SF News There's A New Style Of Commune Living In S.F., For Those Who Never Want To Be Alone Likely inspired by this story about the new communal living development going up at Harrison and 12th, the NYT today jumps on the bandwagon with S.F.'s new-style commune scene. The euphemism
SF News It's The Fifth Spare The Air Day In A Row. Hopefully You Can Still Breathe. It doesn't seem deadly out there, but the stillness in the air these past few December days means that the particulate matter isn't blowing around and it's reaching dangerous concentrations around the Bay.
SF News Google Execs Shamed For Getting Government Discount On Fuel For Private Jets When Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and chairman Eric Schmidt fire up their private jets for long weekends in Tahiti, they've been doing so with improperly discounted jet fuel via a
SF News Board Of Supes Passes Two Measures Aimed At Preserving Rental Stock At Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, two measures drawn up by Supervisor John Avalos aimed at increasing and preserving the city's stock of rental apartments passed unanimously on initial vote. One measure eases
SF News Magazine Ranks San Franciscans As Most Attractive In the Country? It's time for another wacky ranking by Travel + Leisure magazine, in which San Francisco always lands near the top for hipsters and near the bottom for barbecue. This time, though, the magazine's survey
SF News Several Suggestions For Where Tech Jerks Can Donate Their Tech Money This Holiday Season Christmas should be a time for giving, and generosity of spirit, as most of understand. But since Greg Gopman, and presumably many of his tech-industry friends, find the scene on Market Street "grotesque"
SF News City Of Oakland Settles With Iraq Vet Injured In Occupy Protests 34-year-old Kayvan Sabeghi will be getting $645,000 from the City of Oakland by way of apology for his being beaten by riot cops during a November 2, 2011 Occupy Oakland demonstration. As
SF News Marsh Theater Wages Final Battle Over Next Door Condo Project Tonight At the Board of Appeals meeting tonight at 5 p.m., the final round of arguments to impose restrictions on a building set to go up at 1050 Valencia Street will be heard.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Creepy Bedroom,' A Short Film At The Kink.com Armory Recently, employees at Kink.com were challenged to make short, non-porn films to promote the tour program at the Armory. They each took one of the rooms/sets in the vast complex, and
Arts & Entertainment Video: We Wish 'Love Actually 2' Was An Actual Thing Take a second to watch this faux trailer for Love Actually 2, which mashes up the beloved holiday rom-com, and its cast, with various other roles they've done, plus some Harry Potter, Breaking
SF News 55 Percent of Californians Now Want Pot Legal In a new Field Poll, and for the first time, officially, in state history, a clear majority of Californians say they support the full legalization of marijuana. The poll, conducted between Nov. 14
SF News Adult Couple and Four Children Found Alive In Nevada Wilderness [Update] Two adults who were traveling with four children between the ages of 3 and 10, missing since Sunday in remote Pershing County, Nevada, have been found alive. The group went out to "play
SF News Weather Report: 2013 Could Be Driest Year On Record How are you doing this morning? Did you find your gloves? Is your herb garden dead yet? Are the tips of your fingers like little icicles on your keyboard? How is the dog
SF News Could Uber Be Bigger Than Facebook Someday? That's the idea being chattered about in venture capital circles, and the chatter is becoming much louder after the leak of some recent financials from Uber that show it could be on track
SF News American And British Spies Have Wasted A Lot Of Time On World Of Warcraft Looking For Terrorists As part of the trove of documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, The Guardian and Pro Publica are now reporting that some pertain to a years-long effort to infiltrate potential terrorist
SF News Levi's Stadium To Create Parking Nightmare For Santa Clara It's sounding like everyone's been a little overly optimistic about how the city of Santa Clara is going to handle the estimated 18,000+ cars that will arrive in town on game days
SF News New SoMa Development Is Like a Fancy SRO For The Middle Class The developers of a new communal-living development at Harrison and 12th consisting of 235 studio units divided into nine separate "houses" insist that it won't just be for students and young tech workers.
SF News Vallejo Is Whack: Woman Killed Outside Lil Scrappy Show It doesn't get better in Vallejo, and now we're hearing the awful story of a woman who was shot and killed in a "gun battle" that erupted outside a show at a Vallejo
Arts & Entertainment Would You Compete In A Wet Undies Contest To Get $400 Rent? It's now come to this. A group of (obviously gay) young gentlemen in the vicinity of the Tenderloin are advertising on Craigslist this week for a new male roommate. They aren't requiring candidates
SF News NYT Columnist Visits S.F., Is Horrified By Our Public Transit Now that San Francisco is officially the most elite city in America, shouldn't we have a public transportation system that works? Or does our dysfunctional transit system point to an elitism at work
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Hilarious Ad For Face-Painting Eli Wanket is a young, aspiring filmmaker. His mother has started a small business painting faces. For events and things. Probably mostly for kids. She asked if her son could make a commercial
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fifth Floor To Shut Its Doors In January After 14 Years Fifth Floor, the hushed and sophisticated fine dining venue at the Palomar Hotel that's earned many accolades over the past decade and a half, is shuttering after the new year to make way
SF News Drop In Murders In Oakland Attributed To Police Consultant The number of murders this year in Oakland is on track to be 25 percent lower than last year, and in the most violent part of East Oakland murders are down 50 percent.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Home Alone' Re-enacted By Pug Puppies We're sure you won't question the relevance of this piece, put together by the fine folks of The Pet Collective. Baby pugs, clearly, have been an underutilized acting resources. [via Laughing Squid] * And
SF News Condo Prices Are Soaring, Too We talk a lot about rental prices and middle-income-earners these days, but the somewhat-better-off have it hard too! Those looking to buy a condo in San Francisco right now are going to find
