One of our top phobias is being buried alive -- and now this.
A San Francisco man was found trapped inside a wall of an office building at 55 Hawthorne Street yesterday afternoon. According to Officer Gordon Shyy, the cops were called to the building at about 4:20 p.m. where a man had been heard yelling from the walls near the front entrance.
There's probably no way for Facebook to be satisfied with its overall market penetration when an estimated 5 billion people in the world still lack an Internet connection.
Which means that billions of people still aren't posting status updates or "liking" your food photos on Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg, et. al., apparently found that problem so vexing that they chose a rather extreme solution: Boost the market on Earth by colonizing outer space.
Update: The Willows owner calls us back, explains his logic. Read at the bottom of the story.
If you thought the stand off between Google Glass and San Francisco's favorite watering holes was over, you thought wrong.
The Willows, the super chill gastropub in SOMA, has decided Google Glass-wearing techies are persona non grata at the bar as long as they're donning the wearable computers, according to this image snapped by Broke-Ass Stuart the other day.
We called The Willows to find out whether Google Glass is a real problem there, or if this is just a preemptive measure, considering the craziness that went down at Molotov's in the Lower Haight last week.
Two months after Uber CEO Travis Kalanick offered customers a New Year's Eve primer on how to avoid getting gouged by Uber, the company is redoubling its charm offensive.
In a blog published Monday afternoon, Uber introduced a new app to bypass Uber gouging. Called Surge Drop, it notifies users when surge pricing ends at their location, so that they can wait for a cheaper ride.
"We're taking transparency to the next level!" gushed the blog, penned by a company that's widely reviled for its lack of transparency.
Asked to explain the impetus for Surge Drop, an Uber spokesman pointed back to the blog post, which characterizes the feature as an olive branch for irritated consumers. "We'll stay true to our pledge to get you the fastest ride available, and sometimes that will require surge pricing to get more drivers on the road," the blog says. But it alleviates the laissez-faire model somewhat by offering a cheaper alternative for those who can wait.
Update 12:40 p.m.: Police are releasing more details about last night's murder-suicide. According to Officer Gordon Shyy, a 60-year-old woman went to the nursing home to visit her 93-year-old mother at about 5:30 p.m. After two or three hours, staff members went inside the mother's room where they found both women shot to death.
"The door to the room had been closed at the staff did not notice anything was amiss during the visit, " Shyy tells us. "At this time, SFPD is investigating this incident as a murder suicide and this appears to be an isolated incident, meaning, we do not believe there are any other victims related to the two involved parties.
Original story 7:24 a.m.:San Francisco police are investigating what appears to be a murder-suicide at a nursing home in the Western Addition last night.
At about 8:15 p.m. police were called to a nursing facility -- which news stations later identified as the Central Gardens Skilled Nursing Facility at 1355 Ellis St. -- to conduct a welfare check. When they arrived, they found two deceased people inside.
"After preliminary investigation it appears this incident was a murder-suicide," says Officer Gordon Shyy. "There are no further details at this time."
All you thirty-something year olds out there no longer have a good excuse to mooch off mom and dad. According to a new study released this week, there are jobs in San Francisco -- and plenty of them.
Wallethub.com, a website aimed to help you make better financial decisions, released this timely study which concluded San Francisco was ranked the 16th best place to land a job among the 60 largest cities. We fell behind Austin, San Jose, Washington, D.C., and Seattle, the study says.
The study's authors considered a slew of factors, including commute times, job openings, median salaries, and unemployment rate among the 60 largest cities to determine where the strongest marketplaces are present day.
It may come as a surprise, but Pepto Bismol-pink is actually quite the popular color to wear to a San Francisco Symphony recital these days at Davies. Outfits befitting colorblind mafia housewives dotted the crowd Monday night at a guest performance by the St. Petersburg Philharmonic.
Wearing a sparkly balaclava over one's face like a Mexican wrestler, however, stands out. As does screaming just as the conductor's baton raises and the crowd collectively inhales.
"Yuri, you're a sexist Putinist!" shouted a woman dressed in the above ensemble seated in the terrace section of the auditorium at the moment the program was set to commence.
The interruption came on the night of a "Queer Pussy Riot Vigil" organized by Gays Without Borders outside the building, targeting the Russian state-funded symphony orchestra and its 75-year-old conductor, Yuri Temirkanov.
