SF News Apple PR Bungles Response To Diversity Criticism Apple, like much of the tech industry, has been criticized for a perceived lack of diversity in its leadership ranks. The recent unveiling of the company's new iPhone provided a very prominent opportunity
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Valencia & Kebab Closed After Just 10 Months Valencia & Kebab (525 Valencia Street), the relocated business formerly known as Hayes & Kebab that opened in the Mission last November, is fully papered over and appears closed as of today, though
SF News Cycling SoMa Mugger Drags Woman By Hair A bike-riding mugger left a woman with head injuries Friday, after he grabbed her hair and dragged her during the crime. Police say that the victim, a 30-year-old woman, was walking on the
SF News In New Renter Confidence Survey, SF Gets An A-Minus, Oakland Gets An F Let's all read this with healthy skepticism with its presumed biases and unexplained sample size, but a new survey of local renters from the site ApartmentList.com gives San Francisco an overall satisfaction
SF News Treasure Island Will Need Completely New Street Names Following Development Treasure Island, the artificial swath of land beside Yerba Buena Island originally constructed for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, will soon be a place where the streets have no name. That's because
Arts & Entertainment Writers And Celebrities Upset That Recorded Phone Calls With JT LeRoy Were Included In New Doc A new documentary film, Author: The JT LeRoy Story, released last week from Amazon Studios and Magnolia Pictures (review possibly coming here) has drawn the ire of several authors and celebrities who figure
SF News Woman Deliberately Runs Over Man During SoMa Altercation A couple's early-morning argument turned violent Sunday morning, after a woman ended a disagreement by running over a man with her car. Police say that it was 2:50 a.m. Sunday when
SF News Monday Lunchtime Links: BART's New Station Surprise Concerns about rising seas are reshaping major SF waterfront projects. [SF Chronicle] SF supes plot to save bees. [KRON 4] Fliers posted at SF State accuse school of victim blaming in sexual assault
SF News Tesla Announces Shift In Autopilot Feature, Elon Musk Insists It Now Could Have Prevented Fatal Crash Electric-car maker Tesla yesterday announced big changes to the way its cars see the world while in autopilot mode, and company CEO Elon Musk went so far as to say going forward the
Arts & Entertainment Harbin Hot Springs Continues To Rebuild, Aims To Partly Reopen New Year's Eve Today is the one-year anniversary of the devastating wildfire that burned Harbin Hot Springs to the ground. As they promised earlier this year, the Harbin community in Middletown is trying to reopen its
Arts & Entertainment The World's Largest Entertainment Library Is On SelectTV If you’re using Hulu, Netflix, or traditional cable, your options are often limited. You’ll likely have to choose between the convenience of instant access, or the choice of enjoying the specific
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Animal Rights Activists Storm Chez Panisse In Very Berkeley Protest At the end of August, animals rights group Direct Action Everywhere took up their cause at Eat Drink SF, a San Francisco food festival organized by the Golden Gate Restaurant Association. While animal
SF News Bay Area-Bound Plane Crashes At Reno Airport Killing Three Three people died Sunday when a plane crashed at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. CNN reports that the small aircraft experienced trouble shortly after takeoff and collided into the airport's parking lot. According to the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Andrea Chenier, Dream of the Red Chamber and more The SF Opera seasons continues now with Don Pasquale and opening this week-end, The Makropulos Case in the same excellent production as a couple years ago. Previously, the company presented the Chinese-themed opera
SF News Monday Morning Linkdump: SF Homes Are Shrinking 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: A man was struck and killed
SF News Soberanes Fire Reaches 105,642 Acres, New Evacuation Orders Issued The slow-moving, seven-week-old Soberanes Fire in and around Big Sur continues to burn through Los Padres National Forest to the south, and remains 60 percent contained. As of 6 p.m. Saturday, federal
SF News 'Native Son' Carl Nolte Weighs In On Whether San Francisco Has 'Lost Its Soul' Longtime "Native Son" Chronicle columnist Carl Nolte, who you might expect would be one of the first to decry the ways in which San Francisco has changed for the worse, penned a column
SF News Sunday Links: Panhandle Basketball Courts Reopen Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Flood at Green and Jones after cab driver strikes
misc Capture & Explain Your Ideas With This Digital Collaboration App Interested in better collaboration? With technology at the forefront of the way most office team members communicate and collaborate, it's common for businesses and startups to emphasize the importance of doing more with
SF News Livermore Officer Charged In Celeste Guap Case Speaks Out, Says He Didn't Pay For Sex Livermore police officer Dan Black, who's one of seven East Bay law enforcement officers being charged by the Alameda County district attorney in connection with the Celeste Guap scandal, spoke via Facebook Messenger
Arts & Entertainment iPhone 7 Parody Video Mocks Apple For Making The Phone Worse College Humor brings us this delightful parody of the latest Apple launch video in which Chief Design Officer Jony Ive is recast as a kind of psychotic HAL (from 2001), and Tim Cook
SF News Fatality Involving Train Shut Down 16th Street BART Station Friday Night A man was struck and killed by a BART train Friday evening, leading to some service delays and a two-hour shutdown of 16th Street Station. As Mission Local reports, the incident happened at
SF News Saturday Links: Apple Shuts Down Parts Of Self-Driving Car Program Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Transportation accessibility advocate Sunday Parker warns that BART's "Fleet
SF News Day Around The Bay: BART Launches A Podcast Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Ever wondered why someone has a "Whole Foods Bad
SF News Pilloried By Fox News For Proposal To Rename SF Schools, Board Of Ed President Backs Down Pretty much immediately after new-ish Board of Education President Matt Haney, who is also running for re-election in November, floated the idea of re-naming local schools in San Francisco for local figures of
