SF News Another Dead Whale Washes Ashore In Pacifica Less than a month after a dead sperm whale beached in Pacifica, just a third of a mile away another dead whale, this one a young female humpback perhaps just weened from its
SF News Judge Halts 1050 Valencia Development Mid-Construction A Superior Court Judge has called for a halt to the five-story development currently under construction at 1050 Valencia Street between 21st and 22nd Streets, at Hill Street. And this is triggering a
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 5 MINI GOLF: Play a few holes
Arts & Entertainment Reimagining The Golden Gate Bridge: A Brief Visual History The Golden Gate Bridge, completed in 1937 and designed by Joseph Strauss, Irving Morrow, and Charles Elli, was actually reimagined several times. To preserve Fort Point, which was to otherwise be demolished, Ellis
SF News Car Stolen In SF With Man's Wife's Ashes In Trunk 68-year-old Phil Hollenbeck was passing through San Francisco in his 1997 light blue Honda Civic on the way to the Oregon Coast from his home in Taos, New Mexico. In the trunk: The
SF News Burning Man Is Over Part 247: Burning Man Facebook Page Hilariously Trolled It's been quite a year for the social experiment/desert party known as Burning Man. As hackers jumped their way to the front of the digital line to score their $390 passes, this
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Recap: Three Comma Club "It says here on your resume that from 2010 to 2011, you... crushed it?" In a "programmer's market," Richard and Jared are forced to consider engineers with questionable resumés and personalities. And, to
SF News Dave Goldberg, SurveyMonkey CEO And Husband To Sheryl Sandberg, Dies Suddenly Dave Goldberg, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and the CEO of the popular website SurveyMonkey, died suddenly Friday. The cause of his death has not been reported. He was 47 years old. Goldberg had
SF News [Updated] Oakland May Day Mayhem Leaves Many Smashed Storefronts, Smashed Cars May Day demonstrations for a variety of causes but most prominently centering on the police homicide of Freddie Gray carried well into the evening on Friday. As with previous days of uprising in
SF News Day Around The Bay: Alleged Mrs. Doubtfire Arsonist Is Representing Herself Is a new tech co-working hub in Chinatown violating city law? [Ex] Tesla has introduced a fascinating new solar battery. [Consumerist] Starbucks’ bottled water plant in Merced draws drought-focused criticism. [Business Times] Now
SF News Rapper And Twitter Icon Lil B Kicked Out Of Oakland Hotel For Weed, Claims They Stole $10k TMZ reports that rapper Lil B a.k.a. Lil B From The Pack a.k.a. Lil B The Based God is feuding with Oakland Airport's Red Lion hotel, and may the
SF News Ron Conway Defends Warriors Arena, Mission Bay Alliance Consultant Calls Him 'Bag Of Crap' Today we hear more from the Mission Bay Alliance, a group that just appeared made up of anonymous deep-pocketed UCSF donors to crusade against the Warriors Arena project in Mission Bay. Meanwhile, as
SF News Photo Du Jour: Reclining Portrait With Animal Carcass At 4th And Market The citizenry of Reddit today are picking apart a strange photograph of a person asleep nodding off near what might be a lamb carcass at 4th and Market Streets. To be sure, we
SF News [Updated] SF May Day Rally At Civic Center Will Lead To March To Mission While crowds gather in Downtown Oakland this May Day, San Francisco is scheduled to see a rally of its own. "International Workers Day Regional Festival and March," as the event is listed on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learning To Drink Vol. 16: The Mint Julep Is Decadent And Depraved Good drinks tell a story, and this is the story of those drinks. Each week, we'll be serving up a remedial cocktail lesson for bartending beginners to help you get the most out
SF News Mayor Lee Proposes $3 Million Plan For Police Body Cameras Back in 2013, we were told that SFPD officers would be getting body cameras as part of a pilot program funded by $25,000 federal grant. But in January of this year, we
SF News Marc Jacobs Is Latest Fashion Victim In Smash-and-Grab Trend Confirming our suspicion that the smash-and grab is the hottest crime to commit in 2015, CBS SF reports that the Marc Jacobs Boutique at 2142 Fillmore Street has been robbed. At 4:24
Arts & Entertainment 'Business Town!' Is Richard Scarry 2.0 For Silicon Valley Business Town! is a brilliant, if derivative, Tumblr you should totally follow. Obviously, the style is all Richard Scarry, the illustrator whose most popular work, Busy Town, featured anthropomorphic animals in workaday jobs.
SF News Sea Lion Pup Wanders Divisadero The Marine Mammal Center has safely secured a sea lion pup who was waddling through the streets of the Marina District, ABC 7 reports. It was eventually captured with a net after it
SF News Salesforce For Sale? SF's Largest Tech Employer Works With Bankers To Field Takeover Offers Salesforce.com Inc., San Francisco's largest tech employer and host of that really big conference called Dreamforce, has begun to work with financial advisers after receiving takeover offers, Bloomberg reports. Sources say that
Arts & Entertainment Robin Williams' Pet Parrot Lives At SF Zoo "Zoo director Tanya Peterson revealed that Robin Williams’ pet parrot, Mischa, will live at the zoo," writes Leah Garchik in an aside for the Chronicle, piquing curiosity about the late actor's feathery friend.
SF News Secret's Out: Anonymous Gossip App To Shut Down, Founder Got A Ferrari At Least Carve out another plot in the startup cemetery. Secret, an app that's been around for just a year and was used for anonymous gossip from the minor to the disgusting to, occasionally, the
SF News 'Shadowy' Alliance With Big Names Attached Wants To Kill Warriors Arena Project Smooth-talking PR pro Sam Singer, whose efforts of late have been focused on ousting SF Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, has a new target in his crosshairs: the Mission Bay Warriors Arena development. After shifting
SF News Twitter Earnings 'Leak' On Twitter, Trading Halts, Stock Crashes Twitter (TWTR) is being called its "own worst enemy" by Wired after some not-great first-quarter earnings "leaked" (according to Twitter) in the form of a few tweets. As a result of the bad
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Woman Trapped On Everest The above photo of San Francisco was taken from space and tweeted by astronaut Scott Kelly. [Twitter] Peter Ragone is back! The former communications director for then-mayor Gavin Newsom became a figure of
