SF News Appalling Embarcadero Fountain Would Cost a Half Million Dollars To Turn Back On I love the angular Vaillancourt Fountain, the 40-foot tall concrete tangle of disjointed modernist square tubes at the northern end of Justin Herman Plaza, mostly thanks to fond memories of the location that
SF News Joy Venturini Bianchi Gets Fired From Charity After Chronicle's Major Exposé In a December 2016 expose that floored nearly all of San Francisco society, an investigative team from the San Francisco Chronicle released a scathing report detailing the shady dealings of a well-known bespectacled
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Uber Still Wants To Be Loved, Will Deliver Free Ice Cream Friday This is the third story about Uber I'm writing today, and given the company's well publicized issues it's about time we have something cheery. On Friday, August 11, Uber will be delivering free
SF News Local Musician Dies In Oakland After Chasing Laptop Thief, Getting Dragged By Car #DEVELOPING Local musician Dave Deporis may have died trying to save his music...killed after chasing thief who stole laptop. #Abc7now pic.twitter.com/znby3bymco— Laura Anthony (@LauraAnthony7) August 10, 2017 Well known
Arts & Entertainment I Watched The 'Life Of Kylie' Prom Episode Shot In Sacramento And I Have Some Thoughts Kylie Jenner has her own TV show now, it premiered over the weekend, and I'll cut to the chase and just say it's the most cynical, vapid, depressing piece of reality television garbage
SF News Video: That Fired Google Manifesto Guy Says His Feelings Are Hurt :( Fired Google engineer James Damore has defended his memo and says he feels "hurt" https://t.co/2NqmKuwsf6 pic.twitter.com/ezuxXp211X— Bloomberg (@business) August 10, 2017 Former Google engineer James Damore was
SF News Report: Self-Driving Cars Are Hilariously Easy To Fool Hell hath no fury like tech bros being told that their self-driving cars, artificial intelligence, and machine-learning technologies are overhyped and nowhere near ready for market. But with that in mind, SFist will
SF News Bay Area Man Seeks Woman With Whom To Conceive A Child During Upcoming Eclipse We won't get to see the total solar eclipse here in the Bay Area, but it will be visible through a swath of northern Oregon, and at least one local man wants to
SF News Key Uber Investor Sues Travis Kalanick To Get Him Off The Company's Board Fasten your seatbelts, Uber watchers. The company's ride is about to get a good bit rougher. Benchmark Capital, an early investor in Uber which maintains a seat on Uber's board of directors, is
SF News Woman Robbed After Hailing Cab To Tenderloin A woman picked up by a cab on an SF street was robbed early Wednesday, by a driver who then kicked her out of the car. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson
SF News Thursday Lunchtime Links: Do You Live On A Privately Owned Street? A useful and brief look at there were are with the Hunter's Point redevelopment project. [SocketSite] More on Instagram's disappearing photo problem. [Consumerist] Domestic violence charges against former San Francisco 49ers cornerback Tramaine
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Robot Barista At Metreon Charges For Healthcare So this is funny: There's a robot-manned coffee bar thing at the Metreon called Cafe X, and even it wants you to chip for its healthcare. Local blogger Mr. Eric Sir alerts us
SF News Mailman Robbed In Brazen Noontime Heist A mail carrier was robbed Wednesday, as he sorted packages near McLaren Park. Police say the crime went down at 12 noon Wednesday, on the 600 block of Campbell Avenue in Visitacion Valley.
SF News Study: Uber Drivers Game The System To Force Surge Pricing Just when you thought we might get through the week without another irritating tidbit about Uber, we have news of a study of Uber drivers in New York and London that suggests there
SF News Trio Of Suspects Shoots Man In Mission An early morning shooting sent a man to the hospital Thursday, but police say the men behind the incident remain at large. According to the San Francisco Police Department, at 1:15 this
Arts & Entertainment 'Good Time' Will Take Your Breath Away begins with a close-up on a young man's face. When he speaks, the sound of his voice suggests that he has a developmental disability. His name is Nick, and he's with a psychiatrist
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Old Tombstone Found Beneath SF Home Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Why take a tech bus when you can fly?
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SF News Day Around The Bay: Fired Google Engineer Fudged His Resume The fired Google software engineer who wrote that lengthy diatribe about how women aren't biologically suited for tech stuff, James Damore, apparently had a PhD in Systems Biology on his LinkedIn page that
SF News Sinking Millennium Tower Will Tilt 10 More Inches By 2019, Lawyers Argue It’s been ten whole days since the sinking Millennium Tower has been in the news, which is pretty good for the troubled development that. But attorneys for homeowners suing Millennium partners insist
SF News Presidio Terrace Homeowners Have Lost Track Of A Common Property Tax Bill Before The tale of the Presidio Terrace homeowners' street and sidewalks being bought out from under them and held hostage by a couple of savvy, arguably opportunistic real estate investors who bought the cul
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open In Noe: Ardiana, From Gialina/Ragazza Chef New neighborhood restaurant @ardiana_sf brought to us by #gialinapizzeria and #regazzasf A post shared by Michael Kelly (@moykiek) on Aug 8, 2017 at 6:30pm PDT Sharon Ardiana, the chef-restaurateur behind successful
Arts & Entertainment Employment Sadness: SF Couple Seeks Assistant To Do Absolutely Everything From Manicures To Instagram Occasionally, Craigslist offers us a naked glimpse into the world we live in now and the insufferable private lives of its inhabitants, much as it offers us a window into the horrors of
SF News SF Officials Create Emergency Plan For North Korean Nuclear Attack You always kind of figured that the election of Donald Trump as president would lead us to prepare for a nuclear holocaust, and here we are. After learning in May that North Korean
SF News Driver Arrested After Allegedly Killing Woman On San Francisco Sidewalk A driver who allegedly killed a pedestrian as he sped from an argument has been arrested, San Francisco police said Wednesday, and faces both felony and misdemeanor counts in the case. Bay City
