SF News Berkeley Republicans Shoot for Showdown Again, Book Ben Shapiro C-List conservative pundit Ben Shapiro may not have the “right-wing Judy Garland” appeal of Ann Coulter or the alt-right pedophile appeal of Milo Yiannopoulos. But like those two, Shapiro has been invited to
SF News Pot Shops' Facebook Pages Going Up In Smoke A few Facebook bigwigs and executives are rolled up in the totally legal California cannabis industry, including former Facebook president Sean Parker who donated to the California recreational marijuana ballot measure. But Facebook
SF News Video: Boat Almost Nails Whale in Golden Gate Near-Miss Watch out, whale watchers! This particular season is being hailed as “some of the best whale watching in history” as record numbers of the mammoth marine mammals are turning up on Northern California’
SF News BART Board Divided Over 'Racial Bias' Defense For Withholding Teen Attack Videos A debate is playing out publicly in the news media between BART directors and executives as well as between members of the media and BART over how much detail the transit system should
Arts & Entertainment Pac Heights Socialites, Robin Williams's Son Introduce The 'Hermès of Marijuana' to SF It is generally not considered newsworthy here at SFist when some Pacific Heights socialites throw an exceedingly fancy-ass cocktail party attended by Willie Brown and his sometimes "lady friend" Sonya Molodetskaya, Dede Wilsey’
SF News BART Says They're Withholding Deplorable Teen Crime Videos To Prevent Racial Bias BART riders’ season of teen mob anxiety has many commuters concerned not only about their own immediate safety on the trains, but is also renewing a sense of suspicion that BART is hiding
SF News Concord Hit-And-Run Suspect Has Thorough Criminal Past An incredibly sad story to come out of the July 4th weekend in the East Bay was a hit-and-run accident in Concord that killed two children and badly injured a three-month old (The
Arts & Entertainment Mission District's Lost Church Performance Venue Goes From Underground To City-Approved The intimate, hard-to-find Lost Church has been operating at 65 Capp Street as an underground theater venue for the last six years, but had previously been the Capp Street Project since as far
SF News Deplorable Teen Mobs Strike On BART Again, Good Samaritans Save The Day Twice BART's latest incident of deplorable teen violence has an adorable ending, but does little to address concerns that BART is dragging its feet and under-publicizing incidents of violence on its trains. The third
SF News CEO Trying To Raise $100 Million For Homeless Reportedly Considering Run For Mayor Candidates running for mayor of San Francisco in 2019 will not be running against Ed Lee, as Lee is termed out after this, his second full term. That means a large litter of
SF News Crooked Lombard Street Thieves Turn Attraction Into Car Burglary Hotbed San Francisco tourists and locals alike have long suffered the slings, arrows, and shattered glass piles that come with car break-ins, with the thieves often smashing windows over items of negligible value. But
SF News Self-Driving Car Was The Grand Marshal Of Concord's July 4 Parade The robots are indeed already taking our jobs, at least the job of Independence Day Parade grand marshal in the East Bay community of Concord. ABC 7 reports that an autonomous car was
SF News Cows Dying In Droves In Record-Breaking Central Valley Heatwave For San Franciscans, the relative heatwave of this summer simply means “shorts weather” for big holidays like July 4, some interesting heat-related tweets, and perhaps a flex alert or a Spare the Air
SF News The 'Affordable' Tesla Model 3 To Start Rolling Off The Lines Friday Just as the Ford Model T completely revolutionized American travel back in the early 1900s, the new, yet-unreleased Tesla Model 3 is also anticipated to revolutionize modern society (at least among people who
Arts & Entertainment SF Mime Troupe's <i>Walls</i> Builds High Jinks, Cuteness Around Deportation Anxiety And Racism Tuesday’s July 4’s San Francisco Mime Troupe performance of their new play Walls continues the musical theater group’s multiple-decade tradition of free shows in Dolores Park, but SFist caught this
SF News Boater Collides With Whale, Both Still At Large It’s been another happening year for whale sightings, bringing great delight to both tourists and locals who whale watch. But it hasn’t all been great for the whales, as the Chronicle
Arts & Entertainment Now A Sports Lounge Marijuana Shop Is In The Works The smoke-weed-every-day city of San Francisco will soon get a marijuana gym facility and has played host to a couple of 4.20-mile stoner mini-marathons. But now Hoodline reports that a sports-themed medical
Arts & Entertainment Breitbart Rages Over New SF Mime Troupe Play, Which Premieres This Weekend We don’t usually link to or screenshot the right-wing news site Breitbart, but the headline “Trump NEA Grants $20K for Lesbian Illegal Alien Musical” is just too good to resist. That wonderful
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink China Live Gets A Hidden Cocktail Bar The new trend of speakeasy concepts is increasingly common among San Francisco cocktail bars, most of them employing a Prohibition-era 1920s theme. But the newest entry in the reimagined speakeasy arena is taking
SF News Revised Travel Ban Takes Effect Thursday, Lawyers Camped At SFO The new, revised, and more limited version of President Trump’s travel ban takes effect at 5 p.m. PDT today, and it will not be surprising if, just like the January attempt
SF News SF Workers Make 53 Percent More Than National Average Bust out the $4 toast, French Laundry reservations, and third-wave Champagne, all you “average” San Francisco workers out there! You make substantially more money per hour than your also-average counterparts elsewhere in the
SF News East Bay Bust Nabs Nearly 400 Pounds of Illegal Fireworks Mission District residents (and terrified dogs) are well aware that the nightly boom of illegal fireworks is already underway as we sit within a week of July 4th. SFist reminds you that all
SF News Recall Campaign Underway For Judge In Brock Turner Case The now yearlong effort to recall Santa Clara County Superior Court judge Aaron Persky, known nationally for the lenient six-month sentence he handed to the literal poster child for college sexual assault Brock
SF News Latest Mission Homeless Navigation Center Stalled By Construction Delay A new homeless Navigation Center was scheduled to open Monday at the 1515 South Van Ness location at 26th Street, providing 120 beds just a few blocks from the persistent homeless encampment beneath
SF News SF Man Drowns After Saving Daughter in Kayaking Accident The final moments of San Francisco resident Roni Avila’s life were spent saving his five-year-old daughter after their kayak overturned Sunday afternoon in the Sacramento River near Rio Vista. The Associated Press
