SF Politics California Lawmakers Try Super-Wealthy Tax Once Again California is home to the largest share of the United States’ billionaires. Soon, lawmakers say they could have to pay up.
SF News SF Still Tops New York, Dubai, And Hong Kong For Number of Billionaires Per Capita Just in case you needed another depressing statistic about our local surroundings, San Francisco now has a greater density of billionaires than any other city in the world.
SF News San Jose Is Now The Richest City In The US, SF Is Third According to Bloomberg's analysis of data for the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States — numbers from the Bureau of Economic Analysis — San Jose is the figurative gold medal winner. At $105,
SF News Atherton Is Still, Pretty Definitively, America's Most Expensive Zip Code Home prices in Atherton, already sky high as of last fall when Forbes declared it America's toniest zip code, continue to climb, in part because Forbes published that article. As SFGate's real estate
SF News Bay Area Has 61 Of The Richest Neighborhoods In The U.S. Wealth. There's much of it around us. And despite New York Magazine blithely believing we're all too shy about flaunting it, the 9 counties of the Bay Area boast a whopping 61 of
SF News VC Tom Perkins Continues Trolling San Francisco Tom Perkins, the noted venture capitalist and noticeably insecure ex-husband of Danielle Steel, appeared at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco last night to defend his wildly unpopular opinion that America's wealthiest citizens
Arts & Entertainment And San Francisco's Newest Billionaires Are... SFLuxe published its third annual "Bay Area Billionaires" list. Some of you didn't make the cut. Pathetic. But still, what a list it is! Larry Ellison made it the to the top, of
Arts & Entertainment Class War: S.F. Streets Hungry, Marin Porsche Drunk In Perfect Photo Well, would you look at this. A photo captured by Twitter user David Bellona, himself a designer at Twitter, is making the rounds for its perfect evocation of San Francisco's much-ballyhooed incipient class
SF News Just Who Is 'Middle Class' In S.F.? New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows just how much San Francisco's middle class has faded amidst a growing population of high-income earners. As reported by the SF Examiner, the middle
SF News Current Economic Boom Surpasses Dot-Com Boom In Half The Time Call it the Early Twenty-Teens Tech Boom, or whatever you want to call it, but it has officially surpassed the late-'90s Dot-Com Boom with no slowing in sight. In fact, as Ted Egan
SF News Condo Prices Are Soaring, Too We talk a lot about rental prices and middle-income-earners these days, but the somewhat-better-off have it hard too! Those looking to buy a condo in San Francisco right now are going to find
SF News Art Agnos: 'It's All But Over For The Poor In This City' We've said it several times, and now progressive former mayor Art Agnos chimes in for NPR in a national story about how shitty San Francisco's real estate market now is for the middle
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 This Just In: Local Panhandlers Are Not Getting Rich For people likes Fox News' John Stossel, who believe panhandlers are really raking it in for upwards of $80K/year, here's a news flash: according to a survey funded by the the Union
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
Arts & Entertainment The 9 Best Ways To Splurge In The Bay Area While most of us rely on budgets and think of Whole Foods as a pipe dream, there are those of you who can get what you want whenever you want with a simple
SF News San Francisco Is The Least Affordable City For Middle Class Homeowners When discussing the affordability of San Francisco living, the conversation tends to turn towards whether low income residents and starving artists can still afford to live here amongst all the blue bloods and
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
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 Details Emerge About The Costuming Of Sean Parker's 364 Wedding Guests It's a slow news Friday, and thus we remain obsessed with Sean Parker's ridiculous, over-the-top, Lord of the Rings-themed wedding in the woods in Big Sur, which happened on June 1 but the
SF News S.F. Parking Spot Sells For $82K, Commence Rage If you thought renting an apartment was tough or buying a house was a nightmare (the City's median home price now tips $1 million), you should try nabbing a place to park your
SF News 'Douchebags Like You Are Ruining San Francisco,' Gen-X Techie Says To Millennial Techies There's been enough tech vs. art or rich vs. poor handwringing going around lately that we suppose this was inevitable: A self-proclaimed "part of the gentrification" from the early '90s Mission district and
Arts & Entertainment Feel Bad For This Poor Big Sur Tree What's more important than the tranquility and environmental delicacy of Big Sur? Sean Parker, it seems. The early-aughts throwback, if you recall, held his wedding in Bug Sur (a place that, for many,
Arts & Entertainment One Night Stand: The Ritz-Carlton's Magical Club Level Welcome back to One Night Stand, a regular-ish feature where far-too-fancy hotels in San Francisco arrange to put us up for the night (translation: we eat/stay for free), and then we write
Arts & Entertainment Here Comes 'The Battery,' Another Lavish Private Club You Can't Afford Whither the city's insatiable appetite for all things exclusive? To a private club complete with 20-person hot tub and chandelier of taxidermy seagulls, apparently. Opening this summer, The Battery is a 50,000
