SF News Saturday Links: Instagram's Secret Verification Scandal Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Tie Fighters over the Golden Gate Bridge? Why not.
misc These Headphones Will Have You Rocking Out This Weekend The acoustic accompaniments your favorite playlist wants. What could be better than a stroll through your favorite neighborhood on a warm summer's day? The sound of your most-loved tracks and tunes on blast
SF News Day Around The Bay: PG&E Preps For Outages BART trains will not run Saturday, Sunday or Monday between the 19th Street and Fruitvale stations and the West Oakland and Fruitvale stations as work crews rebuild trackway in downtown Oakland. [Chronicle] PG&
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: We're Done For RIP San Francisco. We had a good run. pic.twitter.com/eURTD2dOju— Karl the Fog ☁️ (@KarlTheFog) September 1, 2017 I've lived in the Outer Sunset since 2004 and this is the first day
SF News Overcome By The Heat, BART Announces Delays As Long As 60 Minutes All Weekend Those of us feeling dramatically less productive due to the current heat wave have a spirit animal in BART, it appears, as the transit agency has announced that the weather has caused them
SF News SFPD To Beef Up Foot Patrols, Launch 'Education' Campaign For Tourists Re: Car Break-Ins The SFPD is shifting some resources to address the alarming rise in property crime citywide, and you can expect to see more cops out on the street on foot and on bicycles in
SF News The Muni Bus Turns 100 Today She breaks down so much because she's old! That's what you have to keep telling yourself during your next frustrated bus commute, as today we are celebrating the Muni bus's 100th birthday. Yes,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Xmas In September: Meadowood Announces 12 Days Of Christmas Chef Lineup The lineup for the Restaurant at Meadowood's annual holiday festival of international chef talent is out, and it's yet again an impressive one. After taking 2016 off from hosting the two-week December blowout
Arts & Entertainment Kathleen Turner Coming To Feinstein's To 'Sing And Share Backstage Stories' Acclaimed actress Kathleen Turner is coming to San Francisco this fall for a pair of intimate performances at Feinstein's at the Nikko and who knew she did cabaret? As Playbill first reported, her
SF News Parents Peeved At Daylong Delay To Clean Poopy SF Playground Human feces on San Francisco streets are nothing new — heck, there's even a couple maps out there of the most common places for the stuff, all of which surface at regular intervals at
SF News Video: Russian Consulate In SF Burns God Knows What As They Prepare To Close VIDEO: They're not just burning paper. Bitter, acrid smoke coming from #Russia Consulate in SF. And hey, it's a #SpareTheAir Day. 97° here! pic.twitter.com/YNVRswKzc2— Doug Sovern (@SovernNation) September 1, 2017
Arts & Entertainment Star Wars App Lets You Watch Tie Fighters Fly Over The Golden Gate Bridge Starting today, if you have some spare time, and the Star Wars app on your phone, you can hold it up to take a photo of the Golden Gate Bridge and see a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Infamous Boondoggle Juicero Suspends Sales, Founder Celebrates At Burning Man Juicero, the company that introduced the world to a wi-fi-connected $700 juicer, later marked down to $400, which essentially did the same job as a pair of human hands, is finally calling it
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: How SF Validates Cyclists Why Apple made its 11th-hour stand for net neutrality. [Wired] Instagram users will soon be able to post Stories via the mobile web.[Ad Week] Berkeley is the most expensive college town in
SF News [Update] Hate Crime Alleged After 81-Year-Old Woman Is Shoved Onto Muni Tracks A woman was arrested Thursday night, after police say she shoved an elderly woman off an elevated Muni Metro platform in what appears to be an unprovoked attack. Police say that the incident
SF News Smoke From NorCal Wildfires Drifts Down Over Bay Area More pics showing smokey skies over #EastBay hills that separate Clayton from Antioch/Pittsburg. Its windy & smells like 🔥 pic.twitter.com/U59wrZ8Eh1— Julianne Herrera (@JulestheFirst26) August 31, 2017 Adding to what's predicted
SF News Elderly Man Sought In Castro Hit-And-Run Police say they're looking for a hit-and-run driver Friday, following what they say was an intentional collision in the Castro. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the 45-year-old male victim was standing
SF News Big Rig Hits Overpass, Adds To Usual Traffic On 80 Through Berkeley A big-rig truck slammed into an overpass on 80 in San Pablo early Friday morning, overturning its trailer and scattering debris all over the roadway. Two of the four westbound lanes were closed
Arts & Entertainment 'I Do...Until I Don't' Is Disappointingly Conventional Lake Bell wrote, directed, and starred in 2013's In a World... a charming comedy about the life of a struggling voiceover actress, a world she's very familiar with, as she has a number
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: 'Town Troublemaker' Arrested In Fatal Hit-And-Run Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Is SF ready for a slaughterhouse? [SFist] Apple has
misc This Guide Will Help You Publish eBooks Independently Don't let publishing houses hold you back — publish your brilliance directly to Kindle. It can be notoriously tough to try to publish a book the old fashioned way — countless submissions, rejection after rejection,
SF News Day Around The Bay: State Department Orders Russia's SF Consulate Closed Wells Fargo admits that there were actually 3.5 million fake accounts opened in customers' names, up 70 percent from the previously reported 2.1 million. [Bloomberg] On Thursday, the US State Department
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mamanoko, The Japanese-Inspired Replacement For Mamacita, Has Opened After the surprise shuttering of Mamacita in March, we heard that because of an ownership split, partners Stryker Scales and chef Sam Josi were planning a new concept in the space as partner
SF News Regarding The History Of Public Nudity In San Francisco It's been a while since we were debating Scott Wiener's nudity ban, which took effect in 2012 and has resulted in several older nudist gentlemen who frequent Jane Warner Plaza in the Castro
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Slaughterhouse In San Francisco? A chicken slaughterhouse that sells fresh chickens directly to consumers, and that already has an outpost in East Oakland, wants to move into a warehouse space in the Bayview marking what might be
