Last Thursday, the Independent Arts & Media launched the San Francisco Arts Market, an open-air marketplace for local artists and businesses to sell their hand-crafted wares, including ceramics, clothing, jewelry, literature, music, paintings, photography, and wood-carvings. more ›

On Saturday night, scores of people waited in a long line at 9 Langton (near 7th/Howard) to get into the members-only SF Underground Market. (SFist Style Editor Chloe Harris, who was queued up with an estimated 1,000 hungry shoppers, received a dirty look from a line-mate after dissing kombucha tea. Tough crowd, these gastronomes.) more ›

After Thursday's turkey and stuffing festivities have subsided and digested, Friday is when your wallet takes a hit on Black Friday, the day retailers hope to move into the black. But this year, due to our tanking economy, retailers are bound to come up short. (Even Oprah is turning her awe-inspiring "favorite things" episode into a DIY show. Pft.) more ›

Have you been to the Diviz Farmer's Market yet? We blogged skeptically about it back in July, but apparently it's been going gangbusters. So gangbusters, in fact, that they're going to extend it to December. Crisp fall apples are allegedly on the way -- it's going to be a good old-fashioned New England Christmas! more ›

Tire pressure has become a big deal in the presidential race, but since we commute by bicycle these days, we don't listen to NPR anymore and so we hadn't really heard about that. more ›