SF News California Is Growing Eight Times More Marijuana Than It Smokes, Growers Warn People who closely follow the the cannabis industry have had a good laugh lately at headlines like “Marijuana Shortage Prompts Emergency In Nevada.” But you’ll be none too surprised to hear that
Arts & Entertainment Cool New Photography Series Shows San Francisco Buildings In Stark Black And White Photographer Burton Rast has recently done a series of 100 photographs, shot over 100 days, that shows off San Francisco structures and landmarks almost as abstract shapes, in stark black and white. Rast
SF News Homeless Mom And Her Newborn Attract Much Attention On Market Street Homeless mom panhandles on Market Street with newborn baby: “I’m not harming her in any way.”https://t.co/nSmkszW1qZ via @hknightsf pic.twitter.com/2NItA9gsLe— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) July 30, 2017 34-year-old
SF News Monday Lunchtime Links: Boater Almost Hits Sunken Bay Vessel Five arrested in daring Dutch iPhone heist from moving truck. [Associated Press] Should tech companies attempt to police the web? [Wired] Rash of car burglaries at BART. [CBS 5] A boater nearly crashed
SF News Berkeley Student Attacked During Milo Yiannopoulos Protest Drops $23M Lawsuit Republican-leaning UC Berkeley undergrad Kiara Robles has reportedly dropped a $23 million lawsuit that was filed against the university on her behalf by attorneys Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch and Michael Kolodz, in
SF News Elon Musk Tweets That He's Bipolar, 'Maybe Not Medically' In an exchange with a stranger on Twitter, serial entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk was speaking out about his sometimes rocky emotional life on Sunday yet again illustrating how weird it is
SF News Lyft Driver Attacked By 8 People After She Says They Can't Fit In Her Car A Lyft driver in Sacramento was brutally beaten by eight young adults after she refused to take them all in her six-passenger vehicle. The Sacramento Bee reports via driver Nakayla Hall's Facebook page
SF News Man Busted For Alleged BART Wank Session A man was reportedly arrested by BART police at a San Francisco station this weekend, on reports of indecent public activity. KRON 4 reports that the arrest occurred at 6:44 a.m.
SF News PG&E Staffer Reportedly Blames Fog For Richmond District Power Outage #UPDATE: 1,600 PG&E customers without #power in #SanFrancisco.https://t.co/34qEmLmbIU— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) July 30, 2017 A PG&E outage that knocked power out for thousands of
SF News Monday Morning Linkdump: Google Faces EPIC Wrath 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: a man stands accused of dealing
SF News [Update] Police In Standoff With Suspect In Corona Heights Shooting Avoid the area of 15th St. & Beaver due to #SFPD activity. A shelter-in-place is in effect. @sfmta_muni & traffic will be effected. #sf pic.twitter.com/DMTguHZhWd— San Francisco Police (@SFPD)
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SF News 68-Year-Old Oakland Man Suspected Of Dealing Drugs Out Of Senior Housing Facility An elderly man who's been living in an Oakland senior citizens' housing complex in Oakland was arrested last month on suspicion of dealing cocaine, black tar heroin, and marijuana out of his apartment.
Arts & Entertainment Opera Plaza Cinema Possibly Getting Shut Down, Replaced With Retail Another independent movie house may be biting the dust. The bedraggled yet still appreciated Opera Plaza Cinema appreciated for its programming and location if not its interior is allegedly set to be replaced
SF News Sunday Links: SF's High-Ranked Tap Water Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here All about the time Netflix crashed on purpose. [Wired]
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SF News Green Spots On Oroville Dam May Indicate Dangerous Seepage, Says Expert The drama surrounding the Oroville Dam and its currently under-construction spillway is likely to continue well past this year. And a new, scathing report from a retired Berkeley engineering professor suggests that state
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Nico Moving Downtown, Bauer Adores Acacia House, And More The business of mastication had some bright spots this week, with more details about Stonestown's depressing Macy's becoming a food/cinema destination, more news about the Mid-Market hotel with a rooftop bar and
Arts & Entertainment Local Hip-Hop Duo Zion I Robbed Of $90,000 Camera During West Oakland Video Shoot Baba Zumbi of Oakland hip-hop group Zion I was shooting a music video with about 15 other people in West Oakland on July 10 when they were robbed of a very expensive video
SF News Saturday Links: Katie Couric Leaving Yahoo Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Look at these freakin' hippies. [SFist] Perhaps unsurprisingly, Katie
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SF News Day Around The Bay: Woman Sues Airbnb Over Sexual Assault Say goodbye to the iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle. Apple is killing them off, but keeping the iPod Touch for some reason. [CNet] It's Gilroy Garlic Festival weekend! [ABC 7] A Santa Fe
SF News Video: Fugitives Nabbed In SF In 2016 Made Video About Their Jailbreak And Time On The Lam A video released this week by the attorney of one of the accused escaped convicts from Southern California who ended up living in a van in SF's Haight Ashbury in January 2016 before
SF News Ex-Googler Launches Nonprofit To Stop Google & Facebook From 'Hijacking Our Minds' It is not a particularly unique observation that the culture of constantly looking at our phones has spawned an app economy whose emotional manipulation, trampling of our privacy, and spread of misinformation has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Proposition Chicken Expands To Oakland Fast-casual chicken joint Proposition Chicken just announced the opening of their second location, in Oakland's Lakeshore neighborhood, in September. Serving what they say is "the best damn chicken and pretty yummy people too"
