SF News California To Offer Powerball Lottery In 2013 Well, it's too late now. Anyway, just one day after lottery announced that winners in Arizona and Missouri nabbed a cool $580 million Powerball jackpot, California will join the lottery come 2013. Sacto
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: A Mark, A Yen, A Buck, Or A Pound... Untitled photo by Troy Holden.
SF News Atherton, Hillsborough Top Priciest ZIP Codes List New York City's Upper East Side and the Silicon Valley towns of splendor and wealth in California dominated Forbes' 2012 Priciest ZIP Codes List. Atherton (#3), Hillsborough (#5), Los Altos Hills (#7) all
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Only 1 Bay Area Eatery Makes 'Forbes' List of Highest Grossing Restaurants Have you heard of Rickey's Restaurant? Well, the Novato joint was the only Bay Area eatery to land on Forbes list of highest grossing restaurants in America. Last year they pulled in a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three Twins Ice Cream's $3,333.33 Sundae Explained Cheekily billed as the "World’s Most Expensive Sundae," Three Twins jumps aboard (however satirically) the expensive-food bandwagon with the $3,333.33 sundae. What's in it, you ask? Organic ice cream and
SF News Facebook Names A Price: $38 Per Share Facebook will unleash its historic initial public offering at $38 a share. Billed as the largest internet IPO in history, the deal should garner the social networking mammoth around "$16 billion in proceeds,
SF News Young Tech CEO Calls Facebook 'The Most Important Company Of Our Lifetime' Darian Shirazi — a former front-end software developer for Facebook who now runs Radius, a small-to-medium business sales intelligence company located here in San Francisco — talked to Bloomberg West recently. During the interview, the
SF News Matt Cain Signs Record-Breaking $100 Million Contract With Giants Scheduled to be a free agent after this season, noted baseballer turned fashion icon Matt Cain signed a whopping $100 million contract with the San Francisco Giants, with a $5 million signing bonus.
SF News Elusive Mega Millions Prize Deemed Largest 'In The History Of The World' While your SFist editor recoils in horror over somehow not winning Tuesday's prize (the Goddess works in mysterious ways, we suppose), tonight's drawing will be one for the history books. An estimated $640
SF News SFist Editor To Win 3rd Largest Mega Millions Lotto Tonight [Updated] The Mega Millions lottery now stands at a whopping $363 million. And your SFist editor feels certain, without a doubt to win the entire jackpot, now the third-largest ever, come Tuesday night's drawing.
SF News Yelp Stock More Than Doubles After IPO Yelp co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange Friday morning as Yelp's sparkling IPO debuted. Shares of the stock climbed as astounding 61 percent to
SF News Don't Make Big Decisions After 3 p.m., Suggests Twitter Research Cornell-based research using Twitter posts suggests that people are happiest in the morning hours, with users using words like "awesome" and "super" most often from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Tweets,
SF News Facebook IPO: Graffiti Artist David Choe Stands To Score $200 Million When Facebook stock publicly trades later this year, scads of people will turn into billionaires and millionaires seemingly overnight. One person who stands to gain an estimated $200 million is graffiti artist David
SF News Facebook IPO Could Come Next Week; Investors To See Ridiculous Windfall Over the next few days, Facebook could file an IPO. Raising as much as $10 billion at a valuation anywhere between $75 billion to $100 billion, it stands to be "one of the
SF News Occupy Wall Street West Plans Day Of Disruption, Activism In S.F. [Livestream] At around 6 a.m. Friday, Occupy Wall Street West began its day-long, rain-soaked protest, which, if all goes according to plan, will disrupt business as usual in San Francisco's Financial District. First
SF News Federal Money Coming Through For Central Subway Mayor Ed Lee today announced the arrival of a "letter of non-prejudice" (whatever that is) from the Department of Transportation which he says is a "strong sign" that the $1 billion+ in federal
SF News Activists Turn Bank Of America ATMs Into 'Truth Machines' Overnight Local rapscallions from the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) turned Bank of America ATMs into temporary political machines of activism overnight. Using non-adhesive stickers designed to look like BoA's ATM screens. In lieu of
SF News Lottery Ticket Bought In SF Scores Woman $1 Million On this inactive news day, we bring you word that a woman is $1 million richer after buying a winning lottery ticket in San Francisco's Financial District. "The lucky winner, who officials named
SF News Winning Lottery Ticket Purchased In Downtown SF Some lucky soul has a lottery ticket worth more than $150,000 in their pocket. The Daily Derby ticket was purchased at Star Convenience in downtown San Francisco. It's worth $154,088. Nice.
SF News Updates from Occupy SF: Pep Talks from Robert Reich, Police Commission Meeting Disrupted and Occupying the Castro The Occupy SF encampment at Justin Herman Plaza got another high-profile visitor yesterday evening when former Clinton administration Labor Secretary and current UC Berkeley professor Robert Reich dropped in to show his support.
SF News Fired Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Could Lose $10M Over Fresh Mouth Glorious fired Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, who was released from her duties earlier this week via a phone call, slammed her former employers in the press. Bad idea. In an interview with CNN,
Arts & Entertainment What You Should Know About Flattening Coins On the F-Market Rail For some bored downtown workerbees, flattening coins on the F-Market track is a shiny way to pass the time. Take, for example, Matthew Knudsen, who pressed these beauties just the other day. SFist
Arts & Entertainment This Is the Most Important Piece You Will Ever Read On Denise Hale Skullcap-shatteringly brilliant blogger Diane Dorrans Saeks just posted what could possibly be the most important lifestyle piece you will ever read. Why? Because it's about Denise Hale, that's why. And yet? It's also
Arts & Entertainment SFist Remembers: Pacific Stock Exchange [Video] Way back in the 1990s, San Francisco was revered (sort of) as a city with which to be reckoned. Why? Because we had a stock exchange, that's why. Back in 1997, you see,
