- Love her or despise her, onetime SF resident Courtney Love is swinging back through town next month. [SFist]
- An anonymous donor bought the Richmond High School band all brand new instruments, spending $76,000. [KRON4]
- Google CEO tweets remarks that appear to support for Apple's encryption position. [Cnet]
- Staffers and execs of SF-based startup Zenefits could face criminal charges. [SF Business Times] [New York Times]
- The average asking rent for office space in San Francisco hit a record high of $68.14 per square foot at the end of 2015, surpassing the dot-com record of $66.00 per square foot set in the fourth quarter of 2000 by 3.2 percent. [Socketsite]
- "You may see Tim Cook as a champion of privacy or as an enabler of terrorism. Either way, it makes good business sense for Apple to stand up to the FBI." [Wired]
- Vaguely creepy co-working startup WeWork signs 70,000 square foot lease in "San Francisco's North Financial District." [SF Business Times]
- Please don't get crabby when you hear that state officials decided late Wednesday to keep the commercial Dungeness season shuttered. [SF Chronicle]
- Poor outreach blamed for low turnout at Mission density bonus meeting. [Mission Local]
- The man detained by police at Super Bowl City for photographing snipers' nests now says he was beaten, is suing. [SF Weekly]
- Uber is losing a billion bucks a year in China, reports [Reuters].
- [US News and World Report] isn't sold on SF's junk food ban plan.
