SF News Startup Doze Monetizes Nap Time For Tired Techies Nap time isn't just for cranky kindergartners anymore. Not exactly. Enter Doze — an actual startup spending real money that's selling twenty-five minute naps for just $20. Where's that capital going? Into EnergyPods, Bose®
SF News With Surprise Veto, Mayor Puts Brakes On Rolling 'Idaho Stop' For Cyclists It looked like recently proposed 'Idaho Stop' legislation was in the clear last week as a majority of the Board of Supervisors backed the legislation making ticketing cyclists who safely rolled through stop
SF News [Update] DNC Totally Hosting Obama (And Kanye!) In SF On October 10th In an event whose details are as vague yet certain and promising as Kanye West's presidential ambitions — the self-declared God recently announced he would run for office in 2020 — the Democratic National Committee
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Next Mina Test Kitchen Revealed, Boozy Taco Bell Opens, And More This week the SFist food bureau was abuzz with plenty of news. There was word of the highly anticipated Cala's soft opening, Betelnut's closing, LA fast-casual chain Lemonade flirting with at least one
SF News 'Blackbird': One Former Twitter Employee's Perspective On Race And Tech "My fingertips danced with delight as I frantically typed away at my computer,' Mark S. Luckie begins his new Medium essay What it’s actually like to be a Black employee at
SF News Plans Floated For 150 Units Of Housing At Shuttered Van Ness McDonalds Site The McDonalds at 600 Van Ness Avenue closed abruptly this January after 36 years, as Hoodline reported at the time, and now plans are being entertained for a 9-story mixed use residential building
Arts & Entertainment Deadheads Never Say Die: Insatiable Fans Petition Band To Play Super Bowl Halftime Show In what's become a highly co-dependent relationship with the remaining members of the beloved band, Grateful Dead fans have now drafted a change.org petition, flagged by CBS SF, to encourage the remaining
SF News Uber Steal: Oakland Offices Were Total Bargain Lane Partners - Uptown Station from steelblue on Vimeo. Surge pricing was seemingly not applied to Uber's purchase of the 380,000-square-foot Oakland Sears Building — or, as it's been rebranded following a $40
SF News Day Around The Day: Parents Of Woman Killed In Pier 14 Shooting Aren't Opposed To Sanctuary Cities Grubhub and Doordash join the ranks of those sued over worker classification. [Business Times] Fixing the Bay Bridge’s cracked and/or corroded rods could cost $15 million in toll money. [Chron] The
Arts & Entertainment Dating App Finds Opening Lines That Work Best In SF Don't Work So Well In Boston "We're asked all the time if we have some kind of inside scoop as to what openers work best," said Karen Fein, VP of Marketing for the dating app Hinge, after SFist asked
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink LA-Based Fast Casual Chain Eyes Former La Boulange Spaces Los Angeles-based Lemonade, a fast casual chain that in the words of its marketing department is "part lemonade stand, part grade-school cafeteria," is reportedly in talks to set up shop in former La
SF News Giant Sequoias, Some Of Earth's Largest Species, Struggle For Life Amid Historic Drought California's Giant Sequoias can live for 3,000 years. But can they survive the region's historic drought? Currently, they're displaying signs of stress, but they've endured much over their Millenia, evolving to resist
SF News Proposed Condos At Pagoda Theater Site Could Stymie Central Subway Extension Plan With the goal of expanding the Central Subway project from Chinatown to Fisherman's Wharf, an oft-cited item on the SFMTA's future project "wish list," Supervisor Julie Christensen is pushing the City of San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Betelnut Will Close After 20 Years In The Marina Opened in 1995, Betelnut is preparing to end its two decade tenure on Sunday. The spot, where from 2001 on Chef Alexander Ong's Asian street food-inspired items like beggar's chicken have been beloved
SF News President Obama Declares Valley Fire Major Disaster In order to make way for federal assistance for home repairs, temporary housing, and other programs to help people affected by the Valley Fire, President Barack Obama declared yesterday that the circumstances in
SF News Report: Flood Of Venture Capital Funding Is To Blame For High Rents San Francisco rent is sky-high. San Francisco also receives gobs of the nation's share of venture capital dollars. Coincidence? Zumper, itself a venture-backed real estate website aimed at apartment seekers and renters, thinks
Arts & Entertainment Comedian W. Kamau Bell On SF Gentrification: 'You Know It's Bad When Even White People Are Angry' W. Kamau Bell admits to "pulling back" in front of San Francisco's often largely white audiences. But last night on Valencia Street at the Chapel during a live taping of KQED's new podcast
SF News Day Around The Bay: San Francisco Bay Is Full Of Tiny Plastic 'Microbeads' Speaking of which: Are the Bay Area’s high rental prices cooling overall economic growth? [CBS Local] SF Opera names a new head: Matthew Shilvock. [Chronicle] Some new details on that development to
SF News SF Bicyclists To Be Allowed Rolling Or 'Idaho' Stops San Francisco bicyclists can soon come to a roll through stop signs when appropriate, you know, just like they always have. The difference now, as KQED and Streetsblog report, is that the Board
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breaking: Sushi Burritos Are Coming To The Mission Coming to 22nd Street. attn @burritojustice pic.twitter.com/hb2zuu8eFY— Capp Street Crap (@cappstreetcrap) September 18, 2015 According to Capp Street Crap herself, "This is happening." So it would appear.... with details scant
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, SEPTEMBER 22 HIGH SCHOOL DANCE-THEMED PODCAST TAPING: "Did
SF News Clockmaking Whiz Kid Ahmed Mohamed Attends Google Science Fair Teen who brought homemade clock to school is VIP at #Google Science Fair today #AhmedMohamed @CBSSF @VeronicaDLCruz pic.twitter.com/e62M6DsmsN— Betty Yu (@BettyKPIX) September 22, 2015 14-year-old NASA enthusiast and budding inventor
SF News Day Around The Bay: The FBI Thinks Retweets Are Endorsements Some kind remembrances for A.C.T.'s "gentle, persistent, calm, avid Mark Rucker." [American Theatre] After a 9 hour Planning meeting full of protests, the massive 5M project gets to move forward.
Arts & Entertainment Latino Heritage Fiesta Hosts Trump Piñata Bash Tomorrow The only thing keeping pace with the popularity of Donald Trump seems to be sales of those piñatas modeled after the presidential hopeful — effigies that,when SFist last checked in on them, were
Arts & Entertainment Watch These Subtle, Hypnotic GIF Portraits Of Black Oakland Barbers Bay Area photographer Brandon Tauszik knows that GIFs don't have to be memes, or funny, or even all that fast paced. Instead, they can be a subtle snip of a barber's scissors, and
