Arts & Entertainment Class War: S.F. Streets Hungry, Marin Porsche Drunk In Perfect Photo Well, would you look at this. A photo captured by Twitter user David Bellona, himself a designer at Twitter, is making the rounds for its perfect evocation of San Francisco's much-ballyhooed incipient class
SF News Startup CEO Trashes SF's Homeless 'Degenerates' Let's all bid Greg Gopman of AngelHack adieu from Baghdad by the Bay. This place, it seems, is just too gross for him. See, the noted maker could be the second coming of
SF News Hawaii State Rep Cleans Up Homeless Problem By Sledgehammering Their Shopping Carts Perhaps those getting fed up with the homeless problem in cities like San Francisco and New York should take a page out of the playbook of Hawaii state representative Tom Brower... not. Brower
SF News This Just In: Local Panhandlers Are Not Getting Rich For people likes Fox News' John Stossel, who believe panhandlers are really raking it in for upwards of $80K/year, here's a news flash: according to a survey funded by the the Union
SF News Woman Convicted In Infamous 2007 Burning Death Of Homeless Woman Mia Sagote, 36, was found guilty today of first-degree murder with special circumstances for kidnapping and torture in a crime that made national headlines in 2007. She and another woman were responsible for
SF News [Updated] Slumber Party In Dolores Park Monday Night! (Psst, It's Actually A Protest.) Wash your Smurfs sleeping bag and brush up on your "light as a feather, stiff as a board" skills, folks. On Monday night, a slumber party will happen in Dolores Park. OK, it's
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: When People Give A F*ck Photo by Troy Holden, snapped along Market Street near Powell.
SF News San Francisco Orders First Parklet Removal Sure, people were using the parklet outside Martin Macks gastropub on Haight Street. But not the right kind of people, darling. The Department of Public Works issued the order last week for one
SF News Maybe The Homeless Soccer Initiative Isn't So Crazy After All? After receiving an ostensibly bizarre press release Tuesday about helping the homeless via street soccer, we scoffed. Many did, in fact. Perhaps too soon and, for worse, inaccurately. In an effort to learn
SF News S.F. Wants To Cure Homelessness With Street Soccer [UPDATE] [UPDATE: After receiving an ostensibly bizarre press release Tuesday about helping the homeless via street soccer, we scoffed. Many did, in fact. Perhaps too soon and, for worse, inaccurately. In an effort to
SF News Homeless Man Les Rowe, Former North Beach Fixture, Returning To Georgia A homeless man known to many North Beach residents just as Les will finally be heading back home to friends and family in Georgia after spending a year hospitalized following a hit-and-run accident.
SF News New Startup Hopes To Create Homeless Showers In Repurposed Muni Buses In the startup world, a "pivot" is what your tech company does when the thing they were built for no longer seems like such a good idea. In San Francisco, one startup founder
SF News Supe Laughs At Homeless Man's Cell Phone Use On Thursday, the state Public Utilities Commission expanded Lifeline, a landline phone service that donates free landlines to the poor, with cell phones. This is a good thing for many reasons -- e.
SF News Video: Homeless Berkeley Hippies Attack Stanley Roberts A pair of dreadlock-sporting vagrants in Berkeley attacked noted KRON 4 reporter (and SFist favorite) Stanley Roberts this week while he was doing a segment outside Amoeba Music on Telegraph Avenue. The journalist,
SF News SFPD Sued By ACLU And Homeless Advocate Over Cell Phone Search The ACLU filed suit today against the City of San Francisco and its police chief over what they say was an illegal search of a man's cell phone in the Castro's Jane Warner
SF News California's Homeless Can Now Get Free Cellphones, 250 Free Text Messages Homeless and impoverished Californians can now receive free cellphones under an expanded program from the California Public Utilities Commission and the FCC. The expansion was approved by the CPUC last week and allows
SF News Homeless Man With AIDS Dies Of Pneumonia On Castro Doorsteps Pedro Villamore Jr., a 44-year-old homeless man, died of pneumonia complicating AIDS, according to report made available by the San Francisco Medical Examiner's office. Villamore's was found dead on Castro Street in December
SF News Winter Homeless Shelters Opening Winter approaches and with that comes a dip in temperatures. Starting in December, a number of winter shelters will open up in San Francisco to help keep homeless warm and relatively safe during
SF News Berkeley's Sit/Lie Measure Fails Berkeley's Measure S, the liberal city's sit/lie measure that would've barred sitting on sidewalks in commercial areas between of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m., tanked by a slim margin last
SF News Occupy Protesters Take Over Castro Building Very Briefly [Update] A little before 6 p.m. on Wednesday night, a teacupful of Occupy protesters (or not) "wearing black masks" worked their way into an empty building at 535 Castro Street to temporarily occupy
SF News As in S.F., Homeless Camp Cleanup in San Jose Kind of Useless A cleanup effort that cost the city of San Jose $700,000 has not succeeded in keeping several homeless encampments from springing back up pretty much where they were pre-cleanup, as the Mercury
SF News How To Live Like A Voluntarily Homeless Silicon Valley Entrepreneur It can be hard out there for budding young entrepreneurs. Between the lunches at coffee shop offices and the constantly upgrading MacBooks, expenses start to add up. That's why one cost-cutting potential Zuckerberg
SF News City Clears Out Huge Homeless Encampment at Fifth and King An army of city workers from various agencies descended on San Francisco's biggest street camp yesterday morning and cleared out about 50 people and their various belongings, carts, trailers, and a community garden
