SF News Security Robot Knocks Toddler To The Ground Then Runs Him Over At Stanford Shopping Center A Palo Alto toddler was injured last Thursday after his parents claim a security robot at the Stanford Shopping Center knocked him over and then proceeded to run him over. And what's more,
SF News Union Street Bank Vault Raided By Robber A bank robbery on San Francisco's Union Street went beyond the typical "hand note to teller" scenario Monday, when the solo thief stormed the financial institution's vault. According to the San Francisco Police
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Legacy Business' Support Program Facing Criticism As First Applicants Are Delayed Though Proposition J, legislation to financially assist so-called legacy businesses as selected by the Historic Preservation Commission, was approved at the ballot box last November, the program's implementation has been slow to arrive.
SF News Longshot Campaigns Launch To Recall Both Mayors Ed Lee And Libby Schaaf Discontented voters in both San Francisco and Oakland are gathering support for recall campaigns for the mayors in both cities, largely due to what is seen as their inaction or lack of leadership
Arts & Entertainment Hipsters, Tough Thugs, And Undressed Masseuses Sought For SF-Set TV Show Hey, everybody! Do you look "Down & Out," "International," or like a cop? Have some free time the next couple of weeks? Want to make $104...or more? Then the Hulu TV series
SF News Video: Whales Breaching In Bay Freak Out Nearby Kayaker Kayakers in the San Francisco Bay this past Sunday got a bit more than they bargained for when they came across a trio of humpback whales repeatedly breaching nearby. Video, shared by one
SF News Man Mugged For Rollerblades In Potrero Hill A San Francisco man is getting around town a little more slowly today, after a gang of muggers callously pulled his mode of transportation from his feet. It was 1:15 Monday morning
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Lyft Busted For Lobbying Breaches Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Why that "unlimited vacation time" deal from your boss
Arts & Entertainment How To Get Shipwrecked, Channel Your Inner Cartographer And More In Jackson Square In case you haven't noticed, it's pretty warm 'round these parts. It's a time where nobody really wants to be working while the summer sun beams in (if you're lucky enough to have
SF News Day Around The Bay: Would The Proposed Tech Tax 'Devastate' SF's Economy? Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. It's not on the November ballot yet, but a
SF News Uber Caught Using Ex-CIA-Staffed Research Firm To Dig Up Dirt On Legal Opponent A few weeks after the attorney Andrew Schmidt filed a labor lawsuit against Uber and its CEO Travis Kalanick last December — one of so many legal battles that keep the ride-hailing company's legal
SF News Super Thin, Nine-Story Hotel Proposed For Harrison Street Plans for a nine-story, skinny hotel are making their way through the planning department. SocketSite reports that the building, designed by architect Charles F. Bloszies, includes commercial space fronting Harrison Street along with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tip For Restaurant And Bar Owners: Buy A Pokémon Go Lure Module, Get Instant Customers In case you needed another reason to stop by for lunch, RTM is swarming with Pokemon! #loveRTM #EatMorePork #PokemonGo #PokemonGoPhilly A photo posted by Tommy DiNic's Pork & Beef (@tommydinics) on Jul 11,
SF News Unlimited Vacation Time: The All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Of The Modern Workplace Among a certain set of Silicon Valley companies, unlimited vacation time is a powerful weapon in the perks arms race. Netflix, VMware, Evernote, and Palantir all offer the practice, which is attractive to
Arts & Entertainment Sharing Your Netflix Or HBO GO Password May Now Be A Federal Crime Though there are likely to be future decisions that limit the ramifications of this one, a three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last week ruled that without specific authorization from
Arts & Entertainment Video: Garlic Fries + Beer + Foul Ball = Quite The Show At AT&T Park A basket of Gilroy garlic fries, a beer, some sunshine, and a little Giants baseball — what more could you need? When you throw catching a fly ball into the mix, you almost have
SF News DA Issues Blue Ribbon Report On SFPD, Cites Racial Bias And Lack Of Oversight A year-long probe by the district attorney into the conduct of the San Francisco Police Department is now complete and its results paint a portrait of a department that disproportionately targets racial minorities
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink At El Paseo In Mill Valley, Owner Sammy Hagar Parts Ways With Tyler Florence, New Menu In The Works On the Inside-Baseball track of the local food world today, it seems that there was a quiet parting of the ways in the last year (or more) between partners Sammy Hagar and Tyler
SF News SF Man Hit With Massive Rent Increase Following Loss Of His Partner To Suicide These days it seems like each week brings with it another tragic story of someone being forced out of the apartment they call home, and today is no different. The Chronicle reports on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Franciscans Line Up For Free Slurpees 7/11 pic.twitter.com/Hh2y8pMdNy— Brock Keeling (@BrockKeeling) July 11, 2016 Is a free small Slurpee worth a wait in a moderately-sized line? If the above photo is any indication, plenty of
Arts & Entertainment Pokemon Go App Can Access Your Email And Contacts On iPhones Posing Major Privacy Problem A little privacy, please?#PokemonGO pic.twitter.com/7eqPmstl90— ENTJ Probs (@entj_probs) July 10, 2016 Now that the world and your social media feed has been overtaken with Pokemon Go news, it
SF News Atherton Wealthy Will Still Maybe Try To Block High-Speed Rail NIMBYs throughout the state of California have been crying foul for years about the gigantic and decades-long high-speed rail project that will, someday, connect Los Angeles and San Francisco and ultimately San Diego
SF News Monday Lunchtime Links: Bay Area Homicides Rise The [SF Chronicle] mulls "pop culture pariah" Azealia Banks' SF stop. The November election in SF is gonna be a doozy. [SF Chronicle] The number of homes currently listed for sale in San
SF News SF Shoot For <i>Sense8</i> Hit With Sanctions Over Public Park Nudity Other than the occasional nude march and rally, most San Franciscans have settled into Supervisor Scott Wiener's three-year-old ban on exposed flesh without too much grumbling, but now a location scout who's worked
SF News Warriors' Draymond Green Arrested In Michigan On Assault Charges Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green was arrested on Sunday at around 2:30 a.m. in East Lansing, Michigan, the town where he rose to prominence as a college basketball star. MLive
