SF News Day Around The Bay: Ohlone Indian Remains Found Under Fremont Development A "a major medical emergency involving a person on the track" shut down the Bay Fair BART station in San Leandro this afternoon. [CBS 5] State senator and former supervisor Scott Wiener is
SF News Supreme Court May Decide If 'Google' Is A Generic Term While our search engine and email overlords down in Mountain View surely love the fact that their brand name ‘Google’ has entered our everyday vernacular as a verb for “to conduct an online
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outerlands Owners Expand With Bread-Focused Concept In Former Parkside Grocery Store The owners of perennially popular Outer Sunset restaurant Outerlands, Lana Porcello and Dave Muller, are once again in expansion mode, and this time they're moving a bit out of the immediate neighborhood. As
Arts & Entertainment Never Forget: 2007, The Year The Man Burned Four Days Early, And Many Burners Were Sad Next week we mark the ten-year anniversary of a night that shall live in infamy for all longtime Burners, when an arsonist set The Man aflame four days early, the night of a
SF News ICE Agents Failed Pick Up Santa Rosa Man Who Later Beat His Girlfriend To Death Santa Rosa is not a sanctuary city and the Press Democrat recently did an article about this fact. So when undocumented Guatemalan immigrant Nery Estrada-Margos was arrested for beating his girlfriend, Veronica Cabrera
Arts & Entertainment Video: SFMOMA Installs Largest Painting In Its History Now hanging, as of Wednesday, in SFMOMA's Third Street atrium a.k.a. the museum's former main entrance is a monumental abstract painting by artist and MacArthur "genius" grant recipient Julie Mehretu that
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Temple Being Built From Trees Killed In Drought You’ll notice this year’s Burning Man Temple looks a lot different than previous years’ laser cut jigsaw designs of David Best. Best has handed off the task to his previous lead
SF News Piedmont's Mayor In Trouble Over Racist, Transphobic Facebook Posts Piedmont's Mayor Jeff Wieler recently took to social media to express his frustration with the Black Lives Matter movement, liberals, and trans people and is surprised that his constituents have a problem with
Arts & Entertainment Internet Archive Trying To Digitize Every Old 78 Record In Existence Fans of old vinyl records will not hiss at this news: The Internet Archive and the Archive of Contemporary Music are attempting to preserve and digitize every single remaining 78-rpm vinyl album, and
SF News SF Republican Attorney Takes On James Damore Case, Suggests Possible Class-Action Against Google The latest in the story of fired Google engineer James Damore is that he's hired a prominent conservative lawyer from San Francisco who was shortlisted for a possible post in President Trump's Justice
Arts & Entertainment This Is Weird: Bay Area Rapper Work Dirty Will Perform At Right-Wing Patriot Prayer Rally Though we should all be concerned that, as has happened in Berkeley and multiple other places in the country, white nationalists will be drawn to Saturday's now permitted Patriot Prayer rally in San
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Dog Disappears From Oakland Groomer Google might unveil new Pixel phones in October. [CNet] Bay Area-based fake meat company Memphis Meats raises $17 million. [SF Chronicle] Bob Murphy, the longtime voice of Stanford sports, has died. [ABC 7]
SF News Video: BART Riders Rush To Stop Oncoming Train After Jumper Lands On Tracks A man who was possibly in crisis jumped onto the tracks at the Civic Center BART station Monday afternoon was saved after multiple riders on the station platform waved to get the attention
Arts & Entertainment Two Powerball Tickets Worth $818K Each Sold At Bay Area Stores Last night's historically huge Powerball jackpot is going to dramatically change the life of somebody in Chicopee, Massachusetts. But two Bay Area ticket-holders aren't doing too bad themselves after getting five of the
SF News Alleged Bike Thief Stabbed In Dolores Park Altercation The tables were turned on an alleged bike thief Wednesday, when the theft victim instead stabbed the robber. Police say the altercation occurred at 4:44 p.m. Wednesday, on the grounds of
SF News San Francisco Woman Found Slain At Side Of Remote East Bay Road Investigators say little is still known regarding the death of a San Francisco woman found slain at the side of a remote East Bay road Tuesday, the first homicide in the area since
SF News SFPD Chief: Guns, Tiki Torches, Pets Banned From Crissy Field 'Patriot Prayer' Rally Alt-right protesters hoping to wave their apparently beloved tiki torches at the Golden Gate Bridge will be disappointed this weekend, as San Francisco's top cop says the blazing staffs, among many other items
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Money Laundering Charges OKed For Backpage Bosses Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here SF deathtrap faces city attorney's wrath. [SFist] Apple struggles
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SF News Day Around The Bay: Protesters Rally In Support Of Kaepernick Supervisor Mark Farrell, in response to the planned alt-right rally this weekend, is looking to ban guns from all public parks and plazas in San Francisco. It remains to be seen whether there
SF News Here Are All The Counter-Demonstrations Planned During Saturday's Alt-Right Rally In SF While a lot of Bay Area residents and San Franciscans especially are angry about a planned rally of alt-right activists and Trump supporters coming to this town for the first time during this
SF News Apple Ditches Self-Driving Car Dreams At last count, the roster of tech companies currently developing some sort of self-driving car, or the underlying technology to run one, includes Google, Uber, Tesla, and Lyft, in addition to blue-chip car
SF News Park Service Issues Final Permit For 'Patriot Prayer' Rally After a week in which multiple local and state lawmakers urged them to deny the alt-right/conservative group Patriot Prayer a permit to gather at San Francisco's Crissy Field this Saturday, the National
SF News Former CIA Agent Valerie Plame Launches Symbolic Campaign To Buy Twitter, So She Can Ban Trump Former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, who was famously put in harm's way by former president George W. Bush in 2003 after his administration leaked her identity as an agent as a way
SF News City Sues Laundromat Owner Over 'Death Trap' Basement Apartment Excelsior and Outer Mission residents were recently shocked to discover that a popular coin-op laundromat had a secret subterranean basement full of squalid illegal apartments, as reported in May. That laundromat, the Clean
