SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dry Your Eyes: Elbo Room Renews Lease Through 2018 Reports of the death of the Elbo Room were greatly exaggerated! We ourselves spoke too soon — we just didn't want to drag it out, to get hurt more. But there's very good news
SF News Marc Benioff: 'Unicorn Mania' Is 'Dangerous For Our Silicon Valley Economy' Salesforce CEO and billionaire philanthropist Marc Benioff isn't showing a lot of charity to privately funded startups valued at $1 billion or more before being taken public, a group colloquially named unicorns. “The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Smitten Expands Fresh-Made Ice Cream Empire To Valencia Valencia Street wants for little in terms of tasty treats, but who can say no to Smitten's flash-frozen ice cream? It's actually churned with liquid nitrogen before your eager eyes, creating unrivaled (in
SF News Out Of Order: Twitter Tests Non-Chronological Feed Twitter time is out of joint. A number of users have been selected to test a new feature, which some already consider a bug, finding their precious tweets presented according to an algorithmic
SF News SFPD Shooting Of Mario Woods 'Could Have Ended Differently If We Had Tasers' Says Chief San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr once called equipping his officers with Tasers a "moral obligation." That was in 2012, and at the hands of the Supervisors Public Safety Committee he was the
SF News Dianne Feinstein Is Kind Of Blaming Facebook For Not Warning Of San Bernardino Attack Senator Dianne Feinstein is happy that Facebook saw fit to delete the status update of Tashfeen Malik that reportedly pledged her allegiance to ISIS shortly before the gun massacre she allegedly carried out
Arts & Entertainment SF Singles Are Self-Described Hottest In US According To New List; Treasure Island Hotties Think They're The Hottest If hoping to leave your heart in San Francisco, perhaps consider Treasure Island? According to a crackpot new survey by a thing called EliteSingles which appears to be a dating site aggregator of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Magnolia Brewing Files For Bankruptcy, Promises Business As Usual San Francisco craft beer pioneers Magnolia Brewing grew quickly from a Haight Street basement operation into a two-pronged ale empire with the addition of $3 million, 10,000-square-foot Dogpatch brewpub Smokestack, but despite
SF News Day Around The Bay: The Boss Is Coming To Town Mayor Lee has consolidated a variety of homelessness services, hoping to house 8,000 people during this term. [Chron] This is what El Nino looks like in India, and it's ugly. [NY Mag]
SF News SF Beer Week Schedule Is Here, Just Black Out Your Calendar Now You might be a year-round celebrant, but beer receives special attention next month. The 8th annual San Francisco beer "week," which hinges on the San Francisco Brewers Guild's somewhat loose, probably drunk definition
SF News Racist Texts Found Between Santa Clara Deputies After Alleged Murder Of Mentally Ill Inmate After 31-year-old mentally ill inmate Michael James Tyree was found dead in his cell, Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith arrested and filed murder charges against three of her corrections deputies. Now CBS
SF News Following Pandora Acquisition, Rdio To Begin Layoffs Oakland-based online streaming radio company Pandora has been on a roll this fall, first purchasing San Francisco-based online ticket vendor Ticketfly for $450 million in October, then buying up Rdio, also based in
Arts & Entertainment Eff-ing In SF, Vol. 1: How To Use Tinder Sex, love, and other mysteries in the city your mother warned you about. DO NOT USE TINDER. You will get pregnant and die. But if you're so compelled, then what better place to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Tacolicious Chef Telmo Faria To Open Portuguese 'Uma Casa' In Former Incanto Space “I had the itch to cook Portuguese," chef Telmo Faria told Inside Scoop recently, "and that’s when it clicked.” Born in the Bay Area but whisked away by his immigrant parents to
SF News Protest, Vigil Tonight At Site Where SFPD Killed Mario Woods Disturbed and distraught following the killing yesterday of 26-year-old Mario Woods, a limping and visibly unwell black San Francisco man with a kitchen knife whom SFPD encircled and shot to death in front
SF News Actual Knight Won't 'Lower Standards' To Hire Women At Silicon Valley VC Firm Chivalric venture capitalist and literal knight Sir Michael Moritz sat down for an interview just called out by Vanity Fair with Bloomberg's Emily Chang, who pointed out the simple fact that Sequoia Capital,
SF News Average SF Tech Wages Up 12.8% To $176K (With Bonuses, Stock Options) The average wages for industries in the United States went up by 3.1 percent for 2014 to reach $51,364 according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Chronicle ran last
SF News Uber Tests Color-Coded Windshield Bars To Help You Get In The Right Stranger's Car Are you my Uber? The technology company (often mistaken for a transportation company) is no stranger to this confusion. As their service grows, and grows and grows, Uber realizes that users in busy
SF News SF Taxpayers Might Be On The Hook For SFMTA Superbowl Costs Though the Super Bowl itself is to last mere hours and be held in Santa Clara, San Francisco's Super Bowl City will naturally run for much longer than, directly affecting us all from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrity Sighting: Jake Gyllenhaal Dines At Cala, Is Probably Still In Town Professionally hot man, talented actor, and suspected foodie Jake Gyllenhaal was in San Francisco earlier this week — doing what? shooting Zodiac 2? I don't know, that shit is still unresolved. But, you guys,
SF News Oakland Startup Pioneers Pot Breathalyzer Soon, pot-doing drivers will have something other than a joint, bong, or vape-thing to wrap their lips around. Oakland-based startup Hound Labs has announced its handheld marijuana breathalyzer, a product developed at UC
SF News Adieu, Yahoo? Anonymous Sources Say Company May Sell CEO Marissa Mayer's weary Internet giant has gone from Yahoo! to Yahoo??? as anonymous sources tell the Wall Street Journal the company may sell its core business. Meanwhile, Yahoo Inc. maintains its valuable
SF News Day Around The Bay: Is SF's Oldest Home Your New Office? Yes, gun thefts have spiked. [Chron] The owner of Barrel House Tavern in Sausalito faces $250,000 in fines for the conditions at a Fresno apartment complex where he's the landlord, and he's
SF News Mayor Seeks Increase In Affordable Housing Requirements Ed Lee, reelected mayor but of a different San Francisco, today announced a new call to increase the percentage of affordable housing required from private market-rate developers building new housing. With Board of
SF News New Dad Mark Zuckerberg Already Bragging On Facebook, Pledges To Give Away His Fortune After a long, carefully Facebook-documented pregnancy, Dr. Priscilla Chan has given birth to Silicon Valley's royal baby, a girl named Max, as she and husband Mark Zuckerberg proudly posted to the social network
