SF News Hooray! Those Pee-Deflecting Walls Are Working! The walls in San Francisco mean business. Or, more accurately, they mean "don't do your business here." That's after a new, fast-moving pilot program to paint walls with liquid-repellant paint which is already
Arts & Entertainment How To Write About A Failed Startup: A 'Postmortem' Style Guide We can't all be unicorns. 9 out of 10 startups fail, and when they do, 10 out of 10 bereaved founders take to Medium or the company blog to share the news. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: A.G. Ferrari Foods Closes In The Castro, Outside Lands Karaoke With Morimoto, And More This week, Oakland's La Borinqueña Mex-icatessen celebrated its last in business. After four generations of tamales made "with love and lard," the family has decided to retire. Chino, the Tacolicious take on dumplings,
SF News Mapping The Projected 8 Foot Sea Level Rise In San Francisco A big new package of stories about sea-level rise from SF Public Press might just scare developers straight, as it comes with this spooky map of future San Francisco and points out 27
SF News Step Inside Oakland's Illegal Dystopian Shipping Container Community, Containertopia "It's pretty much my dream post-apocalyptic cyberpunk setup," says Luke Iseman near his 160-square-foot box home. With a camp stove and a fridge "that's a really simple hack," his miniature shipping container nightmare
SF News Day Around The Bay: Richmond Rent Control Ordinance Stalls Richmond’s rent control ordinance has stalled. [Chron] Bay Area income inequality exceeds national levels. [CBS SF] Alameda County doesn’t want to play landlord to the Raiders and A’s anymore. [Chron]
Arts & Entertainment The First Clip From Lifetime's 'Unauthorized Full House Story' Is Not As Awful As We Thought! When I first saw the off-brand stunt-double looking cast of the forthcoming Lifetime movie The Unauthorized Full House Story, I was worried, but maybe a little amused by the looks of the project.
SF News [Update] Wells Fargo At 2nd And Folsom Receives Visit From The Bomb Squad, Then The All Clear Office workers in the SoMa area around Wells Fargo at 2nd and Folsom are Tweeting frantically as the Bomb Squad visits the area, suiting up and entering the building. Some say they're being
SF News Apple Leasing Its First Major Office Space In SF For Apple's Chief Design Officer and San Francisco resident Sir Jonathan "Jony" Ive, the bothersome chore of being chauffeured to the company's Cupertino headquarters in a Bentley (a commute he revealed in a
SF News Wiggle Cyclists Halt Traffic In (Effective?) Act Of Civil Obedience In a widely publicized protest, the cyclist activists of "The Wigg Party" snarled traffic yesterday on their eponymous route, The Wiggle. Emphasizing their objection to the letter of the law, hundreds of bicycle
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Petit Crenn, A Breton-Inspired Café And Restaurant From Dominique Crenn, Opens August 11 A photo posted by @dominiquecrenn on Jul 29, 2015 at 2:24pm PDT The esteemed Dominique Crenn, chef and owner of Michelin Two-Star Atelier Crenn, has announced the opening date of sequel establishment
SF News The Cars Uber Shows You Before You Hail A Ride Are Bogus “I know this seems a misleading to you," an Uber staffer tells Vice of the Uber cars you see on the app as you prepare to a hail a car, "but it is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Citing Licensing Issue, ABC Shuts Down Lucky 13 Patio Misfortune for Lucky 13, Hoodline reports.The 27-year-old bar on Market Street, recently described by the Chronicle as a "down-and-dirty roadhouse," has closed its popular patio. Lucky 13's bar manager Martin Kraenkel confirmed
Arts & Entertainment Hunter Thompson Rides With The Hell's Angels In This Animated Interview "It had been a bad trip fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it looked like a bummer." That's how Hunter Thompson concludes his time embedded
SF News Day Around The Bay: Native American Tribes Band Together With Forest Service To Preserve Water The Old Way Los Altos residents need to boil their water after E. coli was discovered in their supply. [ABC7] Sinbad's is in court to fight their eviction this week. [Chron] Local doctors appear to be
SF News Video: Broken San Bruno Pipe Releases Millions Of Gallons Of Water A major water pipeline ruptured last night in San Bruno, spilling millions of gallons of water and remaining open into this morning NBC Bay Area reports. According to the San Francisco Public Utilities
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week See and be seen at these select San Francisco shows, parties, and events. You know, because you can't read the Internet all the time. TUESDAY, JULY 28 KARAOKE: DJ Purple. Karaoke legend. Plays
SF News Has The Pro-Tenant Law Regulating Buyouts Prompted More Evictions? A city law introduced by Supervisor David Campos and adopted last year by the Board of Supervisors to shed light on the practice of tenant buyouts might be having an unfortunate and unintended
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's La Borinqueña Mex-icatessen Closing This Week After 71 Years As the Oakland Tribune and the Chronicle report, 71-year-old stone-ground masa operation La Borinqueña Mex-icatessen is grinding to a halt at the end of this month. It's a sad goodbye to tamales “made
SF News Video: Muni Driver Yells At Disabled Woman 'You Shouldn't Even Be On The Bus' "I routinely go through moments where bus drivers resist the idea of letting me on the bus, or just pass me up, or act a little rude or horrible," the writer, blogger, poet,
SF News In Rare Event, Cyclists Plan To Follow Laws (To Prove That Laws Suck) In order to demonstrate the genuine ineffectiveness of some rules of the road strictly applied to cyclists, some bike activists are planning to go ahead and actually follow the laws for once. Many
Arts & Entertainment Video: Kathy Hilton Does Brunch On <em>Million Dollar Listing SF</em> Brunch. You don't eat it, you do it. But Kathy Hilton, mother of "stars" Paris and Nicky, knows that. This brunch, as E! Online reports, Kathy is doing with Justin Fichelson of Million
SF News Kinky Send-Off For Retiring Judge Gets Out Of Order A singing telegram for a retiring San Francisco judge last week may have struck an off-note with a pair of handcuffs and a Confederate flag patch. After the usual cake and kind words
SF News Day Around The Bay: SFPD Lurks On Instagram Apple is throwing its weight behind The Equality Act of 2015, a sweeping piece of legislation introduced Thursday to outlaw discrimination against LGBT people under federal law. [Wired] After 35 years in business
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Route For Tomorrow's Naked Bike Ride: Seek Or Avoid It As You Please San Francisco may not be the stronghold of public nudity it once was thanks to the bowdlerization efforts of a certain Supervisor. But try telling that to the cyclists signed up on Facebook
