SF News KRON Parent Company Skips $6M payment Even more bad news for local news station KRON. It seems Young Broadcasting Inc., which owns KRON, skipped out on a $6.125 million interest payment that was due Jan. 15. The interest
SF News 'Stop American Apparel' Meeting Tonight In struggle, the Stop American Apparel coalition will meet at The Makeout Room at 7 p.m. tonight to discuss their plans at stopping the clothing store from opening in the Mission. They'll
SF News Is the Mission Really Up in Arms Over American Apparel? Mission Mission, the one true voice of the Mission district as far as we're concerned, brings up the American Apparel brouhaha. If you recall, American Apparel is dropping a spore smack dab on
SF News Elite Shuns "Big Box" American Apparel Store on Valencia In what's being billed as the retail "hipster wars" of the Mission, 988 Valencia will soon call sleaze designer American Apparel home. That is, if the scraggly elite of the Mission get their
SF News San Francisco to Archdiocese: "Pay Up" Since the Catholic Church is trying to shift property from one non-profit to another, San Francisco is now asking the ritual-heavy religious folks to pay up. Why? Well, according to San Francisco City
SF News Google Unloads Loads of Temp Workers Due to the ongoing recession, Google, who can do no wrong in our eyes, has let many of its temporary workers go. The Mountain View-based company, according to Business Week, has an estimated
SF News Logitech Layoffs With corporate offices in Fremont and Mountain View, Logitech announced it will hand out 500 pink slips to employees this week. The cuts will affect middle management and higher, effectively cutting 15% of
SF News Stacey's Demise Regardless what you think about print publishing, Stacey's Books was a favorite. (Its foreign section alone seemed endless!) So after months of guessing when it will close its doors, Stacey's finally told its
SF News What's to Become of Mission Bay? Now that few can afford to buy, well, anything, what will happened to the promised Mission Bay/South Beach lifestyle? Much like Rincon Hill, We hear vacancies abound over there.
misc Wish Your Were Dead Pool: the Winner We asked you to decide on what Bay Area institution you would like to see die in 2009, and you overwhelmingly chose the Church of Scientology to go bye-bye. (Please don't kill us,
SF News Apple Says Goodbye to Macworld Macworld Expo, the annual tech exposition of for the rabid Mac sect, won't see his Holiness Steve Jobs grace the stage come January. Apple announced today that next year is the last time
SF News Grim Times for the Unemployed San Francisco Firemen Application Line from Unemploymentality on Vimeo. After companies across the country cut 533,000 jobs in November alone -- with another 3 million more predicted between now and 2010, at
misc Wish Your Were Dead Pool: the Poll OK, the list is huge. But who knew you all wanted to see so many business get the boot?! Anyway, we've narrowed it down to local businesses, more or less, so, please, pick
SF News 'Shop SF, Get More' Plan Announced to Boost Local Business Before rolling out budget cuts later this week, Mayor Newsom is helping out the local economy by asking you to do all of your holiday shopping here in San Francisco. To tempt you
SF News Yahoo Announces Layoffs It was officially announced today that at least 1,500 jobs are set to get cut at Yahoo, which effectively hacks off 10 percent of the Sunnyvale Web portal's staff. This most recent
SF News Where's the Stimulus, Gavin? Halloween comes early at City Hall after Newsom's "economic stimulus package" press conference, which is being referred to as one of the "ugliest news conferences" in ages. Mild-mannered yet astute Jim Herd was
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
