SF News San Francisco Cracks Down on E-Scooter and E-Bike Fires with New Battery Fire Codes After mobility device battery-related fires spiked in the past few years, the San Francisco Fire Department changed its codes regarding lithium-ion batteries, and they went into effect Thursday.
SF News Book Passage Sues The State Over Uptight Autograph Law Passed last year, California Assembly Bill No. 1570 expanded the state's law on autographs from its original focus on entertainment and sports memorabilia to include signed books and basically anything with an autograph.
SF News Airbnb Sues SF Over Supe-Approved Fines For Scofflaw Hosts Well, friends, the gloves appear to be off. Airbnb, the San Francisco-based vacation rental company that spent over eight million dollars to convince city voters to oppose regulations for their industry, took out
SF News CA Supreme Court Rules That Loaded Guns In Fanny Packs, Backpacks Are Illegal For Most California's open firearm carry prohibitions got a boost Monday, when the state's Supreme Court ruled 7-0 that loaded guns in a backpack or fanny pack is the same thing as concealing the weapon
SF News Drivers, Scooter Riders, Cyclists Flouting Statewide Dual Earbud Ban Though laws prohibiting drivers and cyclists from wearing headphones or earplugs in both ears have been on the books for years, it wasn't until January, 2016, that the law was extended to apply
SF News Fear Of Overreach Keeps BART Board From Passing Fines For Seat Hogs You can still lounge to your heart's content across an entire row of BART seats — at least for now. The vote on whether or not to impose fines of up to $500 on
SF News BART Director Proposes $500 Fine For Seat Hogs Loungers, luggage-bearers, and other folks who spread out into more than one seat beware: If BART Director Joel Keller has his way, seat hogs might soon face fines of as much as $500.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Bartenders Angry Over New Glove Law While the thought of forcing the mixologist community to wear prostate-exam gloves gives one a hardy chuckle rimmed with a touch of bitter schadenfreude, California's AB 1252 has gone too far. At least
SF News Meanwhile, at the Federal Courthouse... Natalie Mandeau, right, of France, holds up a sign during a demonstration against the city's nudity ban outside the federal courthouse in San Francisco. The demonstration took place before a court hearing on
SF News Tennessee's Horrid 'Don't Say Gay' Bill Moves Forward; Anti-Transgender 'Bathroom' Bill Introduced After receiving approval in the Tennessee Senate last spring, the appalling "Don't Say Gay" bill, formally known as SB0049, is literally sitting on a desk in the state's House of Representatives right now.
SF News After Casey Anthony Acquittal, California Introduces Caylee's Law For those of you who haven't been following the saga of Casey Anthony and her allegedly filicidal ways, good for you. (Actually, too bad for you. Because, murder of a child aside, it's
SF News Sit-Lie Ordinance Useless, Says SF Police San Francisco's controversial sit-lie ordinance, which passed in November by a narrow margin, has accomplished what many predicted: nothing. The law, making it verboten to sit or lie on public sidewalks between 7
SF News Borderlands Owner Expresses Bitterness Over "Nanny State" Smoking Laws The owner of Borderlands Cafe and Borderland Books in the Mission is apparently not pleased about San Francisco's smoking laws. Here's what he has to say in the above sign: Our Nanny State
SF News New Set of California Laws for 2010 by Amy Crocker Another year, another set of legislation goes into effect. The Merced Sun Star has compiled this helpful, alphabetized list of new laws so you can continue to be an upstanding
SF News Cops Drag Feet Over New Nightclub Legislation Last year, Mayor Newsom and Supervisor Maxwell introduced legislation aimed at reforming the nightclub industry. Apparently, not much has been accomplished since then. Back in 2003, the Entertainment Commission was formed in order
misc SFist Gift Guide -- Absinthe Lollipops Now that absinthe is back and more tipsy-inducing than ever, it only makes sense for them to take on practical lollipop form. Which is why Lit Absinthe Lollipops are the perfect stocking stuffer
misc Eight Things We Learned About Hanukkah 1. Hanukkah has multiple spellings: Hanukkah, Hanukka, Chanuka, and Chanukah. 2. It's important to double check (using a calendar, not a person) which is the actual first night of Hanukkah. We accidentally lit
Arts & Entertainment Tippling with Kipling, San Francisco 1889 Ah, today should be a citywide holiday, it really really should. December 5th marks the 74th anniversary of the end of Prohibition, just a tick of the geological clock since that final state
SF News Oh You Should Totally Vote! It Looks Good on You. Oh is it a voting day or something? It totally sneaked up on us! It still feels like Monday today. Actually it also feels like October. Anyway, you should probably vote yes on
SF News Get Back to Work, Slacker Arnold has vetoed two bills that would have expanded the Family Leave Act, which allows employees of medium to large companies to take 12 weeks of unpaid leave or 6 weeks of paid
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the deceptive SF Weekly. Letters abound, either outraged by the fake Barry Bonds story or entertained by the elk. Why don't the negative letters have the names of the authors?
SF News Feinstein Folds on FISA The bill passed after some sheninagans by the White House when sixteen Democrats chickened out and voted with the Republicans. Most of them came from supposed Red States who thought that President 25%
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Conrad Black Postscript: I am writing this from the San Francisco Bay Area, where all summer a local politician named Ed Jew has been in trouble over his filing of an allegedly bogus claim of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Indian Man's Love Of NoCal Wine Sparks Successful Venture Back Home We find something inherently charming about falling in love with something (especially wine), and making your passion into your life. All the more charming that the dream's genesis was here, and it traveled
