SF News You'll Now Be Charged For Making An Uber Driver Wait Two Minutes, And Tipping Goes Live In NY, SF & LA The promised addition of an in-app tipping option for Uber rolls out today in a few dozen American and Canadian cities, and will be live nationwide by the end of July. Also today,
SF News Late Night SF Altercation Leaves Man Fighting For Life A late-night argument in Visitacion Valley ended in tragedy Thursday, when a man suffered life-threatening wounds as the dispute turned violent. Police say that the incident went down at around 11:31 Thursday
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: VR Industry Faces Sexism Claims Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Prepare for services at the Lost Church. [SFist] Uber's
SF News [Update] Huge Construction Fire Near Oakland's Lake Merritt Causes Mass Evacuation A large mixed-use complex under construction near the Whole Foods and Lake Merritt in Oakland's Uptown neighborhood caught fire early Friday morning, reaching four alarms and leading to the evacuations of hundreds of
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SF News Day Around The Bay: 4 A.M. Last Call Bill Clears Another Hurdle Testing out potential new commutes. Always take the boat. ⛴ A post shared by Andrew Dalton (@dolfapedia) on Jul 6, 2017 at 4:01pm PDT OMG, you guys! That bill proposed by state Senator
SF News Jury Convicts Man In 2013 Double Murder At SF Gift Center The trial has come to a close in a shocking case involving a dispute over jewelry at the SoMa wholesale mart known as the Gift Center. Despite defense attorneys efforts to argue that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Phase Two, In Historic Upstairs Banquet Hall Space, To Open By Year-End If you haven't been to Mister Jiu's yet, you're missing out on one of the best new restaurants to hit SF in the last two years. (Read some more about it here.) Chef
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Closes Out Season With Berlioz's 'Romeo and Juliet' Over last weekend, the SF Symphony ended its 2016-17 season with some fireworks: a dazzling performance of Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet. Like his Requiem, Romeo and Juliet is an odd bird, a choral
Arts & Entertainment Mission District's Lost Church Performance Venue Goes From Underground To City-Approved The intimate, hard-to-find Lost Church has been operating at 65 Capp Street as an underground theater venue for the last six years, but had previously been the Capp Street Project since as far
SF News San Franciscans Called To Complain About Illegal Fireworks Twice As Much As They Did Last Year The City and County of San Francisco is full of snitches 1,114 of them to be exact. The San Francisco Examiner reports that the number of calls to the city's non-emergency hotline
SF News UC Berkeley Senior Alleges Racial Profiling, Illegal Detention At Hands Of Berkeley Police A University of California, Berkeley student is saying via Facebook post, that he suffered a 39-hour ordeal via the Berkeley Police Department and has yet to receive an apology. The Daily Californian reports
SF News New Footage Of Asiana Flight 214 Crash Shows Long Delayed Evacuation Four years ago today, on July 6, 2013, Asiana Airlines flight 214 crash landed and caught fire at SFO, killing three teenage girls and injuring scores of others. Newly surfaced footage, zoomed in
SF News Deplorable Teen Mobs Strike On BART Again, Good Samaritans Save The Day Twice BART's latest incident of deplorable teen violence has an adorable ending, but does little to address concerns that BART is dragging its feet and under-publicizing incidents of violence on its trains. The third
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: The EFF Sues Trump Election Commission Oakland home vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti. [KRON 4] Tesla blames battery delays for dip in Q2 deliveries. [Roadshow] The EFF is suing the Trump election commission. [CNet] Peninsula gym owner gets seven year
SF News Thief With Getaway Driver Menaces Church And Duboce Photographer A photographer walking near a busy San Francisco intersection was attacked and mugged Tuesday by a suspect aided by a getaway driver. Police say that the robbery occurred at 6:12 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment Replacement Banksy Rat Mural Pops Up At Red Vic, Was Not Done By Banksy In a defiant move that is totally in keeping with guerrilla muralist Banksy's MO, the mural of a rat that first appeared seven years ago on the side of The Red Victorian bed
SF News Wave Of Jewelry Muggings Hits Tenderloin At least three people walking in the Tenderloin Wednesday were robbed of their jewlery, all within hours and just a few blocks. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the first in the
SF News Hot Prowler Swipes Computers Stored In Sunset Garage A man who stored his computers in his garage is now without the devices, after a thief broke into his residence to steal the items. Police say that the incident happened at some
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: 11 Injured In Golden Gate Bridge Bus Crash Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Surviving Beats speak. [SFist] Afternoon bus crash injures 11
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SF News Day Around The Bay: No One's Using The Millbrae BART Station Ridership to the Millbrae BART station is very, very low. [Chronicle] Hate crimes in California are increasing, particularly attacks on Muslims and gay men. [Chronicle] After all SF homeless shelters refuse them, SFPD
Arts & Entertainment Catching Up With Five Surviving Members Of the Beat Generation In Northern California Writing for the Washington Post, writer Jeff Weiss has just done a moving and thorough job of tracking down five people in their 80s and 90s, all members of the Beat Generation who
SF News CEO Trying To Raise $100 Million For Homeless Reportedly Considering Run For Mayor Candidates running for mayor of San Francisco in 2019 will not be running against Ed Lee, as Lee is termed out after this, his second full term. That means a large litter of
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week There's a wonderfully weird week on the horizon. Buckle up for axe-throwing, an all-male comedy strip-tease revue, and a french fry eating contest. THURSDAY, JULY 6 JAE WHITAKER REMEMBERS: The GLBT Historical Society
