SF News Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent Resigns Amidst Officer Sex Scandal Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent tendered his resignation Thursday night, in the midst of a strange and sordid sex scandal allegedly involving his officers and a police dispatcher's young daughter. News
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: Siri Faces Allegations Of Stupidity * A 59-year-old man was stabbed and robbed in the Tenderloin yesterday. [KRON 4] * To hold its own against digital assistants from Google, Microsoft and Amazon, Siri needs an IQ boost. [CNet]
Arts & Entertainment Nerd Alert: Drone Racing And Combat Facility Coming to Palace Of Fine Arts For all the droning on about how the ubiquitous little flying robots can pose a deadly threat to aircraft, knock out power stations, and enable jerkish behavior, it’s easy to forget that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Regarding $2.50 Bagels, $4 Toast, $15 Sandwiches, And What Food *Should* Cost In SF A couple of interesting data takeaways from this new Chronicle piece by Jonathan Kauffman all about the rising cost of eating out in San Francisco and the frequent often online public decrying of
SF News Lower Pac Heights Car Burglar Runs Over Victim A serial car burglar added another crime to his resume Thursday, when he ran over a woman who tried to stop his thieving ways. According to the San Francisco Police Department, a man
SF News Bronze Disc Marking SF's Geographic Center Immediately Stolen A photo posted by @peternocturnal on Jun 9, 2016 at 6:13pm PDT "The center could not hold," the above Instagrammer captions this shot perhaps channelling Yeats by way of Didion
Arts & Entertainment Obama, First Family To Visit Yosemite Next Week The first family is set to visit California next week as part of an effort to highlight President Obama's efforts on behalf of our nation's parks. Specifically, reports the
Arts & Entertainment Ghosts, Busted: <i>The Conjuring 2</i> The Conjuring was one of those rare kinds of of horror movies: An impressive cast, some solid scares, and almost universal critical praise. A sequel was inevitable, especially since there's a
SF News Hunger Striker And Supe Candidate Edwin Lindo Calls Cop Union 'A Rotten Influence' Probably the most divisive and bombastic figure in the local debate over officer-involved shootings and the SFPD's use of force has been Police Officers Association president Martin Halloran. Halloran has
SF News Alleged Ambulance Thief Pleads Not Guilty, Is Released From Jail The woman who allegedly led police on a wild chase after stealing an ambulance parked in front of a downtown San Francisco emergency is out of jail today, after a judge granted her
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Flamboyant VC Passes * Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here * See you at Civic Center tonight? [SFist] * Controversial VC/
SF News Day Around The Bay: Goodbye El Niño, Hello La Niña * Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you — sign up here. * San Jose police released photos of protestors they'
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Situ, Corey Lee's Food-As-Art Reproduction Restaurant, Opens At SFMOMA Next Week Ambitious chef-restaurateur Corey Lee (Benu, Monsieur Benjamin) has had an enviable career already at a young age, having earned three Michelin stars at Benu, helmed the kitchens at The French Laundry and
SF News SF Developing Economic Resiliency Plan, In Case Tech Thing Doesn't Work Out 100% While Mayor Lee introduced for approval the largest San Francisco budget to date — $9.6 billion — at the end of last month, more privately, city officials are making contingency plans for falling markets.
SF News Video: Reality TV Show 'Transcendent' Drops Season 2 Trailer Season two of Transcendent, the reality TV show that highlights the trans performers of AsiaSF, premiered last night on Fuse. Just like with the trailer for season one, the second season looks like
Arts & Entertainment Jennifer Lawrence To Play Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes In Upcoming Film In yet another example of Hollywood being obsessed with Silicon Valley lately, a new film is in the works by director/screenwriter Adam McKay (The Big Short, Anchorman) telling the story of the
SF News Report: Denver, Not San Francisco, Is 'Hottest Housing Market' Of 2016 Real estate listing site Redfin says in a new report that despite what you've heard, San Francisco's for-sale housing market is not the hottest in the country — not
SF News City Surveyors Mark Actual Geographic Center Of SF, Sort Of In recent days, because apparently they don't have enough to do, the city's Department of Public Works installed a small brass disc marker on a sidewalk on Corbett Avenue,
Arts & Entertainment That Time <em>Silicon Valley</em>'s TJ Miller Met (And Embarrassed) Elon Musk TJ Miller, who plays the buffoonish, churlish Erlich Bachmann on HBO's Silicon Valley, has had choice words for the tech industry in the past. "You don't have a
SF News Steve Kerr's Daughter Allegedly Smacked By Cavs Fan Proud daughter!!! Western Conference Champs! #godubs pic.twitter.com/YIiG5bzmPV — Maddy Kerr (@MaddyMKerr) May 28, 2015 The family of Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr is calling out a particularly aggressive Cleveland Cavaliers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Critic Michael Bauer Gets Salty In Scathing 1-Star Review Food critics, love them or loathe them, generally avoid doling out negative reviews. When you have nothing nice to say, as the say, don't go back to the restaurant. And yet,
SF News Craigslist Laptop Sale Takes Larcenous Turn An Outer Richmond man who thought he'd lined up a buyer for some unwanted laptops ended up with a worse deal than he'd hoped, after the purported buyer robbed
SF News Calls For Justice, Words Of Support For Stanford Assault Victim Include Open Letters From NOW, Biden (And Witchcraft) As the national news media continues to unearth more details about the lenient sentencing of convicted Stanford rapist Brock Turner including evidence today that he lied about his earlier use of drugs and
SF News Report: It Costs $29K To Build One On-Street Parking Spot In SF Parking in SF is an expensive hassle — we all know this. But a new report out of UCLA picked up by Curbed suggests that the financial burden manifests in ways other than the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Barista Puts All Other Latte Artists To Shame R2D2 FTW! Facebook page link under my bio! #r2d2 #sf #latteart #lattesketch #robot #starwars A video posted by Melaquino (@melaquino) on May 2, 2016 at 9:58am PDT Melannie Aquino doesn't
