SF News [Update] General Strike Begins With Morning Picket At City Hall Picketing starts at #SF city hall for #Frisco5 #Frisco500 #hungerforjusticesf genera strike pic.twitter.com/kgY4qv7LGU — Mission Local (@MLNow) May 9, 2016 A true general strike, the likes of which we haven'
SF News Monday Morning Linkdump: Restaurant Worker Shortage Might Hit You In The Wallet * Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * Your weekend ICYMI: Hundreds storm City Hall demanding changes
SF News Starfish Return In Huge Numbers On California Coast After Mass Die-Off Some good news among plenty of terrible news when it comes to the environment, the ocean, and marine life: Sea stars, or starfish, have come back in huge numbers along the Northern California
SF News Hunger Strikers Decide To Eat Again, Call For General Strike Monday At the urging of "the community," the hunger strikers known as the Frisco Five decided to end their hunger strike after 17 days on Saturday. Via some representatives, they issued a
SF News Sunday Morning Coming Down: Apple's Podcast Incompetence * Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * FedEx driver arrested for DUI after striking CHP officer
SF News [Update] Longtime SF Public Defender Marla Zamora Stabbed To Death At Her Potrero Hill Home A prominent former public defender, Marla Zamora, was found stabbed to death in the backyard of her Potrero Hill home Friday, and police already have a prime suspect in custody. As the Chronicle
SF News Video: Hillary Clinton Says 'California Counts,' Sounds Unsure About Legal Weed SF Chronicle columnist and CBS 5 correspondent Phil Matier sat down for some one-on-one time Friday with Hillary Clinton before a rally she attended in Oakland which was followed by a
SF News Lengthy, Angry Protest Breaks Out As Frisco Five Supporters Storm City Hall Friday Following the hospitalization Friday of the hunger strikers now known as the Frisco 5, a call went out on IndyBay to their supporters, whom some are calling the Frisco 500, for a vigil
SF News Saturday Morning Special: PG&E Wants To Charge You Way More * Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * "A man's voice is the voice,
SF News Day Around The Bay: At Least One Homeless Navigation Center Will Allow Alcohol * Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * The 26-year-old son of Marin addiction doctor
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Pagon Idol Brings The Tiki, And Half Moon Bay Brewing Comes North This week at SFist, we learned that the once-vegan founders of Gracias Madre are back to eating meat, told you about the best breakfast sandwiches, reported that Top Chef alum Ryan Scott
SF News Photo Du Jour: Metallica Is Cleaning Up Ocean Beach Metallica members Kirk Hammett & Robert Trujillo and Jeff Samardzija are cleaning up Ocean Beach. #SFGiants pic.twitter.com/tQQoGjRNOw — San Francisco Giants (@SFGiants) May 5, 2016 What have you been up to
SF News Oh Great: Earthquake Swarm Beneath Mount Saint Helens Indicates Volcano Is 'Recharging' To our north, in Washington State, we're getting news that a swarm of 130 small earthquakes has been occurring between 1 and 5 miles beneath Mount Saint Helens, the volcano that
SF News New 628 Area Code Spotted In The Wild, Sign Of Changed SF While preparing their Top 100 restaurants booklet, Inside Scoop made a shocking discovery. 628 area codes, which we've known since 2012 would be coming to San Francisco, have arrived, or at
Arts & Entertainment Cool Time-Lapse Of SFMOMA's Construction, Plus John King's Final Word On The New Wing The new, enormous SFMOMA addition designed by Norwegian architects Snøhetta has some early fans, as well as some early critics, as we discussed last week. We had to wait until this weekend'
Arts & Entertainment <i>Above & Beyond The Valley Of The Ultra Showgirls</i> Is Good Campy Rock-n-Roll Fun At Oasis The latest offering of drag theater at Oasis goes above and beyond what you expect of a formula drag stage show. Above & Beyond The Valley Of The Ultra Showgirls is a full-
SF News 25-Year-Old Darnell Williams Found Guilty In Sleepover Murder Of Young Oakland Girl The double murder trial of Darnell Williams concluded Friday with guilty verdicts in the slayings of 8-year-old Alaysha Carradine in Oakland on July 17, 2013, and 22-year-old Anthony Medearis
SF News Why Does Viv, A New Technology From The Creators Of Siri, Also Have A Woman's Voice? Apple didn't invent Siri, the occasionally useful 'personal assistant' now associated with that company. As a matter of fact, when Apple CEO Steve Jobs bought the relatively unknown technology
SF News Hunger Strikers, The Frisco Five, Pack Up And Go To The Hospital Mission PD protesters packing up. They say #Frisco5 are at hospital. pic.twitter.com/cAZAufKwi0 — Evan Sernoffsky (@EvanSernoffsky) May 6, 2016 Welp, some people wondered after yesterday's unproductive phone call with
SF News City Suing Academy Of Art Over Their Problematic Real Estate Empire Perhaps spurred to action by last summer's exhaustive reporting by Forbes on the for-profit school's allegedly shady real estate dealings, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera today filed
Arts & Entertainment 1970's-Era Star Pharmacy, Landmark In The Early Days Of AIDS, Recreated For One Day For Castro Shoot As mentioned briefly yesterday, more shooting has been going on in the Castro for When We Rise, the ABC documentary mini-series written by Dustin Lance Black, and based in part on the
Arts & Entertainment RIP Charles Gatewood, Photographer Of 'Strange, Edgy Subjects' Who Was One Himself “For my personal work, I preferred strange, edgy subjects,” Charles Gatewood wrote in his 1975 monograph “Sidetripping,” published with text from his friend and collaborator William S. Burroughs. Gatewood, a renowned photographer who
SF News SF Man Hit With Hate Mail After Family Bounced From Flight Over Peanut Allergy When a San Francisco family was reportedly kicked off a plane over their child's peanut allergy, their story received national attention. But now, says the kid's father, the family
SF News SFFD Urges You To Narc On Gasoline Delivery Startups The idea of never having to go to the gas station again is an appealing one — think electric, exhaust-free cars whisking you around a city that is suddenly just a bit less
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: 'White Rights' Rally At UC Berkeley * Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * Seemingly homeless man thwarts expectations. [Fog City Notes] * Former
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