Arts & Entertainment With Back Rent Due, SoMa LGBTQ Nightclub Oasis Turns to Crowdfunding, Telethon to Prevent Permanent Closure Among the nightclubs and music venues that have suffered deeply in San Francisco over the last year, one of the relative newest, Oasis, could face permanent closure without some immediate help from patrons, or the federal or local government.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Twin Peaks Tavern in Castro Turns to Crowdfunding to Make It Through Lockdown For the second time this year, an iconic Castro bar is turning to patrons and fans for help, as it once again sits closed and without a source of revenue for an indefinite span of time.
SF News Crowdfund Sites Under Fire For Pocketing Big Bucks In Wildfire Donations As containment is finally being reached in the tragic North Bay wildfires that have taken 42 lives and scorched more than a quarter of a million acres, many of us watching from afar
SF News Alt-Right Calls For 'Free Speech Alternative To PayPal' After Company Begins Freezing Accounts PayPal has taken to freezing the accounts of a number of high-profile personalities on the so-called alt-right who use the payment processing platform to fundraise and they're not too happy about it. BuzzFeed
SF News Adoptly, The 'Tinder For Adoption,' Keeps Insisting It's Real [Update: It's Not] "Swipe right to parenthood with Adoptly, the world’s first adoption app," declared a highly suspicious pitch to SFist last week. Vaguely outraged at the illegal-sounding idea of adopting children through an app
SF News Video: SF Zoo's Quest For A Giant Bluetooth Rhinoceros Toy "I've known a few rhinos in my day," Jason Watters, Vice President of Wellness and Animal Behavior at the SF Zoo, tells SFist. "They all have a different personalities. Our youngster, Boone, a
SF News [Updated] Crowdfunding Campaign Launched To Support South Carolina Officer Who Shot Unarmed Man Even though GoFundMe has already rejected a campaign in support of Officer Michael T. Slager, the South Carolina cop who appears on video to have shot an unarmed man in the back after
Arts & Entertainment Oakland-Based Artists Seek Donors For 'Gay Men Draw Vaginas' Book A pair of Oakland-based artists/humorists have been setting up vagina-drawing booths over the past two years, sometimes making appearances at Gay Beach in Dolores Park and in the Castro, asking gay men
SF News Crowdfunding Site Cancels Fundraiser For Ailing Sex Worker Adult film star and director Eden Alexander's crowdsourced effort to raise $4,000 for medical bills was pulled from Giveforward after the site's Palo Alto-based payment processing company WePay decided her campaign was
SF News Personal Trainer Who Tried To Throw Wife From Bridge Takes Plea Deal A Mill Valley personal trainer who tried to throw his former client/wife from the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge in front of a crowd of motorists has agreed to plead no contest to a
