SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Google's First Chef To Honor Elvis' Birthday Tonight Did you know that today is Elvis' birthday? (Is there a sign more unfortunate being born under than that of Capricorn? [Hi, Andrew!]) And with that, we must tell you that Chef Charlie
SF News How To Live Like A Voluntarily Homeless Silicon Valley Entrepreneur It can be hard out there for budding young entrepreneurs. Between the lunches at coffee shop offices and the constantly upgrading MacBooks, expenses start to add up. That's why one cost-cutting potential Zuckerberg
SF News Possible Serial Sexual Groper At Large In Palo Alto A recent sexual groping incident in Palo Alto might be tied to a similar sexual battery case that occurred Aug. 20 near downtown Palo Alto. According to CBS 5, a woman in her
SF News Burglary Suspect Broke In, Robbed Steve Jobs' Home With House Key One Kariem McFarlin, a former San Jose State football player, is currently in jail after looting tens of thousands of dollars worth of electronics, jewelry and household items from the home of late
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deplorable Teens Hit Pedestrian In The Face With Milkshake A horde of teens who assaulted a woman on Sunday are in a thick wad of trouble. The merry band of useless hormone cases, it seems, tossed a milkshake at a female pedestrian
Arts & Entertainment Jeremy Lin, Autotuned Knicks savior and Palo Alto High alum Jeremy Lin has just gotten the Autotune treatment from DJ Steve Porter. It's called "All He Does Is Lin." Let the Lin-sanity Lin-ger on... [via The
SF News Jeremy Lin-sanity Shows No Sign Of Abating The media's love for New York Knicks star point guard (and Palo Alto native) Jeremy Lin is in high gear, and this week finds Lin popping up in all kinds of headlines. He's
Arts & Entertainment Jeremy Lin, James Franco: Palo Alto High Boasts Impressive Alumni Jeremy Lin, now a member of the New York Knicks, played on the 2006 Palo Alto High School basketball team before attending Harvard. While at Palo Alto HS, he helped his team win
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick-or-Treaters Descend Upon Steve Jobs' House Sure, we've all gone out of our way to get the top-shelf Halloween treats from the rich neighbors down the street, but we never lived down the street from Steve Jobs' home on
SF News Palo Alto Apple Store Windows Covered By Memorial Notes Photographer (and cherished SFist commenter) Katy German snapped these shots of the Palo Alto Apple store's window today. Fans left a slew of notes, Pixar-based characters, flowers, a comparison to him as our
SF News NIMBY Watch: Peninsula Denizens Win Small Victory in High-Speed Rail Battle The California High-Speed Rail Authority says it was caught by surprise this week with a letter from the Bay Area Council and regional transportation agencies calling for a revised high-speed rail plan on
Arts & Entertainment 'GQ' Declares Stanford 4th Douchiest U.S. College In a highly scientific study released by GQ, noted Palo Alto community college Stanford came in as the 4th douchiest college in the country. Notable douchbag alums include: Herbert Hoover, Mike Mussina, John
SF News Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Would Prefer Another Bridge Over the Bay Than Seeing High-Speed Rail on the Peninsula [Updated] As we've discussed earlier, wealthy Peninsula communities like Palo Alto and Menlo Park have been seething for years about the plan to bring the LA-SF high-speed rail line through their pristine environs. They've
SF News 911 Call Center Receives 566 Fake Calls In 5 Hour A Palo Alto 11 dispatch center got 566 phantom emergency calls in five hours, reports KTVU. "The siege of calls to the Palo Alto emergency communications center started Jan 13 at 8:30
SF News 19-Year-Old Killed On Caltrain Tracks Described as "an intentional act" by Caltrain authorities, an unidentified 19-year-old Palo Alto man was struck and killed this morning by a train in Palo Alto. Happening just after midnight, "the man was
SF News Peninsula Wealthy Don't Want No Stinkin High-Speed Rail The cities of Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Atherton, along with five environmental and citizens groups, filed suit Monday to stop the proposed high-speed rail that will rip through their quiet enclaves, if
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Stalked With a a movie about the 26-year-old Facebook CEO's life due in theaters this year, it makes sense that Mark Zuckerberg, a billionaire-cum-celebrity who made millions off of your privacy, would have his
SF News HP Job Cuts Loom Palo Alto-based Hewlett-Packard plans on exfoliating some 9,000 jobs this year to save "about $500 million to $700 million a year" via the implementation of automated data centers. Associated Press (via CBS
SF News Facebook Switches to Non-Union Shuttle Drivers Horrors! In addition to privacy erosion, Facebook stopped using union drivers to shuttle their geek-chic brethren to and fro the Palo Alto office. SFist's contributor Cedric sent us this flyer he picked up
SF News Tesla's New Palo Alto Plant Will Create 1,600 Bay Area Jobs The federal funding of $465 million which Tesla Motors scored in June of last year is now officially official. The first $100 million is dedicated to building Tesla's powertrain while the remainder will
SF News Parents Petition Caltrain to Reduce Train Speed In Palo Alto After four students at Gunn High School committed suicide "at or near the same Caltrain crossing in Palo Alto," a group of area parents have asked Caltrain to reduce the speed of trains
SF News Palo Alto's Fourth Teen Train Suicide The area just south of the East Meadow Drive crossing in Palo Alto has turned into something of a destination spot for depressed teenagers looking to end it all. Since May of this
SF News Palo Alto Spat Leads to Cleaver Attack And now, for a dramatic morning dose of the macabre, we present too you a story about a man accused of attacking a colleague with a meat cleaver in Palo Alto. Happening at
misc Unlike 511.org, We're Never Too Busy for Transit BART will be there to do a presentation, and Caltrain, and NextBus, and the MTC; they'll be joined by a ton of eager software developers and UI designers and social-engineering-types. Will Muni be
