Arts & Entertainment Chicago Photographer Seeks SF Subjects He Took Random Portraits Of In 1973 44 years ago this month, photographer Jeff Cohen decided to invite random passersby into his Union Street studio in San Francisco, and he took their portraits, promising to mail them each a copy.
SF News 80 Percent Of Medical Marijuana Tested At Recent NorCal Conference Is Tainted With Mold, Other Toxins Cannabis sold at Bay Area dispensaries is regularly referred to as "medicine," however a lack of regulation and testing around the product has led to significant supply of marijuana on dispensary shelves being
SF News Gay Sex Worker Attacked By 'Clients' Last Week In SF Blames Alt-Right Rally Gay sex worker and sometimes porn performer Jessie Colter opened up on social media over the weekend about an assault he was the victim of in a San Francisco hotel room by two
SF News Do 'No Parking' Signs For Street Cleaning Still Apply After The Street Cleaner Is Gone? There's a parking miscalculation every San Franciscan with a vehicle eventually makes: leaving your car in a street cleaning zone during the day and hours street sweepers approach. But every thorn has its
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Endangered Frogs Get Innoculations Essential phone admits embarrassing leak. [CNet] Uber investor writes overwrought letter regarding fraud suit against Travis Kalanick. [Wired] For the first time in ages, CCSF is packed. [SF Gate] SF State might suffer
SF News Alt-Right Activist Behind Cancelled Berkeley Rally Gives Insane Press Conference, In Antioch Much like she did a week ago Tuesday in downtown Berkeley, Amber Gwen Cummings gave a rambling press conference in Antioch Wednesday, the main point of which seemed to be to call out
SF News Massive Jump In San Francisco Car Break-Ins, As Thousands More Reported This Year Over Last If you feel like more and more cars are being broken into on SF streets, you're not wrong: According to data from the San Francisco Police Department, there's been a 28 percent jump
SF News Former Piedmont Mayor Jeff Wieler Steps Down From City Council Following Sunday's news that embattled mayor of Piedmont, Jeff Wieler, was voluntarily stepping down from the largely ceremonial position of mayor but would remain on the city council for the remainder of his
SF News Bay Area Man Allegedly Kills Sacramento Sheriff's Deputy, Injures Two CHP Officers A stolen vehicle investigation at a Sacramento hotel ended in tragedy for a veteran Sacramento County sheriff's deputy, when a suspect opened fire from inside the room of a Ramada Inn. The incident
SF News Scorching Hot Labor Day Weekend Ahead It remains to be seen how hot it may get in parts of San Francisco as temperatures rise all over the Bay Area in the coming days. But Livermore is looking at possibly
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Lyft Now Serving 40 States Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Are you hot on cold brew? [SFist] Lyft now
misc 6 Bad Habits You Can Quit With The Pavlok Wristband The handy device that'll give you the mental boost you need to dump your vices. We've all got our bad habits, whether you're digging through the freezer at midnight for an ice cream
SF News Day Around The Bay: Longtime SF Teacher Accused Of Abuse, Harassment A Santa Cruz restaurant has shut down after public records revealed that its owner donated $500 to a campaign for noted white supremacist David Duke. [CBS 5] N-Judah service to be replaced by
SF News Man On Many Drugs Goes On Naked Rampage In Santa Rosa A man under the influence of multiple drugs, including meth and acid, went on a drug-fueled rampage through a Santa Rosa neighborhood Tuesday morning, then through a nearby medical center where he injured
SF News City Opens Small Homeless Navigation Center For Mentally Ill At SF General Navigation Center is a respite from the streets for mentally ill, addicted. via @DominicFracassa https://t.co/ggrHMsEWrg pic.twitter.com/Yygv0I3BRI— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) August 30, 2017 The latest homeless Navigation Center to
SF News SF-Based App Maker Creates Hurricane Harvey Relief Aid San Francisco-based science media specialist Jessica Decker, who works at the California Academy of Sciences, jumped into the fray of volunteers looking to help victims of Hurricane Harvey and to help volunteers coordinate
SF News [Update] Red-Light Runner Injures Eight Near City College A car running a red light Wednesday morning collided with multiple cars* in San Francisco's Westwood Park neighborhood, near City College and Balboa Park. As the Chronicle reports, a female driver "ran a
SF News [Update] Suspicious Package Disrupts Muni And BART Service, Briefly Closes Market Street At Powell Market St closed on 800 block pic.twitter.com/jDwkJm6pIZ— _ (@R27D) August 30, 2017 Fears of a suspicious package spurred officials to close a busy stretch of Market Street Wednesday afternoon and to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Coffee Pros Disagree On Whether Cold Brew Should Be A Thing Cold brew. It's all the rage. It is beloved, especially on warm days, by many a coffee-toting hip kid and soccer mom, but it necessarily leads to the question of whether coffee really
Arts & Entertainment Morgan Freeman Spotted Filming New National Geographic Series In SF Walking home when suddenly crowd of people around Morgan Freeman pic.twitter.com/lW1OsENgZc— Jamacanbacn~Eric (@Jamacanbacn) August 29, 2017 Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman has been in San Francisco filming out on
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: An Eyelash Falls In The Tenderloin Local photographer and Tenderloin resident Darwin Bell spotted this sight last week in his neighborhood. He titled it "False Eyelash Tree in the Tenderloin National Forest." See more of his work here.
SF News Giant Sequoia National Monument Could Shrink By Two Thirds Under Trump Order President Trump on Friday issued an executive order requiring Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to "review" all national monument designations made during the last three administrations that are over 100,000 acres.
SF News Nancy Pelosi Calls For Violent Antifa To Be Arrested Heeding calls from some on the left to condemn the documented violence of "antifa" activists on Sunday who attacked the vastly outnumbered right-wing rally-goers who showed up in downtown Berkeley on Sunday, Nancy
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Tim Cook's $89.6 Million Windfall Instagram's updated its multiple photos feature to allow portrait or landscape type images. [Ad Week] Tim Cook's ten-year deal pays off with . [Associated Press] Top engineer departs Twitter. [Ad Week] "Women tech entrepreneurs
SF News Kalanick Reportedly Cries As He Passes Torch To New Uber CEO At an all-hands meeting at Uber HQ in San Francisco this morning, former CEO Travis Kalanick was reportedly crying as new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi (pronounced cause-row-SHA-hee) was introduced to the company. Uber's board
