SF News Station Names Should Indicate Geographic Location, Transit Officials Decide, Ruling Out Rose Pak Station Rejecting the Board of Supervisors' unanimous recommendation that the SFMTA name the Chinatown Central Subway station after Rose Pak, an idea some protesters begged the SFMTA Citizens' Advisory Council to ignore, transit officials
SF News Stanford Student Files Lawsuit Alleging University Allowed Sexual Predator To Remain On Campus In a complaint filed this week in US District Court in San Francisco, a current Stanford graduate student and former Stanford undergrad alleges she was assaulted by a male student who was allowed
SF News California's Mosquito Population Has Increased Tenfold, And We're To Blame California's mosquito population is on the rise, and scientists say that humans are to blame. A study published yesterday in Nature Communications reports that the number of the winged creatures has increased tenfold
SF News Profiles Of Seven More Creative Souls Lost In Oakland's Ghost Ship Fire As the names of the missing officially become the names of the dead, SFist is continuing to offer brief remembrances and obituaries as they're being collected from various news sources and friends. Here
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Salt & Straw Ice Cream Pops Up In SF With $1 Scoops Friday and Saturday Hello, San Francisco! We're heading to YOU this weekend (12/9 & 12/10) for a series of ice cream pop-ups to celebrate our upcoming Bay Area scoop shops in 2017. Join us
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ugh: Pauline's Pizza Is For Sale At this point, Sidney Weinstein, who turns 70 next October, is basically the "Pauline" of Pauline's Pizza. Her restaurant on Valencia near 14th, which she opened with her husband and his business partner
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Bad Pipe Closes BART Entrance You can't kill smartphones, says [Wired]. OK! Apple is going to start publishing its AI research. [Bloomberg] On Friday, the Geary BRT Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) will be made available online at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After 11 Years, Range Is Closing On Valencia It's the end of an era for one of the defining restaurants of Valencia's restaurant boom of the last two decades, as Range will be closing its doors after New Year's Eve. This
SF News Woman Shot To Death On South Van Ness A woman was shot to death in the Mission District Wednesday morning, in San Francsico's 51st homicide for 2016. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the slaying was reported at 2:47
SF News Jack Dorsey Blames America For Trump's Ascendancy, Says President-Elect's Use Of Twitter Is 'Fascinating' A little more than a week after a Twitter spokesperson failed to rule out the possibility that President-Elect Donald Trump could one day be banned from the platform for abuse violations, the company's
Arts & Entertainment 5 Stocking Stuffers You'll Actually Be Proud To Gift Save up to 81% on items ranging from a watch that's totally the cat's meow, to the grooviest toilet bowl light you ever did see. Is there anything worse than the parking lot
SF News Newly Released Records Show Oakland Officials Told Prior To Fire That Ghost Ship Warehouse Was Converted To Housing As the names of the confirmed dead continue to be released in what feels like an agonizing trickle, newly released records show that the city of Oakland was told multiple times that the
SF News Key Difference Between SF And Oakland Tenant Laws Keeps People In Illegal Units From Reporting Safety Issues In San Francisco, tenants in illegal units can call the Department of Building Inspection to report safety violations, allowing inspectors to enter their units while providing these tenants the peace of mind that
SF News Video Emerges From Inside Ghost Ship One Hour Before Fire The death toll in Friday's warehouse fire in Oakland stands at 36 with 100 percent of the premises now searched, as KRON 4 reports, and a local state of emergency has been declared
Arts & Entertainment Ask a San Francisco Native: Where In SF Can I Chase Away The Blues? Dear Rain, Maybe it's the holidays, or maybe it's the election, or maybe it's the onslaught of bad news, or maybe it's just me, but I'm depressed. Are there any places in San
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Pebble Rolls Downhill 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 Stud just signed a two-year lease, will move
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Announces New Two-Year Lease, And Plans To Move To New Location After That SoMa’s longest-surviving gay bar The Stud looked cooked this summer, when a 150% rent increase threatened the continued existence of the 50-year-old San Francisco institution. But a newly-formed Stud collective founded late
Arts & Entertainment Last Chance To See The Asian Art Museum's Rama Epic The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe On View at the Asian Art Museum FINAL WEEKS | Ends Jan 15, 2017 #RamaEpic See the exhibition San Francisco Chronicle’s art critic is calling a
SF News Day Around The Bay: Noise Pop Adds New Acts To Festival Lineup Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube are teaming up in
SF News Donald Trump To Host Tech Summit Next Week -- But Who's Going? The cyber, as we all know, is very, very tough. Perhaps with that in mind, USA Today reports that President-Elect Donald Trump's transition team has invited a group of tech luminaries to New
SF News Six More Profiles Of Those Lost In Oakland's 'Ghost Ship' Fire As the names of the missing officially become the names of the dead, SFist is continuing to offer brief remembrances and obituaries as they're being collected from various news sources and friends. Here
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Following the tragic fire of last week, we've set aside some of the many benefits and fundraisers for victims of the disaster that are happening across the bay, with a particular emphasis, naturally,
SF News Mission District Neighbors Are Now Opposing Nuns Trying To Feed The Homeless It was right out of a Lifetime movie plot; A group of nuns, facing eviction from their Tenderloin soup kitchen and home, are saved when a charismatic multimillionaire self-help guru purchases them a
SF News Robot Butler And Real-Time Tenant Tracking Offered At Luxe SF Apartment With numerous over-the-top housing options competing for the dollars of San Francisco's most well paid, The Jasper is doing its best to stand out. And with at least one three-bedroom in the 40-story
Arts & Entertainment Warriors' Klay Thompson Scores Absurd 60 Points In 29 Minutes Last night in a resounding 142-106 victory over the Pacers, Klay Thompson joined Wilt Chamberlain, Rick Barry, and Joe Fulks as the only Golden State players ever to score 60 points in a
