Aw, this is cute: new homeowner Maureen Futtner seems excited to be moving in to her freshly-built home at 555 Bartlett, in the North SoCha neighborhood. So excited that she's throwing a Meet Your Neighborhood event this Saturday to introduce everyone to local businesses like Front Porch and Rosamunde. Curbed is asking if NIMBYism is dead, but at the risk of acronym overload how about we just call this upscaling of yes-in-my-neighborhood activism PLIMBY? Or "Please Look in My Backyard" if you're not in to the whole brevity thing. [Ex] via [Curbed] more ›

We randomly came across this little tidbit yesterday while searching for kid band The She's, who are performing at the Rock Make Street Festival on Sunday. The disgruntled revenge-seeker/Walnut Creek resident must have taken the time to register their gripe as a business on Google Maps, which curiously shows up at the top of the aforementioned search list, alongside various local salons and restaurants. Strange. Here's a transcript: more ›

Oh, the joys of electricity. We in our satellite Sunnyside SFist office had been without it since 8:43 this morning. Power was finally restored at 4:20 (hot!). We immediately plugged in our computer and iPhone and powered up. We couldn't believe all that we missed today! Britney losing her kids, Brazil losing some alligators, Gay tax breaks - wow! more ›