SF News Sub-Par Pier 80 Homeless Shelter Costs More Per Bed Than An Airbnb Or Hotel Room The much ballyhooed “low-threshold" homeless shelter on Pier 80 is finally up and running, and with the recent addition of toilets and showers, city officials expect San Francisco's homeless
Arts & Entertainment February's Prettiest Sunrises And Sunsets, So Far El Niño has been rather kind to us thus far in February, which is bad news for the drought though I hold out hope for a rainy March but good news for those
Arts & Entertainment Talking Herrmann, Hitchcock, And Vertigo: An Interview With Kim Novak Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo may be the greatest movie of all time. It wouldn't be in that conversation without great acting performances by Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, and a
SF News Apparent Road Rage Incident On Russian Hill Leaves Cyclist Injured An apparent hit-and-run road rage collision between a car and a cyclist this morning left the cyclist injured and bloody, as SFist tipster Devin Wilson tells us. Wilson tells us this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meadowood's New Casual Spot Will Be Called The Charter Oak Back in November we learned that the very fancy, Michelin three-star Restaurant at Meadowood in St. Helena was preparing to open a casual spinoff in downtown St. Helena, in the space long
SF News 71% Of SF Homeless Once Had Homes In SF There's a lot to learn form the Homeless Point-In-Time Count & Survey Comprehensive Report of 2015, which is online in its entirety, but one detail to which Socketsite draws
SF News Someone Planted Thousands Of Tacks In An East Bay Dog Park East Bay dog owners are on alert this week, after thousands of thumbtacks were found scattered throughout a Hercules dog park. Police were called to Ohlone Dog Park on Saturday after park-goers
SF News As Trial Was Set To Begin, Alleged Potential Domestic Terrorist Ryan Chamberlain May Take Plea Deal In the spring of 2014, former local political consultant and onetime Gavin Newsom campaigner Ryan Chamberlain appeared to have spiraled into some kind of psychological abyss. Some forays into the deep web led
SF News Sex Offender Clinic Backs Down, Won't Open In Duboce Triangle After All Following Monday's angry community meeting over a proposed clinic for sex offenders near Duboce Park, the clinic's owners have announced that they won't be opening in the
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: CHP Officer Saves Distraught Woman On Bay Bridge * SFist pal and contrib Laura Beck's dad disappeared near Oakland's 12 Street/City Center BART Station on Tuesday. Please be on the lookout for him. [SFist] * Even more Pacifica
SF News Day Around The Bay: Twitter Stock Hits All-Time Low * A report alleges that Airbnb manipulated data regarding New York City hosts with multiple listings immediately prior to handing over information to city regulators in December. Airbnb, for its part, denies what the
SF News Rapper Equipto, Others Arrested After Heckling Ed Lee At The Fairmont Rapper Equipto, a name in the West Coast hip-hop scene, has been taking on a new role in the last six months: bête noire to Mayor Ed Lee. He's heckled
SF News SFPD To Finally Get Body Cameras Via Taser Contract It's been two years since SFPD chief Greg Suhr said that the beginning of the department's body camera program was just two weeks away, as KQED reports in the
SF News Gay Fraternity Returns To SF State After 24 Years San Francisco State just welcomed back the first gay fraternity on campus in almost a quarter of a century. The fraternity, Delta Lambda Phi, is a national organization founded by gay men in
Arts & Entertainment James Franco, Helena Bonham Carter, Kristen Stewart Sign On For JT LeRoy Film The story of JT LeRoy, the fictional persona and nom de plume of San Francisco kook Laura Albert, feels vaguely embarrassing now, even more than it did when local writer Stephen Beachy first
Arts & Entertainment How To Spend Valentine's Day Depending On How Alone You Are Right Now Has cupid struck this year? Or has he struck out? Well, depending on your particular level of commitment or lonesome despair, here are a few things you might enjoy doing this Valentine'
SF News SoMa Gym Owner Fed Up With Tent City Homeless, Prints Flyers Demanding City Action A SoMa business owner is fed up with the homeless camped near his business, and has printed flyers urging his customers to contact San Francisco elected officials in order to demand some sort
SF News Have You Seen This Missing Person? Police are searching for John Beck, a 73-year-old man who was last seen near 12 Street/City Center in Oakland, perhaps getting on BART, at around 9 a.m. yesterday morning.
SF News President Obama Lands In The Bay Area Tonight To Fundraise For Democrats Obama is coming, yet again, to the Bay Area, and will be touching down at Moffett Field near Mountain View at 7:30 p.m. Googlers be warned: There will be extra motorcade-
SF News Bizarre Lawsuit Over Western Addition Housing Complex Settled Out Of Court Last summer, SFist broke news about a Section 8 housing project on Golden Gate Avenue in the Western Addition, built in the 1970s by a prominent black church in the neighborhood, that was
SF News Trader Joe's Might Be Coming To 4th And Market Listen up fans of Pirate's Booty and Charles Shaw, Trader Joe's may be in the process of a downtown expansion. The grocery store chain reportedly has its eyes on
SF News Taxpayers May Foot The Legal Bill For Those Hate-Texting SFPD Officers As you surely remember, the 17 SFPD officers investigated for sending scores of racist and homophobic text messages amongst themselves were allowed to remain on the force after a judge ruled the statute
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink $15 Cup Of Coffee Will Make You Spit Out Your Coffee Spit out that Four Barrel/Blue Bottle/Ritual garbage juice you're drinking right now, because you could be sipping $15 pour-over on a once blighted strip of Market Street where
SF News Confirmed: Gay Bashing Took Place In The Marina, Outside Hi Fi Lounge The story of 28-year-old Jeffery Lafayette's beating by a group of guys on the Saturday before the Super Bowl went viral after he posted a video on Facebook in
SF News Mostly Fake BART Surveillance Cameras Will Cost $1.4 Million To Replace The cat has been out of the bag for some time that the "majority" or even the "vast majority" of surveillance cameras onboard BART trains are decoys or otherwise
