New App Tells You Which of Your Friends Are Dicks (If You Didn't Know Already)
There is now an app and bracelet that will tell you which of your friends stress you out. Fast Company reported that the app, named Pplkpr (vowels are sooo 2012), will monitor users' heart rates to...
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This Map Shows Just How Many Kids Aren't Vaccinated In California
A new map from the Washington Post shows how much anti-vaccine sentiment there is in California. While San Francisco and nearby Silicon Valley counties are comparatively pro-vaccine, Santa Cruz, Marin,...
View ArticleThe Online-Dating Network That Refuses to Disappear
In the world of very casual online dating, relationships may be fleeting, but the interactions with those failed dates don’t always have a clear ending. The people you meet often find a way to linger...
View ArticleWill Intense PMS Sabotage My Relationship?
Dear Jessica, My boyfriend and I have been dating for two years. We are both very serious about our relationship and we have been talking about marriage and we recently started living together. Things...
View ArticleAlert: You Can Get Free Dinner For The Next Two Weeks
Are you currently saving your money because you know the first of the month is coming up real soon and you need to pay rent? If you’re envious of all your friends who are chowing down on their fancy...
View ArticleFor the Love of God, the Castro Doesn't Need Any More Coffee Shops
I came, I saw, I drank coffee. No, this uninspiring riff off of Julius Caesar’s post-victory decree isn’t coming to you from Seattle, the motherland of coffee everything; it’s wafting your way straight...
View ArticleHow Elite Dating App The League Defines "Douchebag"
Remember how Marissa Mayer didn’t want Gwyneth Paltrow working for Yahoo because the actress didn’t finish college? Well, that same hospitality permeates dating apps too, such that the New York Times...
View ArticleWhy Magnolia Brewery's Take on BBQ is So Damn Good
Some of you may be familiar with Magnolia Gastropub and Brewery, a little pub down on Haight Street. They make excellent small-batch beers, and their menu includes things made with dates and bacon that...
View ArticleRather Than Widen the Wealth Divide, SF's Tech Leaders Need to Help Close It
Tim Redmond’s latest tech-bashing post on 48Hills, in which he runs a fiery speech that writer David Talbot gave at Stanford, as well as criticism of Talbot’s perspectives by Bernalwood blogger Todd...
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Here's How Much You Have to Earn to Be a Baller in California
Bad news for anyone who aspires to become a one-percenter in California: The bar to entry is among the highest in the nation. According to anew report from the Economic Policy Institute, to join the...
View ArticleNew CNN Series Explores The Kinky Side of Silicon Valley
“And sex, it can be hacked.” This sentence introduces CNN’s new web series“Sex, Drugs and Silicon Valley,” in which tech reporter Laurie Segall explores the industry's hedonistic subculture.The series...
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New Ad Combines SF's Favorite Things: Pizza, Sriracha, & Kinky Stuff
This week Domino's Israel launched a print ad campaign that combined some things San Franciscans are known to love: pizza, Sriracha, and bondage. The company is advertising its new Sriracha infused...
View ArticleWhat It's Really Like Growing Up in San Francisco
I credit pop culture with much of the meaningless joy I’ve experienced in my life, but I hold it fully responsible for the preconceived notions many nonnatives have about growing up in San Francisco....
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If You Dress Like a Toddler You Are Totally Ahead of the Babycore Trend
Last week I was standing at a crosswalk when a mother with a toddler in a stroller pulled up next to me. The tiny girl peeped over the side to look at my outfit; a black dress with polka dot tights and...
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Here's How You Can Help Those Affected By The Mission Fire
A four-alarm fire rang through the Mission yesterday, killing one and injuring six, while displacing about 40 people. It began at 22nd and Mission Streets early Wednesday evening and wasn’t contained...
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What to Eat at the Liholiho Yacht Club
There is a small handful of hole in the wall restaurants serving approximations of Hawaiian food in town, but last night’s opening of Liholiho Yacht Club (871 Sutter Street) brings a true taste of...
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Watch Epic Sand Art Get Made This Sat
Artist and San Francisco native Andres Amador will create a sand sculpture (and accompanying film) this Saturday, January 31, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Stinson Beach. Amador is wellknown for his...
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Newsweek's Story About Sexism in Silicon Valley Misses the Point
Newsweek’s current cover story, “What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women,” follows two twenty-something female programmers, Lauren Mosenthal and Eileen Carey. They’re fighting to secure VC funding for a...
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The Battle Over One of SF's "Most Dangerous Streets"
They call it a “radical agenda” and attack it with a ferocity more typical of, say, anti-vaxxers or parents against circumcision. “It’s going to kill business,” 90-year-old Rita Paoli told the...
View ArticleA Noob's Guide To Why San Francisco Hates the Seahawks
Not everyone is a football expert and with the Superbowl happening this weekend, more than a few of us are left wondering who to root for. (Personally, I consider Superbowl Sunday to be all about hot...
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