SF News Shark Tank Billionaire Says 'This Tech Bubble is Worse Than The Tech Bubble of 2000.' Is He Right? Those of us who lived in San Francisco at the turn of the millennium remember the dot com bubble and what followed with grim nostalgia. (Kozmo! Roof parties! Everybody IPO! Layoffs! Wondering if
SF News One To Watch: BoS President London Breed Revives Pissily Deleted Twitter Account Two months after SFist wished it, it has become so: Board President and one time "Amanda Bynes of SF Supes" London Breed has returned to Twitter, years after she deleted her account in
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Bridge's Leaning Tower Might Be Behind Bad Rods Man is convicted of raping, pimping out SF teen. [KRON4] The Cult of JT LeRoy, a documentary about SF's male teen prostitute memoirist who wasn't, comes to the Roxie next week. [Mediabistro] If
SF News Trashy, Drunk Dolores Park Is Also Infested With Lice [Update: No, It Isn't] 3/12/15: According to SF Animal Care and Control, ABC7's report stating that Dolores Park and the park's one time guinea pig residents are instead in lice was false, which makes our
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: SF's Sheriff Loses Reelection Support Dogs and their guardians gathered outside the National Park Service offices in SF to protest the Golden Gate National Recreation Area’s new general management plan, which might place further restrictions on letting
SF News Another Multi-Million Dollar City Hall Renovation For SF: Half Taxpayer Bucks, Half Donor Dough It was 1999 when San Francisco's City Hall unveiled its controversial full-body makeover. All jeans were high-waisted, your cell phone had buttons, and the dot com bubble was busily expanding, as then-Mayor Willie
SF News Dolores Park's Massive Trash Problem, By The Numbers We've been talking a lot about troubles and general weirdness at Dolores Park lately, from bottles smashed in a sandbox to their guinea pig encampment to vandals who caused over $100K of damage
SF News Man Gives His Enemy The Finger (Literally) During Mission Street Brawl A sharp-toothed attacker remains on the loose in San Francisco, after a man who bit off another man's finger fled following an early-morning Mission Street brawl. It was around 1 a.m. Tuesday
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Controversial Polk Street Bike Lane Plan Approved That teeny tiny Target we told you about last fall is opening at Bush and Sansome today. [SF Business Times] After years of debate and over 50 meetings on the topic, the SFMTA
SF News Video: Driver Cuts Off Cyclist, Responds With Profanity And Threats A cyclist who captured an ugly altercation he had with a driver has found an unexpected ally: a local TV broadcaster who's been regularly derided as opposed to cyclists and all that they
SF News As Alleged Killer Of Bay Area Teen Awaits Trial, Family Suspends Search For Her Body Three years after the disappearance of Bay Area teen Sierra LaMar, her family is suspending their weekly search for the girl's remains, saying that “we’ve run out of viable search areas." As
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Today's Free Pancake Day You can get free pancakes at IHOP today. [USA Today] Congrats to Cecilia Vega, a one-time Chron staffer who's just been named a weekend co-anchor for World News Tonight. [TV Newser] Uber is
SF News Activists Dispute Official Account Of Fatal SFPD Shooting, Plan Protest At Town Hall Tonight March for Almicar Perez-Lopez murdered by San Francisco Police #PoliceBrutality http://t.co/kkXwQlnOTf pic.twitter.com/pNk9ZsC8nr— Nancy Mancias (@nancymancias) March 1, 2015 Saying that witness statements "call into question" the San
Arts & Entertainment Video: All About Uberex, A Service Where Your Ex Drives You Around And It's Really Awkward Riding in a Uber can be uncomfortable enough, what with the confusion over tipping, journalist-stalking, and hammer attacks. Add to those indignities the prospect of having to ride in a car driven by
SF News BART's Breakdowns And Delays, By The Numbers At 42 years old, BART is showing its age, with increasing numbers of breakdowns, delays, and service interruptions. This survey from last month told us as much, but now the Chron just analyzed
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Obama Staffers Flood Silicon Valley Here's what went on, linkwise, on Saturday and Sunday Seniors and people with disabilities started riding Muni for free this weekend. [ABC7] After an attempt a few years ago that fizzled after opposition
SF News Sunday Morning Coming Down: Rats Fuel Landlord/Tenant War Anti-ISIS demonstration goes down in front of SF Federal building Saturday. [ABC7] "The city imagined by designers and developers is a monoculture of the wired and young," says the [SF Chronicle]'s John
SF News Saturday Morning Special: Is Airbnb Worth $20 Billion? The big annual Game Developers Conference kicks off at Moscone on Monday, so brace for nerdery and other indoor sports. [SF Chronicle] After Ellen Pao sued Kleiner Perkins for gender bias, she got
SF News Video: Alleged Vandals Get Stuck On Cliff, Require Massive Rescue Effort Two men suspected of vandalizing a historic military battery in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area ended up needing to be saved by the same law enforcement officers they tried to evade. According
SF News Meeting A Knife With Bullets, SFPD Officers Shoot Alleged Bike Thief To Death In Mission SF: Officer shoots kills person at Folsom and 24th in Mission. Chief about to give details.#mapit pic.twitter.com/C9YQVr08YK— alan wang (@AlanWangABC7) February 27, 2015 Two plainclothes San Francisco Police Officers
SF News 37-Year-Old At-Risk Woman Who Disappeared From The Mission Found Safe Update: She's been found safe! From SFPD spokesperson Monica MacDonald: Missing person Claudia Gonzales was located last night in the Park district. At 930 pm concerned citizens saw Gonzales sitting inside a restaurant
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Tech Company Helps Ousted Non-Profit Postmates is delivering burritos for $3 (plus their delivery fee) today from 11-11. [SF Gate] After [ABC7] reported on the SF Zoo's decision to send three of their oldest chimps to, perhaps, a
SF News Bumbling Robber Drops The Chalupa During Financial District Taco Bell Heist An aspiring robber tried to think outside the bun during an attempted robbery at the Taco Bell at California and Drumm Streets Tuesday night, but he ended up dropping the chalupa. OK, I'll
SF News Video: SFPD Officer Pepper Sprays, Beats Homeless Man After Verbal Confrontation On Bus [Updated] San Francisco's Public Defender is calling for better training for San Francisco Police Department officers after a local cop was caught on video beating and pepper spraying a homeless man who'd fallen asleep
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Techies Ditch SF Condo For Airstream Feds find stolen antiquities in the hands of Bay Area-based buyer. [Bay City News] People who post suicidal thoughts on Facebook can now be flagged by their friends and kicked off Facebook until
