SF News Cliff House Street Vendors Don't Seem to Like Each Other Meanwhile out by the Cliff House, a "turf war" is raging between the (ahem) artisans who are fighting for sidewalk space from which to peddle their handmade jewelry, crafts and other assorted trinkets
SF News Things That Are Closed On President's Day Happy President's Day! Did you get the day off today? Employees working at the following businesses sure did: all government offices at the federal, state, county, or city level; the US post office;
SF News Dockers Update City Attorney Dennis Herrera is fighting back against Levi’s Guerrrilla marketing campaign promoting Dockers which showed up on sidewalks in the Mission and Hayes Valley yesterday: To answer Mission Mission Allan Hough’
SF News Levi's Markets Dockers On Valencia Street Using Sidewalk Graffiti Allan Hough at Mission Mission broke some startling fashion marketing news today: Levi's made a return to Valencia Street to pimp "their Dockers brand via some ugly typography and a Facebook URL." What's
SF News S.F. Handbill Laws Might Get Stricter City officials met on Monday in an effort to combat those pervasive delivery menus and nail salon fliers abundantly placed on our front doors that more often than not get blown in the
SF News Google's Eric Schmidt Nets $100 Million Although Google CEO Eric Schmidt is on his way out of the prized gig - company co-founder Larry Page, 37 (!), will replace Schmidt in April - he will be awarded $100 million worth
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How Much Does It Cost To Open A Restaurant In S.F.? A lot. At least according to T.J. Jacobberger, general manager and partner of The Tavern at Lark Creek, it is. His "top-line estimates" on opening a new spoon in San Francisco are
SF News Richmond Neighbors Try To Keep PETCO Out PETCO, it seems, wants to open one of their Unleashed stores in the spot that used to house Walgreens at 18th Avenue and Geary. But Richmond businesses and residents aren't having any of
SF News Google Shakeup: Larry Page Takes Over as CEO An "unexpected shakeup" went down at Google today. Larry Page, company co-founder, will take over as CEO effective April 4. "Page, 37, is reclaiming the top job from Eric Schmidt, who had been
Arts & Entertainment Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Launches Record Label Speaking of classical music, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra is celebrating their 30th Anniversary in part by starting a record label, Philharmonia Baroque Productions. The Chronicle reports that the company's first release will showcase the
SF News Twitter To Leave S.F.? Currently residing on Harrison and Fourth above a Subway and next to a Whole Foods, Twitter headquarters is appropriately nestled in SoMa's tech-industry neighborhood. For now, anyway. "Media reports say that Twitter Inc.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starbucks Explains New Logo If your entire world has been thrown off axis over Starbucks new logo, fear not, loyal patrons. The coffee mammoth will walk you through the change in a minute and a half long
SF News Signs of Impending Apocalypse: Whole Foods Finally Approved for Market Street After three years of meetings and discussion the Planning Commission has unanimously decided to move forward on construction of a Whole Foods location on Market Street at Dolores. Per the Examiner, the corner
SF News Facebook Ranked Best Place To Work Facebook, according to "professional community site Glassdoor.com," ranks as the top place to work among the 50 best places to work this year. According to The Chronicle, "To qualify for a ranking,
misc Scenes from a Giants Shopping Spree Now that the S.F. is en route to the World Series, Giants merchandise is white hot, and the Giants Dugout, the store at AT&T Park that hawks all sorts of
misc Giants Postseason Likely Killing San Francisco's Productivity This one shouldn't come as too much of a surprise: BCN, reports on the Appeal that the same Chicago consulting firm responsible for telling your boss you don't actually get anything done during
SF News Pride Director Quits Due to continuing controversy over "crumbling finances," Amy Andre, executive director of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee, quit this week. "This year saw controversy as beverage partners, typically community organizations who
misc Gap Returns to Squareness, Restores Original Logo Well that didn't take long. After last week's Internet backlash, San Francisco's favorite khaki maker* has reverted back to their classic logo. Gap president Marka Hansen apparently changed her mind about how "contemporary
SF News Gymboree Sold for $1.8 Billion San Francisco-based Gymboree, who specialize in apparel and gym centers for wee ones, was sold for an astounding $1.8 billion. AP reports: "Gymboree said Monday that the deal is for $65.40
SF News What Has Gap Fallen In To? by Andrew Dalton Local mega-brand Gap ditched their iconic logo, known for sufficiently capturing the brand's tasteful and unpretentious character, in favor of a slick new helvetica-laced number this week. Which brings them
SF News Better Business Bureau Thinks Google is Just Average by Andrew Dalton Say what you will about the Better Business Bureau's pay-to-play accreditation model (and whether or not BBB ratings actually mean anything at this point), but they're still tasked with slogging
SF News Dick Costolo, Twitter's New CEO Dick Costolo has been announced as Twitter's new CEO, effective today. That means Ev William, company co-founder, will step down. Why? Well, according to @ev, growth and success. More or less, anyway. "I
SF News SoMa Bowling Alley Details: $12 Cocktails, Dress Jackets Required A source recently met with a Commercial Owner Association representative regarding plans for a Lucky Strike (a high-end bowling alley geared to replace the almost-shuttered Borders Books at Third and King Streets) to
SF News Schwarzenegger Visits China, Looks at Bridge Section, Sells Pistachios Where has Gov. Schwarzenegger been during the San Bruno fire disaster, you ask? In China! The former movie star cum California politico headed East to sign part of the East Span of the
