SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Nothing Bad Happened At Outside Lands The Transbay Transit Center bus deck reopened over the weekend, SF is lagging behind Oakland in housing production, and the Chronicle's Soleil Ho talks about the strange tension of expecting a possible mass shooting at a big festival like Outside Lands.
SF News Four Injured In Shooting Outside Fillmore McDonald's Saturday Night Late Saturday night, four people were injured in a shooting outside a popular McDonald's in San Francisco’s Western Addition. According to police, all victims have been transported to a nearby hospital.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Attendance Tops 90,000 Saturday, Breaks Record With Childish Gambino Headlining Saturday is often the most attended day of the three-day Outside Lands festival, but this year broke records with a reported 90,000 attendees — and that crowd didn't come without some complications.
SF News Sunday Links: 49ers Win Their First Preseason Game Against the Cowboys Another pedestrian was fatally struck at 5th and Market, the SF resident outed to ICE by Daly City police is suing, and the 49ers won their first preseason game 17-9.
Arts & Entertainment The Best Spots To Watch the Perseid Meteor Shower in the Bay Area The jaw-dropping, eye-opening peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower is only two nights away (Monday), but starting Saturday you should be able to see lots of shooting stars if you're in the clearer, darker spots of the Bay Area.
SF News Saturday Links: Lady Gaga Donates Funds To Gilroy Schools Oakland Coliseum chief resigns over naming rights controversy, permit denied for that Straight Pride parade in Modesto, and the SF school district considers preserving that controversial mural somehow.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Warehouse Fire Damages Artists' Studios Mollie Stone's is headed for Russian Hill, Mill Valley just approved an aggressive and controversial tree-removal measure, and Dim Baos from the Koi Palace team is coming to the Transit Center.
SF News San Francisco-Born Activist Believed To Have Been Shot By Duterte Government In Philippines A rally was held Friday for Brandon Lee, a 37-year-old San Francisco native who is believed to have been targeted and shot in an extra-judicial assassination attempt by the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
Arts & Entertainment Runner Draws Frida Kahlo On SF With Running App A local runner named Lenny Maughan used one of those running apps to draw Frida Kahlo's face on a map of San Francisco via a 29-mile run.
SF News East Bay Jewish Community On Edge As Guy Who Threatened To Shoot Up Synagogue Walks Free Ross Farca is a free man, despite bragging on a video game platform that he planned to commit a synagogue "shooting with a body count of over 30,” having a history of mental illness, and cops found him with an illegal AR-15.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Step Inside The Almost Completed Chase Center The new, 18,000-seat Golden State Warriors arena and concert venue is mere weeks from its public debut, and now we get to look around inside via some informal video tours.
SF News Camp Fire Death Toll Rises To 86 As Elderly Man Succumbs To His Wounds The death toll in last November's Camp Fire just rose by one after 72-year-old Paul Ernest of Paradise succumbed to complications from burns that he got trying to escape the fire with his wife. Ernest had been hospitalized ever since the fire.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Three-Alarm Fire Burning at Oakland Warehouse Chinatown residents continue to tell City Hall they feel targeted for crime, the mayor touts bicycle safety improvements on Valencia, and the Ghost Ship trial jury has taken a break for the weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Outside Lands Adds More Cops, Security Personnel Uber posted their biggest quarterly loss ever, a man and a woman have been arrested in a string of catalytic converter thefts in Berkeley, and Outside Lands will have a lot more cops and security this year.
SF News Modesto Straight Pride Organizer: “We’re A Totally Peaceful Racist Group!” A Freudian slip draws howls of laughter at an otherwise tense Modesto City Council meeting, as another batch of “Straight Pride” buffoons seek an event permit.
Arts & Entertainment How To Do Outside Lands, Part 3: Logistics and Transportation Completing our three-part series on how to do Outside Lands like a pro, SFist brings you some tips for getting there, navigating the place, and getting out.
SF News Bear Falls Off Embankment Onto Patrol Car, Causing Crash and Wildfire In Humboldt County A zany news item out of Humboldt involves a sheriff's deputy who was out on a call about a drug overdose when a bear seemingly fell out of the sky onto his patrol car, causing the car to crash into an embankment, flip over, and catch fire.
Business & Tech FBI Seeks Contractor To Harvest Facebook and Twitter Data To Identify Potential Shooters, Terrorists The FBI put out a request for proposals last month seeking a contractor that will trawl social media to identify potential threats to American interests — something that Facebook and Twitter explicitly prohibit any third party from doing.
SF News Postmates Gets First Permit To Test Delivery Robots On SF Streets Remember how the Board of Supervisors was talking about banning all sidewalk delivery robots two years ago? Well that didn't happen, and instead, like with the scooter debacle, the city has simply come up with permitting system.
Arts & Entertainment How To Do Outside Lands, Part 2: The Music (and Comedy) Outside Lands (OSL) is just a day-and-change away, which means Golden Gate Park will, again, be inundated with gastronomes, comedians, and, of course, more musical acts than you can shake a mic stand at.
SF News SF Soul Cycle and Equinox Locations See Protests After News Of Owner's Trump Fundraiser San Franciscans who patronize Soul Cycle and Equinox gyms are facing a moral quandary over their fitness choices this week after it was revealed that Equinox Fitness owner Stephen Ross was hosting a high-ticket fundraiser for President Trump in the Hamptons.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca To Reopen By Winter Under New Owners Nancy Oakes, Anna Weinberg, and Ken Fulk Boulevard chef Nancy Oakes and Marlowe/Park Tavern restaurateur Anna Weinberg are joining forces to reimagine Tosca Cafe as something in between the legendary dive bar it once was and the polished culinary destination it became.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Becomes First Major Music Festival to Allow Marijuana Sales As of late Wednesday, Outside Lands was cleared to become the first major event in San Francisco — and the first big music festival in the country — to sanction on-site sales and consumption of cannabis.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Ski Mask Rapist Denied Parole A fiery crash in San Jose claimed one life, an East Bay congressman is trying to address near-miss incidents at SFO, and Rep. Eric Swalwell held an emotional town hall on gun control.
Arts & Entertainment How To Do Outside Lands, Part 1: The Food and Drink SFist has done a lot of these fests — ten of them, in fact, all but 2018's — so allow us to give you some tips and highlights, in our role as old pros.
