SF News Former CTO Of Newly Notorious Startup Confirms Details About CEO's Allegedly Shady Behavior The Silicon Valley company we now know to be WrkRiot, formerly known as both 1for.one and JobSonic, has now been publicly outed following a Startup Grind/Medium post earlier this week by
SF News One Injured In Muni Bus Bottle Bashing A Muni bus rider was left with wounds to the face Tuesday, when a mugging team assaulted him and stole his cell phone. It was a brazen mid-morning attack, police say, at 10:
SF News Video: Stanley Roberts Shames Drivers Abusing Disabled-Parking Placards Professional scold Stanley Roberts was back at it again this week, this time around directing his camera and reprobation toward those abusing the system of disabled-parking placards that actual disabled individuals depend on
SF News Robbery Victim Tased 19 Times Outside The Hotel Utah A criminal couple remains on the loose Wednesday, following a mugging in SoMa that left its victim shocked and bruised. Police say that the 59-year-old male victim was attacked and robbed at 9
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: SF Life With A Supercar Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Do you believe that a bike caused the Rock
SF News Day Around The Bay: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Backs Kaepernick In National Anthem Protest Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. SFMTA shared some data on the agency's new "painted
SF News Amazon Tests Out 30-Hour Workweek For Some Employees Amazon's latest innovation isn't a new subscription program or e-book reader: It's a 30-hour work week for certain employees on technical teams, the Washington Post reveals. A few dozen workers at the Seattle,
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Summer is here! No, really! The shift in weather was most evident this past weekend and with last night's sunset, especially, so get ready for everybody's energy level to go up and for
SF News Thieves Got A USPS Master Key And Are Pilfering Mail Across The City Police are on the lookout for two thieves they say have gone on a mail-stealing spree across San Francisco. According to Fox 2, the man and the woman appear to have obtained a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Old Devil Moon Rises For Beer, Po' Boys, And Cocktails In Bernal Business partners Chris Cohen, Andrew Kelly, Ericka Shell, Will Marshall, and Carson Beker, are not, as you might guess from the slightly satanic atmosphere they've concocted at their new bar Old Devil Moon,
SF News BART Now Paying Passengers To Avoid Morning Rush-Hour Commute In a bid to ease congestion during commute hours, BART officials today announced the launching of a new rider program called "BART Perks." The idea, officials explain in a press release, is to
Arts & Entertainment What George Lucas Means By 'Narrative Art': Chronicle Gets First Glimpse Of His Collection For years now there's been all this public back-and-forth about George Lucas and his plans for a big museum, named for himself, that would house a collection of what's alternately been referred to
SF News Google's Waze-Based Carpool App Launching In San Francisco, To Compete With Uber Google may have hoped to wade gently into the ride-hailing waters jealously guarded by San Francisco's Uber and Lyft, but news today that its Waze-based carpool app will be expanding to San Francisco
SF News Custody Battle Ensues Over Castro Trump Statue As The Man Himself Lands In Bay Area For Fundraisers This seems really, really stupid, but the SFPD is now investigating the August 18 appearance of that Trump statue in the Castro and several other locations around the nation as a case of
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Bernal Rock Becomes Poop Emoji The locally famous Bernal Heights rock, a frequently painted and re-painted neighborhood gem, is starting to get sh***y. During primary season, you may recall, the landmark was claimed by fans of Bernie
SF News Officials Blame Rock Creek Fire In Sierras On Bike Pedal, But Cyclists Aren't Buying It Officials say an unlikely culprit is to blame for one of the many wildfires currently ravaging the California wilderness, but their unusual findings are being met with skepticism and disbelief. The Chronicle reports
SF News Muni Still Isn't Sure How To Pay For Those Fancy New Trains They Keep Talking About We've been talking about Muni's glorious new light rail fleet for a while — in fact, it was over two years ago that we ran the numbers on the (at the time) $1.2
Arts & Entertainment As Another Burning Man Kicks Off, The Tiny Town Of Gerlach Remains Half-Angry About It As another Labor Day approaches, so do tens of thousands of Burners to Gerlach, Nevada, the last stop, so to speak, before entering the Black Rock Desert and the temporary, though exponentially larger
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: What's Your Chinese Name? San Francisco's out-of-control housing market might start looking more 'normal' by the end of the year. [Business Insider] Odd police news from police news from Hayward, where their Chief was suddenly placed on
SF News Questions Raised As Interim Police Chief Refuses To Say Where He Went To College As San Francisco nears the end of its search for a police chief to replace ousted Greg Suhr, an interesting wrinkle has developed in current interim chief Toney Chaplin's attempt to get the
SF News Shuttle Bus Operator Bauer's Adding 30 Vehicles To SF Fleet Despite Contested Muni Stop Permit Shuttle Bus operator Bauer's Intelligent Transportation, whose black, monolithic motor coaches carry employees from clients like Cisco, Zynga, and Electronic Arts, plans to add 30 vehicles to its already sizable fleet, expanding service
SF News Violent Group Of Deplorable Teens Pulls Laptop Theft Scam At Westfield Centre Though located on San Francisco's "most criminal block," the Westfield Centre shopping mall has long presented itself as a tony oasis in the fraught melee that can be Market Street between Fourth and
SF News It's Official: European Union Says Apple Owes Them $14.5B In Back Taxes European Union regulators announced today that following a two-year investigation into Ireland's treatment of two corporate entities operated by Apple in Cork, they've concluded that Ireland illegally offered tax breaks to Apple dating
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Last Night's Sunset Sure Was Pretty SF summer is here... pic.twitter.com/SWItTKEtCw— the sunset (@thesunset) August 30, 2016 Did you catch last night's sunset? Maybe while out on a stroll grabbing some frozen treats? Of maybe sipping
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: What Are Your Favorite San Francisco Books? Dear Rain, Do you have a favorite set-in-SF book? Novel, biography, short stories, whatever. Signed, SF Reads Dear SF Reads, I'm a pretty voracious reader. In fact, I'm a little over halfway to
