SF News Venture Capital Gets Into The 'Dorms For Grown-Ups' Business Though moving into San Francisco can be seemingly impossible, and deeply saddening and dignity-reducing task, many young people are still managing to do it. And now, as the Wall Street Journal reports,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rickybobby Gets Replacement In the Lower Haight: The Lodge The many fans of RickyBobby in the Lower Haight got some terrible news last month when the popular, three-year-old burgers-and-tots spot announced it was closing for good. But the
SF News Poll: 51 Percent Of San Franciscans See City Headed In Wrong Direction Sadly, that New York Times article about the state of affairs in formerly magical San Francisco — a place where longtime residents are now begging for an end to the madness of the boom
SF News Battle Over Dogs In Parks Heats Up As Supervisors Pass Resolution Opposing GGNRA Rules The anti-snowy plover crusade continued this week, as the Board of Supervisors yesterday passed a resolution opposing proposed National Park Service restrictions on dogs in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The
SF News Commuters, SFO-Bound Passengers Told To Leave Early Due To BART Problem BART is experiencing a trackside maintenance problem on the Pittsburg/Bay Point line today that has led to systemwide delays, and BART is now warning passengers to possibly leave early or stay at
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: Recipient Of Contested deYoung Payment Dies, Prompting New Call For Reimbursement The petite society scandal in which longtime deYoung Museum grande dame Dede Wilsey brought some unwanted attention to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's financial controls has taken a new
SF News Airbnb Will Allow Neighbor Feedback On Hosts, Guests, Properties Perhaps you remember the tale, told in our Apartment Sadness column, of an Airbnb situation gone totally haywire on Telegraph Hill. The gist: Some tenancy-in-common (TIC) neighbors have a long-running
SF News Instagram Mucks Up Your Feed With Algorithmic Timeline Instagram intends to go the way of its parent company Facebook, and will soon switch your timeline from a chronological display to one ordered by an unknown algorithm, a.k.a. something to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho Yacht Club Tops SF Finalists For 2016 James Beard Awards The James Beard Award finalists were just announced yesterday following last month's announcements of the semi-finalists or "long list" and low and behold, Liholiho Yacht Club will be
SF News Haight Homeless Guy Who Spotted Escaped Prisoners Gets $100K Reward Here's some actual good news. You'll recall the story of 55-year-old Matthew Hay-Chapman, a down-on-his-luck but nonetheless observant semi-homeless guy in the
Arts & Entertainment Report: At Least 194 SF State Students Seeking Paid 'Relationships' With Sugar Daddies Citing San Francisco's high cost of living and the increasing cost of tuition, the spokesperson for a website that seeks to connect millennials with wealthy people "willing to pay for
SF News Berkeley Sexual Harassment Allegations Known Two Months Prior By Head Coach Head UC Berkeley basketball coach Cuonzo Martin allegedly knew of the allegations of sexual harassment against his assistant coach, Yann Hufnagel, two months before he alerted university officials reports the Chronicle. The allegations
SF News Game Of Thrones To Promote Season 5 DVD With SF 'Dragon' Landing And Flight Tomorrow Stunt moves are what drive Game of Thrones, the popular television show based on the books of George R.R. Martin that relies heavily on scenes of extreme violence, sexual violence, and mostly
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Goes To Rio On PG&E's Dime Did you know that Mayor Ed Lee is in Brazil this week? Well, he is, on a trip bought for him by a flock of high-powered big business donors. Here's
Arts & Entertainment A Look At San Francisco's St. Patrick's Day Parade And Its Gold Rush History San Francisco St. Patrick's Day Parade, 1946. (LIFE) San Francisco has long been host to big St. Patrick's Day celebrations though the parade's gotten a bit smaller
SF News Photo Du Jour: Cinematic Fissure After NorCal Highway Breaks In Two The stretch of Highway 3 that runs through the NorCal idyll of Trinity County gets about 1000 cars a day...but those 1000 had to seek an alternate route this week, when the
SF News Uber Driver Leads CHP On 100-Mph Chase Through Five East Bay Cities "We don't know why he ran," officer Sean Wilkenfeld, a California Highway Patrol spokesperson, told the Contra Costa Times, referring to a Newark man and recent Uber driver who
SF News Report: San Francisco Has The Third Worst Traffic In The Country No, you're not just imagining it — traffic in San Francisco has gotten awful. In fact, according to a newly released report by traffic data and measurement company INRIX that looks back
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrity Chef Michael Chiarello Accused Of Sexually Harassing Female And Gay Employees In SF Celebrity chef Michael Chiarello, best known nationally for his Food Network show Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello and known in the Bay Area for his Napa restaurant Bottega and his three-year-old
SF News With Towing Fees Slashed, SFMTA Now Wants Some Parking Meters To Run Past 6 PM Now that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has successfully pushed the SF Municipal Transportation Agency to reduce towing fees, the MTA says they need to find a way to make up the
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: iPhone 7 Rumors * In act of deeply questionable judgement, SFPD officer who shot Alex Nieto posts remarks on case to Facebook. [SFist] * Apple used a new court filing to say that the Founding Fathers “would be
SF News Day Around The Bay: YouTube Was Intended As A Dating Site * YouTube was supposed to be a dating site, for posting videos to attract dates, as the company revealed recently. [CNET] * Despite being a totally healthy company and opening a new location across town,
SF News IKEA Opening New Store In Deepest East Bay In 2018 In some excellent news for all those living east of the Caldecott Tunnel, the East Bay will be getting a second IKEA location, in Dublin, which may have the side effect of also
SF News Homelessness Debate Between Mayor's Office And Supervisor Campos Continues The debate on how to best serve the homeless of San Francisco wages on this week in the form of an open letter by Supervisor David Campos and an interview given by Sam
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Do This Week It's a beautiful week with another potentially stormy weekend ahead, but let's just pretend it's spring because it already basically is and get out there doing non-