SF News Millennium Tower Developer Considers Drilling To Bedrock For New Highrise Amidst the legal and PR kerfuffle they've been dealing with over the last few months regarding the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower, developer Millennium Partners appears to be reconsidering the foundation of their
SF News All Teslas Will Be Autonomous-Ready From Here On Out, And They're Banned From Uber And Lyft Starting today, all Tesla vehicles produced at the company's Fremont, California factory will have the capacity for fully autonomous driving, though they won't exercise those capabilities until the company makes updates "over the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starbucks To Open 1,000 High-End Coffee Bars To Challenge Blue Bottle For 'Third Wave' Supremacy Eyeing the success of fancy "third-wave" coffee purveyors like Blue Bottle and Intelligentsia, Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz today announced plans to roll out 1,000 high-end coffee bars. Reuters reports that the
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Fans Delight Over Hillary's Use Of 'Middle Out' Chalk it up to coincidence feeding Twitter chatter, but even my ears perked up when Hillary Clinton dropped the phrase "middle out" during Wednesday night's presidential debate. Clinton was referring to her economic
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: MacBook Rumors Abound Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Bay Area's fault connections could make for a very
SF News Early-Morning Castro Blaze Injures Three Firefighters, Displaces Seven UPDATE: #FIRE ON HATTIE JUST WENT TO 4TH ALARM. #SFFD @Scott_Wiener pic.twitter.com/cOr7t9NdtY— SF Firefighters 798 (@SFFFLocal798) October 20, 2016 A four-alarm fire in the Castro District left seven residents
SF News Day Around The Bay: In Oakland, A Plan To Make Homeless Encampments More Livable Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. A hotly-debated new program approved by the Oakland City
SF News Video: Stanley Roberts Reminds Us That Sideshows Are Bad Stanley Roberts is back on the sideshow beat using his usual semi-mocking tone at KRON 4 as he scolds the people who participate in them those who stand by and film them. And
SF News Anti-Defamation League: 2.6 Million Anti-Semitic Messages Posted On Twitter Over Past Year Twitter, the proverbial bridge under which trolls can spawn and spew, has been a particular hotbed for anti-Semitism, so much so that the nonprofit Anti-Defamation League Task Force on Harassment and Journalism has
SF News SFMTA Says Street Safety Improvements Are Actually Dangerous, Pulls Vigilante Crosswalk Posts Thank you @SFMTrA ! Westbound traffic visibly slower when crossing with kids today, and more walkers are using the intersection already. pic.twitter.com/DCULFK2qiV— Hum of the city (@humofthecity) October 13, 2016 Saying
SF News New Study Finds Hayward Fault Connected To Second Fault, Potentially Making An Earthquake Much Worse As we ring in Disaster Anniversary week here in the Bay Area, some bad news comes via a new study published in the journal Science Advances. As KRON 4 reports, a team from
SF News California Attorney General Investigating Wells Fargo For Identity Theft California Attorney General Kamala Harris is leading an investigation into whether criminal identity theft took place at Wells Fargo, a bank embroiled in a scandal that may involve up to two million bank
SF News Aggressive Drivers Looking Forward To Bullying Self-Driving Cars While there is all kinds of pie-in-the-sky talk about the future of self-driving cars, one generally agreed upon impact of any potential widespread adoption is safer roads. With safety-conscious software making the decisions,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Bar Owner Declares SF A Happy Hour Town, Late-Night Drinking Dead Maybe because San Francisco hardly kicked its drinking habit during Prohibition — the 18th Amendment was rather loosely observed by local law enforcement here — or perhaps because Anthony Bourdain once called San Francisco a
SF News Warm Springs BART Likely Won't Open Ahead Of Bond Vote After All The several times delayed Warm Springs BART extension will not open this weekend as officials originally hoped. The Chronicle reports that the latest delay, due to unfinished testing, makes it significantly less likely
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco-Set And Shot 'Chance' Drops On Hulu Today San Francisco is a common setting for big and small screen TV shows, but it's rare that more than an occasional establishing scene is actually shot on our streets (Murder in the First,
SF News Video: The '91 Oakland Hills Fire As Seen Live From The 580 And 24 Freeways The video above, transferred from a VHS tape in the collection of local man Johnny Sala, was shot as Sala and his family drove from San Francisco across the Bay Bridge on Sunday,
SF News Airbnb Will Ban Multiple Listings By SF Hosts As Airbnb and the city of San Francisco spar in court — the company sued the city over a law requiring it to verify the hosts on its platform are legal or else face
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Facebook Takes On Yelp With a new set of product updates unveiled today, Facebook is taking aim at local business recommendations and booking, a category long dominated by Yelp. [SF Business Times] SF Supes vote to send
SF News Zuckerberg Stands By Facebook Board Member Peter Thiel And Claims Support For Trump Counts As 'Diversity' As the backlash against prominent Donald Trump supporter and Facebook board member Peter Thiel continues to grow, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has come out in support of the controversial Libertarian — suggesting that not
Arts & Entertainment Here's What Google Said SFist Should Be For Halloween In one of Google's routine efforts to convince you that it's a fun, cute, and zany company full of doodles and delights, not a massive terrifying monolith that knows everything about you and
SF News 25 Years Ago Today The Oakland Hills Went Up In Flames Very, Very Fast Monday was an anniversary of a Bay Area disaster marking 27 years since the Loma Prieta earthquake and today marks a tragic and scary day as well which began three years and two
Arts & Entertainment Grab This Top-Rated $100 Wireless Speaker For Just $50 This travel-friendly speaker offers 12 hours of premium audio on a single charge. Many portable speakers disappoint, but the Braven 705 Bluetooth Speaker brings the sound wherever you need it. This lightweight, compact
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ghost Pepper Rips Hole In SF Man's Esophagus, Collapses His Lung For all the foodie adventurousness of San Franciscans, one local man took his daring a bit too far when he consumed a burger smothered with a ghost pepper purée — and ended up almost
SF News Bay Area Whistleblower Told Wells Fargo CEO About Bogus Account Problem In 2007 A letter has emerged, addressed to former Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf in September 2007, detailing the widespread practice of creating fraudulent bank and credit card accounts in order to meet sales quotas
