In a recent bit of linkbait study from Forbes.com, San Francisco was named among the Top 20 Cities in America with the Happiest Young Professionals. In the study, which was conducted by job happiness website CareerBliss.com, young professionals around the country, "were asked to rate eight factors that affect workplace happiness", which were then averaged in to one happiness score for each city. more ›

The Whole Foods at Stanyan and Haight is set to open by December just in time for the holiday season. Joy. And while many young urban professionals complain that this could further a takeover by gentrifying yuppies, we say this: Fantastic. For those of you who have fond-free memories of the former market, Cala Foods and its onion shells-covered floors, the new digs will be an exciting, albeit pricey, treat. Also, they tend to hire sexually attractive cashiers. So, you know, there's that too.. [Socketsite, via SF Eater] more ›

"And, sometimes Berkeley just wants you to go home" by sfgirlbybay. more ›

"Oakland's answer to San Francisco's Mission District," Temescal is, arguably, one of Oakland's finest neighborhoods. As Curbed noted earlier today, the WSJ review is downright intriguing, not to mention highly informative, when praising (or criticizing) the O-town hood as the latest home to yuppie/hipster hybrids. more ›

It's like two SFist Finds in one day, isn't it? Lucky you. And you all have been so clever and creative with the images you tag "SFist" as of late. Why, it almost makes us weep with appreciative joy. Thanks, you guys. more ›

We've given up our dislike of this whole interleague baseball thing years ago when we realized that things like the Yankees coming to town for a series against the Gints is a pretty cool thing. The same with a set in Fenway also coming this summer. As for the yearly Melee by the Bay, we've sort of acquired a feeling of meh towards the whole thing. It's done every year so there's really not that much of a difference between this series and, say, a Giants/Phillies series or an A's/Indians series. more ›

In a totally shocking expose, the Examiner reports that there's not a lot of enforcement out there of speeders. Considering there's not enough enforcement of parking scofflaws, sidewalk parkers, illegal handicap parking stickers, and pretty much everything else, this can't be considered a surprise. The reasons cited: not enough cops...blah..blah...blah...no money....blah...blah...blahbity...blah. more ›

Here's a funny stor about an alarm, an SUV, and a tow truck more ›

As much as we enjoy planning dinners, sometimes we just want to assemble a quick meal from fresh ingredients at the farmer's market. How often do you get to the many markets here in the Bay Area? If you haven't been in a while, we'd like to urge you visit your neighborhood market and taste the treats on display. Scrumptious stone fruits such as cherries and nectarines are at the peak of their flavor right now, and we've seen the first ears of corn. Even tomatoes have begun to appear, though they're still a little wan. more ›

This was first mentioned in a Leah Garchik column, but we have actual first-hand knowledge of CapGate from someone who was involved in l'affaire. Our story began last week when a mens softball team headed off to the Connecticut Yankee for some post-game celebratory drinks. As is softball players' wont as the Yankee is known as a sports bar and a good home for wayward New Englanders. So the group began to order and when the last person, a person who was most definitely wearing their baseball cap backwards, ordered, the bartender told him that they wouldn't serve him unless he turned his cap around. When the guy protested, the bartender announced to all of the backwards baseball cap wearers in the group that none of them would be served again unless they all turned their caps around. Some stayed (hey, they already paid for their drinks), some left in protest. more ›

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. more ›

The Gavster reemerged from hobnobbing with Scientologists to announce that he was going to try and have a court rule whether or not a 1997 measure calling for the building of a new Candlestick park and other development still holds. The measure was passed back then, but was put on hold after Eddie DeBartolo got in trouble with the Feds and after people realized that the measure was just as sucky as most people thought. If it can be sent to court and if the court says "yay", speculation is that the city will start building the sucker, despite the fact the measure is almost ten years old and, as everyone seems to be pointing out, goes against the normal process of city governance. more ›

