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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

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

Joe Kukura Aug. 9

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

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

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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 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

Joe Kukura Aug. 9

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

Shelter In Place Order For Turk And Leavenworth Linked To Suspicious Device

Avoid the area of Turk St and Leavenworth due to Police Activity. Individuals in the area of https://t.co/I1sIkYPYoT pic.twitter.com/fWsqoD5yHY — San Francisco DEM (@SF_emergency) August 9, 2017

Texas Firm Finds It Cheaper To Commute To Silicon Valley By Private Jet Than To Operate There

Lawyers from the Houston-based intellectual property firm of Patterson and Sheridan want the big-money tech clients of Silicon Valley but not the big-money price tags of Bay Area real estate

Beth Spotswood Aug. 9

More Details On The Road Rage Suspect Who Allegedly Started Last Week's Berkeley Hills Fire

24-year-old Alfredo Bautista allegedly admitted to setting eight small fires that blazed through the Berkeley Hills for several days last week. According to KPIX 5, Bautista was involved in a violent

Beth Spotswood Aug. 9

Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Shuttering Chinatown Businesses Blame Central Subway

* Instagram will let you invite friends onto your livestream. [CNet] * How Peter Thiel's company edged its way into police work. [Wired] * Do San Franciscans pay close to half their incomes just

As Jury Selection Is About To Begin In Kate Steinle Murder Trial, Suspect Changes His Name

The accused man in the Kate Steinle shooting trial, which will begin jury selection on August 21, has until now been going by the name Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez. This, it turns out,

Prosecutors Say SF Woman Pulled Trigger In Twin Peaks Slaying

A San Francisco woman who with another man was arrested in a high-profile Twin Peaks homicide pulled the trigger in the crime, prosecutors said this week. As previously reported, San Francisco Police

Airbnb Deactivates Accounts Of Attendees Headed To Alt-Right Rally In Virginia

#YouWillNotReplaceUs pic.twitter.com/u1YRGlq6rj — Cecilia🙋🏼Davenport (@CWDaven) May 14, 2017 As PayPal and GoFundMe have recently done with alt-right figures doing fundraising, Airbnb has taken a stand against users who appear

North Beach Restaurant Manager Accused Of Raping 5-Year-Old Boy

The man once credited with saving a beloved San Francisco restaurant is behind bars today, after prosecutors say he repeatedly sexually assaulted a young boy over the course of five years. Gaspare Giudice

Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Uber Dumps Subprime Car Leasing Program

* Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here * Perhaps if more women take Anita Hill's

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Work Towards Graduate Education On A Budget

Now's the time to start studying for the LSAT or GMAT. Interested in accelerating or switching your career path? Then it's time to start looking at higher education, especially

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Day Around The Bay: Fired Sexist Google Engineer Gets Job Offer From Julian Assange

* This week, a literary magazine is putting out stories using Google AdWords, so you may see short stories that are not trying to sell you anything popping up in Google searches. [AdWeek] * There

Arts & Entertainment

Never Been To Outside Lands? 10 Important Tips For Getting The Most Out Of SF's Big Music Fest

It's the 10th annual outing for Outside Lands this weekend, the sprawling SF music festival in Golden Gate Park that draws around 200,000 people over the course of three days,

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

[Update] SF's Oldest Gay Bar The Gangway Is Once Again Set To Close, May Become 'Kung Fu' Laundromat (Or A Straight Bar)

We knew as of January 2016 that the owner of The Gangway, the oldest continually operating gay bar in the city, at 841 Larkin Street in the 'Loin, was looking to sell

Video: Close Encounter With Mountain Lion For Sequoia Hikers

Mountain lions are wonderful and majestic creatures, but you don’t want to see one perched and ready to pounce on you from about 10 feet away. That’s exactly what happened to

Joe Kukura Aug. 8

Anita Hill Says Women Should Sue If They Want Silicon Valley To Get Less Sexist

In a pointed op-ed in the New York Times today, Anita Hill, who these days is working as a plaintiffs' attorney at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, suggests that "It’

Arts & Entertainment

Noted Sensational 'Rape Rock' Band The Mentors Coming To Oakland's Stork Club Next Month

Attention-getting, sensationally (and perhaps actually) chauvinist heavy-metal/punk band The Mentors, who are now men in their 50s and still shilling what they dubbed "rape rock" going back to