SF News [Update] To Save A 100-Foot Tree, Inner Richmond Couple Consults Planning Commission (And A Shaman) At 46 Cook Street, a tall tree of 100 years old and as many feet high is at the center of an Inner Richmond neighborhood feud, because of course it is. The Chronicle
SF News In Wake Of Anti-LGBT Law Passage, Mayor Ed Lee Bans City-Funded Travel To North Carolina Two days after the governor of North Carolina signed into law legislation that would eliminate protections for LGBT people and ban transgender people from using their gender-identified restrooms, San Francisco Mayor Ed
SF News Enterprising SF Car Burglars Branch Out Into Ransom Scam Car break-ins are at an all-time high in San Francisco, we've all heard again and again and again. And, sure, that stinks for the victims, but won't
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: <em>City Of Gold, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, They're Watching</em> Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice - Everywhere Big, loud, and ugly, but DC is hoping this "blockbuster," (can you really call a movie a blockbuster before its even opened?), will launch
SF News Bill To Make All SF Single-Occupancy Restrooms All-Gender Moves Forward San Francisco is poised to take a step toward common sense, as legislation introduced by Supervisor David Campos to make all single-occupancy restrooms within the city all-gender was approved in committee
SF News San Francisco Metro Area Population Grew By 60,000 Last Year It's been said often enough that San Francisco has been in the midst of a population boom the likes of which it hasn't seen in decades, something to the
Arts & Entertainment Thank God For Wonder Woman: <em>Batman V Superman</em> Is A Colossal Waste Of Time Batman Vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice is not so much a movie as it is an extended warning: You comic book movie fans better like this, because there's going to be
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Mission Street Becomes Bike-Unfriendly * Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * I don't know that I believe in the purported
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sorry Catfishers, Facebook Testing Anti-Impersonation Tool * Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * Should you have to show an ID in order
SF News Incorrigible Tagger Recently Fined $200K Spray Paints Police Cruiser Anyway Terry Cozy does not abide by the laws of polite society and is apparently undeterred by heavy fines and strong rebuke. And yet C.W. Nevius of the Chronicle provided the latter for
SF News Huge Gender Wage Gap Persists For Computer Programmers Women are paid less than men. This discrimination manifests across numerous professions, even when factors like experience and education are taken into account. However, a new study by Glassdoor confirms what many in
Arts & Entertainment Big, Spooky, Legendary Alamo Square Mansion Is Getting The Documentary Treatment Anyone who's wandered around Alamo Square has wondered about the big, looming, elaborately painted Victorian at the corner of Fulton and Scott, known by the name of its original owner as
SF News One-Bedroom Rents Basically Flat Since Last Year, According To New Map What a fun map! Last June, real estate website startup Zumper put median one-bedroom rents in San Francisco at $3,500, which was up from $3,200 in 2014. Now they'
SF News SF Dinner With Hillary Clinton And George & Amal Clooney Costs $353K Hillary Clinton asking for $353k/couple to sit at table with her & George Clooney at 4/15 funder. #EverydayAmericans pic.twitter.com/hAHXIjdo1s — Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) March 24, 2016 While she
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 25 Best Dive Bars In San Francisco Whether drowning sorrows on your lonesome or slumming it with friends, dive bars are good for a lot of occasions. Firstly, they're often cheaper than their mixology-obsessed counterparts in tonier
SF News Vallejo Is Whack: Police Seriously Botched Huskins's Sexual Assault Investigation If you thought the allegations about the Vallejo Police Department's mishandling of the kidnapping of Denise Huskins last March couldn't get any worse, you were incorrect. As ABC 7
SF News Seven Months After Alleged Sexual Assault, SFPD Officer To Finally Face Some Music It was back in September 2015 that reports surfaced of one San Francisco Police Department officer accused of rape and another who allegedly compromised the investigation. But it wasn't until yesterday
SF News Hit-And-Run Driver Covered In Gold Paint Arrested After Wheel Falls Off His Car While in pursuit, a CHP officer received a simple but perplexing description of the suspect: "gold." Damaj Cook, a 21-year-old man mysteriously covered in head-to-toe gold spray
SF News Microsoft's Tween Twitter Bot Instantly Goes Full Racist, 9/11 Truther Microsoft is doing damage control today after an artificial intelligence Twitter bot it created went totally batshit insane — tweeting vile racist, sexist, 9/11 truther, and other garbage at the world. The AI,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Aphrodisiac 'Bunny' Lollipops: A New Sacrilegious Tradition For SF Easter Add another transgression to San Francisco’s litany of irreverent Easter observances. In addition to our cherished Hunky Jesus Contest, 2014’s Zombie Christ Haunted House, and Friday’s Sing-Along Jesus Christ
Arts & Entertainment Video: Sea Lion Pup Found In Fremont Is Not Having It With The Cameras Today Lost CA sea lion found in #Fremont on Osgood Rd this morning. @TMMC responding to the #TriCityAnimalShelter #Ozzie pic.twitter.com/2QziGnVtQI — Fremont Police Dept (@FremontPD) March 24, 2016 A perhaps confused, definitely
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink OpenTable Believes SF's Hottest Restaurant Is... Asia SF Yesterday at SFist HQ we got an email from the OpenTable team letting us know that their hotly anticipated (JK) list of the nation's 100 "hottest" restaurants for 2016
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: This Is What A Taco Truck Looks Like When It Flips Over The truck has been turned upright. The driver was transported to a trauma center with non-life threatening injuries pic.twitter.com/uNNzGYOdz3 — Fremont Police Dept (@FremontPD) March 23, 2016 A busy Fremont
SF News Oculus Rift To Be Released Monday, Nerds Rejoice Get set, nerds! In a determined step toward a digital future, Facebook is set to release its first round of Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets early next week. The Rifts differ from the
SF News In Speech At Stanford, Hillary Clinton Responds To Brussels Attack Yesterday at Stanford University's Encina Hall, former Secretary of State and current presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton once again responded to Tuesday's violent attack on Brussels, an act of terrorism