Arts & Entertainment Video: DJ Khaled Crashes Berkeley Commencement In Tracksuit, Proceeds To Win A UC Berkeley Department of Statistics graduation ceremony may sound like one of the most boring propositions in the Bay Area, but Thursday afternoon’s commencement got a winning dose of stardom when
SF News Huge Fines Proposed for Dolores Park Litterbugs As sure as the sun rises every Sunday and Monday morning, the sun will greet a completely trashed Dolores Park landscape following any warm weekend afternoon. Park revelers have been leaving hundreds of
Arts & Entertainment Your Bay To Breakers Liquor Store Map For 2017 Is Here The annual Straight Pride celebration known as Bay to Breakers goes down Sunday morning at 8 a.m., and as has been the custom for a number of years, SFist comes through with
SF News Plaza With Tallest Sculpture In The City Opens Today At Eighth And Mission SoMa workers looking for another new outdoor spot to sit and eat lunch or nap off the previous evening’s hangover get a new courtyard/plaza today, as the ten-years-in-development Trinity Place at
SF News Chevron Cited For Stinking Up Bay Area Like Rotten Eggs Last December Your nose knows that a rotten egg smell reeked up San Francisco and the greater Bay Area for two days in late December of 2016, and that the prime suspect was the Chevron
SF News Ugly Racial Profiling Incident Caught On Video At Mission Grocery Store Things are not off to the best start at the new Grocery Outlet Bargain Market location at South Van Ness Street and 23rd Street, the former DeLano’s Market that sat empty for
SF News New SoMa Co-working Space Trades Offices For Vintage Campers San Francisco is turning into a national leader in the establishment of low-overhead co-working spaces, thanks to a glut of startups growing faster than they can buy space, a disproportionately large freelance workforce,
SF News Several Notable Tech Bros Embroiled In Sex Harassment Scandal at VR Startup There may be sighs of relief today at the Bay Area’s most allegedly sexually toxic work environments like Uber and Zenefits, because another “condoms and sex in the workplace” scandal has arrived
SF News Drakes Bay Oyster Cleanup Shelled By Charges Of Worker Endangerment The long and salty saga of the former Drakes Bay Oyster Co. site at Point Reyes National Seashore is shucking up another controversial chapter. The now-defunct oyster farm who once provided nearly 40
SF News Lyft Teams With Google's Waymo In Hopes of Driving Uber Under In the ongoing war between Uber and Lyft for ride-sharing supremacy in the not-so distant future where human drivers are rendered obsolete, the latest battle has gone in favor of Lyft. The New
Arts & Entertainment Check Out This Award-Winning, Locally Shot 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Short Film A groundbreaking new short film shot in San Francisco’s Ingleside District recently won the Student Filmmaker prize at National Association of Theater Owners CinemaCon, and the winning film “Sirens” is now available
SF News SF Businesses File Big Claims Against PG&E Over Last Month's Blackout Today marks three weeks to the day since the massive downtown PG&E blackout of April 21 that lasted eight hours, affected some 95,000 customers, and throwing the Financial District into
SF News Talbot Rides 9-San Bruno For Kicks, Finds Few Kicks When the Chronicle parted ways with suburban sourpuss C.W. Nevius, Chuck's thrice-weekly column was taken over by Salon founder and Season of the Witch author David Talbot at least temporarily. That seemed
SF News Art Professor Claims His Phone Was Searched Without A Warrant At SFO In these ever tense times for civil liberties, we have a new case out of the Bay Area that is likely to ruffle some privacy-protection feathers. ABC 7 brings news of a Bay
SF News Video: Slugfest On Oakland-Bound Southwest Flight Snuffed By Santa Clara Man The internet is chock full of airline confrontation videos lately. The latest involves an Oakland-bound Southwest flight that originated in Dallas, and it is quite a doozy. This one is less disturbing than
SF News Elly, Oldest Black Rhino in U.S., Dies at 46 at SF Zoo Elly the Eastern black rhinoceros, the oldest surviving member of her species in the United States who has delighted San Franciscans for nearly four decades with her docile, plodding presence, died last Wednesday,
SF News Navy Sailor Missing At Yosemite For Nearly A Week While the record-melting Sierra snowpack has created some dazzling waterfall imagery, it also carries a high risk for floods and fast-moving rivers at Yosemite National Park. These treacherous waters can run exceedingly cold
SF News Millennium Tower Resident Joe Montana Sues Developer The sinking and stinking Millennium Tower can add to its list of litigious victims four-time Super Bowl champion 49ers quarterback Joe Montana. Montana not only bought one of the units at the Millennium
Arts & Entertainment Inventor of Dothraki Language Teaching A 'Game of Thrones' Class At UC Berkeley Bay Area Game of Thrones fans can rightfully take a measure of local pride from the obscure fact that a UC Berkeley alum invented both the Dothraki and High Valyrian languages spoken on
SF News Assembly Committee Mulls Bill To Allow California Cyclists To Roll Through Stop Signs There’s been significant gnashing of teeth and grinding of gears in San Francisco over the controversial, so-called “Idaho stop” — the practice of bicycles yielding instead of hard stopping at intersections with stop
SF News Albany Teens Sue School For Right To 'Like' Racist Memes In the East Bay community of Albany, four students are suing the school district over being disciplined for commenting on or ‘Liking’ images on a racist Instagram account. According to ABC 7, the
Arts & Entertainment Trip Out On These Breathtaking Yosemite Melting-Snowpack Waterfall Videos We warned you at the beginning of the week that this year’s record-size Sierra snowpack melt could cause overflow and flooding near Merced River in Yosemite National Park, and that fishers, swimmers,
SF News Uber Under Criminal Investigation Over Shady 'Greyball' Scheme While the likelihood of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick doing the perp walk in cuffs still seems pretty remote, the latest scandalous development with the rideshare company we love to hate puts Uber squarely
SF News City Agencies About To Get OK To Start Flying Their Own Drones The rush to start flying drones through the skies of San Francisco has thus far consumed for-profit companies like Amazon, Google and Chipotle, all of which seek to to eventually test-fly various drone
SF News One Million Gmail Accounts Compromised In Phishing Attack, Here's How To Protect Yours Fear, anxiety, and mockery of people who fall for phishing attacks ran rampant on the World Wide Web Wednesday, as a phenomenally sophisticated and fast-moving phishing attack disguised a Google Doc made its
