SF News PG&E Wants To Double Fees For Customers Who Go Green Everyone's favorite energy company soon to be on trial for charges relating to the 2010 deadly San Bruno blast, Pacific Gas & Electric, has quietly launched a new campaign to piss off Bay
SF News Hail, Rain Overnight, More Storms Expected Today Whoa with the hail tonight in SF pic.twitter.com/11hJhaH5ZK— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) December 11, 2015 Did you hear it? Did you see it? Storms last night brought with them the rare
SF News Day Around The Bay: Board Of Supervisors Vote To Reject Mid-Market Property Sale It turns out that the Bay Area "rent burden" isn't the worst in the country. [Chronicle] The Santa Clara Council on American-Islamic Relations office had to be evacuated today after receiving a package
SF News New Allegations Against SFPD Officers Reveal 'Pattern Of Racial Profiling, Sexual Assault' What is going on with the San Francisco Police Department? In the midst of serious questions about the department's use of force in the shooting death of Mario Woods, and following the repugnant
SF News Warriors Frenzy Extends To Casinos As Fans Bet Big The excitement generated by the as-of-yet undefeated Golden State Warriors extends far off the court, as sports fans around the country are placing bets on the team that is now the odds-on favorite
SF News Castro Merchants Fear Super Bowl 50 Shutdown Of Historic F Streetcar Line Will Crater Business In today's edition of "how Super Bowl 50 might actually hurt San Francisco businesses and taxpayers" we hear from the Castro Merchants Association. The organization last week expressed concerns that the Super Bowl
SF News Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will 'Fight To Protect' Rights Of Muslims Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday announced that his company would work to protect the rights of Muslims that use the global social network. His statement can be read as a rebuke
SF News Video: Travis Jensen On Photographing The City, The Excelsior Photographer Travis Jensen (whose work is frequently featured on SFist) recently teamed up with Greenlabel to highlight parts of the city that don't frequently get that postcard treatment. Their focus? The Excelsior. The
SF News Video: Hateful East Bay Woman Accosts Muslims During Prayers, Calls Them 'Murderers' (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=
SF News Alamo Drafthouse To Buy Le Video's Huge Collection, Rent Titles Out Of Their Lobby Alamo Drafthouse hasn't even opened yet, and they're already making friends with San Francisco film lovers. The movie theater confirmed today that they are indeed buying the now officially closed Le Video movie
SF News Amoeba Holds Up A Mirror To Our Souls, Tells Us Best-Selling Albums Of 2015 The music one listens to can reveal a lot about a person's state of mind. Just got paid, and feel like cutting loose? Drop that Little Richard. Just got laid off? Maybe some
SF News Real Estate Experts Say SF Housing Market Is Maybe Reaching Bubble Conditions It's not just unicorns that might be overvalued, ladies and gents. Now, more and more housing experts are coming out and affirming what some have been warning all along: we're in a bubble.
SF News Jane Kim Looks To Increase Taxes On Short-Term Rentals, Hotels Supervisor Jane Kim today announced two future ballot measures that aim to increase both the hotel tax and taxes on certain real estate transfers. The hotel tax measure, which would be voted on
SF News Berkeley Wine Shop Sued For Massive International Fraud A Berkeley wine store is being sued by a group of customers for running some sort of wine pyramid scheme. The store, Premier Cru, apparently accepted wine orders totaling $5 million from overseas
SF News Hilariously Depressing New Board Game Asks You To Resolve Bay Area Housing Crisis After a long day struggling to make rent at a (less than fulfilling) job, there's nothing quite like a little R&R to help overworked Bay Area denizens relax. While some may
SF News Private Shuttle Service Chariot Swears They're For Everyone, Adds New Routes (Maybe) Private shuttle service Chariot is a transportation alternative for everyone (they promise!), and they're launching new routes this week (well, maybe) to prove it. In what is perhaps best read as a business
SF News Muni Still Unable To Wrap Its Head Around Two Trains Arriving At Once The latest effort to make Muni suck just a little less has, surprise surprise, run into delays. A software bug has prevented Muni from safely implementing its planned program of double berthing at
SF News Day Around The Bay: San Francisco Pension Costs Are Even Higher Than Predicted A $99 million budget deficit is projected for next year as city employee pension costs surpass predictions. [Chronicle] How Stephen Curry disrupted basketball as we know it. [SB Nation] In other Curry news,
SF News Safeway Ordered To Pay $42 Million After Overcharging Online Customers For Years Safeway was hit with a huge fine today, as a federal judge ordered the company to pay customers $42 million after overcharging them for years. From 2006 to 2011 the Pleasanton-based company misled
SF News No, Most Mission Residents Are Not OK With Median Parking On Sunday Last month the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency launched a survey with the goal of determining how San Franciscans feel about illegal double parking on Dolores and Guerrero Streets by churchgoers (and whoever
SF News Vigilante Tags Fancy Mission Soda Shop Turned Gambling Den Former Fizzary spot turned nightclub vandalized this weekend https://t.co/hQKKxnZZIC pic.twitter.com/ZMlElsgYQl— Capp Street Crap (@cappstreetcrap) December 7, 2015 Not everyone is a fan of the rare case of
Arts & Entertainment Madrone Art Bar Apologizes After Crazed 'Critic Santa' Bounced From Bar All was not visions of sugar plums this past weekend at Madrone Art Bar, as the watering hole was forced to eject a belligerent Santa for berating clientele with condescending art critiques directed
SF News Someone Almost Crashed A Drone Into A CHP Helicopter On Saturday A California Highway Patrol helicopter pilot had an unexpected encounter with a drone over the weekend, and was forced to take evasive maneuvers in order to avoid collision. It seems that a person
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: St. Vincent And RickyBobby Up For Grabs, Masons Comes To The Castro, And More This week on the food beat we got the name of the upcoming Jonathan Waxman restaurant at Ghirardelli Square, which will be Brezza Emporio and Pizzeria, we learned about Tacolicious chef Telmo Feria's
SF News Crackdown On Wiggle Cyclists Resumes Well that didn't take long. San Francisco Police Department Captain John Sanford has resumed his controversial strategy of targeting cyclists on the popular Wiggle bicycle route. The crackdown resulted in multiple protests this