San Francisco grups were in full effect Friday night, as the hot demographic of 30-something indie-yuppies swept into the Cafe Du Nord Noise Pop event of the evening. For the record, it was singer-songwriter night, with Jason Collett (from the Canadian Broken Social Scene crowd) headlining, but the crowd had that vaguely open-minded/not-as-plugged-in-as-they-once-were feel of "let's go check out some New Indie Rock on Friday night after work." (We totally put ourselves in that group! We read that article about the Broken Social Scene in the New York Times!) When indie rock is no longer your life, and is instead your after-work hobby, you approach the whole concert thing differently. For instance, we saw folks IMing on corporate Blackberries and having loud conversations about office politics throughout the entirety of the Submarines' delicate set. No one was shouting out the names of obscure B-sides for any of the performers. It was actually kind of nice to have all that indier-than-thou pressure off, though we did feel bad for the Submarines. Etienne de Rocher's set was notably enlivened by an old-fashioned really-into-it indie rock fan, who flung out her Solid Gold dance routine, all thrashing head and horse-kicking calves. It was especially cool because de Rocher's set was actually kind of medium-tempo and introspective, like Jeff Buckley. Highlight of the evening: at the climax of one of de Rocher's songs, this woman let out a triumphant shriek, and the entire audience involuntarily took a half-step back. She definitely brought an indulgent smile to the faces of the crowd. I used to love indie rock that much!, you could see people thinking. Collett's set of rainy Sunday afternoon songs closed out the evening at around 1:30 a.m., as folks on the 9-to-5 stifled back their yawns of fatigue from the end of the work week. It's hard committing to the indie rock lifestyle when you've got bills to pay! more ›

A battle has been raging behind the scenes at Wikipedia. No, it's not over copyrights or veracity or how well an article explains its premise. It's over whether or not the entry on San Francisco's Marina District should include an explanation of the term Marina Girl (and, by extension, Marina Guy). The main arguments for deletion is that it's a stereotype and that the content of the article is heavily biased against the Juicy Couture clad set at The Matrix. But if you look at the standing article at the SFGate, it describes to a tee the Marina Girl without actually mentioning the term:

Today the apartment buildings, shops and restaurants seem to be bursting at their seams with beautiful, young and fit 20- and 30-somethings. The singles scene is hopping on Friday and Saturday nights, with lots of fresh-faced postgrads with cocktails in one hand and cell phones in the other. Union is arguably the best street in the city to window-shop the hours away on a sunny Saturday afternoon, and, a few blocks down, Chestnut has an incredible variety of high-quality restaurants catering to every palate.

The Mission Hipster is a twenty-something self-proclaimed 'artist,' usually seen drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon at dive bars when not riding up and down Valencia on their track bike. They take pride in their relative poverty (though more than a few have wealthy families), working jobs as baristas or bike messengers. Their signature look includes a fauxhawk (male) or short bowl cut (female), aviator sunglasses, an ironic t-shirt, ripped jeans and Chuck Taylors. They can be found in great number at Slim's or the Bottom of the Hill on any given weekend where they prefer the sounds of acoustic guitars played by troubled singer-songwriters and upbeat post-punk-pop. They often avoid the upper Mission on those same nights, complaining that it's overrun by 'slumming yuppies from the Marina.'

Blurring the line between… uh… that thing and another thing… well, ok, blurring everything lines and all, Barrespondent Drew sets out to prove once again that going out drinking can be fun (who knew?). more ›

We guess all those Bay Guardian warnings about the dangers of gentrification are coming true because in a study trying to determine what's a conservative city and what's a liberal city, San Francisco only came in as the seventh most liberal city in the country. See what happens when you let a bunch of Yuppies move in? The most liberal city? Detroit, followed by Gary Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana. San Francisco was even beaten by local brethren Berkeley (third) and Oakland (fifth) which does mean that we can say that we are the most liberal area in the country. In case you were wondering, the most conservative cities are Provo, Utah and Lubbock, Texas, two cities we're sure we'll see hosting MTV's "Real World" real soon. more ›

, a film by Andrew Wagner and pretty much starring his family, is a whole new twist on the road trip genre. It's an average New York Jewish family taking a road trip road trip movie. more ›

Indie-yuppies gone bad! The feds announced (indictment, in .pdf) that they've arrested a San Francisco DA named Robert Roland for negotiating a lighter sentence for a local drug dealer named Ryan Nyberg, in exchange for meth and e. Roland and Nyberg, along with their mutual acquaintance Eric Shaw (who brokered the whole thing) were reported (in an article from the Daily Journal that's not online) to have all been active in the San Francisco music/club scene. All lanes of 101 are clear again after a 3 a.m. shooting of a woman in a cab. The cops had also closed off the northbound on-ramp to gather evidence, but it sounds like that's open again now too. And San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales has been indicted by a grand jury over improprieties in negotiating a city contract with garbage haulers, to the tune of $11 million dollars. The city is waiting for a response from the mayor before deciding whether a special investigator should be appointed. more ›