SF News Uber Stymied In Australian State, Protests With 15,000 Printed Emails Delivered By Horse And Buggy After the Australian state of Queensland passed legislation to stamp out Uber last month with punishing fines to drivers using the app, the $50 billion valued company did what any imperious, overvalued child
SF News Behold Valencia Street's New 'Bike Barometer' Valencia Street cyclist-counting machine, counting cyclists on Valencia Street:https://t.co/G0XTgJeofX pic.twitter.com/gPmoNs670O— Mission Mission (@missionmission) May 3, 2016 With the 22nd annual Bike to Work Day coming up
Arts & Entertainment Video: Inside The Levi's Vault, A Literal Jeans Archive Levi's presence in markets, not to mention on Market Street, might be so ubiquitous as to fade into the background. Not for serious denim heads, as die-hard jean enthusiasts term themselves: For them,
SF News California's Redemption Recycling Center Model Is Garbage For a recycling scavenger whom CBS 5 is calling by the pseudonym "Daniel", it all boils down to the weight of his haul. The cans and bottles he scores from dumpsters in alleys
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Street Food Festival Got Too Big, Will Take 2016 Off Last August, the seventh annual San Francisco Street Food Festival was its largest yet, spanning two days and requiring a relocation to the Dogpatch from the usual Mission location. But, as such, Inside
SF News Twitter Stock Hits Another All-Time Low At the very second Twitter stock hit a new, all-time low of $13.90 per share today, a brief moment observed by CNet and others from which the share price has partially recovered
SF News Day Around The Bay: Burning Man For Oligarchs Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. The Guardian took a tour of the tech-centered, deluxe
SF News [Update] Mayor Lee Attempts To Visit Hunger Strikers Ahead Of Planned Event, They Refuse While the five hunger strikers demanding that Mayor Lee fire Chief Suhr have been planning to visit City Hall tomorrow and demand parley with him according to 48 Hills, it appears that the
SF News Uber Settles Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit, Will Remove Drivers Who Refuse Users With Service Animals Uber has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit, filed in 2014, with advocates for the blind. As a condition of the settlement, the AP reports via KRON 4, the company has agreed to
SF News Alamo Square Will Close For Nine Months Starting May 10th Alamo Square Park, perhaps the most photographed of San Francisco's many green spaces thanks to its prettily painted Victorian and downtown views, will close to the public beginning next Tuesday, May 10, for
SF News Poll: One Third Of Bay Area Residents Say They'll Leave Soon According to a new poll by pro-business policy group the Bay Area Council, 34 percent of Bay Area residents are "likely to move out of the Bay Area in the next few years,
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Ep. 3.2 Recap: 'Compromise' To justify new office space and perks for the Pied Piper team, incoming CEO Jack Barker delivers a well-worn anecdote. While Richard, who has accepted a demotion to Chief Technical Officer, is skeptical
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Homage Debuts, Evil Eye Heads To The Mission, And More This week at SFist, we learned that Oakland's Genova Delicatessen would indeed close after a 90-year run, reported that Foreign Cinema's bar next door Laszlo would reopen with a makeover on May 12,
SF News Like It Did For Uber Drivers, Treasurer's Office Orders Airbnb Hosts To Get Business Licenses Earlier this month, roughly 37,000 drivers for Uber and Lyft were mailed letters from San Francisco City Treasurer Jose Cisneros indicating that, as contractors, they must apply for business licenses to operate
Arts & Entertainment Full Stern Grove Lineup Includes George Clinton And Parliament, More The full, funky lineup for Stern Grove's 79th season is upon us: It's now available on the festival's website. And, as has been the case for many years, the acts booked for the
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Peek Inside The Brand New SFMOMA, Opening May 14th The first thing you'll notice when you arrive at the new SFMOMA will be a massive sculpture. The only question is whether it will be by Alexander Calder or Richard Serra. The original
SF News Judge: 99-Year-Old Woman Facing Eviction Can Stay, If She Pays $100K In Legal Fees Deal to allow 99 year old Iris Canada to stay in her SF home hits snag when landlord asks for courtroom apology. pic.twitter.com/ZsIGvqgF5v— Juan Carlos Guerrero (@JuanCarlosABC7) April 19, 2016
SF News SF Attorney Goes After United, American, And Delta Airlines For Possible Price-Fixing San Francisco attorney Joseph Alioto says it began on April 1st. On that day, he told CBS 5's Consumer Watch, United, American, and Delta airlines changed a policy that automatically charged the lowest
SF News Protesters Block Valencia Street After Police Cut Short Community Meeting Correction: An earlier version of this post ran under the headline "Protesters Block Valencia Street After Chief Suhr Cuts Short Meeting." Chief Suhr did not attend the meeting, and the headline was inaccurate.
SF News Merciless Fans Besiege 'Full House' House After 'Fuller House' Reboot Fuller House, a February-released reboot of the 1980's and 90's syndication hit Full House, takes place in a familiar space: a Southern California soundstage. But don't tell that to the throngs of fans
SF News Private Shuttle Chariot's Latest Route Whisks NEMA Royalty To Caltrain For Free NEMA apartments, a luxury development that describes itself as a "design-driven lifestyle pioneer," has been accused of representing a kind of modern-day castle. If so, it's found an appropriate match with a semi-private
SF News The Self-Driving Car Lobby Is Here, And It's Driven By Uber, Google, Lyft, Ford, And Volvo The usual suspects in the autonomous vehicle race are joining forces, forming a coalition to usher self-driving cars onto America's roads. According to a report from Reuters, five companies shaping up to be
SF News Day Around The Bay: Coyotes Prowl Presidio Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Coyote sightings and interactions are becoming more frequent in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mac Daddy Moving In To Former Chez Maman With Mac And Cheese Galore After a bunch of shuffles up on Potrero Hill, restaurateur Jocelyn Bulow of Chez Papa and Chez Maman opened Dat Spot in the former Chez Maman space at 18th and Missouri. Despite the
SF News Mission Street Businesses Say Transit-Only Lanes Are Putting Them In The Red While Mission Street's new, bright red transit only lanes, reserved for buses and taxis, have so far confused and angered drivers between 11th and Randall, they've got a new enemy in some local
