SF News Pit Bull Once Sentenced To Die Continues To Attack Other Dogs Destiny the pit bull was so unmanageable, she was actually sentenced to die by a San Francisco judge. Luckily for Destiny, her date with death was repealed. The Precita Park regular was accused
SF News They're Going To Blow Up Another Part Of The Bay Bridge Today Traffic will suck and bikes won't be allowed on the Bay Bridge today. Why? Because Caltrans is going to blow some shit up! Caltrans likes using "highly controlled sequential charges" to destroy the
SF News Saturday Links: Mission Santeria Store In Jeopardy Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here "Ah, San Francisco: The city so expensive you need
SF News Day Around The Bay: The Streetcar Graveyard Of Yore 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 founder of Netscape/Mozilla, who is now the
SF News You Can Now Rent The Hillsborough 'Flintstone House' On Airbnb Have some extra cash sitting around but no weekend plans? Well then you're in luck, because as the Chronicle reports, you can now book yourself a stay in the famed Hillsborough "Flintstone House"
SF News SF Man Who Won Lottery Twice Should Probably Give Somebody Else A Chance Frank Derfield, 53, has hit the jackpot... and before that, he'd hit a pot that wasn't quite the jackpot but wasn't too bad either. Crediting "stupid luck" in speaking to CBS 5, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Tartine Manufactory Does Dinner, Bauer Revisits The Fly Trap, And More A lot of big news hit this week in the Bay Area food scene. Perhaps most notably, we learned that Bar Tartine will essentially close at the end of the year. We also
SF News Study Shows Strains Of HIV In US Predated 'Patient Zero', Debunking Folklore Theory The New York Post once described Gaétan Dugas, a French Canadian flight attendant, under the incendiary headline "The Man Who Gave Us AIDS." Known colloquially as "Patient Zero," Dugas figured prominently in Chronicle
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink FiveThirtyEight Burrito Bracket Judge Claims El Castillito Should Have Won (But He Messed It Up) The year was 2014, and FiveThirtyEight's Burrito Bracket had elevated data journalism to new heights. Just kidding, that was a waste of time and money, as the winner, La Taqueria, was a pretty
SF News Facebook Allows Advertisers To Exclude Users Based On Their Race When we learned earlier this year that Facebook allows advertisers to target users based on their race, it appeared to simply be just another attempt by the social media giant to allow for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lawsuit Naming The French Laundry And Thomas Keller Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant Employee In a lawsuit filed in Napa County on September 26 against The French Laundry, the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group, Thomas Keller, and his New York Restaurant Per Se, a woman named Vanessa Scott-Allen
SF News Tenant Moves Out Of Hayes Valley Home, Leaves Grenade Behind The San Francisco Police Department was faced with a potentially explosive situation Thursday, when the manager of an apartment building discovered a grenade a former tenant had left behind. Police say that they
SF News Teenager Charged With Attempted Murder In Excelsior School Shooting As Officials Debate Response The shooting of four high-school students outside the Excelsior's June Jordan School for Equity on October 18 shocked students and faculty alike. An arrest of two individuals believed to be involved was announced
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Pumpkin's Eye View As SF Zoo Meerkats Attack There are no fancy production values other than a few edits, in this video, nor are there any cutesy bits of pop-up commentary or bouncy music clips intended to signal that this is,
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: SF Jail Inmates Learn To Code Nearly $3 million in state funding will help complete the restoration of a former hospital on Angel Island. [Bay City News] Athenahealth has laid off more than 100 employees from its San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Mourn Vine's Passing With The Golden State Warriors' Most-Looped Clips With the news that looping video platform Vine had, uh, rotted on the vine, nostalgic folks started compiling lists of their favorites. One of those nostalgic folks, it appears, is the Golden State
Arts & Entertainment These Bluetooth Smartbulbs Will Help Light Up Any Room In Ultimate Style Change up the ambiance of any setting with a tap of your phone. If you haven’t gotten into Bluetooth-controlled smartbulbs, get with the times. These next-level accessories can light up with a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Why Are SF Safeways Suddenly Putting Their Booze Behind Bars? [Update: This post has been updated with comment from Safeway communications and government relations.] Your booze runs may experience double toil and trouble at certain San Francisco Safeway stores this Halloween weekend, as
SF News Soylent Powder Sales Halted After More Reports Of Sickened Consumers In early October, Soylent consumers who also use Reddit — overlapping interests that should surprise no one — reported symptoms like vomiting and diarrhea after eating the brand's newly introduced food bars, and Soylent soon
SF News Pornhub Just Offered To Buy Vine When news arrived yesterday that Twitter intended to shutter the video looping service Vine, the internet loudly lamented the impending loss. The 6-second repeating videos have become a pop-culture staple since the company
Arts & Entertainment 'Moonlight' Is One Of The Best Films Of 2016 is easily one of, if not the best, films I've seen this year. It crushed me, and made me remember just why I love the movies. That's something easily forgotten when you have
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Dede's Payout Improper, Not Illegal Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Is your building earthquake safe? [SFist] Only six people
SF News Big Rig Slams Into Bay Bridge Wall, Making Friday's Rainy Commute Even Crummier Jackknifed big rig leaking fuel, blocking 4 lanes I-80 Bay Bridge eastbound. #5 lane open. @CHPSanFrancisco on scene with safety partners. pic.twitter.com/b6OnADzYBg— Christopher Sherry (@CHPChrisSherry) October 28, 2016 A jack-knifed
SF News Day Around The Bay: Red Light Cameras May Not Make Streets Safer Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. A dead blue whale washed ashore near Daly City.
SF News Ammon Bundy And Followers Acquitted In Armed Takeover Of Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Ammon Bundy and six of his followers have been acquitted of conspiracy charges by a federal court jury. Reuters reports that Bundy and the others, who are all members of a group that
