SF News Lighting-Fast Gigabit Internet Coming To SF Real Slow A report on the state of internet infrastructure and use in San Francisco told us last year, among other things, that a ton of SF residents just have dial-up internet or else
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eatsa's Automated Quinoa Empire Expands With New FiDi Location Next Week The second San Francisco Eatsa, which is less like a restaurant and more like an Amazon Locker for quinoa bowls, is set to open next week in that land of the quick lunch,
SF News Lombard Street Will Get A Pedestrian-Focused Makeover Lombard Street and not just the famous twisty part is in store for some changes designed to improve pedestrian safety. The SFMTA intended to vote today, reports the Chronicle, on whether or not
Arts & Entertainment Another SF Bookstore Bites The Dust: Books Inc. In The Castro Sad news for Castro neighborhood book lovers, and bookstore browsers: Books Inc. has just announced that their Market Street location in the heart of the 'hood will be closing at the end
SF News Expanding On Partnership, Lyft Drivers Can Now Rent GM Cars For Free (Sort Of) Lyft and GM have announced the next big phase of their partnership, unveiling Monday a plan to rent GM cars to Lyft drivers for the low cost of nothing — with a few stipulations
Arts & Entertainment Corpse Of 'The Real World' Staggers Into SF For Casting Session When did you stop watching The Real World?* I, like many people of my era, was fascinated by the early seasons of the then-groundbreaking reality show that brought a gaggle of diverse
SF News Judge Says 'Nope' To Gag Order In City Hall Corruption Case A five-year undercover FBI probe into corruption at City Hall heretofore shrouded in secrecy may no longer be kept so quiet. While the work of the District Attorney's office and
Arts & Entertainment Tony-Winning Musical 'Fun Home' To Be Inaugural Production In Newly Redone Curran In conjunction with a discussion with the show's creators and Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom last night, the Curran Theatre announced that Broadway hit and 2015 Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home
Arts & Entertainment 'Wicked' Returns To SF, Is Still A Lot Of Fun Wicked, the 10th longest-running musical on Broadway, has returned to San Francisco for the first time since 2013. But Wicked and San Francisco have a long history, as it was here that
SF News Planning Commissioner Loses It On Twitter Over Gawker's SF Housing Scold Last week, here on SFist, I got a little mad at Gawker editor Hamilton Nolan for stepping into a discussion about San Francisco's housing crisis a discussion in which he really
SF News UC Berkeley Basketball Coach Fired For Sexual Harassment In what can only be called a disturbing trend, a fourth UC Berkeley employee in under six months has been accused of sexual harassment. Assistant men’s basketball coach Yann Hufnagel, reports KQED,
SF News Neuroscientist Moves Family To SF, Is Promptly Robbed Of All Possessions When UCSF offered Jeremy Biane a job as a postdoctoral researcher in their neuroscience department, it seemed like a great deal: His wife is from SF, so they'd get to be
SF News SFPD Officers Threatened By Angry Caller A man police say has made a habit of threatening officers with the San Francisco Police Department is at it again, this time saying that he will retaliate against police use of force.
SF News Officer Cleared In Alex Nieto Shooting Gloats On Facebook (Allegedly) Roger Morse, one of four officers cleared last week when a federal jury found the SFPD quartet did not use excessive force when they shot and killed Alex Nieto in 2014, allegedly reacted
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SpoonRocket Shuts Down On Same Day That UberEats Launches Standalone App On-demand meal delivery service SpoonRocket announced today that it is shutting down, effective immediately. The Berkeley-based company, reports TechCrunch, was unable to secure additional funding and when a last-ditch effort
SF News Video: First Functioning New BART Car Begins Cross-Country Journey On Flatbed Truck It's happening, everyone. BART's spiffy, modern new rail cars are actually hitting the assembly line in upstate New York, and the very first one was just loaded up onto
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Vaccination Problems At Silicon Valley Daycares * Did Nancy Reagan mock SF's gay pride parade? [SFist] * Lava Mae, which provides mobile shower facilities for those who wouldn't otherwise have access, is expanding. [Bay City News] * Silicon
SF News Day Around The Bay: San Francisco Fest Lineup Announced * A one-night-only extravaganza is coming to San Francisco on September 4th. Numerous big names are playing what has been dubbed San Francisco Fest at AT&T Park, but we just
SF News The Chapel Cancels Event For Trump-Supporting Website Breitbart Conservative website Breitbart may not be for everyone. In fact, it's against a lot of people. Like Obama! You know, the guy who, in the words of the invitation to a
SF News Report: San Jose 'The Most Forgettable Major American City' Ah, San Jose. Home of the Sharks, the Tech Museum of Innovation, expensive apartments, and finger-free chili, it might seem to the casual observer that the tenth largest city in the US
SF News Uber Driver Charged With Killing 6 In Kalamazoo Shootings Says Devil Appeared In App After recently starting as an Uber driver-partner, on February 20th Jason Dalton allegedly shot and killed six strangers, perhaps picking up other passengers in between and after the murders, in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
SF News Report: Bay Area Home To 3 Of The Most Expensive Rental Markets For 1 Bedroom Apartments In The US Looking for a place to rent in this city can be a bit of a depressing exercise — in fact, we have an entire column dedicated to just how much of a bummer San
SF News Did Nancy Reagan Really Mock SF Gay Pride Parades? In speaking of Nancy Reagan on the day of her funeral, Hillary Clinton praised the late former first lady for helping to start a national conversation about the AIDS epidemic. Ronald and Nancy
SF News Hit-And-Run At Polk And Pine Is SF's Third In Three Days In the third such collision in three days, a driver in San Francisco slammed into a pedestrian Sunday evening, then sped off never to be seen again. First, there was Friday's
Arts & Entertainment After Almost Two Years Of Complaints, SF's $2,258,300 Skate Park Remains Full Of 'Festering' Puddles Of Urine Since its opening in July of 2014, San Francisco's SoMa West Skatepark has gotten mixed reviews: While skaters seem to love the place, neighbors have complained about noise and graffiti, and
