SF News As New Oakland Police Chief Is Sworn In, Officers Are Ordered To Report All Unpermitted Parties After an order was given, rescinded, and then re-issued last week by Oakland's assistant police chief David Downing, Oakland Police officers are now being instructed to report all unpermitted events and gatherings that
SF News Uber Exec Who Left Previous Job At Google Over Sexual Harassment Allegations Is Fired Uber's woeful month continues with the ignominious departure of senior vice president of engineering Amit Singhal, forced to resign by company CEO Travis Kalanick after tech publication Recode started asking questions about Singhal's
SF News Steph Curry Breaks Timeout Huddle To Help Fan Win $5K Because He's Cool Like That Let no one call Steph Curry a selfish player: The warriors MVP took a momentary timeout — from his own team's timeout huddle in the midst of a game against the Brooklyn Nets — to
SF News Screaming Castro Stabber Remains On The Loose A suspect who let out a holler before stabbing a man Sunday remains at large, police say, and was last seen running down 18th Street. The San Francisco Police Department says that the
SF News Monday Lunchtime Links: Marin Trail Fight Heats Up Fight between Marin cyclists and hikers heats back up. [CBS 5] With an unrelenting housing crisis gripping California, state legislators are seekaing to intervene with local controls to ensure there is more development
SF News Man Killed In Mid-Day San Francisco Shooting A brazen afternoon shooting claimed the life of a man in San Francisco Friday, the city's eighth homicide for 2017. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the 29-year-old victim was gunned down
SF News Should Sex Offenders Be Permitted On Facebook? Supreme Court To Decide A case stemming from an innocent 2010 Facebook post about a victory in traffic court has made its way to the Supreme Court because it involves a convicted sex offender and a North
Arts & Entertainment The Stress Squashing Toys You Need At Your Desk Boost your focus at work with space putty and stress blocks. We can't fix the broken copy machine or the spilled coffee all over your (freshly dry cleaned) shirt, but we can help
SF News California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom Sends White House Nasty Note Over Possible Pot Crackdown Gavin Newsom, the former mayor of San Francisco who hopes to become California's Governor in 2018, hasn't been shy about his disgust with the White House, speaking out against GOP policies regarding LGBTQ
Arts & Entertainment Summer Of Love 50th Anniversary Promoter Steps Down, Haight Street Shop Owner 'Sunshine Powers' Steps In After his application for a free Summer of Love 50th Anniversary concert in Golden Gate Park was denied by the Recreation and Park Department and an appeal of that decision was also denied,
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Native Mahershala Ali Takes Home Oscar Gold, Cheered On By Former St. Mary's Teacher Amidst the awkward envelope flub that somewhat dampened a victorious moment for the team behind Moonlight at the Academy Awards last night, it was nonetheless a big night for Best Supporting Actor winner
SF News Monday Morning Linkdump: SF Disdains Snapchat Spectacles Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Your weekend ICYMI: Autonomous Uber whose red light running
Arts & Entertainment Documentary Shot At Oakland's Highland Hospital Up For Oscar A UC Berkeley journalism lecturer is up for an Oscar tonight in the documentary short category, and that's filmmaker Dan Krauss for his 24-minute film called "Extremis," about people facing end-of-life decisions, largely
Arts & Entertainment Behold, The Golden Gate Bridge Made Of Rice Krispie Treats We've seen San Francisco molded out of Jell-O, done over a decade back by artist Liz Hickok, but now some people possibly affiliated with Kellogg's have recreated the Golden Gate Bridge out of
SF News San Jose Flooding Blamed On Santa Clara Valley Water District Officials' Miscalculation The first "hard evidence" has emerged via NBC Bay Area that officials from the Santa Clara Valley Water District made a grave miscalculation last week about how much water they could safely release
SF News Sunday Links: Golden State Warriors Make The Playoffs On my way home from work, I counted 23 cars parked or double parked in the bike lane along Valencia, northbound only. This ongoing lack of enforcement is unsafe. I've never seen a
SF News Infant Injured In Mauling By Family Dog In Concord A 10-month-old boy suffered some traumatic injuries after being attacked Friday by the family dog, a German shepherd-Mastiff mix named Charlie. ABC 7 reports that the mother was in the next room when
SF News Self-Driving Uber That Was Caught On Video Running Red Light Was Driving Itself You'll recall that immediately after launching their self-driving car program in SF in December, Uber had a PR problem involving one of those cars that was caught on a taxi's dash cam blowing
SF News Saturday Links: Man Rescued From Bay After Jumping In After Belongings Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here The city's top food critic makes a crack about
SF News Day Around The Bay: iPhone 7s Reportedly Heating Up, Exploding Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. The bill to fix damaged roads, dams, and spillways
SF News Map Of Police Citations Shows Odd Prevalence Of Antiquated 'Immoral Life' Offense The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project's latest interactive map illustrates the incidences of police citations for minor quality-of-life crimes, an effort from that progressive-leaning group to emphasize the ways that begging and living on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: L'Olivier To Shutter After 38 Years, Old Bus Tavern Shifting Gears, And More This week, SFist covered the Mill's expanding pizza night, the debut of Shiba Ramen in Oakland, and a cool delivery robot spotted "studying" the sidewalks of the Mission District. We also rounded up
SF News LA-Based AIDS Nonprofit Is Using SF As Example To Shut Down Housing Development In LA A much reviled figure in the worlds of adult entertainment and HIV/AIDS healthcare in California, Michael Weinstein of the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), is now catching plenty of heat in
SF News Great: Extended Heavy Rains Could Theoretically Trigger Earthquakes If the disasters wreaked upon multiple locales across California this winter aren't enough, all the rain we've had seeping into the ground could, potentially, cause groundwater pressures that induce earthquakes along the state's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pioneering Diner Proprietor Bette Kroening, Of Bette's Oceanview Diner, Dies At 71 The Bay Area's food world lost another of its most pioneering generation last week as we learn of the passing of Bette Kroening, owner and constant presence at Berkeley's Bette's Oceanview Diner. She
