SF News Bushman Dies, San Francisco Now Left With Only One Bushman Gregory Jacobs, one of a pair of enterprising panhandlers who hid behind shrubbery and scared the bejeezus out of unsuspecting tourists in Fisherman's wharf, died last Sunday of a sudden heart complication. Jacobs
misc The Best Breakfast Sandwiches (And Burritos) In San Francisco We're told breakfast is the most important meal of the day, it is also probably the one most often skipped as we rush out the door to catch a Muni bus. Well, put
SF News Transbay Transit Center Being Built On Native's Final Resting Place Tuesday morning in the Transbay Transit Center construction site, a crew preparing to pour a concrete foundation unearthed "an old but well-preserved human skeleton" determined to be of American-Indian descent. Now that the
SF News Google Glass Assault Video Only Reveals More Conflicting Accounts Yesterday's story about an alleged Google Glass-related assault at Molotov's ended with some conflicting accounts of what really went down. Alleged victim, PR consultant and hyperactive social media user Sarah Slocum, claimed she
SF News Wednesday Morning Roundup: Google Barge Shipping Out The details of the behind-the-scenes bidding war that got WhatsApp $19 billion. [Valleywag] Sara Kreuger and Ryan Scott Warner, accused of murdering Kreuger's 3-year-old daughter and storing her in a freezer for days,
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop 2014: A Crash Course Now in its 22nd year as San Francisco's roving celebration of independent music and culture, the 2014 edition of the annual Noise Pop Festival kicks off tonight and runs through Sunday, March 2,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Woman Claims She Was Attacked At Punk Rock Bar For Wearing Google Glass [Update] The latest story to stoke the tech-vs.-everyone else debate in San Francisco hit the news last night as one local woman claims she was verbally and physically assaulted because she was using
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Instagram, Mapped Venture Capitalist Tim Draper insists his Six Californias proposal is totally serious. Also, he looks like he hasn't updated his headshot since the mid-90s. [Chron] Talking to celebrated chef and sometimes interior decorator
SF News Bay Area Gang Members Are Boasting About Homicides On Instagram Law enforcement in Richmond, Calif. have found a new way to keep a tab on gang violence happening in their city: on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Like everyone else, it seems gang members
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Second Sightglass Coffee Opens, 20th Street Neighborhood Reaches Peak Hipness Sightglass Coffee, the celebrated SoMa coffee temple and preferred hangout of tech media types, opened their second location on 20th Street in the mission this weekend, pushing the neighborhood block into peak hipness.
Arts & Entertainment Full Trailer From Mike Judge's 'Silicon Valley' Arrives To Skewer Tech Culture Here it is, folks, the first full trailer from Mike Judge's HBO comedy Silicon Valley. Lots of white dudes (broken up by the excellent Kumail Nanjiani), an Asperger's joke, large sums of money
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Greening The Sunset State Senator Mark Leno is taking San Francisco's housing fight to Sacramento. [Chron] In the sunset: residents are finally tearing up those ugly paved-over front lawns. [SFEx] Sean Parker think his critics are
SF News Day Around The Bay: Here Come The Bank Bros Go West, Young Bank Bro: how "a certain kind of status seeker" is now heading to Silicon Valley. [SFMagazine] Here's what San Francisco would look like without cars or people. [The Bold Italic]
SF News Four Dead After Woman Goes On A Rampage At Northern California Tribal Headquarters Thursday afternoon at the headquarters of Cedarville Rancheria Northern Paiute, a federally recognized tribe near the Oregon border, 44-year-old former tribal leader Cherie Lash Rhoades opened fire during an eviction hearing that could
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Mill Launches A Weekly Pizza Night After a brief test run last year, noted toast emporium The Mill on Divisadero has announced they'll be expanding their lineup of doughy items when they roll out a weekly pizza night every
SF News Woman Dies After Being Struck By Cement Truck In Pac Heights An 91-year-old woman crossing Fillmore Street on Thursday afternoon was struck and killed by a cement truck heading north past California. According to SFPD, the woman was taken to San Francisco General where
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink World's Brightest Girl Scout Sells Cookies Outside San Francisco Marijuana Dispensary Earlier this week on President's Day, budding young entrepreneur and 13-year-old Girl Scout Danielle Lei found the best place in town to unload boxes of the Girl Scouts' signature sweet treats: in front
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: First Loves Schadenfreude: the Seahawks' Marshawn Lynch got busted for reckless driving on 880. [BCN/Appeal] The latest beer hall to join the recent taphouse craze is Hopwater Distribution, a 30-tap spot in Nob Hill.
SF News Two Construction Workers Seriously Injured After Scaffolding Collapses In SoMa One construction worker fell 40 feet and another fell 30 feet while installing a scaffolding at a construction site at 350 Mission Street in SoMa this afternoon. According to San Francisco Fire Department
SF News Bryan Stow's Attackers Plead Guilty, Family Rips Them Apart In Court Marvin Norwood and Louis Sanchez pled guilty today to charges related to the 2011 assault of Giants fan Bryan Stow outside of Dodger Stadium. For their actions, which left Stow brain damaged and
SF News Peter Shih And Greg Gopman: Where Are They Now? Six months after his vitriolic screed against homeless people, women and San Francisco in general barfed him into the spotlight, Peter Shih's company Celery picked up a $2 million investment. If Silicon Valley
SF News Venture Capitalist's 'Six Californias' Plan Moves Forward, Is Still A Terrible Idea Venture Capitalist Tim Draper's plan to divide California into six states (including one just for Silicon Valley) got the OK to move forward from California Secretary of State Debra Bowen this week, despite
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Bottles Popped Why do craft cocktails cost so much? Food & Wine defends the $15 drink. [F&W] Inspirational Oakland teen makes dramatic three-pointer. [KTVU] Why the tech industry's charity aren't doing enough. [Salon]
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Gut Bomb: Local Man Eats Four Chipotle Burritos In Under 3 Minutes Ill-informed burrito eater, San Jose resident and "#2 ranked competitive eater in the world" Matt Stonie has done in under three minutes what this SFist editor has failed to do in decades of
SF News Facebook To Buy Messaging Service WhatsApp For $19 Billion In Menlo Park today, the 800-pound social networking gorilla announced today that it would acquire popular messaging app WhatsApp for a cool $4 billion in cash and $15 billion in Facebook stock. The
