SF News Major Flooding In San Jose Leads To Boat Rescues, Mandatory Evacuations @SJFD handling major flooding avoid the area Senter and Phelan pic.twitter.com/5nREMAUBZZ— San Jose Fire Dept. (@SJFD) February 21, 2017 The ongoing major flooding caused by the overfull Anderson Reservoir and
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Instagram Goes Carousel Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here What are you up to this week? [SFist] Two
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sad, Lonely Martin Shkreli Joins Berkeley Facebook Group Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. As predicted yesterday, a final plan for corporate shuttles
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For This Maya Angelou Documentary That Premieres Tonight On KQED A documentary that's been on the festival circuit but hasn't yet premiered to the general public, Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise might, as the New York Times points out, "seem redundant to
SF News Lane Of Highway 50 In The Sierra Collapses, Second Lane Shows Troubling Crack Highway 50 to #LakeTahoe closed due to road collapse. #CAStorm pic.twitter.com/ZVlXgrJOKy— KenWayne (@KenWayneKTVU) February 21, 2017 As an atmospheric river runs through it, Northern California's roads and highways are struggling
SF News Uber Board Member Arianna Huffington Will Hold Leadership's 'Feet To The Fire' Over Sexual Harassment Allegations In April 2016, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced that publisher and business mogul Arianna Huffington would join his company's board of directors, praising her "emotional intelligence," the kind women tend to have so
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week This week's rainy weather likely makes you want to just stay home under a blanket with your best friends Netflix and Postmates. But it's just water, you guys! You're not made of sugar.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Laptops In Restaurants: Nuisance, Or Menace? I was recently sitting in a restaurant in the Castro where bar seating is available for dinner, and I watched as a man walked in, ordered an entree, asked advice on wine, and
SF News Hova Fund? Jay Z Partners With Sherpa Capital To Form Venture Capital Firm As the rapper himself so famously put it, Jay Z's not a businessman, he's a business, man. And now, as Axios reports, he's getting into the venture capital business, doing so in partnership
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Inside SF's Immigration Court A driver is dead after crashing into a concrete pillar in West Oakland. [KRON 4] How our digital assistants might be putting us at risk. [ABC 7] A strange and quiet story of
SF News SFPD's 'Top Heavy And Expensive' Command Staff Salaries, By The Numbers When San Francisco Police Department Chief Bill Scott was sworn in last month, law-watchers assumed that (like any other new boss), we'd see a shakeup and departures in the current command staff. Contrary
SF News Weight Problem: BART's 'Fleet Of The Future' Cars Are A Ton Heavier Than Expected, Could Strain System BART's Fleet of the Future, 775 shiny new train cars that have caused their share of delays and debates in the past, have arrived with a brand new problem: They're a ton overweight,
Arts & Entertainment London Designer Sends Anti-Twitter Sentiment Down The Runway Need of the hour! More glitter less Twitter! #Ashish #LFW pic.twitter.com/6agZ4yJanF— Manish Mishra (@dandydujour) February 21, 2017 Like the hours after 5 p.m., it feels like it is always
SF News San Jose Homeless Encampment Residents Stranded By Flooding, Rescued By Fire Department As many as 20 people stranded by rising water, including two inside tent on 3rd hole tee box. @nbcbayarea pic.twitter.com/IZxqLcbKSR— Bob Redell (@BobNBC) February 21, 2017 As weeks of accumulated
SF News It's Come To This: Caltrain Launches Online Petition In Effort To Save Electrification Plan Please sign the White House petition urging the President to save Electrification & 9,600 jobs. #StandWithCaltrain https://t.co/QthSSNZQoT pic.twitter.com/Zpg72Co4q1— Caltrain (@Caltrain) February 20, 2017 Online petitions! They're
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: YouTube Ads Get Chop Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Here's the thing: I don't like movies with animals
SF News Day Around The Bay: Teen Suicides Dropped With Marriage Equality Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here [KRON 4]'s reality show The Backstory covers their
SF News Tuolumne County Reservoir Spillway In Use For First Time In 20 Years Don Pedro Controlled Spillway Gate has been opened. #DonPedroSpill pic.twitter.com/ejvzkmb71C— TID (@TurlockID) February 20, 2017 Another result of the Northern California storms filling reservoirs and flooding rivers and roads: The
SF News Uber CEO Addresses Harassment, Discrimination Allegations In Company-Wide Email, Eric Holder To Review Investigation In former Uber engineer Susan Fowler's widely-circulated blog post "Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber," what was "strange" was repeated alleged sexual harassment, and what was "very" was the company's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Brown Sugar Factory' Takes On 16th And Valencia Space, Formerly Valencia & Kebab Brown paper has covered the windows at Valencia & Kebab's former digs (525 Valencia) since that mediterranean counter service joint closed in September after just 10 months in business. The paper's still there,
SF News Man Discovered In Critical Condition At Recology Recycling Center Probably Got There Via Dumpster Early this morning, a loader operator at Recology's Pier 96 recycling center noticed, in a pile of bottles, cans, and cardboard, a seriously injured man who was likely in a dumpster whose contents
Arts & Entertainment Dog Day Afternoon: Canines Take Over The Roxie For Dog Film Festival “I hope everybody peed and pooped outside,” Dog Film Festival founder Tracie Hotchner announced humorously but earnestly, kicking off a Sunday afternoon show featuring this year's finest short films from the canine canon.
SF News Tech Shuttle 'Hub System' Is Off The Table, Current System May Become Permanent Tomorrow The hubbub surrounding a proposal to limit the number of tech shuttle stops, which have proliferated to more than 100 and whose maximum allowed number is 125 , to a system of 17 or
SF News It Took Nine People And $110K To Come Up With Toll Idea For Lombard Street Those annoyed by a recent proposal to charge sightseers to travel down the crooked part of Lombard Street have still another reason to be ticked today, as a new report reveals a remarkable
SF News Monday Lunchtime Links: SFUSD's Columbus Day Diss Draws DC Hiss San Francisco is trying to become the first city in the nation to eliminate hepatitis C. [SF Chronicle] Some say that duck boats like those that roam SF's streets should be banned. [Associated
