SF News Covered CA Rates To Jump 13% Statewide, Almost 15% In SF Next year, monthly premium rates in California will go up by 13.2 percent on average, the result of two insurers who have requested steep rate increases. As CBS5 and the AP report,
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Route For Tomorrow's Potentially Massive Pokémon Crawl Although much of San Francisco has been engaged in a de facto Pokémon Go crawl for weeks, a somewhat formal affair planned for tomorrow promises to be the real deal, if you consider
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week If nothing else, the weather this week is going to be really consistent probable fog early on, burning off later but never warming up much, with the wind threatening to knock you down
SF News SFPD Investigating Death Threat Against Acting Police Chief A death threat made on Twitter against Acting SFPD Chief Toney Chaplin is being investigated by authorities. "We are still gathering evidence and conducting interviews in preparation of presenting the case to the
Arts & Entertainment iPhone 7 Will Allegedly Come In Three Models; New Photos Just Leaked If you can hardly wait for the iPhone 7 to come out this fall, then here's a teaser for you. CNet reports, via some new leaked photos on Chinese social network Weibo, that
Arts & Entertainment Scenes And Sounds From Flower Piano's Second Year In Golden Gate Park In additional to the usual sights and smells of the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park, another element — music — filled the air again this month. Flower Piano, an event in its
SF News Rose Pak Back At Work: Protesting Against Lee Recall, Angling To Get Cindy Wu On Board Of Supes If you're into the intrigue that happens at City Hall especially where Chinatown power player Rose Pak is concerned, then get this: You know how Pak had her whole falling out with Ed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Champagne Bar Coming To Hayes Valley; Momi Toby's Closing Yet another of the "first generation" Hayes Valley businesses those that have been around since the neighborhood first began its current gentrification, after the double-decker section of the Central Freeway that went over
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Pokemon Go Myth Debunked No, Pokemon Go doesn't collect data for Google Maps and the NSA. [Snopes] Activists hang banner accusing OPD of human trafficking at police HQ. [IndyBay] A self-driving car convention will hit SF this
SF News Now Everybody Can Apply For A Verified Twitter Account, So Why Would Anyone? @oprah was one of the first Twitter accounts to boast a blue "verified" check, a useful indication that Ms. Winfrey's account did, indeed, represent her. But that onetime sign of Twitter Illuminati status
SF News Pokémon Go Creating Security Nightmare For IT People Not only is Pokémon Go probably stealing all of your personal information and sending it to Russia, but the wide popularity of the game and all the permissions it asks for on your
SF News Kamala Harris Gets Obama's Endorsement In US Senate Race In a move that should surprise no one, President Barack Obama has endorsed California Attorney General Kamala Harris in her campaign to become the state's next US senator. In a statement sent to
SF News Netflix Subscribers Depart In Droves As $2 Price Increase Finally Kicks In For Longtime Users Shares of Netflix were down a very unchill 15 percent today on news that the company hadn't added as many subscribers as expected, an outcome Business Insider calls a plunge in the company's
SF News Arriving For Tech Conference In SF, John McAfee Tweets Photo Of Guns He's Bringing Heading to d10e in San Francisco.Bitcoin techies are dangerous folks. Can't be too safe. pic.twitter.com/Rlt0hr5qtm— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) July 18, 2016 The fifth annual d10e conference, which has something
SF News Supes Poised To Open Door For 30,000 More SF Apartments...If Landlords Bother To Build Though much ink has been spilled on the increasingly-divided nature of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, two of the Supes who are in frequent opposition came together late Monday, agreeing on legislation that,
SF News Chevy-Driving Necklace Thieves Caught During Chinatown Caper A trio of Chinatown necklace thieves were partially thwarted Monday, when two of them were captured mid-heist. At 11:35 a.m. Monday, two women, aged 50 and 67, were on the 1100
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Yahoo Earnings Even Worse Than Expected Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Wow, some people take it reeeeeeally personally if you
Arts & Entertainment Giveaway: Win A Free Lo & Sons Catalina Deluxe Travel Bag For Your Next Getaway! It's no doubt that summer is the season of wanderlust—and having the right gear is essential. Whether you're flying cross-country or escaping the city for the ocean, let's face it: your bag
SF News Day Around The Bay: Amid Firefighter Shortage, City Pays $100K Per Day In Overtime Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Exciting and rare new plants, at least one of
SF News Sunday Sideshow On Bay Bridge Thwarted By CHP, Arrest Made The popular East Bay pastime of having illegal Sunday afternoon sideshows was brought to an abrupt halt around 3:30 p.m. Sunday when reports came into CHP of three vehicles with paper
SF News Judge Rules Warriors Arena Can Go Forward A Superior Court judge ruled today against a coalition of UCSF benefactors and former officials who questioned the sufficiency of an environmental review of the Chase Center, a.k.a. the Warriors Arena.
Arts & Entertainment Pokémon Go + <i>Black Mirror</i> = Dark Comedy? Fans of the spooky, Twilight Zone-inspired British sci-fi series Black Mirror might appreciate this dark bit of parody that takes one of the most disturbing episodes of the show, "White Bear," and mashes
Arts & Entertainment Video: Phish's Trey Anastasio, In Town For Three Shows, Jams With Chinatown Street Musicians Phish-heads all know this already, but Phish is back in town!! They're playing three back-to-back shows at Bill Graham tonight, tomorrow, and Wednesday, and the hardcore fans will of course be going to
SF News Light Post Falls Across Kearny And Bush, Closing Intersection There are 25,000 light poles in San Francisco — or, rather, there were until today. Now there's one fewer: Redditors are reporting that a stories-high light post came crashing down at Kearny and
SF News Gavin Newsom Goes On Epic Twitter Rant About Trump And The Republicans' Anti-LGBT Platform As some predictable chaos is erupting on the floor of the Republican National Convention over rules votes by the anti-Trump faction on Day 1, Donald Trump is trying to sound a positive, characteristically
