SF News From Dot-Com Palace To Squatter's 'Thug Mansion', Pac Heights Copy Of Versailles Chateau Nears Sale A "known historic resource" according to the City of San Francisco, Pacific Heights' 3800 Washington (between Maple and Cherry) is a "modified replica of the garden facade of Le Petit Trianon," the Versailles
SF News Dropbox To Exit Lease On Headquarters Near AT&T Park With 11 years to go on the lease of its China Basin office headquarters at 185 Berry Street near AT&T Park, cloud storage pioneer Dropbox is looking to ditch the 200,
SF News Yahoo Spent $70K To Dress Execs As Wizard Of Oz Characters At Company Party, And Marissa Mayer Was Dorothy Somewhere over the rainbow in Marin County, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer dressed herself as Dorothy and her staff as the rest of the characters from “The Wizard of Oz” in an elaborate, expensive
SF News City Settles With Journey Guitarist Who Sued Over Cost Of 'Royal, Sexy, Magic' Wedding At Palace Of Fine Arts "The City by the Bay" about whom Journey guitarist Neal Schon so lovingly played — and by whom he was so terribly wronged during his Palace of Fine Arts "Royal, Sexy, Magic" themed wedding
SF News Van Ness Partially Closed This Weekend For Third And Final Time As workers shape a tunnel connecting the under-construction 274-bed California Pacific Medical Center campus to some medical offices on the opposite side of the street, Van Ness Avenue will close to traffic from
SF News Carol Doda, '60s Stripping Sensation And Cultural Icon, Dead At 78 San Francisco grand dame and larger-than-life '60s cultural figure Carol Doda has died. The 78 year old was beloved and revered for her bare, entrepreneurial spirit not to mention her bare, once world-famous,
SF News Three Kittens From Hayes Valley's KitTea Cafe Diagnosed With Fatal Disease Three cats from pleasant Hayes Valley hybrid teahouse and cat adoption center KitTea Cafe were diagnosed with an incurable viral disease that sometimes occurs in litters or cats in close proximity, as at
SF News Day Around The Bay: Twitter Will Start At The Top, Diversify Board Twitter will turn over its board members to promote diversity among its highest ranks. [Re/code] Did the tech set vote? If not, will it ever? [Ex] A Black SF-based engineer wishes TechCrunch's
Arts & Entertainment From 'Basic Gays' To 'Jocks': Photographer Hal Fischer Rereleases His '70s Tome <em>Gay Semiotics</em> Before you or I or anyone in San Francisco for that matter could spot a bear blocks away in SoMa, there was the revelation of Hal Fischer's Gay Semiotics: A Photographic Study of
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Lots of writers and book nerds are on the list this week, but there's plenty here for everyone — from ballet on Friday to the Trans Film Festival, of which we are only able
SF News LUMINA Condo Residents Will Soon Have On-Demand Audis At Their Disposal For when Zipcar just won't do, darling, Audi is launching a new service, Audi at Home, available to lucky San Franciscans and residents of our sister city in luxury, Miami. This is an
SF News Infamous Lower Haight Landlord Continues Dirtbaggery, Demands 100% Increase On Rent-Controlled Unit "This is Robert Shelton," former tenant Veronica Fauxton introduces us in a charming post to Youtube. "He owns the apartment building at 312 Fillmore St, San Francisco, CA 94117. This was after I
SF News TAG Heuer Debuts $1,500 Smart Watch TAG Heuer makes the kind of timepieces that might last a lifetime, and after that, even become family heirlooms. But now the company is trying its hand in an industry marked by the
SF News Sorely Needed Improvements (Like An Actual Ceiling) Bound For Powell BART Planners say they see a light at the end of the tunnel for one beleaguered BART station that, “at its worst... looks like an unsupervised construction site,” according to San Francisco BART director
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chino, Tacolicious's Dumpling Spinoff, Has Closed After just a year and a half, Tacolicious's dumpling-centric spinoff Chino is throwing in the towel. "As of today, we will be ceasing operations at Chino," Tacolicious founder Joe Hargrave tells SFist. The
SF News Day Around The Bay: Study Says Recently Released Prisoners Not Causing Crime Spike Police in SF are displeased that Serena Williams didn’t report her phone theft. [KRON4] A full-sized grocery store could come to 1200 Van Ness. [Socketsite] Podcars. Are they the future of podcasting?
SF News Decrepit Palo Alto Shack Lists For $2 Million Because 2015 This Palo Alto property is "an exciting opportunity to build your dream home in charming Barron Park neighborhood" according to a broker making the pretty reasonable assumption that the existing structures on the
SF News San Jose Is Now The Richest City In The US, SF Is Third According to Bloomberg's analysis of data for the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States — numbers from the Bureau of Economic Analysis — San Jose is the figurative gold medal winner. At $105,
SF News Berkeley High School Student Confesses To Leaving Racist Threat On Library Computer Yesterday was marked by protest and student walk-outs at Berkeley High School in response to racist threats invoking the KKK and lynching that were left to be seen on a library computer. “Fuck
SF News Skiers, Snowboarders 'Stoked' As CA Mountains Open Early Skiers and snowboarders are reportedly "stoked" to "shred the gnar" today as cold weather and early snowfall make for early openings at California ski resorts. First out of the gate was Mammoth Mountain,
SF News Jesse Jackson Demands Racial Breakdown Of Twitter Layoffs As Last Black Engineering Boss Departs The self-described "only African-American in [engineering] leadership" at Twitter, Leslie Miley, has left the company. As he told the Chronicle this week, Miley's leave-taking was negotiated in September and stemmed from the Apple
SF News Palantir Co-Founder's Undergrad Intern Ex-Girlfriend Drops Sexual Abuse Charges A Stanford graduate from 2004, he was to be her mentor. Soon, she was his intern. But Joe Lonsdale, a former executive at PayPal, a co-founder of Palantir Technologies, and a founding partner
SF News Berkeley High School Students Protest After Racist Threat Found On Library Computer BLACK LIVES MATTER 💯💯🅱 @berkeleyside BERKELEY HIGH TAKING A STAND pic.twitter.com/uZ1HlblfR3— DOOSKIWORLD❄️ (@tkeepittrill) November 5, 2015 Students at Berkeley High School today staged a walk-out and rally in protest of a
Arts & Entertainment Vandal Tags Netflix HQ Sign With 'And Chill' Graffiti Someone turning "Netflix and chill" into graffiti outside Netflix's Los Gatos HQ... pic.twitter.com/7nEre4ouvg— scott budman (@scottbudman) November 4, 2015 According to photos circulating today, a graffiti artist and meme enthusiast
SF News Day Around The Bay: Tahoe Ski Resorts Harness El Niño For Marketing Attorneys with the San Francisco Public Defender's Office say there are a disturbing number of cases in the City against innocent people eventually exonerated by video evidence, but that nonetheless in low profile
