SF News Sale Of $39M Home (With Doggy Spa, Aviary) Will Go To Pet Shelter When you meet the property at 7 Country Oak Lane, you're faced with a number of questions. First: Where, pray tell, are numbers 5 and 6 Country Oak Lane? This spot, in the
SF News Attn. Ride-Share Drivers Picking Up Passengers In Taxi Lanes: Stanley Roberts Will Find You As anybody knows, if you see Stanley Roberts, you've been behaving badly. The SFPD and SFMTA are cracking down on Uber and Lyft drivers trying to pick up passengers who are attempting to
SF News This Is What You Learn When You Archive 68 Years Of SF Rental Listings In 1954, San Francisco ran out of large, vacant land tracts to build on. The city realized it was in a housing crisis in 1966, launching a Housing Report that year which continues
SF News Donald Trump Is Afraid Of Oakland, Feeling Might Be Mutual Donald Trump considers Oakland to be one of the most dangerous places he's visited in the world. That detail comes to us in a New York Times magazine profile of the presidential candidate
SF News Chief Suhr Has 'No Intention' To Step Down, Says He's The Best Guy To Change Department “If we can have less of them,” Chief Suhr said of police shootings in an exclusive sit-down with the Chronicle, “it’s a good thing for everybody.” And, as the Department of Justice
SF News Chronicle Comes Out In Favor Of Lucas Museum, With Conditions While the would-be art Jedi tries to make his return to San Francisco, the possibility of a George Lucas Museum Of Narrative Art in a new location — on Treasure Island — has already been
Arts & Entertainment Former Googlers/Twitterers Kickstarting Icebreaker Card Game Socializing is difficult, and personally, I try to avoid it. When I do find myself — however accidentally — at a gathering with others, I start in with the usual pleasantries. A bit about my
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cowgirl Creamery Sold To Huge Swiss Milk Processor Eight months before their company's 20th birthday, Cowgirl Creamery owners Sue Conley and Peggy Smith have sold their nationally distributed cheese business to a larger Swiss dairy company, Emmi, which six months ago
Arts & Entertainment Electromagnetic Wave Gun Zaps Drones, Provides Hope To SF An electromagnetic wave gun that disables drones by disrupting their controls, causing them to safely land in place or return to whence they came, could provide drone-riddled San Francisco with a solution to
SF News CEO Of Apartment-Bidding Startup Blames Game, Not Player Alex Lubinsky, CEO of the instantly infamous rental application and bidding startup called Rentberry, recently confided to Curbed that he overpaid for his apartment in SoMa. By way of defending his service, he
SF News Day Around The Bay: Home Of Berkeley Chancellor Gets $700K Fence To Ward Off Protesters Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. On June 29th, about 30 SF publications are going
SF News Key Plaintiff Objects To $100M Uber Class Action Settlement As Drivers Criticize Lead Lawyer Recently SFist wrote of a $27 million proposed agreement for drivers to settle with Lyft, a deal to keep them contractors rather than employees in California. That settlement was brokered by the same
SF News New Union Square Apple Store To Open Gigantic Sliding Glass Doors Saturday Apple fanboys and girls will want to set their iCals and synchronize their Apple Watches, because Apple's gleaming new Union Square retail store at 300 Post Street will open this Saturday, May 21st,
Arts & Entertainment Twitter Will Exclude Links And Photos From 140-Character Limit "Big if true," as they say on Twitter. Bloomberg reports that the microblogging service or whatever we're calling it now won't include the characters taken up by links and photos as part of
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Ep. 3.4: 'Box Turtle' After a secret plan to divert their efforts was discovered at the end of last episode, Dinesh, Gilfoyle, and Richard are being forced to deliver on a decidedly un-thrilling box project. And yet,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Catering For Tech Clients Lands Latino Business A Mission Brick-And-Mortar "I never expected that my pupusas were gonna be in Facebook, that my pupusas were gonna be in FourSquare, that my pupusas were gonna be in Google or at a happy hour at
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Use Instagram It's Etiquette Week at SFist, in which SFist's editors dole out some prescriptive advice for how to behave in this city we all share in order not to overly annoy, offend, or otherwise
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Will Meet With Conservative Leaders Following Allegations Of Censorship Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced plans to meet with conservative leaders to address allegations that his website's Trending Topics section suppresses conservative news and news outlets. Before that, it seems Zuck will
SF News These Are The Streets That Will Be Closed For Bay To Breakers Happy Straight Pride, everyone! San Francisco's rowdiest annual footrace, Bay to Breakers, whose second line of revelers might number as many as 80,000, will either make or break your Sunday but you
SF News Only Three Out Of 20 Major Local Transportation Projects Are Fully Funded While individuals and companies arrive in droves to the Bay Area in search of funding, taken as a whole, the metro area is woefully behind when it comes to funding number of crucial
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Do Karaoke It's Etiquette Week at SFist, in which SFist's editors dole out some prescriptive advice for how to behave in this city we all share in order not to overly annoy, offend, or otherwise
Arts & Entertainment Azealia Banks' Spell On Twitter CEO Is Apparently Broken As Her Account Is Suspended The very *~racy~* Twitter account of rapper/provocateuse Azealia Banks has been very much suspended. That overdue move on the part of Twitter's notoriously reticent harassment team was first noticed by Hip Hop
SF News Lyft Agrees To $27 Million Settlement Keeping CA Drivers As Contractors The big fight over whether ride-hailing drivers are contractors or employees — a contest that, pundits proposed, might threaten the very foundation of business models for the likes of Lyft and Uber — is close
SF News Central Market Nonprofit Is Behind Classical Music Blaring From Burger King The Bach blasting from speakers through the night above the Grove and Market Street Burger King began several weeks ago, or so a tip to SFist claims. As anyone who has tried to
SF News Day Around The Bay: East Bay Water Emergency Declared Over Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Yesterday we learned that venture capitalist Peter Thiel was
