39-year-old Ian Hespelt, aka the alleged Critical Mass Road Rage Cyclist might be one of San Francisco's most recognizable figures: Between the much-viewed video of his alleged attack
"One day I want to see my basic research fundamentally change the way people live in the future," says Peidong Yang, an inorganic chemist who is creating "synthetic leaves"
What's that? Ur tired of dumbing down ur English 2 make it fit w/in Twitter's 140-character limit? Well, there may finally be a change coming to that
Two men and dog rescued from sailboat by NPS and @USPP_SFFO. One man was arrested for outstanding warrants. pic.twitter.com/XEFBEs1aic — Golden Gate NRA (@GoldenGateNPS) September 28, 2015 Two men and
Prosecutors in the federal racketeering case against Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow said during a court hearing Monday that they have evidence that Shrimp Boy arranged the murder of 56-year-old
The National [Something] Day trend is a marketing-driven scourge that is typically met with eye-rolls and unkind remarks in the SFist (virtual) office. That said, cheap coffee is cheap coffee, right?
* [ThinkProgress] claims that "nobody is talking about" homeless people in SF aged 18-24. * San Francisco plans to spend about $479,000 annually to distribute diapers monthly to families in need.
In early 1939, Waitstill and Martha Sharp, a young Unitarian minister and social worker, moved to Prague and aided hundreds of refugees fleeing Nazi persecution. Join the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to preview
* There were four robberies in the Mission over the weekend, several involving assaults and weapons, and a serious stabbing early Saturday morning. [Mission Local] * The Chronicle follows up on their "SF is
Researchers say that the breed of so-called "africanized" honeybees sometimes known as “killer bees” for their protective, sometimes lethal instinct to attack when their hive is threatened have been detected
In order to level what they deem to be an unfair field of competition against the likes of Uber and Lyft, Flywheel Taxi of San Francisco is suing California regulators, the Chronicle and
![[NSFW] A Bawdy, Seductive, Mostly Naked Grace Jones Thrills Fans At Fox Theater Show](https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2015/09/grace-jones-fox-2-thumb-640xauto-914253.jpg)
Saturday night the great Grace Jones played a rare show to one lucky audience at the Fox Theater in Oakland before heading to L.A. to do another show at the Hollywood Bowl
Last night's supermoon / blood moon / harvest moon / lunar eclipse event, was the first of its kind to happen since 1982, and the last of its kind until 2033, so in case
Nap time isn't just for cranky kindergartners anymore. Not exactly. Enter Doze — an actual startup spending real money that's selling twenty-five minute naps for just $20. Where'
Typically quiet Castro Valley, in the East Bay, saw a double homicide Monday afternoon. As NBC Bay Area is reporting, a male and a female victim were found dead in a trailer on
#facebookdown descripción gráfica: pic.twitter.com/pDB7QJJWG8 — Cosme fulanito (@EsquivoAlexis) September 28, 2015 You may have noticed that Facebook crashed today right around noon Pacific Time/3 p.m. Eastern, only to hobble
Folsom Street Fair weekend just wrapped up a few hours ago for those who attended the big unofficial afterparty known Real Bad at 1015 Folsom, or for those who went to after-afterparties
It looked like recently proposed 'Idaho Stop' legislation was in the clear last week as a majority of the Board of Supervisors backed the legislation making ticketing cyclists who safely rolled
We've all been scolded "if you can't say anything good, don't say anything at all" at one time or another, haven't we? Of
Following on Forbes Magazine's recent takedown of the Academy of Art University and their fast-and-looseness with real estate zoning, and in anticipation of their long-delayed Environmental Impact Report,
As things ramp up towards November's election in San Francisco, big money has been flooding in and out of the offices of some hotly-contested (in most cases) local campaigns. Want
by Daisy Barringer Remember a few weeks ago when the 49ers beat the Vikings 20-3 and we all thought, “Okay, so maybe this season isn’t going to be as much of
![[Update] DNC Totally Hosting Obama (And Kanye!) In SF On October 10th](https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2015/09/gettyobamaedited-thumb-640xauto-914192.jpg)
In an event whose details are as vague yet certain and promising as Kanye West's presidential ambitions — the self-declared God recently announced he would run for office in 2020 — the
Anyone who's surprised that there's tension between those who've recently moved to San Francisco for jobs in the tech industry and those who lived here before this
The rumor was true, and La Boulange founder Pascal Rigo is reopening some of the shuttered bakery locations under a slightly different name, La Boulangerie de San Francisco. Rigo told the Business Times
