The SF Mayor's Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs is offering to cover the cost of renewal application fees for all Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients in the
The world’s most gigantic kinky leather event, Folsom Street Fair, is set to draw some 400,000 leather revelers and gawkers again this Sunday, and is now established as California’s third-
On August 31, the Trump Administration ordered the closing of San Francisco's Russian Consulate, as well as three others in the US. Immediately following that news, a mysterious plume of smoke
* Google is buying part of HTC’s smartphone team for $1.1 billion. [The Verge] * Twitter will meet with the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding Russian election interference. [Wired] * The new Apple Watch isn&
Believe it or not, some snow fell last night in the Sierra, and on Half Dome in Yosemite, meaning at least up there, summer is officially dunzo. Some flakes fell at higher elevations
The California Department of Justice recently released their Homicide in California report for 2016, and it's fascinating stuff, breaking down in painstaking detail who's getting killed, who's
Just after the celebration of Rosh Hashanah Wednesday night, a Jewish synagogue in Oakland was vandalized early Thursday morning with anti-Semitic graffiti. As KRON 4 reports, the rabbi at Temple Sinai found
A man getting off the elevator of a San Francisco apartment tower ended up in a fistfight Wednesday, after a suspect demanded the food he was carrying. According to the San Francisco Police
![[Update] Anti-Semitic 9/11 Truther Scheduled To Appear At San Francisco Library Tonight](https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2017/09/sfpl-richmond-branch-thumb-640xauto-1013443.jpg)
Christopher Bollyn, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled a "raging anti-Semite," is scheduled to speak at the Richmond Branch of the San Francisco Public Library tonight at 6
* 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 guide to Folsom, parties and otherwise. [SFist] * [Newsweek]
From a plasma beam lighter to a portable breathalyzer. Ready to be a modern-day Inspector Gadget — uh, minus the near-fatal explosion and subsequent surgery? These seven ultra-convenient tools will keep
* Attorney General Jeff Sessions rails against CA sanctuary city policy in speech in Portland. [Fox News] [NBC] [Chron] * The Chron's Sam Whiting shared a look at Bernal Hill’s ”DREAM” public
It's time again for the city to fill up with tourists, not of the conventioneer and Alcatraz sweatshirt-buying kind, but of the latex bodysuit and leather chaps-wearing kind and
Chef Preeti Mistry's five-year-old Temescal spot Juhu Beach Club will be sunsetting at its current strip-mall location in the near-ish future, as Mistry has just announced. A
Residents of San Francisco’s District’s 6, where well-heeled Supervisor Jane Kim is soon to be termed out, could have been rightfully concerned over the lack of established candidates running for
It's confirmed! We reported the rumor in June, denied by Facebook at the time, that the social media giant was in talks with real estate brokers to lease a large amount
The second annual PROXY and HERE FOR NOW Fall Film Festival in Hayes Valley is set to kick off this Friday, and they just released their full lineup of films. Whereas many outdoor
As we learned right after he was fatally shot in the Tenderloin two weeks ago, local character, artist, DJ, and nightlife personality Bubbles was planning to leave San Francisco for good to move
In yet another example of how America can't seem to fund projects that are actually important or finish them in any reasonable amount of time, the West Coast earthquake warning system
Late last night, UC Berkeley students found Sproul Plaza covered in chalk graffiti containing hateful anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigration, anti-abortion messages. A few of the tags read: "Illegals, ICE is coming&
Just in time for Folsom Weekend, Oasis co-owners and drag powerhouses Heklina and D'Arcy Drollinger have unveiled a new billboard on top of their SoMa nightclub which you can see
Looks like Amazon's going to try to succeed where Google and Snapchat have more or less failed. Alexa, remind me to tell Bezos to cool it for a minute. According to
While meteorologists had widely predicted a heatwave for all of California over the Labor Day weekend, beginning on Friday September 1, the predicted high temperature for San Francisco was about 20 degrees off
* Mulling the "Pao Effect." [Wired] * Despite hopes for a grocery store in long-empty Post Street space, a surgery center is proposed there instead. [SocketSite] * How to ride a bike in
