Arts & Entertainment John King: LinkedIn Tower 'Has All The Charm Of A Well-Tailored Packing Crate' In a scorching hot takedown from Chronicle architecture writer John King, our local arbiter of tall building taste calls the new tower at 222 Second Street, which is leased in full by LinkedIn,
SF News DA: SFPD Officers Sent Recent Racist Texts Mocking The Racist Text Scandal According to the District Attorney's office, San Francisco police officers texted each other racist and homophobic remarks making light of the unfolding, so-called racist SFPD texting scandal that roiled the department itself. That
SF News Google Ventures, Other VC Firms Invest $120 Million In $700 Wi-Fi Enabled Juice Machine Silicon Valley may well be running out of juice, as streams of venture capital dry up and some San Franciscans root for a cooling-off period. But investors like Google Ventures (GV, as it's
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Foolz ... Are Making Valencia Unchill' "F**k these foolz that are making Valencia Street unchill and destroying the Mission 4 every1 who lives there," sings Kevin Patrick, AKA Field Medic, in a scathing social critique that targets "these
SF News Tesla Model 3: Buyers Clamor To Reserve Cars That Won't Be Made Until 2017 When Tesla CEO Elon Musk takes the stage in Los Angeles tonight to introduce a new, more affordable version of his electric car — an unveiling that's being billed as the company's pivotal event,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Crab Back On The Menu, Fishermen Back To Work Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. This “Chatty Map” of San Francisco's soundscape is an attempt to
SF News After Weeks-Long Electrical Problem, BART Nearing Regular Service Following a mysterious voltage spike at the end of the Pittsburg/Bay Point line that's bedeviled BART since March 16th, the regional transit system has been running a bus bridge between North Concord
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink OMFG Hello Kitty Food Truck Coming Back To SF! Omgggggggg Get ready to literally devour your favorite Sanrio character at the Hello Kitty Cafe food truck, which is coming back to San Francisco at long last to fill that little bow-shaped hole
SF News Uneven El Niño Skewed North, But Water Restrictions May Ease In Parts Of CA With just weeks left in California's rainy season, El Niño has distributed uneven relief to an arid state. As a result, regulators must consider lifting state water restrictions that took effect last April
SF News UC Admissions Standards Lowered For Out-Of-State Students Who Pay Higher Tuition, Audit Reveals A quadruple increase over the last decade of out-of-state students who pay higher tuition at the University of California but who may have lower grades and test scores has "undermined" the 10-school system's
SF News East Bay's Claremont Hotel Proposes Condos On Landmark Site In news that developers hope will make wealthy, aging Boomers with Berkeley aspirations positively salivate, the Claremont Club & Spa, a historic hotel in the East Bay hills that straddles Berkeley and Oakland,
SF News Record Number Of Tourists Checked Out SF Last Year Cause We're Hot Like That 25 million visitors graced the Fine American City of San Francisco in 2015, marveling at our hills, gaping at our bridges, and in some instances, choking on our stench. The Examiner published the
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Another week brings with it a diverse array of events, curated here for your pleasure. Hopefully there's something for everyone, from the symphony lover to the bibliophile. TUESDAY, MARCH 29 FREE AMOEBA SHOW:
SF News Uber CEO: IPO Currently Planned For Never Because Market Is 'Irrational' Marc Benioff, billionaire philanthropist and noted unicorn skeptic, said last year that “The unicorn mania that’s going on, that’s dangerous for our Silicon Valley economy." As opposed to crazytalk private investments
SF News Tomorrow's Tech Campuses, Built On Yesterday's Hippie Commune Space Dreams Technology giants Apple and Google have strange, new corporate campuses on the horizon, the New York Times Style Magazine, T, has noticed: Google's a slightly downsized tent-like structure and Apple's a very large,
SF News Got Dirt? To Fight Sea Level Rise, Bay Area Marshland Projects Seeking Lots Of Mud Landing at SFO can be a pretty, if sometimes harrowing experience (short runway). A nice distraction: The salt marshes that form a quilt of various umbers around the southern part of SF Bay.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Tickets On Sale Wednesday For May 14th Opening On May 14, after a three-year expansion project, SFMOMA will have its big moment in one of the SF art world openings that led the Wall Street Journal to declare a general San
Arts & Entertainment Photos From Hunky Jesus 2016, The Sinfully Funny Jesus Look-Alike Pageant Jesus may have died for our sins, but that didn't stop the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, our local order of queer activist anti-nuns founded on Easter in 1979, from keeping up their sinful
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mr. Marina Competition Raises Eyebrows, $175K Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. It's a sunny weekend forecast with rain to return on Wednesday.
SF News Extremely SF Startup Negotiates Buyouts On Rent-Controlled Units Landlords have been required to publicly disclose buyout agreements made with their tenants since 2014, finally giving us some numbers and transparency into what has previously been a shrouded subject last year. That
SF News Examiner Lawsuit Against Chronicle Maybe Backfiring As Judge Orders Sanctions, Shifts Legal Fees To Examiner The "Hearst eagle," a masthead symbol that still adorns the San Francisco Examiner, was created by William Randolph Hearst during the paper's prime as a flagship Hearst Media property. But these days, the
SF News [Update] To Save A 100-Foot Tree, Inner Richmond Couple Consults Planning Commission (And A Shaman) At 46 Cook Street, a tall tree of 100 years old and as many feet high is at the center of an Inner Richmond neighborhood feud, because of course it is. The Chronicle
SF News Incorrigible Tagger Recently Fined $200K Spray Paints Police Cruiser Anyway Terry Cozy does not abide by the laws of polite society and is apparently undeterred by heavy fines and strong rebuke. And yet C.W. Nevius of the Chronicle provided the latter for
SF News One-Bedroom Rents Basically Flat Since Last Year, According To New Map What a fun map! Last June, real estate website startup Zumper put median one-bedroom rents in San Francisco at $3,500, which was up from $3,200 in 2014. Now they're at $3,
SF News Hit-And-Run Driver Covered In Gold Paint Arrested After Wheel Falls Off His Car While in pursuit, a CHP officer received a simple but perplexing description of the suspect: "gold." Damaj Cook, a 21-year-old man mysteriously covered in head-to-toe gold spray paint, was eventually arrested on suspicion
