Cracks Down (Sort Of) On Chariot, Other Private Buses It’s been a bumpy ride for the tech-loving private shuttle service Chariot, which arrived three years ago to make “transportation better only for some people” in the words of Muni Diaries. Chariot
Arts & Entertainment Borderlands Books Looks To Buy Building, Relocate To The Haight In Bid For Survival The Borderlands Books saga may well be turning a page to a novel solution that ensures the sci-fi and fantasy bookstore’s permanent survival. Not long after announcing the closure of the Valencia
SF News Remembering The Rippeys, Married 75 Years, Who Perished Together Sunday In The Atlas Fire Most of us in the Bay Area were still unaware that wildfires were burning in Napa County Sunday night when Charles Rippey, age 100, and Sara Rippey, age 98, died together when their
SF News Security Cameras Are Coming To Dolores Park Dolores Park has long served as our adult playground for whimsical world record attempts, gigantic unlicensed events and of course leaving behind fantastical volumes of our trash, but the park's ugly underbelly often
SF News Historic Round Barn, Arts Center, PGA Golf Course Among Places Destroyed By North Bay Wildfires The death toll is now tragically up to 15, and sure to go higher as at least 150 remain missing in 17 separate firesburning across Napa, Mendocino, Sonoma, and five other California counties.
SF News Disqus Reports Breach Affecting 17.5 Million Pre-2012 Users We’ve brought you plenty of troubling hacking news here at SFist recently, from the Yahoo email account hacks to the recent Whole Foods breach to, you know, that thing that got Donald
SF News Police Release New Details In Fatal Nob Hill Hostage Standoff Above we see the gun that was used to fire at least three shots in a late September Nob Hill hostage incident that resulted in the shooting of the alleged hostage-taker, 46-year-old Damian
SF News Bubbles' Neighbors Fume At SFPD, New Century Theater Over Still-Unsolved Murder Of the 10 homicides that have occurred in the Tenderloin this year, arrests have been made in seven of those cases. But one unsolved murder has gained a higher profile the fatal September
