SF News SF Is 'Spot-Checking' 10 Warehouses That Could Be Illegal Residences While Oakland Is Avoiding Such 'Witch Hunts' In the aftermath of the deadly Ghost Ship fire in East Oakland 12 days ago, it was assumed by many that other similar warehouses that had been converted into illegal live-work spaces or
SF News Elon Musk And Travis Kalanick Just Joined Trump's Advisory Team It looks like Facebook board member Peter Thiel will now have some company in his late-night cram sessions with President-elect Donald Trump. The Washington Post reports that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Tesla
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best New Year's Eve Shows You Can Still Make Plans To See by Adrian Spinelli Options for a New Year’s Eve: stay home and mope, go to a house party and make questionable decisions, or you can make a good decision (followed by subsequent
SF News Facebook, Silicon Valley Engineers Pledge Never To Build A Registry Of Muslims Recently, pressure has mounted on technology firms and their workers to publicly vow that they will not help create a registry of Muslims even if asked by the US Government to do so,
SF News Supervisors Vote To Install Permanent Alex Nieto Memorial On Bernal Hill A photo posted by @tootsieroll415 on Jun 16, 2016 at 5:30pm PDT The arrangement of rocks, flowers, and photographs that has sat beside Bernal Hill for the past two years in memory
SF News 'Coffin Girl' May Have Positive ID Within Days The Bay Area was captivated earlier this year with the story of a mysterious coffin containing the well preserved remains of what was believed to be a three-year-old girl underneath a home on
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Caltrans Sued Over Homeless Sweeps A coalition of East Bay homeless people and advocates sued Caltrans in Alameda County Superior Court, accusing the agency of illegally seizing and destroying property during sweeps of homeless encampments. [Bay City News]
SF News Mission Pedestrian Pepper Sprayed As He Attempts To Flee Girl Gang A man walking on a busy Mission District street was mugged at knifepoint this morning by a group of three women and one man. It all went down at 4 a.m., police
SF News Fears Of Serial Suspects Stirred By Multiple Financial District Muggings A pair of similar muggings moments and a block apart have raised fears that a duo of serial robbers is on the loose in San Francisco. According to the San Francisco Police Department,
SF News Supervisors Vote To Allocate $9 Million For Free City College While advocates for a tuition-free City College took to City Hall yesterday to sing Christmas carols with altered lyrics to fit their cause, the Board of Supervisors voted 9-1 to allocate $9 million
SF News Bottle Bashers Rob Man Of Goods On Guerrero A duo of San Francisco muggers knocked their victim out Sunday, all to steal his phone and cash. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the 35-year-old male victim was walking near 28th
SF News Uber Says 'FU' To DMV, Rolls Out Self-Driving Cars Without Approval Uber's self-driving cars are now picking up passengers on the streets of San Francisco. Starting today, the company will make its autonomous vehicles available to customers hailing an UberX ride through the app.
SF News Amazon Completes Drone Delivery Of Package In England In 13 Minutes First-ever #AmazonPrimeAir customer delivery is in the books. 13 min—click to delivery. Check out the video: https://t.co/Xl8HiQMA1S pic.twitter.com/5HGsmHvPlE— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) December 14, 2016 From a
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Twitter-Loving Trump Disses Twitter CEO Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here As if you don't have enough to do this
SF News Day Around The Bay: RFK's Family Not Pleased About RFK Democratic Club 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 family of Robert F. Kennedy isn't too happy
SF News After New $39 Million Financial Blow, Free City College Advocates Ft. Danny Glover 'Carol' At City Hall Actor Danny Glover says Make SF City College free! @OfficialCCSF @SFCity_Hall #KTVU pic.twitter.com/SqIhfS5KXI— taramoriarty (@taramoriarty1) December 13, 2016 Just weeks ago, advocates for a tuition-free City College felt their
SF News Castro Comic Book Shop 'Whatever' Launches Fundraising Effort To Forestall Imminent Closure A Castro comic book store is in serious financial trouble, with its owner saying he needs to raise $8,000 by the end of the week or the shop will close for good.
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week The annual slog/joyous crush (depending on how you see it) of holiday parties is upon us, and whether you're boozing it up with friends in annual fashion or drinking to deal with
SF News Former Stanford Football Player And 49er Konrad Reuland Dies Of Brain Aneurysm At 29 A Stanford alumnus originally signed by the San Francisco 49ers as an undrafted free agent in 2011 according to Bleach Report, Konrad Reuland, 29, died Monday. News of this death broke at a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Proposed BevMo! Near Union Square Gives Hope To Shoppers Everywhere If you're looking to drop $12 to ice-skate or doing a round of holiday shopping at Macy's, Union Square has you covered. Otherwise, the chain store-filled blocks surrounding that public plaza don't tend
SF News Second Suspect Arrested, Third Still At Large In Hate-Motivated Murder Of Musician Outside East Bay Bar 28-year-old William Sims was fatally gunned down on November 12 outside a bar and pool hall called the Capri Club in El Sobrante, and four days later authorities apprehended and charged 31-year-old Daniel
SF News Refried Cycles, San Francisco's Best Little Used Bike Shop, Has Closed Refried Cycles, a Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory of bike parts expertly combined and brought to life, is gone. Their phone number has been changed and Yelpers and Facebookers report the store as permanently closed.
SF News Peter Thiel Poised To Profit Off Trump's Promised Crackdown On Immigrants While many residents of Silicon Valley are smarting over the election of Donald Trump, Peter Thiel is sitting pretty. The Trump-supporting Facebook board member secured a position on the president-elect's transition team, and
SF News Life-Threatening Injuries Follow Brawl Between Two 60-Something Women In Chinatown A resident of San Francisco's Chinatown was rushed to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries Monday, after an altercation with a neighbor turned violent. Police say that the fight began at around 11:
Arts & Entertainment Solange Joins Fantastic Negrito For Google-Sponsored Benefit Concert In Oakland On Friday Solange Knowles, sister to Queen Bey and royalty in her own right, will perform a trio of songs from her masterful album A Seat At The Table at an intimate performance in Oakland
