SF News Uh-Oh Bay Bridge: Caltrans Says Rod Has Fractured You'll recall that we're spending $4 million to see what the hell is going on with the Bay Bridge's $6.4 billion eastern span. Well, in testing the over 400 steel rods that
SF News 'G' Chahal, The Worst Bad Man In Silicon Valley, Charged With Abusing Another Girlfriend It sadly comes as little surprise to those familiar with Gurbaksh "G" Chahal, a bad bad man if there ever was one, that the 32-year-old tech CEO has been charged with another instance
SF News Cease And Desist Letter Brings Leap's Private Buses To A Halt Riders of Leap, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed private bus service that vowed to save us all the able-bodied from Muni, are as of today being forced to ride among the plebeians. The company, which
SF News Day Around The Bay: Third Dead Whale Washes Up A third whale carcass has washed up. [ABC7] Charts from Paragon show how astronomical home sale prices are in formerly affordable neighborhoods. [SFGate] Alice Waters is angered by how everyone now says ”farm-to-table.
SF News Beloved Lucky Penny Diner To Become Seven-Story Mixed-Use Building The Lucky Penny — the 24-hour diner that's among SFist's favorites and that you might remember as among the best ideas you've ever had after 2 a.m. — looks like it won't be an
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, MAY 19 ASTRONOMY: Get in on the monthly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Startup Disrupts Your Day With Fake Parking Ticket Marketing Campaign You know what sucks? Walking back to your car after leaving a restaurant, only to find a #parkingticket. #mealticket pic.twitter.com/5Ry4UsUNj3— Kitchit (@Kitchit) May 18, 2015 Double check that potential parking
SF News Uber Tests Taking Higher Commission From Drivers 'Because We Can' "'You've got happy employees, you've got happy customers, you've got happy shareholders," the president of an investment fund recalls grilling Uber's CFO, Brent Callinicos, to Business Insider. "The holy triumvirate are all really
SF News Renderings: Presidio Parklands Project From High Line Architect Adjusts For Budget, Drought Renowned for such projects as Manhattan's High Line and Staten Island's Freshkills Park, James Corner Field Operations was selected in December to design the park grounds connecting Crissy Field to the Main Post
Arts & Entertainment '94110' TV Pilot Casting Monologues, Presented Without Comment When San Franciscans learned of a casting call for a TV pilot called 94110 that would tell "the story of six leading technology executives living, learning, and loving together in San Francisco’s
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Recap: Kool-Aid In an adrenaline-fueled episode of Silicon Valley, we open with Nucleus' big debut, which, as we suspected, goes horribly awry. The live-streaming UFC-style fight that was supposed to promote Hooli's technology is buggy,
Arts & Entertainment All About The Real Big Sur Retreat From The Mad Men Finale Om. Don Draper is hardly the first troubled genius to seek enlightenment and sobriety in California's Big Sur. Jack Kerouac devoted an entire book to the subject with his dark roman à clef
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Fans Of 'Serial' Offend At Bay To Breakers Serial, the hit podcast (think about that for a second) is a highly fascinating and even entertaining piece of nonfiction. That is, however, to say that it is real, and not fiction, as
SF News Day Around The Bay: Actual Elevator Pitch Ok, I love this-- VC firm General Catalyst has an elevator pitch room-- in an elevator. Clever. @GCVP pic.twitter.com/9fzSbU50dL— Foundersuite (@Foundersuite) May 14, 2015 The VC firm behind Snapchat and
SF News Study: Native San Franciscans Are Less Likely To Marry How do you know if someone is a San Franciscan native? In all likelihood, a true native will tell you, but also, natives of liberal american cities like our own are significantly less
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learning To Drink Vol. 17: Count Negroni 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 News Ugly Landlord-Tenant Dispute In Sunset May Just Be A Case Of A Terrible Tenant Today's "gotta hear both sides" landlord-tenant dispute comes from ABC 7, and the landlord's lawyers are presenting it as a "case study" that argues renters are afforded too many rights and resources. The
SF News Peek Inside The (Embattled) Warriors Arena The proposed arena for the Golden State Warriors could be in big trouble as political consultant Jack Davis on behalf of the shadowy Mission Bay Alliance has threatened to tie up the project
SF News Engineer Of Derailed Amtrak Train Previously Worked At Caltrain, Lived In Bay Area The New York-bound Amtrak train that crashed as it left Philadelphia may have been traveling well over its 50 mile per hour speed limit on that stretch of track, perhaps going more than
SF News Gavin Newsom Asks His Facebook Followers For Help With His SF State Graduation Speech (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=
SF News San Francisco Is Not Very Big And We Have The Visualization To Prove It Using the mapping tool MAPfrappe, a Texas-based storage search company, of all things, has done us a solid and given us a good look at how San Francisco stacks up in size compared
SF News Silicon Valley Fashion Week: So Hot Right Now In San Francisco we're more slaves to technology than to fashion. But a new fashion technology summit called "Silicon Valley Fashion Week?" hosted by Mission-based Betabrand and held not on the Peninsula but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lobster Rolls and Doughnut Cheeseburgers: Outside Lands Releases Absurd Food Lineup Outside Lands continues to earn a reputation as a food festival with a helping of music, or so it would seem based on the newly released and once again over-the-top list of restaurants,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Warriors Arena Getting 'Fast-Tracked' The latest on the Warriors Arena, whose process Governor Brown is speeding along. [Chron] The owner of a 24th Street corner store has been accused of trying to evict an elderly tenant. [Uptown
Arts & Entertainment OMFG Hello Kitty Supercute Friendship Festival Coming To Oakland! When the Hello Kitty Food Truck came to San Francisco, I felt #blessed and thought that peak cuteness had been reached. At the time, I considered that I might literally die, but somehow
