SF News Gavin Newsom Donates Money He Got From Donald Trump To Immigrant Charities Leading the charge to dump "presidential candidate" Donald Trump, Lieutenant Governor and gubernatorial hopeful Gavin Newsom fired back against Trump's hateful anti-immigrant positions earlier this month by re-gifting a donation from Trump to
SF News There Was An Armed Assault In Blondie's Bar Bathroom Last Night The bathroom of Blondie's Bar on Valencia Street (between 16th and 17th Streets) became the scene of an armed assault on a 25-year-old man last night. As the Examiner reports, a pair of
SF News Day Around The Bay: Supervisors Don't Want You To Drink At Taco Bell, Starbucks Senator Mark Leno’s E-cig regulations bill went up for discussion today. [KRON4] Russian Hill car burglaries have doubled. [KRON 4] This is how Twitter recognizes porn. [Wired] The SF Arts Commission is
SF News Mission Development Project Goes Fully Affordable As Lee And Campos Make Nice Mayor Lee and Supervisor David Campos, who recently clashed over that supervisor's proposal for a moratorium on market rate housing in the Mission District, appear to be mending fences. As Mission Local reports,
SF News Report: Apple Watch Sales Plummet As Much As 90% The first iteration of a non-essential device is selling poorly according to a new report. Drawing on numbers crunched by Palo Alto-based email receipt tracker Slice Intelligence, Business Insider puts sales of the
SF News Multiple Mountain Lion Sightings On Streets Of SF The Presidio Trust says it has received four reports of mountain lion sightings in San Francisco in the past several days. All sightings are believed to be of the same animal. Three times
Arts & Entertainment Play One Of 12 Hidden Pianos In The Botanical Garden This Week For 12 days, 12 pianos lie hidden in the San Francisco Botanical Garden in a sort of musical game of hide-and-seek. Or, maybe since you'll gather around the pianos once you find them,
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 7 CONTEMPORARY DANCE: On the scenic Hyde
Arts & Entertainment Pay To Playa: The Weirdest And Worst Crowdfunded Burning Man Projects You gotta have money to burn. Increasing costs have been the major complaint among the Burning Man faithful even before news broke that the festival would be taxed for the first time starting
SF News Man Claims Restraining Order From Zuckerberg's Mansion Security Left Him Homeless Mark Zuckerberg's $10 million Dolores Heights fixer-upper has caused its fair share of problems over the past two years of fixer-upping. Neighbors were pissy due to construction and noise, which drove reporters with
SF News Day Around The Bay: The Cool Kids Of TaskRabbit Hipster TaskRabbits don't want to work for the man, so they just gig, receive no health insurance. [BuzzFeed] Google Glass, back by popular demand. [9to5google] Pleasanton police shot a unarmed man. He died
SF News One Rincon Hill North Tower Expected To Sell For $400 Million Then Convert To Condos One Rincon Hill's north tower isn't just an apartment building. It's a record-setting apartment building lifestyle. Its height? Nearly incomparable in the Bay Area. Its beauty? Unparalleled. Its glory? Unfathomable. To put a
SF News Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Apologizes As Redditor Hissy Fit Continues Doing what they do best, on Friday, Redditors and moderators formed a mob, shutting down parts of the site in protest. The given "reason" for the tantrum was the firing of Victoria Taylor,
SF News Instagram Rolls Out Higher Resolution Photos Of Your Friends' Perfect Lives A photo posted by Lourdes Villagomez (@lourdes_villagomez) on Apr 17, 2015 at 1:48pm PDT The better to see your friends' perfect meals, vacations, and pets, photo sharing service Instagram is in
SF News Planning Commission Says It May Halt Some Mission Development Although a proposed moratorium on market-rate housing in the Mission District died before the Board of Supervisors last month when it failed to garner a nine vote majority, another body capable of exerting
SF News Bedlam At Reddit As Moderators Strike Giving literal meaning to the axiom that Reddit is revolting, today volunteer moderators from the website are essentially on strike in response to the mysterious firing of a key employee. The network of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Spice Jar Opens, Mina Pop-Up Begins, And More This short holiday week we learned of the closing of Giordano Bros. in North Beach, and of the closing of 4505 Meats butcher shop on Mission, which is becoming a new outpost of
Arts & Entertainment Video: Finger Dancer From Taylor Swift Video Shakes It Off In SF For Vallejo's John Hunt (aka Pnut), what started with his viral finger-tutting (a kind of finger dancing) video "Greasy Fingers" ended with a role in the video for Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off.
SF News Hide Your Fireworks, Pyros: $50K Worth Seized From Oakland Home, 1,000 Pounds From Chinatown Store Be careful out there, pyrotechnical enthusiasts. As is a July 4th leadup tradition, the police are on the lookout for illegal fireworks. Of course, you probably haven't hoarded as many explosive materials as
SF News Jack Halprin, 'Google Lawyer' And Target Of Anti-Eviction Protests, Dies Of Cancer At 46 Jack Halprin, head of eDiscovery at Google, has died according to the Examiner. According to an announcement from his brother on Facebook, Halprin "lost his short but difficult battle with cancer." He was
SF News [Update] News Crews Robbed At Gunpoint, Camera Man Pistol Whipped While Reporting Live From The Scene Of Pier 14 Homicide This morning just after 6 a.m., television news crews from KTVU and KNBC became embroiled in the news themselves while reporting from the scene of yesterday's fatal shooting at Pier 14. That
SF News Oh No, Leland Yee Pleads Guilty In April of last year, former State Senator Leland Yee pleaded not guilty to federal charges of corruption and firearm trafficking. But then, last July, a revised grand jury indictment added some federal
Arts & Entertainment 'Seep City' Maps SF's Forgotten Springs And Streams "San Francisco is still a place where you can see water seeping up from the sidewalk or coming out of a hillside, but people don’t even know it’s there,” natural history
SF News Supervisor Scott Wiener Announces Bid For State Senate Setting the political stage for a contest more than a year and a half away, Muni-loving, nudity-banning District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener has announced his candidacy for State Senate. The Democrat just unveiled
Arts & Entertainment <em>Steve Jobs</em> Trailer Drops: The Next Big Thing Is Here In America, where gods of industry are all too literally considered deities, we're still not through contending with the legacy of Steve Jobs. Products aside, the technology leader's flair for theatrics makes him
