SF News Mayor Never Convened Promised Working Group On Airbnb Regulations A working group to propose improved Airbnb regulations that Mayor Lee promised to set up by the end of February 2017 when he vetoed the 60-day rental cap is nowhere to be found,
SF News Local Billionaire Donates $5 Million to Flood Relief Effort In San Jose Billionaire donates $5M to aid San Jose flood victims https://t.co/CQFZNXkuYD pic.twitter.com/NTkb8bYDtj— SFGate (@SFGate) March 2, 2017 Though the South Bay is not short on billionaires who could
SF News Men Who Parachuted Off Union Square Hotel Say They Don't Want Any Attention Despite a kiss for the camera and a grinning mug shot, one of the men arrested late Tuesday for BASE jumping from a Union Square hotel says they don't want any attention for
Arts & Entertainment As Colin Kaepernick Becomes Free Agent, He Says He'll Stand For National Anthem Next Season Perhaps following the advice of his agents, or perhaps truly feeling like his protest has run its course, soon-to-be-former 49ers quarterback intimated Thursday that he will be happy to stand for the national
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: SF Loses Gay Games Bid Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Would you wear this Google camera hat? [SFist] Police
SF News Day Around The Bay: New Oakland Police Chief Is Surprised To See So Many Homeless People Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Oakland's new police chief, Anne Kirkpatrick, who had previously
SF News Google Patents Camera Hat, Triggers Painful Google Glass Flashbacks Google was rightfully and properly shamed out of the business of getting people to wear facecomputers, but after Snapchat found success in the wearables arena with its hardware product Spectacles, Google might be
SF News Local Tech Workers Make New Enemies By Crying Poverty Over Six-Figure Salaries File under: Reasons Middle America and much of the world hates us right now. The Guardian has just published a new piece in the perennially popular genre of Stories About How Stupidly Expensive
Arts & Entertainment Ahead Of 'When We Rise' Part Two, ABC 7 Airs Pioneering AIDS Video Diary By Late Reporter Onetime ABC 7 entertainment reporter Paul Wynne decided in 1990, after being diagnosed with HIV and beginning to show the deterioration signs of AIDS, to document the final period of his life in
Arts & Entertainment Enthusiastic Castro Flier Advertises $14,000 'Hamilton' Tickets With 'Supreme Bragging Rights' SHN's Hamilton run enters previews a week from Friday, and someone has a whole lot of scalping to do before then, as a Castro flier spotted by Hoodline leads us to believe. Hoodline
SF News Almost 700,000 Items Were Returned To The Library During Fine Forgiveness Period During a six week fine forgiveness program between January 3 and February 14, the San Francisco Public Library recovered an incredible 699,563 books, CDs, DVDs, and other long overdue materials valued at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open In West Oakland: Old Kan Beer & Co. The brewpub project announced last month in the former Dock at Linden Street space, Old Kan Beer & Co., is now officially open as of today, and partners James Syhabout (Hawker Fare, Commis)
SF News Tesla Denies Female Engineer's Discrimination Claims, Discourages Unionization With Promises Of Froyo And Rollercoasters Tesla engineer AJ Vandermeyden says she's paid a lower salary than her male counterparts for her work at the luxury electric car company where she claims she's subjected to workplace harassment in an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Hotel Under Construction ID'd As Virgin Hotel, With Rooftop Bar Confirmed Back in January, I alerted you to the hotel construction boom that's bringing SF four new hotels this year, three of which appeared to be arriving with rooftop bars an exciting bit of
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Journalism Scandal At Santa Clara U The University of California said it investigated 113 cases of sexual misconduct involving staff and faculty at its 10 campuses over a recent three-year period. [Associated Press] A portion of sidewalk along the
SF News Double-Parking Uber And Lyft Drivers Scramble To Beat Bus Cameras It's one of those moments of media confluence: One the same day that the SF Chronicle announces via headline that "Parking scofflaws can’t escape Muni bus cameras," KRON 4's Stanley Roberts shows
SF News [Update] New Details Emerge In Case Against Orlando Shooter's Widow Noor Salman As Judge Releases Her On Bail Noor Salman reappeared in federal court Wednesday for a scheduled bail hearing following her arrest in January on charges of aiding and abetting terrorism and obstruction of justice. She's expected to stand trial
Arts & Entertainment Your Guide To Becoming A Savvy World Traveler Safely travel the world, and make money while doing it. Expanding your horizons, meeting new people, eating delicious food — it's amazing to travel. But it can also be pricey to do so for
SF News Undocumented Mouse Delays SFO-Bound Plane For Hours Travelers bound for San Francisco were stranded this morning, after a teeny tiny stowaway caused their flight to be canceled. It all went down on British Airways flight 285, which was scheduled to
SF News Parachuters Jump Off Union Square Hotel, Are Promptly Arrested Two wanna-be Xander Cages are behind bars in San Francisco today, after they parachuted off the roof of a downtown San Francisco hotel. San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer Giselle Talkoff says that
SF News Uber CEO Is Sorry For Treatment Of Driver, Declares 'I Need Leadership Help' Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, 40, is going to "grow up." The executive issued a de rigueur apology — excuse me, "profound" apology — after a video released yesterday depicted him arguing with an Uber Black
SF News Pelosi: Trump 'Speaks Like A Populist' But He's Full Of Sh** House Minority leader and other Bay Area Democrats were predictably unimpressed with President Trump's first speech before a joint session of Congress a sort of mock State of the Union address, six weeks
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Colin Kaepernick Opts Out Of 49ers Contract Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here A look at the real people behind When We
SF News Day Around The Bay: Kaepernick Offloads His Bay Area 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. According to a rumor posited by the Wall Street
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 13 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Hey, are you busy? Want to get together and do any/all of these things? Perfect. Just don't invite me to this goddamn onesie pub crawl scheduled for Saturday, I'm avoiding it completely
