Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Ep. 3.9: 'Pipey' "Grapefruits. Postcards. Hugs." We're introduced this week to one of what will be many efforts to market Pied Piper, an ad (below) that also illustrates the problem the company faces, one that could
SF News Day Around The Bay: This 3-Year-Old Crying Steph Curry Fan Is All Of Us Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Watch a 3-year-old Steph Curry fan, supposedly the only
SF News Patient Paralyzed At SF General Wins Settlement And Dies, And Now City Won't Pay On March 16, 2012, 53-year-old David Zeller was taken to SF General exhibiting numb legs and severe back pain. He left the hospital paraplegic. The Chronicle has his story, which is sad, but
SF News Sullied Rainbow Crosswalks Won't Be Replaced Before Pride The Castro's flashy rainbow crosswalks, colorful displays of queer civic pride installed last September, will not be shining at their brightest for this year's Pride celebrations. No, says Hoodline: Damaged unfortunately (and maybe
SF News Airbnb: SF Should Remove Business Registration Requirement For Hosts As it did for Uber and Lyft drivers, San Francisco City Treasurer Jose Cisneros has instructed Airbnb hosts that they're responsible for obtaining business licenses.* Cisneros has backed down a bit on the
SF News Two SFPD Officers Now Implicated In Oakland Police Sex Trafficking Scandal An investigation into the alleged trafficking of an underage sex worker by members of the Oakland Police Department, perhaps with the knowledge of their superiors, has expanded to include a look at the
Arts & Entertainment More Than 20 Years Of Clarion Alley Murals Now Available In Online Archive In 1992, Mission District artists Aaron Noble and Rigo 23 were residents on Clarion Alley, the 15-foot wide, 560-foot-long throughway running between Mission and Valencia Streets (between 17th and 18th Streets). They didn't
SF News Peter Thiel, Trump-Loving Tech Billionaire, Maybe Also Suing Gawker Over Article On Trump's 'Hair' "Paypal mafia" tech billionaire and Facebook board member Peter Thiel was awfully secretive about funding Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against the media company Gawker (over, it would appear, an article drawing attention to Thiel's
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: 'Big City Living On Outer City Dime' Now Means $2,700 Studios In The Bayview SFist's Caleb Pershan is pinch-hitting on the Apartment Sadness column this week. "Big Style, Little Benjamins" is one of several highly suspect claims made on the swanky website for the "new" (also not
SF News Inspired By Spate Of Palo Alto Deaths, Facebook Makes Suicide Prevention Tools Available To All Users Some cries for help are clearer than others, and sometimes there are no cries to be heard at all, but even when a so-called "red flag" is (metaphorically) held aloft by someone contemplating
SF News Shills From Private Shuttle Service Chariot Are Now Proselytizing At Muni Stops Have you heard the good word? Chariot, the San Francisco network of shuttle buses that falls somewhere between the jitneys of yesteryear and the tech commuter buses of today, wants to make certain
SF News DA's Office Disqualifies Stanford Rape Case Judge From New Sexual Assault Case Judge Aaron Persky has been criticized widely for what has been seen as his lenient sentence of former Stanford student Brock Turner, a now 20-year-old man convicted in the rape of an unconscious
SF News Daylight Shooting In Downtown Oakland Kills Teenage Girl, Injures Six Others #BREAKING 16 year old girl dead following a shooting in downtown Oakland @nbcbayarea 11 pic.twitter.com/DxIWVsaDIC— Cheryl Hurd (@hurd_hurd) June 15, 2016 A 16-year-old girl was killed in an unusual
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF State Astronomer Helps Discovers Planet Orbiting Two Suns Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Ten local entertainers and performers talk SF Pride, sharing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink As Riptide Prepares To Roar Back To Life, Fans Write 1K Letters In Support Of Entertainment License When the Riptide was the victim of fire last year, its owners were in the middle of seeking an entertainment license. As the bar's team explains on their Facebook page, "When The Riptide
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Hills In San Francisco Back in simpler times, there weren't so many hills in San Francisco, or so city archivist emeritus Gladys Hansen recalls. "At the very beginning, San Francisco was a very small city and we
Arts & Entertainment Lineup Released For Last Ever Treasure Island Music Festival (On Treasure Island Anyway) Treasure Island Music Festival's tenth anniversary performance, taking place on October 15th and 16th you know where, has just released its overall lineup. That's below for your careful consideration. Headliners are Ice Cube
Arts & Entertainment Kanye West Announces New Tour Dates, Oakland Appearance Yeezy season approaches. This fall, Kanye West is set to arrive at Oakland's Oracle Arena on October 22 as part of a 32-city tour called "Saint Pablo." A note on that name: It
SF News Orlando Mass Shooter Had Been To Gay Club A Dozen Times, Messaged Man On Dating App As a grief-stricken public seeks an explanation for the deadliest mass shooting in US history, not to mention the deadliest ever attack on American LGBTQ people, news publications are examining the life and
SF News Oakland Museum Debuts Warriors Exhibit Because Team Is Precious Work Of Art The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), previously the Oakland Museum, is an interdisciplinary museum founded in 1969 and respected for its collections of art, such as the work of the craftsman movement, to
SF News As New Department Of Homelessness Takes Shape, Report Advocates For Tracking System Recall that San Francisco distributes around $241 million in more than 400 contracts with 76 private organizations that provide services to homeless people with no unified system to track the effects of that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing: Sierra Nevada Beer Festival At Pier 35 This Weekend Heads up: Sierra Nevada of Chico, CA, the nation's third largest craft brewery, is docking at Pier 35 this Saturday for an afternoon of beer and merriment. The festival, in the afternoon from
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Ep. 3.8: 'Chief Evangelism Officer' In a New Yorker article about Silicon Valley published last week, readers learned that TJ Miller, who plays incubator owner and eccentric bong collector Erlich Bachmann, once met Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX, more)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Tawla Opens, St. Francis Fountain Does Dinner Again, And More At the SFist food desk this week, we sent you in the right direction for Negroni Week, made note of the star-studded opening at Ayesha Curry's Michael Mina pop-up, International Smoke, and tipped
SF News Treasurer Gives Uber And Lyft Drivers Longer To Obtain Business Licenses, Forgives Fines Drivers for transportation network companies like Lyft and Uber who were told, depending on whom you ask, somewhat abruptly in April that they would need to obtain business licenses, are being granted two
