SF News Facebook And Twitter Tweaking Timelines And It's Sure To Be Annoying Apparently people on Facebook don't know what the Onion is or can't bother to look past a headline to realize the story they're outraged about is satire. BBC News reports that now Facebook
SF News Pedestrian Hit While Hailing A Cab In The Mission Sustains Life-Threatening Injuries In more bad news about pedestrians being hit by cars over the weekend — which includes a two-year-old girl struck and killed in a hit-and-run — a 28-year-old man is in the hospital with life-threatening
SF News You Can Still Ask The FCC To Protect Net Neutrality, Now Through September 15 Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it will extend its commenting period on net neutrality through September 15. As SFist previously reported, comments were set to close on July 15, but
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Paul McCartney Closes Out Candlestick With A Bang Though we put in many requests to send a photographer to Paul McCartney's Thursday night show bidding adieu to Candlestick Park, we were ignored, but thankfully flickr user Lauren Friedman was there to
SF News Facebook Shuttle Drivers Speak Out About Low Pay, Long Days, And Feeling 'Held Hostage' Sitting behind the wheel of one of San Francisco's primary targets of protests, annoyance, and all-out aggression, you'd think these two Facebook shuttle drivers interviewed by USA Today might plead "Please stop attacking
SF News Day Around The Bay: Moscone Center's $350M Expansion The San Francisco Planning Commission unanimously approved a proposed $350 million expansion of Moscone Center North and South. It's expected to pass a vote from the Board of Supervisors and construction could start
Arts & Entertainment Video: Life In The Tenderloin Looks Rough, Even In Cartoon Form Filmmaker turned illustrator-storyteller Andy Ojst talks about life in the Tenderloin in his latest YouTube video for the series Andy Tells Stories. In "Homeless in San Francisco," which you can watch above, Ojst
Arts & Entertainment 'Ant-Man' Shooting In S.F. Next Week And We're Hoping For A Paul Rudd Sighting San Francisco has hosted a few blockbuster movie crews this summer — including Terminator: Genesis and San Andreas — and now Marvel's Ant-Man will be here next week. As reported by The Daily SuperHero and
SF News Robin Williams Had 'Early Stages Of Parkinson's,' Wife Says Robin Williams' wife, Susan Schneider, has released a statement to the media saying the actor had silently suffered from early stages of Parkinson's Disease and was sober at the time of his death.
Arts & Entertainment Hayes Valley Cat Cafe Is Back On Track, Signs Lease Clearly I’m not the only crazy cat-person who wants San Francisco’s first cat cafe to happen. As of last week, KitTea needed $100,000 to move forward with its plan to
SF News Day Around The Bay: San Francisco Sewage Plant Problems Our massive waste treatment facility, which flows 80 percent of San Francisco's sewage, is in desperate need of an upgrade. [ABC 7] Kin Khao, Tosca Cafe, and Sir & Star are nominees for
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Full Moon And Fog Above S.F. From the same filmmaker that brought us Sausalito To SF At 300 Miles An Hour, we have a new timelapse video that shows last Saturday's full moon amid rolling, dense fog above a
Arts & Entertainment Culture Club Reunion Tour Is Coming To The Bay As you have probably already figured out, we love the 80s. If you were born in that decade — or, oh-my, in the 90s — we'll give you some context on why Culture Club reuniting
SF News Robin Williams' 25-Year-Old Daughter Driven Off Twitter And Instagram Due To Abuse [Updated] If this widely-publicized story about what happened to Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, isn't enough to make Twitter change its weak harassment policy, we're not sure what will. After tweeting a link to
SF News 2.3-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Contra Costa County, Third In A Month A magnitude-2.3 earthquake struck Contra Costa County this afternoon, CBS San Francisco reports. The rattle happened at 2:02 p.m. today (August 12), about four miles northwest of Antioch and two
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Rapping SFUSD Principal Assistant Principal by day, rapper by night, Joe Truss might be the coolest adult in the entire San Francisco Unified School District. Watch in the above video as Truss raps with his former
SF News Cafe Cocomo, Sound Factory Close To Make Way For Housing; Elbo Room Under Threat Too [Updated] Add losing local music venues to the ever-increasing list of casualties of the tech boom. As SFist previously reported, the owners of Mission venue Elbo Room were considering turning it into a 9-unit
SF News 'Mrs. Doubtfire' House In Pac Heights Becomes Robin Williams Memorial Robin Williams' fans have left flowers, candles, photos, and notes remembering the late actor outside the Pac Heights house where much of his 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire was shot. By early evening last
SF News Locals Mourn Robin Williams, Including Ben Fong-Torres, Mayor Ed Lee, And 49ers [Updated] The news that actor Robin Williams was found dead today has shocked and saddened the world, but it hit especially close to home in the Bay Area, where he spent his teenage years
SF News Day Around The Bay: Destination Oakland We're still reeling from the news that Robin Williams was found dead today. Here's some less tragic news in the Bay Area. A new San Francisco ordinance, which starts this week, blocks larger
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Supermoon It was clear enough to see last night's supermoon — the second of three this summer — but this shot gives us a close up that a mere glance to the sky can't provide. Also,
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2014 Photos, Plus Pics From Patrick Stewart And Kim Kardashian If you skipped Outside Lands — and there are plenty of good reasons from avoiding the huge crowds to hating port-a-potties — we survived the weekend and have the pics to prove it. Surrounded by
SF News Look Up: Meteor Shower And Supermoon This Sunday If you're sick of the supermoon hype, well, how about a supermoon and meteor shower combo? This Sunday, August 10, the second supermoon of the summer will coincide with the Perseid meteor shower,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: San Francisco Circa 1986 Though uploaded in 2011, we've never seen this vintage footage of San Francisco in 1986. Enjoy a tourist's view of our classic city as a 16mm camera cruises through downtown, chases cable cars,
Arts & Entertainment Rising S.F. Rent Delays Cat Cafe Opening In Hayes Valley It's one thing that we've been maxed out or priced out by San Francisco's insane rental market — but now it's screwing with our very first cat cafe. In sad news reported by the
