SF News The Rich Get Richer in Real Estate Although the closest the WSJ gets to the Bay Area is Los Angeles -- which saw an 88% surge in inventory compared to a year ago -- a little digging around reveals that
SF News Don’t You Know the BART Fare is Going Up, Up, Up, Up, Up? A lot of things are changing come this new year. Like our sobriety. And our slack attempts at losing weight. But perhaps the biggest change that will affect us is that starting Sunday,
SF News Araujo Retrial Under Way As we predicted in our earlier post, the defense is indeed switching strategies in the retrial. When we spoke with Bill DuBois, defendant Jose Merel's new attorney, back in January, he hinted that
Arts & Entertainment Bummer, Dude After thirty-five years, Alameda County sheriff's investigators have finally closed the murder of Meredith Hunter at the Rolling Stones' Altamont concert 35 years ago. Apparently, they’ve been looking for the semi-mythical "second
misc Housing Bubbles: What Am I Bid? Buying a house is even worse than buying something on ebay -- you promise to pay people you've never met some exorbitant amount of money that you clearly don't have, you write a
SF News 'Tis The Season -- For Sentencing People to Death Nothing the like Jesus' birthday around the corner to get juries in the hangin' mood, apparently. We understand that getting home to your family for the holidays after a long sequestration would be
SF News Down and Out in Berkeley So you know when the police come and roust some homeless person on the street and take away their shopping cart? Ever wonder what happens to the shopping cart? Do they become part
SF News Absentee-Minded Printer in the East Bay Our SFist Emeryville correspondent received, unsolicited, an Alameda County permanent absentee voter application in the mail yesterday and noticed that it was addressed in a bizarre order: middle-first-last. His fiancee's was addressed the
misc Bless the Beasts and the Children SFist is going to take a bold stance and say that we feel cruelty to animals is wrong. And ever since reading Watership Down as a child, we have felt a special afinity