SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Artists Evicted From SF Warehouse Here are six alternatives to Facebook. [Ad Week] Attention commenters: The fame you crave awaits. [CNet] Sergey Brin is apparently making a blimp. [Bloomberg] Someone's painting "KKK" on Vacaville cars. [KRON 4] Bay
SF News Uber Now Shows You Your Rider Rating More Prominently Uber riders with good luck, decent hygiene, and few interpersonal deficiencies can afford to forget that they're not just rating drivers: Their drivers are rating them, too. But with Uber's latest app update
SF News Ann Coulter Backs Out Of Berkeley Event After Student Groups Abandon Her Welp, for all those warriors on the alt-right and far left who were dusting off their helmets and makeshift weapons in preparation for a new Battle of Berkeley this week, this should be
Arts & Entertainment These Portable Speakers Will Help Fight Festival FOMO All Season Throw the best living room party with these wireless speakers. Skip the porta-potty lines, swirling dust, thousand degree weather, and frat bros in your face: celebrate festival season in the comfort of your
SF News City Pens Angry Letter To PG&E About Blackout, Says Communication That Day Was 'Nonexistent' City officials are tallying up the economic impacts of Friday's eight-hour blackout which affected some of the densest and busiest parts of San Francisco, shutting down 21 schools and impacting countless businesses for
SF News Deplorable Teens Rob Stow Lake Photographer A group of teenage boys attacked a photographer at Golden Gate Park's Stow Lake Tuesday, beating the man and stealing his stuff. The attack, police say, occurred at 6:25 p.m. Wednesday.
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Twitter Loses $61.6 Million Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here These photos of SF's punk scene are something else.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Rainbow Flag Is Now A Font A font and typeface maker has created a font in homage to the late Gilbert Baker, creator of gay pride symbol the rainbow flag. [KQED] Researchers in the Netherlands are obsessed with solving
SF News Berkeley Braces For Ann Coulter Speech Thursday, Which She Insists On Doing Outdoors For Maximum Mayhem Ann Coulter pledges to be in UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza, a central outdoor gathering place on campus, sometime this Thursday — not indoors on campus next week, as is formally planned — and that means
Arts & Entertainment Photographer Michael Jang Watched The SF Punk Scene Blossom, And Now He's Selling Photos Of It For $20 Well respected SF-based photographer Michael Jang already has plenty of his work in museums, including the permanent collection of SFMOMA, and this year he's been pulling some work out of his own vault
SF News Family Of Uber Engineer Who Committed Suicide Blames Job Stress, Seeks Workers Comp Benefits The wife and children of a 33-year-old Uber engineer who committed suicide last summer are seeking worker's compensation benefits from the ride-hailing company where he worked. The Chronicle had the story, although the
SF News Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration's Effort To Withhold Funds From Sanctuary Cities A federal judge in San Francisco has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against an executive order signed by President Trump in January threatening to withhold federal funding from cities that do not provide
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Spring in SF means street fairs and fests, so we have two of them for you this week. But never fear, my pale compatriots, as there are plenty of indoor activities to enjoy
SF News Lease Suggests That Ghost Ship Landlord Knew That Derick Almena Planned To Build Artists' Collective The East Bay Times remains on the case of the Ghost Ship tragedy their coverage of which recently won them a Pulitzer Prize and today they have an exclusive look at the lease
Arts & Entertainment You Can Own This Rad Sausalito Houseboat Once Owned By Famed Poet Shel Silverstein A very bohemian, kind of ramshackle looking houseboat in Sausalito just hit the market that was was once briefly home to the great Shel Silverstein. It's a former WWII balloon barge, as this
SF News Rageful Driver Attacks Woman As She Directs Haight Street Traffic The San Francisco Police Department is seeking a violent driver today, after the man allegedly attacked a construction worker who was directing traffic in the Lower Haight. NBC Bay Area has the tale,
Arts & Entertainment New Gallery And Mural Brighten Up Vacant Valencia Volvo Dealership The front of a vacant industrial building on Valencia Street that was last used as a Volvo dealership is seeing new life with a colorful mural and a temporary tenant in a gallery,
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Lyft Driver Sues Uber Over 'Hell' DNA tests confirm that it was,indeed, a mountain lion that took a dog from a Pescadero home. Wow, [Slate] sure loves Elon Musk. Lyft driver sues Uber over that "hell" tracking program.
SF News Man In Thailand Kills Infant Daughter On Facebook Live, Video Stays Up For 24 Hours Thai man films himself killing his 11-month-old daughter on Facebook Live before committing suicide https://t.co/BuoFZ7nXXQ— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) April 25, 2017 Just a week after a Cleveland man
SF News Federally Owned Parking Lot Behind Ninth Circuit Could Become Housing For Homeless Mayor Lee has introduced plans to convert a federally owned surface parking lot, so owned because it's behind a federal courthouse, into the city's largest supportive housing development for formerly homeless people. That
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bears Emerging From Hibernation Explore Tahoe Garage It's that time of year again, and as the snow is finally melting around Lake Tahoe, bears are waking up, showing up scavenging, and they're hungry. Video posted to Facebook by South Lake
SF News BART Police Beef Up Security After Swarm Robbery By Dozens Of Oakland Teens BART has surveillance video of attacks & robberies but won't release to public it bc suspects are minors @kron4news pic.twitter.com/q1kcKmgeZ3— Will Tran (@KRON4WTran) April 25, 2017 A "flash mob" robbery
SF News Man Killed In Mid-Morning Shooting Near Potrero Hill Park A 29-year-old San Francisco man is dead, officials say, following a Monday morning shooting at the border of a Potrero Hill park. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the shooting occurred at
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: iPhone 8 Reportedly Delayed 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 this goofball dog. [SFist] SFFD contains early-morning
SF News Day Around The Bay: Gang Of Deplorable Teens Becomes Robbery Flash Mob At Coliseum BART A group of 50 to 60 teens leapt over fare gates, stormed the Coliseum BART station, and committed multiple strong-arm robberies Saturday night both on the platform and on an arriving train. No
