SF News Design Revealed For New Stanley Saitowitz Apartments On Polk A handsome office building fanned by palm fronds at 1033 Polk Street is getting what Curbed calls an "eye popping" upward addition from Stanley Saitowitz's Natoma Architects. The project sponsors have released these
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Spooky Things To Check Out This Week This Halloweek there are, as you might expect, plenty of themed events at your favorite haunts. The theme, of course, more than Halloween is silliness and crappy jokes and puns. Nonetheless, there's genuine
SF News Twitter Stock Takes Another Dip After Earnings Call, And Square's Numbers Aren't Great Either "We continued to see strong financial performance this quarter," Jack Dorsey said in a statement picked up by CNBC among others. The CEO, who has served in that role for a short three
SF News 44 Units Planned For Nob Hill Parking Lot That's Been 'Temporary' Since 1973 Until 1970, 875 California Street was a five-story building operated by then Mayor Joseph Alioto and his wife Angelina. The Chronicle remembers that the family tore down the structure with hopes of building
SF News Video: How Does A 97-Year-Old Woman 'Feel Like A Little Kid'? By Visiting Google HQ. "Can you possibly tell me what, up there, that's so vacant to me, you call a 'cloud,'" Olive Horrell, a 97-year-old great-grandmother, asked at Google's Mountain View headquarters. Horrell's adorable wish — to
SF News Explosion, Fire On Dolores Street Was In Suspected Drug Dealer's Apartment Police are investigating the cause of an explosion and fire on the top floor of a three-story building at 15 Dolores Street, near Market Street. TV news crews could be seen in the
SF News Ron Conway Instructed The CEOs Of Every Company He Funds To Tell Their Employees How To Vote Ron Conway, Mayor Ed Lee's own personal angel investor, knows how he'll be voting in this upcoming local election. Ed Lee all the way, baby. In fact, Conway seems to think he'll be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Seven Fall Brews To Drink This Decorative Gourd-Flavored Beer Season It's decorative gourd-flavored beer season, motherf**ckers. But pumpkin beers are a divisive drink, so we've just included two of them here amidst a variety of seasonal brews. Harvest them on tap and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Enter Whitechapel, A Very Steampunk Gin Bar Spin-Off From Smuggler's Cove Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Whitechapel has got to be among the best. With 350 varieties of the botanical spirit including vintage and rare selections
SF News Morgan Stanley: Rents Wouldn't Drop 'Even If Current Bay Area Job Growth Forecasts Were Cut In Half' "[It] will take more than a mild slowdown in tech activity to break down favorable supply demand fundamentals in the Bay Area," wrote Morgan Stanley analyst Vance Edelson in a note to clients
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Delarosa (Part 2) Opens, Halal Guys Head To Berkeley, And The Secret Of Yank Sing's Slaw Here in the SFist food section, you may have read that the highly decorated Daniel Patterson has bought San Francisco's oldest steak house, Alfred's. We also had word that Wise Sons Bagel will
SF News The Real Story Of The Great Highway Shack That Sold For $1.2 Million Is Priceless $1.2 million, 13 offers, $400K above asking. But a new story about the sale of the shack at 1644 Great Highway — a "sure flip" — flips the script entirely. What many thought was
SF News Generous, Guilty Jack Dorsey Gives Back $200 Million In Twitter Stock To Employees As CEO of both Twitter and Square, Jack Dorsey has likened a choice between the two companies he co-founded to a choice between his children, according to a source to Re/code. Although
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lers Ros Plots Northwestern Thai Spinoff Less Than A Block From OG Spot No, the local thai mini-empire owned by Bangkok-born chef Tom Silargorn and his wife Oah Budsabagorn won't be opening a fourth Lers Ros location. After all, they've got the Mission, Hayes Valley, and
SF News Founder Of 'Elitist' Dating App 'The League' Wants No Scrubs Amanda Bradford, the "single" (her pun) founder of SF-based members-only dating app 'The League,' has fired back at critics — there have been many, including, to some degree SFist — who pegged her and
SF News One Of Those Tuesday Warning System Towers Turned Off Because It's A Hawk's Nest Now You know those sirens that terrify tourists and don't particularly faze locals every Tuesday at noon, blaring for 15 second to test our "Outdoor Public Warning System?" Well, in a story sure to
SF News BART Is Not About That Vape Life, Makes Ban Explicit With Signs When they get their heads out of their personal clouds, vapers riding BART are in for a rude awakening. You can't vape while riding on or waiting for Bay Area Rapid Transit, and
Arts & Entertainment Step Inside The Almost, Not-Quite-Finished SFMOMA, Open Next May You know what they say: You can't rush art. Well, the new SFMOMA, which has closed the building for nearly three years in order to emerge as the largest museum in the Bay
SF News For The Last Time, There Is No 'Techie' Voting Bloc How do all techies vote? With ballots, like everyone else. Here's a better trick question. How do all young people vote? Not in local elections! Sad, but true, and not illegal. Age and
SF News SFMTA Will Drug-Test Taxi Drivers, Is Chill With Medical Marijuana Though Further differentiating the taxi industry from Lyft and Uber, who do nothing of the sort, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors voted unanimously yesterday to annually drug test cabbies for
SF News SF's Sanctuary City Status Safe In Unanimous Vote, Rebuffing Conservative Media “We cannot allow one event to dictate 25 years of our city’s policies toward undocumented immigrants," Supervisor Malia Cohen told a cheering crowd of 250 mostly Latino supporters yesterday. This was in
SF News Day Around The Bay: Uber, But For Google Maps That massive affordable Bayview development has stalled after a developer pulled-out citing rising construction costs. [Business Times] Who killed Mission Motors? Apple. How? Poaching. [Business Times] Our Supervisors were mulling over our "sanctuary
Arts & Entertainment The Fillmore Would Like One Big New Sign, Please Last Friday night on the way to see Kurt Vile at the Fillmore, a friend who hadn't yet been gestured to the iconic indie music temple, a bit baffled. "That's... the Fillmore?" he
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week This week, Halloween events are starting to gain momentum, but we'll devote a separate post to all the spooky goodness. For now, here are some hand-selected, "carefully curated" events to peruse, the cheaper
SF News How The 'Twitter Tax Break' Cost The City $30 Million More In 2014 Than 2013 When the Mayor's office lauds the success of the still controversial 2011 "community benefit agreement," alternately referred to as a tax break and a tax incentive, which aimed to anchor businesses like Twitter
