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
SF News BART Gives Away Free Weekend Round Trip Tickets In an effort to help boost its weekend ridership, BART is handing out free round-trip tickets that are good for a trip on any weekend until December 18th. The agency has already distributed
Arts & Entertainment Amazon Greenlights SF-Based Series 'Tong Wars', Wong Kar-Wai To Direct San Francisco is getting some of its big-budget TV location cred back after the disappointing cancellation of Netflix's local darling series Sense 8. Amazon is stepping into the void, according to Variety, ordering
SF News Monday Lunchtime Links: Oakland Library Faces Heinous Tagging What "real people" think of the iPhone X. [CNet] Still more ethical concerns raised for AI. [Wired] Marin home of the one-time world's fastest man goes on the market. [SF Gate] Officials debate
Arts & Entertainment Daisy Does The Niners: 49ers Fall 12-9 To The Sloppy Seahawks by Daisy Barringer If you read the Bay Area papers today, you’ll see headlines like, “49ers put up fight but again leave Seattle with loss” and “49ers halfway good in 12-9 loss
SF News Dreamers File Lawsuit Against Trump Administration's Move to End DACA The resistance to Trump's rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (or DACA) program continues today as San Diego-based attorney Dulce Garcia files a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court against the
SF News Berkeley Police Fight Fake News Regarding Stabbing At Shapiro Protest A rumored story that was being perpetuated last week by Kyle "Based Stickman" Chapman regarding a Ben Shapiro supporter getting stabbed in the neck by "Antifa terrorists," and which was subsequently spread around
SF News Photo Of Driver Who Allegedly Crushed Homeless Person's Tent For SF Parking Space Goes Viral A homeless person's tent was in a parking space, which this driver ran over, then parked on. pic.twitter.com/FyLLTsGeri— Joe Fitz Rodriguez (@FitzTheReporter) September 14, 2017 SF Examiner reporter Joe Fitzgerald
SF News Man Dead After Early-Morning San Francisco Stabbing A stabbing behind a San Francisco shopping complex marks San Francisco's 49th homicide for 2017, already taking the city's annual count past those of some recent years. According to the San Francisco Police
SF News Bizarre BART Mugging Attempt Goes Sideways When Victim Fakes Seizure When a BART passenger was handed a note demanding her wallet and phone, the quick thinking woman took an original approach to thwarting the theft: She pretended to have a medical emergency, which
SF News Monday Morning Linkdump: Condo In Sinking Millennium Tower Improbably Sells Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Your weekend ICYIM: Another SF homicide plays into the
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SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Waxman's Gone For Good, City Beer Store Grows, And More The big food-world news of the week was the majority-stake acquisition of Blue Bottle by food giant Nestle, which is sure to turn off many a coffee snob. But we also saw the
SF News Sunday Links: Mugging Victim Tells Chilling Tale Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Anyone make it to this Apartment Sadness subject's open
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Opening Night Gala Features Yo-Yo Ma, And A Rousing 'Bolero' The SF Symphony Gala kicked off the orchestra's season on Thursday night, later in September than usual as MTT was on tour with the Vienna Symphony orchestra. Often enough, classical music is a
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Arts & Entertainment The Temptations Get The Biographical Jukebox Treatment They Needed With 'Ain't Too Proud' Berkeley Rep appears set to send another world-premiere hit to Broadway (the short-lived Amelie musical notwithstanding) with Ain't Too Proud, a biographical jukebox musical that traces the history of famed Motown quintet The
SF News Recent SF Murder Seems Certain To Figure Into Sanctuary City Debate This week we learned more about the murder of 23-year-old Abel Enrique Esquivel, Jr., which happened on August 15 near the intersection of South Van Ness and 26th Street, and which involved a
SF News Saturday Links: Vigilante Massacres Mission Trees Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here An American In Paris garners raves. [SFist] What you'll
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SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Officially Becomes America's Wealthiest Urban Area Though SF has a decades-old “heat plan” for conditions like two weekends ago, the city inexplicably ignored it, refused to follow long-established recommendations. [NBC Bay Area] A proposal for a Poets Plaza is
SF News Full Speaker List For 'Free Speech Week' Includes Ex-Googler James Damore, InfoWars Radio Host Mike Cernovich The Milo Yiannopoulos-organized, mysteriously funded, very possibly still-to-be-cancelled "Free Speech Week" at Berkeley, which is set to begin a week from Sunday, has quite a roster of controversial names on its full schedule
SF News Roughed-Up Riders Suing BART For Inadequate Security The $3 million civil suit against BART brought forward by the family brutalized in the infamous deplorable teen flash mob robbery has now morphed into a much larger class action suit with more
SF News Google Slapped With Gender Bias Suit, Might Owe Money to 21,000 Female Employees Ex-Googlers can do more than just found a Bodega startup that the internet loves to hate. Some ex-Googlers might force the search giant to cough up back pay and a hefty slice of
Arts & Entertainment 'An American In Paris' Brings Gershwin Tunes To Vivid Life At The Orpheum When the cheery new Roman Holiday musical made its San Francisco debut in June, I noted that this out-of-town tryout destined for Broadway was part of a trend of mid-century nostalgia that's been
