Black Friday, the Friday after Thanksgiving, the day where big retail shoppers traditionally break even for the year! Traditionally considered the biggest shopping day of the year! Is it retail therapy? ....Or is it kowtowing to the gods of capitalism and binding the workers who long to be free? Well, if you're heading out to Union Square today but feel kind of guilty about it, you can at least make yourself feel a little better......

How the church appeared on November 13. This Friday -- Black Friday -- Michaela Alioto-Pier's little neighborhood that thrives on ridicule will become a little more ridicule-less. At 9 a.m., Pacific Standard Time, on the day of November twenty-third, two thousand and seven, the store at 2125 Chestnut will open its doors. And at that moment? Apple will welcome in its third San Francisco store, completing the trilogy started by its flagship location on......

Known as "the holidays", this is the time of year when we have to quit blowing all our expendable income on candy and pr0n, and must use it instead to buy what they call "presents" for those other than ourselves. Insert tired cliche here: blah blah, the holidays suck, buying presents is expensive and stressful, blah. Almost all of us still have to do it. So, what better place to shop for the holidays......

SFist is more Kraftwerk than Craftsworker. At our mid-century ranch headquarters, there's a rather large cupboard with various scraps of fabric and yarn, paint and glue and all manner of funky specialty tools. This is the area known as the Island of Dead Crafts. Every so often we remember the pride we had making that macaroni owl at summer camp and decide that our lives would be much more fulfilling if we could make......

We watched two movies last week that explored the dynamics of religious strife -- Black Friday, a historical thriller about the 1993 bombings in Mumbai, and Shape of the Moon, a documentary about a family in Indonesia. We checked out the screener for Shape of the Moon based on the recommendation of the dude in the publicity office, and we weren't disappointed. When we watched Black Friday at the Kabuki the next evening, we......