SF News Civil Rights Trial Against City In Alex Nieto Shooting Begins Today A federal trial in the civil rights lawsuit against the City of San Francisco regarding the March 2014 shooting death of 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto is set to begin today, as the
SF News Single Mother Alleges Mistreatment And Unjust Dismissal By Yelp Following shortly on the heels of last month's open letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman accusing him of paying his employees less than a livable wage, a single mother working in
SF News Officials Unsure Which Missing Bay Area Man Decomposed Remains Belong To After a jogger found the body of a man on the shore near Bodega Bay Monday, officials are working to identify the remains but say a determination won't come quickly. According
SF News Remaining 50 (Or So) Tents Forced Off Division Street Early Tuesday San Francisco crews are not negotiating w/the homeless around Division St. anymore. Today is clear out day. pic.twitter.com/UO8eaiFYb1 — Amy Hollyfield (@amyhollyfield) March 1, 2016 Monday morning we noted how
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Apartment Rents Drop * The Dirty Dancing musical "feels cheap and cobbled together." [SFist] * The trial for a man who allegedly shot someone to death over a Playstation begins. [Bay City News] * Asking rents for
Arts & Entertainment Tickets For Yet Another 'Surprise' Prince Show To Go On Sale Tuesday " By popular demand, @Prince3EG to perform at @OracleArena THIS FRIDAY night! Tickets on sale TODAY at 4pm pic.twitter.com/NeD7Dwhm48 — Prince3EG (@Prince3EG) March 1, 2016 It appears that Prince just can&
SF News Day Around The Bay: SCOTUS Allows CA Affordable Housing Requirement Rules To Stand * In declining to hear a case challenging San Jose's recent ordinance (upheld by a California court last year), which still hasn't taken effect but is similar to San Francisco&
SF News Online Sales of Lyft Mustaches And Uber Decals Raise Questions An online market for Uber decals and Lyft "glowstaches" has raised questions as to why anyone would pay for what drivers of the two ride-hail companies get for free. The
SF News Shifting Sands At Ocean Beach Reveal Buried Tunnel, Tombstones A photo posted by Beck Diefenbach (@thedief) on Feb 11, 2016 at 10:54am PST Rarely are the sands of time quite so literal as they are at Ocean Beach. There, recent erosion
SF News Zuck Is Not Too Worried About ISIS Threats That threat video ostensibly posted by ISIS/ISIL last week which made direct mention of Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg as well as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey doesn't concern Zuck
SF News Apple Doesn't Need To Unlock Phones For Government, Says Federal Judge The most prominent case regarding a government order for Apple, Inc. is the one you've no doubt been following: The one in which the FBI is compelling the company to unlock
SF News [Update] Shuttle Bus Fire Spreads To SoMa Chevron A fire has broken out at the SoMa Chevron located on 9th and Howard Streets. It appears to have started when a white shuttle bus (pictured below) caught fire, but it has now
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Redd In Yountville Settles Wrongful Death Suit Over Scallop Last month we learned of a wrongful death lawsuit against the Napa Valley restaurant Redd, in Yountville, stemming from the August 2014 death of 61-year-old man a death which his family
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From The 'RuPaul's Drag Race' SF Premiere Party Last night Mezzanine was serving sold-out RuPaul realness with the premiere party for the eighth season of cult-favorite show Rupaul's Drag Race. Season Six winner Bianca Del Rio was
SF News Self-Driving Google Car Crashes Into Bus, Robot Likely At Fault Although not the first time one of Google's self-driving cars has been involved in a collision, the Valentine's Day crash on a public street in Mountain View, California
Arts & Entertainment Someone Should Put 'Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story On Stage' In A Corner I was never a huge fan of the movie Dirty Dancing, mainly because its mix of period pop and contemporary songs always bugged the hell out of me, and its story was a
SF News SFFD Rescues Adorable Dog From Fort Funston Cliff With Fort Funston in the news recently as one of the many parks to possibly restrict dogs under proposed new National Park Service rules, it is important to remember that the prime dog-
SF News Teen Shot To Death Near BART Tracks A 14-year-old boy is dead Monday morning, after he was fatally shot just steps from a trail that runs next to BART in Richmond. According to Richmond Police Department spokesperson Lieutenant
Arts & Entertainment Did You Know That Every 100 Years We Have To Skip Doing Leap Year? Most of you probably know that the earth's orbit around the sun takes 365 and a quarter days, thus necessitating this extra day in February called Leap Day, every four years.
Arts & Entertainment Full Season Recap: 'Holy Chalupa,' New 'Fuller House' Is Empty And Haunted Though Fuller House debuted just this past Friday (when SFist recapped the premiere), by now some masochist-type fans of the original show have likely binged on all 13 new episodes. The autoplay
SF News Muni Stations Reportedly Defaced With Burning Pride Flag Photos Castro-area Muni riders were hit with a disturbing message Monday morning, when they were confronted with fliers depicting a burning Pride flag as they passed through two area stations. According to SFist
SF News KKK Member From San Francisco Arrested During Bloody Anti-Immigration Rally A San Francisco man was one of the people arrested during a violent Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim Saturday, and according to all media reports, the local fellow is a Klansman, not
SF News New Muni Buses Can't Handle San Francisco's Hills On a beautiful Earth Day last year, SFMTA officials excitedly unveiled the first of sixty brand new electric trolley buses purchased by the city of San Francisco. In conjunction with 61 new biodiesel-
SF News Weather Report: El Niño Maybe Not Quite Finished With Us Yet After a wet January and wet early February, the Bay Area settled into a familiar early spring that often graces us in February, with beach days aplenty and some really pretty sunsets along
Arts & Entertainment Of Course, Pixar Won Another Oscar, For 'Inside Out' In case you hadn't heard or didn't watch the 88th annual Academy Awards last night, you should know that odds-on favorite Pixar won the award for Best Animated