Business & Tech Uber Gets Back in the California DMV's Good Graces With New Self-Driving Car Permit A little over three years after it unleashed some self-driving cars in San Francisco without any legal permit to do so, Uber has just been granted a new permit to test the autonomous vehicles on California streets.
SF Politics Op-Ed: Whatever You Think Of Nancy Pelosi's Lack of Decorum, Ripping Up That Speech Was Everything SF's own Nancy Pelosi yet again made one for the meme history books on Tuesday night when she used her on-camera moment behind President Trump to rip her copy of his State of the Union address in half. And this is what makes her a badass bitch.
SF News Alamo Square Painted Lady In Need Of Heavy Renovation Sells for $3.5M, $750K Over Asking One of the iconic Painted Ladies along the Steiner Street side of Alamo Square Park just sold after about three weeks on the market. And despite its horrific moldy bathrooms and non-existent kitchen, it went for $750K over asking.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Two Flights Land From Wuhan PG&E cleared another bankruptcy hurdle, five San Jose healthcare workers possibly exposed to the coronavirus were sent home, and a total of 350 Americans are now quarantined at a military base in Solano County after arriving from Wuhan.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 250 Americans Evacuated From Wuhan Headed To Bay Area Quarantine A woman died after crashing into a parked big rig in Santa Rosa, a new statewide rent-control measure is headed to the ballot, and Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield is going to be taking 250 Americans into quarantine from China.
SF News Transamerica Pyramid Sells For A Dizzying $700M Arguably our city’s most iconic tower, the Transamerica Pyramid has — after hitting the market last August — reportedly sold to a New York developer for a heart-stopping $700M.
Business & Tech Top 10 Airbnb Scams Bamboozling Users Out of Money Across the World “The plumbing suddenly broke” is the new “dog ate my homework” on the often-inhospitable hospitality platform.
Arts & Entertainment Nia Vardalos's 'Tiny Beautiful Things' Is a Moving Winter Balm at SF Playhouse Adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), Tiny Beautiful Things recounts the story of Cheryl Strayed’s experiences as an anonymous advice writer whose column “Dear Sugar” on The Rumpus made her something of an enigmatic national phenomenon.
SF Politics Was Mohammed Nuru's Self-Propelled PR Machine To Blame For San Francisco's Filth? The latest City Hall scandal has a lot of people asking whether our allegedly corrupt director of Public Works wasn't at least partly to blame for either pretending the problem wasn't as bad as it was, or fundamentally mis-managing the department responsible for keeping things clean.
Bay Area Sports Steph Curry Throws Shade at Younger Grizzlies Players Over Iguodala Trade Talk Rumors are mounting that Iguodala may get traded again before Thursday's trade deadline — something that a couple of his younger Grizzlies teammates are publicly hoping for, and that doesn't sit well with Steph.
Arts & Entertainment SF Artist Sues Pixar For Copying Her Unicorn-Painted Van In New Film 'Onward' A San Francisco-based tattoo artist who once lent her "tremendously cool" van with a unicorn mural on the side of it to Pixar is now suing the Disney-owned animation studio for copying her "superlative work of automotive art" in an upcoming film without her permission.
SF Politics Watch a Homophobic Iowa Voter Find Out That Her Candidate Is Gay A video has come in from one of the caucus precincts in Iowa last night where a woman covered in Pete Buttigieg stickers finds out for the first time — astonishingly! — that her chosen candidate is indeed a homosexual.
SF Politics City Attorney Vows Thorough, Independent Investigation Of City Contracts Linked To Nuru Dennis Herrera, in conjunction with the city's Controller, said today that an independent investigation — beholden to no one at City Hall — is already underway into any potential improprieties in contracts linked to the DPW and its recently federally charged director.
Business & Tech Walgreens to Pay $7.5 Million to Two Bay Area Counties Over Phony Pharmacist The Walgreens pharmacy chain has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a case in which an employee succeeded in impersonating a pharmacist for 11 years and illegally wrote prescriptions for patients in Alameda and Santa Clara counties.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Iowa's a Mess A Brisbane resident shot an alleged home invader, a Santa Clara County sheriff's deputy wearing a turban was shot at by a passing car, and the San Benito County couple with the coronavirus is in isolation at UCSF Parnassus.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Greyhound Bus Shooter ID'd A thief was caught on camera stealing an SF woman's wedding dress from her front porch, a four-year-old girl's death in the Bayview is being treated as suspicious, and Michael Bloomberg is alone campaigning in California right now.
SF News Wiener Introduces PG&E Public-Takeover Plan, Utility’s Stock Jumps 12 Percent Anyway PG&E wants to dig out of their problems by just adding some safety experts to their board, but state Senator Scott Wiener would prefer to end PG&E as we know it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kin Khao Delivery App Mix-Up Involved Ghost-Kitchen Restaurant That Serves Out of a Trailer in the Mission Last week's news about a bizarre situation that felt like a scam has an update, and it's not going to inspire trust in the world of food delivery apps.
SF News [Update] San Benito County Couple Infected With Coronavirus Moved to UCSF Parnassus The coronavirus has officially arrived in San Francisco as of Monday after a husband and wife who both tested positive for the virus arrived at an unnamed San Francisco hospital.
SF News Walking Through SFO Currently 'Like Stepping Into a Contagion Movie'; Expect Six-Hour Customs Lines Unless you have Mobile Passport and other enhancements, and especially if you're arriving from Asia, the customs situation for international travelers at SFO is currently lengthy and scary and straight out of contagion-disaster films.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two More Castro Restaurants Shutter: Slurp and Dapper Dog The Castro really can't catch a break when it comes to the retail vacancy epidemic that is sweeping multiple SF neighborhoods. And now we learn that two more restaurants have permanently closed on the once hopping strip of Castro Street between Market and 18th.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Best Sushi Spots in Oakland, Berkeley and the East Bay SFist has already covered the stellar sushi scene in San Francisco, so now it's time to survey the best of the best nigiri and sashimi on the other side of the Bay.
Bay Area Sports Daisy Does the Niners: Super Bowl LIV and the Agony of Defeat When I agreed to come of “retirement” to write about the Niners being in the Super Bowl, I obviously wasn’t envisioning this: a devastating loss to the Kansas City Chiefs made even more upsetting due to the fact that it really seemed like the 49ers were going to win the game.
SF News Sanctioned RV Lot for Homeless In Oakland Delayed After Some Encampment Dwellers Refuse to Leave A planned RV and vehicle "triage" lot for the homeless in West Oakland, similar to one that opened last year in SF, is getting delayed as the property owner is now entering an eviction fight with a group of encampment residents who refused to leave under the city's orders last fall.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Major Backup on Bay Bridge A high school student fatally shot Friday in Antioch has been identified, an injury accident caused a major delay on the westbound Bay Bridge this morning, and reporters are intercepting sad 49ers fans arriving back at SFO from Miami.
