SF News No, It's Not Just You: Bay Area Traffic Reaches Record Highs Once again: Traffic in the Bay Area is getting much, much worse. NBC reports that according to the Metropolitan Traffic Commission, time spent in weekday traffic has skyrocketed by 80% between 2010 and
SF News Soda Warning Label Law Blocked, Citing Soda Companies' First Amendment Rights Two years after San Francisco passed a law requiring soda companies to place warnings on their advertisements and billboards, a federal appeals court has blocked the requirement with an injunction saying that the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California's Foie Gras Ban May Be Back On, Pending An Appeal Following a brief, two-and-a-half-year period in which it was illegal to produce or sell foie gras in California, following the implementation of a law that dated back to 2004 in the California banning
SF News Asian American Family Threatened For Putting Black Lives Matter Sign In Window One Asian American family in San Francisco has been the target of hate mail since putting up a Black Lives Matter sign in their window. KRON 4 reports that Debbie Lee has had
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Safeway, Five Others, Back To Being Open 24 Hours After an apparent outcry from customers in the neighborhood and perhaps continuing their quest to compete with the newer Whole Foods across the street the Church and Market Safeway has returned to being
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Proper Hotel And Its Mid-Market Restaurant Villon Are Open For Business A new, long-awaited, high-end boutique hotel at Seventh and Market is officially open for guests, bringing another potential catalyst for change in the always colorful environs of Mid-Market. Proper Hotel, from the newish
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Robbers Leave Creepy Clown Mask Behind Following anti-Semitic scandal, Twitter's ad targeting gets a scrub. [Ad Week] Messaging startup Slack has just pulled $225 million more in funding. [CNet] [Snopes] takes on falsehood that "California's governor is allowing people
SF News Crowd-Funding Campaign For Berkeley Hot Dog Vendor Reaches $86,000 After video went viral last week of a UCPD officer "confiscating" the cash from a hot dog vendor outside of a Cal football game, a GoFundMe campaign to help support the vendor (who
SF News Unable To Stem Rising Tide Of Crime, SF Might Close Twin Peaks Lookout After Dusk Photos like the one above will be a thing of the past, should a San Francisco Supervisor have his way. After years of crimes at one of the city's hottest tourist areas, city
SF News Photos Released Of BART Note Passer/Attempted Mugger, Do You Recognize Her? The story of a bizarre attempted robbery on BART that some thought was too strange to be true...was actually true, it appears, after the transit agency released surveillance video of the woman
SF News Latest On Free Speech Week: Coulter And Bannon Not On Schedule; And Who Is 'The Berkeley Patriot'? Well what do you know! The headlining acts, so to speak, of Milo Yiannopoulos's stunt of a speaking event next week, former chief strategist Steve Bannon and former Comedy Central Roast punching bag
SF News Nancy Pelosi Run Out of Her Own Press Conference By DACA Activists VIDEO: Chaos at @NancyPelosi #DACA event as 40+ undocumented hijack her news conf in SF: "We are not your bargaining chip! Let us speak!" pic.twitter.com/KC2WyrjqSy— Doug Sovern (@SovernNation) September 18,
SF News 'Wandering' Pedestrian Killed On Bay Bridge Fatal crash on #BayBridge approach east bound. @CHPSanFrancisco clearing scene. pic.twitter.com/OAsMZjQ52c— Christien Kafton (@CKaftonKTVU) September 19, 2017 A pedestrian was struck and killed on the Bay Bridge Tuesday morning, after
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: SFMTA Rolls Out Spiffy New Outfits Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Of course Taylor Mac's show is amazing. [SFist] Muni's
misc 8 Must-Haves For Any Smart Home Our top eco-friendly, automation-fueled gadgets to make your everyday better. These days, helping out the environment by opting for green, eco-friendly gear isn't just easy, it's downright appealing. Who can resist the idea
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lyft and Uber Drivers Behaving Badly Stanley Roberts has more People Behaving Badly, this time: Lyft and Uber drivers getting caught in intersections. [KRON 4] The DMV has placed a few self-service kiosks into some Bay Area grocery stores.
SF News Cancelled Patriot Prayer Rally Ended Up Costing SFPD $755,000 After the San Francisco Police Department played a cat-and-mouse game with the organizers of that Patriot Prayer rally in August, the city of San Francisco is left holding a hefty bill of $775,
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Mac: A Joyfully Liberal Carnival Barker To Get Us Through These Terrible Times I've been thinking how best to talk about what I experienced Sunday at Chapter II of Taylor Mac's irreverently epic, hard-to-describe, "performance art concert" called A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music. It is
Arts & Entertainment Facebook Censors Reject Completely Tame Folsom Street Fair Ad, Then Reverse Themselves Some more anti-Facebook LGBTQ outrage erupted late last week when the GLBT Historical Society had a totally safe-for-work, entirely tame ad they wanted to post seeking volunteers for their booth at this weekend's
Arts & Entertainment Video: Warriors Help Stranded Hurricane Irma Shelter Pets Much like there were thousands of shelter pets that needed to be relocated following the massive flooding with Hurricane Harvey in and around Houston, there are tons of four-legged friends that needed relocation
SF News Alaska Promises To Keep Virgin Amenities, Signs Partner Deals With Giants, Kevin Durant Alaska Airlines knows that many folks are going to miss Virgin America, so they're trying their best to ease your worries—by copping some of Virgin America's signature style and reaching out to
SF News Mueller Forces Facebook To Cough Up More Details On Russian Meddling President Donald Trump will be none too pleased that the “single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history” just got greater. In the wake of last week’s revelation that Facebook
SF News Land Under SF Freeway Overpasses Could Soon Become Parks San Francisco might have more than a few new parks in its future as 10 plots of land located underneath the city's elevated freeways could potentially be converted to parks and open-air recreation
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jardiniere To Host Benefit Dinner To Pay DACA Recipients' Renewal Fees A benefit dinner happening next Monday, September 25 at Jardiniere in San Francisco will be a first-of-its kind fundraiser for the local area with proceeds directly going to pay registration renewal fees for
SF News Milo Yiannopoulos Insists 'Free Speech Week' Is On, And That He's Paid $65K For Venue Rentals Relentless alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, who along with some alleged conservative/alt-right financial backing is dead-set on taking UC Berkeley to task for trying to stymie or cancel the Free Speech Week he
