SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Development Near BART Stalls Twitter makes itself even less useful (if possible) by crapping up "notifications." [Ad Week] Do Wisconsin workers have the skills necessary to work in new American Apple plant? [Wired] Chinatown alleys are cool.
SF News 18-Year-Old Who Live-Streamed Her Sister's Death Pleads Not Guilty To DUI, Vehicular Manslaughter A Stockton woman who on Friday live-streamed a car crash and the subsequent death of her 14-year-old sister on social media has been charged with multiple felony counts including driving under the influence.
SF News San Francisco Bike Thief Trades Old Ride For New One A Twin Peaks-area man found himself the victim of a nonconsensual trade Wednesday, when he discovered his bike had been swapped out by a presumed thief. Police say that the crime went down
SF News Ohio State Fair Tragedy Prompts Santa Cruz And Sacramento To Shut Down Fireball Rides A tragic accident involving a carnival ride at the Ohio State Fair Wednesday evening has prompted the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk to temporarily shut down their Fireball ride for further inspection. The ride,
SF News Scenes From The Castro March Against Trump's Plans For Trans People In The Military Protesters turned out in droves in the Castro Wednesday evening to express resistance to President Trump's Twitter declaration that transgender people would no longer be able to serve in the US armed forces
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Twitter User Growth In Toilet Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Here's a death that can't come too soon. [SFist]
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SF News Day Around The Bay: Meg Whitman Floated As Uber CEO On Friday, as they prepare to retire their Boeing 747s by the end of this year, United Airlines is flying a special flight from Chicago to San Francisco a rare opportunity to fly
SF News Supes May Impose Moratorium On New Pot Dispensaries Tuesday night saw a pretty action-packed final Board of Supervisors meeting before their five-week summer recess, but a couple of the decisions they made might not be to a stoner’s delight. Supervisor
SF News Adobe Is Finally Killing Off Flash, Giving It Until 2020 To Choke And Die One of the internet's most hated and annoying bits of software, and one that endlessly needs updating due to security holes being endlessly exploited by bad guys, is finally going to die a
SF News Uber Initiates New $15 Lost Item Return Fee Leaderless and scandal-impaired rideshare giant Uber has taken the curious, counterintuitive tack of adding another fee in order to win back customers who are deleting the app. Engadget reports that Uber has quietly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Mid-Market Rooftop Bar To Be Called Charmaine's; Ground-Floor Restaurant Named Villon The much anticipated rooftop bar and lounge at the soon-to-open Proper Hotel at Market and Seventh now officially has a name: Charmaine's. We just learned a few weeks ago that they had hired
SF News SF Planning Commissioners' Homes Targeted By Pro-Life Activists Last week, the San Francisco Planning Commission voted to allow Planned Parenthood to expand into a "flagship" location on Bush Street at Van Ness Avenue. This week, a bunch of chalk-wielding activists went
SF News [Update] 10-Year Vet Of SFPD Arrested On Child Porn Charges The SFPD is about to hold a press conference to announce that a 10-year veteran of the force has been arrested on child porn charges. 37-year-old Joshua Enea of Antioch, who's been an
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Ugliest Condo Buildings In San Francisco One thing that San Francisco is most known for is its timeless and gorgeous historic architecture. The Victorian/Edwardian aesthetic that pervades our fair city, with its bay windows, decorative cornices, and detailed
SF News Trump Claims Apple CEO Promised To Build Three 'Big, Big' Plants In US Are Apple's CEO Tim Cook and America's CEO Donald Trump best buds? Trump is sure making it sound that way (despite some photographic evidence that would suggest otherwise). In a recent 45-minute interview
SF News Video: Elon Musk Has Actually Already Built A Car Elevator For His Insane Tunneling Project It's unwise to laugh these days when a billionaire entrepreneur seems to be joking about a new venture he dreamed up while sitting in traffic. Tesla CEO Elon Musk's seemingly jokingly (we thought)
SF News 'Emergency Protest' Planned In Castro Following Trump's Ban On Trans People In The Military Following this morning's tweet-announcement by the president of a ban on trans people serving in the military something that could effect over 2,000 active-duty troops an "emergency protest" has been announced in
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: San Francisco's Jacket Demands San Jose school staffer arrested for alleged sexual assault of developmentally disabled woman. [CBS 5] San Francisco in jackets. [Racked] [CNet] predicts disappointing earnings for Twitter in light of company's continuing problems. Lyft
Arts & Entertainment Popular Pier 70 Halloween Party 'Ghost Ship' Rebrands Itself 'LoveBoat Halloween' Many of us assumed that the big two-night Halloween costume rave known as Ghost Ship, which lately has been happening in the abandoned warehouse on Pier 70, would likely have to change its
SF News Skateboarding SF Mugger Throws Woman Waiting For Muni To Ground A woman waiting for the bus Wednesday morning was attacked and robbed, police say, by a skateboarding suspect who remains at large. Police say that the crime occurred at 6:40 a.m.
SF News Man Threatens To Kill Everyone On BART Train, Is Allowed To Board By BART Cop A clearly unstable man who had already caught the attention of BART police early Friday morning at North Concord/Martinez BART Station was allowed by one BART officer to board a train full
SF News Chelsea Manning, Nancy Pelosi And Others React To Proposed Trans Military Ban President Trump's announcement via Twitter Wednesday morning that he planned to ban trans people from military service is already sending waves of anger through the LGBT community and has hopefully, finally, made Caitlyn
SF News Prowler Swipes Booze, Bike From Lower Pac Heights Home An overnight theft deprived a Lower Pacific Heights man of two things most beloved by San Franciscans: wine and a bicycle. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the heist went down at
SF News Oakland Man Shot To Death In Tenderloin Tuesday A man was shot to death in the Tenderloin Tuesday night, by a suspect police describe only as an unknown male. According to the San Francsico Police Department, the fatal shooting was reported
