SF News Waitlist For SF Shelter Beds Surpasses 1,000 People Last night, with today's torrential downpours on the horizon, 1,009 people languished on a waitlist for 90-day shelter beds, a statistic that comes to us via a press release from the Coalition
SF News Facebook Asks Users To Tell It What Is And Is Not 'Fake News' Did Facebook and so-called "fake news" give us president-elect Donald Trump? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn't think so, and called any suggestion to the contrary "a pretty crazy idea." However, facing a chorus
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Kelly Clarkson Sings 'It's Quiet Uptown' From the Hamilton Mixtape Just to help get you through here, in the rain, this week before Christmas when we're all a little frazzled and hungover, I bring you this moving, fairly stunning rendition of the song
Arts & Entertainment Eff-ing In SF, Vol. 11: Meet 'Bubby', A Dating App For Nice Jewish Boys, Girls, And Goys, Too Sex, love, and other mysteries in the city your mother warned you about. Most actual Bubbes, or Jewish grandmothers, prefer to do their well-meaning nagging and cajoling in person or over the phone.
SF News Video: Mountain Lion Kills Deer On Hillsborough Home's Porch Like many wealthy Peninsula suburbs, Hillsborough, known for its giant homes and manicured lawns, has its fair share of wildlife, from squirrels to coyotes — providing a little taste of nature in a place
Arts & Entertainment The Strand Theater Welcomes The Skivvies With Their Underwear-Clad 'Holiday Roadkill' Bringing some saucy (and pretty gay sounding) fun to The Strand next week are The Skivvies, the Broadway duo of Nick Cearley and Lauren Molina, and their holiday revue of classics, covers, and
SF News Rainpocalypse 2016: Embarcadero Under Water Again The waves are overflowing onto the street along the Embarcadero in #SF pic.twitter.com/3jkbcObQRN— Sarah Ravani (@SarRavani) December 15, 2016 It's been two years since the last rainpocalypse, and just like
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 22-Year-Old Opening EDM-Themed Bubble Tea Bar In The Richmond In a concept that sounds more like an improv sketch than an honest-to-god business plan, the Richmond District is, we gather, getting an EDM-themed tea bar which we are going to just go
SF News Kamala Harris Reverses Position For Second Time, Will Not Support Challenge To San Francisco's Cash-Bail System Marking the second reversal on the matter in under a week, outgoing California Attorney General (and Senator-elect) Kamala Harris said yesterday that she will not, in fact, support a challenge to San Francisco's
SF News Alaska Airlines Still Being Cagey About Plans For Virgin Brand Following news in April that Virgin America was being acquired by Alaska Air Group, fans of Virgin and its purple-lit cabins have been pretty sad some of them litigiously so about the prospect
SF News Civic Center BART Attack Sends Man To Hospital An early-morning altercation at the Civic Center BART station in San Francisco left a man injured Thursday, after he was shoved down the stairs and stabbed. Police say that the attack went down
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Infamous Double Murderer Dies While On San Quentin's Death Row Xmas balls and babies #xmasinthecity #urbanxmas #urbanstreetphotography #urbanphotography #streetsofsf #sfist A photo posted by Darwin Bell (@darwinbell) on Dec 14, 2016 at 10:49pm PST San Quentin State Prison death row inmate Dennis
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From The 'Oakland United' Ghost Ship Benefit Concert Featuring Hieroglyphics, Tune-Yards, Primus, And More Fans joined hands, heard from victims' loved ones, and swayed to emotionally resonant music at the Fox Theater last night in a powerful fundraiser concert presented by Another Planet Entertainment and Noise Pop
SF News Cash-Seeking Transit Officials Mull Proposal To Up Bay Area Bridge Tolls By $3 At a workshop meeting Wednesday, Bay Area transit officials floated an idea sure to invoke the ire of some local commuters: A possible toll increase of as much as $3 on the area's
SF News Elderly Ride-Hail Pool Passenger Kidnapped By Driver In Richmond District Just a few days after the driver for a ride hail company was accused of taking a San Francisco passenger to a remote location and making unwanted sexual advances, another driver is being
Arts & Entertainment Southwest Pilot Congratulates Flight Full Of Raiders Fans For Drinking All The Plane's Liquor Passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Kansas City last week, the day of a football game between the Raiders and the Chiefs, managed a rare and thirsty feat of cleaning
SF News Uber Blames Its Drivers As More Reports Of Self-Driving Cars Running Red Lights Surface Uber's San Francisco self-driving car launch had a rocky first day. First, the California DMV told the company that, despite its protestations to the contrary, it still needed to acquire permits to operate
SF News Castro Stabbing Deemed A Suicide A disturbing fatal stabbing Monday afternoon outside the post office on 18th Street in the Castro is now being treated by police as a suicide. As the Bay Area Reporter reports, the victim
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: SF's 'Sinful' Ranking Drops Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here How many of our best new bars have you
Arts & Entertainment What Will Your Message To The Future Be? See The New Danny Lyon Exhibition At The de Young! A leading figure in the American street photography movement of the 1960s, Danny Lyon is able to find beauty in the starkest reality, and to provide a charged alternative to the bland vision
SF News Day Around The Bay: Tech Leaders Look Ready To Vomit During Trump Summit Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Did you know there are a bunch of ships
SF News In Signal To Interim SFPD Chief, Resolution Urging Permanent Chief To Live In The City Passes Unanimously Supervisor Norman Yee's non-binding resolution to "require" the San Francisco Police Chief to live in the city he or she serves has passed unanimously. A legislative aide to Yee reiterated to KRON 4
SF News State Regulators Tell Uber It Must Immediately Stop Self-Driving Car Program Uber's self-driving car program, launched this morning in San Francisco, is experiencing a bit of whiplash. According to the Associated Press, California state regulators just announced that Uber must cease picking up passengers
SF News Two Years To The Day Of The 2014 Rainpocalypse, Here Comes Another On Thursday Remember that crazy storm that flooded Muni, blew up a transformer in the Tenderloin, and nearly shut down the city in December 2014? Well, two years to the day, basically, on Thursday (the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Best New SF Bars Of 2016 That time has come when every website on the World Wide Web makes their end-of-year listicles, and for us these are limited to San Francisco and the Bay Area, and the things that
