SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The St. Regis' $125 Martini Is Here To Troll Us All "Try the World's Greatest Martini at the St Regis" read the subject line of an email sent to us by a PR agency. Sounds pretty good, right? But how are we defining "greatest"
SF News USF's Undergrad Tuition Swells, SF State's Remains Stable The gap between the costs to attend college in San Francisco just got a little wider last week, when the University of San Francisco announced that their tuition at the school will hit
SF News Wednesday's Powerball Pot Balloons To $400 Million Though California joined the Powerball lottery less than a year ago, we've already had a San Francisco winner, in the amount of $2.6 million. That's chump change compared to what's up for
Arts & Entertainment Rich Idiot Brings His Tale Of Struggle, Oppression To Commonwealth Club This Week Affluenza sufferer Tom Perkins made headlines in January for penning one of the dipshittiest op-ed pieces in print publication history. And now you can hear him live and in-person! "From the Occupy movement
SF News Current Economic Boom Surpasses Dot-Com Boom In Half The Time Call it the Early Twenty-Teens Tech Boom, or whatever you want to call it, but it has officially surpassed the late-'90s Dot-Com Boom with no slowing in sight. In fact, as Ted Egan
SF News 'Starving Student' Uses BART Station QR Code To Panhandle For Bitcoin In what must be some sort of cosmic sign, a cash-strapped entrepreneur has taken to posting QR codes in BART stations requesting Bitcoin in exchange for "good karma." Verge reporter Casey Newton spotted
SF News Twitter Owes Me $131 Dollars For All My Hard Work Tweeting Time Magazine, the same one that named you Person of the Year in 2006, has a new empowering interactive tool that shows you exactly how much Twitter owes you based on the value
SF News City Attorney To Close Illegal Gambling Cafes In Excelsior City Attorney Dennis Herrera plans on shutting down a reportedly most unsavory Internet Cafe in the Excelsior. Why? Because it's an alleged hotbed of illegal gambling. According to reports, Net Stop is at
SF News Protest Planned At Twitter Headquarters On IPO Day In an effort to "call attention to corporate tax breaks and the tech company’s role in the San Francisco eviction crisis," a protest will take place outside Twitter headquarters on Thursday to
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
Arts & Entertainment Today's Techies Are Yesterday's Hippies, And Other Thoughts From The New Yorker As of late, a flurry of national media attention has followed San Francisco's growth and attendant cultural ramifications (take George Packer's recent Silicon Valley piece or this week's meditation on SF's housing crunch
SF News Look Out: Here Comes The Twitter IPO If you have friends who work at Twitter, or if you have friends who concern themselves with such things, be prepared to be hearing an earful about the long-term profitability and valuation of
SF News Startup Bro Backlash Leaps Off The Internet, Into Real Life [Updates] Yesterday's bro-tastic, anti-San Francisco screed did wonders to unite the various factions of the city's usually fractured internet commentariat. In fact, the ire directed at local entrepreneur and venture-funded hater Peter Shih reached
SF News Startup Bro Not Completely Stoked On S.F.'s Startup Bro Scene After slogging through the tech vs. art and rich vs. poor rhetoric swimming around San Francisco, we thought this trend of anti-San Francisco hate blogging had reached it's logical conclusion with that Gen-X
SF News Did You Win The $2.6 Million Powerball Ticket Sold in S.F.? A Powerball ticket from Saturday night's drawing that matched five of the six winning numbers was sold at a Richmond district market. The ticket was sold at Cable Car Wine and Spirit at
SF News S.F. Parking Spot Sells For $82K, Commence Rage If you thought renting an apartment was tough or buying a house was a nightmare (the City's median home price now tips $1 million), you should try nabbing a place to park your
SF News 'Douchebags Like You Are Ruining San Francisco,' Gen-X Techie Says To Millennial Techies There's been enough tech vs. art or rich vs. poor handwringing going around lately that we suppose this was inevitable: A self-proclaimed "part of the gentrification" from the early '90s Mission district and
SF News Dozens Speak Out In Support of Manning for Pride Marshal; Meanwhile, Manning Himself Begins Court-Martial As we mentioned last week, the SF Pride board relented in the face of growing pressure from the city and held another public meeting Friday regarding their decision to retract the honorary appointment
SF News Yahoo Will Buy 'Hipster Blogging Platform' Tumblr For $1.1 Billion [Update] UPDATE: Yep, it's official. Guess there will be big news at Yahoo's Monday product event in New York: The Wall Street Journal reports, "The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.
Arts & Entertainment Forget 'North of NOPA,' Cringe In Horror at This 'NEMA' Video Described as "an ultra-contemporary, highly-amenitized, tech-savvy rental community designed for San Francisco's culture-driven lifestyle," this God-awful, anti-decency video for NEMA is basically an ad for the 37-story tower of the Crescent Heights project
SF News Map: S.F. Ellis Act Evictions (1997-2013) Brian Whitty put together a map detailing Ellis Act evictions taking place from 1997 to 2013. The majority of the evictions, predictably, happened in the Castro, the Mission, the Marina, and Potrero Hill.
SF News Bradley Manning Supporters To Protest At S.F. Pride Office Today Here we go: In light of the San Francisco Pride Committee's decision to cancel Bradley Manning as a Grand Marshal for the 2013 Pride Parade, a protest will take place today, Monday, at
SF News Do You Posses The WInning Lottery Ticket? A winning lotto tickets sold at Ali’s—located at 325 Mason Street—and it could nab you $75,475. The ticket is one of two winning tickets sold in Saturday’s "Fantasy
SF News Kaepernick Wants To Trademark Kaepernicking A full week before the 49ers clinched a spot in Super Bowl XLVII, quarterback Colin Kaepernick applied to trademark the term "Kaepernicking," the widely repeated move of flexing his right bicep and moving
