Arts & Entertainment Video: New Short 'Borrowed Time' By Pixar Animators Is Lovely, Sad, Not For Kids Made during their spare time at Pixar over the course of five years, animators Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj's "Borrowed Time," a tragic but poignant six-minute short, was just released to the public,
SF News Peter Thiel Decides To Throw Away $1.25 Million On Trump Campaign Perhaps because it's the equivalent of what he pays his dog-walker, Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel decided to write a last-minute $1.25 million check to Donald Trump's losing presidential campaign, instead of
SF News Sunday Links: Uber Driver Arrested Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Things did not sound very fun at Treasure Island
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Island Music Festival Goers Suffer Rain, Wind, Delays, No Flight Facilities "Treasure Island Music Festival and Moon" #timf2016 #sanfrancisco A photo posted by Ben Kremer (@benkremer) on Oct 15, 2016 at 9:57pm PDT As expected, Treasure Island Music Festival's tenth anniversary faced some
SF News Video: Watch The Latest Bay Bridge Pier Implosion Caltrans is one step closer to removing the last remnants of the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge today as another in a series of underwater implosions took place at 12:40
SF News Santa Clara University Students Caught On Camera Painting Swastika With Their Own Blood What is going on with Santa Clara University? The Jesuit college to our south has been host to two incidents of hateful vandalism recently, the latest a particularly disturbing one in which a
SF News [Update] Police Arrest Man Who Allegedly Shot SFPD Officer In Head Following Massive Manhunt Thanks to all who responded and outside agencies who helped out. Thank you @SF_emergency for your dispatchers @SFPD @CHPSanFrancisco 🙏👮🏻 pic.twitter.com/iZEqJ1Qpvp— Officer Manfredi (@OfficerManfredi) October 15, 2016 A quiet neighborhood
SF News Saturday Links: SF Homicides Might Be Linked Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here All about Laguna Honda hospital, which is celebrating its
SF News Day Around The Bay: Supes Propose 60-Day Cap For Short-Term Rentals A photo posted by Paula Rose (@sunmallia) on Oct 14, 2016 at 6:22am PDT Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories
SF News Check Out A Brand New BART Car, In Person, In The East Bay This Weekend Yes, it smells like new car. #FleetOfTheFuture pic.twitter.com/dOB580FUw8— SFBART (@SFBART) April 6, 2016 BART's "fleet of the future" is coming, but with full deployment of the new train cars not
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Coastal Italian Takes Over Mina Test Kitchen, Sweetgreen Arrives, And More This week we saw the debut of Rambler in the Hotel Zeppelin, the shuttering of iconic 48-year-old former gay spot The Lion Pub, and the death of longtime North Beach bar owner Richard
SF News From Gold Rush Almshouse To Hospital, Laguna Honda Celebrates 150 Years Of Care At 150, Laguna Honda is even older than most of the people living there. The establishment dates to 1866, and to ring in its anniversary this year, volunteers have assembled photographs and artifacts
SF News Instacart's Independent Contractors Score Big Win After Threatening Strike Instacart's "shoppers," a.k.a. independent contractors, forced the grocery-delivery startup to back down on a proposed major change to worker compensation in the face of a planned strike. In a blog post
Arts & Entertainment TIMF Preview: Christine And The Queens On Fallon Coming this weekend to the Treasure Island Music Festival are the amazing Christine and the Queens, which is the stage moniker for French solo artist Héloïse Letissier and her male backup dancers. Christine/
SF News Peak 2016: Luxor Cabs Seeks Legacy Business Designation Thoroughly disrupted by contractor-based ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft, 1928- founded Luxor Cabs has filed with the Planning Department to receive benefits reserved for so-called legacy businesses. Socketsite snapped up the news,
Arts & Entertainment The Quote Marquee At Turk & Larkin Continues Trolling Trump Just to take a quick break from today's avalanche of atrocious press about Trump, and the candidate's continued, baffling idiocy and grossness, here's a look at how the famed sign outside Kahn &
SF News Nobody Wants To Buy Twitter As Salesforce Is Latest, Last Suitor To Walk Away Wanna buy a lightly-used (maybe that's the problem) microblogging platform? Salesforce doesn't, as CEO Marc Benioff informs the Financial Times that his cloud computing company has walked away from a potential bid on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Introducing Rambler, Now Open At The Hotel Zeppelin We first brought you news of Rambler last month, and now as of last night the restaurant at the new Hotel Zeppelin near Union Square is open to the public. The restaurant is
SF News Robert Downey Jr. Wants To Be The Voice Of Mark Zuckerberg's AI Butler "This just got real." So wrote Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday after Robert Downey Jr. offered to record the voice of the tech titan's personal AI butler. As one of his always interesting
SF News Maven, GM's Zipcar Competitor, Expands To SF With $8/hr Car Rentals The future of driving and car ownership is anything but certain, leading established automakers to explore new bets and business models. Ford, for example purchased San Francisco-based shuttle service Chariot last month, and
SF News Flights Delayed Through Friday Night At SFO Due To Weather The rain is picking up as we cross into Friday afternoon here, and the heaviest of our weekend wetness is supposed to occur in the next few hours. And, predictably, the rain has
SF News Bernie Sanders Lands In SF Saturday, Will Stump For Jane Kim And Prop 61 While he doesn't really need to convince anyone in San Francisco not to vote for Donald Trump that contrarian libertarian IT guy at your office notwithstanding Bernie Sanders will be back in town
SF News Friday Lunchtime Links: Clear Your Local Storm Drain SF asks you to not to sweep your shit into the street, where it will clog the storm drain and cause flooding. [KRON 4] Witnessing an assault from the 19 Polk. [Fog City
Arts & Entertainment Robin Williams's 87 Bicycles To Be Auctioned Off For Charity The late Robin Williams was mostly known as a performer, but the Tiburon resident was also an avid cyclist and collector of bicycles. Since his passing in 2014, the collection has fallen into
SF News To Keep Tech Shuttles Running, Companies Are Backing Moderate Candidates For Supervisor To ensure that tech shuttles can continue to roll along, business-as-usual, companies such as Salesforce and Y Combinator are among more than 24 contributors to a political action committee backing moderate candidates for
