SF News Yahoo to announces major job cuts this week In yet another sign of the Great Depression II recession economic downturn, Yahoo is expected to announce a big, new series of layoffs -- around 15% of the Sunnyvale-based company's workforce. Last week
SF News Mervyns to Liquidate Fine Goods, Close Doors Really, with Wal-Mart and Target doing spectacular business, that they've managed to stay open this long is a miracle itself. See, Hayward-based Mervyns is closing its doors. For good. (Now where will be
SF News Another Day, Another Multi-Billion Dollar Loan The Federal Reserve just agreed to hand over $37.8 billion to vile insurance giant American International Group. You know, to go along with the $85 billion loan bestowed to the troubled insurance
Arts & Entertainment Vetoed From Tomorrow Night's Prada Flagship Opening Well, we tried. And failed. See, after EaterWire told us about Thomas Keller "catering the grand opening party at the new Prada flagship" in downtown SF, we got moist thinking about attending the
SF News Queues for iPhone 3G Continue Wow, did you see the lines STILL growing outside the downtown AT&T and Apple stores this past weekend? The above shot was taken last night, proving that most of you ignored
SF News Breaking Sports News: Baron Davis Flakes, Opts Out of Warriors Contract It is our sad duty to inform you that Baron Davis has opted out of his contract and is probably finished as a Golden State Warrior. Yes, the same Baron Davis who has
SF News GottaPark Invites More Parking Spaces, More Traffic to SF Well, this is a nifty idea. Sort of. San Francisco resident John Somoza came up with a practical and much-needed way for all of you vehicle drivers out there to find some extra
SF News Chapel Opens In the Castro Just in time for the legalization of homosexual marriage, and for those of you who don't feel like getting married anywhere near the grimy Civic Center, Heart of the Castro Wedding Chapel opened
SF News What To Do About High Gas Prices? Burn Down a Starbucks, Of Course! Wow. We hope we're this feisty, and wildly insane, when we're sixty-four. It seems that sixty-four-years-young Diane Craig of Danville was arrested yesterday for attempting to burn down restrooms of an Arco station,
SF News WSJ Expose: Bulgarians Are Stealing Our Jobs! (By Eyleen Tavy) Don't ask us what we were doing reading the Wall Street Journal this morning (aside: have you ever looked at Kevin Sprouls', the guy who does the Journal's portraits, other
SF News CBS Snatches CNET With a fresh banner outside CNET headquarters proclaiming it as one of the best places to work in the universe, ever--according to Business Week, anyway--CBS Corporation just made it a little better for
misc Follies In Cable Car Advertising Guess what we don't want to think about while riding San Francisco's whimsical, romantic, and downright gorgeous cable cars? Unkempt sphincters.
Arts & Entertainment Jazz At Pearl's: NOT Closing When we last reported on the fate of North Beach's Jazz at Pearl's, blues chanteuse Kim Nally's bee-bop joint, it was shuttering its doors. for good. Again. Now, according to Tablehopper, whose words
SF News Business Partner Pays To Have San Ramon Man Killed San Ramon saw its first murder of the year after 42-year old Kashmir Billon, a mortgage lender who ran Billon Enterprises, was found dead this week. His bullet-riddled body was discovered next to
SF News Well, They're Moving On Up: One Rincon Hill Opens for Business Every night from our janky turn-of-the-century Victorian apartment, inside our janky bedroom, from within the sheets of our janky bed we look out our window at the thin, glassy penis that is One
misc Starbucks' National Re-Programming Camp - Did It Work? Visitors to all the standalone Starbucks across the country yesterday evening couldn't get their buzz on. Why? Because of the temporary national shutdown. Starbucks workers, like these on busy Masonic (where there will
SF News Tour Connected Bus: Vehicle of the Future While not all of us are fortunate enough to zip around in swank Aston Martins, or have sleek Tesla waiting for us on the horizon, the "bus of the future" is the next
SF News Yahoo Layoffs Get International Alas, today is "major pink slip handout" day over at Yahoo, where "police and security teams have been scheduled to provide order in case anyone goes postal." But things are getting ugly overseas
SF News Rupert Murdoch to Buy Yahoo!? So, you didn't like Microsoft, did you? Well, how about News Corp.? In an attempt to rejuvenate Yahoo and fend off Microsoft's advances, Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate is reportedly in talks to purchase
SF News The Writers Strike Is Over!!!!!! Just moments ago, in a letter to its members, the WGA announced that writers have voted by a 92.5% margin to lift the “restraining order” and officially end the strike. The move
SF News Yahoo Layoffs Happening Right This Very Second According to a Valleywag tipster: FYI - I've heard the word from my peeps over at Yahoo Search Marketing in Burbank CA that the layoffs are going down as we speak, and people
SF News Some Castro Businesses Bash <i>Milk</i> Production Although most of us are giddy that Hollywood has come to our little town to film a moving picture show, others are less than gay about it. Namely, a few Castro merchants who
misc Have a Happy Year of the Rat -- Tết Festival in Little Saigon As far as the trend of naming smaller neighborhoods in San Francisco goes, Little Saigon (sandwiched between Civic Center and the Tenderloin) sounds pretty good. Anyway, it's a lot better than the name
SF News $44.6 Billion for Yahoo, Says Microsoft In an attempt to slow Google's fierce roll, Microsoft made an unsolicited bid to purchase Yahoo Inc. for a cool $44.6 billion today. Gulp. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says that his company
SF News Fozen Yogurt Wars: <i>Survivor</i> Winner Out It looks like Survivor: Cook Island winner Yul Kwon won't get to serve you air-pumped, sugary, dairy-like deliciousness. After getting ready to set up a Red Mango chain in North Beach, and after
