SF News Market Street Muni Shelter Lecture Ends In Beating With Cane A man who took on a group of Muni shelter partiers Tuesday paid a difficult price for his activism, after one of the celebrants interrupted his diatribe by striking the scolder with a
SF News Chef's Body Found In Westfield Mall Reclassified As Suspicious Death, Not Homicide Though originally investigated as a homicide, the death of 28-year-old San Francisco chef Frank Galicia has been reclassified as merely "suspicious." SFPD announced the reclassification yesterday, though KRON 4 reports that the cause
SF News East Bay BART Delays To Start Today And Last Three Weeks Adding another repair project to the list, BART officials just announced new work in the East Bay that will result in ongoing delays for passengers. The repairs, which start today and involve replacing
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Has Muni Behavior Gotten Better, Or Worse? Dear Rain, Has behavior on Muni (people not moving to the back, criminals, backpack wear) changed over the years? Some people claim that it's gotten worse with the most recent flood of new
SF News Ninth Circuit Rules Feds Can't Prosecute Medical Marijuana Sellers Complying With State Law In a new ruling shoring up the strength of state laws permitting the growing, selling, and possession of medical marijuana, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that federal prosecutors can not
SF News Brannan Street Retailer Arrested In Fake Burberry, Dior, And Gucci Bust A San Francisco shop owner faces allegations that she sold fake designer goods, following an investigation by the San Francisco Police Department and Homeland Security. According to a press release sent by the
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Apple's 'Cash Money' Deal 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 alleged serial pyro arrested for the massive Clayton
SF News Video: U.S. Navy Dedicates First Ship To LGBT Person, USNS Harvey Milk Tuesday afternoon, a ceremony was held on Treasure Island, formerly a Navy base, officially announcing the naming of the previously announced USNS Harvey Milk, the first Navy vessel dedicated to an openly gay
Arts & Entertainment Final Countdown: PICA's Time-Based Art Festival Is About To Activate Your Northern Neighbors From September 8 - 18, 2016, PICA's Time-Based Art Festival will activate Portland, Oregon, with contemporary art projects that bring artists and audiences together, creating a vibrant community through live performances, music, film
SF News SFMTA Approves Sunday Double-Parking Pilot Program It seems that last week's prediction was correct, as the SFMTA Board of Directors today approved the creation of a pilot program to allow Sunday double-parking on Dolores Street. Jerold Chinn, the transportation
SF News UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks Announces He Will Resign Just as students pour back onto campus, UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, who recently had said he hoped to serve for another ten years, has announced he will resign, though not until the
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 13 Cool Things To Check Out This Week With August being notably chillier than usual, sometimes it takes a little nudge to get out of the house. Lucky for you, this is San Francisco and there's always stuff to do right
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Much Awaited Hayes Valley Restaurant Nightbird Set To Open Shortly It's been a year and a half since we first heard that the talents of chef Kim Alter would finally be getting a solo stage from which to cook here in San Francisco,
SF News [Updated] Castro Doorman Beaten In Apparent Gay Hate Crime Headed home after finishing a Wednesday night shift, Tommy Castellani, an employee of the Castro bar Badlands (4121 18th Street), was brutally beaten in an act of bigoted violence according to his sister,
SF News Berkeley Man Arrested For Driving His Car Over Dozens Of Veterans' Graves A Berkeley man stands accused of a drug-fueled vehicular rampage that targeted the final resting place of our country's military veterans. CBS 5 reports that the 29-year-old man drove his car through the
Arts & Entertainment Cyndi Lauper, Chris Isaak Also On Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2016 Lineup The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival gang is at it again, teasing a whole batch of new additions to the musical lineup for their 2016 festival (September 30 - October 2). After an initial
SF News Local Vintage Camera Store Robbed, Confused Owner Says 'We Can't Even Get People To Buy This Stuff' Matt Osbourne, who along with Gordon Szeto owns Glass Key Photo at 442 Haight Street, admits to being confused by a robbery at his store. The methods aren't so surprising: They "smashed in
SF News Lake County Police Arrest Suspected Arsonist Behind Growing Clayton Fire, And Possibly Others Just In - #ClaytonFire in Lake County has grown to 4,000 acres. Winds picking up.Photo by @kentphotos pic.twitter.com/UmILfRDWUP— CAL FIRE PIO Berlant (@CALFIRE_PIO) August 15, 2016 As
SF News SFPD Reexamines Ten-Year-Old Cold Case Murder Of Aubrey Abrakasa, Reveals New Info On the afternoon of August 14, 2006 a Monday 17-year-old Aubrey Abrakasa was leaving his mother's home in the Western Addition and headed to his job as a youth counselor at a park
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man 747 To Begin Shutting Down Roads Today En Route To The Playa The jumbo 747 that was originally intended to make it to Burning Man last year, is now, actually, slowly making its way from Mojave in Southern California to the Black Rock desert in
SF News Dubai, Not West Coast, May Get First Working Hyperloop Techno-fetishists around the world rejoiced in 2013 when Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk published a white paper on the idea of a super-fast form of transportation between Los Angeles and San Francisco
SF News Supervisor Scott Wiener Calls Out SFMTA, SFPD For Ignoring Double-Parkers "Are Tickets for Double Parking A Real Thing?" we asked back in 2013, with nearly 80 percent of the respondents to our survey answering "no." And it appears that San Francisco Supervisor/District
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Cabin Smoke Diverts LA-SF Flight United Airlines says a flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco was diverted to Santa Barbara after smoke was reported in the passenger cabin following a mechanical problem. [Associated Press] Climate change could
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lord Stanley Lands On <i>Bon Appétit</i>'s Best New Restaurants At #3 Coming off a year of local accolades and a fresh-out-of-the-gate Michelin star, Polk Street's Lord Stanley has just garnered some new national attention that is sure to make it a tough reservation to
SF News Bag Of Possible Human Remains Washes Up At Pier 14 Possible bag of bones washes ashore at #SanFrancisco's Pier 14 https://t.co/xjdFiYTN0V pic.twitter.com/QIRN0A2dE6— KRON 4 News (@kron4news) August 16, 2016 A blue bag that washed up on Pier
