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Inside San Francisco’s Newest Rentals, Bunk Beds For $1,800 A Month
Can’t afford an apartment in San Francisco? So-called “co-creative housing” is offering a bunkbed and lots of company. But is it legal? KPIX 5 wasn’t invited in. The only way to check it out was undercover. Heidi’s moving into her new digs. KPIX 5 asked her to go into a building in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District undercover to get an unbiased taste of a new kind of rental: It’s a bunkbed that she’s sharing with a stranger in a house with 30 other people.
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Apartment Sadness: Bunk Bed Room, Sleeps Six, Real Cheap
This shouldn't be legal, and it shouldn't be happening, because no one should live like this.
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The Big Idea Behind San Francisco's New Rider-Friendly Transit Map
It uses weighted lines to show which buses come more often than others.
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This is what a $350,000 house in San Francisco looks like
Apparently, it's the cheapest property in the city.
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17th October 1989 - Loma Prieta earthquake strikes near San Francisco
An earthquake hits the San Francisco Bay Area on this day in 1989, killing 67 people and causing more than $5 billion in damages. Though this was one of the most powerful and destructive earthquakes ever to hit a populated area of the United States, the death toll was quite small.
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Airbnb's ads make them fools in national news
Well, that escalated quickly. Airbnb’s recent ad-campaign rained on San Francisco to boost their image – on bus shelters and on billboards large and small. The ads carried snarky messages like this one: “Dear Public Library System, We hope you use some of the $12 million in hotel taxes to keep the library open later. Love, Airbnb.” Airbnb’s ads touted all the uses for its tax dollars by telling parking enforcers how to do their jobs...
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California’s Pigeon Point Lighthouse Makes for an Illuminating Stay
This iconic 19th-century building is now a so-so hostel but it’s still worth staying for the hot tub, dramatic setting and incredible lighthouse itself
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SFPD: Alleged Kidnap Attempt Involving Deaf Lyft Driver Was Misunderstanding
A woman who jumped out of her Lyft ride and broke her ankle because she feared she was being kidnapped on Thursday night in San Francisco actually had a deaf driver who didn’t know she was talking to him, police said Friday. San Francisco police spokesman Officer Albie Esparza said that officers contacted the hearing-impaired driver and determined that the incident was merely an unfortunate misunderstanding.
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The High Price of Delivery App Convenience
When Emily Yang, a San Francisco tech worker, is running out of cat food, she taps an app called Instacart to order a new bag of kibble to be delivered to her door within hours. For dinner, she often orders through Sprig and Munchery, app-powered services that bring fresh organic meals to her home. Her experience highlights how a proliferation of instant-delivery apps has turned the smartphone into a sort of magic remote control that can almost...
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Why I Quit Ordering From Uber-for-Food Start-Ups
I work some days from a small office in San Francisco, and every day, I gotta eat. For a stretch of several weeks this year, I obtained my lunch from an iPhone app called Sprig. It’s a beautiful piece of software. A trompe l’oeil table offers a compact slate of choices for lunch and dinner, all photographed beautifully from above. On the day I’m writing this, I can get a Caesar salad ($11), blackened chicken with broccoli ($11), a lamb-kofta wrap ($11)...
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See Photos from the Stunning San Francisco Coal Mine That Hasn't Been Opened in 40 Years
Two hundred feet down the cliff from Deadman’s Point lies an exposed coal vein that, according to the coal miner who discovered it, contains enough fuel to...
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Robot keeps stores stocked with Doritos
An autonomous robot was unveiled this week that can make sure that when you're hankering for Doritos, there's a bag waiting for you at the market. Simbe Robotics, based in San Francisco, announced its first product, a 30-pound robot called Tally that can move up and down a store's aisles checking inventory. The robot determines what products need restocking and send reports to workers who can add more stock. Tally also is set up to work during normal...
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The racially charged San Francisco police shooting you don’t know about but should
Warning: Graphic video. By Jaeah Lee and AJ Vicens.
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The Real Villains of San Francisco's Morality Play
A recent This American Life episode, “Poetry of Propaganda,” describes a San Francisco after-school program’s production of an original musical starring young children. “I don't know what I expected,” said the writer Jon Mooallem, whose daughter played a tiny part, “but it wasn't this. Act One opened on a sinister tech-executive meeting with a corrupt mayor and San Francisco's board of supervisors.” fgHis daughter was a 6-year-old kindergartner at the time.
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Graffiti documentary - Piece by piece
The film documents San Francisco's graffiti culture from the early 1980s to 2004. An excellent overview of two decades' graffiti.
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In San Francisco, Closing the Gap Between Art and Tech
In an exhibition on view at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, nine Bay Area artists play with robotics, sculpture, lights, sound, video, and digital technologies to alternately engage, critique, and embrace our present-day entanglement with the digital world.
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Yellow Cab to file for bankruptcy
San Francisco’s largest taxi company is edging toward filing for bankruptcy. Yellow Cab Co-Op said challenges from tech rivals Uber and Lyft, as well as mounting lawsuits from traffic collisions contributed to the fiscal Hail Mary. Those “rideshare” companies are headquartered in San Francisco – their home turf. Regular cab operations will not be affected in the near future and Yellow Cab has no plans to close if it can successfully restructure, representatives said.
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Girl
Boundaries of Gender: Sometimes you don’t know who you are until you put on a mask. By Alexander Chee. (Mar. ’15)
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How the “sharing economy” has turned San Francisco into a dystopia for the working class
If you spend enough time in San Francisco, you’ll notice sharing economy workers everywhere. While you’re waiting to get some food, look for the most frantic person in the lineup and you can bet they’re working with an app. Some of them are colour-coded: workers in orange T-shirts are with Caviar, a food delivery app; those in green represent Instacart, an app for delivering groceries. The blue jackets riding Razor scooters are with Luxe—if you’re still driving yourself around this city, these a
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Study: Airbnb landlords rent out properties full time
While the average Joe struggles to make rent in the Bay Area's inflated housing market, a new study claims local Airbnb landlords are making millions by essentially turning their properties into illegal hotels. The report, authored by Pennsylvania State University's hospitality school and backed by Airbnb's opponents in the hotel industry, targets Airbnb hosts it claims are using the site to run full-time, short-term rental businesses.
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