SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Noose Found Near Alameda School Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Can SF's local theaters survive the current box office
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SF News Day Around The Bay: Zuck Sits Down With DACA Dreamers Today at his house in Palo Alto, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat down for a Facebook Live video (above) with three DACA amnesty recipients to talk about Trump's repeal and the ramifications. [Facebook]
Arts & Entertainment New Oakland-Based Web Comedy 'The North Pole' Drops Next Week The low-budget web series genre has spawned enduring and memorable TV comedies like Portlandia, Broad City, and Insecure, but the next great web series may be sprouting up locally in Oaktown. A new
Arts & Entertainment Dublin Man Trapped In Apartment By UPS Package, Story Goes Viral A dude in Dublin, California had an Amazon package delivered over the weekend that ended up trapping him in his apartment due to UPS wedging it under his door handle effectively turning the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Debuts Long-Awaited Memoir, 'Coming To My Senses' Berkeley's grande dame of local eating, sustainability and Cal-Med cuisine, Alice Waters, has as of today released her first memoir, titled Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook. The book
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Esan Classic, A Lers Ros Spinoff With Food Influenced By Cambodia & Laos, Opens In The 'Loin Local Thai mini-chain Lers Ros, which has its roots on Larkin Street in the Tenderloin, is expanding once again, this time with a slightly different concept in a space across the street from
Arts & Entertainment SF Society Season Kicks Off With Opera Ball, Opening Night Of 'Turandot' This Friday, September 8, opens the 95th season for San Francisco Opera with the opening night of a production of Puccini’s Turandot originally staged by English artist David Hockney, directed by Garnett
Arts & Entertainment Video: Mapping 24 Hours Of SF Transit In Two Minutes A mapping startup called Mapzen has been working on an experimental map-visualization project called TransitFlow that provides us an animated look at 24 hours worth of transit-vehicle movement around San Francisco. Curbed points
SF News Taxi Company Crowdfunds For Survival As SFMTA Hands Drivers Lump Sum Checks How does a struggling local taxicab company compete with the cheap and unregulated competition of Uber and Lyft? Apparently, the same way that people these days pay unexpected medical bills, bail their own
SF News Facebook Ad-Reach Numbers For Key Demographic Exceed Census By 10 Million People An analyst recently discerned a potentially key flaw in the numbers that Facebook is using to draw advertisers to its platform, and it could be a big one. Facebook claims that it reaches
SF News Alt-Right Figure 'Based Stickman' Pleads Not Guilty To Stick-Wielding Charges A beloved figure of the alt-right known for allegedly wielding a stick at a Berkeley rally is apparently turning his back on that identity, entering a plea of not guilty in court Tuesday
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: The Exception To Silicon Valley Liberalism [Ad Week] takes a look at the science behind sharable video. [Wired] wonders if Twitter will ever be fun again. Hoyt Smith, the Bay Area's morning voice of classical radio, is retiring. [SF
Arts & Entertainment Local Theater Report: Balboa Cuts Programming, 4-Star Marketed As 'Available,' Harding Returns As Arcade Bar Between the proliferation of sleek multiplexes, the overall decline in movie theater attendance, and options like the near-heavenly Alamo Drafthouse, it's surprising that any of San Francisco's classic cinema houses manage to hang
Arts & Entertainment ABC 7 Weatherman Drew Tuma Collapsed From Heat Exhaustion During Heatwave If you follow ABC 7 meteorologist Drew Tuma on Facebook, you may have seen that he posted a black-and-white photo of an ugly gash on his forehead on Monday. As he has since
Arts & Entertainment Video: Dolphins Frolic At Stinson Beach Our warm-weather weekend brought some marine life close to sure, including a couple of dolphins who, for whatever reason, decided to put on a free show for beachgoers at Stinson Beach on Sunday.
SF News BART Says Riders Who Don't Pay Fares Don't Cost The Transit Agency Anything When does a rider who doesn't pay their fare cost the cash-strapped transit agency known as BART any money? When that rider is related to an employee, if comments made by their spokesperson
SF News Photos: Thousands Protest DACA Repeal Outside SF Federal Building #SFDACA rally #HappeningNow pic.twitter.com/SVea0ijG8k— Lisa Amin Gulezian (@LisaAminABC7) September 6, 2017 Thousands of people turned out for a hastily called protest Tuesday evening outside the federal building at Seventh and
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: SF State's Many Lawsuits 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 cool things to do list is right here.
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SF News Day Around The Bay: Berkeley May Legalize Public Display Of Female Nipples Finally got my new license plate "SF IST" San Francisco - Istanbul Lincoln Continental 2017 #goldengatebridge #sf_ist A post shared by Tayfun Coşkun (@sf_ist) on Jul 25, 2017 at 8:09pm
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week How about this heat, huh? Thankfully your evenings will bring with them some much needed cooling off this week, only to warm up again this weekend. So get out there for some outdoor
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Finally: Long Vacant Noe Valley Real Food To Be Sold, Redeveloped As Housing A papered-over storefront that has sat dark on 24th Street in Noe Valley for the last 14 years is finally on the market and could potentially be redeveloped as housing. The Chronicle reported
Arts & Entertainment Haight Street Creepy Object Shop 'Loved To Death' To Cease Taxidermy Sales Loved To Death, the well-known taxidermy and oddities shop in the Upper Haight that is kind of like a more goth version of Paxton Gate, is shutting down its spinoff next-door gallery space
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thelonious Monk Estate Sues North Coast Brewing Over 'Brother Thelonious' Image Use Fort Bragg-based brewery North Coast Brewing is in some hot water with the estate of the late jazz pianist Thelonious Monk over their apparently unauthorized use of Monk's name and likeness on merchandise
