SF News Racist, Sexist Internal Facebook Forum Surfaces As Zuck Vows To Remove All Hate Speech From Facebook It's tough out there for a Jewish CEO whose online empire has become a potent messaging and organizing tool for neo-Nazis and anti-semites. While the spread of online hate is not unique to
SF News Party's Over For BART Gate-Hoppers As Police Crack Down On Fare Evasion If you’re in on the dirty little secret that many BART stations (like Embarcadero) have free-swinging gate exits that you can just walk right through, your swinger party may be over. ABC
SF News SF & Berkeley Mayors, Supervisors Seek Any Means To Halt Alt-Right Rallies The Bay Area is grappling with how with to solve a problem like Nazis in the Marina, as two alt-right/white nationalist rallies are planned for next weekend in San Francisco and Berkeley.
SF News Some SF 'Homeless Moms' Neither Homeless Nor Moms, Chronicle Finds Homeless mom panhandles on Market Street with newborn baby: “I’m not harming her in any way.”https://t.co/nSmkszW1qZ via @hknightsf pic.twitter.com/2NItA9gsLe— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) July 30, 2017 Pitchforks
SF News Noted 'Castro Drug Den' Sold To New Owner Prospective San Francisco home buyers are generally more attracted to phrases like “Wonderful Victorian home in amazing Dolores Heights location” than, say “Notorious Castro Drug Den” or “persistent neighborhood nuisance.” But both turns
SF News Neo-Nazis And Alt-Right 'Patriots' To Bring Racism Road Show To Bay Area This Month This weekend’s awful and disheartening events at the white nationalist/alt-right rally in Charlottesville were met with the requisite Bay Area condemnation, with a protest shutting down I-580 Saturday night, more gatherings
SF News Raiders' Marshawn Lynch Sits For National Anthem, Reigniting Kaepernick Controversy We were determined to loathe and ignore the Oakland Raiders this season, as the team has one foot out the door now that their obnoxious move to Las Vegas is a done deal.
SF News 'Handmaids' To Protest Against Planned Parenthood Sting Video Suspects This Month The meme power is strong with Hulu’s hit streaming series The Handmaid’s Tale, a big-budget interpretation of the 1985 Margaret Atwood novel portraying a dystopian “future” in which women have no
SF News Alt-Right Plans 'March on Google,' Doxxing Campaign To Defend Fired Brogrammer Here we see James Damore, who had himself a sad little two-person protest at Google’s Mountain View headquarters Thursday afternoon. (Mr. “Fired for Truth,” of course, fudged the truth on his resume.
SF News Appalling Embarcadero Fountain Would Cost a Half Million Dollars To Turn Back On I love the angular Vaillancourt Fountain, the 40-foot tall concrete tangle of disjointed modernist square tubes at the northern end of Justin Herman Plaza, mostly thanks to fond memories of the location that
SF News Report: Self-Driving Cars Are Hilariously Easy To Fool Hell hath no fury like tech bros being told that their self-driving cars, artificial intelligence, and machine-learning technologies are overhyped and nowhere near ready for market. But with that in mind, SFist will
SF News Sinking Millennium Tower Will Tilt 10 More Inches By 2019, Lawyers Argue It’s been ten whole days since the sinking Millennium Tower has been in the news, which is pretty good for the troubled development that. But attorneys for homeowners suing Millennium partners insist
SF News SF Officials Create Emergency Plan For North Korean Nuclear Attack You always kind of figured that the election of Donald Trump as president would lead us to prepare for a nuclear holocaust, and here we are. After learning in May that North Korean
SF News Video: Close Encounter With Mountain Lion For Sequoia Hikers Mountain lions are wonderful and majestic creatures, but you don’t want to see one perched and ready to pounce on you from about 10 feet away. That’s exactly what happened to
SF News Billion Dollar BART Extension To Livermore Has Officials Livid Have you ever gazed at the system map while riding BART and noticed some dotted-line ‘proposed extensions’ and said to yourself “Haha yeah right, as if I’m going to live that long!
Arts & Entertainment History: Donald Trump Tried To Buy The SF Giants Back In 1985 If you thought the San Francisco Giants 2010 world championship season was “Torture,” wait ‘til you contemplate an alternate history that kind-of almost came to pass. Local hardball blog McCovey Chronicles tags a
Arts & Entertainment 'MacBitch' At The Exit Theatre Is A Hilarious Tina Fey-ification Of The Shakespeare Classic SFist’s stance on deplorable teens is well-documented, so we were naturally intrigued to see a new Macbeth send-up that uses inadequately monitored teenagers as symbols of bloodthirsty ambition. MacBitch, playing through August
SF News City Mulls Buying Troubled Haight McDonald's, Flipping It For Affordable Housing A McFlurry of crime and sketchiness has always surrounded the Haight and Stanyan McDonald's location, even before a daytime shooting there last Thursday afternoon. The unhealthy scene has long been a one-stop shop
SF News Family Of Slain Muralist Sues ICE Over Stolen Gun The July 2015 killing of Kate Steinle with a federal agent's stolen gun grabbed national headlines, as is often the case when the victim is an attractive white woman. Far less attention was
SF News Stanley Roberts Shames Market Street Drivers Before Proposed Car Ban Even Takes Effect The proposed Market Street ban on Uber, Lyft, and essentially all cars that are not taxicabs, buses, or delivery vehicles was just unveiled this week, and is nowhere close to being law. It
Arts & Entertainment 'Hamilton' Coming Back to SF In 2019! Those of us who have been losing the $10 Hamilton ticket lottery every day since the blockbuster musical opened in March realize that we are quite literally down to our last shot there
SF News Cash Pouring In For Mayor, Supervisor Races As Ed Lee Staffers Bolt For Uber It may become a new rite of passage in lame duck administrations that top staff start taking lobbying positions for the lawless scandal factory that is Uber. That’s a thread we see
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Elbo Room Buys Another Year, Extends Lease Until 2019 The development boom has lowered the boom on the late, great Lexington Club, displaced the iconic Doc’s Clock, and taken the lives of many beloved longtime Valencia Corridor restaurants and bars because
SF News Enforcement 'Nightmare' Looming As 1,500 SF Buildings Still Not Seismically Retrofitted Maybe you felt a little safer with yesterday's news that the sinking Millennium Tower could withstand an 8.0 magnitude earthquake. But perhaps the more relevant question is ‘Can the building I live
SF News Fremont Man Allegedly Attempts To Blackmail Roommates With Sex Tape Your daily dose of gross comes from Fremont today, where the Chronicle reports on a 33-year-old man who's accused of secretly videotaping his roommates having sex and then attempting to extort them for
