SF News Facebook Testing Six New Reaction Emoji But No 'Dislike' Button Welp, despite implying last month that Facebook would be getting a Dislike button to go with the Like button, it appears that the site is instead testing a range of six reaction buttons
SF News Now Mayor Lee May Be Vetoing Jane Kim's Tenant Protection Legislation Remember that new tenant-protection ordinance introduced by Jane Kim and passed by a majority of the Board of Supervisors that would make it easier to add new roommates and harder to get evicted?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Matthew Lightner's Ninebark Opens In Napa On October 13 Acclaimed chef Matthew Lightner, who's moved to the Bay Area from Portland via a Michelin-two-star stint in New York, will be debuting his latest venture Ninebark next Tuesday, October 13, in downtown Napa.
SF News Matthew Keys Found Guilty In LA Times Hacking Case, May Face Jail Time Disgraced social media manager and avid Twitterer Matthew Keys was found guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Sacramento of conspiracy in a case dating back to 2013 involving Anonymous and the
SF News Video: Local Rapper Calls Out Mayor As 'A Disgrace To Asians' I just wanted to tell Mayor Lee something.. pic.twitter.com/e5aCjtSqLq— Equipto (@EQUIPTO) October 7, 2015 Local hip-hop artist Equipto confronted Mayor Ed Lee in a San Francisco coffeeshop earlier this week,
SF News San Francisco Has Always Been A Pretty Expensive Place To Live Lots of people have lots of memories of cheap apartments and cheap burrito dinners in the Mission of the 1990's. And while there have been eras of relative stability in San Francisco when
Arts & Entertainment Video: Local Drag Queen Honey Mahogany Does 'Game Of Thrones'/Demi Lovato Parody Fans of gay blogs may be familiar with hairstylist Jonathan Van Ness and his ongoing Funny or Die series Gay of Thrones in which he recaps Game of Thrones episodes in his own
SF News Three Years On, Accused Oikos University Shooter One Goh May Finally Face Trial It's been three and a half years since the tragic mass shooting at Oakland's Oikos University that took the lives of seven people in April, 2012. During most that time, accused mass murderer
SF News 'YIMBY' Candidate Amy Farah Weiss Is Pissed The Chronicle Endorsed Ed Lee Without Interviewing All Candidates One of the few people who has chosen to take on incumbent Mayor Ed Lee in this year's election, Amy Farah Weiss, has written an open letter today denouncing the Chronicle's Editorial Board
SF News Footage Released Of Morrissey's SFO 'Groping'; He Was Probably Being Overly Dramatic Did Morrissey actually get inappropriately groped by a TSA agent at San Francisco International Airport as he alleges he did in July? The TSA says no, after reviewing the closed-circuit TV footage of
SF News Day Around The Bay: Judge Strikes Down Eviction Payment Law, Again The 27-year-old woman, Sharinna Beoncia Grady, accused of stabbing a 10-year-old boy on Muni last week pleaded not guilty today. [CBS 5] Remember how the Board of Supervisors passed a new law last
Arts & Entertainment Jed York Can't Give 49ers Tickets Away, But At Least Their Twitter Account Is Worth A Lot 49ers owner Jed York took to Twitter last weekend to offer up some tickets to the game against the Packers to #FaithfulFans, and it kind of backfired. The game was again a devastating
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area-Based Peet's Coffee & Tea Buys Portland-Based Stumptown Big coffee mergers-and-acquisitions news today as coffee blog Sprudge reports that Emeryville, California-based Peet's Coffee & Tea has inked a deal to acquire Portland, Oregon-based Stumptown Coffee Roasters. The deal will reportedly allow
SF News Here's The Person Of Interest In The Oakland Muralist Slaying Oakland Police have identified a person of interest in last week's slaying of 27-year-old artist Antonio Ramos at least they have a photo of him from surveillance video anyway. The slender, twentysomething black
SF News Is Silicon Valley Simply Too Young To Remember The Last Bubble Bursting? Whether you assume that a "market correction" or bubble pop-pop is around the corner or not depends on which side of the local economic equation you live on. Those of us not currently
Arts & Entertainment Reddit Launches Upvoted, A Comment-Free Original Content Site In the world of online media, saturated though it may feel, we should all be grateful for any new publications that open their doors in an age when so many have closed, or
Arts & Entertainment Huzzah! Bay Lights Getting Reinstalled This Week Time flies, right? It seems like just yesterday we were shedding tears over the Bay Lights being shut off on the Bay Bridge after two years of dancing LED splendor. But that was
SF News Nevada To Cough Up $400K For Dumping Its Mentally Ill Patients On Us A case that was brought back in 2013 by City Attorney Dennis Herrera, complaining that a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital had systematically put mentally ill people on Greyhound busses to Los Angeles and
SF News More 'No Tech Zone' Signs Appear; Perpetrator Revealed As Artist Who Wants Us To Get Off Our Phones Though many jumped on the notion that that "No Tech Zone" sign that showed up in Alamo Square two weeks ago purporting to levy a $300 fine for people caught using mobile devices
SF News One Third Of 911 Calls In SF Are Butt Dials Though this obviously can not be a problem that is unique to San Francisco, a report by a Google volunteer project team using data from SF's Department of Emergency Management (DEM) has found
SF News More Bad Bay Bridge News: Designer Says Main Cable Could Be At Risk The news only goes from worse to f--king terrible when it comes to the two-year-old eastern span of the Bay Bridge, and today's update is no exception. The lead designer of the bridge,
SF News Apple Appears To Be Designing A Smart Ring Now For everyone who thinks the Apple Watch is an unnecessary advance, check out the Apple Ring. A new patent application filed Thursday and noted by Forbes and Techworm, among others, suggests that Apple
SF News Many More Families Living In Tiny SRO Units Than There Were A Decade Ago Just another depressing local real estate factoid to kick off your week: According to a new census by the SRO Families United Collaborative, there's been a 55 percent uptick in the number of
Arts & Entertainment 42nd Annual Castro Street Fair Dedicated To Memory Of Late Drag Queen Cookie Dough Sunday marks the 42nd annual Castro Street Fair, a non-profit event founded by Harvey Milk in 1974 during the neighborhood's burgeoning days as a gay district. These days it is the calmer, less
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Sam Wo Returns, Spats Reopens In Berkeley, and More We told you about In Situ, the new restaurant coming to the new SFMOMA from Benu chef Corey Lee, and about the rebirth of La Boulange as La Boulangerie de San Francisco (six
