SF News Airbnb Frantically Doing Damage Control After Ad Campaign Blunder Airbnb is in full damage control mode today, after a bizarrely passive aggressive ad campaign launched this week across San Francisco and drew instant and universal condemnation. The company has moved quickly to
SF News Weather Pundit: Big Storm 'Certain' To Hit Bay Area Next Week These days even a light misting of rain gets people in the Bay excited — we need any and every bit of precipitation that we can get. So we welcome the news that an
SF News Another SF Tourist Robbed Of Camera, Also Punched In Face Yet another tourist was robbed of his camera in San Francisco this week in what looks to be a trending crime. Police report that the would-be photographer was walking on Mason Street near
SF News Bill O'Reilly Wants To Send Supervisor Malia Cohen To Jail On last night's The O'Reilly Factor, the eponymous host lashed out at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for voting to kill a proposed ordinance that would have impacted the city's status as
Arts & Entertainment Now Your iPhone Comes With A Burrito Emoji Apple yesterday released an update to its mobile operating system, iOS 9.1, and while the update included various bug fixes and (we're sure) important upgrades to system functionality, the clear stars of
SF News YouTube Brings The Heat To Netflix With Ad-Free Subscription Service Everyone's favorite place to watch ad-plastered videos of kittens knocking over water glasses just announced a major change in the way they do business. At a press conference held yesterday, YouTube shared its
SF News Supervisor Wiener Goes After Serial Code Violators Like (Ahem) Academy of Art Supervisor Scott Wiener yesterday announced his intention to propose new legislation making it easier for the city to go after "serial code violators," specifically mentioning The Academy of Art University as a potential
SF News The Hundreds Of Earthquakes That Hit San Ramon This Past Week Don't Mean Anything (Probably) Remember the earthquake swarm that hit San Ramon last week? The one on the Calaveras Fault, which is a branch of the San Andreas Fault that runs under the far East Bay? Well,
SF News California Becomes First State To Set Guidelines Governing Sexual Reassignment Surgery For Transgender Inmates The California Department of Corrections Tuesday announced official guidelines regarding sexual reassignment surgery for transgender inmates, making California the first state to publicly set such standards. This move, which comes after two cases
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Study Finds Segregation Still Prevalent Among California Restaurant Workers A newly released study of the California restaurant industry documents pervasive racial and gender segregation among restaurant employee positions, and the profound impact this has on the people who cook and serve our
SF News Town Hall Meeting Held To Address Last Thursday's Fatal Police Shooting The tone was somber at the town hall meeting held yesterday to discuss the shooting death of 27-year-old Herbet Benitez by police officers at 8th and Market Street this past Thursday. With members
SF News Craigslist Guy Wants to Pay You To Respond To Apartment Ads For Him Finding an apartment on Craigslist is hard work, all the harder in a tight market. The endless emails that never seem to get returned, the weird phone calls, the showing up to a
SF News Is San Francisco Rec & Parks Giving Your Dog Cancer? Dog owners across San Francisco are gathering in opposition to the latest threat to face their furry companions — the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department. It seems the city department regularly uses an
SF News Mission Gambling Club Shooting Comes On Heels Of Police Crackdown It was only last Thursday that Supervisor John Avalos called a public hearing to address his Excelsior District constituents' concerns regarding the ongoing problem of illegal gambling shacks in the neighborhood. His worry
SF News Black Man Asks Woman For Phone Number In Oakland, She Posts Flyer About It And Calls Cops Gentrification 3.0 in the city of Oakland..Weak 'game' will get flyers posted and the police looking for u pic.twitter.com/WzgktEnFqt— Davey D (@mrdaveyd) October 19, 2015 What's going on
SF News SoMa Community Groups File Appeal Against Big 5M Development Claiming that developers and the city have teamed up to fast-track a massive, improperly zoned SoMa development on 5th and Mission Street, a group of protesters gathered this morning at the San Francisco
SF News Menlo Park House Rental So Expensive Even Facebook Employees Say It's Rent Gouging It reads like the setup to a bad joke: When is a Menlo Park house so expensive that even Facebook employees can't afford it? Well, one would-be landlord found out the answer a
SF News [Update] Anti-Eviction Protesters Claim De Young Curator Is Evicting Longtime Artist Tenant It's one of those stories that makes you do a double take: art museum curator and newly minted landlord evicts a 34-year tenant, who just so happens to be an artist and woodworker
SF News Someone Is Spiking Roads In Woodside To Bring Down Cyclists Many in San Francisco love to rant and rave about the city's cycling community. Either the two-wheeled fiends go too fast or too slow. They either never stop at stop signs, or stop
SF News Police Crack Down (Again) On Cocaine-Fueled Excelsior Gambling Clubs It seems like only yesterday that the City Attorney's office announced it would be closing down illegal gambling cafés in the Excelsior. The sweepstakes cafés, which have operated under a legal loophole in
SF News Billy Beane's Water Use Was 24 Times That Of His Neighbors This Year The Executive Vice President of the Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane, is a rich man. And, as is often the case with rich men, Beane appears to be used to getting what he wants.
SF News Attempted Kidnapping Of CCSF Student Led To Tuesday's Campus Evacuation Guy with a gun in the library #ccsf pic.twitter.com/X4iYcuB0tw— MATHAFUCKEN_KEV (@classyasskev1) October 13, 2015 When reports first began to surface Tuesday of an armed individual on the campus of
SF News The Mission Moratorium (Sort Of) Explained At Yesterday's City Hall Press Conference Yesterday was a big day for advocates of Proposition I, otherwise known as the Mission Moratorium, as proponents of the controversial measure took to the steps of City Hall to make their case
SF News This San Francisco Driveway Can Be Yours For The Low, Low Price Of $50k For those desperately trying to stay afloat in the never-ending struggle that is the San Francisco rental market, buying a spot to call your own sounds like the ultimate dream. We're right there
SF News Swarm Of Small Earthquakes Rocks San Ramon For Second Day A series of quakes that began Tuesday evening in and around San Ramon continued through the day Wednesday and into Thursday morning according to the US Geological Survey. This morning has already played
