SF News Detwiler Fire Caused By Gunshot, Investigators Say The nearly 82,000-acre Detwiler Fire in Mariposa County, which was still smoldering as of the weekend and 98 percent contained, was sparked by a gunshots on public lands, investigators now believe. As
SF News Video: Canine/Human Team Of Alleged Package Thieves Roams Richmond District A pair of package thieves was caught on tape robbing the porch of a Richmond District home last week, accompanied by two presumably innocent dogs. The Richmond District Blog has the tale, writing
SF News Video: Alcatraz Ferry Captain Rescues 10 Aboard Sinking Boat Around 8:45 p.m. Thursday night, just as one of the last ferries was leaving Alcratraz with 438 passengers on board, a distress call went out about a 31-foot recreational boat with
SF News Details Remain Sketchy In Market Street Muni Stabbing @SFPDMission station's night watch investigating a stabbing on @sfmta_muni bus in the 2000 block of Market. #sfpd pic.twitter.com/j3lj45w9XE— SFPD Night Captains (@SFPDnightWatch) August 6, 2017 Details have been slow
SF News Monday Morning Linkdump: Motorcycle Crash Snarls Bay Bridge Traffic 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 ICYMI: SF Opera's young hopefuls performed, food
SF News Google Employee Writes Internal Memo Railing Against Women, Diversity; Rage Ensues A memo from a senior software engineer that went "internally viral" at Google last week titled "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber" reportedly laid out a manifesto for why women are less well suited for
SF News Two Men Suspected In Strange Chicago Murder Come To Bay Area, Turn Themselves In Two middle-aged men, one a university professor from Chicago and the other a university employee from England, appear to have taken a long road trip to the Bay Area after they were both
SF News Sunday Links: Masonic Mess To Be Briefly Smoothed Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here New Instagram face filters include kitten ears, stars. [Ad
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SF News Uber's CEO Short List Is Now Down To Three White Guys Despite appearing to intend to hire a female chief executive as a means of reshaping Uber's corporate image as a fratty boys' club, it looks like Uber is going to end up with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: $180 Kobe Beef Sandwich Coming To SoMa The big food-and-drink news in town this week was the purchase of SF's signature brewery Anchor Brewing by Japan's Sapporo Holdings, which follows a trend of such deals but still feels kind of,
SF News Saturday Links: Steph Curry Misses Cut Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Sun seekers, take note. [SFist] Steph Curry played some
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera's Merola Program Produces Endless Cinderella Stories Just like in the Cinderella story, through the Merola Opera Program, some young and deserving singers are plucked from obscurity by a kind fairy, they get 10 weeks to come to San Francisco
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SF News Day Around The Bay: Alleged Pedophile Caught Via Large-Print Texting On Airplane [Wired] spends the night with Yelp’s robot security guard. As he did for codefendant Max Harris, an Alameda County judge lowered the bail for Ghost Ship defendant Derick Almena to $750,000,
SF News Photo: Tech Shuttle Blocks J-Church Train While Driver Grabs Coffee Yes, that's a tech shuttle bus, on an unapproved route, stopping so the driver can get coffee, blocking a Muni train... #SanFrancisco #NoeValley #TheWayWeLiveNow #grrrrrr A post shared by Ted (@eyeofted) on Aug
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Toronado To Celebrate 30th Birthday With 30 Custom Beers Made Just For Them Next weekend, on August 12, craft beer mecca Toronado will be ringing in 30 years in the Lower Haight, and as Eater explains, they'll be doing so with a "insane" list of special-edition
SF News Supervisor Floats Wildly Expensive Plan To Move The 'Hairball' Underground #SF Supervisor Hillary Ronen pushes to untangle freeway Hairball: “It’s a mess.” https://t.co/mX30fHDVHu via @rachelswan pic.twitter.com/FGaWs1McyM— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) August 4, 2017 What's it going to take
SF News SF Police Seized Huge Gun Arsenal From Mentally Ill Man Two Months Before Fatal Shooting And Standoff A mentally ill man who was put on a 5150 involuntary psychiatric hold two months previously is now in custody after allegedly murdering his mother, engaging in a 15-hour standoff with police Sunday
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Most Reliably Sunny Places Around The Bay It's a question many newcomers have when July and August arrive in San Francisco and they're wondering where to find the sun. Newscasts tell you that it's out there, somewhere, in parts of
Arts & Entertainment Hear Bob Dylan Live In San Francisco In Previously Unreleased Allen Ginsberg Recording From 1965 A bit of previously unreleased tape has just surfaced, seemingly from an archive of Allen Ginsberg recordings, that features Ginsberg and Bob Dylan talking backstage on December 11, 1965 in San Francisco, and
SF News Family Of Slain Muralist Sues ICE Over Stolen Gun The July 2015 killing of Kate Steinle with a federal agent's stolen gun grabbed national headlines, as is often the case when the victim is an attractive white woman. Far less attention was
SF News Are Smartphones Making A Generation Of Kids Isolated And Depressed? Adults know well enough how depressing it can be to see your friends cavorting about some beautiful international locale on Facebook while you're stuck at work too poor to travel. And we've also
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: Social Media Villains To Avoid A field guide to social media villains. [Ad Week] Apple has filed a patent for a screen with privacy-viewing options. [CNet] Uber Freight has expanded to CA. [SF Chronicle] Coding boot camps aren't
SF News More Details Released On Dolores Park Shooting Victims, Suspects Still At Large Pedestrian bridge at Dolores Park in SF remains closed due to #shooting. pic.twitter.com/Jxa0ITb0Da— Lyanne Melendez (@LyanneMelendez) August 3, 2017 The San Francisco Police Department is seeking five suspects Friday, following
