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
SF News Beloved 98-Year-Old Science Editor Retires From The San Francisco Chronicle A toast to David Perlman: A journalist and colleague extraordinaire retires https://t.co/Rd6eMTZCxe via @sfchronicle pic.twitter.com/UulmEzWBo9— joegarofoli (@joegarofoli) August 3, 2017 77 years after joining the San Francisco
SF News Arson Suspected In Oakland/Berkeley Hills Fire, Which Is Now 70% Contained The #GrizzlyFire in the East Bay Hills is now 70% contained, and crews hope to put it out by tonight. https://t.co/EHbKYu8VyB— Berkeleyside (@berkeleyside) August 4, 2017 A suspected arsonist who
SF News Troubled Haight McDonald's Site Of Afternoon Shooting A Haight Street fast-food restaurant that narrowly avoided a lawsuit regarding drug sales on its premises was the site of a shooting Thursday afternoon, raising questions over management's promises that illegal activity would
SF News Weird August 'Monsoonal Moisture' Brings Lightning To East Bay, 'Fognado' To Santa Cruz I think most of us can agree that the weather's been a little funny, especially on Thursday, especially for August. And while some rare thunderstorms were predicted because of this weird mugginess, perhaps
Arts & Entertainment 'The Dark Tower' Lands With A Thud I've read almost all of Stephen King's books, having started way younger than I probably should have (around age 10), yet series never did it for me. I tried the first book, but
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Uber's Defective Car Problem Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Its the end of a thrift shopping era. [SFist]
misc Achieve Your Fitness Goals With These 3 Fitness Trackers The days are warm, the nights are balmy and the sun stays up late — there's no doubt that summer's the perfect time to get moving. Whether you like hiking in the great outdoors
SF News Day Around The Bay: Oakland High-Speed Chase Ends Peacefully A suspect in a stolen car led police on a high-speed chase through Oakland and Piedmont today, including going the wrong way on I-580, before peacefully surrendering. [ABC 7] More on Facebook's alleged
SF News Horrible Los Gatos Couple Pleads Guilty To Using Adopted Son As A Sex Slave This is the worst of the worst. 73-year-old Ralph Flynn and his wife, Carolyn Flynn pleaded guilty in Santa Clara County Superior Court to a bevy of horrific sex crimes against their adopted
Arts & Entertainment Drone Video Shows A Seal And A Dog Playing In The Surf Interspecies good times! This drone video picked up by KRON 4 shows (albeit from high above) a dog leaping and swimming into the waves in Morro Bay as a seal comes in to
SF News Three Injured In Brazen Midday Shooting At Dolores Park pic.twitter.com/3JhlkioTZ5— TYCHO (@ISO50) August 3, 2017 A shooting at Dolores Park injured three people Thursday afternoon, including a small child, one witness says. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson
SF News Stanley Roberts Shames Market Street Drivers Before Proposed Car Ban Even Takes Effect The proposed Market Street ban on Uber, Lyft, and essentially all cars that are not taxicabs, buses, or delivery vehicles was just unveiled this week, and is nowhere close to being law. It
SF News Van Ness Goodwill To Shut Down August 12 The long expected closure of the big Goodwill store at Mission and South Van Ness is happening next week, on Saturday, August 12. As ABC 7 reports, Goodwill already has another store up
SF News Alt-Right Calls For 'Free Speech Alternative To PayPal' After Company Begins Freezing Accounts PayPal has taken to freezing the accounts of a number of high-profile personalities on the so-called alt-right who use the payment processing platform to fundraise and they're not too happy about it. BuzzFeed
SF News Hot Weather Might Make Way For Thunderstorms Thursday The current Bay Area heat wave might have an unusual interruption this evening, when forecasters say thunderstorms might strike San Francisco and the South Bay. Will Pi, a meteorologist with the National Weather
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anchor Brewing Sold To Sapporo Holdings; Pier 48 Expansion Plan Likely Dead Breaking news in the craft beer world: 121-year-old San Francisco brewery Anchor Brewing was sold to the Japanese beer company, Sapporo Holdings. (Clinking of frosty opaque mugs of beer.) In a sweet exclusive
Arts & Entertainment 'Hamilton' Coming Back to SF In 2019! Those of us who have been losing the $10 Hamilton ticket lottery every day since the blockbuster musical opened in March realize that we are quite literally down to our last shot there
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Millbrae Thief Caught On Tape How Firefox plans on crushing Chrome. [CNet] Is Netflix's future in anime? [Wired] Which San Francisco mega-project needs to happen most? [Curbed SF] Complaints follow UC Berkeley's new draft policy for groups that
SF News Imaginative 911 Callers Mistake 'Enormous' Raccoon For Kangaroo Multiple 911 callers summoned the California Highway Patrol to an Oakland-area freeway Wednesday on reports of at least two dead kangaroos, but responding officers found that the deceased animals were far less exotic
SF News Errant RV Driver Crashes Into Golden Gate Bridge Tollbooth Alert-An RV hit the toll plaza at the @GGBridge causing damage to median. Both wide lanes are closed. Expect delays across the span. pic.twitter.com/dgvUHm63nV— CHP Marin (@CHPMarin) August 2, 2017
SF News Air Canada Jet In SFO Near Miss Was Just A Few Feet From Hitting United Plane The terrifying near-miss incident on July 7 at SFO has just gotten even more terrifying as the National Transportation Safety Board reveals in a new report that the misguided Air Canada pilots came
SF News 20-Acre Fire Breaks Out In Berkeley Hills, Now 50 Percent Contained The latest on the fire near Grizzly Peak in the hills above #Oakland and #Berkeley: https://t.co/YtSihgLxcG pic.twitter.com/coKLWBryVT— KPIX 5 (@CBSSF) August 3, 2017 A 20-acre wildfire broke
