SF News Oracle Senior Staffer Resigns In Protest After CEO Joins Trump Transition Team, Invites Others To Join Petition In a scathing email posted publicly on LinkedIn, Oracle senior staff member George Polisner announced his resignation in protest of co-CEO Safra Catz's decision to join the Trump transition team after meeting with
Arts & Entertainment Icky Stalker Scenario Spoils Intriguing Premise Of 'Passengers' is being billed as an sci-fi action romance starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt as two passengers on an interstellar voyage who accidentally wake up decades before they're set to arrive at their
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bacteria Common In Undercooked Meat Identified As Culprit In Antioch Thanksgiving Food Poisonings The mass food poisoning incident at a free Thanksgiving dinner in Antioch that ended in the deaths of three people now has a clinical conclusion. As KRON 4 reports, Contra Costa County health
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Rowdy Firefighters Face Charges 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 agenda for the week is set! [SFist] A
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Is Home To 3 Of The State's 10 Most Dangerous Intersections Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Judge Aaron Persky, whose lenient sentence for Brock Turner
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week The year is drawing to a close, and for many that means the Christmas season is upon us. However, because this is San Francisco, if you're so inclined there are plenty of delightfully
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink As Nearby Valencia Development Looms, Zeitgeist Files Review To Protect Beer Garden From Shadow Zeitgeist, among San Francisco's best known bars and choice few beer gardens, celebrates its 40th anniversary next month, having recently attained Legacy Business status in its wizened, grizzly old age. But just as
SF News Lawsuit Says Google's Confidentiality Policy Is So Ridiculous Staffers Can't Write Novels About People In Tech A lawsuit filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco on Tuesday on behalf of a former Google employee identified as a "John Doe" alleges that the Mountain View-based tech company insists upon
Arts & Entertainment 'The Speakeasy' Remains An Unpredictable, Immersive Delight In Its New North Beach Digs The first entry point for The Speakeasy is Jack Kerouac Alley, the narrow walking street between Vesuvio and City Lights Books named for an American writer who was himself born too late to
SF News As Outsider, New SFPD Chief Bill Scott Will Have 'Fresh Eyes' The selection of a new SFPD Chief was not, Mayor Lee assured a packed City Hall press conference this morning, a choice between "insider and outsider," but instead a measured decision based on
SF News Families Of Three Orlando Shooting Victims File Suit Against Twitter, Google, And Facebook The families of three of the people killed in the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June Tevin Eugene Crosby, Juan Guerrero, and Javier Jorge-Reyes filed suit this week in federal
Arts & Entertainment Justice To Headline Massive New Year's Eve Concert At The Armory Roughly 4,000 attendees are getting ready to do the D.A.N.C.E. at the Armory Drill Court this New Year's Eve, as the 40,000-square-foot space is preparing to host
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Divas Still On The Market In The Tenderloin, Starts Outreach For Trans Homeless In The 'Hood Luckily for the trans employees and performers at Tenderloin nightclub Divas (1081 Post Street), nearly two years after going on the market owner Steve Berkey has maintained his pledge not to sell to
SF News Mayor Considering Legal Action As Self-Driving Ubers Continue To Roam SF Streets With Uber executives vowing to keep their self-driving cars on San Francisco streets in the face of opposition from both local and state officials, Mayor Ed Lee is exploring the possibility of taking
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Oakland Olive Oil Company Hit With Lawsuit A suspect is in custody after a high-speed police chase that started in San Leandro ended in Brisbane Tuesday morning. [KRON 4] California’s population has grown to 39.4 million. [Associated Press]
SF News Woman Uses Phone Tracker To Find Her Husband's Dead Body A Bay Area woman using an phone tracking service to search for her missing husband made a sad and gruesome discovery over the weekend, when the app led her to the site of
SF News RayKo Photo Center, Largest Such Operation In The West, Plans To Shutter For Good In May The darkrooms at RayKo Photo Center, a 26-year-old photography institution that's spanned the medium's major transition from film to digital with copious resources in each discipline, will go proverbially dark at the end
SF News Leaked Facebook Moderation Doc Says Photo Of Fergie Peeing Is OK, Mocking The French Not OK A weird and possibly old set of guideline slides for third-party moderators of Facebook posts was leaked to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung that shows a bunch of confusing distinctions between what constitutes hate
SF News Muni Passenger Thwarts Backpack Theft A man riding a Muni bus on Geary Boulevard successfully fought an aspiring mugger Sunday, chasing the thief down and reclaiming his property. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the 23-year-old victim
SF News Woman Trapped Under Muni Bus In Critical Condition 🚨⚠️️: @fresconews is #onthescene of an incident involving a @sfmta_muni bus. Crime tape is up. Buses are impacted near Market & 3rd. pic.twitter.com/qixYN5F0TB— Kyle Chak (@KyleSChak) December 20, 2016 Market
SF News Attorneys For Ghost Ship's Derick Almena: 'He Should Not Be Made A Scapegoat' The legal team that will be representing Derick Ion Almena, the founder of Oakland's Ghost Ship collective and the man many say is responsible for the unsafe construction, wiring, and lack of proper
SF News Mayor Lee Picks Outsider For New SFPD Chief, Veteran LAPD Cop William Scott Mayor Ed Lee has chosen the next San Francisco Police Chief, and, to the surprise of many, the job will not go to current interim Chief Toney Chaplin. Instead, the Chronicle reports that
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Uber Lost $800 Million Last Quarter Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Rain says White Christmas is stodgy but fine. [SFist]
SF News Day Around The Bay: Elon Musk's Latest And Greatest Idea Is A Joke Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. According to tax documents, the non-profit Burning Man Project
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: 55-Hour Pastrami At Duchess In Rockridge A photo posted by Duchess Oakland (@duchessoakland) on Dec 1, 2016 at 2:24pm PST A new all-day cafe and pub with low-key gourmet food, Duchess opened in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood this month.
