SF News Britex Fabrics May Move After 64 Years, But Will Remain In SF Asked to share her go-to recommendation for maker-folk from out of town, Project Runway star and local designer Emily Payne shouted out Britex Fabrics, describing it to SFist as "a family-run luxury fabric
SF News San Francisco Gets 'F' Grade For Small Business 'Friendliness' Running a small business in the gilded city of San Francisco is a drag, or so says contractor-for-hire site Thumbtack, which just released a study asserting that because of roadblocks like "regulations," San
SF News Poll: One Third Of Bay Area Residents Say They'll Leave Soon According to a new poll by pro-business policy group the Bay Area Council, 34 percent of Bay Area residents are "likely to move out of the Bay Area in the next few years,
SF News Apothecarium Dispensary To Uproot And Expand To Former Mecca Spot You'll still have no trouble locating an apothecary for all your weed needs on Market Street in the Castro — only now it will be half a block up Market, at 2029, not 2095
SF News Retail Report On Castro District Says No More Coffee, Maybe Enough With The 'Adult' Stores With over 30 vacant retail spaces along the Castro and Upper Market retail corridor, the area's vacancy rate — 8% — is nearly twice the city’s overall average. That's prompted a new 200 page
SF News Scathing NYT Profile Says Marissa Mayer Messed Up With Yahoo Those who aren't hanging on to Yahoo stock may not have been paying attention when their stock price tumbled this past July, and again in September. Both tumbles, which it's since recovered from,
SF News 'Tech Workers Are Not Robots,' Says Mayor Ed Lee In Intriguing NYT Interview In an interview with the New York Times, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee all but french kisses the city's tech industry, the people in it, and all that it embodies. (Understandably so.) Which
SF News Mayor Ed Lee To Walk MidMarket This Morning Talking Twitter IPO Twitter's initial public offering is set to happen as early as this Thursday. It's also set to make some people rich and some people unhappy. Naturally. In an effort to sooth concerns on
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Classic Stores In S.F. If you've been following the news lately, San Francisco is a city that doesn't care much for chain stores. We prefer local. And although the recent economic boom has pushed out many stores
SF News Apple Uses Company Other Than FoxConn To Make iPad Minis Taipei-based Pegatron, a manufacturer with whom Apple has had a long relationship, is taking over from controversial manufacturer FoxConn, at least in the manufacture of iPad Minis and the upcoming, less expensive iPhone
Arts & Entertainment 'North of NOPA' Now a Thing? The skidmarks at Coldwell Banker, hawking 2020 Ellis, have helped coin a new neighborhood name. And it's disgusting. Anza Vista/Western Addition is now allegedly called—are you sitting down?—North of NOPA.
SF News Polk Street Parking Evangelists May Squash Bike Lane Plan A contentious clash between cyclists, car-parkers and business owners over the Polk Street Corridor Improvement Project has caused the SFMTA to go back to the drawing board and offer some decidedly less bike-friendly
Arts & Entertainment Thursday: Learn The Business Of Growing Cannabis In S.F. The wildly successful Yerba Buena Community Benefit District’s Arts and Dialogue series gets stoney on Thursday with a panel discussion devoted to the business of growing cannabis in San Francisco. What are
SF News Berkeley's Sit/Lie Measure Fails Berkeley's Measure S, the liberal city's sit/lie measure that would've barred sitting on sidewalks in commercial areas between of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m., tanked by a slim margin last
Arts & Entertainment Hey, What Are You Still Doing In The Office? It's almost 4 o'clock the Friday before Labor Day Weekend. So... why are you still at the office? Presumably, most of you are working 9 to 5, right? And with such doldrums comes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink More On Eagle Tavern's Glittery Gay Lease Signing First plucked from Facebook and then reported by SFist, the Eagle Tavern's lease will remain in the custody of the gays. The sparkly, festive queer community will retain their noted queer leather and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Just In: The Gays Get To Keep Eagle Tavern This just in: The San Francisco queer community gets to keep the Eagle. Via a very, very excited update on the Save the Eagle Facebook page, "Gays sign Eagle Lease!!!! Party at Lone
SF News Oakland Not Just 'Cooler,' It's Also Great for Business? The Guardian tried to tell us Oakland was cooler than San Francisco a few weeks ago, and now Fast Company is selling folks on the idea that Oakland is where it's at for
SF News Young Tech CEO Calls Facebook 'The Most Important Company Of Our Lifetime' Darian Shirazi — a former front-end software developer for Facebook who now runs Radius, a small-to-medium business sales intelligence company located here in San Francisco — talked to Bloomberg West recently. During the interview, the
Arts & Entertainment Week In Women: Equal Pay Day In celebration of Equal Pay Day, which is today — the day that marks when women finally catch up to what men made, on average, in the previous calendar year, we begin the first
SF News Berkeley-Based Annie's, Makers Of Delicious Cheddar Bunnies, Debuts IPO The fine folks at Berkeley-based Annie's are enjoying a huge jump after their trading debut this morning. Annie's makes a slew of organic treats, including the superior-to-Pepperidge-Farm-Goldfish (debate amongst yourselves in the comments,
Arts & Entertainment Sneak Peek Inside The New Twitter Headquarters The fine folks at Twitter—specifically, the benevolent Isaac Hepworth—sent SFist images of their new 10th and Market headquarters now in progress. Among the many niceties the larger, Tenderloin-adjacent office will boast?
Arts & Entertainment Will You Support Small Business Saturday? Although it's sponsored by American Express, and supported by large corporations such as Amazon, Google, Clear Channel and countless others, the 2nd Annual Small Business Saturday will provide the antidote to Black Friday
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Castro Wants Another Starbucks for Some Reason Employing "reclaimed" gobbledygook as a selling point, Starbucks wants to put another damn spore in the Castro, a few blocks away from the bear-frequented Starbucks at 18th and Castro. With takeover plans zeroed
SF News Fearful Apple Trains All New Retail Managers on 'Union Awareness' In an effort to quiet union tinkering by Apple store employees, something that almost happened earlier this year, all new Apple store managers must take "union awareness" classes starting today. In a company
