SF News 'Tech Tax' Dies After Supervisor Farrell Associates It With Donald Trump The controversial "tech tax" is dead for the time being, with a 2-to-1 vote yesterday by the Board of Supervisors’ budget committee meaning the measure will not be sent to the full board
SF News Five Dead In Early Morning Bus Crash In Merced County At least five people are dead following a charter bus crash into a freeway sign in Merced County. The Associated Press reports the collision occurred in the early morning, and that the bus
SF News Intern For London Breed Beefs With Tourist Complaining About Litter The office of the president of the Board of Supervisors got into it with a tourist last week, reaffirming the old adage that only San Franciscans can talk trash about San Francisco. It
SF News New 11-Story Condo Slated For Polk Gulch More housing is on the way, with SocketSite reporting that a 47-unit Polk Gulch development is poised to be approved this week by the Planning Commission. Designed by JS Sullivan Development, the building
SF News Billionaire Trump Supporter Peter Thiel Wants The Blood Of Young People Billionaire Facebook board member Peter Thiel wants a lot of things — to see Donald Trump elected president, to build techno-utopian floating city states, and to see the Gawker media empire crushed. He also,
SF News Someone Put A Spike Strip On A Marin Mountain Biking Trail Marin mountain bikers are on edge this week after two cyclists discovered a spiked strip laid across a popular trail. The Marin Independent Journal reports that the apparent booby trap consisted of over
SF News Video: Excessive Force Allegations After BART Police Punch Handcuffed Man In Face An arrest by BART police has sparked claims of excessive force after video depicting an officer punching a handcuffed and prone African American man in the face went viral. CBS 5 reports that
SF News Suspect In Infamous 2015 Hayes Valley Quadruple Homicide Arrested Police this morning arrested a suspect in the January 2015 Hayes Valley quadruple homicide that many feared would go unsolved. In a press release sent out this afternoon, city officials say police took
Arts & Entertainment There's A National Quidditch League And They're Playing Tomorrow In SF It's every child's dream to have elements of his or her favorite storybook come to life, and the Harry Potter series was a lot of children's favorite books. With this in mind we
SF News Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz Calls Apple Tax Avoidance 'Fraud' With a market capitalization of $570 billion, Cupertino-based Apple is the wealthiest company in the world. And while it makes universally loved products, what the company does with its earnings is raising some
SF News Reminder: Weekend BART Closures Start Tomorrow And Will Impact SFO Trips As we mentioned earlier this month, BART will cease service between Glen Park and Daly City for a host of weekends over the coming months as it works to replace and repair track.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Google Chefs To Start Feeding Employees 'Shrimp' Made From Algae Google/Alphabet's fancy on-campus cafeterias are about to get a whole lot more cutting edge in the realm of futuristic foodstuffs. According to Wired, starting in 2017, Google chefs have pledged to start
SF News These Are The Streets That Will Be Closed For Sunday's Marathon This Sunday is the 39th San Francisco Marathon, and while you may be lying in bed working off a hangover, according to race organizers over 26,000 runners will be hitting the city
SF News Day Around The Bay: Public Urination Argument Leads To Beating Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you — sign up here. Fisherman's Wharf should be swamped tonight, but not with
SF News 395-Unit Potrero Development Approved After Supervisor's (Joking) Request For Bribe The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve what will be one of the largest housing developments to grace the Portrero Hill neighborhood. The Business Times reports that the 9-to-1 vote in favor
SF News Officials Approve $40M In Projects To Ease Your Bay Bridge Commute With traffic in the Bay Area so notoriously bad these days, isn't it about time someone do something about it? That seems to be the thought of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, anyway, as
SF News New BART Station Proposed For 30th And Mission District 9 Board of Supervisors candidate Joshua Arce held a press conference this morning to announce plans to build a new BART Station at 30th and Mission Street. And, distinguishing this from just
SF News USF Students Beaten And Robbed While Studying On Campus Two University of San Francisco students were hitting the books in the University Center Tuesday morning when three suspects entered the building and one of them began hitting the students. NBC Bay Area
SF News Chronicle Called Out For Putting Bill, Not Hillary, On Today's Front Page Yesterday, of course, was a historic day. At the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last night a major US political party selected a woman as its nominee for president for the first time
SF News Tumblr To Put Ads On All Users' Blogs Starting Tomorrow It appears it's time to pay the Seapunk piper. In a move that is sure to upset its diehard fan base, TechCrunch reports that as of tomorrow social blogging site Tumblr will place
SF News San Francisco's Newest Dog Park Cost $305,000 And Features Artificial Turf San Francisco's dogs have a new place to do their business this week, as city officials yesterday opened a brand new play area complete with fences and artificial turf. Bay City News reports
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink There's A Baguette Vending Machine In The Castro, Because Of Course Ever been jonesin' for a freshly baked baguette only to realize that, at such a late hour, you'll have to settle for a stale Safeway roll? Well not any more. Thanks to Le
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Bites Back At Companies Suing Customers Who Leave Negative Reviews There was a time when a customer wrote a negative review of a business on Yelp, that business might reach out via email and try to gently persuade said customer to reconsider their
SF News McCoppin Plaza Anti-Homeless Fence Moves Forward With Jane Kim's Support McCoppin Hub Plaza, the recently renovated public space on Valencia at McCoppin Street, is about to get a whole lot less welcoming. Mission Local reports that the plan to erect a giant fence
SF News Report: San Franciscans Smoke The Most Weed In The Country Congrats, everyone, we did it. Residents of San Francisco smoke more weed than those of any other city in the country. According to data released today by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
