Arts & Entertainment Saudi Arabia Has A Fatwa Against Pokémon Go Top clerics in Saudi Arabia have reissued a decade-and-a-half-old fatwa, originally issued against the Pokémon card game, against the popular Pokémon Go app, saying it promotes un-Islamic imagery, the concept of evolution, and
SF News Black Lives Matter Marches Planned In SF And Oakland Today For 'National Day Of Action' As part of today's "National Day of Action to End Police Violence Against Black People," a concerted series of rallies that organizers say will occur at 80 locations under the unifying hashtag #freedomnow,
SF News Man Slain At Site Of Recent Rollerblade Mugging A brazen midday shooting claimed one man's life Wednesday, at the same intersection where the perpetrators of an alleged two-day crime spree robbed one of their victims. According to the San Francisco Police
SF News Alleged DUI Driver Smashed Onto BART Tracks, Snarls Wednesday Commute For the "pics or it didn't happen" crowd. pic.twitter.com/VpbknN5lWi— SFBART (@SFBART) July 21, 2016 BART riders who needed the cross the Bay were left cooling their heels for over an
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Inside SF General's Morgue Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Was this racist Ed Lee protester for real? [SFist]
SF News Day Around The Bay: Supervisors Get Super Feisty Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. All of Southwest airlines' flights were delayed this afternoon
SF News Protesters Chain Themselves To Oakland Police Officers' Association Cops are trying to negotiate the opening of this set of doors so credit union employees can go home. pic.twitter.com/0JWwDkzrVU— Cat (@CatsCommentary) July 20, 2016 Calling for the city of
Arts & Entertainment Castro's Troubled Jane Warner Plaza To Get New LED Art Installation, Plaza 'Stewards' Jane Warner Plaza, long a source of frustration for Castro neighborhood residents and merchants because it almost immediately became a magnet for homeless youth (and nudists) after it was established in 2009, will
SF News Airbnb Hires Former Attorney General Eric Holder To Handle Discrimination Policy In May, Rohan Gilkes wrote a post on Medium about being cancelled on by a racist Airbnb host. His experience served as a focal point for reportedly widespread discrimination practiced by Airbnb hosts,
SF News Salesforce Tower Update: Rising Fast And Installation Begins On Exterior Curtain Wall Installation of the curtain wall has begun #progress #construction #supertall #ilovesf #highrise #cre @salesforce A video posted by Salesforce Tower (@salesforcetower) on Jul 19, 2016 at 10:03am PDT Another milestone arrives this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFMOMA's In Situ Is 'The Most Original New Restaurant In The Country' Says NYT Food Critic Pete Wells One of the nation's most esteemed dining critics, Pete Wells of the New York Times, is lavishing praise on chef Corey Lee's month-old restaurant (or is it an exhibition?) inside SFMOMA, called In
SF News DA: Teen Who Allegedly Killed Golden Gate Park Cyclist Charged With Murder Woman bicycling @GoldenGatePark killed by hit and run driver, @SFPD interviewing witnesses now #KTVU pic.twitter.com/8rg1soD4CW— Debora Villalon (@DeboraKTVU) June 23, 2016 The man who allegedly fled after he fatally ran
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Brie Is Not A Pizza Cheese' And Other Thoughts On Ping Pong Bar SPiN The Chron's drinks writer Esther Mobley and cheap-eats scribe Anna Roth ventured to check out the food and booze options at SPiN, the new SoMa ping-pong bar opened in May by Susan Sarandon
SF News Dual Proposals Approved To Curb Oakland Rent Increases In a session that lasted until late last night slash early this morning, Oakland's City Council has unanimously approved two proposals to curtail property owners' ability to raise their tenants' rents. The Associated
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outside Lands To Feature Sit-Down Forest Feasts, Off-Site Food Events This Year This year's sold-out Outside Lands is going to be featuring something new in the food realm that will once again up the ante of the festival's already bougie foodie-ness. As announced yesterday, there
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Coverup Alleged In SFPD Shooting Former PG&E exec admits he didn’t understand documents he reviewed as part of his job. [SF Chronicle] Why you still can’t use a chip card everywhere. [Slate] Tesla autopilot
SF News More Than 18 Earthquakes Have Hit The Hollister Area Since Sunday An earthquake swarm has been rattling San Benito County in the vicinity of Hollister for several days now, with two low-magnitude quakes striking this morning as well. As SF Gate reports, the pair
SF News Taser-Wielding Tent Thief Raids San Francisco Sporting Goods Store A man who allegedly shoplifted scads of tents from a Mission District sporting goods store is on the loose today, after escaping the grasp of the staffer who attempted to stop him. According
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: What's Your Favorite SF Urban Legend? Dear Rain, In every city I've ever lived, there are urban legends that people (sometimes, transplants, sometimes people that have lived their all their lives) repeat again and again. Alligators in the New
SF News Highway 101 Near SFO May Get Pay-To-Play Express Lane Officials are studying the potential impacts of adding a carpool lane on a notoriously congested section of Highway 101 on the Peninsula that would double as a toll lane for single drivers. As
SF News Video Shows Recall Ed Lee Supporter Chanting 'Go Back To China,' Others Disavow Remark By the time critics of Mayor Ed Lee gathered in front of City Hall to advocate for a recall campaign against him last Friday, 300 hundred or more counter-protesters had lined up across
SF News Outer Sunset Man Named As Alleged Twitter Troll Seeking Beheading Of SFPD's Acting Chief An Outer Sunset man was taken into custody Tuesday, after police say he was responsible for a tweet calling for the beheading of acting San Francisco Police department Chief Toney Chaplin. It was
SF News Man Seen With Rifle Menacing I-80 In Berkeley Prompts Major, Fruitless Manhunt At least two seemingly credible witnesses reported seeing a man Tuesday afternoon walking on the pedestrian bridge over Interstate 80 at University Avenue in Berkeley carrying a long gun, prompting a massive, hours-long
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: SF's Poker Champ So much to do this week! [SFist] Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Work kicks
SF News Day Around The Bay: Amazon Delivery Guy Caught Stealing Amazon Packages Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. 22-year-old UC Berkeley student Claire Chiara is the youngest
