Goodies ranging from magnetic space putty to an under-desk headphones mount. Ever had a workday that feels like it's been ripped straight out of Office Space? If a stapler is the most exciting thing on your desk right now — or you're just one "that&
* A new lawsuit is accusing Uber of compensating women less than male counterparts. [Ars Technica] * Uber launches multi-stop trips in the U.S. and Canada. [VentureBeat] * Man has backpack stolen in SF, then someone used his stolen ID to get a $52,310 surgery. [Chronicle] * [Forbes] thinks we'
Good eeeeeveninnnng . With the spectre of Halloween weekend now upon us, storefronts across town are chasing your party and costume dolla with revolting retail window displays of fiendish proportions. As we’ve done in years past, SFist vamped all over town to find the most gruesome specimens of window display
The ongoing villainizing of Facebook for its role as a disseminator of fake news and Russian-fed propaganda in the 2016 election necessarily leads to a discussion of another very significant villain: the laziness of an enormous segment of Facebook's user base who consume and share news only
A new study from a potentially self-interested source (a personal injury law firm) has found that SF's most dangerous intersection for pedestrians is Fifth and Market Street, at least when looking at the years 2010 to 2016. As CBS 5 reports, the study comes from personal injury
Following their deal to acquire a portion of Rite Aid's store inventory, Walgreens announced this week that it plans to shutter 600 stores, most of them under the Rite Aid brand, but including some Walgreens locations as well. As the SF Business Times reports, the plan is to
Forget the Hermit and the Three of Cups. You can get your tarot cards read with far more contemporary symbols of joy and dread: The Social Network Tarots. This appears, for now, just to be a poster created by Italian artist and illustrator Jacopo Rosati, but there's nothing
Fans of the now shuttered Two Sisters Bar & Books in Hayes Valley can rest assured that they can still find a bit of that magic across the Bay, in the form of new wine bar and cafe Les Arceaux, in Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto (in the former Bistro
A post shared by Brandon LaMere (@left_blank) on Oct 23, 2017 at 9:51pm PDT * Apple's original programming will all be PG-rated, so good luck with that. [Bloomberg Businessweek] * "We Don’t Need a New iPhone Every Year," [Slate] argues. * Development of Fulton Street
Fears of Amazon competition might kill San Francisco's eighth Whole Foods location before it even has a chance to open its doors, as the battle between big box and online retail spills onto the grocery chain's floors. The fight is in San Francisco's City
Almost a year ago, 34-year-old Sherri Papini was found bruised, beaten, branded, and partially shackled by the side of a highway in Northern California after she had gone missing three weeks earlier while out jogging in her neighborhood near Redding. Now, for the first time in six months,
Three people were injured, one severely, after two drivers passing through Golden Gate Park lost control and slammed into some nearby trees. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the crash occurred at 7:26 p.m. Wednesday, near where Crossover Drive meets with Park Presidio Boulevard. Tweets from the