Arts & Entertainment SF Finally Gets a Comic Con, Kicking Off Today The ratio of nerds to official Comic Cons has always been out of whack in San Francisco, where we cosplay every day but have never had a full-on Comic Con (just WonderCon!) held
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: Great Highway Inn Sold To Private Investor A computer programmer was arrested in Florida Sunday on suspicion of damaging four servers in the Bay Area. [Bay City News] Private San Francisco investor pays $25.3 million to buy (long dilapidated,
SF News Video: Man Attacks Dog Following Duboce Park Scuffle Anyone who has ever been to a dog park is familiar with the scene: Off-leash dogs get a little too rambunctious, start biting, and need to be pulled apart by their owners. As
SF News SF Woman Says She Was Menaced By Lafayette Park Attacker, Got Little Help From SFPD Nearly two weeks after a woman was brutally attacked by a stranger during a walk in Pacific Heights, the San Francisco Police Department appears no closer to finding the man responsible. But though
SF News Check Yourself, Manspreaders: BART's 'Seat Hog' Ordinance Is Now In Effect Hold onto your butts: BART's new "seat hog" rule is here and it's ready to party. Or be enforced. Whatever. Passed in April, the measure allows BART police to run criminal background checks
SF News As 60 Applicants Vie To Be Next SFPD Chief, Acting Chief Reveals Details Of His Educational Background Sixty people are in the running to become San Francisco's next chief of police, the Police Commission announced Thursday night, but persistent questions over the acting chief's educational background might end up putting
SF News 16 People, 1 Dog Rescued From Badly Damaged Boat Near Golden Gate Bridge Fifteen passengers of a spear-fishing boat, as well as the vessel's captain and a dog, were rescued near the Golden Gate Bridge Thursday night after the craft began flooding following a crash into
Arts & Entertainment 'The Light Between Oceans' Is Pretty But Turgid The Light Between Oceans, adapted by writer and director Derek Cianfrance from the 2012 novel by M.L. Stedman, is an old-fashioned romantic tragedy filled with fateful events, bad choices, and really pretty
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Green Day Selling Iconic Oakland Studio For Co-Working, Redevelopment Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Who needs the Terminator in a world of LoweBots?
SF News (Video) Convicted Rapist Brock Turner Walks Out Of Santa Clara County Jail Brock Turner released at 605 a.m. San Jose. He didn't say a word to crush of reporters. Jumped into SUV @kron4news pic.twitter.com/gY9odGzxvI— Will Tran (@KRON4WTran) September 2, 2016 21-year-old
SF News Day Around The Bay: Shotwell's Owner Threatens To Close Over Uptick In Prostitution Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Angry Mission residents grilled a police caption at a
SF News Massive Eastbound Traffic Backup On Bay Bridge Following Mud Spill I-80 eb #BayBridge Treasure Island exit closed. #Caltrans working to clear roadway. pic.twitter.com/ljid4QfcPi— CHP San Francisco (@CHPSanFrancisco) September 1, 2016 Those trying to get out of the city a day
Arts & Entertainment Ginger, Artist Behind Trump Statues, Arrives In SF As expected, Joshua "Ginger" Monroe has come to SF ahead of a planned Friday event celebrating his Trump statue at Lefty O'Doul's in Union Square. Fans shouldn't be too disappointed, though, despite the
Arts & Entertainment This Year We Get To See All The Burning Man Art Early Because Instagram We showed you previews and renderings of nine of the bigger pieces of art out on the playa this year, but now, thanks to fully functioning cell signal and wi-fi out in the
SF News Check Out Colin Kaepernick's Police Pig Socks Colin Kaepernick is now wearing socks depicting the police as pigs. pic.twitter.com/C1D809YSR2— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 1, 2016 While 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's recent decision to sit during the
SF News Labor Day Weekend Weather To Suck, And August Was Officially A Record-Setting Cold One Those who have only lived in SF for a couple of years might have been kind of shocked and depressed by the monotony of the wind, fog, and grayness for the entire month
Arts & Entertainment Video: Meet Thelma The Singing Housekeeper At Kaiser Hospital Leah Garchik's latest Chronicle column includes a great little tidbit about local character Esperanza Thelma Paumboy, a housekeeper at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in SF who wanders the halls alternately mopping and serenading
SF News Burning Man Structure Collapses Injuring Six A Burning Man theme camp collapsed earlier this week, injuring six and requiring that one festival attendee be airlifted out of the desert for medical treatment. The Reno Gazette-Journal reports that this all
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Places In SF To Bring Out-Of-Town Family Are your folks headed here for the holiday weekend? Are they staying for like a whole week? Have you run out of ideas for places to take them that they haven't been? Some
SF News Autonomous Robots Are Coming To A Lowe's Near You Hardware and home furnishings store Lowe's is to begin staffing its 11 Bay Area stores with autonomous helper bots as soon as this month. Dubbed the LoweBot, the San Francisco Business Times reports
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bon Marché May Be Officially Kaput On Mid-Market We heard in July that Bon Marché was likely not long for this world, having been put up for sale after only a year in business at the Twitter building. Now, as Inside
Arts & Entertainment Abandoned Presidio Gun Batteries To Become New Art Installation From People Behind Ai Weiwei Show The organization behind 2014's Ai Weiwei @Large installation at Alcatraz now has its sights set on the long vacant army gun batteries that were part of what was once known as Fort Scott,
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Your Uber Might Be An Hourly Rental Drones might help boost your cell signal at AT&T Park. [ABC 7] Does your job have a "Workplace Wellness Program"? Then [Slate] wants to burst your bubble. There's a parking war
SF News [Update] Abducted Infant Found In San Mateo Following Amber Alert The phones of Bay Area residents buzzed in unison Thursday morning, as an Amber Alert was issued for San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa and Solano counties in the case
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Dates For 'Hamilton' Run Finally Confirmed The Grammy, Tony, and Pulitzer Prize winning musical Hamilton is coming to San Francisco next spring, and we now for the first time have the official dates for the five-month run. The Mercury
