SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fancy Sunday Brunch Alert: 10-Year Anniversary at Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay Yearning to leave the city this weekend, but not stray too far from San Francisco? Want to get buzzed on some top-drawer champagne and grub? Have a rich aunt or uncle in town?
Arts & Entertainment Miss Bigelow's Social City By the Numbers: Anna Wintour at the De Young for Balenciaga Bash Number of people pictured in this week's Miss Bigelow's Social City: 83 Minority count: 2 (Yurie Pascarella, David Chung) Getty vs Traina: 4/4 (It's a tie!) Who was celebrating what: Dede Wilsey's
SF News Miss Bigelow's Social City By the Numbers: CalShakes at Four Seasons Number of people pictured in this week's Miss Bigelow's Social City: 69 Minority count: 8 Getty vs Traina: 0 to 0 Who was celebrating what: CalShakes' "One Great Party" fundraiser at the Four
SF News Rumor Mill: Facebook, Google Eyeing Twitter Buy? Rumors are swirling - swirling! - about Google and Facebook conducting clandestine meetings about about buying Twitter. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Executives at both Facebook Inc. and Google Inc., among other
SF News Google's Eric Schmidt Nets $100 Million Although Google CEO Eric Schmidt is on his way out of the prized gig - company co-founder Larry Page, 37 (!), will replace Schmidt in April - he will be awarded $100 million worth
SF News Shares of Facebook & Twitter On Sale Hey, rich people with nary a care in the world! Listen up: Although they have yet to go public, Facebook and Twitter (as well as San Francisco-based Zynga) have shares to sell. According
SF News Haight Voters Rejected Sit/Lie: But Money and Votes from City's Richest Hoods Made for Successful Measure L While Haight residents rejected Measure L -- election 2010's divisive sit/lie law that, after passing, will now keep city sidewalks sparkling clean, or whatever -- loads of cash and plenty of votes
SF News People Wore Fancy Clothes at Tuesday's San Francisco Symphony Gala Last night, the San Francisco Symphony kicked off another season via--you guessed it--a posh gala. Who was there? People with loads of money, that's who. Let's see: Marissa Mayer sported a gorgeous red
misc Nob Hill Gazette's 'Best of Bay Area' Features Best Private Jet Company, Plastic Surgeon, More Following the release of SF Bay Guardian's Best of San Francisco guide, The Nob Hill Gazette ("An Attitude, not an Address") launched their own Best of the Bay Area guide as decided by
misc Robert Downey Jr. Parties at Getty Manse Robert Downey Jr., star of such blockbusters as Chances Are and Only You stopped by Ann and Gordon Getty's fortress last night. Along with gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown, the ruling Getty duo hosted
misc Social City By the Numbers Number of people pictured in Saturday's "Miss Bigelow's Social City": 72 Minority count: 6 The help: 1 Who was celebrating what and where: At the Legion of Honor where a dubiously-named committee crawled
misc Social City By The Numbers Number of people pictured in today's Miss Bigelow's Social City: 51 Minority count: 1 Who was celebrating what: The social registry's most vulgar at Nicola Bulgari's celebration of the re-located and re-designed Bulgari
SF News Social City By The Numbers Number of people pictured in this week's Miss Bigelow's Social City: 28 Minority count: 20 -- a minority blowout! Who was celebrating what: Arts of Pacific Asia Show at at Fort Mason Center
misc Miss Bigelow's Social City By the Numbers Number of people pictured in this week's Miss Bigelow's Social City: 50 Minority count: 7 (14%) Number of people whom we recognize: 5 (Alexis Traina and Vanessa Getty, Chief Justice Ronald George, Tatiana
SF News Miss Bigelow's Social City By The Numbers Following in the footsteps of Rita Hao's groundbreaking Swells By The Numbers -- where she carefully deconstructed Catherine Bigelow's "Swells" society column --SFist returns to San Francisco's upper echelon registry with, you guessed
SF News Breaking: Twitter Founder Sells Home, Buys Home The fine folks over at Curbed reported yesterday that Twitter co-founder Evan Williams (heretofore known as @ev) sold his SOMA penthouse (going for a scant $1,498,000) on Fourth Street. You know,
SF News Two Studies Conflict Over Number of Millionaires in San Francisco DISCLAIMER: The following post is aimed at statistics wonks and math nerds and those who want to mock certain newspapers only. Two studies produced by the same organization seem to present conflicting numbers
SF News Reading This Post Will Make You Want to Kill a Getty (Except Vanessa, That Is) Oh God. SF Chronicle's City Brights, a last-grasp kind of web-log that features local "luminaries" writing about their mental bowel movements, has a new member to the team. Two of them, actually: Peter
SF News Breaking: Larry Page Is Rich The uber- and always-divine Leah Garchik reports on who the wealthiest person in San Francisco is: Larry Page, co-founder and of Google. (Of course, the award for sexiest-wealthiest person in San Francisco, hands
SF News We're Richer Than All Of This New Hollywood Trash What with all of the Dedes, Newsoms, Nessies, and guilty white trustifarians using "gentrification!" as both a battle cry AND a lifestyle, it should come as no surprise to you that San Francisco
misc Reason No. 784393 to Love Danielle Steel We love Danielle Steel. A lot. Why? We can't pinpoint; there are many reasons to adore this SF-based writer. Her soft-focused images on the back of her books; her rumored affection for SFist
SF News BLŪ In Review The wait is over. Curbed has some gorgeous shots of the new apartment building recently erected on Folsom and Second Streets. Take, for example, the bathroom above in Penthouse Unit A at BLŪ,
SF News Forbes Big Bounty of Bay Area Billioniares Forbes annual list of billionaires around the world came out today. Jealous? And for the first time in 14 years Warren Buffett (at $62 billion) snatched the number one spot from Bill Gates
SF News Well, They're Moving On Up: One Rincon Hill Opens for Business Every night from our janky turn-of-the-century Victorian apartment, inside our janky bedroom, from within the sheets of our janky bed we look out our window at the thin, glassy penis that is One
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Doug Benson: How he didn't win the last season of Last Comic Standing is above and beyond all logic. Then again, competitive reality TV makes little sense at times. (See: Banks, Tyra)
