SF News Lyft Goes After Uber Black With New 'Premier' Offering Ride-hail company Lyft today announced that it has expanded its offerings in what amounts to a clear attempt to move into turf long occupied by its main rival, Uber. Lyft, which has
SF News Woman Found Dead At Pac Haights Condo Construction Site Was Allegedly 'Lost' By SF General It's unlikely that you recall a report from last year of a woman's dead body found at a San Francisco construction site — I barely did, and I covered the
Arts & Entertainment Female Cable Car Operator Competes In Bell Ringing Contest For First Time In 52-Year History Every day, San Francisco cable car operators bring a piece of local history to life, and that's pretty cool. In fact, today marks a particularly fun day for those operators because,
SF News Nevius Solves SF's Homeless Problem: Limit The Number We Help Following last week's blitz of coverage as part of the SF Homeless Project, Chron columnist C.W. Nevius is finally, predictably chiming in with his common-sense, let's-stop-
SF News Poll: More And More Tech Workers Say They Plan To Leave Their Jobs To Go Elsewhere In The Country Home to Apple, Facebook, and Google, Silicon Valley is considered by many to be the center of the tech world. And while people travel from all over both to work for and visit
SF News Errant Gun Cleaner Shoots Neighbor Near SF State A San Francisco man's quiet evening at home was abruptly shattered Wednesday, when a bullet tore through his ceiling and struck him in the leg. According to the San Francisco Police
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Watching For The Android Watch * Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here * Should you call the fog Karl? [SFist] * An Uber
Arts & Entertainment WINGiT Wants To Help You Hang Like A Local, No Matter The Locale We've all been there: it's late in afternoon on a Friday, and you need plans. Not the kind of soporific sit-around-and-watch-TV plans better saved for
SF News Day Around The Bay: Please Date My Friend, Fliers Encourage Strangers * Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. * Mission residents blame homeless encampments for crime, prompting an
SF News Will Self-Driving Cars Ruin San Francisco? Self-driving cars sound pretty sweet, right? The idea of a safer, more reliable way to travel via automobile has an intuitive appeal — after all, according to the CDC, there are over 30,
Arts & Entertainment San Jose Sharks Player Adopts 'Lucky' Stray Cat Who Wandered Onto Rink The latest photo of Jo PAW-velski. Thanks @hssv for taking care of our kitty #SJSharks #SmashNash #sharksblackcat pic.twitter.com/gjBLiUIUuR — Jim Sparaco (@JimSparaco) May 8, 2016 While they didn't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Central Kitchen Closes This Week For Revamp, Will Reopen July 21 With New, More Shareable Menu Chef Thomas McNaughton sent out a group email today announcing that Central Kitchen will be closing on July 9th for a major two-week overhaul, and saying, "Doing a standard press release
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Police Take Allegedly Armed, Mentally Ill Man Into Custody, Ending Four-Hour Mid-Market Standoff Officers on tank pointing rifles at suspect with a gun near Market/Jones #breaking pic.twitter.com/Y1Prc7isR2 — Jessica Christian (@jachristian) July 6, 2016 Reports of a possibly armed man outside the Hibernia
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sprig Relaunches Guest Chef Series With David Nayfeld Of Upcoming Che Fico Che Fico, the big new Italian restaurant coming to the Little Star block of Divisadero (834-838 Divis) that we recently got an update on, is still probably six months off, at least.
SF News Rec & Parks' Capital Committee Votes On Buying SoMa Land For New Park San Francisco's Recreation and Parks Department has struck a deal with Ares Commercial Properties to potentially buy five parcels of prime SoMa land on 11th Street between Minna and Natoma Streets
SF News Here's What Facebook, Google, And Apple Employees Really Think About Tech-Shuttle 'Hubs' A significant number of tech employees responded to a recent anonymous SFMTA survey seeking to determine possible locations for new tech-shuttle hubs that would decrease the impact the much maligned shuttles have
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Brief History Of Silicon Valley — Which Does Not Include San Francisco, FYI An apparently new outfit called VanDeGraph just produced this YouTube explainer for everyone who doesn't understand the difference between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, or what defines the Bay Area. The
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Has The Fog Always Been Named Karl? In these Troubled San Francisco Times, there is a lot of talk about who was here when, and what that does (or doesn't) mean. In an effort to both assist newcomers
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: 'The Most San Francisco Shoes Ever' * "This one-bedroom, two-bath pied-à-terre in the Millennium Tower looks like the bad guy’s condo from an ‘80s Oliver Stone movie." [Curbed SF] * Crime roundup: Not guilty
SF News Wiener Rejects Kim's 'Positive Campaign Pledge' In State Senate Campaign Ads In the tight race for the District 11 State Senate seat, current SF Supervisor Jane Kim asked her opponent, Supervisor Scott Wiener, to sign a "positive campaign pledge" last week that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Belga/Starbelly/Beretta Owner Snags Former Betelnut Space On Union Street The 20-year home to Betelnut in Cow Hollow, which helped usher in the era of Asian fusion and which finally closed in September 2015 after a couple of attempts to rebrand and
SF News How Google's Self-Driving Cars Manage To 'See' Cyclists Mountain View-based Google often touts the relative safety of their self-driving car fleet, however in most cases the safety of drivers is what comes to mind. Via the company's
SF News Phone Tracker Leads SFPD To Teenage Mugging Team The victims of a Fillmore District mugging got a happy ending Tuesday, when the tracker in their stolen phone led police to their robbers...and reunited them with their stuff. It was 7:
SF News Firm That Recruited Ousted Oakland Police Chief Charging SF $49K To Find New SFPD Chief The national search process is beginning for a new chief of police for San Francisco, following a season of high tension and high drama on both sides of the bay for both the
SF News Firefighters Contain Six-Alarm Blaze At Emeryville Construction Site At least 20 cars burnt in 6-alarm #fire in #Emeryville. @OaklandFireLive @EastBayTimes @OakTribNews #Oakland pic.twitter.com/t6h9cHUID8 — Tyska (@Tyska) July 6, 2016 An early-morning fire that burned through an East
