SF News Oregon Police Seize Porta-Potty Filled With Weed Porta-potties always present a surprise of some kind, usually disgusting and terrible ones. But weirdly, in Rogue River, Oregon, the surprise was a shitton of pot plants. The AP reports that local police
SF News Twitter Is Not Shutting Down Over Cyberbullying, But Also Can't Do Much About Cyberbullying A rumor was spreading around Twitter Thursday, along with a requisite hashtag (#SaveTwitter), that Twitter would be shutting down in 2017 over the issue of cyberbullying. As CNet reports, this rumor is unfounded,
SF News Deplorable Teen Camera Thief Dumps Man From Wheelchair Near AT&T Park A teenaged robber who attacked a man in a wheelchair remains at large today, following an early-morning mugging near Pier 40. It was 12:25 this morning when police say that the suspect
SF News Arianna Huffington To Leave Huffington Post Arianna Huffington, chairwoman, president, and editor in chief of the Huffington Post, will be these things no longer. “I fully expected to be able to continue leading HuffPost while also building Thrive Global,
SF News Oakland Man Arrested For Double Shooting And Arson Police arrested the man they say is responsible for a double-killing and arson in East Oakland this past Monday morning. Fox 2 reports that the suspect works as a truck loader, and he
SF News Man With 'Numerous' Outstanding Warrants Arrested In Mission District Pokemon Go Theft The suspect in a August 4 strong arm robbery of a Pokemon Go player is a wanted man in three other cities, police announced Wednesday night. According to San Francisco Police Department Spokesperson
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Instagram's Alleged Snapchat Castration Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Do "Common" tenants know they can get shares all
Arts & Entertainment Yes Of Course You'd Love To Hang Out With Bryan Cranston The JCCSF's Arts & Ideas 2016-2017 series is going to take over your free time for a while. The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco is hooking SF up with the big ideas,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Soberanes Fire Hits 69,000 Acres Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. [Curbed SF] brings architecture nerds a handy map of
Arts & Entertainment New Plot Details Suggest Winchester Mystery House Movie Is A Horror Flick We were excited to learn this past May that a forthcoming movie about the storied Winchester Mystery House would star Helen Mirren in the title role. Now, thanks to a CBS Films press
SF News Apartment Sadness: NY-Based Co-Living Startup 'Common' Arrives In SF With $2,600 SoMa Dorm Rooms Common, a "co-living" startup based in New York that acts as a property management company, was recently profiled in a New Yorker article that nicely contextualized it in the history of city dorm-like
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Inner Richmond's Tiny Arsicault Named Top Bakery In the Nation The honors are flowing in from national food authority Bon Appétit, and as we await the release of their annual Best New Restaurants issue, today in addition to garnering a design award for
SF News Body Found At Westfield Centre A body was discovered in the downtown Westfield Centre mall today, and Bay City News reports that the medical examiner has ruled the death a homicide. Police have declined to say exactly where
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Shepard Fairey Mural Of Cesar Chavez Takes Shape Shepard Fairey, the prodigious artist behind Obama's "Hope" poster, is in San Francisco this week where he's working on two murals in a series of five called American Civics. Those focus on what
SF News Gay Widower Of Former KRON 4 Employee Sues After Being Denied Pension Benefit A pending legal case was brought to our attention this week by LGBT civil rights group the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) in which SF resident David Reed is suing the parent
SF News Man Leads Police On Three-Hour Low-Speed Pursuit Around The Bay Tires worn down to rims, acrid smell of burning rubber in air. Suspect in custody. pic.twitter.com/N6CdnETsCF— Tiffany Wilson (@TWilsonTV) August 10, 2016 A man is in custody today after leading
Arts & Entertainment 10 Great Bay Area Staycation Ideas For Late Summer Or Fall It's already mid-August (I know, it was May like three minutes ago, right?), and it's highly possible that if you're like me, you haven't managed to plan a real vacation yet this year.
SF News Study: Facebook Employees Rank Last In 'Curiosity And Adventurousness' Among Top Tech Companies A study published today looking at worker personality traits across the tech sector has some bad news for Facebook. Its employees were found to rank dead last in "curiosity and adventurousness" — qualities which
SF News Founders Used 'Sham' Startup's $12.5 Million Investments As 'Personal Piggy Bank', Lawsuit Alleges Two brothers purportedly developing an augmented reality helmet for motorcyclists appear to have merely used their company's investments to augment their own personal realities, paying for apartments, lavish meals, and more according to
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: New MacBooks Rumored A San Mateo woman was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder for killing her neighbor last year with a baseball bat. [Bay City News] Apple is preparing the first significant overhaul of its MacBook
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <i>Bon Appétit</i> Names Leo's Oyster Bar The Best Designed New Restaurant In The Country Leading up to the big unveiling of their annual Best New Restaurants issue, Bon Appétit did what they did last year and first gave us a Top 50 last week, just so that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vallejo Is Whack: Four Women Allegedly 'Terrorize' Jack In The Box Over Cold Food Ah, Vallejo. Our neighbor to the north is in the news again this week, with four women standing accused of going totally nuts in a Jack in the Box after their drive-through order
SF News Homeowners In Sinking, Tilting Millennium Tower File Class-Action Lawsuit Seeking $500 Million After news broke that the 58-story, 419-residence Millennium Tower, completed in 2009, had sunk 16 inches in height and tilted two inches northwest, pissed and panicked homeowners were pretty sure to sue, and
SF News SF's Plummeting Crime Rate (Except For Homicides), By The Numbers As fans of The Wire* inevitably assure you, crime data, especially those from systems like Compstat, are infinitely, um, malleable. And yet, they are often the only method we have, especially given the
SF News Overnight Burglary Of Apple Headquarters Leads To Door-To-Door Manhunt In South Bay A manhunt is ongoing Wednesday morning after three men suspected of burglarizing Apple's Cupertino headquarters took police on a chase all the way to San Jose. ABC 7 reports that someone with the
