SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Battered: Bad News, Press For The Battery Yikes. What started out as an innocent private club/restaurant for the wealthy and unique has all but nosedived into a signifier of the current tech bubble and disastrous PR. We are, of
SF News Google Coming To Mission Bay? Here we go. The City's soul-crushingly beige and stucco Mission Bay district could see a new neighbor coming to town. Google. At least that's the buzz. According to SF Biz Times, the tech
SF News 'Tech Workers Are Not Robots,' Says Mayor Ed Lee In Intriguing NYT Interview In an interview with the New York Times, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee all but french kisses the city's tech industry, the people in it, and all that it embodies. (Understandably so.) Which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What Does Your Toast Say About You As A San Franciscan? Recently in San Francisco, a debate popped up surrounding the cost of toast, which is just slightly burnt bread smeared with a paste made from nuts or fruit or milk. Specifically, people are
SF News Instagram Blocks Drug Search Terms To Avoid Becoming Another Silk Road Did you know that Instagram is being widely used as an open-air drug market? It is. Vice just covered the story of the vast Instagram trade of lean a.k.a sizzurp a.
SF News Google Releases Official Statement About Barge In The Bay Regarding that barge floating in the San Francisco Bay, Google released an official statement about the hunk of metal and mystery. Basically, it's going to be an interactive learning space to learn more
SF News S.F. Rents Are Up 10% From Last Year San Francisco residents have long bemoaned the rising cost of rentals, and now there's word that the increase may be worse than you thought: in the past year alone, rents have risen a
SF News Protest Planned At Twitter Headquarters On IPO Day In an effort to "call attention to corporate tax breaks and the tech company’s role in the San Francisco eviction crisis," a protest will take place outside Twitter headquarters on Thursday to
SF News Working For Google Not All That Awesome, Say Googlers It shouldn't shock anyone that the reality of working for Google is not nearly as swell as what some of us might imagine it to be it is, after all, a job at
SF News Twitter Hikes IPO Price, Could Raise Up To $2 Billion The hotly anticipated public offering of Twitter stock is happening on Thursday, and today the business world is abuzz with news that the company is cockily raising the price range of their first
SF News Mayor Ed Lee To Walk MidMarket This Morning Talking Twitter IPO Twitter's initial public offering is set to happen as early as this Thursday. It's also set to make some people rich and some people unhappy. Naturally. In an effort to sooth concerns on
SF News Tech Guy Says Work/Life Balance Notion Is Dumb, Antiquated Once upon a time when life was less terrible, San Francisco was referred to as a place "where young people go to retire." That is less and less the case these days, what
SF News Kim And Kanye Suing YouTube Co-Founder Over Video Of Their Elaborate Engagement Despite saturating Instagram with photos of their proposal, there are still some parts of their elaborate AT&T Park engagement that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West would like to keep private, at
SF News San Francisco Co-Working Space Throwing 'Hackers & Hookers' Halloween Party A San Francisco co-working space called the Hacker Hideout, which describes itself as a community center for "thinkers and builders; tech lovers and business moguls; students and teachers alike" is throwing a pre-Halloween
SF News Tech Companies Are Trying To Rebrand San Francisco As 'Cloud Corridor' With San Francisco trying hard to redirect the tech sector's focus away from Silicon Valley, a new branding effort coming out of the SoMa's techie hivemind is pushing to re-brand the neighborhood as
SF News Real Estate Investors Target West Oakland For Gentrification As gentrification finger-pointing reaches a fever pitch in the Bay Area, the Wall Street Journal has found a new culprit: real estate investors who are pumping money in spots like West Oakland in
SF News Twitter IPO, Among Other Things, To Spur 'Hyper Gentrification' Many San Franciscans who did not used to be millionaires, who perhaps even couch-surfed in your living room once in the last decade, are going to become suddenly wealthy if they happen to
SF News Facebook Looks To Monetize Teenagers' Posts By Easing Privacy Rules Barely a week after we learned that Google Plus is going to start making us opt out of having our thoughts and personal reviews used by corporations in "social ads," Facebook has turned
Arts & Entertainment Today's Techies Are Yesterday's Hippies, And Other Thoughts From The New Yorker As of late, a flurry of national media attention has followed San Francisco's growth and attendant cultural ramifications (take George Packer's recent Silicon Valley piece or this week's meditation on SF's housing crunch
Arts & Entertainment Haunted House Ups Fright Factor With Start-Up Theme Halloween is coming, and assorted ghouls, goblins, and Miley Cyruses will soon stalk the streets in search of blood. However, the scares this year will come from a different source: a new haunted
SF News Facebook Quietly Ditches Privacy Setting Because You Probably Didn't Know How To Use It Anyway Speaking of Facebook Privacy, the ubiquitous social network is quietly killing off a privacy setting that allowed users to set who could search for their profile and Timeline by name. According to Facebook,
SF News Nobel Peace Prize Winner Notified Of Win Via Twitter When the Nobel Prize committee had trouble notifying their peace prize winner of their award, they did what any overeager PR person or 1D fangirl would do: they @'d them. @OPCW Please contact
SF News Google Will Splash Your Face On Sponsor Endorsements Unless You Opt Out Google wants to make you the new face of [insert brand name here] via a new revision to their terms of service. Basically, the company plans on taking anything you review or rate
SF News Facebook Temporarily Disables User Account For Gay Kiss Pic Well, the gay blogs are making quick work of this one: A Boston-based porn star posted an innocent photo on Facebook, taken yesterday, of himself kissing his husband, and because it was two
SF News Loaded Tech Guy Does Nice Thing For S.F. Schools Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff announced today that his company will donate $2.7 million to "the most important resource in San Francisco" — middle school kids. The donation will help bring the math
