SF News All But Dead, Private Bus Startup Leap Auctions Off Buses Stalled last month by a pesky cease and desist letter, Leap Transit now appears to be auctioning off most of its fleet of private buses. Fusion caught the original listing for one bus
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pink Party Entertainment Announced In a suspected DUI, a motorcyclist hit and critically injured a cable car operator as the operator was disembarking. [Contra Costa Times] SF General has joined UCSF in no longer offering sugary drinks.
SF News Video: Herding Goats In The Berkeley Hills Everyone knows that goats are the new cats, which is to say, they're the most popular creatures to be found on the Internet. They can also be found, it would seem, in the
SF News Photo Du Jour: Scoot Down First off, we're hoping everyone involved in what was possibly an accident, we aren't sure, is okay and not seriously injured. SFist has reached out to SFPD, and they're looking into it. As
SF News Now That Taxis Have A Small Advantage On Market Street, Uber Wants To Be Treated Like Them Usually insistent upon being considered a "Transportation Network Company," which is to say a technology business and not some sort of retrograde taxi service, Uber "Technologies" has changed its tune this week at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learning To Drink Vol. 19: The Coffee Cocktail Abides Good drinks tell a story, and this is the story of those drinks. Here, we'll be serving up a remedial cocktail lesson for bartending beginners to help you get the most out of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saturday Brunch Pop-Up Brings Soul Food And Soul Music To The Lookout Castro bar The Lookout is positioning itself as a brunch destination with a new pop-up starting this Saturday. That's when we'll get a first taste of Soul Delicious, a partnership between Wes Rowe
SF News In Drought Of Ideas, Public Utilities Commission Redoes Their 'Sexy' Water Conservation Campaign Since San Franciscans will obviously only save water if we're convinced that it's somehow sexy to do so, since last summer the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has employed a series of
SF News Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Stepping Down Though the word may not come as a shock to those following Twitter and its difficulties, it's still big news. CEO Dick Costolo has flown the coop, or more likely been pushed out
SF News Halfway Through The 22-Day Muni-Riding Challenge, The Mayor May Have Only Ridden Muni Once Challenged by the SF Transit Riders Union (SFTRU) to hop on Muni as much as possible for 22 days this month, the Mayor and Board of Supervisors are being carefully watched by that
SF News Grand Theft Uber: Company Releases Mobile Game To Test Knowledge Of SF Streets (And Recruit Drivers) Without Google Maps, could Uber even exist? As an increasing number of ride-hailing drivers live outside of the area in which they operate, a fair few are mostly or completely reliant on their
Arts & Entertainment Video: Dancing With Gravity On SF's Hills Karen X. Cheng and Ross Ching are having some fun with gravity and camera angles in this video that's been making the rounds on Reddit and local blogs. In the past, Cheng has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gardenias To Pick Up The Woodward's Garden Party In Lower Pac Heights Chefs and co-owners Margie Conard and Dana Tommasino of the shuttered Woodward's Garden will be replanting their business as Gardenias in Lower Pacific Heights, Tablehopper informs us. Fans of the 1992 established white-tablecloth
Arts & Entertainment Giants' Chris Heston Pitches First No-Hitter Of MLB Season Though last night held its share of disappointment for the Bay Area sporting scene, there was a noticeable bright spot in Chris Heston's appearance on the mound for the San Francisco Giants. In
SF News Weather Report: Storm's A-Comin? Nothing but #grateful for #rain !! #bayarea pic.twitter.com/hYTfPT03zw— Susie Wyshak (@susiewyshak) June 10, 2015 The rain that kept you under the covers for too long this morning is predicted to potentially
SF News Day Around The Bay: Ed Lee Refuses To Fund Body Cameras For SF Jail Sheriffs Facebook was going to build a satellite to provide cheap internet to developing nations but then they gave up on that plan. [Business Insider] In what world is In-N-Out “San Francisco's preeminent fast
Arts & Entertainment Local Tech Journalists Mystified To Receive Anonymous Book Satirizing Tech A cohort of around 12 San Francisco journalists, most of them known for reporting on tech, have received a mysterious book of tech satire full of "tweets" reimagined in elaborate, handwriting-like typeset. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All About Oro, The Upcoming Mint Plaza Restaurant From Commonwealth's Jason Fox Commonwealth chef/owner Jason Fox and partner Timothy Felkner, former general manager of Zero Zero, wanted a name for their new restaurant that would ring with the history of its surroundings. Oro, Spanish
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, JUNE 9 OUTDOOR JAZZ PARTY: It's the 33rd
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Treasure Island Music Festival Announces 2015 Lineup Everyone's favorite, mellow, local, mini-music fest, that Treasure Island Music Festival, has officially released their lineup for 2015. The two-stage, no overlapping sets festival is a more intimate affair than Outside Lands, but
SF News Mayor Lee Ups Housing Bond To $300 Million To Buy Land In The Mission San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced yesterday his intention to increase a proposed housing bond measure from $250 million to $300 million. The Business Times reports that the additional $50 million on the
SF News So Many Victorian Homes Are Being Modernized That This Traditional Interiors Restoration Business Had To Close This past April, San Francisco Victoriana Inc., a company that restored period details in Victorian houses, experienced such a decline in business that its proprietors closed ahead of their planned retirement. “People are
Arts & Entertainment Watch Buses Fly By In This SFMTA Time-Lapse Map Muni doesn't always run like clockwork — or, in this instance, like a data visualization. But Danny Whalen, cofounder of Remix (née TransitMix), still gives the service a lot of credit. "What SFMTA does,
SF News Supreme Court Rejects NRA Challenge To SF Gun Regulation The Supreme court will not hear a National Rifle Association challenge to a San Francisco law requiring that handgun owners storing their weapons at home either put them in a lockbox, disable them
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Recap: Schrödinger's Arbitration In the second-to-last episode of Silicon Valley's second season, we open on minor character Nelson "Big Head" Bighetti who has a run-in with a pair brogrammers from Nucleus. At a bar, one of
