SF News Day Around The Bay: Surplus Crab Facebook shuttle drivers want higher wages and were voting on unionization today. [SFGate] When they weren't fighting over their next president, the Board of Supervisors was passing a "bill of rights" for formula
SF News Weird Craigslist Missed Connection From Lower Haight: 'Dear Person Who Broke Into My Car' Police Captain David Lazar of Central Station says that from January 1 through September 30 there were about 1,800 car break-ins, up roughly 400 percent from the same period last year. "Are
Arts & Entertainment [Semi-NSFW] Margaret Cho Also Stripped To Support The Homeless Actress, comedian, singer, and much more Margaret Cho started busking for the homeless at Haight and Ashbury this week. And she'll keep doing so whenever she can for the next two months in
SF News Warby Parker Store Arrives In Hayes Valley Next Week It may surprise you to learn that San Francisco doesn't have a dedicated Warby Parker eyeglass retail store. Or didn't, until now: Next Tuesday, one is opening at 357 Hayes Street. "Surrounded by
SF News Katy Tang Elected Interim President of Board Of Supes Despite an eleventh-hour letter (noted here in the Chron) from former Supervisors Quentin Kopp, Harry Britt, Tom Ammiano, Matt Gonzalez and Aaron Peskin that urged the current board not to elect their next
SF News Video: TechCrunch and AOL Commissioned This Housing Crisis Film Since when did AOL and TechCrunch inherit the mantle of the Bay Guardian? Just kidding, but they did commission this video from Stateless Media about San Francisco's housing crisis titled "You Can't Go
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Crab Bandits Strike Whole Foods Delivery Crab season is off to a strange start, with crustacean fever inspiring a major theft yesterday. "A mysterious marauder (marauders?) made off with five cases of crab during a routine delivery," Beth Krauss
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Bachelor's Unsavory "Girlfriend Application" Stunt Will it be "weird" for the children of couples who met on the internet? I personally don't think so: swiping right on Tinder could one day be the quaint equivalent of getting together
SF News SFO Now A Battleground For Taxi And SuperShuttle Protests With Uber, Lyft and Sidecar now fair game at San Francisco International Airport, taxi and SuperShuttle drivers might be SOL at SFO. Nonetheless, each group of workers staged protests in the past two
SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb, The Magazine Your Airbnb rental will now come with a magazine, called Pineapple, since Airbnb is creating that. [The Awl] A new study confirms it: Black and latino executives are scarce in Silicon Valley. [SFGate]
SF News Ted Gullicksen Remembered at Crowded Memorial Yesterday afternoon at Mission High School, the Brass Liberation Orchestra welcomed hundreds of attendees to a memorial for Ted Gullicksen. "Housing is a human right!" the orchestra chanted in chorus once onstage inside,
SF News New 'Facebook at Work' Service Means Business, Not Pleasure Could Facebook be your new friend in the office? Zuck and co. hope so. Unsatisfied with its 757 million daily users' average of 40 minutes per day looking at drunken photos of friends
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Old Devil Moon Will Bring Craft Beer To La Lengua A new beer bar and restaurant is headed for the Mission/Bernal border next year, and it's called Old Devil Moon. The folks at La Terraza on Mission and Cortland are retiring from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Casey Thompson Explains Her Aveline Departure, Atelier Crenn Finally Gets Bauer Love, and More This week at SFist we were nacho crazy, giving you a list of the city's top ten plates and piles of the crunchy standby. We also told you about embattled Local's Corner, who
Arts & Entertainment Fondue, Indigo Girls Karaoke: Lesbians Design Their Dream Bars When Buzzfeed learned of the Lexington Club's impending closure, they asked real live lesbians to design their own dream bars. As queer spaces become a diminished presence in America, the fanciful results are
SF News Family Of Sasha Fleischman Has 'Mixed Emotions' After Teen Is Sentenced In Skirt Fire Attack A judge sentenced 17-year-old Richard Thomas of Oakland to seven years in prison today for setting agender teen Sasha Fleischman's skirt on fire (inflicting second and third degree burns) while aboard an AC
SF News Stockton Street Becomes Pedestrian Holiday Plaza Lots of holiday cheer and zero cars or cranes will occupy two blocks of Stockton Street in the Union Square shopping district this season. Construction for the new Central Subway project (coming soon
Arts & Entertainment Vintage Elevator Dial Hacked As NextBus Clock Software engineer and J-Church rider Rolf Rando has a steampunk solution to his Muni woes. "Living a hundred feet from the San Francisco (sic) MUNI ‘J’ line is a great convenience getting to
SF News D.A. Takes Down Two Scam Artists Targeting Chinese Community There two reports on grand theft cases hot of the presses today over at the Examiner. First up, the story of a Chinatown wedding scammer. The paper reports that 45-year-old Stanley Kwan was
SF News Twitter Launching New Features Next Week, Unveils Bland Strategy Statement As was rumored earlier this year, Twitter is adding some features to make it both more Facebook-like, and easier to use for new users, as they announced in a public presentation Wednesday. Also,
SF News SF Giant Jeremy Affeldt Won't Get Mad If You Disagree With Him About Jesus Don't bother getting bent out of shape over SF Giants pitcher Jeremy Affeldt's outspoken religiosity, because he and Jesus have already triumphed. "I don't have to get angry at someone if they don't
SF News At Last, Market Street Place Breaks Ground The long-delayed, $150 million, 250,000-square-foot urban mall now known as Market Street Place is slowly rising from an empty hole in the ground. Mid-Market revivalists are rejoicing as, today, developer, Cypress Equities
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tired Of Getting Vandalized, Local's Corner Is Closing “Maybe we should have made it clearer that our use of ‘local’ isn’t about being local,” is a thing owner Yaron Migrom said about his restaurant Local’s Corner to San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Market Street Project To Remember Forgotten Waterways Before the Wiggle was the bike route of least resistance through some of San Francisco's hills, it was a flat creek bed that hosted an intermittent stream. But that's the story of many
SF News FBI Once Again Rates The Safest And Most Dangerous Cities In The Bay Area Not shockingly, the safest city in the Bay Area is also the richest. And once again Oakland is rated the most dangerous, according to the FBI's annual "Crime in the United States" report,
