SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Two Overnight Water Main Breaks In SF Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Caleb speaks with the director of the National AIDS
SF News Day Around The Bay: Conservative Shock Jock Michael Savage And His Poodle Attacked Outside Marin Restaurant Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. The new UC Berkeley Chancellor nominee is Carol Christ,
SF News FBI Charges Russian Spies In Yahoo Hacks, May Have Been 'Spear Phishing' Attack Head of #FBI #SF John Bennett addresses media regarding the Yahoo hack by alleged Russian FSB agents and criminal hackers. pic.twitter.com/qIDxsHfzcK— FBI SanFrancisco (@FBISanFrancisco) March 15, 2017 Justice Department officials
SF News Federal Judge In Hawaii Blocks President Trump's Revised Order On Travel And Immigration Just a few hours before President Trump's revised executive order on travel from six Muslim-majority nations was to take effect, a federal judge in Hawaii has granted a temporary restraining order to block
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Corner Store Shuts Down After Five Years At Geary And Masonic It's an odd location, though not necessarily a bad one, and for five years restaurateurs Ezra Berman and Miles Palliser have been feeding the people of Anza Vista / USF / Laurel Heights at their
SF News Hackers On Twitter Send Out Swastikas From Major Accounts Like UNICEF, BBC, British Parliament This isn't good, right? pic.twitter.com/nvxWYAutsO— Rob Lopez (@R0BaTO) March 15, 2017 Dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts from the European Parliament, BBC North America, Duke University, and other institutions were briefly
Arts & Entertainment Pixar's Latest Animated Feature 'Coco' Is Set In Mexico With Lots Of Day-Of-The-Dead Magic The teaser trailer for Disney-Pixar's latest animated feature, Coco, has just been released, and the film tells the tale of a 12-year-old, guitar-playing Mexican boy named Miguel who dreams of becoming a musician
SF News AIDS Memorial Grove Director Talks Museum Aspirations The National AIDS Memorial Grove, nurtured by more than 175,000 volunteer hours and visited by countless people, is preparing for new growth, perhaps adding a museum to present the history of the
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Tree Stump Becomes 'Giving Tree' Tribute They cut down a tree in my neighborhood 🌳❤ #thegivingtree #shelsilverstein #oakland #love #stump #childhood #lessons #stillimportant A post shared by Phoebe C. (@feebee510) on Mar 11, 2017 at 10:07am PST A felled
SF News Oakland Fire Chief Announces Retirement Days After Pension Vested, Warehouse Fire Probe Continues As her department still reels from the deadly Ghost Ship Fire of December 2, Oakland Fire Department Chief Teresa Deloach Reed filed retirement papers yesterday. Her last day on the job will be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Manufactory And In Situ Among Finalists For 2017 James Beard Awards The short list is in, and among the finalists i.e. the actual nominees for this years James Beard Foundation Awards are a number of San Francisco players, once again doing the local
SF News Frustrated By Filth, SF's Public Works Goes Rogue On Homeless Encampment Cleanups Frustrated by how slowly the city is finding housing solutions for homeless people, the head of San Francisco's Public Works Department has reportedly authorized unofficial removals of encampments, and is mulling a DPW-run
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful To Women? Police shoot and kill female passenger in vehicle during confrontation in Hayward. [Bay City News] [The Atlantic] asks "Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?" The body of a missing woman, who
Arts & Entertainment Urban Ore In Berkeley At Risk As Original Owners Retire Berkeley's beloved, sprawling scrapheap treasure trove and year-round flea market Urban Ore opened in 1981, and has since become an indispensable source for everything from antique cabinet pulls and doors to furniture, jewelry,
SF News 'Leisure' The Sea Lion Got Stuck In A Vacaville Pipe, But Is Now Free And Headed Out To Sea A sea lion swimming upstream like a salmon made its way all the way inland to Vacaville, California yesterday morning, surprising locals who spotted it in the canal along Leisure Town Road. According
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SF News Driver Arrested After Hitting Cyclist, Attempting To Flee A driver who struck a cyclist near the Ferry Building then took off was arrested Tuesday, and was booked into San Francisco County Jail for the alleged hit-and-run. Police say that the driver,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Naked, Admittedly Drunk Man Rescued From Certain Doom Inside TOGO's/Baskin-Robbins Vent A man who told rescuers that he has been searching for a wishing well was pulled from a Napa ventilation shaft Tuesday, naked, drunk, and at the literal end of his rope. According
SF News Hillary Clinton Coming To Speak In San Francisco In Two Weeks Almost-president Hillary Clinton will be arriving in the Bay Area the week after next to deliver a keynote address at the 28th annual Professional BusinessWomen of California (PBWC) conference at the Moscone Center
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: You Can Slaughter Animals In Marin Now Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Another demonstration against President Trump's new immigration ban is
Arts & Entertainment This Spring, Experience PARADISE With The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus Paradise Found features the 250 men of the internationally renowned San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, the spectacular choral sound for which they are known, and a cavalcade of surprises along the way.
SF News Day Around The Bay: East Bay Teens Terrorize Carnival What a adventure 💀 pic.twitter.com/Bwa7tSFV4O— Roma 💍 (@Queenromaa) March 12, 2017 The Butler Carnival in East Oakland was the site of a chaotic mob of teenagers on Saturday night who stole prizes
SF News SF Protest Planned Thursday As President's Revised Travel Ban Takes Effect President Trump has revised his executive order relating to travel into the US from six Muslim-majority countries the order no longer includes Iraq among the countries considered dangerous for immigration or travel visas
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Poem Outside Castro Home Declares 'I Want A Dyke For President' Rather than sport a lawn sign for a real political candidate, one Castro District home near Market Street has erected a large reproduction of the 1992 Zoe Leonard poem "I want a president.
SF News Victim Of Road Rage Biker Gang Beating On 101 Speaks Out From Hospital 35-year-old Alex Quintana, the victim in last week's savage beating by a group of motorcyclists involved in a sideshow on Highway 101 in San Francisco, is speaking out from his hospital bed and