SF News Girl Scout Cookie Stand Robbed At Gunpoint In The East Bay All is not well when a mother and daughter can't sell some Samoas without getting robbed. But that is what happened outside a Union City Safeway on Wednesday night, when a man or
SF News Major Mudslide Shuts Down I-80 Near Auburn In Both Directions A mudslide Friday morning caused the complete shutdown of eastbound and westbound I-80, leading to some serious delays and a detour for those who are Tahoe-bound. As ABC 7 reports, all truck traffic
SF News City Denies Permit For Free Summer Of Love 50th Anniversary Concert A second "Human Be-In" is perhaps not to be. The event promoter who had planned a free 50th anniversary concert to mark the fateful 1967 "Summer of Love" with its massive crowd in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink McDonald's Is Testing Out A Crab Sandwich In San Jose Much like they did last year with those Gilroy garlic fries, McDonald's is using the South Bay as a testing ground for a new crab sandwich. But there's no real local angle with
SF News Pro- And Anti-Choice Rallies To Face Off At Mission Planned Parenthood Location Saturday This weekend is going to see another, likely smaller scale protest battle over abortion rights reminiscent of Women's March day when the annual anti-abortion march up Market Street coincided with the more liberal-heavy,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo Du Jour: Goodbye, Home Restaurant Check it out! The long-vacant Home Restaurant building has disappeared at Church and Market, about a week after demolition began. This triangular pile of rubble, bounded on the back side by 14th Street,
Arts & Entertainment Composer Jonathan Dove Discusses 'Flight,' His 1998 Opera About A Refugee Trapped In An Airport As a respite to the disheartening stories about refugees being stranded at airport, we offer an opera about a refugee stranded at an airport. And this one is a comedy, just what the
Arts & Entertainment Hermione Works At Google In New, Full Trailer For 'The Circle' Okay, so maybe Emma Watson didn't really go to Hogwarts like her famous Harry Potter character, but she did get her degree from prestigious muggle school Brown University and could totally work at
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: Republican Caltrain Cuts Could Cost Bay Area 9,600 Jobs SF State has shared a cloud-based storage and file-sharing system that will give faculty, staff and students access to more free storage space. [Golden Gate Xpress] Silicon Valley tech leaders are speaking out
SF News Muni Thinks Most Riders Pay Their Fares It's true that a lot of people around SF are good with the honor system and dutifully tag their Clipper cards when boarding Muni buses and light-rail trains. But do the overwhelming majority?
SF News Creepy Fake Cop Busted In The Castro A man who threatened to shoot someone and told a witness he was a police officer was arrested Thursday morning, after the real cops arrived and called his bluff. The San Francisco Police
SF News BART Directors Propose Sanctuary In Transit Policy In an Oakland meeting of the BART Board yesterday, two BART directors took the stance that the regional transit system should investigate and perhaps adopt a "Sanctuary in Transit Policy." That policy, those
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SF News Lake Oroville Hits 98 Percent Capacity, Emergency Spillway May Not Have To Be Used Yesterday there were some false-alarm rumors that there had been a catastrophic failure of the spillway at Oroville Dam, fed by some dramatic photos of a controlled release of water down the damaged
Arts & Entertainment Wooden And Laughable 'Fifty Shades Darker' Is More Cautionary Tale Than Romance In hindsight, the ending of the first movie, in which our once naive heroine finally recognizes the inherent cruelty in her lover's sexual proclivities and decides to walk away from him forever, was
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Yelp Shares Drop Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Jay has returned to Rent. [SFist] Police are looking
SF News Day Around The Bay: Contra Costa County Residents Protest As Sheriff Meets With Jeff Sessions Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. 49ers new GM John Lynch and Coach Kyle Shanahan
Arts & Entertainment 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' At ACT Is Powerful If Painful The Afghanistan of A Thousand Splendid Suns is not one of splendor. The play's title is a reference to brighter, long past moments in Kabul's history — when women were once freer than they
Arts & Entertainment What It's Like To See 'Rent' Again 20 Years Later, 20 Years Older It was a hot August Saturday in 1996 when two college friends and I camped out on West 41st Street to score $20 rush tickets to see Rent, the original Broadway cast still
SF News Trump Denied Stay Of Restraining Order On Travel Ban By Ninth Circuit A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously Thursday afternoon to deny the Trump administration's request for an emergency stay of a restraining order issued last Friday by a
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Adult Toy Stores In San Francisco Spending this Valentine's Day happily single? Maybe you should treat yourself to a self-love aid at one of our city's finest adult toy emporia. Or perhaps you are happily coupled but you're getting
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Stanford Drops Sex Assault Lawyer Californians' taxpayer contribution into the state’s $196 billion teacher pension fund is expected to jump up by $153 million in the next fiscal year. [SF Business Times] A group of first-graders from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Beer Week Is Here, And These Are The 25 Best Events Let's get down to business. Starting Friday, it's SF Beer Week, the annual seven days and change wherein the San Francisco Brewer's Guild and local bars collude to keep half of this town
SF News Twitter Ad Revenue Down, Stock Sinks, Talk Of Selling Company Revives Twitter is again in not-great shape following an earnings report and disappointing growth stats, proving at least for now that candidate-turned-Twitterer-in-Chief Trump didn't do a lot to help the 11-year-old social media platform.
SF News Man Attacked with Machete Near Ocean Beach An argument on a quiet stretch in the Outer Richmond turned violent Wednesday morning, when a man was attacked with a machete. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the confrontation went down
