SF News FBI Lists SF as ‘Attractive Target’ for Terrorist Attack on New Year’s Eve The FBI says that the Israel-Hamas war has “created a heightened threat environment” for domestic terrorist attacks in multiple U.S. cities, and San Francisco is listed as one of those cities that is an “attractive target.”
SF News Feds Paid 'Gray Hat' Hackers, Not Israeli Firm, To Crack That iPhone Contrary to earlier reports that Israeli mobile forensics firm Cellebrite had been the ones paid by the FBI to crack the iPhone left behind in the San Bernardino terrorism case, the successful hacking
SF News Father Of Fremont Terror Suspect Regrets Turning Him In To The FBI Sal Shafi, the father of 22-year-old Adam Shafi who was detained by federal authorities last year for attempting to fly to Turkey out of SFO with the alleged intention of joining a terrorist
SF News Sheryl Sandberg Thinks Facebook Can Help Defeat ISIS Well this is a new one. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has unveiled the latest tool in civilization's fight against ISIS: Facebook Likes. Sandberg, not one to underestimate the influence of her company's platform,
SF News Feds Accuse Fremont Man Of Attempting To Join Syrian Terrorist Group A Fremont man has been charged with attempting to provide material support to terrorists after federal officials stopped him from boarding a Turkey-bound flight at San Francisco International Airport this past June. The
SF News Dunkin Donuts Yanks Rachael Ray Ad for All the Wrong Reasons Remember when most of you lost your minds over whether or not it's OK for hipsters to sport Kaffiyehs. (The conclusion: it's fine to wear them, but they tend to overpower an outfit
SF News SF Rapist/Kidnapper Nabbed at Transbay Terminal From November 16 to November 18, Denton Geiger, 42, a San Francisco resident, held his (ex)girlfriend captive in their former home, where beat and raped her. (Jesus.) According to the Examiner, "Geiger
misc Week Around the -Ists Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city's future as the Live Music Capital of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink But of Course: Falafels = Terrorism According to CQ Politics, the FBI combed through customer data collected by SF and Bay Area grocery stores in 2005 and 2006. Why? To see what amount of Middle Eastern food products were
SF News Feinstein Folds on FISA The bill passed after some sheninagans by the White House when sixteen Democrats chickened out and voted with the Republicans. Most of them came from supposed Red States who thought that President 25%
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Hot House</i> Filmmaker Shimon Dotan spent about a year interviewing various imprisoned Palestinian political terrorists about their lives and their crimes. We were a little startled that even people serving multiple life sentences in a
Arts & Entertainment And Justice For All Upon arriving at the airport, Hetfield was detained and questioned but after explaining who he was and what he was there for, airport officials let him go. London, of course, has been a
SF News Day Around The Bay --Check out Ross Mirkarimi's Gavin hair! Didn't someone else try this too? --When is a dognapping a terrorist act? (Hint: animal rights activists may be involved). --Apple TV isn't doing so well --Tapioca
SF News The Pitter-Patter of Obamian Feet The campaign's San Francisco Walk for Change starts this Saturday, the 9th, in Dolores Park. "...hit the streets for the Walk for Change National Canvass being organized by grassroots supporters of Barack Obama.
SF News Let's Go! As we all know, cars are the worst things ever invented, and owning one makes you a terrorist. Fortunately, it's easy to go carless in SF -- we tearfully gave our beloved station
misc They Can't All Be The Stonewall Riots Many have offered touching words of remembrance, but few words strive to such tenderness and dignity as those of a commenter identified only as "Magda," which sounds like the kind of name you'd
SF News We Are So Screwed The jist of the report is that in times of trouble, it's the non-profit people who are able to provide the best relief to the people in need and that they're not ready
SF News Aqua Teen Hunger Force Strikes San Francisco After the events of today, the marketing company behind it all told the SFPD where they could find the things so the police could disable them. It’s not quite known where all
Arts & Entertainment Freedom of Speech? Basically, what the story is about is this guy who is hanging a figure that looks like an arab (he says it's not an arab but a "terrorist" for which we are all
misc This Is Good: AlertSF.org Welcome to This Is Good, a new recommendation column for SFist about things that are good. If something is good, we'll tell you. Simple as that. * http://AlertSF.org Is Good. AlertSF is
misc Save the World From Bomb-Wielding Grandmas But because we all have to go through the rigmarole, we all have experienced the silliness of it. In our trip back east, we saw perhaps the silliest thing we have ever seen
SF News You're My Blue Sky, You're My Sunny Day See, according to Global Change Research Act of 1990, the Government is supposed to produce a report on Global Warming every four years. The last one was due in November 2004 meaning that
SF News The Only Bomb That Will Go Off on Sunday Will Be the Raiders According to officials, an online discussion somewhere on the site "New Attack on America Be Afraid" (we're big fans of that site that site but we hate how they draw over pictures of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Plays Perplex City We found the Rubik's Cube behind some puzzle books, led there by clues around the Main branch of the library. Once solved (by taking it apart and reassembling it; we're not proud), a
SF News Terrorize This Luckily, reports have been coming out saying that yes indeed, the Bad Guys have been looking our way and plotting some terror. A new report that was released by the California Department of
