SF News Check Out The New Muni Trains That Will Begin Showing Up Next Year San Francisco is set to replace all of its Muni train cars by the far-off year of 2028, but the first of the shiny new Siemens light-rail vehicles will begin entering service as
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Want To Be A Hyperloop Volunteer? Hyperloop project seeks Bay Area volunteers. [CBS 5] Twitter launches night mode for iPhone users. [CNet] As yet unnamed SF tech company plans "co-location" to Sacramento. [CBS Sacramento] [Bloomberg] says that SF's "housing
Arts & Entertainment Video: Koko The Gorilla Slaps The Bass With Flea Of Red Hot Chili Peppers A photo posted by @sllollaryee on Aug 19, 2016 at 12:00pm PDT "This is a day I won't ever forget in my life," Flea, née Michael Peter Balzary, a founding member of
SF News Trial Begins For Pair Accused In Murder Of 66-Year-Old Oakland Woman Who May Have Been Filming Them Testimony began this week in the trial of Mario Floyd and Stephon Lee, two reputed gang members accused in the broad-daylight murder of 66-year-old Judy Salamon, who was shot dead in her car,
SF News Mark Zuckerberg And Priscilla Chan Sell Off $95 Million In Facebook Stock For Charity, Or Similar Inspired by the birth of their daughter, Dr. Priscilla Chan and husband Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's first family, pledged last December to give away 99 percent of their extremely valuable company stock during their
SF News Man Accused Of Using Airbnb To Scout Mountain View Home Before Burglary A man stands accused of using the home-rental site Airbnb to scout and then burglarize a Mountain View home in a style of crime that police now say is a trend across the
Arts & Entertainment Watch The SF Zoo's Newest Baby Take Her First Steps "You can do it, kid!" I yelled at the screen as I watched a baby guanaco born at the SF Zoo Saturday take her first, wobbly steps. "You got this!" And, wonderfully, she
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: One Kings Lane's Sad Sale Price Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here The glowing prose of most tech sites makes for
SF News Day Around The Bay: Berkeley BART Will Lose Its Rotunda Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. The downtown Berkeley BART station will soon lose its
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trader Joe's Opening On 4th And Market This October The long-rumored downtown Trader Joe's is actually, finally about to open, everybody. The Chronicle reports that the purveyor of peanut butter-stuffed pretzels and cheap wine intends to open a new San Francisco on
SF News The Troubled Tale Of Lending Club And The Problems Created By Glowing Tech Press Why did Bryan Sims buy $1000 in stock of Lending Club? Just because he loved the company, a kind of eBay for loans, so much at the time. Now he feels differently, but
SF News Salesforce Tower Throws Shade At Millennium Tower There's been much in the news about downtown's Millennium Tower sinking into the mud and tilting, and a coming wave of lawsuits from homeowners there, and now it looks like reps for their
Arts & Entertainment Regarding The Potentially Dicey Stipulations In SFMOMA's Agreements Surrounding The Fisher Collection As you're likely well aware by now, the newly reopened SFMOMA now has more than half of its expanded gallery space devoted to paintings and sculptures that are part of the Doris and
Arts & Entertainment Upset That Siri Was Mispronouncing Her Name, Barbra Streisand Got Tim Cook To Change It Barbra Streisand, currently on tour despite many earlier threats/promises that she was retiring, went on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon on Saturday to discuss her new album of duets called Encore:
SF News SFO Hikes Overnight Parking Prices 40%, Overnight An economic impact report for San Francisco International Airport released earlier this month showed soaring business activity and a record 51.4 million passengers served in fiscal year 2015. The Business Times summarized
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ike's Place And Sweet Inspiration Try To Skirt Formula Retail Rules With 'Mike's Place' Sandwiches A partnership continues between longtime Castro dessert spot Sweet Inspiration (2239 Market Street) and soon-to-be-evicted, uber-popular 16th Street sandwich spot Ike's Place, though in order to avoid the wrath of the Planning Department,
Arts & Entertainment Prince's Death Likely Caused By Counterfeit Pills Containing Fentanyl When Prince's autopsy concluded that the artist accidentally overdosed on the powerful painkiller fentanyl, questions were raised as to how he got his hands on a drug 50 times more potent than heroin
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Saha Restaurant Reopens In Original SF Location After Move To Berkeley 2019 Update: Saha Restaurant is back open in the Hotel Carlton at 1075 Sutter Street after a hiatus and three-year relocation to Berkeley. Original post below: A Mediterranean spot especially popular with vegans
SF News Lyft Rebuffed In Buyout Efforts By Google, Uber, And Others Lyft is coming to a strange sort of crossroads. The second largest ride-hailing company in the United States behind Uber (but by a mile) is seeking a variety of suitors for a buyout.
SF News Monday Lunchtime Links: BART GM Demands 'Billions' Apple has reportedly bought health care startup Gliimpse. [Fast Company] BART GM pens op-ed demanding "billions" to rebuild flailing system. [East Bay Times] A San Pablo man suffered major injuries when his SUV
SF News BART Spends $340K To Pee-Proof Elevators For many people, BART elevators are something to be avoided — even if they do happen to be working. For others, they're a necessary means of accessing the public transit that we all depend
SF News Governor Brown's 'By Right' Housing Fast-Track Proposal Dead In The Water A proposal by Governor Jerry Brown to pass sweeping legislation that would speed up residential development across the state by bypassing various local review processes has lost all momentum and appears fully dead,
SF News Rolling Thieves Menace San Francisco Photographers At least two photographers had their gear stolen in San Francisco this weekend, victims of thieves who, in one case, didn't even have to get out of their vehicle for the crime. The
SF News Pressure Mounts To Remove UC Berkeley Chancellor Ahead Of Planned Resignation UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks is on his way out — of that there is no doubt. The only question that remains is the timing of his departure, but the Chronicle reports that some
SF News Holy Relic, A Piece Of Christ's Cross, Stolen From St. Dominic's Church Someone is definitely going to hell for stealing a holy relic from St. Dominic's Church at Bush and Steiner in the Western Addition. The purloined property was an ancient artifact that religious leaders
