SF News Twitter Board To Mull Possible Buyout This Week, And More Layoffs May Be Looming Twitter, the social media company vilified by many for its tax break in SF but also seen by many others as a bellwether for the tech industry as a whole, is reportedly going
SF News Labor Day Links: Freddie Mercury Gets An Asteroid Named For Him Happy Labor Day, everybody! Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. After a series of water
SF News Luxe Burning Man Camp White Ocean Gets Vandalized In Effort To 'Take Back' Burning Man A story from last week is just reaching us off-playa as news trickles through social media that three-year-old "fancy camp" White Ocean, home to a star-studded lineup of DJs and big dance parties
Arts & Entertainment Video: About The SF Woman Who Started Muttville Senior Dog Rescue Sherri Franklin had been volunteering in San Francisco animal shelters for several years when she realized there was a need for a different kind of shelter that gave new hope for older rescued
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Steak 'n Shake, the 'In-N-Out of the Midwest', Arrives In the Bay Area I'm not sure that the Bay Area really needs another burger chain, but we're getting one! And it's one that Midwestern and Southern transplants are probably going to be excited about. Steak 'n
SF News Willie Brown: George Clooney Might Take On Gavin In 2018 Governor's Race Willie Brown has floated rumors in his Chronicle column before that have not had any legs remember when he claimed within a week that both Ed Lee and Dianne Feinstein might become ambassador
SF News Video: Uber's Self-Driving Vehicles Hit The Streets Of SF A video posted by Eve Batey (@evelb) on Sep 3, 2016 at 10:17am PDT Heads up! Uber's autonomous cars have arrived, and they appear to taking test runs all over San Francisco.
SF News Santa Clara Police Threaten To Boycott Policing Levi's Stadium Over Kaepernick's Protest My Brother! United as One! @e_reid35 A photo posted by colin kaepernick (@kaepernick7) on Sep 3, 2016 at 10:13am PDT Increasingly politically minded 49er Colin Kaepernick may cause a further problem
SF News Day Around The Bay: New HIV Infections Hit Historic Low In SF Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. New HIV infections dropped to historic lows in San
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: 'Millennial Services' Being Offered In Noe Valley Millennial Services coming to my neighborhood. Can't wait! pic.twitter.com/F1ahQEmCnL— Musa Tariq (@MusaTariq) September 1, 2016 Do you know a Millennial who needs coaching in being their "authentic self" or in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Namu Stonepot Nears, Grub Closes, And More This week saw the possible permanent closure of Bon Marché on mid-Market, the opening of Mission/Bernal beer spot Old Devil Moon, and news of the renaming of Marina restaurant Spaghetti Bros. to
Arts & Entertainment Video: SFMOMA Does MTV 'Cribs'-Style Short With SF Photographer Michael Jang The revamped SFMOMA has a newly revived YouTube presence, the best part of which is a new series called "Artist Cribs" featuring well edited, MTV-style tours of artists' homes. The latest was shot
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved North Beach Dive Specs' Gets Legacy Status, New 10-Year Lease Hoorah! I wasn't even aware that crusty, well loved, 48-year-old North Beach watering hole Specs' was in any danger of closing, but it turns out it may have been, as the Chronicle's Esther
SF News Day Around The Bay: Shotwell's Owner Threatens To Close Over Uptick In Prostitution Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Angry Mission residents grilled a police caption at a
Arts & Entertainment Ginger, Artist Behind Trump Statues, Arrives In SF As expected, Joshua "Ginger" Monroe has come to SF ahead of a planned Friday event celebrating his Trump statue at Lefty O'Doul's in Union Square. Fans shouldn't be too disappointed, though, despite the
Arts & Entertainment This Year We Get To See All The Burning Man Art Early Because Instagram We showed you previews and renderings of nine of the bigger pieces of art out on the playa this year, but now, thanks to fully functioning cell signal and wi-fi out in the
SF News Labor Day Weekend Weather To Suck, And August Was Officially A Record-Setting Cold One Those who have only lived in SF for a couple of years might have been kind of shocked and depressed by the monotony of the wind, fog, and grayness for the entire month
Arts & Entertainment Video: Meet Thelma The Singing Housekeeper At Kaiser Hospital Leah Garchik's latest Chronicle column includes a great little tidbit about local character Esperanza Thelma Paumboy, a housekeeper at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in SF who wanders the halls alternately mopping and serenading
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Places In SF To Bring Out-Of-Town Family Are your folks headed here for the holiday weekend? Are they staying for like a whole week? Have you run out of ideas for places to take them that they haven't been? Some
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bon Marché May Be Officially Kaput On Mid-Market We heard in July that Bon Marché was likely not long for this world, having been put up for sale after only a year in business at the Twitter building. Now, as Inside
Arts & Entertainment Abandoned Presidio Gun Batteries To Become New Art Installation From People Behind Ai Weiwei Show The organization behind 2014's Ai Weiwei @Large installation at Alcatraz now has its sights set on the long vacant army gun batteries that were part of what was once known as Fort Scott,
SF News Trump Promises Immigration Law Named For Kate Steinle In Wednesday Speech Presidential unhopeful Donald Trump worked the story of Kate Steinle's July 2015 shooting into his speech on immigration on Wednesday in Phoenix, which seems predictable enough given how Fox News has previously taken
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marina's Spaghetti Bros. Decides To Drop Confusing Name, Pivots To Maybeck's Believing, probably correctly, that the name Spaghetti Bros. had pigeonholed them into being a spaghetti restaurant, the owners of the ten-month-old Marina restaurant in the former Republic space are rebranding themselves with a
SF News If You Used Dropbox In 2012, Your Password May Have Been Compromised The extent of a previously announced breach of Dropbox user data back in 2012 is now coming to light, and as Motherboard reports, in addition to users' email addresses, passwords were obtained and
SF News Protests Planned For Friday Release Of Brock Turner Convicted Stanford rapist Brock Turner is less than 48 hours away from his scheduled release, as reported earlier this week, after serving half his sentence just three months in a Santa Clara County
