Business & Tech Don't Want To Chit-Chat With Your Uber Driver? New 'Quiet Mode' Is For You Uber has just rolled out a new feature for its black-car service: Quiet Mode. Without having to say so or be passive-aggressively terse, this new option will let your driver know you'd like to ride in silence, thanks.
Arts & Entertainment New Netflix Movie 'Always Be My Maybe' Stars Ali Wong As A Celebrity Chef Opening A San Francisco Restaurant Comedian Ali Wong stars in an upcoming Netflix movie that did some of its exterior shooting in San Francisco, all about a jilted, newly single celebrity chef who rekindles a romance with a childhood friend.
SF News Wiener's Housing Density Bill Gets Put Off Until 2020 By State Senate Committee Sen. Scott Wiener's contentious Senate Bill 50, which is aimed at forcing denser zoning in larger California cities in neighborhoods near transit hubs, is now dead for the time being.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Willkommen Beer Hall Softly Open In Castro, Grand Opening Friday Willkommen, the beer hall at Sanchez and Market from Black Hammer Brewing, is finally open and pouring beer, and it's celebrating a grand opening on Friday evening, May 17.
SF News Ninth Circuit Upholds Conviction For Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow The case of convicted Chinatown mob boss Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow dominated news headlines during his 2015 federal racketeering trial in San Francisco. And now a three-judge panel at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Chow's latest appeal.
Arts & Entertainment Rolling Stones Reschedule Bay Area Concert For August The Rolling Stones are restarting their North American tour after Mick Jagger's health forced a postponement announcement in March.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Chronicle Condemns SFPD Raid On Journalist's Home The FBI has stepped in after a string of six shootings this week, some likely connected, in Richmond; and SFPD Chief Bill Scott defended the raid on freelance journalist Bryan Carmody's home in front of the Police Commission.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Ghost Ship Families Watch Firefighter's Helmet Video Juul is trying to go the ballot-measure route to keep vape pens legal in SF, the city just bought a former McDonald's site on Bryant, and PG&E has officially been blamed for the Camp Fire by the state.
SF News 50 Years Ago Today, The Battle For Berkeley's People's Park Became 'Bloody Thursday' May 15 marks the 50th anniversary of the infamous street battle between local law enforcement and unarmed UC Berkeley students over People's Park which left one man dead and over 100 people injured.
Business & Tech Facebook and Twitter Sign On With 'Christchurch Call' To Quash Extremist Content; White House Refuses The White House is signaling to white nationalists that it wants to protect their free speech rights by refusing to sign on with multiple Western governments to a non-binding pledge to stem the tide of extremist content.
Arts & Entertainment New Season of 'Black Mirror' Featuring Miley Cyrus Tackles AR, Home Assistants The upcoming, three-episode season of Black Mirror, its fifth overall, turns its dystopian lens on augmented reality technology, Alexa-esque home assistant devices, and somehow Miley Cyrus is involved as a Hannah Montana-like pop-singer alter-ego?
SF News City Is Spending $2.5 Million On Traffic Cops To Tell You Not To Drive To The Chase Center For everyone who doesn't get the memo about how slow and annoying it will be to drive to the new Chase Center for events — and how impossible it will be to park close by — a brigade of new parking control officers is being hired to make their lives more difficult.
Arts & Entertainment Female Buddha Sculpture On Its Way To Patricia's Green In Hayes Valley A sculpture of a robot-like female Buddha called Tara Mechani, by artist Dana Albany, will soon take the spot being vacated by that cube tree sculpture in Hayes Valley.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Mayor Supports Controversial Police Raid City College may have been overpaying faculty, a proposed law to double affordable housing fees paid by office developers, and Facebook changes live-streaming rules.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Chase Center To Fill 2,500 Open Jobs BART is delaying the full rollout of the new train cars by a full year, the Board of Supes just made SF the first city to ban facial recognition technology, and the new Warriors arena has a lot of jobs to fill.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Single-Day Lineups Released, Single-Day Tickets On Sale Thursday The day-by-day lineups have dropped for Outside Lands 2019, and 21 Pilots will be the Friday headliner, with Childish Gambino headlining Saturday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Pie Says Delivery Apps Don't Play Fair, Should Face Legal Consequences The depressing "shut-in economy" that's fueled a boom in app-based delivery services for everything from your laundry to bottles of booze has put a noticeable squeeze on SF's already squeezed restaurants.
SF News Potrero Hill Shack (Or the Land Under It) Hits Market For $2.5 Million A literal shack on Potrero Hill has joined the annals of ridiculous real estate listings that make for great sensational news headlines. And yes, it's an obvious tear-down.
SF News Media Furor Grows After SFPD's Raid Of Journalist's Home Seeking Adachi Leak The SFPD compounded the drama Friday surrounding the February 22 death of Public Defender Jeff Adachi and the leaked police report about the details of his death when they raided the home of a freelance journalist in an effort to find the source of the leak.
SF News Tuesday Morning Updates: Big Rig On Fire Causes I-580 Backup In Oakland A big rig carrying cooking oil caught fire and shut down lanes of the westbound I-580 bridge connector Tuesday morning, and PG&E execs are being forced by a judge to tour Paradise and San Bruno.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Uber Driver From Oakland Arrested In Dual Kidnapping Incidents Involving Women A homicide in the Bayview, the SFPD raided the home of a journalist who's refused to say who in the department leaked Jeff Adachi's death report, and a Ghost Ship survivor breaks down in tears in court.
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony To Play Live Score Of 'Call Me By Your Name' For Special Screening Next month, as part of their ongoing Film Series, the San Francisco Symphony will be performing the score of Call Me By Your Name, live, along with a screening of the 2017 Oscar-winning film.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flour + Water Pizzeria Set To Open By Late May We have an update today on the impending opening of Flour + Water's much anticipated pizza spinoff in the former Farina Pizzeria space at 18th and Valencia.
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 10 Fun Things To Check Out This Week From an unsung Tarantino film to Maker Faire to the annual running of Bay 2 Breakers, there's plenty happening this week to distract you from the coming rain.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cook Shoppe and Blind Butcher Both Quietly Open In the Castro The new replacement restaurant in the former Chow space, called Cook Shoppe, and the new steakhouse in the former Beso space, Blind Butcher, are both open as of this past weekend.
