Arts & Entertainment Short Film Features BART Station Agent Who Happily Greets Thousands Daily Agent of Connection from Ivan Cash on Vimeo. Laughing Squid spotted this very well-made short film which focuses on BART agent William Cromartie, who says he personally greets 4,000 commuters every day
SF News Senators Feinstein And Harris Take FCC To Task Over Wireless Emergency Alert System Shortcomings Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris are voicing their concerns about the federal Wireless Emergency Alert system currently in place for disaster warnings. They're criticizing the tool for its shortcomings and for its
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Mac Receives MacArthur 'Genius' Grant In the midst of a barrage of fire-related news last week, I neglected to note that the brilliant Taylor Mac who just completed the second-ever complete performance of his 24-Decade History of Popular
SF News First Lawsuit Filed Against PG&E Over Wine Country Fires A state senator is suggesting that PG&E will have to be broken up if it turns out to be found guilty of negligence in causing the wildfires that ripped through Northern
SF News 49ers Players Escape Alleged Robbery Attempt Outside Union Square Nightclub Two ambitious — or perhaps foolish — armed robbers tried to mug two San Francisco 49ers players after this past Sunday's game against the Washington [Insert Racist Name Here]. Mission Local reports that according to
SF News [Update] SFPD Officer Hit By Car On Turk Street A San Francisco police officer was struck and injured by a vehicle on Turk Street between Franklin Street and Van Ness Avenue Wednesday afternoon, and the extent of the officer's injuries are not
Arts & Entertainment Borderlands Books Looks To Buy Building, Relocate To The Haight In Bid For Survival The Borderlands Books saga may well be turning a page to a novel solution that ensures the sci-fi and fantasy bookstore’s permanent survival. Not long after announcing the closure of the Valencia
SF News Twitter Outlines New Policies To Combat Rampant Harassment, Hate, And Abuse In an e-mail sent to Twitter employees, obtained by the Associated Press, the Trust and Safety team at the beleaguered tech company laid out their plans for combating harassment, hate speech, and abuse
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Event Designer Stanlee Gatti's Ultra Fancy Meraki Market Opens In The Tenderloin Thursday A high-end gourmet market conceived by local event impresario Stanlee Gatti will make its debut on October 19, and from the sound of it, it will be like nothing the Tenderloin has known,
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Bay Area Company Fights Peanut Allergies [Wired] has some issues with the whole #MeToo thing. Brisbane company working on peanut allergy cure. [Bloomberg] Never dump a pair of ruined jeans again. [Rockyt] The temporary Transbay Terminal will soon evolve
SF News SFMTA Warns That Upcoming Time Change Could Kill Pedestrians San Francisco's streets are perilous ones for pedestrians, we all know that to be true. But a blog post by the head of San Francisco's transit agency warns that they are about to
SF News Shady Websites Suggest Wildfires Were Started By Mexican Drug Cartels, Illegal Immigrants Citing no actual evidence, a website known for floating conservative-leaning conspiracy theories has reported that Mexican drug cartels are suspected of deliberately setting the multiple wildfires that ravaged wine country and beyond last
SF News Five Displaced In Early Morning San Francisco Fire Five residents of an Excelsior building escaped injury this morning, after a two alarm fire consumed their home. According to tweets from the San Francisco Fire Department, the blaze broke out at 12:
SF News Northern California Wildfire Death Toll Climbs To 42 As Six Firefighters Are Injured Battling Santa Cruz Blaze Cal Fire projected that the Central LNU Complex wildfires still burning in Northern California would be contained by Friday, and for now, those projections seem to be on track. It's a great bit
SF News In Random Attack, Man Allegedly Stabs Girl In Face As She Walks To School A 14-year-old girl was rushed to the hospital Tuesday, after a man stabbed her in the face as she walked to school. The East Bay Times reports that the attack occurred at 8:
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Google Serves Fake News On Fact-Checking Sites Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Here are some happy animal stories. [SFist] "Welcome to
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SF News Day Around The Bay: Fire Victim May Give New Life To Infant Through Organ Donation Fire news: The Bear Fire, which broke out late last night in the Santa Cruz mountains, is now over 200 acres and remains just 5 percent contained. [Cal Fire] A brush fire in
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Assuming you will not be helping friends or family pick up the pieces after fires in the North Bay, or volunteering to help evacuees this week, below find some fun activities to take
SF News Firefighters Continue To Battle Growing Oakmont Fire As Some Evacuation Orders Lifted The latest reports coming from Cal Fire say that evacuation orders are being lifted in some parts of Sonoma County, including areas south of the Oakmont neighborhood, despite the Oakmont Fire's continued growth
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Salt & Straw Debuts In Hayes Valley This Week, Will Donate To Fire Victims The second SF location of Portland-based Salt & Straw ice cream debuts Friday with a particularly frightful, if inventive, list of Halloween-season flavors, and with a charitable focus in light of the fires
SF News Potential Jurors For Kate Steinle Murder Trial Instructed To Leave Immigration Debate 'Off The Table' The jury selection process in the case of Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate's alleged murder of Kate Steinle has crossed another milestone today, as prospective jurors sat before a San Francisco Superior Court judge for
SF News Video: Watch A Berkeley Fire Crew React As They Approach The Tubbs Fire In Its First Hours A video that puts in perspective the swiftness and vastness of the devastation that first responders encountered in the early hours of the wine country wildfires one week ago is this one, from
SF News Federal Judge In Hawaii Halts Trump's Third Attempt At A Travel Ban Amidst all the recent discussion of sanctuary cities, Dreamers and DACA, you may have forgotten that President Trump's other controversial move impacting immigrants and travelers into the US, primarily those from Muslim-majority nations,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Google Pulls Calorie Counting 'Cupcakes' Feature From Maps After Strong Backlash BuzzFeed News' Katie Notopoulos documented a new, short-lived Google Maps feature that would suggest walking to a given close-by destination while telling you how many calories the average human would burn doing so.
