Arts & Entertainment This Mission Creek Houseboat Will Make You Cry The New York Times is good at reminding us about everything we're not. We're not especially fashion conscious by comparison, we're not preoccupied by Ivy League admissions (thank god), and we're certainly not
SF News Google Bus Piñata Attacked At Anti-Gentrification Rally A reported 30 to 40 people attended an anti-gentrification block party in the Mission on Sunday where, among other things, a Google Bus piñata was smashed to ribbons. "The scent of sage was
Arts & Entertainment 'North of NOPA' Now a Thing? The skidmarks at Coldwell Banker, hawking 2020 Ellis, have helped coin a new neighborhood name. And it's disgusting. Anza Vista/Western Addition is now allegedly called—are you sitting down?—North of NOPA.
SF News Polk Street Parking Evangelists May Squash Bike Lane Plan A contentious clash between cyclists, car-parkers and business owners over the Polk Street Corridor Improvement Project has caused the SFMTA to go back to the drawing board and offer some decidedly less bike-friendly
SF News Obama Dining At Getty Mansion Next Week President Barack Obama will head to the Bay Area next week for fundraising events and unparalleled glamour! Before heading to crime-ridden Atherton for a $32,400-a-plate reception, he'll get the chance to dine
SF News Delightful Police Blotter Items From Atherton, California: America's Fourth Richest Zip Code Just a short Prius drive away from the Silicon Valley campuses of Facebook and Google lies Atherton, California: America's fourth richest zip code, where the median home price last year was a startling
Arts & Entertainment FYI, Larry Ellison's Daughter Put Up $45 Million for 'Zero Dark Thirty' So, Megan Ellison, daughter of Oracle billionaire Larry, is now a respected Hollywood producer. With millions of her dad's money to play with each year, she was the major funding source behind The
SF News Atherton, Hillsborough Top Priciest ZIP Codes List New York City's Upper East Side and the Silicon Valley towns of splendor and wealth in California dominated Forbes' 2012 Priciest ZIP Codes List. Atherton (#3), Hillsborough (#5), Los Altos Hills (#7) all
SF News Frank Gehry To Design Facebook's Swank New Engineering Office Anointed with a tree-topped roof garden—all the rage at Twitter—Frank Gehry (Guggenheim Museum, Walt Disney Concert Hall) will design Facebook's new 3,400-employee engineering office in Melo Park, Calif. According to
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Falls Off Billionaire Top Ten List As Facebook's share price took another tumble last week, Mark Zuckerberg got knocked off a list of the world's ten richest techie billionaires. He temporarily lost $423 million of his personal, on-paper fortune
Arts & Entertainment Should the Public Vote On Boxy 8 Washington Condo Complex? A minor debate is percolating over the 8 Washington condo complex set to rise at the waterfront. Said complex will renovation the existing Pacific Sports Resorts at the Gateway facilities and "transformation of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three Twins Ice Cream's $3,333.33 Sundae Explained Cheekily billed as the "World’s Most Expensive Sundae," Three Twins jumps aboard (however satirically) the expensive-food bandwagon with the $3,333.33 sundae. What's in it, you ask? Organic ice cream and
SF News Facebook Names A Price: $38 Per Share Facebook will unleash its historic initial public offering at $38 a share. Billed as the largest internet IPO in history, the deal should garner the social networking mammoth around "$16 billion in proceeds,
SF News Young Tech CEO Calls Facebook 'The Most Important Company Of Our Lifetime' Darian Shirazi — a former front-end software developer for Facebook who now runs Radius, a small-to-medium business sales intelligence company located here in San Francisco — talked to Bloomberg West recently. During the interview, the
SF News SFist Editor To Win 3rd Largest Mega Millions Lotto Tonight [Updated] The Mega Millions lottery now stands at a whopping $363 million. And your SFist editor feels certain, without a doubt to win the entire jackpot, now the third-largest ever, come Tuesday night's drawing.
SF News Luxury Car Drivers Are Jerks, Says UC Berkeley Study Here's a big news flash that ought to blow some minds: According to a study conducted by researchers at UC Berkeley, people who drive expensive cars in the Bay Area are four times
SF News Facebook IPO Could Come Next Week; Investors To See Ridiculous Windfall Over the next few days, Facebook could file an IPO. Raising as much as $10 billion at a valuation anywhere between $75 billion to $100 billion, it stands to be "one of the
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Ed Lee & 1% Attend Fortune's '40 Under 40' Party At Zynga In fancypants news, a gaggle of tech ilk, public relations birds, and assorted media-ish types attended Fortune Magazine's 2011 "40 Under 40" fete at the Zynga headquarters in SOMA. (Think Out Magazine's OUT
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Umami Burger Introduces 'Money Is No Object' Burger Occupy stories too much for your sensitive soul? Well, listen up, you money-to-burn thug: Using a version of his acclaimed truffle hamburger, Umami Burger founder Adam Fleischman created the Money Is No Object
SF News Religious Leaders Join Occupy SF Proving that the Occupy SF movement isn't limited to the average and benign San Francisco protester, Bay Area's religious leaders joined the movement today. With denominations as varied as Muslim and Buddhist to
Arts & Entertainment Watch Burning Man 2011 Gala Live Broadcasting live with Ustream Too poor or too interesting to attend this year's Burning Man festivities in the Black Rock Desert? Have no worries. Here's some live streaming to whet your appetite. Arid-looking,
Arts & Entertainment This Is the Most Important Piece You Will Ever Read On Denise Hale Skullcap-shatteringly brilliant blogger Diane Dorrans Saeks just posted what could possibly be the most important lifestyle piece you will ever read. Why? Because it's about Denise Hale, that's why. And yet? It's also
SF News Kate Middleton's Alexander McQueen Wedding Dress Reviewed Kate Middleton and Prince William got hitched today. Did you watch? Did you cry? Did you even care? Anyway, the most important part of this wedding (nay, any wedding) is the gown. The
Arts & Entertainment Watch Prince William & Kate Middleton Wedding At The Palace Hotel Yeah, we're totally going to this. Whatever. Shut up. When Prince Williams marries Kate Middleton next week, Gilt City and 7x7 will host a party honoring elite British matrimony at the Palace Hotel.
Arts & Entertainment Miss Bigelow's Social City By the Numbers: SF Society Celebrates Giants Home Opener Who was celebrating what: San Francisco society, investors, politicians and other notables came out to AT&T Park to celebrate the season home opener in exclusivity and style. For many said notables,
