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U.S. Mint Now Rolling Out Quarters That Have Maya Angelou On Them

Change is coming, as Maya Angelou is now officially the first Black woman to be featured on a U.S. quarter, and the first batch of her 25-cent pieces rolled out of the U.S. Mint Monday.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Wealthy Residents Of California And D.C. Are Some Of America's Worst Tippers

On an episode of KQED's Forum earlier this month that focused on the practice of tipping, participants posited that the more affluent a customer is, the more generously he or she will tip.

Scathing Report Reveals Cable Car Conductors Fail To Collect 37% Of Cash Fares, More Stings Planned

The San Francisco Controller's Office conducted an undercover investigation of cable car operators and on Monday released its finings to Muni’s Board of Directors and the general public. Ding, ding, ding it's

Ka-Ching! San Francisco Has The Fastest Growing Wages In The Country

Seattle-based software company PayScale.com used its tons of data to look at wage growth in the 31 fastest growing cities in these United States of America. Bearing in mind that the average

Apple Is Auctioning Off A Lunch Date With Tim Cook

Attention gold diggers. In an auction to raise money for the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Organization, bidders have until May 16 to log onto Charitybuzz and try and score lunch with Apple

Here Are The 14 Current Richest Bay Area Residents, According To Forbes

When you think about the richest residents of the Bay Area, obviously Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and Travis Kalanick probably come to mind, but you may wonder just who else is sitting on

Muni Still Isn't Sure How To Pay For Those Fancy New Trains They Keep Talking About

We've been talking about Muni's glorious new light rail fleet for a while — in fact, it was over two years ago that we ran the numbers on the (at the time) $1.2

San Francisco's City Worker Salaries, By The Numbers

You already know that San Francisco has a $9.6 billion budget — "more than the budgets of 13 states and scores of countries around the world," the Chron notes. As reported earlier this

BART Has No Idea How To Cover New Labor Deal's $77 Million In Raises

Even if BART can manage to get voters to agree to that $3.5 billion infrastructure bond they want to put on the November ballot, it's not like all their money worries will

Study: You Need At Least $6 Million To Be 'Wealthy' In The Bay Area

A study conducted by wealth management company Charles Schwab has us sighing deeply as we stare into our empty coffee cups this morning. According to 1,001 Bay Area residents aged 21 to

Demonstrations, Terror Attacks Blamed For SFPD's Super-Sized Super Bowl Bill

Oh, the good old days, when we thought that San Francisco would only be spending about 4 million in taxpayer bucks for the Super Bowl. It appears that at least one department seriously

San Francisco Owes Steve Jobs $174

If you're anything like deceased Apple founder Steve Jobs (and you just might be), then the City and County of San Francisco owes you some money. The SFMTA posted a list of 200,

Sales Video For Pac Heights Luxury Building Is Glorious Nonsense Poetry

2121 Webster Street was once, as Curbed observes, a dentist’s school. We all have humble beginnings, but you won't hear much about those on the website of developers Trumark Urban, who converted

SFMTA Forgets They Need To Direct Traffic, Ups SF Taxpayers' Super Bowl Bill

Remember how we told you that San Francisco was expected to spend about $4 million of taxpayer money on the Super Bowl? Well, scratch that figure! As it turns out, the good old

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

AT&T Park Bartender Orders Pizza, Gets Delivered Huge Wad Of Cash Instead

My favorite story: guy orders #Dominos wings and gets a box full of cash. What would you do? Watch at 11pm #abc7now pic.twitter.com/uzHYLDZTQ6— Natasha Zouves ABC7 (@NatashaABC7) September 20, 2015

Are We Seriously At The Point Where People Are Selling Teeny Slices Of SF For $200K?

There's something called "Betteridge's law of headlines" which reads "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." And while nine times out of ten Betteridge is

San Francisco's Massive Venture Capital Haul, By The Numbers

The San Francisco Business Times reports that venture capitalists are ramping up to drop "dot-com era levels" of dough on US companies by the end of 2015. Unsurprisingly, a lot of that money

Ed Lee's Big Bucks Donations By The Numbers

Campaign finance rules limit the amount of money any one donor can give a candidate for San Francisco office. But those rules don't limit something called "behested payments," in which pols ask for,

San Francisco Spends $16,000 On Jokey Video About Sewage System

If you were the boss of San Francisco, how much would you allow an agency you oversee to spend on a rap video about SF's sewers? $20? $100? $500? How about $16,000?

Arts & Entertainment

Record-Breaking Post-Season Pool Means Each SF Giant Is Now $388K Richer

We all know that our San Francisco Giants are lovely, unique snowflakes, but now they've got one more "first" to add to their resumes: They're each receiving an all-time record amount of money

Report: Palo Alto Has The Highest Rents In The US, SF Is #2

According to "rental marketplace" Lovely, though we here in San Francisco feel that we have dreadfully high rents, it could be worse: we could live in Palo Alto. The company's Q3 Rental Market

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Oddly, This $2,500 Brunch Idea Isn't Coming Together

In May, Eater brought us news of an exclusive private San Francisco brunch club, called BRVNCH (naturally). Members of the BRVNCH club (ugh) would pay $300 ($2500 for VIP) to eat brunch and

San Francisco's Transportation Funding Ballot Measure Plan By The Numbers

$1.5 billion: The approximate amount of money San Francisco is attempting to generate with multiple voter-approved initiatives this November $635 million: The portion of that money that would go toward Muni $625

BART Connector To The Oakland Airport, By The Numbers

3.2: The number of miles BART's Oakland Airport Connector, an elevated transit line that will run from the Coliseum/Oakland Airport BART Station to the Oakland Airport, will travel 4: The number

San Francisco's Homeless Support By The Numbers

$167,000,000: What San Francisco spends per year on services for homeless people (described by the Chronicle as people "on the streets, in a shelter or in supportive housing") $458,000: What