SF News Coyote Aggression On Rise, Presidio Dog Owners Claim It’s “pupping season” in the Presidio, which sounds adorable, but in reality presents escalating danger for dogs and their owners. Because the pups here are coyote pups, their mother coyotes are vicious
Arts & Entertainment Rock of Ageds: Your 'Throwback' Summer Concert Guide For 2017 The classic rock reunion festival known as “Oldchella” will not be taking place this summer, but neither Styx nor the Stones will be taking the summer of 2017 off. (The Stones, however, will
SF News Bodycam Footage Analysis Shows Cops Are Nicer To White People Bodycam footage from police officers is typically used only to determine innocence or guilt in high-profile use-of-force incidents. But a new Stanford study puts big-data analysis to bodycam footage, analyzing 981 routine Oakland
Arts & Entertainment Right-Wing Media Flips Its Wig Over 'Drag Queen Story Hour' It is none too unusual for the conservative blogosphere to gin up conniptions over any LGBTQ artistic endeavor or any institution with rolls of public employees. But the latest coordinated takedown attempt hilariously
SF News Waze Carpool App Expands To All Of California Today It's nice to occasionally see some developments in the obscenely well-funded rideshare industry that do not involve dude-bro executive malfeasance, regulatory shenanigans, or sexual harassment. So SFist is pleased to report that the
Arts & Entertainment Summer of Love Anniversary Concert Is Really, Definitely Not Happening It’s not like San Francisco has a shortage of 50th anniversary commemorations of the 1967 Summer of Love squat-in, with a "Summer of Love Experience" exhibit underway at the deYoung, a Summer
Arts & Entertainment The Dub Sack: Steve Kerr's Back As Warriors Demolish Cavs for Game 2 Win Rihanna was not seen courtside as she was in Game 1, but this NBA Finals re-rematch of your Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers saw the return of a much more important
SF News Nest Video Nabs Shamed Shoplifter, Who Promptly Returns Stolen Goods and Cash So much for my conspiracy theory that Google’s Nest devices are just creepy IoT surveillance technologies with marginal consumer upside. One marginal consumer got symbolically smacked upside by the video-sharing social media
SF News Elon Musk Snubs Trump, Quits Advisory Council Over Climate Deal Exit President Trump’s Thursday withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord has elicited various denouncements and superlatives from left-wing heroes and elected officials, with reactions like “an international disgrace” (Sen. Bernie Sanders), “an insane
SF News Mad Dad In New Ad Blames Sanctuary City Policy For Son's Death Business is booming for TV ads that blame San Francisco for America's ills, as another such spot is hitting the statewide airwaves this week. Don Rosenberg, seen above, lost his son Drew in
SF News Uber Lost 'Only' $708 Million Last Quarter, Top Finance Exec Resigns The Montgomery Burns of tech companies, Uber, revealed their 2017 first quarter earnings Wednesday, and lost $708 million says the San Francisco Business Times. But that’s “actually good by Uber standards” according
SF News UC Berkeley Plans To Build All-Gender Locker Room The University of California had already become the first university system in the US to add gender-neutral restrooms to its campuses back in 2014. But Berkeley being Berkeley, the school is moving the
SF News Halloween 2012 Shooting Victim Horrified His Shooter Is Free You might remember a Halloween 2012 shooting at a Fort Mason party in which (then 21-year-old) Benjamin Passah was shot in the head, and ultimately given only a 25 percent chance to live.
SF News Dispatch Transcripts Indicate PG&E Foot-Dragging During Last Month's Blackout The involuntary three-day weekend caused the Friday, April 21 San Francisco blackout has already raised substantial ire toward California utility company and supervillain collective PG&E, and a newly acquired batch of
SF News Proposal To Sell Booze Til 4 A.M. Clears CA Senate Committee Late-night boozebags will be raising a toast to State Sen. Scott Wiener this week, as his proposal to move last call for alcohol to as late as 4 a.m. has successfully passed
Arts & Entertainment Go Be In This Thing: Taylor Mac Needs Extras For SF Video Shoot Saturday The groundbreaking, 24-hour-long, 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist musical A 24-Decade History of Popular Music is returning to San Francisco this September, and to that end the production is shooting a promo
Arts & Entertainment Video: Winchester Mystery House Opens Spooky, New Previously Off-Limits Rooms The obviously haunted Winchester Mystery House in San Jose has built more supernatural interest in recent months, with a Helen Mirren-helmed film about Sarah Winchester in the works and a creepy attic room
SF News Clown With Machete Terrorizes Monterey Along 101 An insane clown a little too reminiscent of Pennywise took the tomfoolery too far Wednesday afternoon, as a grown man in an evil clown costume holding what appeared to be a bloody machete
Arts & Entertainment Shocker: Company Called 'Silicon Valley Matchmaker' Appears To Be A Pricey Scam A new exposé from the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit combines two common local gripes the notorious difficulty of the Bay Area dating scene, and Silicon Valley companies’ constant desire to charge thousands
SF News Mysterious Shotgun Toter Killed In Late Night South San Francisco Fracas A scary morning in South San Francisco, as a yet-unidentified man wandering the streets with a shotgun was shot and killed by police. As of this morning, the police have still not determined
Arts & Entertainment Check Out The Full Frameline Schedule for 2017 The Frameline LGBTQ film festival, which serves as the unofficial kickoff of SF Pride proceedings when it begins its ten-day run from June 15-25, posted its full 2017 lineup of 147 films from
SF News How Does Your Supervisor Kill Time On The Internet? An Analysis Anyone who’s endured any portion of a weekly San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting knows that these are godawfully long and dull affairs during which no sentient human could ever avoid the
Arts & Entertainment The Dub Sack: Warriors Back In NBA Finals, Make History With (So Far) Perfect Playoffs In what has seemed like a foregone conclusion since the NBA playoffs started in late April, the Golden State Warriors have been crowned your 2017 Western Conference Champions and have earned their third
SF News Excelsior Laundromat Exposed As 'Death Trap' With Shoddy, Illegal Apartments In a fairly shocking report even by contemporary SF slumlord standards, the Chron finds that a longtime popular laundromat in the Excelsior has secretly been serving for more than ten years as a
SF News Muni Fare To Increase Again July 1, Caltrain Considering Fare Hike Too Seems like just yesterday when Muni instituted its new 25-cent fare hike for riders who pay cash for a single-trip transfer (in fact, it was less than six months ago!). But the beginning
