Arts & Entertainment Dawes Plays A Little Bit Of Everything At Noise Pop Festival Among the best known ballads by Los Angeles-based folk-rock band Dawes, "A Little Bit of Everything" sets the first of its several gloomy scenes on the Golden Gate Bridge. The opening lines of
SF News Bartenders Behind Benjamin Cooper, Big, Open The Douglas Room On Friday Renown for tiny Tenderloin cocktail bar Big has outlived it by several years, but it remains a byword in the cocktail world and lives on in two bartenders who made it what it
Arts & Entertainment 'Unicorn Startup Simulator' Lets You Get Valued Or Die Trying Over And Over Again In the large field of startup send-up and parody, a new entry, Unicorn Startup Simulator feels like a rare breed, in that it's so bizarre and fun. The goal of the game, naturally,
SF News As Bay Turns Brown With Sediment, Some Environmentalists (And Swimmers) Fear Pollution Oh #SFBay, you so dirty! ❤ this news! San Francisco Bay turns brown after nonstop storms https://t.co/9U26n7ACLR via @SFGate @bayareamoms— Erica Maharg (@BackwardGraham) February 15, 2017 Anne Sasaki of San Francisco
SF News City Study Comparing SF To Peer Cities: SF Has Highest Rates Of Park Use... And Chlamydia San Francisco, as a city, is peerless. And yet a City of San Francisco study sought a basis of comparison in 16 "peer cities" to see how we stacked up in our would-be
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sad, Lonely Martin Shkreli Joins Berkeley Facebook Group Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. As predicted yesterday, a final plan for corporate shuttles
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For This Maya Angelou Documentary That Premieres Tonight On KQED A documentary that's been on the festival circuit but hasn't yet premiered to the general public, Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise might, as the New York Times points out, "seem redundant to
SF News Lane Of Highway 50 In The Sierra Collapses, Second Lane Shows Troubling Crack Highway 50 to #LakeTahoe closed due to road collapse. #CAStorm pic.twitter.com/ZVlXgrJOKy— KenWayne (@KenWayneKTVU) February 21, 2017 As an atmospheric river runs through it, Northern California's roads and highways are struggling
SF News Uber Board Member Arianna Huffington Will Hold Leadership's 'Feet To The Fire' Over Sexual Harassment Allegations In April 2016, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced that publisher and business mogul Arianna Huffington would join his company's board of directors, praising her "emotional intelligence," the kind women tend to have so
SF News Hova Fund? Jay Z Partners With Sherpa Capital To Form Venture Capital Firm As the rapper himself so famously put it, Jay Z's not a businessman, he's a business, man. And now, as Axios reports, he's getting into the venture capital business, doing so in partnership
SF News Weight Problem: BART's 'Fleet Of The Future' Cars Are A Ton Heavier Than Expected, Could Strain System BART's Fleet of the Future, 775 shiny new train cars that have caused their share of delays and debates in the past, have arrived with a brand new problem: They're a ton overweight,
SF News San Jose Homeless Encampment Residents Stranded By Flooding, Rescued By Fire Department As many as 20 people stranded by rising water, including two inside tent on 3rd hole tee box. @nbcbayarea pic.twitter.com/IZxqLcbKSR— Bob Redell (@BobNBC) February 21, 2017 As weeks of accumulated
SF News Tuolumne County Reservoir Spillway In Use For First Time In 20 Years Don Pedro Controlled Spillway Gate has been opened. #DonPedroSpill pic.twitter.com/ejvzkmb71C— TID (@TurlockID) February 20, 2017 Another result of the Northern California storms filling reservoirs and flooding rivers and roads: The
SF News Uber CEO Addresses Harassment, Discrimination Allegations In Company-Wide Email, Eric Holder To Review Investigation In former Uber engineer Susan Fowler's widely-circulated blog post "Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber," what was "strange" was repeated alleged sexual harassment, and what was "very" was the company's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Brown Sugar Factory' Takes On 16th And Valencia Space, Formerly Valencia & Kebab Brown paper has covered the windows at Valencia & Kebab's former digs (525 Valencia) since that mediterranean counter service joint closed in September after just 10 months in business. The paper's still there,
SF News Man Discovered In Critical Condition At Recology Recycling Center Probably Got There Via Dumpster Early this morning, a loader operator at Recology's Pier 96 recycling center noticed, in a pile of bottles, cans, and cardboard, a seriously injured man who was likely in a dumpster whose contents
SF News Tech Shuttle 'Hub System' Is Off The Table, Current System May Become Permanent Tomorrow The hubbub surrounding a proposal to limit the number of tech shuttle stops, which have proliferated to more than 100 and whose maximum allowed number is 125 , to a system of 17 or
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Mill's Pizza Night Will Be 6 Nights A Week Local celebrity bread-maker Josey Baker has steadily upped his pizza game at The Mill, the Divisadero toast and locally-roasted coffee destination that's a sort of Four Barrel Coffee north. Baker's pizza, which caters
SF News Oakland Shooter Killed In Police Standoff Had Terrorized Area With Gunfire 'For A Week' But Wasn't Arrested A 32-year-old East Oakland man who can be seen in ABC7 helicopter video footage stalking his neighborhood with a rifle and vandalizing a garage and a car had provided ample warning to police
Arts & Entertainment Nerd Alert: First Trailer For 'Silicon Valley' Season 4 Silicon Valley, the HBO Comedy from Mike Judge that skewers, roasts, and generally devours the world of tech and startups, is back on April 23rd for its 4th Season, which has got me
SF News Rec And Park Commission Denies Appeal For Summer Of Love 50th Anniversary Concert In a unanimous vote yesterday, the SF Recreation and Park Commission denied promoter Boots Hughston's appeal of an earlier decision not to grant a permit for a June 4th concert on the Polo
SF News Rain, Rain Will Go Away, Come Again Another Day (Which Is Sunday) The rainy weather with which San Franciscans have grown all-too-familiar has returned this morning, making for wet commutes including some flooded roads and highways. Highway 101, for example, saw some flooding this morning
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink To Preserve Zeitgeist Patio Sunshine, Planning Commission Cuts 5 Feet Off Neighboring Development After employees of Zeitgeist saw analysis of a 28-unit development project across Valencia Street at 198 Valencia that indicated the development would cast a shadow on parts of its popular patio beer garden
SF News Costumed Street Cleaners Are On A Caped Crusade Against Littered Needles You could say they're cosplaying for a cause. A group of volunteers called "The Initiative" are making their neighborhood clean up work considerably more exciting with cool capes and outfits, and for her
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Writes 6,000 Word Facebook Manifesto Because He Doesn't Know What To Say Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook presence, a mix of business insights, family photos, pseudo-philosophical insights, and more plugs for the business, is carefully maintained by a team of 12 people, as was learned last month.
