Business & Tech Facebook and Twitter Sign On With 'Christchurch Call' To Quash Extremist Content; White House Refuses The White House is signaling to white nationalists that it wants to protect their free speech rights by refusing to sign on with multiple Western governments to a non-binding pledge to stem the tide of extremist content.
misc New Zealand Investigates How Peter Thiel Gained Citizenship As More Billionaires Make Kiwi-Style Apocalypse Plans A recent New Yorker magazine piece about the variety of very expensive preparations super-rich Americans are busy making for the apocalypse — an event brought about either by Trump's presidency or other destabilizing factors
Arts & Entertainment Oracle Team USA Wins the 2013 America's Cup Larry Ellison got what he wanted, ladies and gentlemen, and Oracle Team USA retained the America's Cup with a wide lead in today's final, deciding race. We think this might mean that we
SF News Larry Ellison's House Flag-Bombed By Kiwi Ninjas This is funny. Even though we don't understand how the America's Cup is still going, given the wide lead the New Zealanders had as of Sunday, it is still going. And the other
SF News New Zealand Still Closer To Clinching America's Cup, But U.S. Scores One It was a beautiful but windy day on the Bay yesterday, though not as windy as Saturday when Team New Zealand almost toppled their boat and the second race had to get called
Arts & Entertainment Spectacular Beaches, Glowworms And Mount Doom: Head To Auckland For An Adventure Much like San Francisco, Auckland, New Zealand is a stunning city by the bay with mouthwatering culinary options in and around it. But when you take advantage of one of Air New Zealand's
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: Nov. 26 - Dec. 2 Wednesday, we are welcoming Faun Fables home from their recent tour in Austria and Switzerland. They will be playing with Australian legend, Daevid Allen (which we here is Faun Fables' dream - Hooray
Arts & Entertainment Interview Redux: John Vanderslice Hopefully you've gotten your ticket to check out John Vanderslice at the Independent tonight as part of the Noise Pop festivities. If not.... get it now. To help remind you of why you
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Beach House at the Hemlock Sharing the bill with Beach House was Over the Atlantic, also on Carpark Records and local band The Parish. We really wanted to like Over the Atlantic, in part because they have a
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: John Vanderslice Hopefully you're the lucky winner of the Feist tickets tonight so that you can catch John Vanderslice opening. This interview first ran last August, and SFist is republishing it to enhance your Noisepop
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Blog Pulse All anyone can talk about is the snow, snow, snow. (OK, those last two are actually tagged as "hail," but you get the point and the pics are pretty.) In our eyes, all
Arts & Entertainment Santarchy Grips San Francisco They respect no law of man or God. They hedonistically pursue pleasure and merriment at all costs. They look fantastic in red and white. They are the legions of Santas who have gathered
Arts & Entertainment Interview: John Vanderslice The best things in life really are free. Free shows at Amoeba fall into the category of one of the reasons that living in San Francisco is totally awesome. Tomorrow (Tues.) the day
SF News Ist'wonderful So say 'Ni hao' to Shanghaiist, 'Bonjour' to Parisist and 'Yo' to Phillyist. While the last two haven't 'officially' opened (in other words, our globe-trotting publisher didn't send us the email yet), thanks
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Feist We are big fans of Feist, the Canadian chanteuse with an esteemed indie pedigree and smooth, seductive, award-winning sound. She's quite popular throughout the blogosphere, even though her internationally acclaimed record Let It
Arts & Entertainment They Want Two States Further amplifying the rivalry between here and there, the San Francisco Convention and Visitors' Bureau has launched a new website, called Not in L.A., supposedly to lure Angelenans up what they call