SF News San Francisco Ride-Hail Driver Kidnaps Drunk Passenger Police are seeking a ride hail company driver, after his passenger says he briefly kidnapped her instead of taking her to her destination. Police say that the incident happened at 2:23 a.
SF News Disbanded: Stanford Marching Band Suspended Through End Of School Year, Will Be Reconstituted Under Professional Director Stanford University's band, an irreverent group of musicians and entertainers known for marching to the beat of its own proverbial drum, has predictably been chastised once again by university officials, but this time
SF News Gang Of Three Shakes Down Inner Sunset Pedestrian A woman walking down a quiet Inner Sunset street got an unpleasant surprise Friday, when she was suddenly mugged by a trio of aggressive miscreants. The 47-year-old victim was walking near Ninth Avenue
Arts & Entertainment [Update] 'Hamilton' Online Ticket Queue Swells 100,000+ As In-Person Fans Go To War With Line-Cutters When your #Hamilton alarm doesn't go off and you log on 6 min late...only a mere 99,405 people ahead of me 😠#hamiltonSF pic.twitter.com/Cyh7WugSYM— Kelsey (@Kelsey_001) December 12,
SF News SFMTA Blames Uber And Lyft For San Francisco's Traffic Woes San Francisco has the third worst traffic in the country, and the Bay Area at large has seen a 70 percent increase over the past six years. As with many things in life,
SF News Monday Lunchtime Links: Teen Nude Photo Scandal Rocks The South Bay A group of artists have created a safety video to prevent further Ghost Ships. [KRON 4] Get ready to cry your eyes out: Columnist Debra J. Saunders is apparently quitting the [SF Chronicle]
Arts & Entertainment Daisy Does the Niners: 49ers Lose 12th Straight Game After Squandering Lead to a Terrible Jets Team by Daisy Barringer At this point, it is a well-known fact that I find watching the 2016 49ers to be a special form of torture. I guess in my old age, my tolerance
SF News Fatal Weekend Shooting Takes SF's 2016 Homicide Count To 55 There are at least 55 victims on the San Francisco Police Department's list of homicides for the year, officials say, following a fatal shooting Friday evening. Police were called to the 4900 block
SF News Ghost Ship Survivors Tell Stories Of Being 'Chased' By Fire, Leaving Friends Behind While we've spent much of the last week following the fire investigation and profiling the 36 dead in Oakland's Ghost Ship fire, there have been notably few first-person accounts to trickle out from
Arts & Entertainment Get $100 Off These Stylish Wireless Headphones For The Music Lover In Your Life Nothing spreads holiday cheer like a premium headset that looks as good as it sounds. If you’re shopping for a music lover who’s always rocking the latest and greatest, the Linea
SF News Photos And Video From A Very Soggy SantaCon 2016 Santas Galore, @ellagreeneyes get yer a55 up here!! #SantaCon2016 #SantaConSF pic.twitter.com/k09MAH1lmh— Betsy (@studio_gal) December 10, 2016 The annual virus tradition of drunken holiday cheer known as SantaCon went down
SF News Twitter Reinstates Account Of Literal Nazi Richard Spencer It seemed marginally possible last month that Twitter might not unilaterally suck at curbing hatred and abuse on its platform when it banned the accounts of several major "alt-right" trolls. Among the group
Arts & Entertainment Meet The People Who Camped Out Overnight For <i>Hamilton</i> Tickets Today tips off a Tulip mania the likes of which the Bay Area ticket market has never seen. Tickets for the runaway smash hit musical Hamilton went on sale to the general public
SF News Monday Morning Linkdump: SF's New Homelessness Strategy 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: Ground has been broken on SF's
Arts & Entertainment Video: Patti Smith Dedicates Performance To Oakland Fire Victims At an event last week in New York celebrating the 20th birthday of Democracy Now!, Patti Smith sang a stirring rendition of "Peaceable Kingdom," a song that she wrote with Tony Shanahan to
SF News Journalists Try, But Fail To Track Down Ghost Ship Landlord Chor Ng Journalists working for both the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle have spent the last few days with boots on the ground in Oakland, using property records to survey the various
SF News Saturday Rain Leads To Power Outages, Downed Trees, Trapped BART Train Once again proving that SF's infrastructure can't really handle much rain, Saturday's modest rainfall led to some major BART troubles and power outages, as well as some downed trees and branches, and at
SF News Sunday Links: Trump's Tech Meeting Gets A Guest List Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Why your Muni fare might be more next month.
SF News Chinese Firm Breaks Ground On What Will Be SF's Second Tallest Building, Oceanwide Center Thursday marked the ceremonial groundbreaking for Oceanwide Center, a complex of two towers and some smaller buildings, the tallest being 910 feet tall, at First and Mission Streets. Designed by London-based Foster + Partners
SF News Friends And Former Friends Paint Conflicting Pictures Of Ghost Ship Founders Derick Almena And Micah Allison In the seven days since the tragic inferno at Oakland artist enclave called Ghost Ship, some of the expected finger-pointing has been aimed at the city and its inspections apparatus, and some has
SF News Saturday Links: TrumpBots Banished From Twitter Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Jay says 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
SF News Day Around The Bay: San Francisco's Shrinking Middle Class Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Uber may use a legal loophole to duck ADA
SF News $30 Million Campaign To Reduce Family Homelessness Enjoys Large Donation From Marc Benioff, Private Sector A program announced today whose aim is to curb the number of families experiencing homelessness will benefit from a private-public partnership that includes donations from number of tech companies and luminaries, from Zendesk
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Wahlburgers Hits Palo Alto, And Bauer Likes The Morris It's the end of the year, and, as to be expected, we learned this week of multiple announced restaurant closures or pending sales. Notably, Range is closing, Pauline's Pizza is for sale, Kuleto's
SF News Profiles Of The Final Nine Ghost Ship Fire Victims SFist is continuing to offer brief remembrances and obituaries as they're being collected from various news sources and friends. Here was the first group of eight, the second group of six, another seven,
