SF News Twitter Apparently Pitched Russian Media Outlet RT On Spending Millions In Ads Last Year Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT revealed in FULL https://t.co/flh9GLg4f0 pic.twitter.com/ZKOntGvTat— RT (@RT_com) October 27, 2017 Pushing back against Twitter, which announced this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sorry, Castro, Hamburger Mary's Is Probably Never Opening In the long LOOOOONG saga of the former Patio Cafe property at 531 Castro, another year is winding down, more vague promises have been lobbed by landlord Les Natali, and the place remains
SF News UC Berkeley Paper Apologizes, Retracts Anti-Semitic Cartoon A satirical cartoon of recent UC Berkeley campus speaker, the attorney Alan Dershowitz, that many saw as having anti-Semitic overtones has been retracted by the Daily Californian, and the editor of the student-run
SF News 'I Thought It Would Be Pretty Safe,' Says Federal Ranger Whose Gun Was Stolen And Used In Steinle Killing In testimony on Day Four of the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate for the July 2015 murder of Kate Steinle, Bureau of Land Management Ranger John Woychowski described how he had secured
SF News President Trump Lashes Back At Local Billionaire Tom Steyer's Impeachment Campaign President Trump is lashing back at yet another critic via an early morning tweet today, and this time it's billionaire activist Tom Steyer, who is dropping upwards of $10 million on a national
SF News Day Around The Bay: Another Week, Another Uber Lawsuit A new lawsuit is accusing Uber of compensating women less than male counterparts. [Ars Technica] Uber launches multi-stop trips in the U.S. and Canada. [VentureBeat] Man has backpack stolen in SF, then
SF News Op-Ed: Facebook Wouldn't Be As Big Of A Problem For The News If People Actually Clicked And Read Stories The ongoing villainizing of Facebook for its role as a disseminator of fake news and Russian-fed propaganda in the 2016 election necessarily leads to a discussion of another very significant villain: the laziness
SF News The Most Dangerous SF Intersection For Pedestrians? Fifth And Market A new study from a potentially self-interested source (a personal injury law firm) has found that SF's most dangerous intersection for pedestrians is Fifth and Market Street, at least when looking at the
SF News Walgreens Announces Plans To Shutter 600 Stores, Likely Including Some In SF Following their deal to acquire a portion of Rite Aid's store inventory, Walgreens announced this week that it plans to shutter 600 stores, most of them under the Rite Aid brand, but including
Arts & Entertainment Behold: The Social Network Tarots Forget the Hermit and the Three of Cups. You can get your tarot cards read with far more contemporary symbols of joy and dread: The Social Network Tarots. This appears, for now, just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Sisters Team Opens New Berkeley Wine Bar, Les Arceaux Fans of the now shuttered Two Sisters Bar & Books in Hayes Valley can rest assured that they can still find a bit of that magic across the Bay, in the form of
SF News Updates In Mysterious Sherri Papini Abduction Case Include DNA, Few Real Leads Almost a year ago, 34-year-old Sherri Papini was found bruised, beaten, branded, and partially shackled by the side of a highway in Northern California after she had gone missing three weeks earlier while
SF News Reddit Finally Tries To Ban Nazi Subreddits With New Anti-Violence Policy Reddit, the angry internet's most favored bulletin board and scream chamber, announced late Wednesday that they were taking a new if extremely belated stand against hate, white supremacy, and violence. In updating their
SF News Day Around The Bay: The Uber Credit Card Is Here Remember how we heard that Uber was going to have a co-branded credit card with Barclays? Well, it's now official, and it gives you 2% cash back on all Uber rides. [Associated Press]
Arts & Entertainment Oracle Billionaire Larry Ellison Is Buying Frank Sinatra's Old Cal Neva Resort By Lake Tahoe It looks like Larry Ellison wants to put his stamp on the Tahoe scene, and it's going to be by way of revamping a kitschy throwback to the Rat Pack era in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Now Has More Michelin Three-Star Restaurants Than New York As Coi Earns Its Third The SF Bay Area Michelin Guide for 2018, though not technically released until December 15, has unveiled their new star rating updates today, as it was announced they would yesterday, following a two-week
SF News Stockton Airport Wants To Add 'San Francisco' To Its Name, SFO Says 'No Way' Well this is hilarious. The Stockton Metropolitan Airport has been trying to rename itself the San Francisco-Stockton Regional Airport, seemingly in a bid to attract unwitting tourists who have no idea how far
SF News Daredevil Teens Who Scaled Golden Gate Bridge To Make A Video Avoid Jail Time, Take Plea That pair of teens who are basically every parent's nightmare, the ones who while visiting San Francisco earlier this year managed to get onto one of the main cables of the Golden Gate
Arts & Entertainment Dave Matthews, Metallica Sign On For Wildfire Benefit Concert At AT&T Park Nov. 9 It sounds like more names will get added to the lineup for a November 9 benefit concert to raise money for North Bay wildfire relief efforts, but we know for now that Bay
SF News PG&E Was Cited For Multiple Power Line Maintenance Issues In Sonoma County In Recent Years The truth is going to arrive slowly, and perhaps incompletely, in the investigation into the causes of the multiple Northern California wildfires that sprung into deadly strength the night of October 8. But
SF News Party At Illegal Airbnb In Bernal Ends In Gunfire Bernal neighbors are angry over a party on a Saturday night ten days ago that ended with an eruption of gunfire and a scattering of scared partygoers, with some running across roofs and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Bay Area Guide, Delayed By Wildfires, To Be Revealed Wednesday The 2018 Michelin Guide to SF Bay Area restaurants, which had been set for its annual big reveal two weeks ago, on October 12 including a scheduled release event at The Charter Oak
SF News Yet Another SF Teardown, Gutted By Fire, Hits Market For $800K As we know, there's a buyer for pretty much any property in San Francisco, no matter the condition, no matter if it was gutted by fire or simply ravaged by time and neglect.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Locally Shot 1976 C-Grade Horror Flick 'The Milpitas Monster,' Screening Monday Locally famous (in Milpitas anyway) homegrown, low-budget horror film The Milpitas Monster (1976) just aired Saturday night on Northbay TV's (channel 49) "Creature Features," a reboot of KTVU's long-running horror movie series hosted
Arts & Entertainment Watch The First Trailer For 'Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built' Just in time for Halloween weekend, we have the first teaser trailer actually a pretty extended teaser at that for the Winchester Mystery House movie that you've been hearing about all year, now