SF News Sinking Millennium Tower Would Survive 'The Big One,' Experts Insist We’re huge fans of watching San Francisco get destroyed in Hollywood disaster films here at SFist, and I'd bet there are some people who'd pay good money to see a movie where
SF News California Is Growing Eight Times More Marijuana Than It Smokes, Growers Warn People who closely follow the the cannabis industry have had a good laugh lately at headlines like “Marijuana Shortage Prompts Emergency In Nevada.” But you’ll be none too surprised to hear that
SF News Ex-Googler Launches Nonprofit To Stop Google & Facebook From 'Hijacking Our Minds' It is not a particularly unique observation that the culture of constantly looking at our phones has spawned an app economy whose emotional manipulation, trampling of our privacy, and spread of misinformation has
SF News Fire Plane Mishap Turns Sonoma Neighborhood Pink There’s not much funny about California wildfire season, with more than 100,000 acres on fire across the state as of press time. So we’re really going to enjoy the one
SF News Supes Protest Letting Sutter Health Close Long-Term Care Unit at St. Luke's Sutter Health’s California Pacific Medical Center network made plans with the city in 2013 to open two new hospitals in San Francisco, which all sounds very lovely and commendable. But the details
SF News Supes May Impose Moratorium On New Pot Dispensaries Tuesday night saw a pretty action-packed final Board of Supervisors meeting before their five-week summer recess, but a couple of the decisions they made might not be to a stoner’s delight. Supervisor
SF News Uber Initiates New $15 Lost Item Return Fee Leaderless and scandal-impaired rideshare giant Uber has taken the curious, counterintuitive tack of adding another fee in order to win back customers who are deleting the app. Engadget reports that Uber has quietly
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Ugliest Condo Buildings In San Francisco One thing that San Francisco is most known for is its timeless and gorgeous historic architecture. The Victorian/Edwardian aesthetic that pervades our fair city, with its bay windows, decorative cornices, and detailed
SF News Draymond Green Hit With Civil Suit Over 2016 Bar Fight Golden State Warriors fans may remember last summer’s unpleasantness on the basketball court, followed by some amusing Draymond Green shenanigans in which he inadvertently posted a dick pic on Snapchat. We may
SF News Oakland ISIS Recruit Accused Of Planning Gay Nightclub Bombings In SF, And A Plot To Sell Poisoned Cocaine Over the weekend we learned of a West Oakland man who attempted to join ISIS, and was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly creating social media accounts for the terrorist organization
SF News Brain Dead Oakland Girl Jahi McMath Declared Not Brain Dead By Prominent Neurologist It’s been years since we last heard any news in the (still ongoing!) saga of Jahi McMath, who was pronounced brain dead at the age of 13 after a routine tonsil surgery
SF News West Oakland Man Charged With Trying To Join ISIS A federal grand jury indicted a West Oakland man Thursday on terrorism charges for allegedly creating social media accounts and planning an attack in the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and
SF News Ben Shapiro Back On In Berkeley, With A Smaller Venue Just hours after Thursday’s report that UC Berkeley was denying conservative pundit Ben Shapiro a campus venue for a proposed September 14 speech, the Chronicle reports that the university has agreed to
SF News Richmond Mayor Witnesses BART Attack, Calls Out Nearby Workers As 'Uninterested' Anxiety over BART crime, safety, and deplorable teens will surely be on the rise after yet another BART attack by a teen mob Thursday, this one at the Richmond station. The Chronicle reports
Arts & Entertainment 'The Last Remaining Ghost Town In The Bay Area' Is On An Island In the Bay Contemporary Bay Area residents can rightfully complain of overpopulation, overdevelopment, and a housing crunch. But amidst this development boom, the history buffs over at KQED remind us that the Bay Area still has
SF News Berkeley Republicans Cry Foul As Venue Unavailable For Ben Shapiro Fans of “Conservatives vs. Antifa” antics in Berkeley will want to know that the latest dust-up is going precisely according to formula. Barely a week after Berkeley College Republicans and the Young America’
SF News SF Now Has An Office Of Cannabis Step right up, aspiring San Francisco proprietors of dime bags, hash oils, pot brownies, and pre-rolled blunts! Your permit process for the recreational sale of schwag is falling into place, in advance of
SF News BuzzFeed Exposé Details Uber's Out-Of-Control 'A**hole Culture' There has not been a new Uber scandal breaking today (though we're still a while from the end of the business day Pacific Daylight Time). There is, however, an epic, 6,500-word exposé
SF News DPW Finds Discarded Needles Have Tripled On SF Streets, Stanley Roberts Gets In On The Shaming As you may know, San Francisco also performs a ‘homeless census’ every two years, called the "point in time count" to tally unhoused residents, and now we find via ABC 7 that the
Arts & Entertainment Emperor Norton Paid Homage With Interactive Map of His Life We will often engage in Emperor Norton obsession around these parts, honoring the memory of the delightfully delusional Gold Rush-era kook who declared himself ‘Emperor’ of the United States and Mexico, printed his
SF News Berkeley Student Who Alleged Police Harassment Arrested Again For Vandalism Spree Remember this month’s tale of a Berkeley student who claimed he was racially profiled and detained illegally, held in jail for almost two days without being able to see a lawyer, and
SF News Report: San Franciscans Spend 83 Hours Per Year Looking For Parking San Franciscans have plenty to bitch, moan, and complain about when it comes to parking in our traffic-congested Bay Area, what with rampant abuse of disabled placards, bizarrely inconsistent enforcement, and those infernal
SF News Jean Quan's Sunset Pot Shop Ready To Roll After Planning Commission Approval The most interesting marijuana dispensary poised to be added to the San Francisco weed-buying landscape is the proposed Apothecarium at Noriega Street and 32nd Avenue, interesting because it would be co-owned by former
SF News Proposed Van Ness Double Towers Want Double The Parking, 25 Percent More Units Plans are moving along for the tall building high-rise zone at Market Street and Van Ness Avenue, as a roughly 12-block area around that crossroads has been granted higher height allowances by the
SF News Tobacco Lobby Works To Overturn SF Menthol Ban The ink is barely dry on the ban on menthol cigarettes and flavored tobacco products that San Francisco supervisors passed unanimously in late June, but the tobacco industry is firing back with cartons
