SF News Newly Appointed Rec And Parks Commissioner Resigns Days After Being Sworn In Jason Chan's time as a commissioner with the Rec and Parks Department was short and not particularly sweet. The Chronicle reports that the former Ed Lee campaign worker resigned from his post mere
SF News The Library Forgives You, 55K Patrons With Overdue Fines, During Amnesty Period Next Month To ensure a truly clean slate for 2017, the San Francisco Public Library is offering amnesty to all 55,000 of its patrons with fines for overdue items of more than $10.01,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Heavy Rainstorms Caused By Climate Change Could Kill Off SF Bay's Wild Oysters For Good Its populations originally decimated in San Francisco Bay during the Gold Rush and the consequent pillaging of every local source of food (more about that here), the Olympia oyster the West Coast's only
SF News Google-Founded Self-Driving Car Company Waymo Unveils Vehicles, Eyes 2017 Deployment As Uber continued to argue with state regulators last week over its self-driving cars on San Francisco streets, another manufacturer of autonomous vehicles rolled onto the scene. Executives with Waymo, a company which
SF News Downed Tree Blocks 19th Avenue Tunnel, Avoid Area For The Afternoon ALERT: SR-1/19th Ave blocked by fallen tree n/o MacArthur Tunnell. One lane open s/b, no lanes n/b. Expect delays. pic.twitter.com/9I2al43tEk— CHP Marin (@CHPMarin) December 19, 2016
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For The 'Sense8' Christmas Special, Airing This Week Like characters on Sense8, the Netflix original sci-fi series centered on eight psychically interconnected characters, fans of the cult-favorite show knew together and at once last week that the trailer for the show's
Arts & Entertainment DNA Lounge Facing Imminent Closure As Owner Asks For More Patrons DNA Lounge is hemorrhaging cash, and is on the verge of closing its doors for good. So writes the owner of the SoMa nightclub, Jamie Zawinski, in a lengthy blog post published this
SF News Metallica Frontman James Hetfield Found Bay Area Too 'Elitist,' So He Moved His Family To Vail, Colorado The two founding members of Metallica, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, have long been presences around the Bay Area and have owned property here, but that may be changing. Last year Ulrich put
SF News Twitter To Release Vine Camera App In Apparent Effort To Please No One When Twitter announced in October that it was shutting down Vine, fans of the six-second video-looping service lamented the forthcoming loss and various potential buyers — including Pornhub — came out of the woodwork. While
SF News Monday Lunchtime Links: The Downside To 'Tech's Alcohol-Soaked Culture' A person was injured this weekend when they got trapped between containers on a ship at the Port of Oakland. [Bay City News] "Tech’s Alcohol-Soaked Culture Isn’t a Party for Everybody,
Arts & Entertainment Daisy Does the Niners: 49ers Drop 13th Straight Game, Lose 41-13 to the Falcons by Daisy Barringer Yesterday at 1 p.m., I was forced to make what should have been an easy choice, but was actually anything but. I could spend the next three hours snowboarding
SF News SFPD Confiscating Buskers' Instruments Ahead Of Holiday Shopping Rush Counting on some nice chunks of change from holiday shopping foot traffic, buskers set up in force around Union Square this time of year playing everything from drum kits, to trumpets, to keyboards
SF News Academy Of Art, Longtime Zoning Scofflaw, Agrees To $60 Million Settlement With SF In a City Hall news conference announced yesterday and held Monday morning, City Attorney Dennis Herrera delivered the news, leaked early to the Chronicle's Matier and Ross, that Academy of Art University, one
SF News Dog Tumbles Off Fort Funston Cliff, Guardian Follows A man and his dog were safely rescued Sunday, after the pup fell off a cliff and its master followed. According to a tweet from the San Francisco Firefighters Union, crews were called
Arts & Entertainment 'Irving Berlin's White Christmas' Is Colorful, Lively, And Predictable The touring company of has returned to San Francisco for a ten day run through December 24th, at the Golden Gate Theater. It's a production that's colorful and lively, if a little too
SF News SF Man Arrested For 'Blunt Force Trauma' Death Of Girlfriend A couple with an alleged history of domestic violence incidents had their tale come to a terrible close this weekend, when a San Francisco man was arrested for allegedly killing his girlfriend in
Arts & Entertainment Approaching Christmas Anniversary Of Tiger Attack, SF Zoo Releases Video Of Tiger Taking Dip #Caturday calls for bath time for JT🐅💦 #SiberianTiger #SavingSpecies pic.twitter.com/5F2Tg5kmg6— San Francisco Zoo (@sfzoo) December 17, 2016 December 25th this year will mark nine years since the infamous 2007 tiger
SF News Man And Woman Killed In South Van Ness Shooting #Developing: Two people killed in a shooting in SF near 16th and S. Van Ness. Male and female in their 20s or 30s. pic.twitter.com/Fbnu2k8HkV— Christie Smith (@christies_nbc) December 19,
SF News Dolores Park's North Field, AKA Fixie Flats, Closed Until February Starting today, the big flat "multi-use" field on the north side of Dolores Park, a.k.a. the park's main party space, a.k.a. Fixie Flats will be closed for what Rec
SF News Monday Morning Linkdump: CA's Prison Cell Phone Crackdown 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: A federal judge has rejected a
Arts & Entertainment How To Pack Like A Pro For Your Holiday Trip Peak travel season is here, so we hope you've secured your holiday trips! Even if you're stuck going to your in-laws or you're popping over to the neighbor's for eggnog, it can't hurt
SF News Rose Pak's Sisters Settle Dispute Over Estate, Will Finally Cremate Her Body We learned last month that despite a high-profile funeral that drew many local dignitaries and media coverage, the late Rose Pak's remains still had not been interred despite her body being "paraded through
SF News Powerful LSD Leading To Really Bad Trips, Arrests In Santa Cruz County The acid in Santa Cruz is really bad right now, man. Either that or it's really, really good and it's making people so out of their minds that they're committing crimes and getting
SF News Sunday Links: Tilting Tower's Penthouse Sells For $13 Million Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Two Alameda County sheriff’s deputies who were caught
SF News Federal Judge Rejects Attempt By California Elector To Vote Against State's Majoritry At least in the case of California's electors, it won't be so simple to upend custom and cast votes for anyone but Hillary Clinton, who won the statewide majority in November's election. A
