Arts & Entertainment Longtime SF DJ Builds Online Archive Of '80s And '90s Club Mixes From Long-Gone Nightclubs "Somebody just came and dropped off this whole bag of cassettes," Jim Hopkins says, showing me a plastic grocery bag full of hand-labeled tapes sitting in the corner of the DJ booth at
SF News Video: Very Pregnant Chelsea Peretti Hosts, Roasts 10th Crunchies Tech Awards Like artificially intelligent software that's slowly becoming sentient, the technology leaders — founders, angels, CEOs — that gathered to celebrate themselves last night at the would-be "Oscars of tech" appeared somehow changed this year, displaying
SF News Video: Mudslide Takes Out San Rafael Home We'll likely be collecting stories of the impacts of last night's rainstorm well into tomorrow, but KTVU brings us coverage from San Rafael where a mudslide has thoroughly destroyed one family's home. This
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Pretty Music Video Shows Off Sonoma And Mendocino Coast Sonoma-based singer-songwriter Garrett Pierce has a new album out next week on Crossbill Records called Dusk, and the first release, "Distant Thought," comes with this music video directed by Pierce featuring nature scenes
Arts & Entertainment Revised Designs Submitted For Final Skyscraper Going Into Transbay District Pelli Clark Pelli, the same architectural firm responsible for the dildo-shaped tower rising downtown that's soon to be named Salesforce, has just submitted some revised designs to Planning for a second tower they're
SF News Video: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Would Change The Electoral College If She Could Admiration for Ruth Bader Ginsburg transcends even her role as Supreme Court Justice, her symbolic notoriety and vast life experience leading many on the left to seek out the 83-year-old jurist as a
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Activist Facebook Shareholders Attempt To Oust Mark Zuckerberg The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 in the search for two missing Northern California teenagers in cases that authorities say are related and suspicious. [Associated Press] Activist shareholders
SF News Elderly Pedestrian Fights For Life Following Hit And Run A man crossing a San Francisco street was seriously injured Monday, when a driver struck him then sped away from the scene. Police say that the 77-year-old male pedestrian was crossing near the
SF News Hearing On Trump Immigration Order To Be Live-Streamed And Here Are The Three Judges Involved In a rare occurrence for an appeals court hearing on a major case, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit today will be hearing oral arguments by phone in State of Washington v.
SF News Mercedes Mugger Menaces Mission A mugger in a Mercedes robbed at least two victims Monday during an evening shakedown in the Mission. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the male victims (aged 36 and 30) were
SF News BART Janitor Who Makes $271K A Year Spends Hours At A Time In A Storage Closet Quick thought experiment: You're a janitor at a BART station, and not just any BART station, but the Powell Street BART station, a uniquely gross nexus of sadness and squalor. How much pay
SF News Victim Follows Bike-Riding Mugger Until Police Arrive The victim of a Tenderloin mugger refused to take the crime lying down Monday, following her fleeing robber until police arrived. The 20-year-old female victim was walking near the intersection of Ellis and
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Big Rig Flip Closes Richmond Bridge 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 new details in the case that led to
Arts & Entertainment Get To Know True Beauty: Unfiltered, Uncharted, Nearly Unimaginable Ah, the beauty myth: a specter that promotes impossible perfection and meticulous curation in today’s world. It can be a little hard to escape, particularly here in California: it’s everything from
SF News Day Around The Bay: How To Block The Black Bloc 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 off-duty Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputy who
SF News Airbnb Follows Up '#WeAccept' Super Bowl Ad With Pledge To Help 100,000 People In Need With Short-Term Housing Following on an announcement last week by Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky that the company wanted to provide emergency short-term housing to those affected by President Trump's travel ban, the company has doubled down
SF News Murderous Drifters Plead Guilty To Golden Gate Park, Marin Killings Two in a group of three drifters, Morrison Lampley and Lila Alligood, pleaded guilty today to two first-degree murders over the course of a meth-fueled weekend in 2015. Sources including the Examiner and
SF News Ninth Circuit Schedules Hearing On Trump Immigration Order For Tuesday Following DOJ Brief The Department of Justice filed its brief Monday afternoon on behalf of the Trump administration ahead of the 3 p.m. PT deadline at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco,
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Auction Next Week To Feature Rare Images Of San Francisco After 1906 Earthquake A collection of rare photographs taken in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and fire in addition to several from before the earthquake are going up for auction on February 14 at Swann
SF News Mayor, Supervisors Reach Free City College Deal Mayor Ed Lee has agreed to spend $5.4 million in each of the next two fiscal years on free tuition to City College for city residents, and books for low-income students, in
SF News Revisiting 'Lone Star Swan', The Bird Man Of 16th Street BART "Everybody wants to know where I came from, who I am, why I write, why I feed the birds,” John Ratliff, who is alternately known as "Birdman" or "Lone Star Swan" tells Mission
SF News Trump Threatens To Yank Funds From 'Out of Control' California If It Declares Itself A Sanctuary State In a pre-Super Bowl interview with buddy Bill O'Reilly on Fox, President Trump once again said a number of frightening and angry-making things, including new comments praising Vladimir Putin, implying the US government
SF News Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Throws Money At Bay Area Housing Crisis Fueling speculation that it might begin funding efforts to allay the Bay Area's housing crisis, representatives from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative met with local housing experts, real estate groups, and academics last summer
SF News Monday Lunchtime Links: NASA Engineer To Aid Uber's Flying Car Effort A couple little earthquakes rattled the North Bay this morning. [KRON 4] Library officials in Mountain View announced they have received a $98,000 grant from Google to pay for bookmobile services. [CBS
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Gets Another Coffeeshop: SF's First Verve Coffee Arrives Next Week at Church & Market The crazy glut of coffee options in the Castro shows little signs of abating as we get word that Verve Coffee Roasters is set to arrive in the flatiron-shaped space that was most
