SF News Behold: The Transbay Transit Center's Metal 'Skin' Takes Shape A photo posted by Justin Beadle (@justbeadle) on Apr 25, 2016 at 2:51pm PDT The Transbay Transit Center, a megalithic project from designers Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects that's underway at 1st and
SF News Visualizing The Hub, A Proposed Home For Tall Buildings Around Market While one nook of Market Street, basically an area from Market to Mission between Valencia and 11th Streets, has been included in 2008's Market and Octavia Area Plan, now the Planning Department is
SF News UCSF Receives Largest Ever Donation: $185 Million Former CItigroup CEO Sanford "Sandy" Weill already has one major medical school to his name: Weill Cornell Medical College. Nonetheless, he and his wife Joan Weill have turned their philanthropic eye westward, donating
SF News Live As High Above The Rest Of The World As You Feel In This Planned Penthouse Remember the most expensive penthouse in San Francisco, the LUMINA tower B in SoMa, which listed for a price of $49 million last year? Well it's a cheap piece of trash... ... when you
SF News Campos Proposes Law To Fine Airbnb Directly For Unregistered SF Listings The relationship between Airbnb and San Francisco is something like the one between a difficult host and a defiant houseguest. It's... well, it's not great. In what might have signaled a détente earlier
SF News G Chahal, The Worst Bad Man In Silicon Valley, Might Finally End Up In Jail Leaving the courthouse last Friday, 33-year-old advertising technology mogul Gurbaksh "G" Chahal was surrounded by family and bodyguards, shielding his appearance from the eye of the media, as ABC 7 nonetheless reported. Also,
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: 'Rookie' Cop Patrols Dolores Park While some rangers have cracked down in the past, including this rather brutal takedown from February, Dolores Park, for the most part, exists as sort of landlocked international waters. It's a lawless zone
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Ep. 3.1: 'Decacorn' Like the startup it follows, Silicon Valley has a high valuation. According to Deadline, the tech-skewering comedy from Office Space and Beavis and Butt-Head creator Mike Judge was renewed for a fourth season
Arts & Entertainment Video: Real Life Nintendo 64 'GoldenEye' On Alcatraz Chubbies, a shorts, tank tops, and Hawaiian shirts lifestyle brand, has been branching out into some funny video content to emphasize their presence and drive traffic and interest. So far, they've taken to
SF News Apothecarium Dispensary To Uproot And Expand To Former Mecca Spot You'll still have no trouble locating an apothecary for all your weed needs on Market Street in the Castro — only now it will be half a block up Market, at 2029, not 2095
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Too Many Cooks? In Crowded Market, Catering Startup Kitchit Calls It Quits The dinner party could be coming to a close for San Francisco-based Kitchit, a catering startup with $8.1 million in investments according to Crunchbase. That news came from anonymous sources to Investors
SF News Feds May Have Paid iPhone Hackers More Than $1.3 Million How much did the FBI pay the "gray hat" hacker or hackers who successfully unlocked the iPhone related to the San Bernardino terrorism case? “A lot,” FBI chief James B. Comey Jr. said
SF News Elon Musk Hints At Project For Autonomous Mass Transit Option “I don’t want to talk too much about it," billionaire CEO Elon Musk said secretively at a transportation conference in Norway yesterday according to Bloomberg. "I have to be careful what I
SF News Large Fire Contained Near 24th And Valencia, Two Firefighters Injured A photo posted by Chris Palmer (@fugueish) on Apr 22, 2016 at 9:36am PDT Just a day after a three-alarm fire struck two residential buildings on Guerrero near 17th, another fire is
Arts & Entertainment The Most Famous American Actor In Chinese Cinema Lives In Oakland In China, fans shout to Jonathan Kos-Read: "Cao Cao!" they call him by his nickname, which he chose for himself to honor a member of the Han Dynasty. Kos-Read, 43, is a go-to
SF News Video: Another Glimpse At Prince's Warriors Courtside Appearance When Prince sauntered into Oracle Arena as a guest, and fan, of the Golden State Warriors earlier last month, the mood was celebratory. Today, of course, the mood is different. But the Warriors
SF News Most People Have Been Moving To SF From LA, Seattle, And New York They keep on coming: The San Francisco Metro Area saw an influx of 60,000 people last year, indicating that nothing — not nationally scorned housing prices, not reports of the death of our
SF News State Senate Panel Falls One Vote Short On Bill To Ban Surge Pricing For Uber And Lyft A California Senate committee blocked a bill this week that would have stopped Uber and Lyft from employing the dynamic fare pricing known as "surge" pricing. The AP reports that the measure fell
SF News Hearst Office Building At Third And Market Could Become Hearst Hotel As tourism booms in San Francisco with a record 25 million visitors in 2015, the historic Hearst building at Third and Market Streets may seek to capitalize on the trend with a conversion
SF News Day Around The Bay: A Guide To Knowing Your Victorians Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Don't know your Eastlake architecture from your Queen Anne? Then take
SF News Calaveras Dam Project Digs Up Prehistoric Teeth, Fossils — And Dynamite Horse and donkey shoes, whale bones, and a tooth from a prehistoric monster shark called a megalodon: The SF Public Utilities Commission dug all that up and more, but according to CBS SF,
Arts & Entertainment Historic Clay Theatre Readies For Renovation, Could Add Dining And Drinks The Clay Theatre (2261 Fillmore at Clay) was built in 1910 as one of the first picture palaces in San Francisco. In 1972, the first midnight showing in the city was hosted here:
SF News San Franpsycho Says Peace Out To Divisadero Store Later! San Franpsycho's outpost at 505 Divisadero, the first brick and mortar retail location for the 2001-founded clothing makers, is shutting its doors as of this weekend. The store opened in 2012, and
SF News Legion Of Honor, de Young Museums Hike Adult Ticket Prices By 50% While a move approved yesterday to increase ticket prices by 50 percent at two premiere San Francisco museums might be seen as something of an art heist, the de Young Museum and Legion
Arts & Entertainment Kanye West, Tidal Could Face Class Action Lawsuit For Marketing Of 'Exclusive' New Album Nothing about the rollout of Kanye West's latest musical opus, a gospel god dream called The Life Of Pablo, was easy to follow. West changed release dates, track listings, even the album's title,
